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WELCOME MAT
April15
Well, I’m done with moving home and it
was all rather gory, but I will leave that
story for next month. In any case, it has
been totally overshadowed by our photo
competition!
The response to the competition was tremendous,
and trying to pick only a handful of winners out
of so many good entries was just so difficult. We
ended up choosing three in each category this
time around, to acknowledge more people, but
even so there were plenty of amazing images that
we couldn’t include.
The photos were all so different and some were
hdifficult to place in a category – I think we’ll have
to extend the categories next year. It made judging even more of a challenge. A
big thank-you to the judges, all the entrants, the prize-givers, and our own Amy
and Anthia who pulled it all together. Find all the results on page 164.
With more holidays coming up soon, you can start building up your portfolio
of great snapshots for next year’s competition!
We sometimes get asked to be more “real” and not gloss over aspects of life
that we don’t want to look at – well, not very often anyway. This issue features two
research articles; one is on a couple of divorce cases here and how the nature
of expat life can influence events; the other is on the labour-related issues that
are common in Singapore and the region – it’s scary to think that these kinds
of problems are still prevalent in the 21st century. We hope you find the articles
interesting; as usual, please do send us your views and feedback.
Now I need to go and buy some Easter eggs. Not sure what happened to
February and March – they went somewhere!
Happy Easter!
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PS We’ve covered HDB flats in this issue, and our next issue will focus on
black-and-white colonial homes. Anyone keen on shophouses? They’re next
in line!