I visited our friend Kevin last night and was privileged to be among the few who could see the sparkle of this new dad’s eye as he held one of his two new baby boys. Privileged again, I returned to my childhood home where I saw my dad, glowing, because his family was together. There was no stainless steel grill under his Christmas tree – - though we did christen a new blog / Web site for his fishing company: www.pro-fishin-sea.com — no, mostly we spent a short weekend amongst laughter, smiles and memories.

And so to my dad and to Conrad’s, to Scotty, Cary, Kevin, Nick, Tate, Corey, Travis, Steve, Rob, Glen and all the other dads we love and dads out there … we hope y’all had a GREAT day and continue to love and cherish your moments with your little mini-me’s.

A few fun things to share already!

* Mom changed money and the lady told her how much it was, and mom thought she had to pay the woman more money. Nope. 500 = 700. Ah, the wonders of trading in cold, hard American moola for funny money … too bad you get a ton less than you used to.

* After sufficiently catching up with eachother in the taxi, mom decided to try out her Singlish. Yet despite craning her head to an extremely odd angle and leaning nearly into the headrest of the driver’s seat AND speaking to him loudly … she just couldn’t make it out. It’ll happen mom, don’t worry lah!

* They brought me an air mattress! That’s right, I wasn’t about to pay an extra $35/day for a cot and I didn’t want them to stay in a hotel, so Wal-Mart to the rescue. Only one problem … my laptop just plugs straight into the adapter into the wall. Who know you could get that kind of smell & sparkage from a little wal-mart pump. No fires, but man, that thing really flew with 250 volts going to it instead of the US’s 115! Good thing the socket in the bathroom can do either … only the pump sorta died out about half-way into the job.

AirMattress from Wal-Mart: $35

Flight to Singapore to share it with your daugher: $3500

Watching your daughter manually inflate an airmattress at 2:30 in the morning (yep, that means by mouth): Priceless

Ah, it’s a real family affair!

(If you’re lucky, mom will post some things to the blog herself this week. Get comfortable, this could get interesting!)