Tag Archives: soppy

Relationship problems

Damo: What’s 0.6 of a day?
Me: (Calculates in head)
Damo: 0.5 of a day is 12 hours…. 10 per cent of a day is 2.4h…
Me: 14h 24min.
Damo: So take 24h and subtract 14h 24min from that?
Me: 9h 36min.
Damo: (Excitedly) Great! That’s how long more till the video of the highlights of last night’s Giro stage will [...]

Baby’s home

Damo came back yesterday morning from NYC with more gifts than Santa Claus.

Let me see if I can remember everything he got me or us: a baking stone, a madeleine pan, a pizza slicer, seven boxes of muesli bars, tons of Clif Bars and PowerGels, a cookbook on grilling, nine Blueray DVDs, a few packs [...]

Bye bye baby

Damo left for a biz trip to NYC this morn, but not before some drama at Coffee Bean at T3. He ordered a caramel latte for himself (in a takeaway cup) and a chai tea latte for me (in a tall glass) as I went to secure a pair of comfy armchair seats. We also [...]

Pot stickers

Since the beginning of the year, Damo and I have made a conscious effort everytime we do our grocery shopping in Cold Storage to spend at least $30 or in multiples of $30. Because we are so bloody Singaporean (no he really is Irish but anyway) and we’re trying to get a free pot in [...]

Baby’s birthday

Today was Damian’s birthday, so I brought him for dinner at Flutes at the Fort at Fort Canning and baked him, on request, a cheesecake — a Bailey’s irish cream cheesecake with Valrhona chocolate icing and Haribo hearts. That was my idea. I wanted to make a cheesecake true to his pedigree… Irish and Haribo [...]