Sunday, June 21, 2009

Happy Father's Day!

Well we thought we'd start our latest blog with a shout out to our Dad's and Grandpa's and hope you're having a great Father's Day. We're thinking about you. :)
Kate and I are just wrapping up what was a pretty productive weekend. We visitied "Escape amusement park" in Pasir Ris (East part of Singapore) with some expat friends yesterday. It was really fun, but I'd say the park was somewhere above a county fair, but below an actual theme park. (Although we did just learn that Universal Studios Singapore is slated to be finished next year and will be bigger than the one in Hollywood!)
Anyway, we went to a new church today, and it was a really good sermon and a great choir. We'll be going back for sure. Then Kate found some great bargain deals at the MEGA SINGAPORE SALE (it is like a country-wide shopping extravaganza) which is probably meant to bring in tourists during these really hot months. I mean HOT. Finally, we hung up our first real piece of local art. It is a chinese painting of cherry blossoms we found in Chinatown, and we're pretty excited about that.

Overall, it feels like we did a lot. Both of us have busy work weeks leading up to our trip home in July... Can't wait to see you all!



Friday, June 12, 2009

The art... no... The Style of Efficiency!

Post Office Opens Swanky Bar!


I have to blog about this. Our local post office is very close to the famous, the stylish, Orchard Road shopping area of Singapore. The post office had been under renovation for some time and the renovations are complete. What was once a quaint, mostly-empty local post office, is now a small, modern post office with a full-service bar attached!
And this is not just any bar. This is a Chivas Regal scotch bar with valet parking!


No, this is not a beer-induced fantasy, this is SingPost's attempt to make their operations more profitable. So if the government has given you land and building space, you better make the most of it! SingPost actually rents out some of their larger spaces to tenants in an effort to trim operating costs and attract younger customers. I love this Singapore.




You can read about here, but see the pictures for yourself.