Just 45 minutes away from the Singapore-Johor Bahru border is a golf resort called Pulau Springs that is worth taking the trouble to find. Luckily, we had a GPS to guide us to our destination or else we surely would have had to stop and ask for directions at least every few kilometers. My pictures, [...]

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I love that song … and this rainbow. It’s been raining a lot lately in the evenings and with it has been these gorgeous rainbows all over Singapore. Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what’s on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide. So [...]

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…but in March? And at record levels? This picture is from the New York Times on the record snow fall experienced by those in Iiyama, Japan in 2006. In 2007, peach blossoms (sakura) opened in winter instead of spring because it was so warm, gasp! Last year (2008) China had such incredible blizzards that for [...]

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