after a month of print deadlines (it makes me feel alive, dammit!) for a month of arab films, i find myself in singapore. seven hours passes surprisingly quickly on a plane, with a wriggly kid who gamely stays awake for the first five hours, which is about five hours past her regular naptime. and now, here we are.
my parents’ house is filled with a selection of german xmas gingerbread, and marks and spencer chocolate bisuits. last night i had a paper thosai the size of a newspaper — and not just a tabloid; a broadsheet. so far so good.
we’ll forget the screaming tantrum in which, over the course of twenty minutes or so on an otherwise tranquil sunday afternoon, a child pushes herself on her back, up the length of a department store elevator lobby floor. it can be done!
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My mum still tells the story of my sister throwing a tantrum in the glitzy ground floor part of david jones. Mum had her in one of those toddler leashes and ended up dragging her, lying on her back and screaming, along the marble floors and out the door into the street.
Ella once threw a tanty in the chechout queue at Kmart. She decided to lie down on the floor in front of our trolley and beacuse there was no other way through I had to nudge her across the floor with the trolley so that I could them pick her up and take her away!
glad to read that you made it! print deadlines, packing and all!
i look forward to reading about the pineapple tarts!
dude how long you be in singapore for? any chance youll go malaysia too?
amber: props to your mum! maeve was actually thrashing about in the entryway to the department store in the path of curious shoppers, before my mum picked her up and deposited her in the glass-door enlosed lift lobby. “she’ll be safe in there,” she said. clearly i have things to learn from my mother.
deb: actually, i forgot to add to my tally: 2 boxes of pineapple tarts — one even has green pandan-flavoured pastry! my mum has yet to make her annual batch. perhaps she’ll get stellou to do the honours this year.
dood! yeah, you and noods are in KL for chinese new year hey? we are heading up for a couple of days, on like, the second day of the pig. will you be out eating? 🙂
hmm i know on cny we’ll be in taiping for the rellie gathering but the 2nd day it is quite possible ill be in penang =( and be back on the 4th day… how much longer you staying in malaysia/sg?
wahlau, you so lucky to be in foodieland for chinese new year. Gong Xi Fatt Choi! Have some tau sa pia for me 🙂
welcome back. happy cny, bob.
happy new year!
suze: WAH. my family is from taiping and penang too! but alas we will only be in KL… and only until thursday. and in singapore until early march. there are too many meals to fit into too few days.
sue: i do not seem to see any tau sa pia amongst the frightening selection of celebratory biscuitery that has been delivered to my parents, but perhaps i will have a bah kwa-on-white bread sandwich in your honour? would you like that? 🙂
happy new year everybody!
hope your year is full of delicious porky products.
gong xi fa cai
wan shi ru yi
nian nian you yu
hua she tian zhu
ooo bak kwa on white BUTTERED bread. Yum. Yes please. I’m suffering from post Chinese New Year lunch and dinner and breakfast. Blurk.
And my mum just asked us if we were staying for dinner….wha?