Thank you, Lion Cubs

On August 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Media, People

I must have been one of the biggest skep­tics of the inau­gural Games, but over the last 12 days, I’ve been treated to some of the best things it has brought to our shores.

I’m just hop­ing we’ll for­get try­ing to show the world how we can do this and do that — […]

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Ah… Capella

On August 20, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Places

My wife is nuts. She knows I’m under the gun with dead­lines loom­ing, and what does she do? She goes and books a villa at Capella Sin­ga­pore, so that I’ll have nice, tran­quil sur­rounds to do work in while we cel­e­brate our 4th wed­ding anniver­sary. How to be all angsty and writer-like, like that?

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Banker!

On August 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Parenting

We’ve been very lucky to have a baby boy who’s so easy to look after. He eats well, is able to play by him­self, and sleeps mostly to a sched­ule, and when we’re eat­ing out, he’s able to sit at the table for up to an hour — enough for us to finish […]

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More than half of toys tested unsafe

On August 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Parenting

The Con­sumers Asso­ci­a­tion of Sin­ga­pore (CASE) tested a bas­ket of 50 toys sold in Sin­ga­pore, and more than half were found to be unsafe. Naomi and I are not surprised.

But what I’d like to know is, what kind of crap toy is this?

The pic­to­r­ial list of toys is here, […]

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Gold for Singapore football?

On August 17, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Media

OK chope. I’ve only just dis­cov­ered that there are only 6 teams com­pet­ing in the Youth Olympic Games foot­ball com­pe­ti­tion. So it’s not exactly a world stage for our boys due to a rul­ing that each coun­try can be rep­re­sented in only two team sports at the Games.

That means the chances of a gold […]

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Very full now, just ate my words

On August 15, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Media, Places

I watched snip­pets of the YOG open­ing cer­e­mony, and spent another hour on the Youth Olympic News Chan­nel on Starhub TV watch­ing inter­views and re-runs and won­dered why they didn’t have that on ear­lier. I learned many things about the Games and the ath­letes par­tic­i­pat­ing which should have been in the local media but wasn’t.

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My National Day Parade

On August 6, 2010 · 10 Comments · In Army / National Service

I remem­ber National Day Parade 1990 the most because it’s the NDP I was involved in.

It was held at the Padang, and it fea­tured the most impres­sive mobile col­umn dis­play since inde­pen­dence, involv­ing all the mil­i­tary hard­ware and sol­diers (like us) of the day.

At the begin­ning of that year, my bat­tal­ion mates and I […]

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Support YOG, wear this t-shirt

On August 5, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Media

Tired of peo­ple say­ing you should be inter­ested in the inau­gural Youth Olympic Games? Then wear this t-shirt and sup­port our organ­is­ers! Buy this and other apparel and acces­sories at my cafe­press shop made spe­cially for the occa­sion.

Pro­ceeds will be donated to a char­ity which I haven’t decided on.

What are […]

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At La Petite Cuisine with le petite canard

On August 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Eating

Four years have passed since Naomi and I first dined at La Cui­sine — when she was still my fiance — and I had a chuckle read­ing that blog post about it.

Nei­ther of us smoke any more, the maitre’d has since […]

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Is the YOG really a shambles?

On August 3, 2010 · 20 Comments · In Media

For a world’s first ever event, the PR efforts are really really poor. I had to ask around sev­eral times where the open­ing cer­e­mony was (because I have a nephew vis­it­ing from Canada, and he’s really into his sport), and no-one knew.

Some said the Padang, some said the National Sta­dium Oh Wait They […]

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