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In My Hands Today…

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Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian Cadaver – Shamini Flint

Inspector Singh is sick of being on sick leave, so when Mrs Singh suggests they attend a family wedding in Mumbai he grudgingly agrees – hoping that the spicy Indian curries will make up for extended exposure to his wife’s relatives

Unfortunately, the beautiful bride-to-be disappears on the eve of her wedding – did she run away to avoid an arranged marriage, or is there something more sinister afoot? When a corpse is found, the fat inspector is soon dragged into a curious murder investigation with very firm instructions from Mrs Singh to exonerate her family. But as he uncovers layer upon layer of decit, he knows it isn’t going to be that easy…

This is the fifth chapter of the serious about the portly, sweating, dishevelled and wheezing Inspector Singh of the Singapore Police Force. The other chapters are –

  1. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder
  2. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul
  3. Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School of Villainy
  4. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree

Playing Tourists…

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We played tourists yesterday when the loong Chinese New Year break was on.

BB & GG wanted to go out somewhere and somehow every suggestion was shot down by  one of us. Finally we decided on the museums (although BB was not very sure about this). We decided to take advantage of the free entrance that the Singapore museums were offering the public in the view of the Chinese New Year holidays. So off we went to the Asian Civilisations Museum at Empress Place. We had a bit of problem finding the place, but the journey was totally worth it!

We caught two very interesting exhibits there, both very different and oh so fantastic – The Tang Shipwreck: Gold and Ceramics from 9th-century China and the Patterns of Trade: Indian Textiles For Export, 1400–1900.

Here are some pictures of the exhibitions plus some more from the other gallerys…Enjoy and drool…..

Tang Shipwreck Pictures

Patterns of Trade 

Photos from Other Gallaries

India-Pakistan Border seen from space

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Here is a great view of the India-Pakistan border as seen from outer space! The border appears as an orange line in this picture, taken by the Expedition 28 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) on August 21 and released on September 04. The border, which is a highly lit up fence for surveillance purposes appears as this orange line. The Indian cities of Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir is to the left and Delhi is at the top centre while the Pakistani cities of Islamabad and Lahore appear at the bottom centre and at the centre near the border respectively. These are the bright spots seen in the photo.

The original picture and the captions can be seen here.

India-Pakistan border as seen from International Space Station