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My mom came by my office about an hour ago to deliver a thermos full of home-cooked pork and oyster porridge with pumpkin. And muffins. And a bunch of grapes. Both baby and I are enjoying the food immensely. How not to, when…  

While waiting for one of Han’s company’s clients to debate over the semantics for a presentation the day before an important launch event (while at the venue itself), I took some snaps:  

Come end of March I’ll be a parent. For real. Playing the role of someone to be looked up to. I can’t pretend that I’m not frightened of that prospect. I remember how I used to think of my parents when I was…  

A healthy, camera-shy, restless one. The full ultrasound scan showed that we have a perfectly normal baby boy at this stage. But, as Dr Wong put it, ‘a bit on the scrawny side’ (I guess I should be eating even more from…  

I’ve got my dad to thank for this one: You can’t leave footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time? - Original source, unknown. …  

Deciding what gift to get fathers is always such a hair-pulling task. What in the world would, or could you possibly get for a man who already has pretty much every material thing he could want? My father-in-law’s birthday dinner’s tonight, and up…  

The scale’s weighing me in at 59kg! The last time I was this heavy was in my first term at uni—a result of stuffing my face with Tesco value chocolate chip cookies, chocolates, milk, cheese and pasta. After that it just…  

The last time I remember being as mesmerised by the moon being so bright was one winter in Coventry, some 5 years ago. Back then, a couple of friends and I were strolling down our snow-encrusted street in the dead…