Visitors
This afternoon Jonathan and Liliana passed by with Taisei to welcome Thomas and say hello to Oskar. They were very generous with their presents – thanks so much, guys! The big hit, however, was the...
View ArticleAgi’s first birthday with us
Today it’s Agi’s birthday, so I came home a little earlier from work – not without buying flowers of course – and Lamia baked a cake. We prepared birthday cards and also had presents for her, of...
View ArticleWatchOS 2.0 disappointment
I really like my Apple Watch and the thoughts I have posted a little while ago still hold true. Now, Apple updated the watch OS to version 2 roughly 3 weeks ago and I’ve got to say it’s disappointing....
View Article‘ just love this photo of Oskar
This is also the first Live Photo I took with the iPhone 6s that really worked well. You cannot see the effect here, because I have not made it into a GIF animation, but you can in our shared photo...
View ArticleOskar has a girlfriend, Oskar has a girlfriend…
I came home from work tonight and ran into our neighbors Andrew, Emily and their daughter Audrey who had just returned from the pool. After a big hello I opened the door to our apartment, Audrey saw...
View ArticlePlaying it cool
The last two nights the place where we usually have our aircon in our and in Oskar’s bedrooms looked like this: That sucks in Singapore! Turns out that after 3 years these two units – obviously our...
View ArticleEar cushion replacement
A few days ago I had written about the ear cushions of my Bose headphones that were slowly disintegrating. I did had quickly checked for a Bose shop in Singapore, determined there was none (though...
View Article#YourNameHere
Lamia has already written about the little Nutella surprise I had in store for her… This was triggered when Fely and I went together to Oskar’s French class 2 1/2 weeks ago and I saw a bus with the...
View ArticleDrilling for oil
The last few days and this weekend in particular have been very difficult for Thomas and us. The little guy seems to be crying constantly and does not get much sleep during the day. Nights are okayish,...
View ArticleDoubling down to water down
Remember the Vessyl? This is the tumbler that has sensors to identify automatically what drink it carries and then use this data to help you track calories and hydration level. I thought this was a...
View ArticleIrgendwo, irgendwie, irgendwann
Ich mag die Leute in der deutschen Botschaft in Singapur. Die sind nett. Die freundliche Dame die die Konsularangelegenheiten regelt und sich immer an uns erinnert obwohl wir weiss Gott nicht so oft...
View ArticleSaturday visitors
Marie-Emilie and Hosoya-san passed by this afternoon to visit Thomas and say hello to Oskar. Hosoya-san brought his son, so we had the house full with little kids… Turns out that Marie-Emilie was so...
View ArticleSunday visitors
After having had Marie-Emilie and Hosoya-san yesterday afternoon, we had Megha and Dave visiting today for brunch. After the very nice and relaxed brunch menu, we tried them out as babysitters as well…...
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