Month: December 2009

  • Swing Out, Sister

    From Wikipedia: The name came from a 1945 movie starring Arthur Treacher, called Swing Out, Sister, and they claim they chose the name because it was the only thing the band could agree on, in that they all hated it. After trying a while to come up with some sort of contest question/quiz, I’m resigned…

  • In the blink of an eye

    Kai turned 8 months old on Friday, and he’s developed new skills including a superhuman ability – teleportation. You put him on the playmat and turn away for just a second to do something in the kitchen, and when you turn around he’s at the other end of the room. We are now trying to…

  • Gingerbread CSI

    Last year’s cookies We’ve decided to stick to other, simpler shapes for this year’s Christmas cookies because our gingerbread men fell apart in various stages of the baking process, rendering them unrecognizable. The cooling rack looks more like a crime scene.

  • Mad season

    It’s December, and I am impossibly busy, not because there’s all that much work, but because a series of domestic calamities has put paid any notion of putting up our feet and having a break. Naomi and I have been cruising along the past couple of months, becoming more and more the typical young Singaporean…