I sat in on the keynote by YB the Minister of Health at the Brunei Business Conference recently, and scribbled down the six priority areas he gave for healthcare in the country. Writing them out here so I do not lose them. The first is expanding healthcare capacity, which covers…
Brunei Darussalam
Perhaps the Strawberries Are Doing Just Fine
Yesterday I wrote about raising strawberries. Not the ones at the supermarket, but the ones we have apparently been growing at home. Children so shielded from life’s knocks that they struggle when things do not go their way. Then I shared the post with my own children, and what came…
Brunei Darussalam
Raising Strawberries
We have all heard the label by now. The strawberry generation: bright, polished, beautiful to look at, and bruised the moment anyone presses too hard. At family gatherings and in the office, the verdict is usually the same. They cannot take criticism, they quit too quickly, and they fall apart…
Society & Culture
Guest Lecture at UTB: What We Talked About
On the morning of 6 October, I spent a few hours in Lecture Room 7 at Universiti Teknologi Brunei, talking about Digital Media and Society with a cohort of Communications students from both Masters and Undergrad level. I was there as a guest, and I want to say thank you…
Brunei Darussalam
Are you OK?
Today is World Mental Health Day, and I have been thinking about how we check on each other. Where I grew up, care shows up as food, a seat at the table, a quick “Sudah makan?” It is a good habit and I would not change it. But how rarely…
Language & Musings
The power of loving what we do
For a long time I believed in the usual order of things. Work hard, get the results, and happiness would turn up at the end like a prize. Most of us are taught this early. More money, more recognition, a bigger title, and then one day we are allowed to…
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