Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
We’re all so familiar with the term ‘relief teacher’. Relief teacher = Someone who is hired by a school to temporarily baby-sit the classes taught by a teacher who’s on course, NS reservice, sick leave, maternal/paternal leave, study leave, childcare
As beautiful as Ayara Hilltops was, we didn’t spend the four days cooped up in our rooms. I’d handled the travel, flight and resort arrangements with Tradewinds, while Ling was going to plan the itinerary for our stay. We’d already
The both of us returned to Singapore pretty close to midnight on the 17th from Phuket, pretty exhausted and deadbeat, but strangely still exhilarated from the incredible 4 day stay at the Ayara Hilltops. The boutique resort is located at
We’re writing this still at the Ayara Hilltops at Phuket – Surin beach. Day 3 was spent quite out of the island where we were on a day long chartered boat trip around the islands in the Phang Nga bay.
There was a poem on people we meet and sometimes you only get to meet them once in your lifetime. I didn’t think much of it until Matt left us this morning. He has very much become a part of
Honestly, we just didn’t know where we went wrong. After spending 25 days with us, our Ang mo friend Matt left Singapore weighing slightly less than he’d first arrived! Mind you, this is after stuffing him with the below items
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,
While digging through my 11+ year old CDROMs looking for old debating pictures, I ran into other pictures that were taken during my student days. Here’s one from 1994. This isn’t too visible from the picture, but I kept my
I’m beginning to think I’m the harbinger of catastrophe. Here in Singapore, accidents of all measure occur in my vicinity while I’m off in one direction or another. During my November, 2006 stay in Singapore I witnessed several traffic accidents,
I wrote this entry several weeks ago to post up when I’m too busy to write current entries. So here it goes.:) A student blogger on the other blog I write for was noting how quickly time has passed in
I was having a fun MSN conversation with a colleague several months ago, and it started off when I saw she had marvelous wallpaper on her notebook. Me: “Wow – Star Wars: Clone Wars wallpaper!!!” Friend: “nice anot… i compose
Along the hike up to the Treetop Walk near Bukit Timah, I smelled a distinct fragrance in the air. “What is that smell?” I asked. I just couldn’t place it, but it was familiar. Could it be lavender? No. Or
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