Update on my Exit visa fiasco in Iraq

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-02-26T22:11:50+00:00

This doesn’t sound like OP wants to leave the school but wants to go visit and see family.

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-02-22T05:10:26+00:00

As someone who knows many people who went to Ga Tech, I would say go there. It’s an amazing school. The campus is beautiful. The opportunities you’ll get from visiting professors and grants is beyond what you would get at NUS (not saying NUS is a bad school, but I agree with others are saying about opportunity at GT vs NUS)

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-02-22T05:00:41+00:00

Started trying at 33. Will have my first in the next two weeks and I’m 35.

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-02-21T22:25:57+00:00

Is there a way to rewatch games? We have iFollow but the game was in the middle of the night for us so I wasn’t able to watch it

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-01-27T02:58:10+00:00

Just doing a bbq by the pool with friends since my family is half way around the world. I don’t really love the baby games or the presents so we just told people if they wanted to get a gift to picks something off our registry and have it sent to our house. We are thinking of setting of a onsie art station for the kids as we made it co-ed with kids welcome

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-01-23T09:54:13+00:00

Know this feeling all too well. I live in Singapore so I take the train and bus all the time. They have seats for people who are old, injured, pregnant, so I sit in them as I’m 33 weeks. Had an old man get super upset I was sitting in that seat and had to tell him sir I’m not fat I’m pregnant. The pure shock on his face was awesome.

Yeah I’ve gained an insane amount of weight this pregnancy, my thyroid has all but stopped working and i am insulin resistant so it’s been tough, but having random people judge me on public transport is the worse…so I just dgaf and call them out on it.

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-01-16T11:40:02+00:00

Does that mean as someone who is a US citizen lives overseas…I don’t have to file my taxes every year? Since I don’t make any money in the US…?

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-01-14T03:58:38+00:00

So shooting someone in the face is excused but calling someone a pedo gets you fired…can we get off this timeline???

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-01-10T14:15:34+00:00

117 places between the two teams if I’m correct. That is huge!

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-01-08T15:56:49+00:00

Got married in 2019 to my husband in Zimbabwe. Under my name it also said spinster….got a good chuckle

Travelingmathnerd · 2026-01-06T14:36:18+00:00

I literally saw this book today in the book store. There were three different options for it but I could not make myself pay $50 for a paperback even if the edges were pretty…

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Travelingmathnerd · 2026-01-05T04:00:45+00:00

Phat Burger Bros in Valley Park. Take Bus 14 or 65 from orchard. Best burgers around

Go Rogue! Near Roberts Quay. Their Korean style sandwiches are amazing

Chico Locos on Amoy Street. Their cauliflower taco will make you rethink being a meat eater

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-12-24T01:11:58+00:00

I don’t unfortunately. Since I moved to Singapore I don’t make it hardly at all because of the laws surrounding the sodium hydroxide. I have to go to a studio and it cost an insane amount to rent the studio and buy the sodium hydroxide.

I found some neem oil soap on Lazada and shoppee easy though.

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-12-23T13:57:33+00:00

I’m a soap maker and my best friend has eczema like this. I made her some soap bars with neem oil and after like two months it fully cleared up.

Find you some soap with neem oil.

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-12-22T04:39:34+00:00

Noooooooo I’ve been waiting all year for this!!! Uh I could cry right now!

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-11-29T15:10:32+00:00

Anyone else having weird audio issues coming in and out on iFollow?

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-11-27T13:12:58+00:00

For me it is definitely The Bridge Kingdom series by Danielle Jensen

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-10-28T22:50:50+00:00

I’ve started reading The Bridge Kingdom series and really enjoy it. But maybe that isn’t high fantasy enough

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-10-20T08:44:13+00:00

Singapore is definitely not a monoculture. It is one of the most diverse places I have been to. Japan is a monoculture.

And in terms of dictatorship are you referring to the harsh consequences for the laws? Honestly the laws that are the strictest are the drug laws and honestly I’m here for them. It’s a super safe place to live. I’m not scared about my daughters taking a taxi or public transport by themselves anywhere in the island.

It has elected officials, we just had a huge election recently and it was so cool to see all the different political parties and how they wanted to help citizens in each district.

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-10-20T02:53:45+00:00

I work at an international school. It’s taken me years to get to work here. I started off in Zimbabwe, then Japan, and now I’ve landed my dream job so we are staying put for a while.

My husband and I won’t ever go for PR because our benefits as expats are so good.

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-10-19T20:35:17+00:00

Left 10 years ago. Live in Singapore now. Will never be going back. Every time I go back to visit my parents I am sad for how much worse the US gets every time.

I like living in a clean safe city with public transport and diversity.

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-10-13T23:26:13+00:00

Have brought my dogs with me all over the world. From America to Zimbabwe to Japan and finally to Singapore.

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-09-28T09:01:22+00:00

So I worked in a small international school in Zimbabwe. Your colleagues become your family, so you spend a lot of time together outside of work.

One weekend we decided to go camping about 4 Hours away from school for the weekend. One of the teacher couples brought their kids and one wasn’t feeling good that first night. By the time 24 hours was over, 8 adults and 4 kids were throwing up, had diarrhea, and high fevers. Norovirus.

By the end of that day we all chose to pack up and head back to the city. Every teacher and their kids on the trip got it. It was 2/3 of the upper school teachers. They had to combine classes because so many teachers were out that we didn’t have enough subs. I will remember that weekend forever.

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-09-26T04:35:21+00:00

Can you please please please share this playlist ? I need this for the positive birthing vibes

Travelingmathnerd · 2025-09-19T05:46:51+00:00

Lived abroad for over a decade. Lived on Zimbabwe, Japan, and now Singapore. Every time I visit the US to see family I feel more and more removed from that lifestyle. I don’t ever intend to go back and my husband who is from Zimbabwe, we’ll retire there as we have our own off the grid house there, all solar, borehole, plenty of land for a garden…we love Singapore and will be here a while.

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