The estate that I live in houses quite a number of American families. This is mainly because the SAS is just a short 5 minutes walk away.
Every Halloween, someone (either the school or a group of enthusiastic American parents) organises an evening Halloween parade in my estate. Over the years, it has grown from [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Halloween
Posted in Daily musings, Out and about on October 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
TV dinner
Posted in Out and about, Parenting, Xinyue on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When my brother was a young child, my grandmother had a routine of plonking him in front of the TV at meal times. He’d stare at the flickering screen, mouth agape into which my grandma will quickly scoop spoonfuls of rice.
Years later, I remember thinking that this is such parenting faux pas. No way [...]
Falling
Posted in Parenting, Xinyue on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Xy fell down today on a concrete pavement.
It happened during her daily evening walk with her grandaunt and cousin. She ran, tripped and fell.
The good news is, other than a bit of an abrasion on her chin and a very tiny scratch on her knee, she is thankfully okay. It certainly hasn’t stopped her [...]
Recently..
Posted in Daily musings, Parenting, Xinyue on October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Xy has this habit of grabbing my arm and using it as her bolster. She’d stir in our bed in the middle of the night, sometimes calling me in her sleep (mah-mee… mah-mee..!). She’d grope around for my arm and once she found it, she snuggles in the nook of my elbow and eventually goes [...]
Our weekend routine
Posted in Daily musings, Out and about, Parenting, Shopping, Xinyue on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our weekends usually start with breakfast with the gramps at a nearby coffee shop.
Here is Xy playing with our food money.
Then we return home, cook the little ones’ meals, catch a brief breather. After Xy wakes up from her nap, we feed and change her and head out.
Ms Poh likes to have some [...]
Off day
Posted in Daily musings, Out and about, Shopping on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I like it when a public holiday falls on a Saturday because our office is usually closed on the following Monday.
Since it was a non-working day for me, I went about my off-day routine – I had breakfast with KJ near his office and worked a couple of hours there. Then I ran a [...]
My new toy
Posted in Daily musings, Shopping on October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So I took the plunge and bought a new digital camera, the Sony TX-1.
Image borrowed from Sony
Truth be told, my old camera (also a Sony, a T-100) was severely under-utilized. We already carry around KJ’s DSLR (again a Sony, A100 – this is what you would expect when one works for the company) on [...]
Blur
Posted in Daily musings, Shopping on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was as if my head was in the clouds recently. I kept making blunders that it is not funny!
Just today, I discovered that I deleted my plane tickets confirmation for my vacation. There was a brief panic (did I even book the tickets?) until I realised I could call the airline and ask for [...]
Look who’s rockin’
Posted in Daily musings, Xinyue on October 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Meet the latest drummer of our Rock Band, sans pants.
Work, interrupted
Posted in Daily musings, Xinyue on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The past 3 weeks have been tiring and it swooshed past at the blink of an eye.
Besides working the usual 9 hours or so, we tried to share MIL’s chores by washing and cleaning after dinner, ironing our own clothes, tidying up after ourselves because we have all been spoilt by our helper.
I am [...]
