Monthly Archives: June 2008

Weekend breakfast

We live in such times as that where we don’t have time for a good meal to kick start the day because the day has already been kick-started and we’ve been dragged along, hang­ing on to the han­dle­bars for dear life. Oh, and the price of food and other house­hold items suck too. But if you can,

Meet the Karen Cheng

I’ve been fol­low­ing Karen Cheng’s blog on and off since blogs were invented way back in 1976. If you’re not already a fan, she’s a hot Perth mother of two lovely kids who blogs about her fam­ily, shop­ping et cetera on a very pretty self-designed web­site at www.karencheng.com.au. On occa­sion, she takes self-portraits in a

Joe Augustin got what?

It was with shock and hor­ror that I logged in to Face­book for the first time in yonks, to read amongst the hun­dreds of super­pokes and super­clittick­les that Joe Augustin got fired. I haven’t lis­tened to radio for so long that I’ve never lis­tened to 91.3FM (the sta­tion that fired Joe), much less known about his

Green neighbourhood. Not.

Here in Sin­ga­pore, we send our trash over­seas — Photo by Where is Clif­ford The Big Red Dog? I asked our apart­ment block’s cleaner where the recy­cle bins were and he said there weren’t any. Just chuck every­thing into the big wheelie bin, he said. What made me sicker was a friend of ours telling me he

When policemen still wore shorts

Wah, you must have bought this when police­men still wore shorts”, said the lady at the light­ing shop as she asked for my per­mis­sion to dis­man­tle some more of the tiffany lamp I brought in for her to fix. As took the base off, the debris from inside the lamp fell out and dirt­ied her table,

Settling

It takes a cou­ple of weeks to unpack, say some of our friends who’ve also had the good for­tune to change their sur­round­ings once every cou­ple of years. And we’re still set­tling in, mov­ing things around the house because Jake the Cat has been dis­play­ing his acro­batic prowess by leap­ing from shelf top to fridge

What’s going on?

It’s like we’ve been in hid­ing with all this mov­ing shit. We’ve hardly read the news, and although we know about the major calami­ties that have struck, it still feels a bit strange that when we’ve started ven­tur­ing out­side of our apart­ment (both old and new), the coun­try seems to have changed a fair bit. First,

We need this for the house

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! Bits and pieces for our new apart­ment are being put together, slowly, together with a few other unfore­seen necessities.

Seriously Hossan

My best friend Hos­san is going to per­form at the Esplanade (again) on the 27th and 28th (and extra show on the 29th because of pop­u­lar demand) of this month. So, even if you’ve some­thing bet­ter to do (which I doubt, because it’s Hos­san per­form­ing at the Esplanade), get your tick­ets fast, and book your­self

Since the morning that we came

Mac’s set­tled in eas­i­est — as long as he’s got his cush­ion, he’s sweet As with any new premises, there are things to get used to. But to call them teething prob­lems would mean this apart­ment has more teeth than it was sup­posed to. There are how­ever, nicer things. In the carpark, between the park­ing lots, are