It appears that my posts are coming now at quarterly or less frequent intervals. That is partly due to my waning interest in blogging on a regular basis as there are other outlets for me in my career to engage in writing articles related to work activities. For instance, I publish an in-house newsletter in my organisation sharing about my team’s activities. At the same time, one’s interests and hobbies evolve with each phase of life. I am now coming more into parenthood starting to deal with expectations and pressures of “keeping up with the Lims, Muthus and Alis” in the academic rat-race now that my daughter is in Primary One. I can see now how parents are stressed from our education system which loads our children a lot early in their lives. On a positive note, I am travelling a bit more since last year as I managed to weave ......