Category: Lifestyle & Family

Food, fashion, travel, holidays

Vanessa Doing Pull-Ups

August 7, 2009December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  This is Vanessa, doing her version of pull-ups, at the fitness corner. She refers to it as “playground”. But it’s not a playground. She likes hanging from the low bars. Yeah, the real pull-up bars are way too ...

We Visit New Garo Again

August 2, 2009August 2, 2009  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  I think we seriously deserve a discount card at New Garo. We were going to takeaway a quick dinner at one of the eateries along Cheong Chin Nam Road. Probably something like chicken rice. However, we ended up dining at New ...

Kid’s Loft

August 2, 2009December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Vanessa just completed one of the “school term” at Kid’s Loft last week. She’s seen here waiting patiently for her certificate of attendance. I suppose you could say it’s sort of like a graduation ...

Everyone’s Sick

August 2, 2009December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  For the last few weeks, someone or other has been sick. In fact, at one point in time, everyone was all sick together. It started with Vanessa, then to Mummy, then to Papa, Ian, and our maid. Our medicine chart started to become ...

Beer Garden at NUS

July 30, 2009May 23, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  It’s still under construction, but you can see that it is going to be a real nice chill out place. A commanding view overlooking a valley below, set in a garden of matured trees. Just the place to open a beer garden? — ...

Watching DVDs on Repeat Mode

July 30, 2009May 21, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  It’s amazing sometimes how simple things can captivate the attention of a kid. Like watching a Barney DVD. Doesn’t matter that they have watched the DVD before. It doesn’t matter if they had only just finished ...

Vanessa and Her Little Brother

July 30, 2009June 3, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Vanessa is seen here looking after her little brother. The other night she was giving baby Ian her chocolate egg for safe keeping while she go have her dinner. — Posted from my N97 Share ...

Cupcakes Singapore

July 20, 2009July 22, 2009  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Cupcakes seem to be the rage in Singapore now. For Ian’s full month bash, we had cupcakes from both Cupcake Momma as well as Crystal Jade. Cupcake Momma has been doing cupcakes for some time, Crystal Jade is relatively more ...

Ian’s Full Month Bash

July 19, 2009December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  We celebrated Ian’s first month today. It’s actually tomorrow, but today is a Sunday and it’s a better choice than a Monday. The catering today was quite massive. We were embarrassed to have run out of food for ...

NUS People Happy to Pay $4 for Lunch

July 16, 2009May 19, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  I think the owners of the Indonesian Panggang stall at the NUS Engineering Canteen have put to practice some good business tips. How can one maximize profits? You may be charging your customers $3 now. But if your customers are ...