Times are tough when your Ramen gets smaller

On December 29, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Eating

After a really long day, Naomi, her mum and I decided on Ramen San­touka for din­ner, and we were a lit­tle taken aback by the notices they put up, some of them about how your Ramen-Ricebowl-Egg set has been down­graded to a Small-Ramen-Salad set, and that you have to cough up […]

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Ugly Christmas

On December 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Tweets

Hav­ing dri­ven through Orchard Road in the evenings sev­eral times this month now, it can­not be said often enough how ugly the dec­o­ra­tions are this year. This (as sug­gested in April) would’ve been better:

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Eating the twelve days of Christmas

On December 27, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Eating, Media

Meat lovers’ Christmas lunch

We ate Christ­mas Eve, Christ­mas Day and Box­ing Day and we’re prob­a­bly gonna be eat­ing the week­end as well.

We’ve been feast­ing so much because you gotta have turkey and you gotta have ham, and those things can only come in […]

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Good tidings to you

On December 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In At home

Jake the Cat, Mac the Dog and the rest of us wish every­one a Merry Christ­mas and a peace­ful New Year.

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Pregnancy tickers

On December 24, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Parenting

I’m test-driving preg­nancy tick­ers for your ben­e­fit. Here’s my favourite from Lilypie.com:


You make your own ticker/countdown graphic by enter­ing due dates and/or LMP, choose the back­ground and the colour (yes) of your baby. I’ve approx­i­mated the colour of ours as close as pos­si­ble, but he’s not Ang Moh […]

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Underworld childbirth

On December 24, 2008 · 4 Comments · In Parenting

Yes­ter­day we con­grat­u­lated our friends Mika and Gary because they’re brand new par­ents to a brand new baby boy, and we went and vis­ited them at KKH just a cou­ple of hours after she’d returned to the ward and enjoyed her first cou­ple of hours of motherhood.

It was a happy after­noon all round, and […]

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As we’ve suspected all along

On December 21, 2008 · 7 Comments · In Eating, Living

We did some­thing really stu­pid on the last Sat­ur­day before Christ­mas — we drove to Park­way Parade and tried to shop. Well actu­ally, we were in the area for rea­sons beyond our con­trol, but hav­ing said that, we could’ve avoided Park­way Parade, but didn’t.

We could also have avoided din­ing at

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A hearty Christmas

On December 20, 2008 · 7 Comments · In Eating

Don’t care reces­sion or not. It’s Christ­mas and we’re deter­mined to cook up and eat up.

And so far, the results have been quite sat­is­fac­tory — i.e. we’ve only stuffed up one dish out of what, six?

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Understatement

On December 19, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Eating

Loyal Reader Lin­coln told us Wednes­day that staff at Akashi reckon that their Chicken Karaage is “bet­ter than KFC”.

That’s no way to describe your own chicken. Like I’ve heard some­where else, even Gen­eral Tso’s trumps Colonel Sanders’ just […]

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Sign of things to come

On December 18, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Living

…“but sales are not as brisk as was hoped for because of the credit crunch”.
And when I turned the cover of the book at Bor­ders, I found that it was first pub­lished and printed next year:

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