A Tribute to Our Mother

On February 25, 2011 · 17 Comments · In At home, People

She was a woman of excep­tional courage. She faced all of life’s chal­lenges head on, field­ing every­thing thrown at her with great tenac­ity, deter­mi­na­tion and always well-dressed and immac­u­lately groomed while doing it. She lived life with a pas­sion, always will­ing to try new expe­ri­ences and learn new things.

“If life hands you lemons, […]

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Smelly people

On February 19, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Parenting

Kai learned the word “smelly” from Naomi’s mum, and to our delight, applied it when Naomi brought him to the zoo — he applied it on the goats at the kids’ sec­tion, where they had a pet­ting zoo or some­thing, I dunno, I din go.

Then last week Naomi brought him to the zoo […]

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It’s Chap Goh Meh, but here’s a Christmas story

On February 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Places

While work­shop­ping Kumar’s show last week, Selena Tan brought up this gem of infor­ma­tion on how the Japan­ese cel­e­brate Christ­mas. I would’ve teased Naomi for not know­ing this Japan­ese tra­di­tion but a) she doesn’t take too kindly to crit­i­cism about her lack of Japan­ese knowl­edge, b) it is a rather off­beat kind of […]

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I have a friend who’s a knight. You got or not?

On February 13, 2011 · 1 Comment · In People

We attended Hossan’s “knight­ing” cer­e­mony Fri­day night at the French ambassador’s res­i­dence. There was no pomp and very lit­tle cer­e­mony, which suited us fine, although the newly minted Cheva­lier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Let­tres cut a dash in his Ted Baker suit bought off the rack for the occasion.

And when […]

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How bad could a Monday Valentine’s Day be?

On February 11, 2011 · 3 Comments · In The Ingterneck

You’re prob­a­bly all festival’d out since Christ­mas, and it’s only a cou­ple of days since Chin­gay, and now, no mat­ter what, there’s this thing called Valentine’s Day hang­ing over your heads.

It’s hang­ing over this dude’s head, and he gets all worked up and makes a video — and it’s quite apt that VD […]

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What are you taking for your “flu” that won’t go away?

On February 9, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Living

I went to the doctor’s yes­ter­day for the sixth time in 2 months, and he doesn’t seem too con­cerned that I’ve made so many trips for the same prob­lem. He thinks I’ve been infected by sev­eral dif­fer­ent strains of flu, and quite pos­si­bly, with H1N1 as well.

I’ve been on three courses of an antibi­otic called […]

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This site is not SafeSurf safe

On February 9, 2011 · 2 Comments · In The Ingterneck

Some­one tweeted yes­ter­day after­noon that Starhub’s SafeSurf appar­ently blocks this site from curi­ous young eyes.

The SafeSurf FAQ goes on to describe the ser­vice as “a “fil­ter­ing” ser­vice that blocks out unde­sir­able web­sites on the Inter­net.” OK, I can under­stand why some peo­ple dis­like this blog, but to block a […]

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It would be hell if the restaurants weren’t so good

On February 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Eating, Places

Naomi and I hadn’t spent enough time look­ing through what’s on offer at the Marina Bay Sands, so we were very excited to dis­cover that ‘celebrity chefs’ had set up shop in the mas­sive casino complex.

There’s Mario Batali, Tet­suya Wakuda, Hide Yamamoto, and Singapore’s own drink-driving Justin Quek amongst sev­eral oth­ers. And we only […]

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Lib lung and prosper

On February 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Eating

This evening we took a break from eat­ing junk food and took Naomi’s vis­it­ing cousin out to a chili crab din­ner at Long Beach Dempsey. Good thing we got there early, because a lit­tle after we got there, a queue formed with sev­eral dozen fam­i­lies, tired from vis­it­ing and being vis­ited, look­ing to get a […]

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And on the second day, every dog was born

On February 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Living

The sec­ond day of the New Year is when mar­ried daugh­ters return to their birth family’s home and spend time there. We learned of this tra­di­tion only after we got mar­ried, because pre­vi­ously, both Naomi’s and my fam­ily were always pretty sketchy and incon­sis­tent with cus­toms. We still can’t remem­ber for sure how many oranges […]

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