About the author
Some facts for the tossing:
- Citizen of Singapore, and proud of it
- Denizen of Hong Kong, for a while longer than expected
- Fan of Diana Wynne Jones, Joss Whedon, Jay Chou, Dave Chappelle, Stephen Chow, Studio Ghibli, Pixar Animation Studios, Worship Central, This American Life, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Michael Palin’s adventures
- Connoisseur of good affordable food, fine weathered friends, fast fearless enmities, lazy lousy days and full episodes of TV shows online
- Mac user since 14 November 2000 (1st: iBook G3/466 SE Graphite, 2nd: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz 15″)
- Compulsive photo-taker, reductive video-maker
- Studied French, Latin and Hindi, to little avail; am getting better at Chinese with lesser effort; can almost hold a conversation in Cantonese now (but can’t in Teochow or Foochow, to my shame)
- Comedy nerd, hopeless type
- Dilettante, intellectually ineffectual type
- Flibbertigibbet, verbally diarrhoeal type
- Christian, growing type
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i agree, and like, that you’re a ‘flibbertigibbet’! isabel is quite obsessed with the sound of music; she can sing most of its songs, including ‘how do you solve a problem like maria’
hehe, actually my gold-standard flibbertigibbet reference is meg ryan’s delivery of a line in joe vs. the volcano (assisted by a folding fan): “Daddy says I’m a flibbertigibbet!”
has isabel been introduced to the wonders of mary poppins yet? i remember that as one of my great obsessions!
oh isabel’s obsessed with the opening scene where mary poppins sits on a cloud; and the part where poppins arrives descending with a brolly. also warbles ’spoonful of sugar’ and ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ (somewhat. she skims thru the syllables in a blur :)
nice! is that bear in the big blue house dvd still around? does she like that too? :]
yeah she does groove to bbbh songs, or they did. at a certain age (about 1), they both were terrified whenever bear came too close and sniffed the tv, but have now grown out of it lah :)
aiyoh, sorry for inadvertently traumatising your kids! maybe broke the ‘fourth wall’ a bit too early for them. :]
laughing languidly at your alluring alliterations!