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  • Eating,  Playing

    [Media Event] The Delifrance Mother’s Day Event – Mothers Not Invited

    April 30, 2013 /

    There are 3 days in every year that the Blogfather will always dread the most: his wedding anniversary, his wife’s birthday, Mother’s Day, Christmas and Chinese New Year. We have our reasons for the fear, too. The husbands will have a tendency to forget dates or worse, face scheduling conflicts. And if you do happen to remember and ensure the special day is free from other commitments, there’s the issue of the present, and even I need help in that area most of the time. My son and I were invited to take part in a Mother’s Day clay-making session hosted by D?lifrance, which I took as a much-appreciated respite…

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  • Being Singaporean,  Bitching

    In Danger of Silencing the Voices that Care

    April 24, 2013 /

    Admittedly, listening happens to be the difficult part; as a dad, I do regularly fail in this respect whenever my wife and I have a spat. But fatherhood has also taught me, if you expect to change mindsets for people to accept what you're doing, you need to change your own mindset in order to know what you're doing.

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  • Bitching,  Self

    When a Barber Laughs Mid-shear

    April 20, 2013 /

    Sometimes, you have to place your trust in the hands of someone you’ve never met. Most times, things turn out all right. On rare occasions, however, that trust is grossly misplaced. But it’s how you handle times like this that truly show the person you are. I had a gut feeling that something might go wrong when I walked into my neighbourhood barber shop and was directed to a seat right at the end, a seat I have never sat on during past visits, and manned by a guy that has never cut my hair. As he started prepping me, I gave my usual instructions. “High slope, sides and back.”…

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  • Dear Xander,  Playing

    [Wordless Wednesday] Zero to Ten – A Family Event

    April 17, 2013 /

    Your mother made us do it.

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  • Playing,  Self

    [Wordless Wednesday] Zero to Ten

    April 16, 2013 /

    So the wife made a pact to post up a series of Instagram poses, inspired by a YouTube spoof by the very funny people of JinnyBoyTV created, and promised her motherbloggin' girlfriends that I'd join the linky party as well.

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  • Being Singaporean,  Family and Parenting

    [PV Series] The First Assignment

    April 15, 2013 /

    To recap from my previous parent volunteer (PV) series post, I received an e-mail from a parent support group (PSG) committee member asking if I could fill in for a PV to attend a Primary 1 afternoon school outing. The excursion would be, er, excursed, the following Monday – just 2 days from the date the email was sent. Turns out another PV pulled out at the last minutes and they had trouble finding a replacement at such short notice. I responded to say I was available, and was told to report at the school to a certain class at 1pm. When I arrived, I was expecting some sort of…

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  • Self,  Work

    The Non-Working Adult

    April 13, 2013 /

    We were visited by a door-to-door charity spokesperson last Saturday. My son stood next to me at our half-opened flat door with me in my sleeping clothes as the guy on the other side immediately raised his house solicitation card and his other hand in defense, blurting out as his first words of greeting, “Don’t worry, sir. I am not trying to sell you anything.” Thanks to my rather well-documented dealings with various telemarketers and over-enthusiastic salespeople, I instinctively knew I was gonna have fun with this one. In the middle of his well-rehearsed introduction, he said this: “… we’re encouraging working adults to go for health screening and also…

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  • Dear Xander

    Being Good

    April 10, 2013 /

    Dear Xander, I was speaking to a few dads in a sitdown meeting when the topic of our children’s future came up. It was a complicated and heavy discussion, delving into such sub-topics such as our local government policies, its emphasis on meritocracy, and ultimately the need for our children to work on their academic lives even harder than any child has ever done in the history of our country, just so we can compete on level ground in what is currently a country growing a majority of foreigners who are equally, if not more, driven, talented and less materialistic. As the “impassioned” discussion wore on, I studied each father…

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  • Being Singaporean,  Family and Parenting

    [The Parent Volunteer Series] Beginnings

    April 8, 2013 /

    Back in the tail end of October, my wife pressed me into applying for a parent volunteer (PV) programme at a rather reputable school near our home. I was planning to make a living out of working at home at the time, and thought it might actually be a good experience to document here. Yes, we also wanted to try and jump queue for our son. But given the debate over whether PVism actually does put your child in a better position to enter the school at the end of the day, The Blogfather will reserve comment… that is, until he finds out in the second half of 2014. I…

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  • Blogging,  Everything Else

    The SMBM – Wow, What an April Fool’s Joke

    April 2, 2013 /

    Yes, the Singapore Man Bloggers Group is an April Fool's Joke. Some of you will have caught the very subtle discrepancies from yesterday's spoof post, but I really do hope we've kept you guessing.

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