The Power of the Tongue
When I was young, I didn’t do well academically. In my mid-twenties, my late grandmother, whom I love dearly, once lamented to me in Hokkien, “I don’t understand, why are you not ‘kiang’ (which...
Monthly Archive: March 2018
Our Beef with the Sacred Cow
Lately, there has been a lot of buzz regarding revamping our education system and high-stakes exams like the PSLE. However, I feel that a lot of the arguments address only the tip of the iceberg...
Learning to Fail
Many years ago, a friend had signed me up to join him in an Aikido class. I didn’t last very long. However, I discovered something profound on day one. The very first lesson was...
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