Happy Birthday Rob!!

The Lion King in the Lion City

Friends and family near and far, I hope you had a nice Mother's day.  My brood treated me to a show at Singapore's newest theatre venue in Marina Bay Sands.  We saw their inaugural event, The Lion King.  How definitive as the name Singapore comes from the Malay name "Singapura", which means Lion City.  The show was incredible, dynamically creative and innovative.  We all loved it very much.  It's wonderful to see how our most beloved Disney movie was adapted for the Theatre.  The story line and music remains a class act, and I love that Rob and I can can get just as much enjoyment out of the show as our kids.  Parrish was especially intrigued by the young boy playing young Simba, whom looked to be about her age.  LONG LIVE musical theatre!

 

Jingoism, egoism and Ray the Hippie

I think the last time I used jingoism or egoism in a sentence was in college history class, or perhaps a philosophy class. I think I was writing something on aggressive forms of nationalism. Hmmmm, must have been a political science class now that I think of it. Why bring this up? Just reflecting on how crazy things have been for the last decade and these two words came to mind for describing it. One thing is for sure, I wont be doing any dancing in the street, having a celebratory drink or fist pumping over a dead guy. How tacky and embarrassing. The reaction I prefer to this news is a shrug. Or at most, relief, not elation like we just won a gold medal or our favorite team just won the world series.

Ok, hopefully I can switch your gears now that I got that off my shoulders........time to exercise your sense of humor with more John Paragon. I promise, more Asian adventure updates coming soon. But for now, meet Ray the Hippie....

Mixed emotions....

In my last post I was inspired to inject some humor into your lives and share with you some old comedy I found particularly funny.......however this post takes a 180 turn I'm afraid. More humor later, just have my mind elsewhere at the moment.

American travelers outside the US or living abroad are being advised to be very aware there could be anti-American demonstrations that could break out at any time. Especially in countries that have had terrorist activity. Pakistan and Afghanistan are obvious candidates, but I keep thinking of how close we are to Indonesia and the Philippines.

So after a busy weekend, Royal Wedding....the killing of Bin Laden, I'm sitting here trying to figure out my thoughts. I've gone from a celebratory feeling of love that the royal wedding inspired, to a feeling of concern. Although I am glad Bin Laden is gone, I just wonder if he's more dangerous dead?? As I do internet searches on the motivations for the terrorist activities that have occurred in this region in the recent past, I am trying to figure out if my initial feelings have merit. My husband works in Malaysia (questionable security and corruption) and Parrish goes to an International "American" school. I just don't want either of them to leave the house tomorrow or this week! Too extreme?

Ramone Azteca

Rob just introduced me to an 80's comedy routine by John Paragon that aired on Showtime way back. I can't stop laughing so had to share.

Be prepared to enjoy the next 7 minutes of your life....or most offensive.....

Book Week

Last Friday, Parrish was to dress as her favorite book character to cap off a week full of activities organized by the school librarian.

This year it was Scooby Doo. Can you hear my audible sigh? I kept asking Parrish, "don't you want to be a princess again and just wear one of your dress-up costumes?" I know what you're thinking....."common mom! Where's your fun?" It's just incredibly un-motivating to try and find stuff to put a costume together in Singapore because finding costumes or finding material to make costumes is difficult at best as the selection is very limited. Although Halloween seems to be getting more popular so maybe that will change in the future. But luckily we found a set of boys brown pajamas and a craft store with the right colors of felt to make dog ears, a tail, spots and scooby's collar. At the end of the day I realized one important forgotten prop........scooby snacks! Oh well, it got the point across and it was fun to have a free dress day for the kids as they normally wear uniforms.

Guinness Book of World Records

I've been very lackluster about updating our blog. We've had an interesting start to 2011 and I will update you all soon. But while I had a moment, I just had to share these pictures. A friend of mine ran into this scene a few days ago. Hundreds of Singaporean's gathered together to get into the GBWR for most people applying face mask.


This is quintessential Singaporean at it's finest!! They had to have over 828 people to win. I have yet to find out if they did it.