Organised by Science Centre and A*STAR, Marina Square features from mid-August a month-long festival of science activities, discussions, workshops and documentaries.

The school holidays are here again. I have been looking for relevant holiday activities and programmes that we can consider engaging with our kids. Specifically day/night outings.

Today my nephew came home, with two red gashes on his face! Apparently he had bumped (accidentally he says) into another boy earlier. Then while my nephew was in conversation with a friend, this other boy came up, pulled my nephew's cheek and scratched him.

A 2007 UK study on primary education concluded that children face "excessive" pressure today. Conducted by Cambridge University, the Primary Review was the biggest such independent study in the past 40 years.

Crude/obscene language is not uncommon to be heard among adults.

I continue to be surprised at what I come across, about the "new" aspects of the English language (new at least to me!).

I just love to read! But as I grow older, my eyes begin to let me down! My focusing distance has now gotten farther and farther away, a condition we commonly call "old" sight, otherwise known as long sightedness (medical terms: hypermetropia or hyperopia).

Recently I came to know of someone who visited a movie file-sharing site. He was trying to see if he could get episodes of the latest season of a TV show that is no longer playing here.

Last Friday we went to see "The Day the Earth Stood Still" at the request of my nephew and niece. It was at the end of an afternoon's outing with them and when my wife joined us after work, her movie suggestion was taken up very enthusiastically by the 7-year-old and 12-year-old :)

Most of us know that rich carbohydrates and little exercise is the reason why this is happening. If your child is considered overweight by your family doctor, it is time you acted.