Liberty Market is closing. That's rather sad for us. This is the one grocery store here that has aisles large enough to fit people and carts through, and it's the place we count on to find otherwise rare items such as fruit roll-ups, Mrs. T's perogies, and shake 'n bake chicken seasoning. Not that we NEED these items, but it's nice to have them once in a while. It's funny what you miss from home. Lately I've had a tremendous craving for Cheerios, which I couldn't find anywhere until today (at Liberty). Lots of things are available if you search around for them, but it's very rare that I can find all the items I want in one store. Usually shopping consists of hitting several different stores in a week for all the different products we crave.
Here are a few other things that are different here than at home:
1. We have to turn on our water heater when we want hot water.We don't have a big tank that's left on all day, just a small tank that's only turned on when necessary. This isn't too much of an inconvenience, but it has led to a couple of cold showers when I forgot to turn it on. Luckily a cold shower is almost bearable in Singapore.
2. We have two air conditioning units in the house, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. They're wall units, which is kind of similar to window units in that you only turn them on when you're home, and when you need them. Central air conditioning is not typically done here aside from businesses.
3. The oven and stove and all the sockets have switches to turn them on when needed. Otherwise you leave them off.
Electricity is definitely treated as a more valuable resource here. These little differences probably save a lot of electricity per day. I'm not sure why they haven't been implemented in the States yet.
4. Eggs aren't refrigerated in the supermarkets here. I guess they don't need to be, but it still seems kind of gross to me.

I'm sure there are hundreds of these little differences, I just can't think of any others at the moment.