Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Mum’s birthday is coming in a few days’ time, and Jasmine was planning to celebrate the occasion at what’s turning into a regular family venue: the Imperial Treasures restaurant. We’d been to the Great World City branch for family birthday
One thing about Hannah bawling is this – there’s always collateral damage involved! Specifically, I get scolded by Ling.:( Here’s the story: Hannah was doing her bawling yesterday Friday. Heck, from what Ling was telling me on MSN, the entire
Funnily, Matt and I don’t always enjoy the same kind of games. In a nutshell, he’s a much more discriminating gamer than I am, whereas I’m more temperamental when it comes to video games when I’m not saddled with the
Just for laughs; is this the heaviest lens available at consumer retail? And mind you; the lens above actually exists. It’s the Sigma 200-500 f/2.8 APO EX DG Ultra-Telephoto Zoom Lens, and retails for a very cool USD28,999.00. And Amazon
Burp. Burping Hannah has been a major occupation since we introduced the bottle. (Whenever she is breastfed, she requires little or no burping at all.) I started off with Avent bottles, believing that these are the better ones (they claimed
I watch a lot of films, though these days mostly on rental. There isn’t an exact number of course, but I’ll put it roughly to a ballpark of between 150 to 200 new movies / TV shows hours a year.
Killshot (2008) – on rental. This was another film that I think had a short theatrical run in Singapore. It was released, then disappeared off theatrical screening lists before much people noticed it. The film centers on a device plot
As a follow-up to my post on Virtual Worlds the other day, here’s a post on Drakensang – after spending about six evenings in it, several of which with Hannah cradled in my arms. Visually, the game’s amazing, the more
The International (2009) – on rental. Clive Owen is starting to present an almost unchanging look in all his most recent films: outside his role of the dandy in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, he looks unwashed, unshaven, unsmiling and like
Ling was asking the other night whether the RPG I was playing on the computer was a single or multiplayer game. Here’s the deal: ironically, while my major and life ‘defining’ work has been in multiplayer virtual worlds, since marriage
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). While I own and have finished several reads of each of the seven Harry Potter books, I’ve never really got ‘into’ the series. There’s a lot of story in each, but also some
The last couple of Disaster films are on specific weather events that really do happen in the real world, but for cinematic story-telling gets slightly exaggerated. Unlike the other films though, these aren’t major disasters of the Humanity Wipe type.
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