Monthly Archives: June 2009

Scary songs for children

We’re still learn­ing how to put Kai to bed, or sim­ply to calm him down. Talk­ing and singing softly is one of the things we find works. We’ve been singing to Kai some of the songs we know from when we were kids. And yes, we already knew that ‘Twin­kle Twin­kle Lit­tle Star’, ‘Baa Baa Black …

June 29, 2009 – 9:52 am | By | Posted in Media, Parenting | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

RT @mitchtan: Air China should stop hir­ing Chi­nese who tries to speak with an Amer­i­can slang… Seri­ously, me no under­stand you! # RT @khaosworks: The jokes just write them­selves, don’t they? Strange Gel Remote Con­cept by Pana­sonic: http://is.gd/18JUq # RT @HossanLeong: Where do I think is the best place to take the fam­ily on an …

June 28, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

Rolls Royce for the disabled

We were really lucky to find a park­ing lot at The Cen­tral not­to­be­con­fused­with­cen­tral­mal­land­cen­tral­square the other night, right next to the dis­abled park­ing lot, where we saw a mag­nif­i­cent cabri­o­let in baby blue. Rolls Royce calls it the Phan­tom Drop­head Coupé, but for the Sin­ga­pore mar­ket it’s called the Phan­tom Dis­abled Car Park­ing Lot Hog­ger. These must …

June 26, 2009 – 5:39 pm | By | Posted in Living | Tagged , | View Comments

Cyclops can now fight Godzirra!

“Ultra­man + Mt. Fuji = JAPAN” — Photo by emrank I am not arroud to make fun of Japanese-accented Eng­lish, so sit­ting through two hours with an embassy offi­cial who was help­ing us fill up decep­tively dif­fi­cult forms was quite a task yes­ter­day after­noon. But it’s almost all done. Naomi’s and my mar­riage has been …

June 24, 2009 – 9:06 am | By | Posted in Living, Parenting | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Plus one room for scale model maid

Photo by full­res Real estate agents can be arse­holes some­times. A few years ago, being first time home renters, Naomi and I were conned into pay­ing dou­ble com­mis­sion by this chow ah beng of an agent, and last year, we were treated to a siao char bor show by this inde­pen­dent agent who got her …

June 22, 2009 – 11:45 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

From miyagi.sg: Weekly Tweets http://tinyurl.com/mw7g8t # From miyagi.sg: Weekly Tweets http://tinyurl.com/llxj9c # Doing 8Days a favour. RT @patlaw: RT @betshopboy: @pat­law with all due respect, I don’t think @mrbrown needs 8Days to affirm his cele­bri … # Only in a men’s toi­let in Thai­land: http://ping.fm/VYveX # RE: That be true. What eagle-eyed alert­ness, Wayne! http://disq.us/exl …

June 21, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

The Taiwanese food’s better here

There is an upside to tak­ing your Tai­wanese mother-in-law to a Tai­wanese restau­rant, and it is that she will prove beyond all doubt that that restau­rant is not authen­tic, by trans­port­ing her entire kitchen to your apart­ment built for two peo­ple, staff it with her domes­tic helpers and enlist yours to the same cause, and …

June 15, 2009 – 11:42 am | By | Posted in At home, Eating | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

From miyagi.sg: Weekly Tweets http://tinyurl.com/rxvw2w # From miyagi.sg: This is the life http://tinyurl.com/n7f4xb # http://tv.rugby.com.au/?MediaId=da16292f-d9d0-47d2-aa4b-6f7fe81b0fe8 Rugby TV : Men of Gold 30sec Retail Ad — June # Govt e-services FAIL http://skitch.com/t/163 # RT @mrbrown: http://bit.ly/hHE9U @ken­nysia has Blu-Ray Blues. # Where can I get cit­ronella gels (for to place around the house)? Home-Fix seems to …

June 14, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

This is the life

Kai has been going through a growth spurt, which is amaz­ing given that he’s just come out of dengue and hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tion. He can’t fit into a lot of the baby clothes (that thank­fully were hand me downs rather than bought) he was pre­vi­ously wear­ing, and he’s heavy enough to make my biceps ache after car­ry­ing him. …

June 8, 2009 – 10:15 am | By | Posted in Parenting | Tagged , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

From miyagi.sg: Weekly Tweets http://tinyurl.com/lx8698 # AVA orders recall of con­fec­tionery prod­ucts man­u­fac­tured by Bedok fac­tory http://bit.ly/XfXaj #food­safety # Baby Kai and happy par­ents are home! #dengue # RE: That’s inter­est­ing Marina. Would be amaz­ing if it were pos­si­ble. http://tinyurl.com/lx8edk # RT @mezzalaneous: Bye bye iShop? NOoooo.…… http://bit.ly/14L3yZ # From miyagi.sg: One mos­quito bite http://tinyurl.com/lje994 …

June 7, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments