• The Thing About Life

    Everybody is Kung Fu Fightin’ (Update: Except My Son)

    Update: Project “Donnie Yen” didn’t pan out for Xander. To be fair, Sinowushu is a very disciplined school; their Tanjong Katong training centre is also very fittingly set in an assembly hall in the midst of the former TKGS buildings. They regularly churn out national champions in the competitive sport, and their students thoroughly impressed my wife and I. However, the biggest problem Xander had was his age; discipline requires a lot of instruction, and we felt Xander wouldn’t be able to handle such an environment this early in his mental development.   He also didn’t understand why everybody wasn’t smiling (though a few curious boys did come up close…