the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
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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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When we moved to Singapore we were warned that gum is banned, drug distribution is punishable by death, and criminals can be caned. We also heard that homosexuality is illegal.
So who was the lone man with pink wings and a gay pride flag in the middle of the Chingay Parade? The only person to march without being [...]
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It has been a hectic week and a half. I taught seven financial education classes to the community during Military Saves week, we visited Kuala Lumpur for four days, we are still unpacking from the move into our new house, we are going to Vietnam in a few days, and the car battery died.
In other [...]
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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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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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