Category: Living
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Grandmother’s Tales
My paternal grandmother passed away 13 years ago at the age of 100. I was blessed to have spent a fair bit of my childhood in her company, where she’d regale me with fabulous tales of China, my grandfather whom I never met, of how my father was when he was a child like me,…
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Fool For A Cigarette
I keep saying that people don’t make a big enough deal about how much of an addiction smoking really is. Calling it a “habit” is really understating it, unless you were talking about a heroin “habit” or a cocaine “habit”. And while I’m sure there are people who’ve used weaning methods like nicotine gums, patches…
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Work Life Balance
When it comes to work-life balance, I’m all for skewing it towards family. Even if I have to bring work on holiday and squeeze it in whenever there’s a time, I’ll do it. But I also understand that there are situations, very sadly, where people who want to spend more time with their family are…
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What Kind Of Life Do You Want?
Vacations are usually the times when you compare how small and expensive Singapore is, and how life is so, so much better on idyllic locales such as the one I’m spending time with my family at right now. Instead of griping about how lousy Singapore is, however, I think it’s high time we thought of…
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Who Wants Tickets To Retrolicious 2012?
Retrolicious, the concert featuring star acts from way back will be on again on 6 October 2012 at Fort Canning. Tickets are already selling out fast. If you want a part of the action, simply name a hit song from each of the acts featured, and you’ll stand a chance to win a pair of…