Month: August 2009
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Advertorial: Tyrepac 3-day tyre sale
I was recently pointed to Tyrepac by an old acquaintance who works there, and it’s the first online tyre shop I’ve seen. They’re currently operational in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Korea. If you need tyres, you simply go to the site, pick your car make and model, and a selection of the right…
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Baby Aglio Olio
Kai has sensitive skin, just like his Papa, who was ridiculed from a young age when he declared to the Singapore Armed Forces medical board that he was allergic to grass and to his own perspiration. Those ain’t rosy cheeks you’re looking at on Kai’s cute little face. Those are dry, inflamed patches where he’s…
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Being in love with what you do
This thread about happiness, joy and love has taken a life of its own, and it’s been quite fun to see some of the responses off twitter and the like. There were some who, understandably, said things like “I would love to do what I love, but it doesn’t pay the bills”, or “at what…
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Take down a musical instrument
One of my favourite poems and one which I’ve quoted here again and again is by Jalaluddin Rumi: Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we Love be what we do. There are…
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#joy
Things that bring us happiness these days tend to revolve around Kai. His name in Japanese means “The World”, so he’s our world after all. We’re happy all of the time because we have Kai. Happiness tends to be an enveloping state of mind. But there are little moments that happen throughout that are just…