HAPPY BDAY JEN!! 21 again!

I've wanted to post more pictures on this blog, and it would seem today is the day!

It's jens birthday and we have all just gone to Jacobs cafe in changi village for lunch. I love it there. It's very close to the ocean (so it's a little bit cooler) surrounded by large jungle like trees and much older buildings. It has a nice feeling around it.

Here are some pictures from canada that were taken while jen was there for her mom.

Emma took this photo. Amazing for only being 3. For those who don't know these people are:

jen, grandma joy, cheryl, with lily and melanie in the front.

This one is just to remind me of home. Hopefully someday I will return.

Good news!

My friend Chris from Starz days has moved to china! Finally a Canadian buddy in the same time zone. He's working with some big Chinese school/studio. It sounds exciting. He got lots of nice perks too. Free accommodation, food, tv, phone etc. and here I am like a chump paying for my own stuff. Oh well. Chris is into WOW too, so I will have a non Australian buddy to play with that I don't work with. It's really cool to have someone that knows what I'm talking about when I talk shop, but isn't actually involved.

PS My WOW character is named tigaratus. He's a lvl 34 human alliance warrior. I'm kicking butt.

mmm Timmies

It's been just over 6 months in this fine land. I miss Tim Hortons coffee. Kopitium is ok, but it's no timmies.
Before Jen left for Canada, she put together two care packages for our family in Canada. It was amazingly well done. Jen had lots of our digital photos printed and wrote a storey about each photo on the back. We packed some t shirts and some memorabilia from my work with all the photos and sent them off. We thought it would be a great gift. It turns out that Jen beat the gift box home. oh well. I suppose it got a little bit over shadowed with everything going on. Dad is wearing the Singapore shirt we sent home. It was a national day shirt, and we got it after national day so it was on sale (I know you would appreciate that dad!).


Jen came back with stories of Swiss Chalet, and the keg. I pushed them to make sure they had lots of beef while back in Canada. I think (once they loose the weight they gained) they will thank me. I was very jealous. I tired to come back with photos of my bee hoon, or nasi lemak, but it just felt silly.

Jen brought back an article from the Toronto star about Starz animation opening a studio in Toronto. I thought, hmm I wonder where I worked before lucasfilm then? The article talked to the head of studio David Rubinstein in depth about the future of Starz. rubenstien ... Rubenstein... that's not right. I could have sworn his name was David Steinberg. So I opened up my email contacts and I was right! The entire article mentioning his name several time, was completely wrong. This isn't a typo, it's a completely wrong name!! All very funny in my opinion. Poor David.

How come no one else has sent me timmies pictures?