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I am trying my best to read the solid postings as it is. Don’t want to be distracted

Erm not proud of admitting this, but on days when I am exhausted and exasperated with the kids, this is what I typically say:

Happiness Journal 30/10/25

After getting 20+ students to finish an online lesson on the water cycle, I felt inspired to come up with my own comprehension cloze on the interesting aspects of air. Yup, the pivotal thing to our survival but is non-salient in our minds because it kinda fades in the background.

Gonna get my fifth graders to attempt my literary masterpiece the first thing tomorrow lesson. Quite looking forward to seeing if they have learnt anything from this year-end exam extravaganza.

In other news, I got so engrossed in watching Physical:Asia that I gave up my usual 15 mins of lie-in. Gonna pay for it dearly tonight because my depleted energy tank is gonna run even lower looking after two kids, but it is also strangely exhilarating finding a TV show that I liked so much that I threw caution to the wind!

Ohhh talk about reframing haha. Let me have a serious thought and write something for you.

In what ways is parenting a gateway to freedom?

I didn’t know your trip to Ecuador was so momentous! Hope you won’t be apart from your wife and princess any time soon.

My wife is Japanese, so I stay with my parents-in-law for one month in Japan every year. Agreed totally worth it. And food is cheap n good in the land of the rising sun hahaha

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Happiness Journal 29/10/25

Sneaked off work today to have a late lunch with a friend at Yishun Park Hawker Centre. Spontaneously decided to take a stroll at the nearby park after that and discovered that it was linked to SAFRA Yishun, which was somewhat within walking distance from my home! In a decade of living in Yishun, I have never realised that.

Many a time, we need something to shove our routine aside in order to make new discoveries. Realising that I could walk to Yishun Park Hawker Centre instead of relying on bus services is nothing to shout about in the grand scheme of things. Nonetheless, it differentiated today from other run-of-the-mill days, so for that, I’m walking to pick up my kids with a spring in my step and a smile on my face.

Would you be interested to read about the most liberating period of my life?

I don’t think parenthood qualifies as freedom muahaha

So do you find yourself dialing down the E aspect quite a bit?

Sounds like you can only let your hair down when you are with your tribe and create a conducive headspace for brainwaves to strike you

This excitable ENFP reports for discussion. And boy, am I excited. Don’t let me overwhelm you.

So many questions racing through my mind:

Oh nice question!

An incorrigible ENfFP whose fun-loving and novelty-seeking nature leads me to seek adventure anytime, be it singlehood, married life or fatherhood.

I know my one sentence is convoluted but dang it, I’m a complicated creature

Thanks for tagging me, and I’m glad my humble musing resonated with you n apparently stuck. (Note to self: check in with the friend whom I based my post on!)

I think it’s awesome that you have made yourself more antifragile with your other two avenues of income. Job security is a myth these days n I think just knowing how to earn money elsewhere bolsters confidence in a way that job success and prestige just cannot replicate.

As we move into our 40-50s, we may find ourselves thinking more about legacy. Seems like your Stacker News project could be a way to do that

共勉之

Always fun to read with ur sexy humour

Happiness Journal 28/10/25

These past two weeks, I have been consistently and gotten my son to read 《援助之手》 aloud. Thanks to my strategic use of spaced repetition, he is now able to read words like 特别, 玩具, 玩耍 without missing a beat.

Although I know very well that he is utilizing his muscle memory and won’t be able to recognise these characters in another book, I am still happy. Forcing my third-culture kid to utter some Chinese words is like pulling teeth, so anything that gives me the illusion of progress is a win for me.

只能阿Q地鼓励自己，铁棒磨成针。

I await your next receipt roast with the 7000 sats profit

Is this the Ishimura incident that you were referring to?