A Second Holiday Season in Singapore
15 January 2012
One of my readers asked me to write about how I spent the festive season this year. This was my second Christmas in Singapore and I noticed some things that I hadn't noticed last year. For example, the wait staff in all of the restaurants were wearing reindeer antler hairbands or Santa hats. Also, roasted turkeys with "all the trimmings" were available from most restaurants to cater Christmas dinner.
I spent Christmas Eve with my new friends starting with lunch and shopping with Venita in the afternoon of December 24th and then joining Jennifer and Rukesh for more food, drinking and merriment later in the evening. The 'drinking and merriment' went on until dawn. Christmas dinner was eaten again this year at Santa's house and as before, there was plenty of food, wine and good company. We were even treated to Christmas carols played on violins by two charming, young sisters.
New Year's Eve was celebrated at Tai Mai Shu in Chinatown. This small pub is a little bit like the hostess bars in Japan. The girls who work there are from the Phillipines and although they were working they were also celebrating. There was singing, dancing, food, and yes, you guessed it - drinking! And that was the last alcohol that I consumed. I resolved to eschew alcohol in 2012 and it has been 15 days and counting. (ed.note - I managed to last 6 weeks and caved under peer pressure)
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