Malaysia: Meet the Moggies

The Moggie clan (plus one Dutchman):

Bulan (Malay for moon):

Spike the tortoise:

Xmas 2010

Anna organised a wonderful Christmas Day this year. Trifle, eggnog and other yummy treats...

Santa sacks...

And a Xmas puzzle/present hunt (here's me finding a clue among the towels)...

Went out for drinks that night at the posh Fullerton Hotel with my friend Michelle and her husband, Peter.

End of year office parties

The legal team here is obsessed with food challenges, to the extent that they've even put up a Hall of Fame for successfully completed entries (and a corresponding Wall of Shame for failed attempts). This also explains why our office party had the Food Olympics theme.

One of the recurring challenges, is to stuff as many marshmallows into your mouth as possible, and recite "I am a chubby bunny". I wasn't impressed with the current record of 7 marshmallows, thinking I could make a dozen easy. Imagine my dismay when I could only manage 8. Still, at least it's the current record. I reckon I can manage 9 next time...

Anyway, we wound down the year with some spontaneous challenges (I introduced the concept of the dry Weetbix to everyone), karaoke and go kart racing. Alas, I had a disastrous final race in the go karting (someone else drove into me), but am sure I would have won otherwise, as I hold the best overall lap time record!

Haw Par Villa (AKA The Tiger Balm Gardens)

Haw Par Villa is a Chinese mythological theme park, originally called "Tiger Balm Gardens", and built in 1937 by the developers of Tiger Balm. The park contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese folklore, legends, history and illustrations of various aspects of Confucianism. The most well-known attraction is the Ten Courts of Hell, with gruesome depictions of hell in Chinese mythology, all set in a 60 meter-long trail of a Dragon...

Laughing Buddha:

Anna and I (Horse and Goat) are apparently not well-matched :(

Your guess is as good as mine:

Kiwis!

Crab-lady?

Tiger Balm car:

The entrance to Hell:

Random sights of S'pore

The old Malaysia train terminal, with its Art Nouveau statues and tiles:

Chinese business embassy:

Raffles Hotel (we'll be back for a Singapore Sling):

Monkey Magic!

Sultan Mosque (Masjid Sultan):

Yahoo! Food Olympics

One of my promotional posters (that's the big boss chowing down on Buffalo wings):

Me in Yahoo!-purple suit:

Anna as honorary Yahoo!:

Our branded cupcakes:

Fort Canning

An archaeological dig site:

Believed to be the tomb of Iskandar Shah, a King of Temasek:

Cannon:

Inside "The Battle Box":

Chinese temple rises and disappears in my backyard