Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
This post isn’t about what one of my friends calls ‘Toronto Bashing’, or quibbling with fellow Christians, but a very personal reflection on something that continues to unsettle me. A month ago I wrote a friend from Salmon Run many
This one’s probably an old one! During the counseling class last week, there were jokes aplenty with the very lively and animated instructor we were having. One of those jokes that came up was as follows. Apologies to those of
Apologies for the relative dearth of posts! Not much to write about this couple of days (though Ling has an interesting post she’s working on about Hannah), except that I’ve been attending a five day training program on practical counseling.
I gave a talk to students from Jurong Junior College yesterday afternoon on game studies, the second of such talks I’ve done this year for JC students. The 40 minute talk had a lot of content crammed into it as
Well, it’s official! I have made a biology video clip to demonstrate the action of semi-lunar valves in veins. And it is uploaded on YouTube! The 1.5 minute video clip took less than 30 minutes to prepare and produce. Owing
I was rummaging through the tons of trash from my old room at the Lentor family home when I came across a piece of paper containing a doodle! That was done by one of my adult students when I was
Over on Saturday evening, we drove back to our family home at Lentor for a get together dinner. I think that this was also to had been a mother’s day sort of celebration but that might have got lost somewhere
Anime is a big thing here for many people in Singapore, and of them, there is a subset of young people who get dressed up in the costumes of well-known Japanese anime and film characters in events. It’s a sort
I just realized that the blog is now well past the 1000 posts mark, and – going by the first post date of March 1999 – is now 11 years old. The posts in the first 6 years or so
A class of students I’ve been counselor and mentor since April 2007 will be graduating in a few months’ time. The staff did an informal Seniors’ Farewell event yesterday morning in school, where my colleagues did several industry prep talks
Nearly a decade ago I marked an examination paper on a subject I was lecturing and also heading in one of my prior institutions. This was an international examination, and the candidates sitting for my paper numbered in the several
Step aside Newater, gold is the in thing now. I was reading this interesting article about many (and wild) possibilities of making sewage useful. The world’s population produces around 1.2 billion tonnes of faeces and 15 hundred billion of urine per year.
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