This Blog Will Save Your Life

Blogs will do a lot of things, but they will not save your life. However, since I'm going over some housekeeping items herein, I wanted to make sure everyone reads it. V, our housekeeper, is a life saver though.

Comments: I've been told by countless avid readers that commenting is difficult. I have changed the settings so that everyone should be able to leave comments even if you are an anonymous reader BUT decency and general decorum should propel you to leave some clue as to who is leaving said comment. Fair?

Notifications: Another bone of contention with blogspot is that there's no way for me to broadcast out to the Ramblophiles that a new treasure awaits them. If you would like to receive notification that there is a new post (and not wait till you see it on Facebook) - please email me at chrisleger79@gmail.com with "Blog Add" in the subject line, and something clever in the text. I'll try to include a new fun picture in the email notifications as incentive to get on board.

Engagement: As every marketer tells me when I'm at work, it's about engagement - so I'm going to start making the blog INTERACTIVE. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see the reaction bar (go ahead, I'll wait). You can now choose an answer of 1-5 to questions posed by yours truly.

Here is our first engagement question (remember, answer below and only choose one!)

In what format would you like the next blog post?
1.) Photo Journal - I will take a picture of what I'm doing wherever I am in Singapore every 37 minutes for a whole day - no commentary
2.) Chris Leger's day - third person account of how this remarkable individual spent his day, from the perspective of the poor slob following him around for a day
3.) Guest Blog from Kellie
4.) Guest Blog from Kellie but written by Chris
5.) None of the above, I hate this blog

We'll all be able to see the voting and early next week I'll give the people what they want.

Is this Royal (PITA) Wedding happening in the states too? It's all over the tube here. Is that where the term Pomp & Circumstance comes from?

How was everyone's Easter? I got all of your cards and peeps in the mail - so thoughtful. We actually had a busy Easter weekend. We went to a BBQ on Friday night and met some great new people. I spent the better part of Saturday recovering from said BBQ however, as I might have gone a little overboard. Saturday night, and I must pause here to thank Mark for yet again introducing us to a "favorite place" in Singapore - he's now introduced us to 4-5 of these, so when you all come visit, we may just send you out with Mark, so Saturday night Kellie and I met Mark at Chijmes - pronounced "Chimes," and not Chidgems as this donkey found out. Had some dinner and watched the Manchester United game outside on the big screens drinking Budweiser (pronounced BUTT-why-zuh).

Today Microsoft Outlook corrected colorful with colourful in an email I was writing.

PITA = Pain In The Ass, BTW (which means By The Way)

We spent Easter Sunday in an area called Sembawang, which is at the northern point of Singapore on the border of Malaysia. Kellie's colleague resides with her husband and 4 (four) labs in an absolutely amazing home build in the early 1900's for a British hot shot. We had such a fantastic time playing with dogs, being in a yard, sweating our Easter Eggs off and chatting about life in Singapore.

This might come as good news for those of you who don't like me, or Kellie, or both of us, but 'tween Friday and Sunday, we met so many people who've been here north of 10 years, having come on a 2 year deal like us. I'm sure you could appreciate my skepticism but they all said it takes 3-6 months to get the "Swing of Sing." We'll see. And they didn't say Swing of Sing - I just coined that. (c)

Alright - time for some American Idol action. Don't forget to email me the "add" and vote for your next blog format.

Oh - one more thing - we have Monday off for some holiday thing here. :)