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[…]
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Month: September 2013
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[…]
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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[…]
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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.
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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.
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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