Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Three things kept bothering me during this period of pregnancy: Nausea Bloatedness Constant exhaustion So far, I didn’t vomit. Thank God! It’s just that the lurking background nauseous sensation kept me from feeling normal. Chewing on a few pieces of
One of the most interesting exchanges that occurred just several days ago in The Straits Times was that age old argument about why (some) Singaporean men are going offshore and bringing back foreign brides. Yep, the debate shows up every
… because Ling’s expecting.:) Ann – we did say it’d be announced here LOL.:)
It hit me 6 hours after breakfast 2 days ago. Boy, it happened in the midst of marking my student’s essays and I thought the words just lifted themselves off the page! I had to stop and go ransack the kitchen for food. Yang
That was today’s breakfast menu. Easily done and delicious. An ex-colleague shared this recipe with me and it has only been recently that I used it again. Ingredients Fresh white button mushrooms (1 tub) thick slices of bread butter salt ground
Since I haven’t been blogging much, here’s an echo of a game review for the other blog I write for.:) Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Naughty Dog as a game development studio has been around for more than two decades now since
Yang’s mother cooks great dishes. Matt can attest to that :) Recently, Yang missed Hainanese pork chops and asked me to try whipping up the dish. I bought too much pork (~450g) and hence had to remove the potato slices from the
Sigh, have to cross out another favorite food of mine because of the reputation of MIC (made in China) products. As Yang and I was eating our home-style stir-fry dish of sliced pork, asparagus and golden mushrooms for dinner just now, I became
One of the reasons why our family home at Lentor had a sizable library of books was because my elder brother and myself were avid book buyers and readers. Funnily though, for myself I wasn’t in the habit of re-reading
Sheez, it had been a long, afternoon affair making wantons and soup! Had it not for the fact that I was relatively free today, I’d have made a mess out of the kitchen. The preparation of the pork broth for wanton soup was
If the theme in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro was about the marital infidelity of men, his companion opera buffa, Così fan tutte, is about the infidelity of women.:) Così fan tutte, which loosely translated means “All women are alike”,
Truth to tell, one of the ongoing discussions that gives me the laughs is the Apples vs PCs’war’.:) Now, that in itself has a bit of a history, and like a few of my other stories here, there was a
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