Everyone slept well last night, including Little Miss Crank, and her nose seemed better this morning so we went to playgroup after all. Bao wakes between 7 - 7.30am and naps again around 11.30am, so that's four hours of keeping her amused and out of trouble at home if we don't go anywhere. I like the way our week is currently tabled ( Read more... )

It has been almost two decades since I left high school, and whenever I tell other friends about my four years there they always end up laughing with a mix of disbelief and wonder. It's not surprising, because if you compare the rules, traditions and the actual school building itself using today's standards it would seem amazing that they let any ( Read more... )

Random rant, because I'm obviously an anti-social curmudgeon ( Read more... )

My mother volunteered to take The Bun off my hands last night so I decided to go get a haircut and do some solo shopping in town.

The appointment was 5.30pm with my usual stylist, F, but when I arrived at the salon the receptionist informed me, rather anxiously, that F wasn't around and the previous client (4.30pm) had left without getting ( Read more... )

Five (well, six) types of annoying people:1. People who hang up after a phone conversation without saying goodbye ( Read more... )

J came home tonight and presented me with a printout on a piece of cardboard:


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I decided to take a Facebook hiatus almost a month ago and am surprised by how much time I have managed to free up, which only goes to show how much of a sad stalkergirl I really used to be. It's a love-and-hate thing for me: I love checking out what other people are doing and getting news updates fed (hate that word) to me, but I also really hate ( Read more... )

Spotted in The Bun's gym class today: hyper-competitive, over-controlling mother. Her daughter's new in class and this is her first week; she's fifteen months old and barely began walking, so she understandably spends half her time crawling around on the mat ( Read more... )

10 reasons why I dislike Chinese New Year so much ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up from a dream feeling furious. I dreamt that J had somehow invited a whole bunch of his friends and strangers to our place and told them that I could easily cook a big dinner for all of them, no problem. I remember fuming as I chopped garlic and that I had to resort to cooking stuff in our teeny oven toaster, because there was ( Read more... )