Category: Living

  • Sorry mosquito not in

    Couple of days ago, an NEA agent rang our doorbell and would’ve asked to enter our apartment if not for the fact I had the dog on the leash and was about to go let him water the plants when I opened the door. I had read about how some family was robbed by bogus…

  • My National Day Parade

    I remember National Day Parade 1990 the most because it’s the NDP I was involved in. It was held at the Padang, and it featured the most impressive mobile column display since independence, involving all the military hardware and soldiers (like us) of the day. At the beginning of that year, my battalion mates and…

  • Regular programming will return

    Naomi and I have been more than a little under the weather, and it’s been tough even updating blogs and tweets regularly. Nothing seems to be happening except for us trying to pick ourselves off the floor and meeting our various obligations, many of which involve Kai of course. He’s got a busier social life…

  • Junk mail with a cause

    I hate junk mail, and not the electronic kind. I get tons of paper jammed into our mailbox downstairs, and it really really irks me to see that companies keep thinking it’s the best way to get word out about their products and services. Well it’s not, and you’re not getting my business, pizza hut,…

  • Save the World FAIL

    I received this booklet titled “The Survival of the World is in Your Hands” in the mail today. Dammit. As if I didn’t have enough on my plate, now I have to save the world because the people who printed thousands of these booklets and stuffed them in mailboxes hoping people will read them can’t.