It is often said that good children come from good parents. While this adage does bear some truth to it, I sometimes do wonder where does good parenting then come from? There has to be a source for a cause to take effect. Something has got to move something else. While some can argue that good parenting can come from the parent’s own experience from childhood, be it good or bad, I do think that...
Yes, I am very much alive and I have been keeping busy over the last few weeks. Work has started piling up as I try to manage a couple of young analysts and navigate through another change programme. This time around the scope is much bigger and I am finding myself pushing tin almost every day. It is tiring at times but I do try to keep the positivity going and just move on as much as I can. I...
In the last post, I mentioned rather audaciously that I would need to focus more on reading, reflecting and writing (3Rs of some vague sorts) but alas that has failed. In fact, I failed so badly I didn’t even do one entry during the month of December in which I usually write a reflection piece during Christmas. This time around, there’s nothing! Actually, that’s not really true...
[NOTE : This is a backdated post which I never got to upload] Making the sign of the cross is a big step in any catholic’s life, including young baptized babies. It symbolically marks the child’s journey into entering into prayer and being in the presence of God. It’s a visible representation that God is in the person’s life and that the communication channel to the spiritual realm has been...
Recently I bought a book entitled “50 Philosophy Classics at a bargain price. Despite being able to acquire this book (in e-format) from the local library, I decided to go ahead and purchase it as I have always been intrigued by philosophy and I reckoned I could use this book for my “daily night read” before retiring for the night. What a refreshing source of insight that the book has been. From...