I’ve always thought that only celebrities have anger management issues, especially when they are being hounded by paparazzi. For me, I’ve been taught that anger is negative, wrong, and to be avoided at all cost. I tend to deny, rationalize, and internalize anger. My view of anger took a sharp turn after reading The Artist’s …
Married to a Zumba instructor
What is life like being married to a licensed Zumba® instructor? It depends on how often she teaches per week. Jennifer, my wife, has been teaching Zumba twice a week. So, I get to Zumba every week, twice in fact. Zumba is a dancercise that fuses aerobics and Latin dancing steps. It is a global …
Being Mortal
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a book I wish I had 5 years ago. My mother died of pneumonia in 2012 after a long and debilitating bout with dementia and dependent living in a care home. Ann, a friend of mine in her eighties, introduced me to the Being Mortal …
On my way to becoming a polyglot
Music is a divine gift. So is language. My mother tongue, Chinese, is a gift from my mother. There is no denying of that. I was very blessed that I acquired a second language, English. It took me almost 2 decades before my English was elevated to the same level of proficiency as my Chinese. …
Table in the Wilderness
Wilderness is a place of barrenness – devoid of even the bare necessities of life. There is neither water nor food, and most importantly, no companionship. No sane person volunteers to spend time in the wilderness. The poor soul who wanders into wilderness is often stripped of things that are dearest and most important to …