My Indonesian domestic maid really wants us to visit South Korea. Well, Korea is not a bad choice, but we kept thinking until recently.

The downside with Korea is that my maid's boyfriend works there as an illegal citizen. She'd love to go there and meet her sweetheart - but she can't get the visa without our company.

We finally agreed to go. That made my maid happy. This isn't to say that going to Korea doesn't take any kind of courage

I'm not a great fan of performance indicator, particularly those key performance index in our hospital setting. It's really about a quality metric that is worse than useless.

It is often the case that hospitals struggle to get a better score to prove their quality. But the score might tell otherwise. The performance score runs lower and lower, unlike the hospital team's anxiety that swelled and swelled with each passing day. So eager we're to fulfill the quest of performance index that we strive for

I received a phone call from my daughter's kindergarten yesterday morning. That's her school picnic day. If you're worried that the call was to announce the cancellation of picnic, don't worry - the weather was perfect. The call was all about my daughter's lunch box.

"Hi Jasmine's daddy. Auntie Elsa didn't give Jasmine back the lunch box yesterday when the school bus came. The lunch box is with us, and Miss Rebecca will bring you the lunch

If I had to choose one teacher my daughter couldn't do without, it would be my wife. None of that is to say that her kindergarten teachers aren't terrific. They are.

What I don't say, what I should say, is that I'm far below my wife's teaching skill.

Let me tell you the story of my debut into teaching my daughter's writing. Anyone familiar with teaching kids to write English alphabets will know what I mean. Permit me to

It was the first Saturday morning after my return from an overseas conference. There's no denying that it takes a bit of time to adjust ourselves to the working mode after a holiday. But I did it. I went back to the hospital and my routines.

Saturday routines have been many things to many people: a morning to sleep in and have brunch, a holiday to recover after long working hours, and tutorial time for students. According to my Saturday routines, I first pick up a topic to read

My annual leave keeps accumulating. So it came as little surprise that almost two months after my daughter's new school year, I haven't had chance to pick her up after school. A year ago, she wasn't ready to attend school on her own and I've lost count of the number of times she cried at the kindergarten's door. But that was then. Now that Jasmine, more than three years old, is carrying the backpack and lunch box all by herself.

I

Never heard of "TL;DR"? Then you're obviously older than 30. If you've learned English since young and you're having problem with new words, it just might be because of your age.

The list of new entries in the Oxford Dictionaries Online has been expanding faster than the waist size at your belly. Look at those slangs and shorthands that come with digital communication. See how they make communication easier - or not.

I've just read from the Washington Post that

You'd think that clinic consultation is private matter, because we assume that no one is overhearing the conversation between doctor and patient in a consultation room. Think again.

Not long ago, I read an inspirational article about privacy in Time magazine. Though the article mentions how children of a certain age think closing their eyes will make them invisible, it remains uncertain whether grown-ups are any smarter. Or perhaps there's not much difference. We've been all fooled by the illusion of privacy.

The

Promotion , in general, gives a lot of good feelings. Everyone seems to be talking about job promotion in my workplace. It is fine to look for promotion - it's just that by mistake, some of them thought that I'm keen to get a consultant post in another hospital.