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LookBack 2011: Family

December 24, 2011 – 1:01 pm

Well in 2011, we did not see any new addition to the family and probably not from now on. Personally, I feel 3 is enough because its challenging to divide ourselves into 3 to spend quality time with all of them given our busy schedules.

In 2011, we focused on Ethan’s and Ezanne’s academic developments. Ezanne started attending childcare, at the same centre which Ethan is attending and over the past 9 months, we’ve seen the improvements that Ezanne has made. Ezanne now talks more and is more active and sociable. For Ethan, we started to put him on full day childcare on selected days. The idea was to prepare him for his Primary 1. Well you will say that its still early days but I thought, we can start preparing him progressively.

In addition to his childcare, we also started to bring Ethan for enrichment class and started with one on Saturdays. He is coping well now and we are seeing results.

As for Evan, he is now beginning to learn how to walk. He can converse with us in baby languages that we understand. I’m looking forward to his milestones in 2012.

I do hope that I can continue to spend more time to bond with the children and ensure that they have a memorable childhood.

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LookBack 2011: Online

December 11, 2011 – 12:25 am

2011 is the year which I continued to further establish the brand name of myself as a blogger. In 2011, I realised that I had found a direction in blogging and probably finally found out the category that I’m in, Daddy Blogger. Blogging had given me many opportunities to experience on new things. It not just benefitted only me but my children too. I’ll like to thank the organizations and companies who had believed in me and invited me time and again to their activities. I hope you will not forget me in 2012 and remember, I’ll always be waiting for your invites.

Other than blogging, I’ve been quite involved in engaging the community through the use of social media. I’ve met many people and had a better understanding from them on what they actually look out for in the community. I’ve given a formal presentation on the use of social media in the community and had numerous sharing sessions. We learn a new thing everyday and I’m still learning and discovering new things from the experts too.

2011 had definitely been one of the most eventful year for me in my online expedition.

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LookBack 2011: Community

December 3, 2011 – 1:06 am

In 2011, I’ve started to spend more time with the community. Every week, I’ll get to speak to many people, understand their living conditions and try to facilitate and improve their surroundings. It might not be something that is significant, but I thought, a small request that we have put through will help to change or improve their lives a little in one way or another. I’m beginning to adapt to my new lifestyle, not yet really public but one that everyone looked upon to solutions.

I’ve started to attend many events and received quite a number of invitations. Through the various events, I’ve got to know more people. In some events, I got to meet people who were less fortunate and begin to start cherish what I have with me, its not something that we should take it for granted but something that we should cherish. As a Chinese saying goes, “Good things doesn’t last forever”.

I’ve met up with people young and old and to me, the greatest achievement is not about what I’ve achieved personally, but the smiles and satisfaction that I see on their face. We look after the young, to nurture them for our future. We look after the old, to appreciate their hard work and things that we are enjoying it.

As I take on more responsibilities to look after my community, I hope one day, the people around me will not just give me a smile on their face but tell me what they are really proud of of their community.

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The last entry for 2010

December 31, 2010 – 9:39 pm

The time has come to bid farewell to 2010 and to welcome a brand new year, 2011. I shall not repeat what I’ve said but just say that it will be a year of anticipation. I love this picture I’ve taken and it just explains the feeling in me for the road ahead.

If I’ve to conclude 2010 with 1 word, it will be ENRICHING! What’s yours?

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LookBack 2010: Its all about ME

December 29, 2010 – 9:31 pm

Started 2010 with lot of anticipation as I was expecting quite a few stuff happening which will either directly or indirectly affect me. I challenged myself and cycled 32km, kayak 13km and trek for more than 40km. The result, a slimmer and more determine me. In 2011, I’m determine to continue with some of the physical activities that I’ve been doing and challenged myself even more.

There were ups and downs and 2010 ends with the greatest gift I get for Christmas and Birthday, the birth of Evan. Being a young dad is not easy especially when I’ve got to juggle between family, work, studies and community projects and to handle questions such as why I want children at such young age. All I want to say is that I enjoy what I’m doing now and I love to live in a big family environment.

Just before 2010 ends, I will say that I manage to do things that I’ve thought of doing previously and is quite satisfied with how things has happened.

I hope 2011 will be a better year and to celebrate this final entry of LookBack 2010, I’ve did a small video of myself to document the beautiful moments of my life.

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LookBack 2010: My online presence

December 15, 2010 – 10:11 pm

2010 is the year my online presence and somehow and somewhat improved. After more than 2 years of wait, I finally got the domain www.patrickpang.com on 1 May 2010. In the same month itself, I managed to change my Twitter username to http://twitter.com/patrickpang.

Facebook, Twitter and Blog has brought me numerous opportunities to events as well as several freebies. I’ve got to meet fantastic people and learnt alot through these events. Here’s a list of events and freebies I’ve got this year.

EVENTS

WON

I hope in 2011, I will continue to be motivated to blog and be invited to more events, after all, its really interesting to meet people from the different walks of life, to learn about social networking and to share blogging experience. It was through one of these sessions that I get to know that I’m in fact, a lifestyle blogger.

If you are on Twitter, remember to drop me a note and if you are reading this blog, remember to keep reading and leave a comment as well.

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LookBack 2010: The children has grown up

December 8, 2010 – 11:10 am

Ethan turns 4 in 2010 and he never fails to surprise us. This was a year when Ethan tried and see many new things as well. He took on the role as a page boy for one of our cousin’s wedding and we were pretty worried initially as we were afraid that he might have stage fright. Surprisingly, he enjoyed every moment of it.

As Ethan turns 4, I organized 3 birthday parties for him at RWS, Auntie’s place and in school. Like I mentioned previously, Ethan had been celebrating his birthday in school for 3 years, but this is the first year that I’m celebrating it in school with him. I do hope to do this more often.

At the learning level, Ethan surprised us when he was able to write his own name during his developmental check up. As he grow, we were able to get into several pretty interesting conversations too. These conversations will either make you love him or hate him. If you are a parent yourself, you will know what I’m talking about. The year ended with an excellent performance put up by Ethan.  In 2011, Ethan will start embarking on a different learning journey and I hope he will be able to cope it well.

Ethan had the opportunity to visit my places too. For example, the NDP Preview and the SYOG rehearsals. He also had the chance to meet several of his favourite cartoon characters like Elmo, Big Bird, Buzz Lightyear and Woody!

Unlike Ethan, Ezanne is not an easy girl to handle. She doesn’t smile in front of the camera easily and is quite fussy with how things are done. She gave us the opportunity to do our first birthday celebration during Chinese New Year, I’ve never attended or did one before. Ezanne started blabbering when she was 1 and walking when she was 15 months.

As she was relatively younger, the places she visits are also pretty limited but we still try to bring her around like the zoo and Sesame Street show. But as she grows older, I’m sure we will bring her to more places. Now, she has slowly grown to become more independent. She will want to volunteer to help us and we observed that her favourite food is BREAD!

Ezanne will be going to school next year after the birth of Evan. I’m eager to find out how things will turn out.

As we approach the year end, we will welcome the arrival of Evan too.

In 2010, I’ve also created a Facebook fanpage for the children. This is where I document their day to day lives and sharing it with everyone. If you like them, go to their fan page and LIKE the page, not LIKE this post.

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LookBack 2010: Traveling around and being independent

December 1, 2010 – 12:38 am

2010 is the year when I experienced something different. Traveling alone, no family members, no friends, no colleagues, just me, myself and I. I’m grateful that I’ve got the opportunity to travel around and made many new friends. Thanks to Facebook, I’m glad that I’m still in contact with my friends who are in the different parts of the world.

With wifey not around with me, I’ve got to do everything myself and seriously, I thought I couldn’t survive but I did it. I need a morning call from Singapore daily and I miss home really much. I remembered my friend K told me that it was written on my face that I miss home very much. Every conversation that we had, I will talk about wifey, Ethan and Ezanne.

Traveling gave me another perspective in life. It brought me to places where I’ve never dreamt of going, in this case, Vientiane, Laos. I remembered walking along the streets late at night and seeing children all around us selling chewing gum and asking for money. We don’t see that in Singapore and I will never allow my children to do that. I just thought to myself, how lucky we are… Really. It also gave me the chance to understand the different cultures in the different countries.

Traveling gave me the chance to visit places where I’ve been to before. Hong Kong, pretty much the same 3 years on, but what was different was I was more independent, able to travel alone, taking the MTR and exploring places myself.

In 2010, my most memorable trip will be the one in Laos. Experience, learn and adapting to a different lifestyle was definitely a difficult but enriching one. If I’ve ever had the chance, I will definitely want to visit Laos again.

There are some traveling plans in 2011 and I hope it will be as enriching as the ones in 2010.

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LookBack 2010 : Coming Soon

November 30, 2010 – 11:29 pm

As we approach December 2010, it is time again to take a look back at what had happened over the last 12 months. If you’ve been following my blog long enough, you will know that this is a tradition that I’ve been doing since I started blogging. Every Wednesday, I will “LookBack” at one part of my life that I think is significant in 2010 to blog about.

Stay tuned…

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