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Month: September 2015

  • The need for sleep

    Tonight La Serpiente didn’t sleep so well. She first woke up, distraught, a little before eleven, and has basically been inconsolable ever since. At her age, it’s difficult for her to explain what she’s upset about. We can try to placate her by giving her toys to hug or cuddling her, but when we’re also […]

  • Harris Finds His Feet

    ​ Harris Finds His Feet is a book that La Serpiente Aquatica Negra chose herself on her most recent visit to the Singapore National Library. I assume the bright yellow-green cover, with a picture of the eponymous bright orange rabbit was what attracted her, rather than the heartrending story of age and loss that was […]

  • Rainy Monday Blues

    Back in 2014, in either a display of preparedness or a fairly good demonstration of slamming the stable door after the horse has bolted, everyone in our HDB got given three free 3M antiparticulate masks by the Singapore government. About eleven months after the haze had gone up to 500, and then gone back down […]

  • Broccoli Casserole and its part in my downfall

    After yesterday’s respite, the haze flowed back into Singapore today. We had been thinking about taking La Serpiente swimming, but with the pollution index well into the unhealthy levels, we did the next best thing and took the kids to the mall instead. This gave La Serpiente a chance to act out; she’s been pretty […]

  • Track and Field, 2015

    I ate something that disagreed with me in no uncertain terms yesterday; I have that to blame for feeling terrible yesterday, and then all sorts of upsetting and embarrassing behaviour when I made it out of bed at noon today. But you don’t want to read about all that crap. I was upset the haze […]

  • Pressure drop

    The pollution started at above three hundred today, then dropped precipitously at midday (a change in the way the wind blew?) before working back up again this evening. It’s faintly ridiculous that a PSI of 120, well in the unhealthy range, feels like fresh air in comparison. Until you go outside, that is.

  • Another day where you can’t see the point

    I looked out the window this morning, and all hope was gone. Well, the Central Business District was missing, and had been replaced by a big grey cloud. (For reference, the last picture here is what I should have been able to see.) Even now, at quarter to midnight, when the haze is easier to […]

  • Spinning again and again

    I went spinning again today – the first time I’ve had back to back sessions over two days. I had hoped to go running this evening, but I had a feeling (borne out by the revolting greyness outside the window) that running at the track would be a bad idea, and I wanted to get […]

  • A second first day

    Today was the second time that La Serpiente Aquatica Negra started at school. My wife spent yesterday writing our firstborn’s name onto all her possessions – sun hat, water bottle, clothes, nappies, 26 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, etc etc – in accordance with the school guidelines. The first time that La Serpiente started at […]

  • Sweaty nights and lost shoes

    This evening I went for a run. That was the first time I’ve been running in two weeks, and the first time in Singapore in a lot longer. I could only do this with help from my family – La Serpiente Aquatica Negra went to sleep in less than 5 minutes last night, after a […]