Yesterday I took The Bun downstairs for a walk. We popped by the playground where he did his usual shrieky mad run around the place, crawling up the slide and poking into all the plastic nooks and crevices. Good for tiring him out just before his naptime ( Read more... )

Some new terms and abbreviations to add to my vocabulary, courtesy of the book Momzillas (The title! I know!) by Jill Kargman:

Ball-on-stick: Super-skinny pregnant woman who works out like crazy and counts calories, resulting in bony body with uterus as only evidence of pregnancy. Often wears stilettos.

Blue Ribbon Birther: Mom who brags about ( Read more... )

It comes to a surprise to quite a few people, including ourselves, that J and I have been (married and) living in our present flat for seven years. Seven! Where did all the time go? I think about my 2003 self and boggle at how young J and I were back then. Did we even know what we were getting into - collecting keys and signing a few decades of our ( Read more... )

Parenthood is not a competition ( Read more... )

I am 90% close to resigning ( Read more... )

There's this newbie who has just started work at my company. He belongs in another department, but due to space constraints, he is seated in the same room as me. Now I normally think newbies are rather reserved in the first few days at least, when they're still finding their feet. But this one just plonked himself down among us, and began talking. ( Read more... )

Rude awakening this morning at around 9am. My mobile rang and woke me up, I looked at it and it said 'private number', which means that it was either someone who was calling from a public phone or who deliberately blocked his number from being identified. Anyway, the conversation (in Mandarin) went like this ( Read more... )

Met up with S this afternoon to hang out in town, and hang out we did - in the waiting room of the Hollywood Secrets Beauty Salon (don't you just love that name?). S's appointment to get her eyebrows done was at 3, but by the time she was done and we left the place, it was already 4:45pm (bearing in mind the actual eyebrow thing lasted only 15min) ( Read more... )

Boy, it's been a really bad week at work. First off, early in the week, we discovered that a v.much admired and respected local theatre doyen passed away. Secondly (and this is mostly the problem), my Psychotic Boss has been taking her megalomania to new levels. One of my colleagues quit today, even though it means that he'll have to pay the ( Read more... )

Am down with the flu. My nose no longer belongs to me, and my throat's all scratchy. Bleah.

My Evil Boss returned from vacation one day early. She saw me walk to the photocopier and said sceptically, 'You're walking normally again!' as if I faked the whole broken leg thing. Wish she would fall down the stairs and break her leg, or better still, ( Read more... )