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Now that I’m back at work after my short break, one of the things I will miss is my morning cycling ritual.

L-A’s school is quite near home and within range of my limited cycling abilities, so every school day morning, I would strap her into her little seat and we’ll then enjoy a short bicycle ride to her school.

Guess these moments will be one of those memories I will recall fondly later in life. Wonder if she will remember as well?

Just because you’re talking to someone with an “ang moh” accent does not mean that you need to be cowed by him. After all, he might be nothing more than a petty thief…

Conmen seem to be taking this tact where they believe their accent is able to convince people into buying questionable investment products. I have already received 2 calls this year where they attempted to get me to invest in some “hot new thing”, but when I refused then they attempted some pressure tactic by throwing in some legalese and threatening to replay a previously recorded conversation to entrap me. Two times they tried this, two times I responded with an effective tactic: hanging up the phone.

Just remember one thing whenever you are approached by anyone to invest in something with your hard-earned money: if it is really such a hot, new thing, why do they need to hard-sell it to this extent?

In an accidental social experiment with a sample size of 1, I have concluded that children have an innate fear of cockroaches.

This morning, when L-A stepped out of my bedroom, she chanced upon one sluggish cockroach crawling along the hallway and she gave a hearty shout and scream and came running to me. She then proclaimed repeatedly, “Daddy bao bao! L-A scared!”

After the roach was exterminated, Esh and I were bemused. I would have thought that children would have no fear of anything encountered for the first time and maybe would have even picked it up to play with it (or even taste it!) Looks like there is either an instinctual fear or some subconscious social conditioning took place.