Tag: birthday

  • What I Want For My Birthday: You’ll Be Shocked (Hopefully)

    This Guardian video is just the tip of the iceberg. Thousands have died, hundreds more have been and remain in slavery, and thousands and thousands more are being persecuted, marginalised and unwanted by the countries the Rohingya straddle – Bangladesh, Myanmar – and because this crisis is growing as they put themselves to sea, the…

  • 40 and a day

    I was hoping to ease into my 40s, with no fanfare and no celebration, just a little acknowledgement that I’m heading towards new frontiers. So it was good that the day was spent with my wife and son, with a hearty meal at Sanur that was just as good as it was back when my…

  • 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.…

  • BRB, setting this up…

    Hang on… setting up birthday present from Naomi.

  • Happy birthday miyagi.sg

    I was looking for a picture of a birthday cake to accompany this post, and stumbled upon the colourful and tasty looking Flickr stream of Pink Cake Box. So, um, happy birthday, blog! And cake for everyone! For anyone who’s interested in how it all began: 2 April 2004.