One of my biggest gripes, as almost anyone who’s worked closely with me knows, is the lack of a standard way to share knowledge on a platform that is accessible to the people who need it. It should be shared in a way that strikes a balance between having enough details without losing the gist …
After various server and blog problems this year, including haggling with an increasingly disengaged web host which I will no longer recommend, I (too hastily) deleted the WordPress blog I had set up and re-imported my old Movable Type archives. So I’ve lost some posts between 2014-2017. No biggie there. Hope this works and stays …
After largely ignoring my blogs for much of the past few years, I realised that my web server was upgraded to the point that my outdated blog software doesn’t run properly on it anymore. After using Movable Type for so many years, and bearing with the complexities of upgrading to newer versions, I have decided …
Much has happened since my last post. I’ve given up trying to write the perfect update that would reflect the activities during the several months’ hiatus from blogging. In short, I’m now the mother of a precocious 5 month old boy who is just as active outside the womb as he was inside it. Life …
I’ve come to learn that babies like to change positions while inside the womb. And sometimes, they simply like staying where they are. For the past few days, my baby has been happily lying horizontally across my tummy, with his head on my left and his feet on my right. I can tell because the …
So I’m now 4.5 months pregnant and my yet-to-be-named baby (whom I shall refer to as ‘Baby’ with a capital B) seems to have a mind of his own. How so? Let me count the ways… This Sunday morning at mass, the priest asked all fathers to stand up so he could say a special …
It was delightful to receive emails from a few of you who read my blog posts recently. Thanks for your well wishes. It is all the more a relief to me as I wondered if anyone still reads blog posts – it is so much more convenient these days to log into Facebook and view …
I’m writing this past the stroke of midnight. Looking back, a lot has happened in the past year. I got engaged. We looked for a new home. Last November, we got married. We renovated our new home this March and moved in, a month later. Looking forward, I’m still on the right side of 30 …
Soon after blogging about [Border’s closure in Singapore](http://vantan.org/archives/2011/09/a_life_without_borders.php), we were hit with news that another popular bookstore, Page One, [was exiting the Singapore market](http://sg.news.yahoo.com/end-of-chapter-for-page-one-bookstore.html). Another crying shame, even more because Page One was a homegrown company that seemed to have found its own niche with its design-oriented collection of books and related products. I visited …
This Christmas, three of my friends encountered very different life-changing experiences. First, just before Christmas Day, I was elated to hear that a close friend of mine was going to become a mother. My longstanding prayers for blessings have become that of thanksgiving, and now I can only ask for the pregnancy to be uneventful, …