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I just got back from Port Dickson with Mike, his wife Shux, and her entire family for Chinese New Year. I was really impressed with the counterfeit products you can buy in the market.. these flip flops look just like my real Facebook flip flops.

The Raffles Hotel is known for its Singaporean Sling, but I was most impressed by the fans! No rotary fan blades here… just hand fans and a pushrod.

This weekend I headed up to Johor Bahru with my coworkers on Viki. Going to Malaysia seems akin to a trip to Canada for a Mainer; except, it turns out to be a country where you need proper papers. I was stopped at the Singaporean border for forgetting my entry visa in my apartment… whoops. Fortunately, Singaporeans are accommodating so they checked my numbers and I was good to go.

Crossing borders is hard work… this is a picture of Sunjin saying he’s hungry and we should find some food & beer. (He doesn’t talk too much)

I’d like to consider myself a photography hobbiest, so picking out a new camera is a fun activity. I loved the photos I took while backpacking with an SLR, but I found this DSLR camera to be too cumbersome — it hardly fit in my massive backpack. The new micro four thirds format is smaller than SLRs and more powerful than a compact, but still too big to fit in any pocket. I need a camera that I can leave in my backpack and I’ll always have it around, so I bought a Canon S95. Here are a few of my first shots:

Getting ripped off in Sim Lim is a lot of work so I went out for some food. A local shared a table with me at the nearby hawker center.