Singapore back to normal...

So the haze has left us. Hopefully for good! Here are some pictures from my first run outside in a while. Air quality is now back to safe levels! And Singapore has returned to its beautiful self! 

View of my apartment! 

Singapore Flyer

Boat Quay

The river walk 

A weekend in Phuket

Always lovely to spend a weekend in Phuket Thailand! Just a quick trip to enjoy the fresh air and beautiful weather over the weekend with friends. We stayed at the Westin which was really nice!

Here are some pictures! 

View from the room

The pool! 

Singapore Smog...

What happened? Singapore has changed over night thanks to the Indonesian fires. The farmers including sugar cane farmers burn their fields. The smoke turns to haze/smog and heads to Singapore. The PSI is the air quality rating. Typically in America we are at 50 PSI. Anything over 100 is dangerous. Well today we hit 400!!! Only place ever been higher is Beijing - which unfortunately I have also experienced this year in Jan during a business meeting. 

Hopefully we can get some relief soon. They need to start using our sugar cane harvesters. 

Here is a picture from my apartment on a normal day. Take. 2 weeks ago

Here is the same picture today 

Staying indoors and wearing a mask when have to go out.

At work..

On the bus...now I really look like someone who lives in Asia.

Amazing weekend in Maldives...

Wow! The Maldives are amazing! Lena and I had a great time on the Conrad resort island in the Maldives. The resort was really nice. The resort had two islands and connected by a long bridge to enjoy the walk over. We arrived to Male and took a seaplane to the resort. Then we were treated like royalty from the moment we arrived. Enjoyed the beach from the room. The outdoor bathroom. The pool over the ocean. And the restaurants over the water. We also got to enjoy the paddle boats and swimming breaks. But the highlight was for me was the snorkeling excursion! I love to snorkel and we got to see turtles swim around us and sharks pass by. Amazing! 

Here are some pictures!

Lena and I enjoying some beach time 

Sunset 

View of our resort island from the sea plane

Lena and I at dinner

Happy Hour beach side

Ferry in Male

Enjoying the ride back to other island

A weekend in Cape Town...

So apparently I missed this blog! Sorry! Spent a great weekend with great friends in one of my favorite places - Cape Town, South Africa. We spent some time enjoying the beautiful setting of the VA Waterfront where the restaurants and shops are right on the water with a beautiful view of Table Mountain and the ocean. Then Saturday we hiked to the top of Table Mountain! So fun. Second time for me and I enjoyed even more this time. Then Sunday we ended the great weekend at the famous wineries of Cape Town. But we chose to bike them! Might not have been the best decision but it was a blast. Especially enjoyed all our wine tastings between bike rides. Thanks to Lena for traveling all the way from USA and Brian and Mary from Singapore to share the fun weekend with me. I always love Africa and really enjoyed sharing it with my friends. Their first time to Africa.  Can't wait for the next journey!

Here some pictures from our weekend!

Cape Town waterfront - Castle Lite

On the Ferris Wheel

Me, Lena, Mary, and Brian with the Table Mountain behind. Perfect day!

Lunch at the Waterfront

Hiking Table Mountain

At the top!

Lena and I at the top

The wineries

Biking and wine tasting - trouble!

Lena on the wine tour

The crew at a winery stop - having a blast!

View of Cape Town - can't wait to go back! 

Weekend in Manilla celebrating Brian's Birthday...

Had a great weekend in Manilla with great peeps to celebrate Brian's birthday! We really just hung out, played cards, enjoyed Filipino BBQ, and danced to the famous Filipino cover bands...So fun! Here are some pictures from the good times!

The crew!

Brian getting more birthday cake!

Ohh the favorite San Mig Light

Manilla at night..

Region 1 OF Team

Had a great week this last week with the Region 1 OF team here in Singapore! Had good meetings and discussion and also spent some fun time together including visiting the Cable Car. Here are some pictures!

Team Dinner

On the cable car

The team at the office 

View from the cable car