Category: Living
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Completely useless Christmas gifts: the camouflage-patterned wallet
Buy this for a friend doing his national service stint / reservist in-camp. Worried that he might lose it while on field training because his wallet looks just like foliage? Buy another one for him. Technorati Tags: christmas, useless gifts
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Introducing Mac
Jake is a handful at times, and he loves swiping things off any table or shelf. He’s also very vocal when he wants to be let into or out of a room, or when he tries to persuade either of us to give him a few extra bites of cat food. Other than that, he’s…
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Bite me!
I’m inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit featured in the Sunday papers last week. There was this really, really interesting story about three outlets in Singapore which offer alternative skin treatment in the form of fish eating your dead skin off your live body. “Get prettier feet by allowing fish to nibble your dead skin”, said…
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Free Rice
After gorging on Cha Kua Teow (sic) yesterday, sick it so happened that we stumbled upon freerice.com, where we spent a couple of hours sparing a thought, several hundred words and grains of rice for the needy: Frequently Asked Questions How does playing the vocabulary game at FreeRice help me? Learning new vocabulary has tremendous…
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Urgent: Toxic toy alert
No, this is not another news item about made in China toys. An Australian made toy was banned today after it was found that when ingested, it metabolizes into the illegal drug known as GHB. In Queensland, a two-year old boy was hospitalised after falling unconscious from swallowing some of the beads from the “Bindeez”…