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DJ Noodles kicks A$$! All the way from Macau! @djnoodles #Macau

Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 1:56AM / Standard Entry

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Quick Robin, to the Bat-Delivery Van!

Friday, Nov 20, 2009 8:00PM / Standard Entry

A lot of delivery truck drivers in HK put some extra flair on their vans, since they spend all day and night driving around in them. some do lights, some do fancy air dams and some just hand stuff in the windows.

The other day I spotted this unique ornamentation on one. The first pic was blurry:

but I took a close-up:
I'm Batman!

I gave the driver a thumbs up on my way past him.

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Tat Addict Spotted in Singapore 紋上癮在新加坡!

Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 9:23PM / Standard Entry

Another one for Phat's next edition of Tat Addicts:
Spotted two weeks ago in a mall on Orchard Rd.

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Some Singapore Pics

Sunday, Nov 15, 2009 3:59AM / Standard Entry

As I mentioned before, I went to Singapore for some business right after Halloween. My parents had already planned a trip to HK that week, so I got them to fly to Singapore with me.

Here's a few of my pics from touring around:
We went to visit the Armenian Church in Singapore.... which was built in the 1830s. Supposed to be the first Christian Church in Singapore.

I didn't get a good exterior shot, here's one i found online:
It does not at all look like what normal Armenian Churches are supposed to look like...

But I guess its hard to find good stone in Singapore. :-P

this is a picture of the Armenian community in 1917. The guy in the black in the middle is the priest. Sinaporeans may already know this, but the Straits Times and Raffles Hotels were co-founded by Armenian residents amongst other contributions.

The alter.

An example of some of the memorial engravings they had on the walls. It was interesting to see how these guys ended all the way out in the Far East (in case you're curious, Julfa is a small city in what is now part of Azerbaijian).

According to wikipedia, these tombstones were relocated from another part of Singapore:
but no actual tombs are here.

Right next door to the church is Singapore's Central Fire Station, which now has a museum inside. It was a nice place to cool off for a few minutes... at least to me. :-P

We walked over to the Cenotaph, a few blocks away. This memorial was originally built by the British to memorialize the dead from WW I, but they used the back side to memorialize the WW II dead too (which obviously effected Singapore much more directly, as it was occupied by Japanese from 1942 to 1945). There's a very similar one in HK too (and London of course). That's the Swissotel in the background. I stayed there in 2007 on my first trip to Singapore.

The ever-spraying Merlion

more pics in a day or two when i get time!

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Halloween 2009 - SCMP oops!

Friday, Nov 13, 2009 11:58AM / Standard Entry / Hong Kong

Took them an extra week, but the SCMP gave us some nice coverage of Halloween:
Great! Except for one problem...

That's not Helen! :-O

Thanks to SCMP, apologies to Don! :-P

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