Primary One Report
While my son was counting down the days to the school holidays, I was counting beans. I counted his final test scores and derived an equivalent PSLE score of 188!! This means that he is ...
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Family Fun in Legoland Malaysia
And so the wait was finally over. Way back in March, we bought the Legoland annual passes at pre-launch rates – RM199 for adults and RM149 for children. That is about 30% cheaper than current ...
Family Fun in Lost World of Tambun
On day four of our road trip in Malaysia, we left KL for the town of Ipoh. I have never been to Ipoh and really had no idea what to look out for there. While ...
Family Fun in Lotus Desaru
I was desperately counting down to this day. Since the beginning of 2012, Theo and I had almost burnt every free moment of our time juggling our careers, managing Joel’s burgeoning school work and tests ...
The Rigours of Parenting
Saturday’s papers reported that Singapore needs 30,000 immigrants every year just to sustain productivity. This is because we are not giving birth to enough children, at a total fertility rate of 1.24, we are barely ...
Back from Down Under
It has been five days since I returned to my mundane life and I am still recovering from jet lag and travel fatigue. I must be getting old! We landed back in Singapore at 9pm ...
Do children need financial education?
Two weeks ago, I picked up one of Robert Kiyosaki’s book titled Rich Kid Smart Kid. Now I heard of his first book Rich Dad Poor Dad way back in 2003 when I was a ...
An introduction to Thai culture
Singapore has been shrouded in haze for the past one week, hitting the unhealthy PSI reading of >100 last Thursday. No doubt forest fires in Sumatra is the culprit once again. While it shields the heat from ...
Reflections of a young working Singaporean mother
I just spent the last two hours watching a women’s dialogue centered on living, working, raising children and retiring in Singapore. As a very young working mother of three myself, you can be sure this ...
Short getaway to Desaru
I realised that blogging about your travels is best done while the memory and emotions are fresh. I have several trips I would really like to share on my blog but as time passes, so does the ...