Gang-bangs, farewell dinner, and Christmas.

Singapore is the goody-two-shoes, law-abiding hall monitor of Southeast Asiaits more ghetto neighbors would probably beat to a bloody pulp if it weren't so goddamn rich and powerful. The analogy I often give to friends back home is that Singapore is kind of like Orange County but with more fish balls: a very safe place to raise your kids if you want to shelter them from the social maladies of drugs and excessive gum-chewing.

Annabel Chong, who was born in Singapore, probably did not do too much drugs or gum-chewing when she was growing up. But that did not stop her from doing....a lot of men. By setting the world record for the world's biggest gang bang in porno history, she (or rather her vagina) says screw you, Singapore! And about seventy other men, too!

I learned about Annabel Chong and her sexploits (filmography includes: Sgt. Lonely Pepper Hearts Club Gangbang; I Can't Believe I did the Whole Team; feats include pioneering on-camera triple penetration) because last night Christine was sporting an I Heart Annabel Chong T-shirt and everyone knows that Christine is a pervert who wants to be just like Annabel Chong.



Oh, Singapore. Who would have thought.

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Last night, the Japanese Crew and Its Associated People took me out to a joint farewell-Yumi / Jun's preemptive birthday celebration dinner. The girls surprised me with a very sweet homemade card signed from our friends, which made my heart melt right out of my halter-top and fall all over the floor in an ooey-gooey mess.


The right attitude can transform a train station into a rawking mosh pit.


Cute girls. And me.


I kick thee out of my sight, Japanese boy. I kick thee!


My idea of nationalism. Chomp.

One of the best things you learn about studying abroad is the reassurance that no matter where you go, you will find good people. I hope to see some of these kids again--maybe possibly in Japan if I end up working there a year from now. Who knows?

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Orchard Road, one of the main shopping districts of Singapore, is all pimped up for the holidays in a blinding orgy of tinsel and stringed lights. It's quite the purty sight.

Now as my friends know, I LOVE DECEMBER and I LOVE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. I love all the cheesy things that start coming out of the woodwork at the end of the year: all the new holiday Starbucks latte flavors, how little pine green and holly ornaments start cropping up in random places and just the general sense of festivity heightened by the sudden crisp chill in the weather. Plus, my birthday is smack in the middle of all the merry-making. True, I probably get half the amount of gifts compared to other non-December babies (Here's your birthday and Christmas present, rolled into one!), but I figure that in the grand scheme of things, it just makes an already special month extra-super-special.

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I'm leaving for Hong Kong tomorrow. I hear Hong Kong is like the New York City of Asia. We'll see how it goes!