Saving race

On December 31, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Laws of our land

Because it has always been our government’s pol­icy to pay atten­tion to mat­ters of race and eth­nic­ity, our iden­tity cards and gov­ern­ment records require that we be clas­si­fied under dif­fer­ent “races”.

Both my par­ents are Chi­nese, so there doesn’t seem to be any­thing com­pli­cated about that, even if you’re not com­fort­able with the notion of […]

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Best lazy Sunday ever

On December 21, 2009 · 4 Comments · In At home

It’s mid after­noon and I’m sleepy, and before I know it, I’ve put my head down for a nap. Naomi pats Kai for a bit, and puts him down next to me, where he falls asleep in two sec­onds, and while drift­ing into sleep, I can hear Naomi’s breath­ing enough to know that she’s also […]

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Christmas Chocolate Giveaway

On December 16, 2009 · 53 Comments · In Advertorial, Eating

OK, not exactly choco­late, but Willie Harcourt-Cooze’s Willie’s Choco­late Fac­tory Cook­book.

Five of them, in fact. And to qual­ify for a chance at get­ting one of these books absolutely gratis, all you have to do is leave a com­ment (remem­ber to put your email in the email box so I can contact […]

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A first Christmas

On December 13, 2009 · 3 Comments · In At home

Our Christ­mas tree is finally up, with a mix of home-made and store-bought trim­mings. It’s our first Christ­mas tree because we thought it’d be nice for our new fam­ily to have one. The but­ter­flies and snowflakes were be-glittered by Naomi. The pretty bows were tied by Naomi too. Heck, she did every­thing. I just […]

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A really bad restaurant

On December 11, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Eating

I sel­dom find a restau­rant or food ven­dor that riles me up so much that I want to blog and say bad things about them.

But it looks like we found one last night — it’s called ‘Grill-Out’, and it’s on the 7th floor of the con­fus­ingly laid-out Orchard Cen­tral. But before I […]

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Swing Out, Sister

On December 7, 2009 · 21 Comments · In Media

From Wikipedia:

The name came from a 1945 movie star­ring Arthur Treacher, called Swing Out, Sis­ter, and they claim they chose the name because it was the only thing the band could agree on, in that they all hated it.

After try­ing a while to come up with some sort of con­test question/quiz, I’m […]

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In the blink of an eye

On December 6, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Parenting

Kai turned 8 months old on Fri­day, and he’s devel­oped new skills includ­ing a super­hu­man abil­ity — teleportation.

You put him on the play­mat and turn away for just a sec­ond to do some­thing in the kitchen, and when you […]

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Gingerbread CSI

On December 3, 2009 · 1 Comment · In At home


Last year’s cookies

We’ve decided to stick to other, sim­pler shapes for this year’s Christ­mas cook­ies because our gin­ger­bread men fell apart in var­i­ous stages of the bak­ing process, ren­der­ing them unrecognizable.

The cool­ing rack looks more like a crime scene.

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Mad season

On December 1, 2009 · 5 Comments · In At home

It’s Decem­ber, and I am impos­si­bly busy, not because there’s all that much work, but because a series of domes­tic calami­ties has put paid any notion of putting up our feet and hav­ing a break.

Naomi and I have been cruis­ing along the past cou­ple of months, becom­ing more and more the typ­i­cal young Singaporean […]

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