Monthly Archives: March 2009

Crowie meets the fans

March 20, 2009 – 11:26 pm

Today has been a long, long, long day. I’m still the office. Not good preparation for Sunday’s Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore race. Such is my life.
Anyway! The day kicked off at 10am at Key Power International’s Changi showroom. They are the local distributors for Newton running shoes, which reigning Ironman World Champion Craig Alexander (otherwise [...]

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St Paddy’s Day

March 17, 2009 – 9:26 pm

In celebration of baby’s heritage, I cooked him Guinness beef stew for dins tonight. That’s pretty much the only Irish thing I could think of, unless you count chocolate Guinness cupcakes dinner fare!
The Zopf is not Irish. It’s really Swiss, and really my second attempt at baking bread from scratch. It went really really well. [...]

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Wheel change for real change

March 17, 2009 – 6:39 pm

As part of research for a story on the viability of using a bicycle as one’s main mode of transport in Singapore, I will be ditching my trusty pink beemer for a week (starting Monday, March 23) for a Trek hybrid bicycle.
Every day I will test likely scenarios people will face when using the bike [...]

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Spruce

March 16, 2009 – 10:58 am

So to cap off my birthday weekend, my family took me out for dinner at Spruce, a restaurant at Phoenix Park at Tanglin that officially opened yesterday. Dad, mom, julian, kor and his fiancee Beeli and Damo and I met at 6.30pm and didn’t leave, at least Damo and I, till 10pm. The others stayed [...]

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Doing the Du

March 16, 2009 – 10:02 am

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