Month: April 2013
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Stand Up To Pervs
Say you were on the train and some moron started taking pictures of you with his camera/phone. He might be a STOMP content producer so you check yourself to see what it is about you that might be worthy of a salacious headline in that venerable broadsheet. There’s nothing worth talking about, unless the photographer…
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Show Me The Monkey
We love our new home. And after four months, we still love that it takes 30 minutes to walk up from Dunearn Road (although there’s a shuttle service) and we love the lush greenery all round. We didn’t mind that there was a colony of long-tailed macaques roaming the edge of the Bukit Timah Nature…
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Explaining Boston To A Four Year Old
Yesterday morning on waking up, I checked my phone for messages, and read about the Boston Marathon bombing. As Naomi and I headed to our kitchen for breakfast with Kai, I decided to turn on the television for updates. Kai started to ask what we were watching on tv. As has been our policy, we…
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U-Town
There’s this large patch of grass at U-Town, NUS that was today almost completely bare, bar three Ang Moh students playing a sad game of three man touch football. If this had been on a campus in Australia, the lawn would have been chock full of students lying on it, getting some sun. There would…
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Here’s Your Chance To Get Away (Stay)
Taking a break does wonders for your physical and mental well-being. Even without taking on a spa package at the hotel we stayed at because it was, how you say it, frikkin’ expensive, the knots in my neck and upper back dissolved after one full night’s sleep (it came back after my son insisted on…