I’ve had to hurry for my flight several times. Once, despite a three hour transit at Los Angeles, I only just barely made my connecting flight. Still, I didn’t have to run then. This would be my first time, flying Cathay Pacific from Singapore to Narita, when I actually had to run for my connecting flight at Hong Kong. My outbound flight out of Singapore arrived late. That led to a late departure. Late enough that the flight would have…
That panic moment came to us recently. It’s the sort of thing you hope will never happen. Butt you know, no matter how careful you are, it’s still quite likely to happen at some point or other. Our boy was missing. We were at a supermarket and realised Ian was missing only when we reached the basement car park. We knew where we had last seen Ian. He was sitting in the trolley at the supermarket checkout counter. He had…
I don’t know if it is because we’ve gotten a lot more experienced, or it really is that #3 is much easier to manage. He’s a lot more sociable than his elder siblings, the most ready to want to be cuddled by his grandfather (much to the latter’s delight). He doesn’t fuss a lot, easy to feed, and doesn’t leave drool all over the place. Isaac, the #3, makes it easy for me to bring out all three kids on…
The latest additions to Resort Worlds Sentosa are the S.E.A. Aquarium and Adventure Cove, two attractions of the Marine Life Park. The S.E.A. Aquarium boasts to be the world’s largest oceanarium. They boast over 100,000 marine animals of some 800 species in 45 million litres of water. They also have the world’s largest viewing panel (36m wide x 8.3m high). It’s something that we need to visit. Ian, my #2, was so awed by the aquarium at Ocean Park when…
In the proverbial blink of an eye, Vanessa will be getting on to Primary One soon. It’s time to start playing less, and start some serious studying. Oh, the endless days of playgrounds, birthday parties, and what not, although they are not gone, but they now need to give way to some studying and homework. I can just see the the stress of studying coming. This time, it’s not me as the student. It’s being the parent of a child…
We just got back from a hectic day of visiting. It’s the first day of the Lunar New Year 2013. This is the year of the snake, according to the Chinese zodiac. This year, we went visiting as a family of five. Isaac joins us for the first time this year, because at the last Lunar New Year, he was not even two weeks old, too little to wander out of the house yet. Year after year, Chinese New Year…
I’m intrigued by the question that Minister Khaw Boon Wan recently posed: “The real test is will Singaporeans cycle to work?” How serious is the Government looking into facilitating cycling as a mode of transportation, and how are they going to go about doing it? Cycling is a fun recreation sport. However, it’s not the same thing as cycling to work on a regular basis. Given the climate in Singapore and the work environment, I didn’t seriously think that cycling to…
I’ve “flown” on the Singapore Flyer a couple of times, both day and night. The experience by day and that by night is different. If you want to see both day and night, you could go on two rides, and hence pay double for the two rides. Or, you could time perfectly your single ride so that you see both day and night on that same ride. The trick is to figure out when sunset happens on the evening of…
Almost everyone of us must have gone fully digital with our photos and cameras. Film is so last century, literally. With digital, you can store so many more photos, and not worry about film negatives or prints getting spoilt with age. But the tremendous ease of taking digital photos has also sort of created a new storage problem. There’s too many of them, and it’s becoming a nightmare trying to keep them organised. When my iPhoto library started to get…
This year’s Christmas feasting and other year-end celebrations have begun. Three parties in the last weekend. I feel so super-stuffed. It’s the season to put on pounds. After Christmas and the New Year, the Lunar New Year isn’t too far away too! Food, food, and more food. Sometimes you’d wonder why is it only times of celebrations that we need to feast. Have you wondered, why do we have turkeys at Christmas? Well, here’s what Yahoo! Answers say, in case…
