It’s World Cup season and I’m tired – not because I have been staying up till 4am to catch matches, but because life has been kicking my butt. Life right now is the constant screams of “BRYAN!!!!” at home because girls and dog sometimes don’t get along, my mobile beeping and ringing off the hook, my work email pinging in new messages seconds after I manage to clear the backlog, and my poor abandoned cross-stitch project staring at me balefully from atop the piano. There is not enough time to breathe. K and I always visit the topic of whether it’s better for women to have their babies earlier or later. I belong to the former category of mothers – …
Work
Meet “Ambu”.
“Ambu” is the perfect patient. He doesn’t talk much, he lies still, AND he’s got six-pack abs, oh yeah. He has an electrifying personality and can be yours for US$3,900.
A week passes.
Just like that, I’ve survived my first week at my new workplace. I’m still breathing, still alive, but quite imperceptibly, the need to re-prioritise my life has crept up on me. I suppose it’s the realisation that soon, when I no longer have my predecessor to fall back on for information, advice or a firewall, I will have less time and a narrower bandwidth for all the other things that are going but which are equally important. Like the kids, who are really trying of late, what with the incessant bickering and undesirable behaviour that makes you want to laugh even as you know you should be furious. The other day, Alison left a bowl of fried rice laden with …
Closing a chapter.
I’m feeling reflective tonight. Tomorrow is my last day of work at HPB. It seems a day ago that I sat in front of my boss and her right-hand woman, being interviewed for a position I felt I was not really qualified for. Yet my boss appears to have seen something worthwhile in me, because she offered me a job the very next day. I still remember when I got the call from HR. Alison and I were hanging out at the Science Centre, in a special exhibition featuring cartoons by Otto Fong, and I was so elated after that I could hardly pay attention to Alison’s chattering. My boss told me this evening as we were having a chat that …
Filming commencement ceremony for “Ge Ai” (“Love Cuts”)
I attended the filming commencement ceremony for “Ge Ai” this morning. To quote from my media Q&A, the film revolves around a 40-year-old mother of two’s struggle with breast cancer. It portrays the challenges she faces as a result of her diagnosis, and how she goes through them with dignity and courage, inspiring those around her. Zoe Tay plays the lead, and Hong Kong actor Kenny Ho plays her husband (I had to Google him although he certainly expected everyone to know who he was when he showed up). Anyway, their kids are played by Edwin Goh from “Fighting Spiders” and Regene Lim from Kelvin Tong’s new movie “Kidnappers”. Model/actress Christy Yow has a supporting role as a model at the peak of her …
