Monthly Archives: August 2009

No such thing as too cute

Just when you think you’ve set­tled into a cycle, with baby’s feed­ing nap­ping chang­ing bathing all sewn up — baby’s growth throws another span­ner in the works. We think Kai’s teething already. He’s been drool­ing so much and nom­ming his Sophie The Giraffe toy with so much gusto, it’s dri­ving Mac The Dog nuts. But cute …

August 30, 2009 – 6:18 pm | By | Posted in Parenting | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

At Orchard Cen­tral. Is a bit of a maze inside with all the incom­plete shops. # Is going to get some sleep now. # Traf­fic! # http://twitpic.com/f7i7k — Got a gripe? Sing it! #hos­san­leong­show # RT @HirokoTabuchi: RT @Stan­ford Is social media good for lit­er­acy? Angela Lunsford’s research says yes: http://bit.ly/5Gb8g (via @wired) # These …

August 30, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

The Hossan Leong Show

We worked through a sleepy Mon­day after­noon try­ing to find a rhyming word for Lau Sai, to be put into one of six orig­i­nal songs writ­ten (or in the process of being writ­ten) for the show. As the flyer says, The Hos­san Leong Show is a tv show that’s not on tv, because there are just …

August 24, 2009 – 11:31 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

RT @miyagi: @StarHub­Cares hi help? Now is good. # Imme­di­ate ser­vice would be appre­ci­ated. Any­one there? RT @miyagi: @StarHub­Cares hi help? Now is good. # Guess not. OK, I’m off to Singtel now. RT @miyagi: Imme­di­ate ser­vice would be appre­ci­ated. Any­one there? RT @miyagi: @StarHub­Cares hi help? # Please address to Mr Tan Ku Ku. …

August 23, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

RE: Yikes. My bad. I’ll let them know. Thanks for point­ing it out. http://disq.us/1pwi # Tell me what brings you #joy http://bit.ly/7LeJC # Our son is our #joy. What’s #joy to you? # Hahaha! “Bha­gavad Twita”! RT @skippetty: Deep. RT @bhagavad_twita: Twit­ter­ing is only the pro­jec­tion into form of that which already exists. # RT …

August 16, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

Advertorial: Tyrepac 3-day tyre sale

I was recently pointed to Tyrepac by an old acquain­tance who works there, and it’s the first online tyre shop I’ve seen. They’re cur­rently oper­a­tional in Sin­ga­pore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Korea. If you need tyres, you sim­ply go to the site, pick your car make and model, and a selec­tion of the right tyres …

August 14, 2009 – 2:17 am | By | Posted in Advertorial | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Baby Aglio Olio

Kai has sen­si­tive skin, just like his Papa, who was ridiculed from a young age when he declared to the Sin­ga­pore Armed Forces med­ical board that he was aller­gic to grass and to his own per­spi­ra­tion. Those ain’t rosy cheeks you’re look­ing at on Kai’s cute lit­tle face. Those are dry, inflamed patches where he’s …

August 13, 2009 – 8:22 am | By | Posted in Parenting | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Being in love with what you do

This thread about hap­pi­ness, joy and love has taken a life of its own, and it’s been quite fun to see some of the responses off twit­ter and the like. There were some who, under­stand­ably, said things like “I would love to do what I love, but it doesn’t pay the bills”, or “at what cost?”, …

August 12, 2009 – 12:57 pm | By | Posted in Tweets | View Comments

Take down a musical instrument

One of my favourite poems and one which I’ve quoted here again and again is by Jalalud­din Rumi: Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and fright­ened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin read­ing. Take down a musi­cal instru­ment. Let the beauty we Love be what we do. There are …

August 11, 2009 – 9:50 am | By | Posted in Eating, Living, People | Tagged , , , , , , | View Comments

#joy

Things that bring us hap­pi­ness these days tend to revolve around Kai. His name in Japan­ese means “The World”, so he’s our world after all. We’re happy all of the time because we have Kai. Hap­pi­ness tends to be an envelop­ing state of mind. But there are lit­tle moments that hap­pen through­out that are just sim­ply …

August 10, 2009 – 11:01 am | By | Posted in At home, Parenting | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments