How My Parents Did It

Raising the kids, that is. Looking back, I must say that it was nothing short of amazing. Here's an entry dedicated to Mum and Dad. Excerpt:

When I was young, my mum was a full-time domestic engineer. (Ok, that really means housewife) But the one thing that I remember most vividly then was her sitting at a corner of the kitchen of our old 3-room flat in Clementi, (the kitchen was huge then, you could do a lot of things there.) clipping away wires that were jutting out of electronic chips which she would later solder with a electric soldering iron. Sometimes, she would be seated at the same place, with a device that looks like a giant exercise wheel. There, she would wrap insulating tape round and round the device till the roll of tape is used up. Then, she would use a 10 cent pocket knife (the kind that flips out from a metal sheath) and make a quick motion through the gaps, cutting the tape into 5cm strips in the process.

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