Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
One more month for Hannah to the big ‘One’.:) Major developmental activities: she’s been getting much better at pronouncing ‘daddy’! Still loves kiwi fruit: Her first baby tooth has also become more visible too.:) And she just got her first
Anime is a big thing here for many people in Singapore, and of them, there is a subset of young people who get dressed up in the costumes of well-known Japanese anime and film characters in events. It’s a sort
I just realized that the blog is now well past the 1000 posts mark, and – going by the first post date of March 1999 – is now 11 years old. The posts in the first 6 years or so
Continued from the last post. The two leads are supported by a cast of lesser-known actors but who over the years grow to fit their characters so well that many of them will for a long time to come be
Continued from the last post. Stylistically, the series often doesn’t feel very futuristic. In too many sci-fiction series, problems typically get resolved through very fantastic and sci-fi ways. BSG doesn’t rely on technological mumbo jumbo as cop-outs. Instead, the series
While I’ve blogged briefly about the Battlestar Galactica series in a couple of posts here, I haven’t done an extended series of posts on the recently-ended TV series yet. Time magazine has described the series as “a gripping sci-fi allegory
Brothers (2009) – on rental. Besides the box of Battlestar Galactica – The Complete Series blu-ray discs that I picked up over the weekend, a couple of other films also arrived on rental. One was Gamer, the violent virtual world
Weekends are fast becoming our much-looked forward to opportunities to load up on photographic and video recordings of Hannah growing up.:) Ling has been able to get Hannah to clap her hands on occasion. One trick we’ve discovered to keep
Hannah reached a bit of a developmental milestone yesterday. We discovered that she’s started teething – finally! The time period in which teething begins is normally about 6 months onwards; it’s relatively late in Hannah’s case then since she’ll be
Back in early 2003 I was in the starting stages of my doctoral degree program and still figuring out the areas I could get into, one work I read was on video game addiction. The short paper by a Canadian
I’m usually up at about 5:15 AM every morning so that I have more time for my morning routine activities before I wake Ling up just after 6 AM. Hannah gets woken up at about 6:25 AM for a diaper
Many of the news regarding home helpers in Singapore these days aren’t flattering. On too many occasions, they’ve been on misdemeanors either on the part of the home helpers, or of their employers abusing their helpers. So, when the below
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