Wednesday, October 3, 2007

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?

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

WOW!!! My First EARTHQUAKE!!

My first earthquake!! It was very cool. No one died, a Tsunami alert has been issued though. I hope I'm not speaking too soon. It was in Indonesia, and cnn is reporting it was a 7.8 magnitude then followed quickly by an 8.0.

I barely felt it, but I did feel it.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Jennielynns mom is sick.

Jen and the girls flew back to Canada yesterday to be with Jen's mom Cheryl. She has been admitted to Toronto East General hospital, and diagnosed with a very sever form of cancer that in the last weeks has gone into her lungs liver and brain. The prognosis is not good. Please send your good thoughts and well wishes in this trying time. It is very ... emotional. Cheryl I send you my love and hope for peace.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

my mishap and the science center

Good News! My luck is still holding! There were torrential down pours toady, and part of Singapore were flooded for a few hours. It was of course the day I promised Emma I would come home for lunch. I got completely drenched, and slipped at the foot of the building catching my big toe in a storm grate. Apparently flip flops have very little traction. Who knew? The Dr says it's not broken but it's all swollen and purple and hurts like a son of a gun. Sigh.


Last weekend we went to the Singapore science center. It is really nice. We got a family membership so when our folks come to visit it will be one of the places we go to for sure. I like it better than the Ontario science center, but it really has less information. I guess maybe because there are so many languages here there are less signs explaining things. It's really colourful and there are lots of cool exhibit s like a water park! Here are some pics from our first visit.
OOO she looks so smart!
Mel is getting excited looking at future exhibits.

This is Emma in the under water area. She said she was having a puppet show. Lots of fun.

Friday, August 17, 2007

The trip!!

It's not everyday you get to ride an elephant!


This is the Nirwana resort where we stayed.
The elephants name is cheng.




A cassowary and some cockatoos. The resort is a hostel of sorts for endangered animals that have been caught being smuggled. They also had a sea turtle hatchery.






Jen and Lily playing badmington.
It was fantastic. We had a lot of fun. I ate way too much. :)

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

geography lesson

Ahem. I have made an error. We are going to Bintan, in Indonesia, not Malaysia. It is south east of Singapore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bintan

sorry for my goof. maybe we will go to Malaysia soon. though I still want to see the great wall in china...

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

those danged monkies


I promised a pic of the monkeys that ran though our back yard. And voila! It took me a bit to get my phone out and take the pic so they had run down the street a bit. they were about knee height running on all fours. If they stood up I bet they would be 3 to 3.5 feet high. (big enough to carry Emma away and raise her like the jungle girl she is!)