Singapore’s multiracial, multicultural population looks like a twist of the American kaleidoscope: East and South Asians predominate, while whites are a distinct minority. One morning, walking against the flow of rush-hour foot traffic in City Link Mall, I suddenly realized that I was identifying with the handful of Caucasian faces rather than the darker and [...]
I’ve been working on a monster post about my trip to Singapore and Taiwan, but first, here are pic’s (on Facebook):
Singapore
Taiwan
I’m not into hyperbole, but “pretty bad flight” doesn’t make for much of a blog post.
My flight from LA to Hong Kong sat on the tarmac for about 2 1/2 hours while an engineer twiddled with one of the engines. I’m of a few minds on this. On the one hand, I’m all for engines [...]
I’m not sure whether it was sleeping wrong, running 7 miles, moving my sister’s boxes, or watching “Transformers,” but sometime on Sunday I pulled or tore a muscle in my neck/shoulder area. Boy, is that a pain! Losing the ability to turn your head means doing full-body turns to check for oncoming traffic when crossing [...]
