Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Amidst interviewing work that just started a fortnight ago for the fourty-something players and developers I’m speaking to again in my study, I’d been watching the events in the Athens Olympics. While the two channels often broadcast events that were
I received a particularly happy bit of news two days ago; a paper I’d co-written had been accepted for a conference that will be hosted at the National University of Singapore in June this year. Even then, although this isn’t
I saw a horrific image on the television today – a scared boy surrounded by soldiers, many of them equally nervous, pointing guns at him. This boy was wearing a coat, and underneath it, wrapped around him was 8 kilograms
As absurd as this may sound to other Singaporeans, one of the things I miss about home is the “noise” of life, as I like to call it. Now, just two decades ago, barely 3 million people inhabited the island
Curtin University has a health and counseling services department situated in a nice building just opposite the library, and I was there last week to see if I should be worried about a skin problem that had been bugging me
Today is the last day I’ll be spending in Singapore for a long while; as several friends and my colleagues know, I’ll be leaving for Perth tomorrow morning to do the remaining 3-4 years of my Ph.D program on campus
I’ve always been fairly convinced that I’m awful with kids; until I’ve had the opportunity to baby sit my 2.5 year old nephew, Jieyu. At all of this very precocious age, he’s already showing all the signs of a major
The students in my lecture groups will notice that I bring a pint-sized notebook – a Toshiba Portégé 3480 – to school, although aside from the smaller Software Engineering lecture groups on Thursday and Friday afternoon , it doesn’t ever
It’s just after midnight on Friday evening; I was- as usual- mulling over many things whilst having my evening jog an hour ago, such that after I ran back home, I decided to put down some of these thoughts in
Near my work place in the town area, I have a friend, Grace, that I know a while ago from Salmon Run, who helps out in a cafe started by some folks at Wesley. We mostly lost touch after I
Here’s a wonderful story a church friend, Ann, sent recently to me. It touched me a great deal on how much deeper our faith needs to be. Sometimes the complexities of life we experienced as adults make us forget that
I believe very much in simple truths, and my early knowledge in God really stemmed from two such truths. Essentially, I grew up in a non-Christian family, my parents being atheistic in fact. However, even though both my parents were
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