For the longest time I have been resistant to the idea of financial investing aside from addressing the basic life insurance needs of my family and I. Reasons include servicing long-time accumulated debts and managing the daily expenses that usually left me with barely anything to save at the end of the month let alone…
November 2020 – January 2021 Art Projects Update.
This was supposed to be part of the previous post but it ended up longer than intended, so I split it up. I mentioned back in November that there were a few projects I had been working on. The first was the 2-hour digital illustration workshop scheduled in mid December. While the workshop proceeded as…
Keep Blogging? The Benefits of Writing.
I missed out on posting last December and laboured on whether to continue updating this website with my thoughts and artwork. I had come up with all the reasons why I lapsed, started typing them out explaining myself then realized that instead of questioning my lack of action (for the umpteenth time), I just have…
Invitations: Health Study & Digital Illustration Workshop.
At the end of last month, I was invited to sign up for a technology-enabled population health study by the Health Promotion Board. By accepting, I was expected to commit over a period of 2 years. What really appealed to me was that the study will be able to help me track my physical activity,…
Goodbye Little Shophouse. A Couple of Singapore Pioneers.
When I was much younger, my older brother and I used to help out at my late grandfather’s bookstore on 134 Arab Street during school holidays. I would get items from the shelves for customers and eventually graduated to wrapping books and manning the cash register. Often I would stare enviously at the expensive stationery…
EETC Keynote. Jog-Walk. Air-Fried Eggs.
I had a relatively busy but immensely enjoyable week! First, I was honoured to have been given the opportunity to give a short keynote on “Assessing Learning in Real Time (A.L.E.R.T.)” at the morning segment of the Singapore Polytechnic Excellence in Education and Teaching Convention (EETC) 2020 on Thursday. This year the convention was conducted…
Small Steps. Set Goals.
Two weeks into September and this is my first post for the month. If I upload another post by the 30th it would be a bi-monthly streak since I resumed blogging in August. Not too bad, considering. Goal #1: Weekly updates in October. I have been learning so much about myself and my roles in…
BuJo, ELC and Reading Books
As you can see, I have started on my bullet journal (BuJo) but the whole process still took a long time to move forward. I was fortunate that it was coming to the end of August when I decided to embark on this adventure so I had the opportunity not only to lay out a…
Habits, Organizing and the Bullet Journal
I realize that habit is a very strong component in organizing someone’s life. I really enjoyed the book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and thought that there were some valid ideas brought up that can effectively improve my life if I get around to implementing them. The suggestion to be mindful of my…
The Plan! (aka Let’s Try This Again, Shall We?)
It’s been more than 3 years since I updated this blog. I kept coming back to this site and cringed at how neglected it was. Then I tell myself I’ll work on it soon, and the days go by, and I keep paying the annual fees to maintain it without doing anything about it. Until…