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Kim Huat and the Real Thing

Kim Huat says there is only one real thing. Don’t click the wrong links!

A PSA from OCBC.

YouTube link: youtu.be/QS7F648RZqk

Kim Huat in… The Moon Who Loved Me

Kim Huat recaps the slaps, the straps and the licence to thrill.

YouTube link: youtu.be/GDEgEbhnMus

A Birthday Staycation

When it is your wife’s birthday, you take her on a staycation and tell her she can do whatever she wants.

She wanted to play badminton. So we played badminton for two solid hours after breakfast (I won one game, she won two).

Then we swam in the pool for an hour.

Then broke for lunch.

Then we went bowling. Bowled for more than hour, played 6 games each.

Then we walked 25 minutes to the hawker centre for dinner. And walked 25 minutes back.

I didn’t know the Birthday Staycation was going to become The Olympic Games.

But hey, whatever The Wife wants, The Wife gets.

I have a Sporty wife. So I better get with the Sporty Life.

Talk to you later. I am lying down in recovery mode now.

(Side note: I need to add this small detail. My wife, while not a #fitspo gym person, has a very high level of fitness. She does aerobics, and other forms of exercise, at least three times a week and crushes it. I, on the other hand, have just begun my slow and steady fitness journey. So you can imagine how much she runs rings around me. I’m just glad I could keep up with her, barely, during this staycation.)

Kim Huat and the Test Kits

Kim Huat recently went to buy some expensive things.

YouTube link: youtu.be/imoZJrNFBCY

See What Show: The Batman

Wow I did NOT expect The Batman to be THIS good. It is the best Bat-anything since The Dark Knight. I love the focus on the World’s Greatest Detective.

I don’t quite know how this will work since it is outside the DCEU (which might be a good thing). But man, am I glad they made it.

The action was brutally awesome. Gotham looked gritty. The cinematography was breathtaking. And Robert Pattinson is no longer a sparkly vampire in my mind.

The movie is dark. This isn’t quippy and happy Batman. At the same time, it isn’t a rehash of Nolan’s Batman either. It is its own thing. I feel it is larger than Batman. It’s about Gotham and all the mess that exists in it. Batman is just part of the larger Gotham story.

I like how they made The Riddler so disturbing. I always thought he was a joke. I did not recognize Colin Farrell as the Penguin too.

It is really more a mystery movie than a superhero one, and I enjoyed that.

I’m still haunted by that shot of Batman holding the flare. It was like a painting.

I look forward to a follow-up movie.

Warning: Make sure you pee first. It’s a three-hour movie. And go see it in IMAX. Gorgeous.

Kim Huat and the Easing

Kim Huat is excited about the changes to the community safe management measures but wishes there could be more.

YouTube link: youtu.be/a2ZOTD3R7JI

Singapore is best country for adventure in SEA wor

Adventures you can have in Singapore:

1. Scale Mount Faber.

2. Fight for a table at Tiong Bahru Market on a Sunday morning.

3. Queue at the “lucky” Hougang Toto booth for the Hongbao draw.

4. Ballot for a place in a popular primary school. 

5. Try to book a slot to swim at the MBS Infinity Pool on your staycation during the school holidays.

6. Find parking at nex mall on weekends.

7. Be a parent with a child taking PSLE.

8. Take a week of leave to stay home, to rest from Work From Home.

9. Avoiding sales people at MRT stations.

10. Be the first to travel along the newly-opened extended stretch of the Thomson-East Coast Line, from Caldecott to Springleaf.

My old mini-compo

Wife was doing some culling and packing, and I was reminded of this hifi set. This box is 22 years old. The hifi is gone but the box remains.

The JVC UX-V10GN was a major part of our home in the early days of our marriage. I think I got the mini-compo free by redeeming some points from my credit card or something. Oh, I remember now. I redeemed it with my Shell points saved up from pumping petrol back in the days I had a car.

It was very fancy for its time. The compact disc loaded vertically. Sound was decent too. Auto Reverse cassette deck leh.
The box now holds our winter clothes, which has not seen action for more than 2 years now.

My wife is so gonna scold me for showing the messy bits of our home.

Kim Huat and the Send Me Money

Kim Huat thinks he needs a new career.

YouTube link: youtu.be/3q40zDHMrLE

Kim Huat and the NYT “Singaporean” Chicken Curry

Kim Huat has a few choice words to eat about NYT’s attempt at Singaporean Curry.

YouTube link: youtu.be/qIBAAxJhzmw

Kim Huat and the Bank Scammers

Kim Huat wants to warn you of a new bank scam.

A PSA from OCBC.

YouTube link: youtu.be/ltlnOrG7kew

My weight-loss journey from April 2020 to December 2021

Eat right, get exercise, stay healthy.

YouTube link: youtu.be/EM0vqdV6ZCw

Kim Huat and 2022

Kim Huat welcomes 2022.

YouTube link: youtu.be/5KextuVd9cA

Kim Huat after Christmas

Kim Huat thinks Christmas went by too quickly.

YouTube link: youtu.be/iueiJBZLUlA

Kim Huat and the Badminton

Kim Huat is contemplating a new sports career.

YouTube link: youtu.be/0SP9-uZ4UIY

Kim Huat on a rainy Friday night

Kim Huat tells a true story full of crap, on a rainy Friday night.

YouTube link: youtu.be/p41KsGsBBoY

The mrbrown WFH Show Season 6 #1

Episode 1 Season 6, Transition Phase 2022. Starting the new year with a new season of the podcast.

Saturday, 1 January 2022.

Link to episode: https://anchor.fm/mrbrown/episodes/The-mrbrown-WFH-Show-Season-6-1-e1ccue4

Listen to my daily podcast at:

-Anchor

-Apple

-Spotify

Seeing Double: a Photo Essay

At the end of 2021, the story of a roll of black-and-white film with ten years of stories to tell.

(Read the full post and see more photographs at https://brown.exposure.co/seeing-double or view the embedded version below.)

Seeing Double by Kin Mun "mrbrown" Lee on on Exposure

Keynote at SPED Learning Festival 2021

I was very honoured to give the keynote at the SPED Learning Festival 2021 on the 21st of November 2021, and sharing the stage with MOS Sun Xueling and DSEN Lucy Toh.

It was a meaningful time sharing my journey as a parent of a special needs child, and discussing SPED issues with the 3,000 online participants from the education and SPED fraternity.

Thank you all for having me today. May we create a future of hope and love for our special needs students together.

[First image courtesy of Veron Wong]

Kim Huat and the Doo Doo Doo

Kim Huat had a big scare recently.

YouTube link: youtu.be/NNqwyDKD8t4