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I recently found out that a young couple from church has just been landed with heartbreaking news. The husband was recently diagnosed with fourth stage cancer, and the wife is now 6 months pregnant with their first child. Church friends who read this,…  

I think only Ruach would appreciate the title of this post. Been getting lots done. Managed to find a sofa within a day, and took delivery of it within a week: The living room looks much more homely now that we have something to…  

Han and I will be away for the weekend to celebrate my grandfather’s birthday in Penang. Leaving at the crack of dawn tomorrow. Tired out from a long day at work but I am looking forward to the drive north. …  

It’s my latest fad. I don’t know how long it’ll last. In the past few days I’ve been devouring a new book I bought (on the company’s account)—Lisa Graham’s “Basics of Design—Layout and Typography for Beginners” to help me get…  

My mom came by my office about an hour ago to deliver a thermos full of home-cooked pork and oyster porridge with pumpkin. And muffins. And a bunch of grapes. Both baby and I are enjoying the food immensely. How not to, when…  

While waiting for one of Han’s company’s clients to debate over the semantics for a presentation the day before an important launch event (while at the venue itself), I took some snaps:  

Come end of March I’ll be a parent. For real. Playing the role of someone to be looked up to. I can’t pretend that I’m not frightened of that prospect. I remember how I used to think of my parents when I was…  

A healthy, camera-shy, restless one. The full ultrasound scan showed that we have a perfectly normal baby boy at this stage. But, as Dr Wong put it, ‘a bit on the scrawny side’ (I guess I should be eating even more from…  

I’ve got my dad to thank for this one: You can’t leave footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time? - Original source, unknown. …  

Deciding what gift to get fathers is always such a hair-pulling task. What in the world would, or could you possibly get for a man who already has pretty much every material thing he could want? My father-in-law’s birthday dinner’s tonight, and up…