Health and Fitness

Don’t get me wrong, I am not looking down on home-cooked food.

(Why should I? I am one who highly promotes it.)

I think the effort of parents preparing food at home is commendable.

It’s a lot of work and thinking and trying and making mistakes.

There are many reasons why parents cook at home.

One of them is to save money.

Secondly, it might be health reason.

I am more of the latter.

But wait… [Read more…]

It sounds like Chinese kung fu but it has nothing to do with martial arts.

It’s less glamorous than that.

Flying Mosquito Disease (飞蚊症) is the Chinese colloquial term for eye floaters.

Last Tuesday, I noticed there are exceptionally more flying objects in front of my eyes.

I thought they were mosquitoes or flies. Upon closer look, they are not. [Read more…]

Think we know more than babies?

Think again.

A reader shared with me an interesting experiment she and her friends did when they weaned their babies.

I admit I don’t know about this when J and K were young (I wish I did as it must be interesting). And it’s called baby-led weaning. [Read more…]

I have to get something off my chest today.

I know I have mentioned this many times before. But I still want to do it.

One friend found it hard to contain her excitement as she managed to buy milk formula at a deep discount. She probably bought more than 10 tins.

She was happy on two counts: the savings and the formula she bought was one of the “best” brands available on the market.

It’s good for her 6-year old daughter. And she has got the ticket to health… or so she thinks. [Read more…]

Being a stay-at-home dad has a lot of thinking to do.

No. Not that type of thinking. It’s not about how to hit sales target. Nor is it about using blackhat techniques and NLP to close a deal.

But questions revolve around what to feed the family.

I admit packing a lunchbox can be a bit of a chore.

I always come to a mental gridlock when figuring out what I want to let J to bring to school for snack. [Read more…]