Spring Update: New food and a Mac

Hi there. 2010 is rolling by faster than we could have imagined. It is hard to believe we've been living in Singapore almost a year and a half! Adam's work travel schedule has finally slowed down a bit, so its back to life as usual in Singapore. We've taken the time together the past few weekends to explore a bit more of our tropical island.

After taking Bella to a dog park to socialize (run around) with some other dogs, we journeyed to a local hawker center to grab lunch. Seeing a long line of people queued up at a stand with no English, Adam had to try the dish to see what all the hub-bub was about.

Eng Kee Bak Kut Teh Stand on Ang Mo Kio Ave 1 is an award-winning stall in Singapore's food circles. Famous for their extremely tender and rich Bak Kut Teh (boiled pork dish), this stall was worth the wait. You can see some pictures below of the fall-offf-the-bone meat in the darker-than-dark sauce of garlic and other mysterious ingredients... delicious!





This past weekend was longer than usual with the Vesak Day holiday on Friday. Vesak Day celebrates the day of Buddha's enlightenment. Anyway, we took the extra time to leisurely take care of some chores and continue our exploration of Singapore.

We visited the world's largest construction site where the world's largest casino has recently opened. The site is still much under construction, but the casino and hotel are mostly finished. Most of the work left is the mall, expo center and theaters. All of it together is called an Integrated resort, and it is a gargantuan complex.

Within this city-in-a-city, we had some drinks and even found a sale in the new mall. The sale was so god that we finally got a new computer! As two of our laptops were falling apart, we opted for a Mac. Ironic that we made the PC to Mac switch in the same month that Apple bested Microsoft as the world's largest technology company.

So we're still blogging, we're still eating, and now with a new computer, hopefully we can do both a lot more. Looking forward to getting home in June to see you all!

Sunday Fun Day!

An update...finally. After over a year in Asia we've been too consumed by everyday life and work to do anything worth blogging about, unless you want to know what I had for lunch everyday.

Adam is off in India...again. So I went with some girlfriends to an adventure on Sentosa, the small island to the south of Singapore. The island has actually seen quite a change in the last year with Universal Studios opening at the beggining of 2010. We have yet to check it out but I've heard good reviews. It's only at the point of a soft opening so when all the rides are open we'll take a look.

So anyway our adventure on Sentosa took us to a zipline at the top of the island all the way down to the beach. Here's how I felt about it:



No, there wasn't an earthquake while filming. I was SO nervous! Can you tell by my saying "friends and I aren't really heights" instead of "heights and I aren't friends". Frankly, heights scare the crud out of me- I frequently have falling dreams, well Adam is the one falling, and I'm the one freaking out as he does so. But fears and all, I felt the need to force myself to do it. When in Asia, right?

Here's how it went (hint: turn the volume down- there may have been screaming)

Ok so it was awesome and I'd do it again =) More pictures