All Around the World

I have been thinking about how blessed Jeff and I have been in terms of the places we have visited.

I am going back through some older pictures and I will make a list of where we visited starting February 2002 and ending in March 2003.

First, we lived in Taiwan.
So, we traveled to Singapore in Feburary 2002 for Chinese New Year.
We went to Phuket Thailand in April 2002
Shanghai China, July 2002
Japan in October 2002
Hong Kong and Macau November 2002
Guam in February 2003

Then back to the States in May 2003 to introduce Kiera to the family.

So, in one of my next posts i think I will make a list of all the places I have been... and a list of where I want to go. Now, international travel may not be high on the list of most simple living enthusiasts, but we forgo a lot in order to indulge in our passion. We have a 19 inch TV (which belongs to the apartment) We don't own a car, we don't eat out or shop at high end grocery stores every week. We don't shop often (or frankly even enough) for new clothes... What we do instead is travel.

The view out my window.

I am involved, well involved loosely, in an ongoing art journal lead by Shimelle Laine from the UK. Each week she sends us prompts about life, and we then take these and put them into our journal. I have been a bit remiss in my journal, and I am sorry for that, because when I have time to art journal, I love it. I hate my overall results, see I am not much of an artist, but the process itself is awesome. Well, last weeks prompt, which arrived late, was about taking a look around. One of the challenges was to look out of each window in your house. Then, carry it further, take a picture of every window you pass. Well, I can't really do that, as I do have to work in an office with people today, but I brought my camera and I am doing almost the challenge.

The point is, I am looking at Singapore today. It is really an amazing city when you think about it. I saw a movie this past week, called ring of fury. It was filmed in Singapore 30 years ago. Most of Singapore was rural and undeveloped. I think of where Los Angeles was 30 years ago. Or where New York was, London? Amazing. So, today I am taking pictures of Singapore as I go by. Gives me a few different impressions.

I will post my pictures later to flickr.

Peace.

K

Tea Anyone

so after 2 years of living in Singapore, the day before Dad and Linda left we went for High Tea at Raffles. It was good, but I guess I expected more. I had such high hopes for High Tea. they have a dress code afterall, but people were dressed in "jeans" or in t-shirts... which technically meets the code, but loses in spirit I believe. Anyway, the nibbles were tasty....






If you want to see what my weekend was like, go check out my Far Flung Blog. Nice way to fall... :-(

Chilly Crab

Chilly Crab
Originally uploaded by Farflungcraft.

some pictures from when my Dad and Step-mom were in Singapore last month.

Chilly crab at Jumbo on the East Coast.

Family Visits

One of the joys of living in a tropical country is that people want to visit you. It was rare that people WANTED to visit Taiwan, it was really more of a visit to see us, not so much the country. BUT, in Singapore, people want to visit. They want to see the place, and of course-our being here is a nice bonus.

Over the last few weeks we have been lucky enough to have my dad and step-mom here. It has been great, we took the bus to KL (only 37 singapore dollars btw each way) and we also went to Malacca. The sites are awesome, KL rocks, the staying in a fantastic hotel is always nice as well.

The good news is also that by living in a tropical country, people want to come back...that is great too!

Best news, my dear friend Blythe is coming this weekend.. .I can't wait to see her, Jonas and Ada :-)