Year: 2009

  • And people keep on giving

    I have to word this very carefully so as not to get the kind people in trouble. At an unnamed hospital yesterday where I’m looking to purchase some unnamed maternity things, an unnamed senior staff attending to me apologizes for not having any of the things for sale because of stock issues. She then whispers…

  • Local bloggers immortalised on Singapore Grand Prix street circuit!

    From I.Z.: In February, Today newspaper held its Name That Turn contest and invited everyone to come up with unique names for turns 1, 7 and 10 of Formula 1’s historic night race in the heart of the Lion City! Today, I can provide you with this exclusive, direct from the folks from Today newspaper…

  • Goodbye Ah Mah

    My Ah Mah, my maternal grandmother, used to sew pyjamas and quilts for every single one of her twenty odd (or is it thirty odd) grandchildren. She’d buy yards and yards of fabric every year, and when we’d go visit her in Seremban, we’d come home with a new pair of jammies, knowing that every…

  • Weekly Tweets

    On Muay Thai becoming popular among SG women: “This will not help our low birth rates”: http://ping.fm/wADPI # RT @nighthound: Q: What do you call a depressed Transformer? A: Emoticon # Vermont votes to legalize same sex marriage: http://ping.fm/FGjwb # Nadya says turn off for Earth Hour: http://ping.fm/jfdVQ # Thanks Pat. RT @patlaw: Kumar made…

  • Parenting tips with your trim and wash?

    It’s like this cult of parenting, this club of happy enthusiastic people who’ve been so nice and welcoming to Naomi and I ever since they’ve known Naomi was expecting. There have been random acts of kindness and completely unsolicited advice from complete strangers – “this baby nail scissors is really good, you should get it”;…