Today’s – Made Me Smile

Here is what I overheard from student conversation this morning as the children were working on a project (fake names have been substituted)

Randy “God is the king of the world you know”

Mary “There already is a real King and a Queen too right?”

Anna “Jesus is a boy, not a girl” “He died”

Randy “He was killed but he got up”

and they changed the course of their conversation….

Aileen’s Visit

Taking Aileen to Little India to experience Jaggi’s. I think she liked it!

Our evening tour of Clarke Quay, Boat Quay, The Fullerton Hotel, The Merlion, The Esplanade – Theatre On The Bay, Glutton’s Bay Hawker, The New Asia Bar at the Swisshotel, and finally Chijmes.

Starting to relax at Brewerkz


Girl chat infront of the Fullerton

The Merlion
I think this one’s easier for me…

The Esplanade

Hawker (Satay Bar) on the Bay

Chijmes – an old church and convent now a courtyard of exquisite restaurants

The Last Supper in preparation. Menu : homemade Spring Rolls with kecap manis and palm syrup dipping sauce, prawn Pad Thai and Chicken, Sweet Pepper and Eggplant Red Curry.

Pre-dinner Texas Hold’em to see who’s on dish duty! With those eyes, Dan means business.
The Lord of the Rings Trivia game ended us for the night…

Goodbye Aileen…

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
- Arabian Proverb

Singapore – Orchid Gardens

A visit to Singapore’s Orchid Gardens was worth it. My Fun in Singapore Guide tells me that this garden has the largest display of Orchids in the world with 60 000 Orchid Plants comprising of 700 species and 3 000 hybrids.

Here are a few of my favorite shots.

Bali, Indonesia: Ubud – Monkey Forest

At the tail end of Monkey Forest Road in Ubud is, you guessed it, the Monkey Forest Sanctuary.

We’ll apologize in advance for the 7,823 photos here in this blog entry, but these monkeys are just so much fun, and so darn cute.

I like BANANAS!!!

He seems to want to untuck my shirt, or maybe see if I have a banana in my pocket?

Carly was insistent that we label this photo “kiss my ass”.

Buddy seems to have had a pretty long days work, or sleep.

This particular little chump of a monkey seemed to be enjoying my company for a while, but after he realized that, in fact, I didn’t have a banana in my pocket, he jumped up onto my shirt sleeve and actually bit my arm. I’m pretty thankful there was no blood.

This monkey was pretty awesome, too. He kept yanking open my velcro pockets. Quite a fun game. Really.

I was really surprised how soft their hands are, to the touch.

This is one of the best pictures ever. We noted that is looks a bit like Carly is flirting with the monkey, but he is clearly playing hard to get. That, and she does look a little angelic, if I do say so, myself (Carly – not the monkey).

And the first shall be last – this last monkey picture – shown below – was the first monkey we saw when we walked into the forest. He was totally kicking it, old school, sitting on the ledge like an old man, happily watching the scenery.

This was definitely a great experience, and a lot of fun at the same time. Yet another thumbs up for Ubud.

Bali, Indonesia: Ubud – Dance

Here are just a few shots of Jeffery’s that he took of what seems to be a dance recital or dance practice.