Category: Laws of our land
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State of the nation
Almost every other blog post this month has been about the baby, so Naomi and I have endeavoured to keep abreast (breastfeeding pun not intended) of current news and happenings here: 1) It is heartening to note that home grown brand Cedele is spelling things as they pronounce them: 2) Just as heartening that the…
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Pregnancy brains
No, I’m not talking about Naomi and her pregnancy hormone induced faux pas. Because even if I did and she read it here, she would have killed me so it wouldn’t be funny anymore. It’s the waiting staff at restaurants in Singapore. They keep asking if Naomi (who is now 8 months pregnant) would like…
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Mosquito spot check
We had a really late night, and the only remedy was for a later wake up but that plan was thwarted by the door bell ringing and the dog barking. I threw on some clothes and went to answer the door, then I took off my t-shirt, put it on the right way round and…
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Inappropriate place for a nap
When your kids survive school buses without seat belts, they can then grow up to sit at the back of trucks, unsecured, and be lulled by the sounds of ERP regulated traffic into a nice nap: @ Jcn of Bukit Timah & Cavanagh Roads.
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The Singapore formula for ethnic harmony
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! It is diabolically simple – just don’t talk about it. When you don’t raise race issues, they won’t surface, and everyone is none the wiser, and Confucius did say something to the effect of doing away with knowledge and grief consequentially not being known. It makes me really upset to hear…