Happy Dog Year

If you’re Chinese, you’re hanging out with family, getting red envelopes full of money–assuming you’re not married, and if you are married then you give them out–and generally doing the things most white people do at Christmas.

Or if you’re me, you watch a few more episodes of Lost watch Claire and Charlie get kidnapped and sit there thinking, “OH MY GOD…“

And just what the heck is it with this American fascination with Singapore anyway? When I was watching Batman Begins a chuckle was elicited from the audience when it turned out that Bruce Wayne’s various batsuit components were mass produced in Singapore. And now on Lost the plane that crashed was a Sydney flight bound for Singapore…

The weirdest part of watching Lost for me personally has been the fact that I’ve occasionally thought to myself, “Wow, this TV show really feels like it’s transporting me to a far away small, tropical island…”

And then I realize I already AM on a small tropical island and feel incredibly foolish. However, unlike the castaways on Lost, what I lack in glamour and drama I make up for with the always welcome presence of air conditioning and, most important of all, indoor plumbing.