Consonant Aspirations

Just a few doors down from the guest house. When I first saw it, I thought it was some weird three-legged cow.

Last night over dessert Lauren and I got into talking about the recent discussion on the RNLD  (Research Network for Linguistic Diversity) ...

Last week when I was in Singapore, I caught a documentary titled Yarshagumba: The Himalayan Viagra  which aired on the Australia Network. Th...

Arrived safely in Kathmandu yesterday. Singapore seems a world away. Except that all the tourist-oriented cafes look like they belong in Sin...

Over lunch today, my brother mentioned that our grandmother (and I suppose a number of our older relatives here in Singapore) often ask the ...

Over lunch yesterday, a few Singaporean friends and I were celebrating the fact that 'friend' is now a commonly used verb. Prior to ...

A few days ago I was wandering my favourite section at my favourite bookshop in Singapore - the languages section at Books Kinokuniya at Ta...