Happy New Year!

On February 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Living

Here’s wish­ing every­one a great new year of the snake! May you have the oppor­tu­nity to eat more! (Yes, “eat more snake” too).

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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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Chinese New Year fashion challenge

On February 2, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Living

I think it was my brother who said to me one Chi­nese New Year: “Why do peo­ple bother to wear dress shoes with their New Year clothes? All you do is dress up, go vis­it­ing, and take off your footwear when you go inside someone’s house. Why bother?”

So I chal­lenge you to wear slippers […]

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Singapore’s more like China than China

On February 15, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Living

It’s been as busy as we’ve expected this Chi­nese New Year, and with Kai nurs­ing a new cold (how many do babies get in their first year?), we were expect­ing even less sleep than usual, and we were right.

That’s not to say […]

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Our Ang Pow Collector is ready. Is yours?

On February 13, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Living

Kai, Naomi and me wish every­one a New Year of peace, joy and hap­pi­ness. To help your­self along the way, don’t drink and drive, don’t overeat, and don’t gam­ble away your Ang Pows at the 500 tables open tomor­row at the […]

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The music they play in hell

On January 24, 2010 · 8 Comments · In Media

We had to go out to Paragon today because Kai had to see the doc­tor to get some med­ica­tion for his cold.

We’re all a bit under the weather, but we man­aged to sol­dier on because Paragon’s com­mon areas didn’t play that infer­nal racket known as Chi­nese New Year music. The indi­vid­ual shops and the supermarket […]

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Have we lo’d enough hei yet?

On February 6, 2009 · 2 Comments · In At home, Eating

We’ve lo hei’d three times this Chi­nese New Year, which isn’t a lot, but there’s only so much raw fish and crack­ers you can man­age. Espe­cially when there are preg­nant women in the family.

Still it’s great to be able to make a mess at […]

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Busy busy busy

On February 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In At home, The Ingterneck

No, I’m not on blog­ging hia­tus or any­thing like that. I thought I’d bet­ter blog a bit so that I’ll meet what­ever blog­ging cri­te­ria put up by the Asso­ci­a­tion of Sin­ga­pore Blog­gers or what­ever it is they’re called.

Because I might want to join […]

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The Little Drummer Boy goes Tong Tong Chiang

On January 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Living

Chi­nese New Year songs played in the malls and super­mar­kets make you wish Christ­mas was still around.

They’ve moved CNY stuff into the shops so quickly that some peo­ple are a bit con­fused. Mys­te­ri­ous boxes turn up and no one knows what they are:

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