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20 May 2020
by Joel Chng - Comments

#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 - Comments

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…

30 September 2019
by Flora Isabelle - Comments

Finances and marriage – and trying to make them work

This month’s theme for our blog posts touches on Finance and well, it got me thinking. You see, in the past 6 years that we have been married (and 14 years of knowing each other), we have been through several financial situations: There were early days when the…

25 June 2019
by Joel Chng - 5 Comments

Dads are just as important

Bringing home the bacon and being present. Those, to me, are my two main responsibilities as Ezra’s dad. Being Present In this day and age of connectivity and multitasking, being present and fully engaged in my child’s life is an everyday decision that requires conscious…

24 April 2019
by E-van and Terry - Comments

Babymoon Trip to Hong Kong!

We decided to go on a short holiday to Hong Kong to visit an art exhibition called Art Basel, enjoy the good food and also to visit some relatives residing there. We didn’t plan for the trip to be a babymoon vacation until everyone around us started bringing…

13 December 2018
by Nicholas Quek - Comments

How to stay sane during a family trip