Father’s Day at home
There was a surprise at this morning’s breakfast for me… The actual Father’s Day in Germany was on May 5th, Ascension, and I got a nice gift for that one already. But who’s going to complain? Curiously...
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I am in Thailand at the moment for a business meeting. All top secret stuff, you know. It’s so secret I basically have to kill myself, now that I am privy of this. Just kidding… same old, same old…...
View ArticleMountaineer
The above spot is the wide window sill in my bathroom. Oskar gets there by climbing onto the toilet, then onto the toilet tank and from there he reaches this magical spot with the great view. On the...
View ArticleAnother birthday for the girl that does not age
Today is Lamia’s birthday – my pretty wife turns 22 or something. As always, we did a little celebration with the kids after we got home from work. We bought a few pastries from the bakery (I had...
View ArticleBirthday Dinner at Salt
So I was having lunch with Fay and Sara today and I was quizzing them to what restaurant I should take out Lamia tonight. I had suggested our favorite go-to place, Margarita’s at Dempsey, but Lamia...
View ArticleHow I did not want to get up at 2 am and then did – and thank god, I did!
Stefano had suggested we should watch Germany play Italy together. I was not so sure. I had not watched a single match in the EURO cup so far, simply because most matches started at midnight or 3 am in...
View ArticleWater play
Today is Hari Raya, so we had a public holiday in Singapore and a chance to go out with the kids on a weekday. We went to the Gardens by the Bay water play area for kids. Oskar and I have been here...
View ArticleInmates, the sequel
Oskar was 7 months old when I took a photo of him and his lookalike stuffed penguin. I’ve been planning to do a similar photo of Thomas, but I did not manage for several weeks. Today I got to it… Now...
View ArticleThe day I actually unleashed some digital photos into the real world
We’ve had that photo frame with dozens of photos I took of Oskar and the family hanging in his room now for a while. Since then Oskar has grown so much, Thomas was born and – well – I’ve taken many...
View ArticleSh(i/o)pping
I’ve ordered some sneakers from Converse and some Levis jeans from the US via a freight forward service, because both companies are too uptight to ship globally (and likely screw up some margins). The...
View ArticleAggie and Thomas
It is funny how some of the photos we take of Thomas sometimes accidentally mirror photos we took of Oskar just 2 years earlier. I admit that in some cases it is planned, of course, and so are the...
View ArticleFrom Singapore to Mersing
As in most cases these days, I am backdating the following entries that share a little of our long weekend at Rawa Island in Malaysia. So chances are that you have read about that trip elsewhere...
View ArticleOnkel Bert
So we had made it alive to Mersing. Here we were waiting with some other folks at the resorts office for the boat to take us to Rawa island. Before we left in the morning, Aggie had prepared a nice...
View ArticleFavorite wefie of the month
Eventually the boat arrived. We all jumped in and off we went. 30 minutes and we’ll be on our island getaway. Exciting! ps: I know, I know – technically, the previous photo was a wefie, too, but you...
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