I am a mum
For Mother’s Day, I decided to celebrate by writing. I have written only sporadically for the past few years, mainly because the past few years of mothering have been difficult...
Happy birthday to Me
When I went to my table this morning, this sight greeted me. It was a birthday present from Elias. There is a personal message behind that. He wrote “Thank you...
TCS : MAD Race and Flag Day 2015
This month we participated in two Touch Community Services (TCS) events. The first was on 10 Oct 15 – the MAD Race which was to raise awareness for Depression. We walked...
Half (about) of the family at East Timor
The house is very quiet. The two noisy ones in our family are away as part of a Mission team to East Timor. They flew off on Saturday, and that...
Broken so I can be made whole
I now have two teenagers. What’s most interesting about having teenagers (besides their changing voice….) is the sudden advancement of their intellectual prowess. We often discuss politics and history with...
Thank you, for the primary school years
I now have two boys in Secondary school. Wow. It is unbelievable. Where did the primary school years go? I suppose they just went day by day, from one spelling to...
The Great Cop-out
Last July I wrote about the Direct School Admission (DSA). This year I am going to write about it again! I have another PSLE scholar this year and I am doing...
Thank you Elias, for making me a performer
I have a Grade 8 certificate in piano. But I stopped playing the piano after I got married, because I had left the piano back at my mother’s place. When...
So this is how it all begins
It has been three days without Elias. This is not the first time he has been away from the family. He has gone for school and church camps previously, but...
This is your path – walk in it
While catching up on my blogging, I pulled up this song “路要自己走” (You have to walk this path on your own). (The lyrics, English and Chinese, are at the bottom...
Tomorrow’s another big day
I love the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes”. I started reading it before I became a mother. I think that reading it prepared me somewhat for my being a mother...
谢谢你，对不起。Thank you, and Sorry.
This is written, in appreciation for, and as a tribute to Chinese teachers. Yet this story has a sad ending. I really appreciate the children’s Chinese teachers. It is not...
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