One of my goals last year was to learn cooking. After all, it felt odd to claim I'm a stay-at-home dad (SAHD) these past eight years, yet I don't cook. As much as I dislike stereotypes, as far as the roles of a stay home parent goes (cleaning, grocery shopping, parenting, and all things domestic), … Continue reading How A Morning Spent Cooking Was For Me More Company & Creativity Than Culinary
Sighhh....Decline in marriages year-on-year. Decline in the number of newborn babies year-on-year. It's not exactly news. We've been down this road before. So why did the latest announcements on the continued decline in my nation's number of new marriages and babies still sting? With So Few Babies, An Extinction-Level Event Awaits! Photo by RDNE Stock … Continue reading Time To Figure Out How To Live In A World With Fewer Marriages & Babies
As morbid as the topic is -- worse that I'm expounding on it this first week of the Lunar New Year when feastings and celebrations are going on everywhere -- Death (and the reminder of its eventuality) seems to be something I couldn't avoid this season. One Death After Another Photo by cottonbro studio on … Continue reading Death In The Time Of Lunar New Year
Other than Trump, the other annoying phenomenon that's talked about ad nauseam in the world these days is, of course, AI. Sadly, I too have been guilty of indulging it, devoting at least one blog post on AI in 2023 and again in 2024. And today, another post. I take comfort that, at the very … Continue reading My Nation’s AI Jolly Will One Day Be Its Biggest Folly
For a long time now, I've been mulling over this topic. That stay home dads are "invisible". Or rather, I didn't know I was mulling over it until an incident last month. Non-Stop Invisible Errands Are Par For The Cause Photo by Ondosan Sinaga on Pexels.com It was six am on the first Tuesday of … Continue reading Hard Truth: The Works of Stay Home Dads Are “Invisible”
The following post first appeared here on Christmas Day 2025. It chronicles my "Delights Project" over the past two years and how this simple personal project helped me learned to slow down, appreciate, savour and re-live small and unexpected delightful moments of my life. When I posted it on my Facebook shortly after Christmas, I … Continue reading My Delights Project: Two Years On And Counting!
I've been waiting a long time to write this post. Finally, the moment has arrived, and I can't wait to voice out my joy! After many seasons of watching my all-time favourite singing competition on TV -- The Voice -- I finally encountered a singer whom I knew, the instant he opened his mouth to … Continue reading Discovering Beauty #1: “The Voice” Sharpened My Instincts For Beauty
Two days ago, I returned to my alma mater (where I completed my postgraduate studies 11 years ago) for a podcast recording. But I was not there to be on either ends of the mike. Instead, I was there to observe and support the interviewees I had recommended to the podcast producers. Having been in … Continue reading Reliving My Past At A Recent Podcast
The 17th-century English clergyman and historian Thomas Fuller once said He that plants trees loves others besides himself. I'm no garden enthusiast nor do I believe I have green fingers. Nor can it be said I always love others besides myself. But I would like to believe my wife and I are spreading some love … Continue reading Self Care — With Indoor Plants And A Slow Juicer
Famous author and Oxford University Professor CS Lewis once remarked: Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, โWhat! You too? I thought I was the only one.' I'm guessing, though I'm sure it's not a stretch, that he must also have had community in mind when he said that. I … Continue reading Sharing The Power Of Community Building & Beholding
