the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
From the category archives:
After all of the effort looking into kindergarten for our daughter next year, it looks as though we have come full circle back to her current school.
The international schools are good but I think that we may have confused cost with quality. In the end we really want a school that will continue to help her [...]
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The Chingay Parade, “Asia’s Grandest Street & Floats Parade,” was two weeks ago and I have been culling through 300 photos. I think about fifteen of them are worth viewing, a major disappointment even though I do not think there is a way to truly capture the spectacle of 7,000 performers and fifteen floats moving [...]
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A day in downtown Singapore at the start of the Chinese New Year:
After our most recent visit to the doctor for a prenatal exam, we cut through a high-end shopping mall to get to the restaurant with very good soup dumplings.
Turning the corner we heard drums and cymbals and watched two lions, each going into a [...]
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The River Hongbau festival also had anamusement park with mostly the insane kind of rides that only hurtle you in loops. After an evening of eating Sichuan food there was just no way that I was going to hang upside down locked in a cage. Again.
Once again, the experience of a festival in Singapore is [...]
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We visited the River Hongbau festival on the Singapore waterfront two weeks ago, one of many celebrations at the start of the lunar new year.
This year’s theme was a mouthful:
Welcoming the Year of the Tiger through promotion of Chengdu to enhance the offering of River Hongbao in Singapore and promote close ties and collaboration between [...]
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