Nature
Nature is a perfect playground.
Now that travel is considered unsafe, our family holiday is mostly built on the raw beauty of countryside. That might not necessarily be an once-in-a-lifetime adventure, but the terrains of the New Territories boasts surprisingly diverse array of natural scenery.
We picked a rugged and treacherous mountain trail hidden among the foliage near Pak Tam Chung this Sunday. The hike was challenging, with both figuratively and literally hands-on moments for our family. As we wound our way down the
Steps
Put simply, we are spending more and more time in couch,
Forest
For this school year, nothing is more challenging than the socially distanced class.
With the new set of ground rules in classrooms, school is no longer what it used to be. The good news is that we have found an extraordinary secondary school for my daughter. When I received the notice of out-of-class learning from her school early this week, I didn't think twice before clicking the reply link.
That's a canyoning experience (yes, into the canyon!), with challenges provided
Ball
There are few tricks as strategic as "learned incompetence", by which a husband (mostly) is trying to escape sharing the work or chores.
I suppose that a small confession is in order before I go on. That’s me. I'm among one of those husbands.
School is back. If you want to know my contribution to preparing my daughter's new school term, I shall talk to you privately. If you're still curious about how much I help my daughter's
Bookshelf
A coronavirus-laden world has changes far greater than any event in living memory. Everything is shuffled. Many become uncertain. Quite a lot have turned topsy-turvy. Simple as it should be, breathing becomes uneasy.
What matters to surviving the pandemic, whether as grow-ups or as children, is best explained by Dostoevsky who believes that human is a creature who can get used to anything.
One trick lies in the fact that we can look at more than one side, and at least at the positive
Hogwarts
Few things are more rewarding than preparing and seeing our daughter enter the secondary school.
There was so much excitement when Jasmine received her own student Chromebook laptop. The first time she opened the personal laptop, she was riveted by the idea that it has a touch screen. She is feeling like Harry Potter after receiving his first broomstick.
Oh yes, we’ve been reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone . This had to be why, when my wife was tidying up the study for Jasmine, I felt