Singapore 12October2025: Exploring Peranakan Heritage Singapore’s Peranakan heritage refers to the rich and unique culture of the Peranakans, also known as the Straits Chinese. The community has a distinctive heritage combining elements of Chinese, Malay and Indonesian cultures. The term Peranakan refers to the descendants of Chinese immigrants who came to the Malay Archipelago, includingContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version): Singapore 12October2025: Exploring Peranakan Heritage”
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Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WHY IS BOB MUTTERING LIKE COLONEL KURTZ IN APOCALYPSE NOW?
WHY IS BOB MUTTERING LIKE COLONEL KURTZ IN APOCALYPSE NOW? Aside from scoring human food like bits of bagel or today’s blueberry I live in anticipation of the next walk. After suffering puppy quarantine for not being fully vaccinated for the last three months it is 3-5 walks a day in mushy slush, powdery snow,Continue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WHY IS BOB MUTTERING LIKE COLONEL KURTZ IN APOCALYPSE NOW?”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: MY BIG DIG AND THE GREAT OPOSSUM SCARE
MY BIG DIG AND THE GREAT OPOSSUM SCARE Golly gee, I love digging a speciality of West Highland Terriers. I live to hunt prey (and perhaps a crust of bread and cheese too!) and there was an apparent collision between hunting and digging last night. Several days ago, due to global warming, we saw anContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: MY BIG DIG AND THE GREAT OPOSSUM SCARE”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Eating With the Toiling Masses of Singapore
Singapore 11October2025: Eating With the Toiling Masses of Singapore We are staying at the Shangri-La Singapore with five-star victuals. Who wants perpetual five-star food? I asked our tour director for a simpler locale where the toiling masses chow down. So for dinner a short walk down Orchard Street where the hotel is located then turnContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Eating With the Toiling Masses of Singapore”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Kampong Glam: Muslim Quarter, Malay Enclave and Little India
Singapore 11October2025: Kampong Glam: Muslim Quarter, Malay Enclave and Little India After lunch a further meander into Chinatown to see some restored traditional shophouses perhaps a unique Singaporean architectural feature. It is as it sounds a shop also housing its owners. Very few shophouses remain. Then to Kampong Glam home of the Muslim quarter andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Kampong Glam: Muslim Quarter, Malay Enclave and Little India”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Local Flavour Lunch With a Gringo Touch and Only Two Sodas Per Person!
Singapore 11October2025: Local Flavour Lunch With a Gringo Touch and Only Two Sodas Per Person! The itinerary indicates a “Local Flavour” lunch which is at the tourist centric Red House Seafood restaurant. Our tour guide managed to pick up some real local flavour Singaporean Chicken at the best place for this dish (sort of aContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Local Flavour Lunch With a Gringo Touch and Only Two Sodas Per Person!”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Hokkien Temple in Chinatown
Singapore 11October2025: Hokkien Temple in Chinatown Away from the modern urbanity we head to a more rustic and “authentic” destination in Singapore, a Hokkien temple; Thian Hock Keng Temple located in the heart of Chinatown dedicated to Mazu, the goddess of the sea and protector of sailors, the temple was built between 1839 and 1842Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Hokkien Temple in Chinatown”
RKS Literature: Why is Frankenstein’s Creation so Malicious? (Mary Shelley)
“I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me. You would not call it murder if you could precipitate me into one ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: Why is Frankenstein’s Creation so Malicious? (Mary Shelley)”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Singapore Panoramic Tour: Is Singapore Soulless?
Singapore 11October2025: Singapore Panoramic Tour: Is Singapore Soulless? “Singapore Panoramic Tour” sounds a bit easy peasy just what the doctor ordered for haggard jet laggers. On a luxury coach (no WC facilities) at 09:15. First stop Merlion Park at the Esplanade Bridge. Right behind us one views the Singapore skyline with innumerable skyscrapers many withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 11October2025: Singapore Panoramic Tour: Is Singapore Soulless?”
RKS Literature: How Can Frankenstein’s Creation Cease His Threats to Humanity?
“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit this world and its miseries forever. At length I wandered through these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify. We may notContinue reading “RKS Literature: How Can Frankenstein’s Creation Cease His Threats to Humanity?”
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