Fall has been a Ball

In September John kept his eye on the study ball and Margaret headed to the USA - part for pleasure and part for work. The work part - The Great American Beer Festival in Denver.
For five days she traveled around Denver and the greater area sampling beer and seeing how good beer is sold. What she learned - good people + good beer = sales. If you are ever in Denver check out Euclid Hall -ate there twice.
Other beer recommendations:
Left Hand
Shorts
Saison (style of Beer)

After getting back to Singapore it was none stop. Weekend one was the Navy Ball. We had a table of 10 great friends and danced the night away at the Ritz Carlton. And if you are wondering about Margaret's dress -she managed to squeeze into her senior high school prom dress and now can officially say she got her monies worth for the dress.













The following weekend John was in studying hard at school and Margaret snagged best dressed at the Special Olympics' Gala - Theme Sporty Chic.











We had time to stop the launch of YouTube Singapore.
















Next up was Halloween. Along with 140 adventurous party goers we boarded a bus and bar hopped the night away. On the actual day of Halloween we had some of our condo's kids stop by for a trick or treat. -John was a big hit.




















That same weekend we attended the Irish Fund - Fundraising Gala at the Fullerton. And if you thought we weren't busy enough. We found time to escape for a long weekend to Bali.
















A destination that took us along time to get to. We often joke that we are the only people in Singapore who haven't been to Bali.

U of Chicago Business School

A quick and dirty snap-shot from a taxi of the U of Chicago Business School in Singapore or John's home away from home:

Our Neighborhood

Checkout our neighborhood an article writen by Margaret

Let's try it again

Well with a fair amount of timing passing. A wedding, another move and two cats later here we are still in Singapore! John is onto grad school and Margaret is onto hand craft brews! We are also now equipped with smart phones a bit behind the curve, but none less here we are ready to snap shoot and share. This time around we will try with a bit of narrative a bit of wikkipedia :)

September has begun we have left the hungry ghost and into the mid-autumn festival we have been giving and receiving booth classic and modern mooncakes. For the first time since arriving in Singapore Margaret is working for a true Singaporean company and has been lucky enough to be on the client side and thus receiving mooncakes. Quite frankly, maybe the best part about mooncakes is the box. Mooncakes are big business and the box plus delivery add to the extravagance

Over the last year and half we have both discovered the uniqueness and freshness of wetmarkets in Singapore.. The market with walking distance is very Chinese meaning no lamb and lost of Mandarin spoken. It is clean and run by lot of old timers and middle aged fish mongers - the women tend to be kinder and the fish mongers gruff. Tekka market is two metro stops away (15 minutes) this market is much bigger than our local market and if you can't find it at Tekka I don't know where you can find it from Thai to sweet potatos to kampong eggs to fresh meats and fish. Fresh delish, cheap and good!

If you ever wondered what the Singapore skyline looks like check out this photo: