What a proud little man he is. I bought Luc his walker at the Landmark, after spotting the same model (albeit in blue) at SM Megamall, simply because the salesperson was more helpful. Luc’s walker doesn’t have too many bells and whistles. Its height is adjustable, which should save the emperor’s stubby toes from too …

Last Christmas, Budj gave me and the yet-to-be-born Lucien a good-golly-Miss-Molly present: figures from the Dreaming, including one of the librarian Lucien. That’s one of the things I’ll bring with me when Neil Gaiman holds signings in Manila. I was thinking of bringing the real baby Lucien too, but it might get too crowded and …

Oh no, he’s starting a wee bit too early. Lucien is fascinated by the lights from my N-Gage QD. His face is my phone wallpaper; his eyes fix on the image and then his sparse eyebrows knit together in infant concentration. I sometimes play Asphalt Urban GT (the good thing about this game is I …