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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Sun Moon Lake and Assam Tea

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Last month, I was in Taiwan for about a week with Mum. We spent a few days at Sun Moon Lake (日月潭), which we used as a base to visit our p...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Phou-oibi, the Rice Goddess - a Manipuri ballad opera

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I just got to see  Phou-oibi, the Rice Goddess , as part of the  Tapestry of Sacred Music 2013 programme here at the Esplanade in Singapor...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Happy New Year(s) on the Indian subcontinent

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India and its immediate neighbours celebrate not one, not two but... a bewildering number of New Year's Days  (not even counting the on...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

The persistence of Singapore English and Mandarin

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In my previous post , I looked at what the government had hoped to accomplish through its language policies, as summarised here in this quo...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The trouble with Chinese language policies in Singapore

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Recently, I joined the Facebook group " Heritage languages of Singapore ", and was immediately directed to an online petition by ...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Wild Grass Lodge at Kaziranga

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While accommodation options abound in and around the town of Kohora, for visitors planning forays into neighbouring Kaziranga National Par...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Elephant ride at Kaziranga National Park

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Even though I am not in NE India at the moment, I still have a couple of things I have been meaning to post. Back in December, after the H...
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