The fab and the not so fab… in a teeny, tiny world

It’s Good Friday today and so we organised to go to church with some people we know from the Hutt. Steve is the NZ Defence Attaché here and he, wife Gillian and kids Nicola and Daniel moved here earlier this year. After a bit of a hairy taxi ride (he: You must give VERY good instructions! We: Er, aren’t you the taxi driver?!?), we met up with the Steve and Gillian and the family at St George’s church. Almost as soon as we had walked into church, I turned around to see Marty talking to Tim and Hayley- people we know from Dunedin. OF COURSE we would run into the two other people we know here. So, I’d have to say that we are feeling preeetty pleased with ourselves- we know 8 people in Singapore and managed to see them all without planning any of it before we left NZ. Not only that, but we only had to arrange to see one family. Nice work, eh?

Anyhow, the short end of that long story is that we have had a fab day. Gillian and Steve took us back to their place- an historic ‘black and white’, fed us a fabulous lunch and then took us to see Malaysia across the Straights of Johor. They then took us touring before delivering us back downtown so that we could have dinner with Tim and Hayley. Thanks guys!! It was also great to see Tim and Hayley and nice to spent a bit of time with them before we leave the country.

I’m now whiling away the time at the airport (which very obligingly has free broadband) and feeling a bit grim. I have some very bad news. Now, I don’t want you to get too upset, but I have just discovered that IT IS BLOODY COLD IN DRESDEN AT THE MOMENT!!!! If you don’t believe me, check out http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0186 I’d especially like you to pay attention to Sunday (low -7, high 0!!!!).

Oh, but to finish on a light note, I thought you might enjoy this…. Very Singaporean.