January 28, 2010

• I have absolutely nothing to say about the National Championship game. It seems ages ago, but it’s only been 2 ½ weeks.

• The other evening, our Irish friends came over to the house and we had Mexican Nacho’s and Margaritas poolside. While the kids were watching a Malaysian pirated copy of Avatar, the adults headed out to an Australian bar in the middle of Little India. From there we headed to a Cuban salsa bar and finally tapas at a Spanish bodega. In Singapore. We opted not to go to the Irish bar called Obama’s in Chinatown.

• McDonalds I -- Our local McDonalds disappeared while I was in Los Angeles. It was 3 minutes from our house and now there is absolutely no sign of it. I didn’t think they ever closed one. Asian “Pat” at the Starbucks next door said that it is going to become a Chinese Restaurant – because Singapore needs more of those.

• OK, I do have something to say. If you could win the National Championship game by taking a knee, why would you go for another touchdown? And I keep telling myself, there are 119 other teams (and fans) who would have given anything for the opportunity to lose that game. And I’m really glad I went. And the Rose Bowl stadium is horrible and dangerous – even the pre-renovated Cotton Bowl was better than the Rose Bowl. But it’s a beautiful setting.

• Texas had a good basketball team until I started to pay attention to them.

• McDonalds II – Tucker and Jacey were quite tickled that I can easily say, “two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onion on a sesame seed bun.” Yet, the words to Boom Boom Pow are beyond my ability.

• Tucker and Jacey were saying “Help” too much while playing (fighting) so we told them they needed to come up with a code word for when really needed help. They came up with three. Code Yellow is “Miniskirt”. Code Orange is “Roadkill”. And Code Red is “Drunk Wood Pigeon”. Huh?

• I was listening to the radio this morning and they were doing the traffic report. “There’s heavy traffic on the PIE at the BKE (these are the freeway names). There’s a wreck in Lane 1 of the AYE at South Buona Vista.” And then, “We have reports that there’s a monkey trying to cross the road at the intersection of Kalang and Lavender Streets.” The announcers then went on to discuss why a monkey would choose to cross at that particular intersection.

• Tucker swam 65 laps (3250 meters or over 2 miles) on Tuesday in the Haiti Swim-a-thon. He raised over $1000 for Haiti which included some of his and Jacey’s own money. We are very proud of how far he swam and his fundraising efforts.