Monthly Archives: October 2009

Kai’s first Halloween

I’ve never cel­e­brated Hal­loween till now, and because of that, we went com­pletely over­board with the dec­o­ra­tions for our apart­ment — we spent most of the week cut­ting out con­struc­tion paper from tem­plates we obtained either online or from the ven­er­a­ble Martha Stew­art. Most of the enthu­si­asm, plan­ning and exe­cu­tion was sup­plied by Naomi, while …

October 31, 2009 – 11:59 pm | By | Posted in Living, Parenting | Tagged | View Comments

Advertorial: Citibank mobile services

There will always be the last minute, spur of the moment, mid­dle of nowhere trans­ac­tions we will need to per­form, away from the con­ve­nience of our office / home com­puter. Say for instance, you were over­seas, or in a loca­tion with­out free wifi, and with­out easy access to your bank’s ATM net­work (or that your …

October 28, 2009 – 11:16 pm | By | Posted in Advertorial | Tagged | View Comments

Wear blue to go green this Saturday

They showed that 350 parts per mil­lion CO2 in the atmos­phere is the safe limit for human­ity. The bad news is we’re already past that num­ber — we’re at 390 parts per mil­lion, which is why the Arc­tic is melt­ing, why drought is spread­ing across the planet, why human­ity is fac­ing per­haps its great­est chal­lenge ever. …

October 22, 2009 – 10:43 pm | By | Posted in Living | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Tyrepac — tyres delivered to your doorstep (and fixed on your car)

Dis­clo­sure: Tyrepac spon­sored a set of tyres for the pur­poses of this blog post. I love dri­ving, but car main­te­nance can be a pain. But that’s mostly because I’m quite the idiot when it comes to any­thing mechan­i­cal. Cars I’ve dri­ven would’ve lasted a hel­luva lot longer if I’d taken the trou­ble to look after them. But …

October 22, 2009 – 9:39 pm | By | Posted in Advertorial | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Green zen baby

Baby Kai loves green­ery. He loves to stare at trees and the rustling of leaves seems to lull him into a trance-like state. So it’s a good thing that we’ve got trees right out­side the din­ing room win­dow, and we took these pic­tures when we had lunch recently at Dis­trict 10, and you’ll see how …

October 21, 2009 – 11:50 am | By | Posted in Parenting | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Knick-knacks to impress Hollywood!

It was really hot yes­ter­day after­noon, but we man­aged to walk some of the fab­ric shops on Arab Street, look­ing for rib­bons and other dec­o­ra­tions. And it always strikes me when I’m there, how pretty the area is, and how twee the Tourism Board’s descrip­tion of it is: Noth­ing beats Arab Street for bazaar-style shop­ping with …

October 17, 2009 – 9:30 am | By | Posted in Places | Tagged , , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

12seconds — [Qik] Mobile video by Ben­jamin Lee http://tiny12.tv/762S9 # 12seconds — [Qik] Mobile video by Ben­jamin Lee http://tiny12.tv/8A2C3 # I uploaded a YouTube video — Qik — Mobile video by Ben­jamin Lee http://bit.ly/Gmjie # FB RT: Try­ing to upload my reel to face­book! Here’s the link first…http://bit.ly/HcEmb # Thems Ikea chicken wings and meat­balls …

October 11, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

A solid start

Today Kai had a lunch of milk mixed with organic brown rice cereal. It was a messy but enthu­si­as­tic affair — Mama Naomi fed him from his brand new bowl with his brand new spoon, and for all the hor­ror sto­ries we heard about baby’s first meal, lunch ended with about a quar­ter of the …

October 6, 2009 – 9:19 pm | By | Posted in Parenting | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Weekly Tweets

RT @gssq: Sin­ga­pore: the only coun­try in the world which treats for­eign­ers bet­ter than its peo­ple; http://is.gd/3JAwz # In the­atre rehears­ing #hos­san­leong­show http://pic.gd/93d1c9 # “Low also admit­ted that she started steal­ing Poke­man cards when she was young”. http://bit.ly/1KG77l # RT @mrbrown: RT @badbanana: The dia­logue in ‘CSI: Miami’ seems to be writ­ten with­out any con­cern …

October 4, 2009 – 10:00 am | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments