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The 5-Star Dog Hotel

JD’s opinion: While we’re away, she is living in a maximum-security prison with 24-hour surveillance. She will get to socialize with other inmates twice a day before repairing to her completely secure cell. Our opinion: We’re paying thru our nose … Continue reading

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Evil And Other Things

It’s like in that Omen movie when the lady discovers her cherubic son is Spawned of Evil. He continues to smile and sing innocently <cue sinister music>, there are still lots of birds we feed our breakfast brioche and ciabatta … Continue reading

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Spot The Dog

1. Find park. 2. Get trained dog. 3. One person puts dog on down/stay or sit/stay somewhere in park. 4. Everyone else has to find the dog. 5. Repeat. (Yes I miss my dog).

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The Banana

So we land after a 9 hour flight and get totally reamed out by Immigration. There is (wait for it) an undeclared banana in our bag. Not just any banana, you understand – a Hong Kong banana. From the land … Continue reading

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The Name Game

On the eve of our Melbourne trip Rockstar is still having diarrhea every 3 hours so I will feel free to steal shamelessly from Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics today. (I will also feel free to eat deep fried goat’s cheese … Continue reading

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3 Queues

1. Pacific Place, about 5.50pm She was perfectly made up. Her long hair was set into bouncy, luxurious waves, her lipstick freshly applied, her skin milky fair (no market for hitam manis attraction among north Asians), her long nails exquisitely … Continue reading

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The Taxi Queue in Times Square

Operation Last Minute Times Square Excursion For Snow Gear begins with a cab ride… This cabbie only has 2 handphones… The max we’ve counted has been 4 or 5 (not counting the radio some of them use to call in … Continue reading

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Snow in August and Other Things

“Let’s go someplace with snow!” the person I For Better Or For Worse With enthuses. I blink. We leave for Melbourne in less than a week. But I’m not surprised: “Let’s buy an apartment” (we did, in Singapore – never … Continue reading

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Tales From The Dark Side (Part 2)

Mummy landed what she thought was her First Big Break Job almost 3 years after she first started working. It was a huge, international bank and she was the youngest “experienced hire.” Save for a highly-credentialed China scholar of almost … Continue reading

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Tales From The Dark Side (Part 1)

Dear Rockstar, Mummy used to work in what many other professions would describe a decadent environment. (Yet she thinks every profession has good as well as horrible people.) Mummy writes some of these to make the point that you are … Continue reading

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