Month: 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…