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Regular readers will recall that Imagethief became a father earlier this year. Having a child requires new parents to undertake many unfamiliar responsibilities. These include the obvious, such as the care and feeding of an infant, and some things that you really just don't think much about in advance. Among those are the bureaucratic hoops that ...

Conan the Barbarian, age 20 Mongol General Conan! What is best in life? Conan To crush your enemies. To see them driven before you. To hear the lamentation of their women. Conan the Barbarian, age 40 Mongol General Conan! What is best in life? Conan To spend quality time with your family. To see your kids after work. To hear the precious ...

About a month ago I wrote about the long time it was taking the Singapore embassy in Beijing to produce our son's Singaporean passport. Reflecting my frustrations about various aspects of Singaporean citizenship policy, and what I see as the conflict between Singapore's reluctance to accept dual citizenship and desire to have more citizens, I ...

Imagethief has been leading a glamorous life of international travel this week. If you've never done it, you should know that by-and-large it sucks. Last week I flew to the US for a series of media training sessions with a client. They generously sprang for business class on United Airlines, which was nice (Imagethief's business class flying ...

Anyone within earshot will know that Imagethief welcomed his son, Zachary, into the world last March 9th. The nearly four months since have been one long sleepless adventure. Despite my fatigue induced delirium, however, the experience has been a happy one. Like parents everywhere I take the most profound pleasure in things that non-parents ...

Born last Sunday, March 9th, 12:12AM in Beijing. Mom's eyes, hair and skin. Dad's nose and ears (oh well). Also known as Li Weizhi (李苇志) in accordance with the best numerological tradition, which was very precise about the total number of strokes that should feature in the Chinese name. (Technically it was calculated on the traditional character ...

Although his wife may disagree, Imagethief believes very deeply that Homo sapiens should have a gestational period of 241 weeks. Forty weeks is simply not long enough for first-time parents to come to grips with the reality of having a child. The funny thing is that thirty-nine weeks ago it seemed like plenty. Nine months of pregnancy felt like a ...