Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
No this isn’t an entry about the well-known “Mr. Wang” from blogsphere. Rather, Mr. Wang is a key fictional character in the subject I’m teaching this semester: Software Engineering. Now how does Mr. Wang fit into this subject? Well, for
One of the most interesting exchanges that occurred just several days ago in The Straits Times was that age old argument about why (some) Singaporean men are going offshore and bringing back foreign brides. Yep, the debate shows up every
Ling can be quite fun to be around, if only because she’s (what I jokingly call) highly “teasable”. Yesterday evening we were driving back home from work for the Wednesday Hari Raya Puasa public holiday. I was having a craving
Yang has acquired some of my preferences for food after we have been married for about 22 months. *victory sign* :P That means we have more things in common and can enjoy the same things together. When we started going
One of the strange things I’ve never quite understood is our love for musicals. Yep I’m referring to the popular and widely-performed musicals by current composers like Claude-Michel Schönberg and Andrew Lloyd Webber, of which Les Misérables and The Phantom
One of the most delightful comedies I remembered watching as a school boy was Mind Your Language, a British comedy series about a class of foreign nationals learning English. The cast included the late Barry Evans who starred as the
Ling has been rewatching the Planet Earth blu-ray set I bought her for Valentine’s Day several months ago. The series is still amazing even though this is repeated viewing. Thing is, the natural world isn’t all so hunky dory sunshine
Reverend Philip Lim was speaking on Giving during the 7:30 am service last Sunday, and he made a funny at the start of the sermon. It’s the kind of joke that sticks in your mind. My memory’s a little fuzzy
There’s a heartwarming video that’s been echoing throughout the web and making the rounds for a week now. It’s worth a watch and about two Aussies, a lion, and a year in between them. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U It’s times like these you’d
Visitors to our blog may have noticed that in the last couple of weeks, a widget on the right hand side has been displaying pictures. Yep, we’ve mirrored all of our pictures from the old photo album site to Flickr.
The following video is a short segment from the Dr. Phil show, an American talk-show that features the titular fellow, a clinical psychologist, talking to troubled families, kids and marriages through their difficulties. This segment is about an especially, well,
Since I was writing recollections of my extra-curricular activities the week before last, here’s another entry on debating at NTU. The Australasians tournament in Melbourne ’95 was an eye-opener, and from that point till 2000 I got involved training polytechnic,
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