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Month: January 2016

  • Of snot, and misplaced priorities

    The kids are both a bit snuffly – I’m beginning to be made all gloomy by the persistent vector of sickness that is pre-school. The loveable little urchins lick a door handle or something, then go to school, then lick one another, and then my particular darling comes home and has a fever. Selfishly, this […]

  • Beer, and Chinese New Year

    My life continues to be some slapstick extravaganza. Somebody appears to have adjusted the water pressure in the taps in the office toilet, so that every time I wash my hands my groin gets sprayed liberally with water and I have to hang out there until it dries out, or else go back into the […]

  • Don’t shine on, you crazy diamond

    I bought my wife a Misfit Shine, a fitness tracker, when they were first launched via Kickstarter. The unique thing about the Shine is that instead of looking like an appalling gadget, all plastic and rubber and such, it’s a wonderfully minimal metal disc, more akin to jewellery than a glorified pedometer. Also, it runs […]

  • The Force Awakens (a bit late)

    Tonight we finally got out to see the latest Star Wars extravaganza, although due to heavy traffic on the way to the cinema we missed the first five minutes? (ten minutes? an hour?) which left me wondering for the rest of the experience what important plot point we’d completely missed. Of course, that didn’t really […]

  • The Day After The Weekend

    After writing almost 1,400 words about track spikes and the parlous state of external paintwork in Singapore last night, I was ready for bed, but La Serpiente kept getting up and coming out of her room to stare at me, like the diminutive blonde star of a Japanese horror film remade for American tastes. The […]

  • First time in track spikes

    Tonight, I finally got to try out my new track spikes. It’s been about three weeks since I bought them (and the intervening time included more than 24 hours on planes, reading at least three novels and succumbing to one bout of stomach flu, so I don’t feel I’ve been delaying too much) but I’ve […]

  • Firsts

    Today was the first time in years that I got a blister from running; about a kilometre from the end of the parkrun, I felt my left shoe loosen, and then begin to chafe against my heel, and then the inevitable occurred and I’ve been hobbling ever since. I had an ok run, putting in […]

  • Economical Rice and angry babies

    On Monday, in the Kopitiam beneath K K Hospital, I found a branch of Economical Rice. I was going to make a joke about how they have made a science out of dismal food (zing!!!) but the sheer wilful madness of a food outlet that has menu items like “less rice” (how much less rice […]

  • Recovery time

    I had high hopes for this week, that I’d get out and go running and work off some of the post-Christmas flab. Instead, I had my head down the toilet last night at 9pm, and after retiring to bed, I woke up at 11 to discover there was an apparently inexhaustible volume of potato soup […]

  • Night follows day

    As sure as night follows day, once La Serpiente had got sick and Destroyer had got sick and my wife had got sick, I got sick. Well, I suppose as sure as night follows day follows night follows day.