I went kite flying during the weekend. First session was with my daugther’s Kite Flying Day’s kite. That did not fare very well. It kept insisting on flying the wrong way round. With the string on one shoulder, Any flight…
Go fly a kite!
P1 registration
My son riding on his elder sister’s coat tail got a place in P1 in Phase 1. Every since the General Election in May, I always wanted to say that. 🙂 According to Ministy of Education (MOE) website, the vacancies…
Observations about Japan
I was in Hokkaido, Japan for a week in June 11. These are my observations. It is a very clean country, well at least in Hokkaido. Clean in a sense that people don’t litter, whereas Singapore is clean because of…
Back from a holiday
After a really long period, at least 7 years and some months, my wife and I went on a overseas holiday without the kids. Singapore being so small, staying the weekend at a hotel can get quite boring.
Tour Agents
I was trying to arrange some flight details for trip. I got my twice cancelled tickets back alive and connecting flights booked. Except that the airline decided to cancel the flight and I have to find another flight to meet…
Getting Things Done or GTD
This book has been around for some time and some people really swear by it. I am currently into my first month of doing this. Collect. Collect all your the items that you have to do into a “collection bucket/s”. …
Looking for a job
An old friend of mine got a job after a long period. After being laid off, about a year ago, job offers were very thin. Quite sometime ago, I received an SMS asking to help look out for job offers. …
In Conversation 6
My son had a couple of sores that go infected and filled with pus. My wife lanced it with a needle to remove the pus. He screamed in fear, “Stop squeezing all the blood out! I am not going to…
Converting from Windows to Linux.
After a long period of procrastination, I have decided to replace the old dead PC with a Linux box. This was mainly driven by the fact price of RAM is falling and 32bit Windows can only support 3Gb of RAM.…
In Conversation 5
“Mama who is Obama?” my daughter, “Obama is the President of United States” my wife said. “Oh, you mean President of United States of Africa?” my daughter asked. The parents erupt into laughter. She still got a long way to…