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Month: August 2016

  • A single mattress for a queen

    The problem with buying a bed for $225 for your daughter is that when you realise the mattress from her cot doesn’t fit and you need to buy a new mattress, you feel shocked and disgusted when you find it costs twice as much as the bed. This is all bent out of shape because […]

  • Out with the stroller again

    Today I wrestled the jogging stroller back out of the bomb shelter, and persuaded La Serpiente to go for a ride. I can’t remember the last time we did this; I paid $50 for the stroller and then had two or three incredibly strenuous attempts to use it, where La Serpiente would scream at me […]

  • Suicide Squad

    After all the hype, after all the terrible reviews that I avoided reading because I was scared of having plot twists revealed, my wife and I finally got to see Suicide Squad. I was taken aback that I wasn’t more disappointed.

  • The unbearable lightness of corporate swag

    I’ve got behind with enumerating the corporate swag I’ve received. Last week I got another T-shirt and a external battery for my phone, and this week I got another tshirt (Indian themed) and a ceramic coffee cup. It’s high time that I started graphing out all these acquisitions so I can understand what I’ve been […]

  • Track night

    This evening I went to the track, after eating possibly one too many potato samosas. It was hot out, and I’m not fully recovered from Sunday’s beasting, so I was planning on running 1:40s, but it was clear pretty quickly that 1:45s would be a much more realistic goal. Even that was hard to maintain; […]

  • A short run home

    I ran home from the office today. Including stops for traffic lights and getting lost in the maze of barricades around the Grand Prix circuit, I took twenty minutes. That’s the same as it takes me to get home on the MRT, and that’s when I’m still exhausted from Sunday’s expedition. Maybe I need to […]

  • Half asleep in Singapore

    Predictably, after yesterday I was a complete wreck. My legs weren’t that sore (hooray for compression socks) but the rest of me was devoid of energy. Somehow I managed to transport La Serpiente to school on the bus, laden down with all her paraphernalia, and then caught another bus to the office, just avoiding getting […]

  • Another hard run on the Corridor

    This afternoon I went for a two hour run. I felt justified in slipping away from the bosom of my family, because we’d kept La Serpiente awake until 2:30 this afternoon, delaying her nap until she had a dead-eyed, empty stare, so she napped until 4, which meant she wasn’t going to go to bed […]

  • Early to rise, not early to bed

    I got home about 1:30 local time, having had about three hours sleep in the previous 24 hours. That made for a painful day today, ministering to La Serpiente’s demands, but probably easier for jet lag than if I’d slept more on the plane. I slept until about seven, when La Serpiente came into our […]

  • Underground Airlines

    As well as Sarong Party Girls, I bought Underground Airlines last week, and what better place to read it than on a plane, while growing peevish that the in-flight entertainment system was crashing every ten minutes? Underground Airlines is a pun on the Underground Railway, which is something I’d never heard of until a few […]