• About

Words of Winston

  • About
  • About

No Widgets found in the Sidebar Alt!

  • Being Singaporean,  Bitching,  Self

    Coping, with Success

    November 7, 2016 /

    Up until I was 35, I wanted to be successful, too. Or at least, I was taught to want it.

    read more
    Winston 2 Comments

    You May Also Like

    How Much Does Your Personal Information Cost?

    October 3, 2012

    Life After Suicide: How to Live with a Permanently Broken Heart

    October 26, 2016

    Please Stop Teaching Us How to Raise Successful Children

    November 1, 2016
  • Being Singaporean,  Family and Parenting

    Please Stop Teaching Us How to Raise Successful Children

    November 1, 2016 /

    This is an appeal to any person, group or organisation that plans parenting talks, seminars, workshops, forums and conferences. Since I’ve started blogging as a parent, I’ve received invitations to attend (and a couple of times, sit in the panel of) quite a few of these parenting events. It wasn’t until recently that the messages some of these events organisers are using to market their events started to concern me. Back in 2012, I attended a half-day seminar called “Raising a Successful Child”. The content served isn’t nearly as overbearing as their promotional copy makes them out to be. In fact, one talk I attended actually used case studies of so-called…

    read more
    Winston 1 Comment

    You May Also Like

    It’s “Stroller”, Jeremy

    August 7, 2014

    Review: Dads for Life Conference 2012

    May 13, 2012

    That’s Not How You Make a Better World, Kid

    February 6, 2017
  • Being Singaporean,  Family and Parenting

    Life After Suicide: How to Live with a Permanently Broken Heart

    October 26, 2016 /

    As progressive a nation as we have become in the last 50 years, our failure to accept failure also happens to be our biggest failure. And no, I'm not just talking about parents.

    read more
    Winston 2 Comments

    You May Also Like

    The Big PSLE Freakout

    November 28, 2016

    Your Job – The Ultimate Contraceptive

    September 25, 2012

    Three Books, The Book and Barbra Streisand

    July 11, 2014
  • Being Singaporean,  Bitching,  Playing

    Kidzania: Understanding the Mania

    June 16, 2016 /

    The week before, I took a day off to bring everyone to Kidzania Singapore to see if we could get tickets, but we arrived at Beach Station at 2pm, and seasoned parents of Kidzanians will point at us and mock us in utter noobery of not knowing that we can’t just get walk-in tickets into Kidzania Singapore in the middle of the afternoon during the school hols. So early this week, I took another day off, and The Wife, Xan and I verbally committed ourselves night before to wake up at 7am and get to Sentosa by 9am (Yvie just wakes up whenever the hell she wants, so we didn’t…

    read more
    Winston 1 Comment

    You May Also Like

    Much Ado About St Patrick’s Day

    March 16, 2015

    That Little Racist in All of Us

    October 10, 2012

    The Bully and the Bullied

    December 10, 2012
  • Blogging,  Eating

    [Sponsored and IRAS-Approved] If Your Mother Was Trained at Kai Garden

    March 18, 2016 /

    I was determined to both get my opinions about the IRAS debacle aired, and going to a sponsored food review at a high-brow Chinese restaurant. Kind of ironic, but let's see how this works.

    read more
    Winston 3 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Blogging Under the Influence

    January 7, 2015

    Bringing bloggers to hell – and everyone else, too

    March 25, 2015

    Introducing the Singapore Man Bloggers Group

    April 1, 2013
  • Work

    We’ve Got Work-Life Balance All Wrong

    July 20, 2015 /

    You may have caught me on TV fumbling for the first half hour of the panel discussion on work-life balance on Talking Point a couple weeks ago. If you did, I apologise for fumbling for the first half hour. If you haven’t, it’s here: Again, sorry. But the Blogfather had his reprieve when a caller decided to complain about her colleague’s misuse of childcare leave (and I took on the latter half of the show rather swimmingly). I was told the disdain showed in my reaction, and my point was also made clear: childcare leave isn’t just for when your child falls sick and no one else is there to…

    read more
    Winston 0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Making the Blogfather: Turning Point

    September 29, 2014

    Taking Leave, The Blogfather Way

    February 15, 2014

    A Day in the Life of a Working Active Father

    March 19, 2014
  • Blogging

    Dear Friends of Media Friends

    June 29, 2015 /

    An open letter to PR and marketing execs looking to engage The Blogfather for promotional activities.

    read more
    Winston 1 Comment

    You May Also Like

    Bringing bloggers to hell – and everyone else, too

    March 25, 2015

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

    April 2, 2013

    The Price of (Parent) Blogging

    May 27, 2014
  • Playing

    [Invitation + Giveaway] LEGO Star Wars Days: Combining Stress Management with a Nerdgasm

    May 21, 2015 /

    Determined to end the emotional roller coaster ride of the last six months, I decided to look up an old friend that might give me an opportunity to cheer us up with some actual roller coaster rides.

    read more
    Winston 67 Comments

    You May Also Like

    How To Survive a Full Day at LEGOLAND Malaysia

    December 7, 2012

    [Review] CitiBlocs: Building Blocks with Unexpected Precision

    January 2, 2013

    SG50 – Finding the Way Forward, Like an Awkward Teen

    September 18, 2014
  • Family and Parenting,  Self

    The Significance of Not Dreaming

    April 27, 2015 /

    I first decided to write this thinking it would help answer the question about the dreams with my dad and my apparent lack of participation in them (like I can bloody control these things, pffft). But as I finish this second last sentence, I realise I needed to write this for myself and my siblings more than anyone else.

    read more
    Winston 2 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Eulogy

    December 7, 2014

    Every School a Good School – But Which One is Best?

    July 23, 2014

    A Lesson in Parenting – by 3 Furbies

    August 21, 2013
  • Bitching,  Blogging

    Bringing bloggers to hell – and everyone else, too

    March 25, 2015 /

    Trying to come up with a set of "ethical guidelines for paid bloggers" is a rather myopic, narrow-minded, and quite honestly, stifling approach to a much larger problem.

    read more
    Winston 0 Comments

    You May Also Like

    [Review] Marsiling’s Automated Tray Return System

    February 12, 2018

    My Kid May Turn Out Gay… So?

    October 1, 2012

    Parents vs the Singapore Education System

    January 4, 2013
 Older Posts
Newer Posts 

Recent Posts

  • The Business of Christmas
  • Finding Freedom from Fatherhood
  • The Silence of the Dads
  • [Review] Marsiling’s Automated Tray Return System
  • Dear Madam President

Recent Comments

  • Alief Kusumaningtyas on The Business of Christmas
  • Glenda on The Business of Christmas
  • sara on That’s Not How You Make a Better World, Kid
  • Gdy2shoez on The Silence of the Dads
  • The Silence of the Dads – Words of Winston on Fight Night

Archives

  • November 2018
  • February 2018
  • September 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • June 2016
  • March 2016
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • February 2010
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008

Categories

  • Being Singaporean
  • Bitching
  • Blogging
  • Dear Xander
  • Eating
  • Everything Else
  • Family and Parenting
  • Playing
  • Self
  • Shopping
  • Uncategorized
  • Work

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Ashe Theme by WP Royal.