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 […]

Continue Reading →

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 […]

Continue Reading →

Useful Christmas Gifts #6: Nespresso Christmas Variations

On December 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Eating

If you wanted to buy some­one a Nespresso machine (wah, so gen­er­ous, can I be your friend?), but they already have one, you could, this fes­tive sea­son, buy them a cou­ple of tubes of the lim­ited edi­tion Christ­mas vari­a­tions. This is espe­cially good if you’re always bum­ming Nespresso off your friends when they […]

Continue Reading →

Useful Christmas Gifts #5: Walking With Dinosaurs

On December 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Media

When he heard there was a show called Walk­ing With Dinosaurs, a wiseacre I know said, “Hey, isn’t that when you join the entourage of a PAP MP elec­tion walkabout?”

I didn’t have much high hopes for it to be an enter­tain­ment high­light of our week­end either, but if you were to have […]

Continue Reading →

Useful Christmas Gifts #4: Something From Apple

On December 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Toys

Let’s face it. You’re gonna be either buy­ing or con­sid­er­ing buy­ing an Apple prod­uct this Christ­mas, either for your­self or for some­one else. Epi­cen­tre, the pre­mium Apple reseller, is mak­ing it more fun with an in-house per­sonal shop­per who’s gonna help you buy more stuff and then you’ll go home and curse him later.

[…]

Continue Reading →

Useful Christmas Gifts #3: Singapore’s Greatest Disasters

On December 2, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Media

This col­lec­tion of short sto­ries is writ­ten by Mal­colm Oei. Set to some of Singapore’s most noto­ri­ous events like the Nicoll High­way col­lapse, the Bukit Ho Swee fire and the SQ hijack, they are made all the more com­pelling by the fact that we have a piss poor rep­u­ta­tion of inves­tiga­tive journalism.

You’ll […]

Continue Reading →

Useful Christmas Gifts #2: Tickets to Crazy Christmas 2010

On December 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Media

You can buy some Christ­mas cheer, espe­cially when you’ve got a show star­ring Singapore’s best musi­cal, dance and act­ing talents.

I’ve been for­tu­nate enough to be a lit­tle bit involved in Dream Academy’s Crazy Christ­mas 2010, and at every rehearsal, I’ve been treated to a melange of music, singing and danc­ing that turned […]

Continue Reading →

Useful Christmas Gifts #1: Frozen Sausage Stylus for iPhone/iPad

On November 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Toys

If you’ve got friends and fam­ily in colder climes, you might want to think about send­ing this gift their way, because appar­ently when it gets too cold to go glove­less, it might get a lit­tle dif­fi­cult to oper­ate a touch screen device like an iPhone or iPad.

So, peo­ple in Korea have been buying […]

Continue Reading →

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 […]

Continue Reading →

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 […]

Continue Reading →
Set your Twitter account name in your settings to use the TwitterBar Section.