Year: 2010
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Vegetarian food can taste this good
Once in a while I hanker for a steak, done medium-rare, and I used to think I wouldn’t survive a day without meat. I also have a sensitive stomach, about which Naomi loves to talk with some glee to her friends and relatives. We read somewhere awhile ago about ‘eating for your blood type’, and…
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Mac the Dog’s visit to the vet
Mac the Dog’s chronic itchy paw problem may have a solution. Thanks to a tip from our super doggie mommy friend, we visited Mount Pleasant Animal Medical Centre at Sunset Way, where the vet told us that almost everything Mac’s previous vet told us was bunk. Mac probably doesn’t have a thyroid imbalance causing skin…
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Why Tanglin has a Halt
Yesterday, someone tweeted something quite innocuous – about food and about how she was about to eat food – but the locality she tweeted about – “Tanglin Halt” – piqued my interest. I’ve always wondered who Tanglin was named for, and why there is (or was) a “Halt” in Tanglin. It isn’t exactly a burning…
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In perspective
“Spanish mobs firebomb National Stadium in protest against ICJ ruling allowing the use of the word “Ole” in Singaporean football supporters’ chants.” Actually, it’d be a good way to get rid of the National Stadium. And one other thing about the word “Olé”: From Wikipedia: olé: The most famous expression of approval, support or encouragement,…
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Sunday raclette
Thanks to our Double-Barrelled-Race Swiss-Vietnamese friend, we had raclette last night and stank up the house full of grilled bacon ham and cheese. Mac the Dog went berserk as well. It is all the more amazing we had friends over for dinner because the inevitable has finally happened – we took delivery of Kai’s plastic…