30 in 2005

1. Back to points as I seem to function well within them. This is my last post in what has been a big and busy year. 2. I'm in Mumbai af...

I start and then I cannot stop. Here is what we have been up to where Christmas is concerned: Ok this is not me but our building lobby. It a...

...I get lazy. List of random things: 1. My aunt and uncle celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. We couldn't celebrate with them as...

In my childhood, and this is not just from my overactive imagination, my parents Nik and I sat down to eat at 6.30pm every weeknight. Of cou...

Chennai is quite possibly my favourite Indian city. And the floods are ravaging it as we watch helplessly from afar. My relatives have all m...

It began as a lark. I had read somewhere that colouring was the new 'thing' for adults and I thought it was a good 'joke' pr...

Last day of November. I'm tempted to take a month off and not write a smidge. No one is more surprised that I posted Every. Single. Day ...

1. Crazy weather swings saw us all back in shorts and tshirts again today. Some reprieve from the awful and disheartening shopping trip of y...

Saturday. Grumpy. Earlier I couldn't find clothes for fat people. Now turns out my feet are fat too. Lady in shop laughed when I mention...

It wasn't as I imagined it would be and that is mainly because I missed most of it.  Five years ago today my brother, Nik, got married. ...

Kid had a Thanksgiving meal in school yesterday. Of course he has took (and ate) a back up bread and butter sandwich (as recommended by the ...

Not sure if it is every year or alternate years but usually around this time of year there is a rumbling brouhaha over whether it's ...

Apparently there is no waiting till after Thanksgving to get going in the Christmas spirit of decorating.  I'm making quite a complicate...

1. It's a blog lethal combination. Can't be arsed to write = lazy. Can't think of what to write = blank mind. Can't write ce...

No one is more shocked than me that I have been able to keep up with challenging myself to write everyday. As it turns out my offline writin...

Now don't get excited you lot. It's not me doing any dancing. Went for lunch to Din Tai Fung in Causeway Bay and then wandered aroun...

1. Choose a book you and your kid love. I chose 'Stuck' by Oliver Jeffers. 2. If you can, make a prop. By no means essential but I t...

Following a Facebook post where someone recommended a small pop up store selling seconds from batches of big brand crockery I decided today ...

I'm of the view that my deep friendships have been made in my teens, twenties and early thirties. Friendships that include people I can ...

1. My 6 year old has just conducted a writing assessment for me. He claims that I should write my 'w's like this is printed one (sha...