Year: 2009
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Reason to try to smile
My father doesn’t smile very often these days. It takes an effort because Parkinson’s makes control of your muscles, including the facial ones, difficult, and the sufferer becomes withdrawn and unsocial because of his inability to interact in the ways we normally do. Conversation is also a strain because of the difficulty in controlling the…
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Fortylove.tv
One of my favourite travellers and one of my favourite bloggers happen to be the same person, and she’s got this new “little travel podcast thingie” (yeah, what do we call these things nowsadays?) at fortylove.tv, where she and another traveller record their travels across the Middle East and Europe. You can almost feel the…
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Weekly Tweets
From miyagi.sg: Kitting out baby http://tinyurl.com/bt6obb # RT @mrbrown: RT @gssq: “I took my IPPT & got gold…I was hit with a SAF100 last wk telling me to attd wkly training sessions for a runn … # Shitting through the eye of a needle. Not fun. # the tummy’s still on the blink # From…
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Fireflies in the garden
It’s not very often that you get to say, “my friend produced a movie that stars Julia Roberts”, so I’m saying my friend produced this movie that stars Julia Roberts (and Willem Dafoe et al) which will be screened at the Singapore Film Festival on 25th April. According to her (my friend, not Julia Roberts),…
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Baby UnFair
They say becoming a parent makes you do things you never thought yourself capable of. Like driving miles to Singapore Expo, parking illegally anyhowly, and then joining the first hour crowds at the Mother and Baby Babycare Festival 2009. If you’re in two minds about checking it out, let me take one mind off you…