One of the biggest struggles I had when I was in school was mastering Mandarin. Let me rephrase that, it was learning Mandarin. I need to be very careful here, as I’ve had sticks and stones thrown at me for being so lousy at the language and forgetting my Chinese roots and being a total…
History is best learnt when you experience it first-hand. But it’s really not possible to travel back in time and re-live history. The next best way to learn history is to be part of the re-enactment of history! This is why museums around the world take great effort to build and create exhibition spaces that…
Many of you know the big FOUR is approaching for me this year. While I’m excited and primed for all my wishlist and bucket list, reality does hit. Physically, there are bodily changes that are simply out of my control. Let’s see, there’s wrinkles, white hair, hair fall, lower metabolic rate, body aches etc. Some…
When I was growing up, I had friends who really loved children. I mean we were in our teens, and they would love playing with kids from Children’s Church, or the neighbour’s baby, or do baby talk with the stranger’s child in the lift. They would squeal in delight and say “so cute!” or repeat…
I’ve not traveled the world. But I’ve seen how life is like in the most democratic nations, had a glimpse of that in the most repressed ones. At the end of the day, I still wanna come home to Singapore. The fact that I can put on my jogging shoes late in the night and…
What does one expect at a Japanese BBQ ala carte buffet? Lots of beef/pork to barbecue, a salad bar, and portions of Japanese sashimi and sushi, and possibly some green tea to wash that all down. So when we headed to Tenkaichi Japanese BBQ Restaurant, we thought it would be just that. The kids were excited…
Laughter is one of the best medicine around, and sometimes, we need our kids to laugh more. Not the tickle and laugh type, but the genuine happy response to something they experience. And it’s for this reason that Red Nose Theater brought in Award-winning comedian from USA, Kenny Ahern to perform. Kenny is a very lovable…
