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paper + envelope + stamp + post = happiness

ever since we moved to Singapore I have written letters to folks 'back home' ..... you know REAL LETTERS .... ones that use pen and paper and you put them in an envelope and stick a stamp on'We all love getting letters.well I do too.When we traveled for 12 months around Australia in 2002 I wrote 564 letters. Before leaving Melbourne I purchased five boxes of stamp rolls ( they come in a box on a roll of 100 stamps) by the time we reached Adelaide I needed to buy another box. But yes, I used...

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.... and the flame is extinguished

These past two weeks we have been celebrating The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. Officially known as the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG), which was an international multi-sport event for youths that took place in the city-state of Singapore from 14 to 26 August 2010, in the XXIX Olympiad. It was the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics, a major sports and cultural festival celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games. Three thousand, five hundred and thirty-one athletes between 14 and...

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Hungry Ghost Festival - 10 Aug - 7 Sep 2010

it's now the middle of the Hungry Ghost Festival in Singapore, a rich, cosmopolitan city with a deeply entrenched Chinese heritage.Amid skyscrapers and high tech trappings of modernity, superstition persists and comes to the fore in the seventh lunar month, when the gates of the underworld are believed to be open and spirits roam the mortal realm and where you will see the offerings left for the spirits. Investment decisions grind to a crawl, particulary in the property market, and...

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Helpful Singapore Information (from Andrea)

My friend Andrea has a great blog (click here) with loads of interesting information too ..... one of her more popular blog posts was about Helpful Singapore Information.I tried to do a direct posting across, but not possible so here it is as a Copy and Paste:Helpful Singapore InformationThis is intended to be a starting place for those new to Singapore. You will undoubtedly find many more options as you go on your adventures and probably some you like better but we understand what it's...

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