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Month: September 2013

  • Remote control parents

    Technology is a wonderful thing. No one would have believed in the last years of the previous century that their bedrooms were being watched keenly and closely by their relatives in foreign countries. (Cue the introduction from Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds.) Yet now it’s normal, convenient even, for me to Skype my parents […]

  • How late it was, how late…

    Today was sort of productive. Yesterday I was fairly exhausted, or perhaps ruined by staying up too late to watch the second Star Trek film, but today I’d had a full night’s sleep and should have been full of energy.

  • Putting Baby On The Plane

    In less than a week, we’ll be travelling to London with our three month old child. Tonight, having drunk some beer and watched some dreadful television to steel ourselves, we started checking things off for the flights.

  • Star Trek Into Darkness

    Tonight we watched Star Trek into darkness, a film so laden with cheese it probably doubled the amount of cholesterol in my bloodstream. From beginning to end it was a mess of lens-flared guff.

  • I ain’t mad at ya: Mad About Garlic

    For lunch today I went to Mad About Garlic, a Korean restaurant franchise in Clarke Quay that specialises in Italian food, especially Italian food with lots of garlic in it.

  • Kind of back to front: The Queen and Mangosteen

    After a day that was elongated through lack of sleep, I was keen for a bit of indolence at the end; home cooked food is great, but tragically there’s always washing up to do. I was meant to be meeting people for drinks over at the Fullerton, but when that fell through at the last […]

  • Lifestyle guidance from the 1980s

    Apparently, my life is not yet full enough of things to do, so this afternoon I posted on Facebook the following status: Ask me any question you like, and I will attempt to answer, using only the lyrics from Pet Shop Boys songs And then I waited to see what would happen next.

  • Late nights, early mornings, willpower and allowances

    I didn’t get to sleep until half past one last night, and at six a.m. my alarm went off. For a moment I lay there, contemplating putting the alarm on snooze for an hour. But because I’ve been rereading Feet In The Clouds, a highly enjoyable account of fell-running in Cumbria and all points north, […]

  • On manliness

    I’m a man. That means I do manly stuff, like drink beer, and watch violent films, and DIY. But since I’m not good at drinking beer in the humid environment of Singapore, my wife is just as keen on violent films as I am, and my DIY skills range from slipshod to utterly incompetent, I […]

  • Good Behavior

    Good Behavior is the sixth novel in the Dortmunder series, and first appeared three years after its predecessor, Why Me? Westlake is no longer around to ask whether that was because he was struggling to find inspiration, or was just too busy with everything else he was writing. Still, I’m mindful of the fact that […]