21
August
2020
by Joel Chng
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Daddy…Where Are You?
Singapore’s 13th general election (GE) was held last month. For me, the 2015 GE and recently concluded 2020 GE have both been significant in my fatherhood journey. Not the elections per se, but the events that happened during these elections. In 2015, I drove Petrina…
20
May
2020
by Joel Chng
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#HBL Can Be Fun With COOK·PLAY·JAM (Repeat)
Last year, my mother-in-law bought a book for Ezra titled ‘Amanda the Panda: Outdoor Play Keeps Myopia Away’. A book for preschoolers by the Singapore National Eye Centre about preventing myopia. The colourful book with rhyming words effectively taught Ezra the dangers of spending too…
30
October
2019
by Joel Chng
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Save Your Child’s Eyes!
Last November, news broke that the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) was launching a new centre due to an urgent need to counter myopia, and the statistics shocked me. It has been a year yet I clearly remember the numbers: 20% of children in Singapore…
29
August
2019
by Joel Chng
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On Repeat: Our home, Our Heart, Our Singapore
“Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh… Our home, our heart, our Singapore.” The catchy tune from this year’s National Day Parade (NDP) theme song has been in my head for more than a month – thanks to my son, Ezra. When I first heard Ezra singing ‘Our Singapore’ back in…
1
June
2018
by Nicholas Quek
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Singapore Rojak
I am glad that we have many racial groups in Singapore that have given rise to the beautiful ‘rojak’ of cultures and cuisines that we see today. For me, interacting with people of different cultures has never really been a part of my life. In…
2
May
2018
by Joel Chng
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Father-Son Bonding: Pizza-making!
Two years ago when my son Ezra started to crawl, he often ventured into the kitchen – both at home and at his grandparents’ house. Soon he became stronger and would open cupboards and drawers to access cooking utensils. Back then, his favourite thing to…