Celebrating Life

Come the end of the year, there's Hari Raya, Deepavali, Christmas, & just around the corner, Chinese New Year in January. It's always a good excuse to come together to celebrate with family & friends. It's also what's unique about Singapore - a multi-cultural & multi-religious gestalt.

After working hard in the office & raising the kids, what better way is there to celebrate life & our raison d'être by gathering the clan & friends for a smörgåsbord of Christmas turkey, Mediterranean salad & Chinese favourites. Then wash it all down with Chinese tea or a Tiger (beer), here's to Life !

Celebrating Our Silver With Gold

This October, my wife & I decided to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary with a trip down memory lane - leaf peeping in New England, driving up to Niagara Falls & winding up in New York & Long Island. The weather was much better than our (wet & rainy) August trip to England & we'll let the pictures show why Autumn in this part of America is simply spectacular.

We were treated to lunch in Boston by Lee I-Min, our friend from 1991 when we stayed a year for my skin research at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Amazingly she looked as youthful as before, having become a professor at Harvard's School of Medicine & Public Health with a main research interest in exercise for health & prevention of chronic disease.