Archive for June, 2010

Taking Stock

When we travel, there is always a time when we say, well, its time to go home.  We don’t know how long we will be home, or what home has in store, we just know when it is time.  It is time. Yet, tonight with a full moon over the Seine at the Pont d’Alma [ READ MORE ]

Bliss Body: Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery–Singapore

As she understands compassion, she opens the stone gates of judgment. As she understands wisdom, she sits by the cat and waits. As she understands vow, she collects each gray rock under a rainy sky. As she understands practice, she walks the same marble path, shoeless[ READ MORE ]

Chinese Honky Tonk

Have a couple of days before I fly back to Paris.  Heather and kids have moved on to Bangkok for the next week or so.  I stayed behind to catch my flight on the 15th.  Must admit, it will be hard to leave Asia.  Feel there is so much more to do and see.  However, [ READ MORE ]

Sun After Dark

Went to the bookstore recently to find another read after finishing Ring of Fire by the Blair brothers.  Found a copy of Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign by Pico Iyer.   Liked his broad definition of travel and how it remains a journey into whatever we can’t explain, or explain away.  He say’s that even [ READ MORE ]

Carson, chinese tamales, and red tea

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon wandering my Singapore environs.  Nap time for kids means wandering time for me. I guess the dragon boat festival is coming to Singapore soon, so zong zi (chinese tamales) are being sold on the street.  The zong zi is glutinous rice stuffed with various things like chicken, egg, red bean and wrapped in bamboo leaves [ READ MORE ]

Chili Crab and Durian Pudding at the Long Beach Restaurant

I love a good seafood restaurant, especially the way the Chinese do it.  Everything comes out on a lazy susan, spun for dishes to try.  Dr. Yeong, our host proved his acumen in odering for us.  Ordering food for a group is an art in Chinese culture.  I remember in my Chinese language classes at [ READ MORE ]

Pork Floss

I had long forgotten about rousong or pork floss until today while perusing the supermarket right next to the Hyatt hotel, where we are staying.  I had forgotten about that first time I tonged a sweet looking pastry bun only to find, not a cream filling, but pork floss.  The bun had all the makings [ READ MORE ]

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