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Pulau Ubin, Singapore, April 2010

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Mud Crab at Chek Jawa [wikipedia.org] on Pulau Ubin [wikipedia.org] in Singapore. You can see the full Pulau Ubin, Singapore, April 2010 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com].

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Athens, Greece, March 2010

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Candice an I went to Athens for a weekend in March. Why a weekend in Greece? Job interview. But the job is in Boston — don’t ask why the interview was in Greece it’s complicated. I did get the job, I’m in a hotel in Boston as I write this.

When we arrived in Greece the taxis were all on strike, luckily the train from the airport was still running so we could get to our hotel. But given that the city has gone from strikes and protests to riots and firebombs in the bast two days I guess it could have been much worse.

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Flying in on Thursday night and out on Sunday afternoon makes for a short trip and throw in an afternoon for a job interview and we didn’t see too much. But our hotel was within walking distance of Monistiraki, the heart of the tourists sites and the Acropolis. Which was good because the Acropolis was the only “must see” on my list.

I’ve been to Athens before [confusion.cc], a bunch of the people I knew in London were from Athens and I spent a week there in the winter of 2001 [confusion.cc]. I have a lot of film photos from then. I’ll have to dig them out and take a look but in my memory they are actually better then the shots I have from this trip. For some reason the sun was just harsh and the scaffolding was everywhere!

Anyway, we visited the various sites on and around the Acropolis — the Parthenon [wikipedia.org], the Erechtheum [wikipedia.org]. The ruins of the Agora [wikipedia.org] or Market from the ancient Greek and Roman eras. Which includes the best preserved ancient Greek temple in the world; the Hephaisteion [wikipedia.org] aka the Temple of Hephaestus. We even went to see the Acropolis Museum [newacropolismuseum.gr] which was lacking given that the best of the Parthenon marbles are, um, in London. (Oh yea, it’s like picking at someone’s open wound.)

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Really that’s about all the sights we saw. The rest of the time we enjoyed the local food and wondered around the tourist shopping areas of Monistiraki and Syntagma. That’s all the time we had. One day I’d like to see more of Greece than just Athens; the islands and the other big ancient cities of Delphi, Sparta and Olympia. One day. It’s all on the list.

You can see the whole Athens, Greece, March 2010 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com].

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Zoom Zoom

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Photo of an Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master [wikipedia.org] taken from the Changi Ferry Terminal during the Singapore Airshow 2010. Not much of an airshow really, only a few flight demos, and no aerobatics at all. Unless you call standing an Apache on it’s nose for a few seconds aerobatics. N** took a lot more [nirsinay.com], ’cause he actually paid to go into the exhibit.

There are a few more photos in the 2010 Singapore Airshow, Singapore, February 2010 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com].

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Thaipusam 2010

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Photo from this years Thaipusam festival in Singapore. Taken in early Feb but sitting on the camera till a week or so ago due to my hard drive crashing. I’ve been to the Thaipusam festival three times now here in Singapore and it still blows the mind. I don’t have faith, so I can’t understand what drives people to do this.

You can see the whole Thaipusam Festival, Singapore, January 2010 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com].

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The lions are coming

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Lion dance [wikipedia.org] performed at my sister-in-laws house on the third day of Chinese New Year this year.