Category: Toys

  • In defence of Sim Lim Square

    Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Geek Central isn’t so bad, at least not when I was there last week to get some stuff for my brother in law in China (because it’s worse over there – you can hardly get any non-pirated stuff for a reasonable retail price, apparently). At several shops on the fourth and…

  • I’d be lost without the mobile ingterneck

    When members of my family visit from far flung places, they understandably want to sample foods from far flung places within Singapore – like the best Hokkien Mee I know of. So I went and drove to Beach Road, to the last place I bought Hokkien Mee from, and to my shock and horror after…

  • Biometric phone

    No lah, it isn’t really. It’s just that the N78‘s shiny black surface collects a lot of smudges and fingerprints, and that if there were a bunch of N78’s lying around with their displays turned off, I’d still be able to pick mine out by the shape and size of my finger smudges. As with…

  • The Krups is back

    As if in deference to my birthday this week, the Krups was fixed and collected this week without much fanfare. It’s much quieter than before, and we’ve since had two espressos each without the thing breaking down. Hooray.

  • Happy Birthday to me indeed

    I think I’m pretty easy to please as far as birthday presents are concerned. Just buy a really expensive computer and accessories from the same brand, and voila, Naomi (and the rest of the world) doesn’t see me for a few days because I’m holed up “setting it up”: iMac!… No, I Mac… The… Dog.…