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Happy New Year!!
We spent New Year's Eve with some great friends, by the pool eating Asian BBQ and Australian rumblers. The kids ran around playing games and when it got dark we drank our bubbly drinks and set off party poppers and sparklers. It was a blast. Thanks Kristy!
This is our 3rd New Year's in Singapore and I feel like I'm starting to forget what is normal. Didn't you eat Asian BBQ and rumblers by the pool on New Year's? Doesn't everyone?
I say things like air con and trolley and car park. I tell my kids to get in the lift and ask the taxi uncle to open the boot. If I didn't no one would understand me. I was going through files the other day and came across a 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper - 'Why is it so short?' I thought.
I made a new friend. American and new to Singapore. I took her to the grocery store and around the fresh markets. She was like 'Wow!' and 'What is that?!' and 'How much?!' And I was like 'Oh yeah...'
It was good to see it through someone else's eyes. Someone fresh out of jet lag.
I'm glad I'm used to some things. It makes Saturday crowds and taxi rides SO much easier. There are so many things that don't stress me out anymore. I don't even blink. But I don't want to get used to every thing. I don't want to forget how cool dragon fruit looks and how pretty Indian saris are.
So... here are my 2012 New Year's Resolutions
1. Document this Singapore life better. the routines. the culture shock. An extra blog post here and there.
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2. Learn how to use the manual setting on my camera (but that's a different story).
4 comments:
i love when your posts pop up in my reader!
1.) Elise Blaha just did a post called 'a day in the life' here: http://bit.ly/zAfzL5. I would love to see your Singapore version!
2.) Nicole's Classes. Look it up. I have her book and LOVE it. And she's offering online classes now! You should do it. You'll be a manual shooter in no time.
3.) Can you text? I wish you could text.
4.) How's that baby girl you're growing?
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thinking about you daily. i owe you an email.
love, lin
And aren't so glad that you are really experiencing those differences even if they are becoming more normal?! So many live there but because they have all the comforts and benefits they miss out on so many of the cultural shocks. A couple different people I knew hadn't even been to little india after 3 years. SO sad! And you will get manual. One day it just clicked for me but it took a while. I started with Av and TV mode. I wish you could text too!!
There was some dragon fruit in the grocery store here last week - $9 a pound!
Cheryl gave me a great tip that really helped when I was starting to shoot night photos in manual... Take one photo in auto and look at the settings. Then start from there and make your adjustments (obviously while watching what happens).
As for Singapore life feeling normal, what was even more strange for me was moving back to the US and realizing that I felt like a foreigner here!
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