Desiderata of (my) Life
In a world that seeks to put people in categories, how do we come to remember and realise our truest potential?
The lasting effects of over-categorisation, those selection/deselection processes that dump us in folders according to capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, and all those things that we like to think makes us distinct from one another, often become [...]
Dancing Lucien
Something magical happens when you put a baby and a grandparent together.
As in this video, we have 3 month-old Lucien who can hardly keep his head steady, suddenly showing immense talent as the dancing baby, taking flight in Ah Ma’s arms.
Aren’t they having fun?
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Not the Everyday Topic
Usually I’d be at the pool at this time but the unwilling weather meant that I was resigned to staring out the window at the inviting kidney-shaped pool glistening in the near distance, watching the big fat rain drops drown my hopes of a dip and a sip.
So I ponder. With my much-needed maternity [...]
Living and Learning Love
I was an angry person for a very long time.
A bruised and unsightly bucket of deep deep anger that I nursed quietly. For decades. Angry at the insipidity of ineffectual love, angry at the forgetfulness of hurt that erases events but not their sting.
Then I became a Mom..
It took me a [...]
Being Small has its privileges
To stop the music press stop/pause.
This is a beautiful song about the seasons of life. Being a parent now makes me acutely aware of how Time strips away at all of life. Whether you do the right things or not. So the only thing I can do is to keep a [...]
Father And Son Speak
At 2 months and 10 days, Lucien can’t say many words and clearly he can’t yet converse. But we’ve found that he likes to engage in baby babble and some nights, when he’s not sleeping and he isn’t allowing us to anyway, talking with Lucien can be very gratifying as we find him excitably imitating [...]
Lucien…heralding your arrival
8th Nov : Sunday 11pm
Spent the evening watching MSN Videos under Tab called “Stupid Videos”.  Laughed heartily at seriously some of the darn stupidest videos ever. Evil Baby Laughter, Dogs doing the Skateboard, etc.
Maybe it’s me, I am 8 months pregnant and this is a serious source of entertainment for me. But it does nothing [...]
The Creation of HmmBao
Thank you for making me a doll! You. Made. Me. A. Doll!!!
Eternally one of those things I could never do, because I have fingers that cannot create. Â
I love HmmBao. I love that you made it, and each stitch is you painstakingly putting together pieces of nothing into something special. And HmmBao has that perennial look [...]
Birthday Bests
You Win Already Lor.
This is the first time anyone’s done this. In the way only you can orchestrate!
Thank you for hiding in my room and cramping in there with the kids and the dogs. For actually picking out the limpy rabbit that I had just groped the very afternoon before the sales person had to [...]
Workplace Forces
Ever so often, we find ourselves witness to a situation when a person reacts, in a professional context, with their private persona. The kind that’s driven by a sense of protective survivalism (usually activated when they think they’re under attack) and which comes out in its most unmediated, unevolved, rash, unthinking, and needless to say, unattractive manner.
On the other spectrum, the well-oiled professional worth his/her salt [...]
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