Helping Parents Succeed
As I grow older, I like to remove things from my life instead of accumulating them.
Cooking included.
I try to make it as simple as possible. To make me look good, I’ll call it simplicity cooking.
But in actual fact, I am just being plain lazy:
I just want to cook up a healthy meal in the shortest time possible.
Especially lunch on school days.
While I was trying to do so, I broke some of the pre-conceived notions. [Read more…]
If you pay attention, you’d have noticed I haven’t been writing lately.
If you suspect I am lazy, you’re partially right.
Another excuse I give myself is I don’t know what to write. A writer’s curse: running out of topics.
Another side of the story is we went to my hometown over the last weekend. I usually don’t have time to write when I am back home with my folks and brothers and in-laws. I rather spend time catching up and hunting for food.
Don’t get me wrong. I am NOT writing to tell you WHY I am not writing. [Read more…]
I don’t do it for recognition.
I don’t do it for awards.
I don’t do it for approvals.
I don’t do it for a statue after I die.
I do it because that is the RIGHT thing to do – things that my unpretentious self wants to do. [Read more…]
In the past two weeks or so, there’s a reshuffle of swimming classes.
J and K used to be in the same group. But not anymore.
K has a new instructor and new students.
J has a temporary instructor and also new swimmates.
Both of them had a jolt from their usual happy-go-lucky style of training.
This is especially true for J. J’s temp instructor is strict and is a no-nonsense teacher – who is very different from J’s last instructor – who is more laid back.
Hence, what J had to do is more challenging and sometimes she has to deal with some styles that she has never done before. [Read more…]
A parent told his party-going child, “Have fun at the party.”
The father continued, “But remember to behave yourself.”
The child was confused, “How am I going to have fun if I behave myself?”
The child got a point. The parent was speechless… [Read more…]