Category: At home

  • Have we lo’d enough hei yet?

    We’ve lo hei’d three times this Chinese New Year, which isn’t a lot, but there’s only so much raw fish and crackers you can manage. Especially when there are pregnant women in the family. Still it’s great to be able to make a mess at the dinner table and say we’re conforming with tradition even…

  • Busy busy busy

    No, I’m not on blogging hiatus or anything like that. I thought I’d better blog a bit so that I’ll meet whatever blogging criteria put up by the Association of Singapore Bloggers or whatever it is they’re called. Because I might want to join up before they implode. It’s just that it’s been an unbelievably…

  • A good start

    For New Year’s this year we decided that it would be nice to observe a little family tradition. From Naomi’s side of the family, that is. From Naomi’s father’s side of the family, that is. Mixed marriages are so much fun. We decided to do this traditional New Year’s Eve and Day thing so that…

  • Good tidings to you

    Jake the Cat, Mac the Dog and the rest of us wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

  • Christmas cookies

    We’ve been baking (actually, Naomi’s been baking and I’ve been helping, cos I can’t bake to save my life), and it pleases us to know that no matter how we might stuff up our Christmas cookies at various stages, they still turn out prettier than the Christmas decorations on Orchard Road.