Bali - any questions?

Easter Sunday in Switzerland:

 

Easter Sunday in Bali:

 

Enough said!

 

Happy Easter!

I doubt the Easter Bunny will find me on Bali, so that means more Chocolate for the rest of you!

 

Working in Singapore...

My Dad's a civil engineer and Singapore must be the dream of any engineer or architect.... So that's why this post continues in German... and for my English speaking friends: try and use the 'Google translate' function!

Paps, hier in Singapur gibt es ja unzählige tolle Gebäude, der Traum eines jeden Ingenieurs oder Architekten. Ich habe schon ein paar mal Photos von den Gebäuden gezeigt, hier aber ein paar Fotos von den Baustellen, die es hier auch en masse gibt - und den dazu gehörenden Schildern:

Die Bagger sind natürlich etwas grösser als auf dem Schild. Die Baustellen auch:

Wo gearbeitet wird, braucht es auch Pausen:

In der Nacht sind die Baustellen genau so in Betrieb:

Und wieder ein paar Schilder: "Arbeiten im Gange - verzeihen Sie die Unannehmlichkeiten".

 

And if it's not Wednesday...

Then I usually get my vitamins by having a delicious freshly pressed, squeezed or pureed fruit juice from this nice lady:

The 'ordering process' is usually something like this:

Me: good morning!

She: hey, good morning. What do you want today?

Me: ... [ ...and before I can say anything:]

She: let me see, what about.... kiwi and apple? Is good, is sour!

Me: ...ooookay, but red apples...

She: Noooooo, green apples. Is sour, is healthy! I make for you, you see...

Me: okay...

But I must say, I've loved all of the mixtures she came up with. ABC (apple, beetroot, carrot), dragonfruit and pineapple, starfruit and green apple with a pinch of salt. And last Friday I actually got to choose: mango and strawberry - to celebrate the weekend!

And yes, that's my new orange handbag... Just to set off the green of the drink!

Btw: she's just across from the guy preparing the paratha from this post.

 

 

Five a Day...

Just had to post this...
Every Wednesday there are free fruits delivered to the office. While they might sometimes be bananas or pears (not too exotic / unusual), there might be fruits that I've never seen - and can't recall the name just now.

But today ... We have COCONUTS !!!


First you drink the clear water, then you scoop out the flesh. So probably counts as two out of the five a day?

When Venus meets Jupiter on the Capitol... under a New Moon...

Just had to take this photo and post it. The New Moon is always special (!), and this month he had company. Venus and Jupiter. Though I know for a fact they have started to drift apart.
Mum, this photo is for you...

Meeting Venus

And since I just LOVE night shots, here's another two.

Raffles Hotel

St. Andrew's Church with the Stamford Tower

And no, I haven't had an original Singpore Sling at the Raffles Bar yet (that's where it was invented), but I'll definitely go there soon.

Sweet (Sunday) Morning....

It's Sunday and I went out for breakfast. Not asian, but soooooo good!

French toast, made with home-baked Brioche toast, stuffed with mango, served with berry compote and mascarpone.

It definitely deserves its name: Sweet Morning.