Examinations are over and holidays are around the corner. This is when the mad rush for holiday courses, meet the cartoon characters at the mall, special trips to the Science Centre gets planned out. God forbid, one of them should mouth the words,”Mum! I am bored!”. Over the years, I have developed a list of [...]
I started the post with the title “10 Things I Hate About Me”, an inspiration to a reality show on BBC Lifestyle Channel, “What I Hate About Me”. Then I thought to myself, there is really too much negativity in the world, why add to it? Thus, I am going to write about 10 things [...]
When I first started work, I only had a pager. For those of you who remember, these are small gadgets that one could call with the phone number that you want the owner to call back on. Often, my dear husband (at that time my dear boyfriend) and I would send each other codes like [...]
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This is Part 1 of a 3 part series on tips and tricks of managing family finances. With a growing family of 6, it is prudent that my dear husband and I are careful with all our resources. Of course the root of all our resources is really money. So, if we manage our money [...]
Okay the deed is done. I have finally moved my family of 6 with 10 years worth of stuff. In the midst of closing a million dollar deal at work. It took more than a month to plan, pack, move and unpack. I was also crazy enough to move a week before Chinese New Year. [...]
It is all about choices, isn’t it? Life is made up of choices that we all have to make. To marry or not, to marry this person or that, to have kids or not, to have 2 kids or 4, to work or stay home, to trust or not, to love or not – these [...]
“Said Aristotle unto Plato, ‘Have another sweet potato?’ Said Plato unto Aristotle, ‘Thank you, I prefer the bottle.’” Owen Wister (1860-1938) American novelist I am with Aristotle on that one. The best food in life is the food that has the least messing around. No insecticides, no preservatives, no additional processing, no over seasoning. Cooking for [...]
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If you read my last post, you will see that I listed out the ways that I found work for me as a working mother – Juggling Work and Family. What I did not explain was why I wrote my last post. Although it was a challenge from dear husband to list the ways I [...]
“How do you manage?” I get asked that question a lot. My cheeky answer is always,”I don’t. I struggle.” While that gets lots of laughs and knowing grins, working mothers do REALLY want to know how to manage better. After much trial and error, I finally have a method to all the madness, juggling a [...]
Okay, last day of the year…last ditch effort to fulfill 2009 resolutions. Time to also make the 2010 ones. Two days ago, I initiated a family resolutions making session. Everyone in the family who can understand the concept was asked to come up with activities that we can do as a family. I tried this [...]
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