It Is The Best Time Of The Year!
This is the e-card we sent out to our business partners, associates and friends. Indeed, a new year is on the horizon. This is the time of the year when we all take a break from our routines and celebrate with our friends and families. …
Celebrating The Reflection Of The Full Moon
In China and throughout many Asian countries, Chinese people celebrate the Harvest Moon on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Lunar calendar. The date in the Western calendar changes annually. This year, it falls on Monday, September 12, which is today. The …
Coming To Terms With The Chinese Seventh Month
For the longest time, I have harboured very guarded feelings towards the Chinese seventh month, bordering on fear when I was a child, and dread as an adult. Growing up in a Chinese household, my childhood and teenage years were filled with images and stories …
Capturing Some Precious Moments
My mother was laughing when she made her birthday wish. She was happily surprised my eldest sister and brother-in-law rushed back from Perth in time to celebrate her birthday. Almost everyone was present. Her children, grand children and great grand child. I put a call …
The Best Moments Of 2010
It’s the day before New Year’s Eve. 2010 is coming to an end. It has been a challenging and rewarding year. If 2010 was a personal movie, what were my best moments this year? March – July. Setting up and securing funding for Homerun Asia …
White House, White Christmas
Today is the third day of Christmas. This year, the theme of my Christmas decoration is white, with black and silver. This colour scheme is integral to how I have re-decorated my house recently. It has been an unusually cold and white Christmas in many …
Mother’s Day
Some of us have a love hate relationship with our mothers. A constant struggle to keep the peace. I am lucky. I have made peace. Now I count everyday I have with her as a blessing. My mother is frail. Sometimes I feel she is …
The World Changed. I Changed.
The opening decade of the 21st century draws to a close. In a few hours it will be midnight and 2010 is here! At the turn of the millennium, the Y2K bug fear turned out to be a non event, even a let down, as …
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