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Coping, with Success
Up until I was 35, I wanted to be successful, too. Or at least, I was taught to want it.
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Please Stop Teaching Us How to Raise Successful Children
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…
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Life After Suicide: How to Live with a Permanently Broken Heart
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.
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Kidzania: Understanding the Mania
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…
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[Sponsored and IRAS-Approved] If Your Mother Was Trained at Kai Garden
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.
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We’ve Got Work-Life Balance All Wrong
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…
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Dear Friends of Media Friends
An open letter to PR and marketing execs looking to engage The Blogfather for promotional activities.
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[Invitation + Giveaway] LEGO Star Wars Days: Combining Stress Management with a Nerdgasm
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.
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The Significance of Not Dreaming
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.
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Bringing bloggers to hell – and everyone else, too
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.