Category: At home
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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…
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#joy
Things that bring us happiness these days tend to revolve around Kai. His name in Japanese means “The World”, so he’s our world after all. We’re happy all of the time because we have Kai. Happiness tends to be an enveloping state of mind. But there are little moments that happen throughout that are just…
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The Taiwanese food’s better here
There is an upside to taking your Taiwanese mother-in-law to a Taiwanese restaurant, and it is that she will prove beyond all doubt that that restaurant is not authentic, by transporting her entire kitchen to your apartment built for two people, staff it with her domestic helpers and enlist yours to the same cause, and…
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One mosquito bite
Last Wednesday night Naomi and Jessie the Confinement Nanny were wondering why Kai had started sporting a few freckles and moles on his face and body. We had no idea what was to follow. Thursday morning saw a few more spots on his face, some reddish, some brown, and there was a bruise on his…