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In Her Shoes

Posted on 24 Oct 200914 Mar 2018   by CY

In Her Shoes (2005) – on rental. This was a pleasant find on DVD rental that arrived together with The Clone Wars several evenings ago. And fortunately too, as In Her Shoes was a wonderfully sweet and thoughtful film that

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Posted on 23 Oct 200914 Mar 2018   by CY

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) – on rental. There’s a lot of bad films based off great franchises, but few of them have been as painful watching as The Clone Wars has been. The original trilogy of Star Wars

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Oh no no no no….

Posted on 22 Oct 2009   by Ling

Toyota just unveiled their new hybrid luxury sedan called the ‘Sai’. The Hokkien in me bursts into laughter when I read about it on the papers. Would any self-respecting ‘towkay’ (boss in Hokkien) buy this car? ‘Sai’ in Hokkien means

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Baby's Apparel

Posted on 22 Oct 2009   by Ling

Hannah received considerable amount of clothes as newborn gifts from our parents, relatives, friends and colleagues. And I noticed that many of them were designed to be worn for outings. Hannah seldom got to step out of the house in

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Hannah met the screaming girls – finally

Posted on 19 Oct 2009   by Ling

During my late pregnancy days, whenever my students cheered for something in school and I happened to be in the vicinity, Hannah would move and kick in my womb. My form class girls kept nudging me, their form and science

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Swimming Lessons

Posted on 19 Oct 20095 Apr 2010   by CY

Ling had picked up a wet suite for Hannah from Vivocity recently, so had been planning to bring Hannah down for a pool side dip with me along to take pictures. Here’s the outcome of the second pool outing this

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Liverpool 0 Sunderland 1, thanks to beach ball

Posted on 18 Oct 20092 Jun 2010   by CY

I’m not a soccer fan – but there’s a bizarre bit of news making the English soccer circuit right now. Apparently about how a young boy from the Liverpool side threw a large red balloon ball into the pitch, and

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Posted on 17 Oct 200914 Mar 2018   by CY

There aren’t a lot of video games that interest Ling, and certainly not to the point where she’ll give me the evil eye if she catches me playing the game without her! The one game that she likes a lot

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Ling's Guide to Crying Babies!

Posted on 17 Oct 2009   by Ling

The one thing which really upsets parents, especially first-timers, is hearing their babies cry. There are many books and websites that deal with the issue of crying and after doing a bit of reading up and going through Hannah’s crying

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Belly Comfy?

Posted on 16 Oct 20095 Apr 2010   by CY

We’ve observed of late that Hannah’s been increasingly sleeping while lying on her belly, and when she’s woken up, would typically be using her arms to prop herself up from bed. Her arms sure are getting stronger at that –

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Daddy's girl

Posted on 15 Oct 2009   by Ling

That’s right, Hannah is daddy’s girl. Let’s look at the following evidences: 1) She resembles daddy. 2) She sleeps like daddy, i.e. with her arm over her face. 3) She burps better when daddy burps her. 4) She is attracted

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Ling’s Guide to Preparing Formula Milk

Posted on 12 Oct 2009   by Ling

Hannah has been on total formula when I stopped breastfeeding her after 3 months. I have developed my own way of preparing formula milk after starting off with the recommended method. The main reason for doing so is that the

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