Author Archives: andrew

Bathroom stall door at a LAN-gaming center Side-by-side dueling cream-puff franchisees.  There’s a third cream-puff outlet (‘Polar’) about 50 feet away.

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Scope

Here’s a very shaky long pan of the Albert hawker center where I ate dinner tonight.  It’s mostly blurry and useless but may give some idea of the weird enormity of the snack shacks I’ve been frequenting. I was holding … Continue reading

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The Full Jerry

Today has been a bit annoying. My modest goal for the day was to get my clothes washed.  This is always a challenge — usually I haul a giant laundry bag on the metro (attracting the ever watchful eye of … Continue reading

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Traffic

It’s hard to convey in a photo just how crowded the shipping lane over to my right is.  Some of the time it really looks quite a bit like a freeway. (Click the photo to expand.) After pointing out and … Continue reading

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Newater, part 2

The Newater visitor center includes a small-scale version of the vast treatment plant that I ride past every day.  They use a three-stage process:  micro-filtration, reverse-osmosis, and UV filtration. Bundles of tiny, porous tubes which take up filtered water.  Some … Continue reading

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Unsettling

Nasi Lemak with rice that is tinted green for some reason. “Soursop Tadpole,” an icy dessert. Why do they call it ‘Tadpole’?

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Newater Visitor Centre

Let’s see if I can do a satellite embed… View Larger Map That (if all is well with Google Maps) is an aerial view of the weird factory that I ride by every day on my way into town.  It … Continue reading

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I’m surrounded.

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The committee said there is also a need for an underground master plan. It said the government should catalyse the development of underground space over the next decade. The committee also emphasized a need to develop subterranean land rights, a … Continue reading

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Fouled

The other yacht owners at the marina are always worried about ‘fouling’ — the water here is warm and fertile and thick growths of kelp appear on every submerged surface.  A few days ago my next-door neighbor Fred was in … Continue reading

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