08/30/2026
August. A few photos from my travels to Malaysian Borneo, and the last two from Singapore. Borneo Eco-tours gave us an amazing experience, educational, thoughtful, and so well organized. Our guides were extremely knowledgeable and it's good to know that our tourism dollars are going towards the conservation of this very special place, and the plants and animals that live there. I have a particular interest in this place - Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo - because this is where my great grandmother settled in the early 1900s. I knew almost nothing of my ancestry growing up - I was born in Canada, my mother was adopted and grew up in peninsular Malaysia, and my father in a single parent home in Singapore. My cousin and I tracked our grandmother's family to Sabah, and I made a trip there about ten years ago and reconnected with them through the local family association. I've been to Borneo 3 times now, and I absolutely love it there - the people, the culture, the ecosystem. The second last photo in this post is in Singapore, the exact location on the Kallang River where my father's childhood home was - a kampong (village) house on the river then, now an MRT station. Last photo is a reflection of my mother and I on the MRT (mass rapid transit). She gave up driving earlier this year, but thank goodness Singapore has one of the best transit systems in the world. The years just flow by like a broken down dam. Make the most of it all, as best you can, my friends. I'm back home, back in the studio, and will be back at the Halifax Brewery Market on September 12th. See you soon. π«
