A House That Cleans Itself

Recently I came across the best Housekeeping book I have ever read – The House That Cleans Itself (HTCI) by Mindy Starns Clark. Mindy wrote it for the “housekeeping impaired”,...

23rd Apr 2014

Broken so I can be made whole

I now have two teenagers. What’s most interesting about having teenagers (besides their changing voice….) is the sudden advancement of their intellectual prowess. We often discuss politics and history with...

24th May 2013

This is your path – walk in it

While catching up on my blogging, I pulled up this song “路要自己走” (You have to walk this path on your own). (The lyrics, English and Chinese, are at the bottom...

26th Apr 2013

Tomorrow’s another big day

I love the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes”. I started reading it before I became a mother. I think that reading it prepared me somewhat for my being a mother...

07th Mar 2013

Literature, Art, Life

There have been discussions about the demise of Literature in school recently.  How sad. Literature was my favourite subject in school.  Perhaps that is why I enjoy writing.  I enjoy extracting...

10th Apr 2012

Live and leave without regrets

I always worry about losing my children, physically.  Each time I read about sudden deaths of children, I would wonder about the purpose of their short existence on earth.  My...

10th Apr 2012

Top five regrets of the dying

From theguardian (1 Feb 2012) There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the...

12th Mar 2012

"Can you hear it?" (Do you see it?)

Elkan and Elias do not get to go to the library very often nowadays.  So when I go to the library, I would search for books related to their areas...

09th Feb 2012

Sharing beauty

I love borrowing Chinese story books.  This is because many of them are award-winning books with beautiful illustrations, touching story lines and excellent in teaching basic virtues.  These books were...

04th Dec 2011

Son of Hamas

I just finished reading the book “Son of Hamas”.  It was a New York Times Bestseller, written by Mosab Hassan Yousef, who is the son of Hassan Yousef, one of...

04th Dec 2011

Soul Food

Introduction Someone once said this : “In five years time, you will be the same person, except for the people you meet and the books you read”.  As a student...