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Month: May 2014

  • Sleep deprivation for kids

    Like idiots, we agreed to take our daughter out to dinner with friends this evening, starting at exactly the time when she’d normally be going to bed. A meltdown loomed…

  • Guacamole

    It’s hot in Singapore, stupidly hot these last few days, and all I could do today was nod off to sleep while my baby tried to clamber off various pieces of furniture, and my wife asked why we didn’t possess an espresso machine to rectify my sleepiness. It wouldn’t help: this wasn’t about a caffeine […]

  • A drop in the ocean

    This morning I got up at 6:15, had a bit of breakfast and tried to get a taxi to MacRitchie. For ten minutes, not a single car went past. Then three taxis came, each on shift change, not wanting to go my way. Another taxi drove past with a green light, but the driver pointedly […]

  • Looking for the right ringtone

    This evening I read about the Reichstag fire in the London Review of Books, and otherwise lay on the sofa being idle. My wife was out at an art fair, my daughter was (mostly) asleep and I was resting in preparation for tomorrow’s early start and run around MacRitchie Reservoir. Finally, when my wife returned […]

  • How to get fruit for free

    When I got home this evening, La Serpiente Negra was quite happy to see me, although not as ecstatic as yesterday. At least this meant she didn’t dive into a table for a second night running. She had refused to sleep all day, which meant her mood was rather volatile, flickering from radiant to raging […]

  • Not adequately prepared for a blow to the head

    I felt awful today. I woke up with a sore throat and a headache. This wasn’t a hangover; I had a sore throat and a headache yesterday as well. Well, maybe having three pints last night didn’t do anything good for my sense of well-being. The day ground slowly down on me, my attention fluttering […]

  • Second time around

    This evening I combined going to the pub with keeping fit; I ran to the pub quiz, wearing my offensively shiny shorts. That’s only a mile, but that still left me sweating in the oppressive evening heat and humidity. Tonight was the first round of the new quarter’s tournament, and we surprised ourselves by winning.. […]

  • Hot and wet

    Last Saturday, I bought a very expensive pair of running shorts, the sort that claim to do wonderful things for you by squeezing all your muscles. These are extra special Swiss ones (made in Tunisia) that have grippy sections for you to push on when clambering up muddy slopes, and another fifteen features on the […]

  • Further lack of sleep

    I didn’t wake up very early this morning, because my daughter had been howling at me late in the night. I’d been so tired that I couldn’t get out of bed, so I’d held the pillow over my head to try (unsuccessfully) to block out the noise, in the hope that after a few minutes […]

  • Swimming Pools

    This morning I didn’t have a Spanish lesson so I accompanied the rest of my family to a condo near Orchard Road for a swimming lesson. La Serpiente Negra hasn’t been swimming for a few weeks so I was worried she would be put off, but she returned to it like a duck to water. […]