My childhood was filled with fun and laughter with my cousins, ie my parents’ siblings’ children. I can’t say the same for my nephews and nieces, who at best have distant cousins, ie parents’ cousins’ children. We all know we don’t exactly hang out with distant cousins. I wonder how my nephews and nieces will […]
MoreI guess my dance instructor is who he is because he has difficulties forgetting his dance routines and sequences from gazillion years before. It’s a talent which he, not to be taken for granted, actively pursued. With talent, with awareness, with interest, with pursuit and of course with time (since he’s old already :P), he […]
MoreMitt Romney’s campaign puts it oh so good: “This President puts his faith in the government. We put our faith in the American people.” I kapo it and use it in Singapore context: “The PAP puts its faith in the government. I put my faith in the Singaporean people.”
More“没兴趣” was the reason the lamenting uncle told me his son does not want to continue his serious money making jewellery business based in Lucky Plaza. I highly doubt it a matter of “兴趣”. The uncles and I agree that “读太多书” is more likely the reason. It is the latent indoctrinating effects of over-schooling. The […]
MoreSchool gets in the way of children learning how to trade and engage in commerce. It simply takes up too much time towards the useless end of grades. Read also: “Jeweller’s son giving up business to be teacher“
MoreI have belts orders to fulfill and I start by searching for suitablr leather: Phew. Really heavy. Look at all those leather! I need to cut strips of belts so I use the cutting machine: Now we need holes for the belts so we use the hole punching machine: Here comes the holes and the […]
MoreIf I don’t make a fuss over my grandparents who will? My maternal grandpa is a normal man. A great man simply because he’s my grandpa. He came from 海南岛 and settled in Singapore. When I was a kid, he always asked whether I wanted to follow him to the airport where he relishes the […]
MoreWhat used to be a matter of survivability, living a full life and living for myself is increasingly becoming corrupted by “competition”. No KC, don’t blame it on your friends and distractions all around. Your business lifestyle already allows you choices that most others can’t exercise. Slow down KC. Stay focussed and enjoy a simple […]
MoreIn our current merit system, many kids who have specific talents as reflected by exceptional grades in a subject or two, are unable to enter university to pursue that field because their overall grades fail to meet entry requirements. This system that is already in place must stay because some kids do perform their best […]
MoreMy grandpa was an industrialist, albeit a small one. As such, I hung out at my factory with all its workers just as Robin Williams did as a kid in his dad’s shoe factory, in the 1995 film Jumanji. I’m sorry if you’re too young to have watched the movie hahas but it was a […]
MorePut someone else at my factory with my dad. Having two close friends whose dads passed away due to heart attack, it ain’t good leaving my dad at the factory all by himself.
MoreAnd I say it only to my mum and dad. It reminds myself to be humble.
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