Month: June 2009

  • Scary songs for children

    We’re still learning how to put Kai to bed, or simply to calm him down. Talking and singing softly is one of the things we find works. We’ve been singing to Kai some of the songs we know from when we were kids. And yes, we already knew that ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’, ‘Baa Baa…

  • Weekly Tweets

    RT @mitchtan: Air China should stop hiring Chinese who tries to speak with an American slang… Seriously, me no understand you! # RT @khaosworks: The jokes just write themselves, don't they? Strange Gel Remote Concept by Panasonic: http://is.gd/18JUq # RT @HossanLeong: Where do I think is the best place to take the family on an…

  • Rolls Royce for the disabled

    We were really lucky to find a parking lot at The Central nottobeconfusedwithcentralmallandcentralsquare the other night, right next to the disabled parking lot, where we saw a magnificent cabriolet in baby blue. Rolls Royce calls it the Phantom Drophead Coupé, but for the Singapore market it’s called the Phantom Disabled Car Parking Lot Hogger. These…

  • Cyclops can now fight Godzirra!

    “Ultraman + Mt. Fuji = JAPAN” – Photo by emrank I am not arroud to make fun of Japanese-accented English, so sitting through two hours with an embassy official who was helping us fill up deceptively difficult forms was quite a task yesterday afternoon. But it’s almost all done. Naomi’s and my marriage has been…

  • Plus one room for scale model maid

    Photo by fullres Real estate agents can be arseholes sometimes. A few years ago, being first time home renters, Naomi and I were conned into paying double commission by this chow ah beng of an agent, and last year, we were treated to a siao char bor show by this independent agent who got her…