The new banner outside of our condo is a sign of promising times.  The Red Dengue Alert that saw up to 60 cases in our condo has just changed to Green, with a, “thank-you, please stay vigilant”.  Seriously though, we can’t see how any bug could survive the flogging blast seen in the photo below. […]

Up until last week, we had never heard of the Hindu Thaipusam Festival.  Ignorance abound, when friends told us that men would be piercing themselves with fishhooks and skewers, and then carrying jugs of milk and elaborate kavadi throughout downtown Singapore, we just had to check it out! We did a quick google search to find the […]

Video number deux in our “More fun in the Philippines” series.  This time it’s New Year’s Eve 2014, and what better way to celebrate than being on the white sand beaches of Boracay, watching lady-boy fire dancers and fireworks in the rain? There’s no better way. AWESOME! *HD always looks best! :)

On the ferry from Bohol to Cebu, we watched about two dozen “More fun in the Philippines” commercials, all to the tune of Barbra Streisand.  Then naturally we thought, “Hey, we should do that”! So, here’s video 1 of 1.  Not sure how many more there will be, but you can count on at least […]

We’ve been talking about it for years.  Four to be exact.  We needed to get diving again!  On our first trip to Asia together in 2009, we got our PADI Open Water certification at Sailing Club Divers in Nha Trang, Vietnam, but hadn’t dove since.  We always had an excuse.  Katherine didn’t have a mask […]