If the Y chromosome shows up – Part 1
Yang asked me to draw up a list of boy names if our baby turns out to be a boy. There are a number of names I like but some were either taken up by relatives or friends. Here’s a few
Multiplaying
My first encounter with multiplayer games actually goes back to 1993 when I first tried my hand on multiplayer (MP) Doom. This game is widely regarded as a landmark title of first person shooter games. Now, multiplayer wasn’t really sophisticated
Tot Naming Part III
The last post in naming our tot, if it’s a girl. The first two parts here, and here.:) Rachel (Hebrew) – The wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph. Shaina (Hebrew) – Beautiful Tirza (Hebrew) – Pleasant, sweet-natured A really
Tea Bottles
Here’s the first post of 2009 and for our Missouri bud: what we discovered to be his favorite drink while in Singapore the two occasions he’s been here to visit us.:) Ling prefers warm water, and I prefer slightly cool
New Year Resolution
New Year Resolution: we intend to quit working for DBS Bank! What’s that about? It’s about our home loan we took in September 2006 for our Rivervale home. OK, this is pretty old stuff. We got our home at a
More music rollicking
There’s a date each month on the calendar that I look forward to these days. Specifically, it’s the 20th when my subscription on EMusic gets refreshed and I can pick up a few hundred more music pieces. I’ll be pretty
Five or six
One thing the two of us couldn’t agree about the aquarium at home was how many Otocincluses we had in in the tank. I’ve always thought we’ve got five, but Ling believes there’re six! For those of us not in
All children are blessings
My Christmas post! One of the two discussion books our small group has been studying this year is on family. And as these discussions go, a couple of times the issue of having children has come up a few times.
Night photography
A couple of colleagues and several Software Engineering students of mine headed out yesterday evening to take night shots of downtown. It was a fun and small event, though not much variety: it turned out to be a Nikonian gathering!
Breathing new life
I’ve blogged here a few times now about a classical music subscription service I’m on. It shouldn’t be easy figuring out which pieces you’d like to listen or buy. You’ve got many tens if not hundreds of thousands of compositions
Tot Naming Part II
Part II of baby naming, and a continuation from Part I I blogged last month. Here are the names going from F to N. F – Didn’t choose any names from this alphabetical character, since it wouldn’t have gone very
Tang Yuan Soup
There’s a Chinese saying that goes: you(3) yang(4) xue(2) yang(4). Translated to English, it means ‘monkey see monkey do’. That was what happened to me when I read Ann’s blog about her craving for round dumplings made of glutinous rice
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