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My body is slowly reverting back to England time again. Went to sleep at 6:30 am this morning, which is 11:30 pm in England. Nothing remarkable in that. All my life, I’ve been battling my mind’s stubborn refusal to sleep when its supposed to. It’s not because I’ve been chatting with Piers too much or ...
When I first started playing The Sims Medieval, where I made myself Queen of England, I decided to make Piers a knight because I thought it would be amusing to see a knight court a queen. Not that I have visions of grandeur or anything, but the game forces you to be a monarch when ...
Every three months, Master Steve conducts a grading session for the whole class, each grade taking turns to be tested, starting from the lowest grade (that’s me). I happened to be in England when the grading was on, so decided to join in even though I felt I hadn’t attended enough classes yet. Here are ...
I never realised my teeth were crooked until a couple of years back when I went to see a dentist about getting veneers. He said it wasn’t advisable until I got braces to fix my teeth! (No, he wasn’t trying to rip me off; he doesn’t do braces.) I have always thought my only problems ...
I have been home in Singapore for about 12 days now. And Piers just had a phone conversation with his mum, in which she had asked whether he had heard from me at all after I left, to which he had simply said, “Yes.” Understatement of the year! He had neglected to tell ...
Oh, I just found out in Wikipedia that the reason why all the buildings in the city of Bath have the same colour is because they are all made of the same material called Bath Stone! It’s an oolitic limestone which the Romans mined around that region from the first century AD. They ...
The first thing you’ll notice about the city of Bath is that all the buildings in the entire city are the same colour. It’s a really novel experience, like you’ve stepped into some fairytale village. You’ll get an idea from the photos in this post (and the next). They’re all a creamy tan colour, sporting ...
A transport provider in the UK just sent me an e-mail asking me to take part in an online survey to help improve services. So I go there and answer two questions (age and last time I used the service) and they say: “Thank you for your time. Unfortunately, you do not qualify for the ...
Wow, Piers and I are quite overwhelmed by the number of well wishes that have come to us through my blog comments as well as through Twitter, Facebook and Plurk! Wanna thank everyone for your support and well wishes! We didn’t imagine that people would be so very encouraging, so we really appreciate it very ...
I didn’t intend to blog about my relationship with Piers until much later because I thought it would make a better story later. It’s only a good story after it’s lasted for a while, isn’t it? But I was shocked by the response when we “announcedR 21; our status in Facebook. I kind of did it ...
Finally back home after loads of travelling, the latest one of which was two months in England. Thoughts and impressions: [At the airport] YES I MADE IT BACK ALIVE WITH 45KG OF LUGGAGE! It’s nice to be back where everything is familiar. Feel comfortable seeing fellow Singaporeans. Automated clearance. Best! No immigration officers asking ...
Did my first Wing Chun grading today after attending only about 10 classes, possibly fewer, didn’t really count. Grading is conducted every three months, so you go for it when it happens, ready or not, or wait for three more months. The results will be out in a few days or so, by ...
I just found out that the City of Bath (in England) has more than 60 churches. Is that crazy or what? Here’s one we bumped into today as we randomly walked around the city. We didn’t have time to really look at it, so I had to google its name after we got back to ...
I said I was going to show pictures of the apartment I stayed at in Paris, so here they are! First, the bedroom. It’s really warm and cosy and comfortable. Doesn’t have a door but, instead, a red curtain across the doorway. All that red makes it look very exotic! Really loved it. ...
I really did think about it for a long time, whether to buy an iPad 2 to replace my still-newish iPad 1. I thought about it for about three days. Hey, that’s long, considering that I would have tried to buy it on launch day had I not been thinking about it. After it launched, ...
This half-naked baby was spotted frolicking about on Bournemouth Beach on a quite cold day (about 13°C). While useless, weak adults were all layered up. …
I found a ladybird in the bathroom that seemed intent on killing itself. I suppose it was my fault. I had found it very cute and had tried to take a zillion photos of it. The orange focus assist light, blinking on and off nonstop, must have scared it. It was hard to ...
March 25, 2011, England iPad 2 launch day. At about 5:20 pm, Piers and I walked through the Bournemouth Town Centre to buy a toaster because his old one had wheat bugs in it and he had thrown it out. I had considered buying an iPad 2 on launch day but at the same time ...
Dining in Paris is so expensive. Having a bottle of wine in a Paris restaurant is as expensive as doing it in Singapore! Which is really crazy because I always thought we had the most ridi …
Was googling the difference between biscuits and cookies and got linked to a Yahoo! Answers page. This guy’s answer made me LOL. “The difference between the biscuit and the cookie is the Atlantic. Plus, American biscuit more like a savory scone Plus English biscuit is an American cookie. Plus English or American cookie is in ...
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