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The Haze

Well, I know I only posted this morning, but I've just found out more about the smoke. It's from southern Sumatra in Indonesia and it affects not only Singapore, but also Malaysia. The air pollution level is measured every three hours. Any measurement up to 100 is considered safe. Today's measurements have fluctuated between 100 and 150 - not good. Worst of all, it appears that a lot of the particles are small enough to get through the air con, yikes. Oh well, sounds like it's not too dangerous - I'll just have to get used to having itchy eyes.

We bought a photo printer today, finally we'll get around to printing some of our wedding photos. Not bad, only a year and a half late!

We witnessed what is quite a common event here in Singapore this afternoon. However, I realise that it's not really that usual anywhere else. We were at Funan - The IT Mall and there was a shop-opening event. This consisted, as all do in Singapore, of a drinks party, several talls stands of flowers donated by the neighbouring shops, and a very loud dance by a very big dragon troup, with a very big dragon. I think it's a cool tradition, and given how many shops there are in Singapore, I'd imagine that florists and dance troups also approve.

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