SG50 War Memories
Singapore celebrates its 50th birthday this year and leading up to our national day on 9 Aug, the whole nation is in preparations for the year of Jubilee. 50 years of independence but what did ...
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A Song of Ice and Fire
Recently I found the love for reading again hence the missing in action from blogging. I started with a few random books I bought from Popular bookstore. Some trashy romance novels under the Little Black ...
National Education
The months of October and November went by in a blast. It was my busiest period this year chasing deadlines, preparing papers and presentations, organising events and attending numerous thank you meals. And it sucks ...
Downtown Singapore in 30 minutes
I was inspired. So I plugged in my earphones, passed the commuting crowd of Tanjong Pagar and started a stroll down Singapore CBD. The streets of Singapore CBD are very different at night. As I ...
Chasing the Moon
Yesterday is Mid Autumn Festival and my favourite time of the year. I have always enjoyed the mood during this period of time when family and friends exchange mooncakes and children and adults alike descend ...
Japan in transition
On March 11, an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the richter scale rocked the very foundations of the northern coast of Japan. The tremors and ensuing 10m high tsunami wiped out coastal towns, made hundreds of ...
Counting down to Krabi
3 more days before my departure and I can’t wait to finally get a well-deserved vacation. Although lugging one pre-schooler and one toddler to a foreign country may not constitute as a break. Oh well, ...
The journey of a blog
I finally bought my first Encyclopaedia Britannica in a bid to acquire general knowledge and inculcate the values of life long learning in my children. The 2010 Ultimate Reference Suite comes with three libraries catering ...
What is it about romance?
To begin with, I enjoy reading romance novels but this genre has never been a top priority in my book list. So it was pretty unusual for me to actually spend time and money ($32.05 from Kinokuniya) to purchase My Name is ...
Global Poverty
Before I close the book What Matters, there is one particular photo essay that changed the way I look at things and it is with regards to poverty. I used to misperceive as the author described ...