Monthly Archives: March 2009

Goodbye Ah Mah

My Ah Mah, my mater­nal grand­mother, used to sew pyja­mas and quilts for every sin­gle one of her twenty odd (or is it thirty odd) grand­chil­dren. She’d buy yards and yards of fab­ric every year, and when we’d go visit her in Serem­ban, we’d come home with a new pair of jam­mies, know­ing that every …

March 30, 2009 – 9:19 am | By | Posted in At home, People | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

On Muay Thai becom­ing pop­u­lar among SG women: “This will not help our low birth rates”: http://ping.fm/wADPI # RT @nighthound: Q: What do you call a depressed Trans­former? A: Emoti­con # Ver­mont votes to legal­ize same sex mar­riage: http://ping.fm/FGjwb # Nadya says turn off for Earth Hour: http://ping.fm/jfdVQ # Thanks Pat. RT @patlaw: Kumar made …

March 29, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

Parenting tips with your trim and wash?

It’s like this cult of par­ent­ing, this club of happy enthu­si­as­tic peo­ple who’ve been so nice and wel­com­ing to Naomi and I ever since they’ve known Naomi was expect­ing. There have been ran­dom acts of kind­ness and com­pletely unso­licited advice from com­plete strangers — “this baby nail scis­sors is really good, you should get it”; …

March 25, 2009 – 1:12 pm | By | Posted in Parenting | View Comments

Earth Hour

It doesn’t take much. Just turn off every darn thing in your house and wait an hour this Saturday:

March 25, 2009 – 12:47 pm | By | Posted in Media, People | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Kumar: Stripped Bare — big shout out

March 22, 2009 – 10:54 pm | By | Posted in Media, People | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

RT @gssq: Me: “Igno­rance is bliss but knowl­edge is power”; “i heard guys like igno­rant girls, and girls like pow­er­ful guys” # is feel­ing a lit­tle anx­ious now. # Blog about why you wanna be a pilot: http://ping.fm/RU2fm # going thru script again. # Adri sur­vives Yemen: http://ping.fm/joiur # Look­ing for­ward to full run rehearsal …

March 22, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

We have a weener!

OK, the win­ner of the Kumar Stripped Bare Ticket Con­test is onewheel, who cor­rectly guessed that Kumar was a Sig­naler (Sorry, chain­saw­ield­inun, onewheel was closer). To be slightly more accu­rate, he was a com­bat sig­naler in an infantry unit. Con­grat­u­la­tions, onewheel! Enjoy the show!

March 15, 2009 – 12:57 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

From miyagi.sg: Weekly Tweets http://tinyurl.com/dxwaha # Chang­ing Aus­tralian Eng­lish: http://ping.fm/ZHjBL # SG firms get tweet­ing: http://ping.fm/gYjRl # RT @mrbrown: Shav­ing com­pa­nies, I don’t mind 5 blades or 4 blades if it means a closer shave but I’m not pay­ing for the side­burn trim­mer … # RT @kormmandos: You’re no one if you’re not on Twit­ter: …

March 15, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

Kumar Tix going fast — get yours here for free

The peo­ple at Dream Acad­emy tell me that tick­ets for Kumar’s show are sell­ing out, and that there are only sin­gle seats left for some cat­e­gories. So I’ll remind you all that there are two tick­ets here for seats next to each other, for the first per­son to cor­rectly guess Kumar’s voca­tion in NS. (Hints: …

March 12, 2009 – 7:00 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Pregnancy brains

No, I’m not talk­ing about Naomi and her preg­nancy hor­mone induced faux pas. Because even if I did and she read it here, she would have killed me so it wouldn’t be funny any­more. It’s the wait­ing staff at restau­rants in Sin­ga­pore. They keep ask­ing if Naomi (who is now 8 months preg­nant) would like …

March 9, 2009 – 11:42 pm | By | Posted in Laws of our land, Parenting | Tagged , , , , | View Comments