Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
We just celebrated Hannah’s second birthday yesterday. She was fond of dogs and the Icing Room @ Compass Point Shopping Mall so happened to carry a cute doggie cake designed using fresh cream with black forest / vanilla fruit flavour.
Finally, mommy is down to washing one straw cup per night! I have blogged about the tedium of washing milk bottles and transition cups. Yang could attest to the fact that I’m very particular about the cleanliness of our crockery
Generation Kill (2008). I thought the HBO adaptation of the late Professor Stephen Ambrose’ Band of Brothers book could not be beat for the best TV series ever about war. That’s especially in view of the visually stunning production-wise but
Sometimes when I was in the mood for cooking / baking, I got the feeling that no force in the ‘verse could stop me. Yeah. A chain reaction perhaps (Yang must be shuddering, hee), I picked up another new recipe
I usually bring Hannah out for breakfast and do grocery shopping on a daily basis during school holidays. We stayed at home this morning as there was leftover bread. I fished out some cartoon bread cutters to spice up the
My morale took a beating after a failed attempt at cooking Chinese beef stew last evening. Long story short, I over-estimated the proportion of spices used. Sigh. With what was left of my self-esteem, I took on a personal challenge
Sherlock (2010). I’ve been meaning to write a blog post on this crime series made for BBC for a while now, but kept putting it off. I picked up the Blu-ray set for this 3 episode series several months ago
I wrote in January this year that we were planning to take our first holiday with Hannah in June this year, and the list of potential places included Redang, Phuket, Sabah and Langkawi. After considerations regarding expenditure, the difficulties involved
Our girl is demanding more and more of our attention whenever she’s at home. She often wants me to sit down to play cards or read a book to her. In order to keep her occupied while I cook or
Since I started picking up apps for Hannah, I figured – what the heck; why not write reviews for a couple of them? Shortly after picking up the iPad a few weeks ago, I started hunting around for applications to
A couple of colleagues and I were lunching this afternoon, and the lunch topic veered into the use of iPads as parenting tools. It was quite a funny conversation as we bounced around how the iPad is used as both
Hannah with one of the new kiddie Apps I picked up for her. REPEAT: This is not an ad for the fruit company!
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