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Ten Years of Us: A Love Letter
The Blogfather and the Mother of Xander and Yvie celebrate 10 years together—13 if you count the dating years, but that'd be a different anniversary date altogether.
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On Busted Knee
I busted my knee last week while skateboarding to work. I can imagine this statement to be pretty normal coming out of a 20+ year old hipster living in a Western urban setting. But this is Singapore, I’m a 36-year-old diabetic with a blood pressure problem, and a father of two. I have received opinion from various corners of society that either this is a ridiculous idea, or I’m just having another one of my mid-life crisis moments. Particularly with my recent injury, I’ve been met with a very helpful “You see lah! You see lah!” both at work and at home. But, as I explained to the Mother of…
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Getting Older
Dear Xander, You’ve always been a lot closer to your mother than to me. It is a perfectly reasonable bias, admittedly; she is much more better-looking than I am, for one. And she does treat you better than I do on most occasions. I do envy your mother sometimes for the attention she receives from you. Perhaps it is because we spend so much time together, that I can’t help but use her as the superior parenting benchmark and wonder where I went wrong. One evening when I was giving you a shower, you taught me where I went wrong. I was just recovering from a gruelling bike training session…
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An Unexpected Note
I received this in my email last week. It's part of an invitation to a blogger's food tasting session, but its introduction was just too sweet to ignore.
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Mornings
These mornings are getting fewer, because you're growing up. You might not realise it, but I cherish every single one of these mornings with you. Every. Single. One.
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Dear Dad – a Daddy Matters Father’s Day Special
For Father's Day, the Daddy Matters Group posted a writing challenge for us to imagine what our kids might really say to us if they were to write a letter to their father. I thought it more fitting to have the letter written here instead of The Blogfather, though I will admit it does veer away somewhat from my usual letters to Xander. Anyway, this is what I imagine Xander might say.
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TimSam
TimSam landed on your godma's car one afternoon, and someone thought it would be a good idea to catch the big guy, put it in a plastic box, and give it to your mother to bring home to you. I disagreed. But by then it was already en route to our home.
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[Wordless Wednesday] Zero to Ten – A Family Event
Your mother made us do it.
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Being Good
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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Nothing and Everything
"You are nothing?!" she cried. "What, so you're going to let that (censored; she was referring to my ex-employer) that means almost nothing in your life dictate your worth? Then what about us? What do you think you are as your son's father? As my husband?"