Category: At home

  • Noisy no coffee come out

    While the rest of the world were queueing up for an iPhone 3G, I went and took our Krups fully automated espresso machine to Changi to get it fixed. The receptionist was friendly and made small talk about coffee when she recognised me from less than a month ago when I took the thing in…

  • Weekend breakfast

    We live in such times as that where we don’t have time for a good meal to kick start the day because the day has already been kick-started and we’ve been dragged along, hanging on to the handlebars for dear life. Oh, and the price of food and other household items suck too. But if…

  • When policemen still wore shorts

    “Wah, you must have bought this when policemen still wore shorts”, said the lady at the lighting shop as she asked for my permission to dismantle some more of the tiffany lamp I brought in for her to fix. As took the base off, the debris from inside the lamp fell out and dirtied her…

  • We need this for the house

    Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Bits and pieces for our new apartment are being put together, slowly, together with a few other unforeseen necessities.

  • Since the morning that we came

    Mac’s settled in easiest – as long as he’s got his cushion, he’s sweet As with any new premises, there are things to get used to. But to call them teething problems would mean this apartment has more teeth than it was supposed to. There are however, nicer things. In the carpark, between the parking…