Category: Toys

  • 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”…

  • Waiter, there’s too much food on my table

    There is a restaurant where you get rewarded for being a nice customer. Or at least, for being a customer who is nice enough to take time out to talk to the waiter about our HTC Touch phone which he was eyeing and wanting to ask about. When Naomi obliged by saying a couple of…

  • The Sea-Monkey Diaries, Part Ten

    This is an announcement we’ve dreaded making. Our sea-monkeys are no more. Actually, they haven’t been for a while since some time, and the colony expired some time during Naomi’s extended hospital stay (there were only one or two adults and a single baby left when she was warded in September). We’ll be leaving sea-monkey…

  • Basket, kenah bluff

    I just had a funny conversation on IM with a friend that went like this: D: Hey, I ask you ah, the iPhone is it worth buying? M: Of course, old technology, but looks beautiful. D: Yay, I’m ordering one, and choosing the engraving on the back. M: Order from where? D: Apple site lah!…

  • MacBook Pro

    I know my wife loves me very much because she notices every little thing about me. Things that I sometimes keep to myself. Like eyeing and secretly yearning for a new computer to replace my Powerbook G4 12″. Taking the trouble of crafting carefully placed questions like in a normal conversation, about Apple computers and…