How come we didn’t think of doing this before?

On January 10, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Eating, Places

We were short of a cou­ple of organic ingre­di­ents for a food project Sun­day after­noon, and the usual super­mar­kets didn’t stock them. So we called up a cou­ple of places in the “far north west­ern farm­ing cor­ri­dor” and drove out.

It only took 25 min­utes to get to the first farm, and we got […]

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Apple Corner

On January 3, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Places, Toys

Any­one who’s been to the ToTT Store in Bukit Timah will know what a kitchen won­der­land it is, chock full of appli­ances we can’t afford, plus an IKEA-style cafe­te­ria that is sus­pi­ciously not as crowded as IKEA’s cafeteria.

We had been look­ing for an apple corer over the week­end, because one of our […]

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Eating tour of Shanghai in pictures

On December 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Eating, Places

We left Shang­hai with a lighter heart and heav­ier tummy, and this is why:

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Home again

On December 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Places

We had so many things we had to get a Maxi Cab to get us home. As you can imag­ine, not everything’s unpacked yet, and we also have the creep­ing feel­ing that Shanghai’s grown on us.

Heck. I think I spoke more Man­darin in one week than I have in ten years.

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Franckly beats any French fare in Singapore

On December 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Eating, Places

This is turn­ing into an eat­ing tour of Shanghai.

It’s been a cou­ple of hours since Naomi and I returned to our ser­viced apart­ment from din­ner at Franck.

It was no ordi­nary din­ner. It was OMG THIS IS SO GOOD WE COULD LIVE HERE AND EAT HERE, IF NOT EVERY DAY, THEN […]

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Best egg tart in the world

On December 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Eating, Places

The last time we were in Shang­hai, we had the good for­tune of being stuck in a jam on the cor­ner of Huai­hai Zhong Lu and Maoming Lu.

Our friend Han Tong was in the taxi with us. And when we asked him why the heck peo­ple were queu­ing out­side a hole in the wall, he […]

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Underground children’s apparel mall

On December 17, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Parenting, Places

We’re in an under­ground mall that holds sev­eral hun­dred shops sell­ing all man­ner of kids’ clothes.

If you don’t hear from us again, tell the others.

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Shanghai winter wonderland

On December 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Places

This after­noon, Shang­hai threw us a wel­come blan­ket of the heav­i­est snow­fall I’ve seen in years.

Much as we’d like to step back out­side and play in the mush, Kai’s fast asleep on my chest, and Naomi’s ‘rest­ing her eyes’ in the bedroom.

And prob­a­bly for the first time since Naomi’s brother’s pass­ing, this town feels […]

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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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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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