Month: November 2007

  • 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…

  • Collective sigh

    This evening when we went out to get a bite, we saw a notice posted at the basement car park lift lobby. I absent mindedly thought it was the old en-bloc attempt notice, but eagle-eyed Naomi saw that it was freshly photocopied A4, and took a further interest in reading it. We didn’t have to…

  • Halloween en blocked

    No, the yellow stains on Jake wasn’t because we were dressing him up for tricks or treats. Neither did he soil himself. The stains are from him brushing up against pollen from a bouquet of lilies. So, if you buy a bunch of these flowers and put them in a vase because you think they…