Year: 2011

  • Nice is different than good

    Last night Naomi and I took what little time we had and got our tickets to watch Dream Academy’s production of Into The Woods. It was the best musical I have seen in a long, long time, and I am so thankful that Selena Tan took a punt and decided to stage this wonderful (and…

  • Without a doubt

    We were looking through Naomi’s old photos trying to compile a slide show for her brother’s memorial gathering, and naturally spent a lot of time looking at many other family photos. What struck us, was of course how much Kai looks like his mother. Will you just lookadat!

  • What does DBS stand for?

    DBS corporate banking can’t send emails out to ’email address outside DBS’. That is what I was told half an hour ago by an officer who seems to have a lot of trouble contacting me by modern means. Maybe in the next hour they might arrive in the 21st century.

  • Shame, MBS and Mediacorp

    Getting stuck in traffic can rile one up quite badly. Worse, I saw a truck this evening whose sole purpose was to display an ad for The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. Its cab bore a Mediacorp logo. Seriously, guys, WTF are you thinking? You might as well put your mouth on the exhaust pipe…

  • Birth of the backseat driver

    Not content with his specially curated iPad content in the car, Kai yesterday directed a yell at me while we were at a traffic junction. I turned to look and see what it was he wanted. It took the second repetition for me to realise he was saying, “Green means go, Papa!” Next he’ll be…