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I had a total dad experience this day, from morning until late at night. When I bring Vino to school, I usually stay on to wait if he still turns back. This has been a habit of mine since his days in Vietnam. When we moved back then, it was the first time he went to a...

I love plans being fluid because it gives us a chance to change up on the fly. I was supposed to go with Che to the Philippine Embassy to request a document, but we had a cleaner coming over, so I had to go home right after sending Vino off to school. It was a chance...

Planning nothing on this day allows me to do things freely, which is a perk of being a stay-at-home dad. I took Vino to school and chanced upon Anjo, a friend of ours whose kid also goes to Dover Court. We caught up with each other a bit as I waved goodbye to Vino,...

I’ve grown to love long walks. At this day and age of on-demand entertainment and powerful handheld phones, it’s easy to just sit idly and be absorbed in doomscrolling and whatnot. As a stay-at-home dad, it helps entertain me in a quiet house. However, it also makes...

Vino lost a couple of things today, which got me worked up again. As the only child of two people who care a lot, Vino gets a lot of things we didn’t get when we were younger. One could argue that he didn’t ask for it, but I like to give it to him so that he...

It’s a bit late, but we were able to celebrate the kinda annual PZ birthday bash. Steph arrived in Singapore a few months before I did back in 2015. She bunked with Che and Issa before they moved to a bigger space a few weeks before I came. In that house, Steph and...