Month: December 2006

  • Merry meals

    There’s nothing like home-cooked Christmas meals, which usually (for us, lah) comprise of one or two things we’ve never cooked before, which causes great concern among the family-folk, who know that I don’t exactly eat healthily. But, thanks to one of the many cookbooks we have on our shelves, we made a great gratin, whose…

  • Christmas Letter

    Christmas Day Breakfast There was a woman in her forties strolling through the hordes at Takashimaya the other day, singing out loudly, “All I want for Creamer is my two frontee, my two frontee, my two frontee”. Auntie, we hope you get your two frontee and more. It’s time for Christmas wishes, and I don’t…

  • Podcast: Trailer – Multiple Personalities Disorder

    Yes, this is ‘the other stuff’ I’ve been busy with the past month, helping write a stage show for Hossan Leong, who is Singapore’s funniest man, and I’m not saying that because he’s my best friend, but he’s really really funny, because he can make people laugh by repeating the same jokes I’ve told, and…

  • Mercy Relief: A Christmas Mission

    There’s an idea I got from a few other people the past couple of days. A wedding we recently attended (and a beautiful one at that, congratulations, D&N) did away with wedding favours, the money which would have spent on them having been donated to UNIFEM. And a friend who attended the wedding as well…

  • Mercy Relief for the Philippines and Vietnam

    The charity organisation Mercy Relief is sending a team today to areas in the Philippines stricken by Typhoons Durian and Utor. The team of volunteers comprises 1 doctor, 1 nurse, 1 logistician and 1 support staff. More teams are being prepared for these areas as well as for stricken areas in Vietnam. If you’re able…