http://www.adriantai.com it's now the THREE of us! Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:04:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Got a set of Ladybird's Baby Touch books from Singapore for Gabriel. I think he absolutely loves it. I think the one he's holding is just the right thing for babies his age -- they are made of cloth (and some plastic, I believe). This way, they won't hurt themselves with the ... http://www.adriantai.com/a-good-book-for-babies/ ...going back home, to Mrs Tai and Gabriel... :) http://www.adriantai.com/i-am/ I was told a fresh IT grad in Singapore can earn about SGD1800 - SGD2000 per month. A fresh grad in Malaysia earns about the same figure, rm1800 - rm2000 per month. Economy rice is Singapore can be as cheap as SGD2.50 for a plate of rice and three types of ... http://www.adriantai.com/cost-of-living/ Merlion in Singapore From wikipedia: The Merlion is an imaginary creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Its name combines "mer" meaning the sea and "lion". The fish body comes from Singapore's ancient name back when it was a fishing village — Temasek — meaning "sea ... http://www.adriantai.com/currently-looking-at/ Friends come in many shapes, sizes and colour. Some would appear almost daily for a period of time, only to disappear after a while. Others would not appear friendly in the beginning but over time, they stick by through thick and thin, and remain closeby -- not too close to ... http://www.adriantai.com/friends/ I like this photo very much... Gabriel and I It was taken a few days back by Mrs Tai at the garden just opposite our house... http://www.adriantai.com/gabriel-and-i/ Mrs Tai told me that she noticed Gabriel's now starting to learn how to 'move' himself while he's lying down. She first noticed it yesterday when she woke up to find his legs facing her, but didn't think much of it. This afternoon, she saw him move himself! She put ... http://www.adriantai.com/gabriel-does-a-90-degrees-now/ Virginia Shea explains netiquette as Simply stated, it's network etiquette -- that is, the etiquette of cyberspace. And "etiquette" means "the forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be required in social or official life." In other words, Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. These ... http://www.adriantai.com/netiquette/ This year's Chinese New Year is especially different. It is warmer than usual... Maybe it's the weather -- it's been quite hot lately. Maybe it is the lion dance that came to our house (courtesy of the developer, SP Setia). Or maybe it is the first time we're actually celebrating ... http://www.adriantai.com/a-warm-chinese-new-year/ Well, it's not really the first since we have moved into this place more than one year now. What makes this year different is that we decorated the house and try to really make it lively (well, minus the fact that we didn't actually have time to really clean up the ... http://www.adriantai.com/our-first-chinese-new-year-at-setia-alam/