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Tag Archives: parenting
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Things That Are Bad For You (And Other Random Thoughts)
Dear Rockstar, Red meat has been known to cause cancer in lab rats. Smoking has been known to cause cancer in lab rats. Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) has been known to cause cancer in lab rats. Mummy is wondering if anyone … Continue reading
Mummy’s Got Talent?
It’s official. After a decade of striving for credibility in the banking industry – dressing to seem older (and boring-er), speaking and writing only of topics designed to make people think I’m smart – I get to bimbo-fy myself for … Continue reading