Of Kids and Education

During the Rio Olympics, one of the sports we followed closely was, of course, badminton, since Andre is a badminton player. The epic match ...

This post is a testimony on Lesley-Anne's scholarship journey. Some of you may recall that I blogged about how Lesley-Anne would only go...

Ah, Singapore. Sometimes, we love it, other times, the claustrophobia living in this tight 719 km² of space makes us want to run (swim? fly?...

Yesterday, The New Paper ran a story about how some NUS orientation camps have become increasingly sexualised . Some of the activities the k...

Finally, after much anticipation, MOE has released the new grading system for PSLE , to start in 2021 (meaning that those in p1 this year wi...

Lesley-Anne will be starting university come end July, so naturally, the conversations over these past few months tended to include universi...

There's now a national effort made to promote reading and I must say, it comes as a very nice surprise. For far too long, the focus at h...

Recently, a friend of Lesley-Anne's asked her how many books she has written. She did a count and said (much to her own surprise), ...

Reading has been in the news a lot lately. In March, Straits Times reported that an NAC survey showed only 44% of Singaporeans had read a bo...

My mother passed away when I was 18. I write this as a matter-of-fact, without any self-pity because the truth is that we never shared a clo...