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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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 ...
A Financial Stocktake
Money and numbers is in my blood. It has been since the day I chose Commerce as my course of education in college. I did surprisingly well – having no issues differentiating between the debits ...
A Melting Pot
Time is 5.30pm and it is Joel’s third day in primary school, a new phase of his life which marks his growing independence. While waiting for the teachers to dismiss their precious flock, I am ...
Eat Pray Love or 36 Tales about the Pursuit of Balance
The movie opens in Singapore next week and I completed the book in time to catch it. I realised that most movies based on books never really cut it. I find myself wondering why I ...
How do we become excellent?
I recently went on a field trip to the National Library Board (NLB) to learn more about their service excellency journey and being the ever ardent fan of the public library, I lapped up all the information ...
Just how important is that degree?
I had wanted to post this on my other blog relating to general life issues but WordPress has made it so conducive for me to just keep writing here. I love this template! It’s like ...
Mass or Alternative Tourism
Despite my enthusiasm, it still takes two days of procrastination to begin study proper. After my commencement ceremony five years ago, I had happily left the academics behind me but one just cannot escape the life-long learning adage. Contemporary Tourism: An ...