Month: December 2010

  • Underground children’s apparel mall

    We’re in an underground mall that holds several hundred shops selling all manner of kids’ clothes. If you don’t hear from us again, tell the others.

  • Shanghai winter wonderland

    This afternoon, Shanghai threw us a welcome blanket of the heaviest snowfall I’ve seen in years. Much as we’d like to step back outside and play in the mush, Kai’s fast asleep on my chest, and Naomi’s ‘resting her eyes’ in the bedroom. And probably for the first time since Naomi’s brother’s passing, this town…

  • Useful Christmas Gifts #6: Nespresso Christmas Variations

    If you wanted to buy someone a Nespresso machine (wah, so generous, can I be your friend?), but they already have one, you could, this festive season, buy them a couple of tubes of the limited edition Christmas variations. This is especially good if you’re always bumming Nespresso off your friends when they invite you…

  • Still made by hand, but sold out like a business

    A couple of weeks ago, we decided to have lunch at the Raffles City branch of The Handburger. The previous times we ate there, they hadn’t gotten their “brand new look” yet, and we liked their burgers enough to eat there several times. So we had really high hopes for a tasty burger lunch, but…

  • Useful Christmas Gifts #5: Walking With Dinosaurs

    When he heard there was a show called Walking With Dinosaurs, a wiseacre I know said, “Hey, isn’t that when you join the entourage of a PAP MP election walkabout?” I didn’t have much high hopes for it to be an entertainment highlight of our weekend either, but if you were to have seen our…