Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Continued from the last post. Like many other Singaporean families with young school-going children, we’ve likewise also had to make big adjustments at home when the circuit breaker period started in early April. I’d already been on work from home
The Covid-19 pandemic has pretty much consumed the world. Who would have thought three months ago – unless you were in China – that much of the world would be living today in early May under a variety of regulations,
The morning newspapers’ headlines screamed what many people already knew last night: that the current smog, exported from our good neighbors who’re clearing land through fire and carnage across the sea, has finally hit hazardous levels here. Granted, our island
It’s a once every five years event, and it’s exciting not only because (most) Singaporeans get to vote. It’s because it’s also a national thing where the very uniquely Singaporean trait of kayposing comes right to fore! We had an
On FRI evening, I received an SMS from Ling: Am watching the Royal Wedding on Channel 5 now. =) Ugh. And I was still in school for an event! I did catch the ceremony the next morning though, courtesy of
The last week hasn’t been an easy one for those of us who follow the daily news. There was the triple whammy of nuclear disaster, tsunami and earthquake in Japan. I watched the numerous Youtube videos of the oncoming monster
As soon as I left for Boston and started posting all those pictures of places I was visiting, Ling began dropping big hints about our upcoming opportunity at the end of this year for a holiday to makeup for the
There was an article in news pages of The Straits Times today about a secondary school student having an accident while climbing Mt. Kinabalu – yep, that mountain that Ling has scaled 2-3 times now. The 13 year old boy
Many of the news regarding home helpers in Singapore these days aren’t flattering. On too many occasions, they’ve been on misdemeanors either on the part of the home helpers, or of their employers abusing their helpers. So, when the below
There are two really bizarre incidents covered in the newspapers these days. One of them is the still unfolding Apple vs Gizmodo drama over a misplaced iPhone prototype, and the other is a more localized issue. Thanks to messed-up competitive
While reading up on some legal precedents in defamation suits, I came across a story that’s in equal parts both hilarious and also just plain bizarre. A family of South-Korean immigrants, the Chungs, were running a Pop-Mom laundry shop ‘Custom
I have a vague recollection of a news incident that I remembered reading about as a young Primary Six boy 27 years ago in 1983. I never quite remembered the names and actual circumstances of the story over the years,
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