Homesick? Yes.

I've been feeling pretty homesick lately, especially since David has been putting in a ton of hours at work. There is somewhat of a balance to that homesickness here, though, since Singapore has many things to offer that are similar to home. Thinking about this conflict, I decided to write a fun post listing some things that I have here and some things that I miss.

5 Things Singapore doesn't have that make me miss home (See how eloquent I am?)

1. Friends and family - Ok I don't want to get all shmoopy on here, but seriously, you guys are very important. We have some friends here from the US that we are hanging out with a lot (Ben, Heather, and Heath) and other friends that we are making along the way, but the distance to the others in our lives is a bit hard to take.
2. Wendy's - To be fair we saw a Wendy's while we were in Kuala Lumpur. We couldn't read any of the street signs or figure out where it was once we were out of the taxi, so it pretty much didn't count since we couldn't find it again.
3. My car!!! - Ok maybe not my old car, but a car that is mine to drive. I'm grooving on the public transport here, but it is seriously patronizing to get chauffeured around by David all the time. Plus he's a crazy driver in Singapore! (don't listen Mom)
4. Baseball - Don't give me that crap about baseball being boring. You know what's boring? Cricket. And F1 racing. And futbol and rugby and all these other silly sports. What? You say I missed Oswalt pitch the home opener? I know. I know. But I "watched" it on the espn play by play text updater on my iPhone. Joy.
5. My backyard - This one is really here for the MoMo. She does not like having to ride an elevator to do her business. She is not happy about going out where all the dogs in the condo go out. And she really can't figure out why I keep following her around with little baggies. And for the record, I do miss mowing the lawn and doing work outside in general. If I were to try to do that here 2 things would happen. 1) People would talk about the crazy American. 2) I would die of heat stroke.

5 Things in Singapore that make me feel at home (and so succinct!)

1. David and Molly - Of course having my hubby around makes me feel at home anywhere. And after months of worry and heartache, the Momo arrived in Singapore in January and got out of her 30 day long quarantine on Feb 18th. She makes our lives happy every day. Ok I know we need to have kids.
2. iPhone - We've both got(unlocked) iPhones when we got here, which means I get to carry around something that brings me close to home wherever I am - Country music. No sighs or rolling of eyes, please. I have other music in my collection, but there's something about some Brad Paisley that calms my soul.
3. The Mullet - I had to put this one in here. It seems as though many Indian men here haven't learned from this fashion disaster of redneck men in US in the 80s, and are sporting a hairstyle so similar to theirs that I have named it the Indian mullet. It makes me smile...and also to want to say "Git R Done" for some reason.
4. Subway - There's one around the corner. They have the same menu, except for some Asia only additions such as the tandoori chicken. And get this, it's cheaper here! And they toast everything that they can get their hands on. "Not toasted, I said, NOT toasted!"
5. Skype! - This is an amazing and free tool we use to video conference with everyone in the US! None of us can believe it's free, but we are supporting Logitech's webcam business more than we believed we ever would! We are on Skype as jacque.wicker, so if you have a webcam follow the link and give us a call!
   

So this wasn't the most serious and informative post ever, you say? I say you should be happy to have a post at all!!

No, don't be mad. Please come back I didn't mean it. I promise to have photo-loaded, data-rich posts in the future. For now, this is helping me miss home in a semi-productive way!

Windows to My (New) World

Quickly before I head to bed, I wanted to post some of the first photos I took here in Singapore, with more or less what I was thinking when I snapped the shots.

David's Dreamland, Burger Kind and an Orange Julius. Unrelatedly, notice the first of many Starbucks to be seen in my photos (they are everywhere).


My First Meal in Singapore. Did you really expect something different?


More proof that David belongs in Singapore


You'll be proud, this is my second meal in Singapore: Chicken Fried Rice


And last, the skyline down the street from my place. The buildings are all condos, public and private. Note the construction, it is everywhere. Singapore is a city in constant change!


And now that I've given you a few things to think about, I'm off to bed. It takes about an hour to get to work in the morning using my feet, 2 buses, and 1 ferry, and I need to be well rested!

We're Online

Hi everybody! We're officially online!

I've finally gotten David to approve a name for our blog website. Now I have a place to use to inform all of you about the happenings in our part of the Wicker family! Obviously, this is being driven by our move to Singapore, but if this works well we will continue it... And by works well, I mean if you people keep reading it and like it. You'd better like it!

Please visit here to keep up with what's going on in our lives, and let me know what's going on in yours and I will post on that as well. You can use the comments section to talk to us, ask questions, make fun of us, and in general communicate. Please, please communicate. I'm very lonely. :(