Mervyn Hoe: My Daily Happenings

As parents, reading books to your children is important. Choosing what type of books to read for them is even more important. Fairy tale stories. We are encouraged from young that Ladybird stories are suitable for the children to read. We have bought a set of Ladybird stories for them to read. Some are educational, however some seemed educational but they aren't. Definitely those educational ones are like 1. Three Little Pigs This story teaches the children about sibling love, and they should not let strangers into the house. The pigs helped each other in bad times too! There's a few variations to this story. Some books depict the first two pigs being eaten, others ran to the second house. 2. The Red Little Hen This depicts story of a hen preparing bread from growing wheat, harvesting the wheat, making into flour and moulding into a bread. The fellow lazy friends didn't help at all, and just said 'Yes' when the hen asked for help to eat the bread. Of course the hen ...

Well, recently, I have registered for myself Straits Times Interactive and I find it very useful tool for my domain knowledge as well as to know what's going on in the world, the REAL world. Not the online social media world. Last time Honestly, I was not an avid reader. I loathe reading newspapers when I was young. I would usually browse through the headlines or merely read the first few paragraphs, or look at the images. What attracts me in the newspaper reading was TV synopses and comics. Didn't learn much from it. I will just look at the sudoku and some available puzzles, if any, to do if I chanced by them in newspapers. I can still remember that I only need to be serious in reading newspapers when my school required me to do newspaper article reviews or projects. Other than that, I won't bother to read them. And that will result in myself digging through the piles of newspapers at home. I have no idea why but I just find reading newspapers very tiring and...