by Gosh! Kids Fix Your Relationship With This Thing In 2026 (& All The Years Beyond) On top of my work at Gosh! Kids, I’m a part-time teacher at a local university. The core of this role is to deliver curriculum to undergraduates from various faculties. A smaller, lesser-known aspect — but no less important — is to read and grade assignments. That being said, I don’t particularly enjoy this part. And the reason is not because I have to read through 40 submissions, each at least 30 pages long....
2 months ago • 8 min read
by Gosh! Kids The Best Gift To Gift Yourself (& Others) One thing that doesn’t get enough appreciation is how great it is to be alive at this time of the year. We sit around the dinner table with our hands joined, expressing heartfelt gratitude for all the good in our lives — the health, the family, the career. Then, at the strike of midnight, Black Friday presents us an opportunity to spend that hard-earned money on stuff we'd always wanted for half the price. If you’re an employee, this is...
3 months ago • 8 min read
by Gosh! Kids This Is A Reminder To Do This "Simple" Thing Today is Gladys’ birthday. If you don’t know who she is, Gladys is the co-founder and head-educator of this programme, Gosh! Kids. She's also my wife. I’m not great at math, but last I counted, she turns 35. Statistically, life expectancy is around what, 75, 80 years? That puts her close to the halfway mark. Numbers aside, I think there is nothing inherently special about the day we were born. At the same time, I also think there can...
4 months ago • 5 min read
by Gosh! Kids This Thing Has Cost Me So Much I have this thing that bothers me. It bothers me so much that it wears me down to the bone, like a drug slowly poisoning me from the inside out. And after all these years, living with it day after day, it has cost me so, so much. What I’m talking about is my anxiety. Not just in one particular thing, but in almost everything. I often get nervous when I’m abroad for work. Not because I have to care for a toddler while running a camp for thirty kids...
6 months ago • 5 min read
by Gosh! Kids It Means Nothing Until It Cost You Something It was probably a passing comment that came across as ambitious and exciting, so I did not put much thought into it. But then I kept hearing it. From friends. From family. From fellow educators and business owners in the same industry. Rebrand your programmes, they’d said, to focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—core academics most parents in this part of the world want their kids to perfect—because, apparently…...
7 months ago • 10 min read
by Gosh! Kids Leadership Principles That Made My Life Better I’m not someone who insists things must be done the “right” way. I value tradition and authenticity. I appreciate the efforts to preserve the old-school. I empathise with those who reject shortcuts, changes, or modernity to preserve the spirit of the craft. But I draw the line at being a purist. One thing I would say, however, is that I live by principle. That is to say, I have a particular set of values and philosophies that govern...
10 months ago • 19 min read
by Gosh! Kids The One Thing More Powerful Than Fear It was on this day, three years ago, that I did something crazy. I would never say it was an easy decision, nor was it always smooth sailing. Call it what you want—faith, impulsiveness, recklessness—I’m glad I took that step despite what was at stake. In 2022, I uprooted my entire family from Singapore and relocated to Fukuoka City, Japan. I quit my day job, shelved Gosh! Kids, and, along with Gladys, carried our six-month-old into a country...
12 months ago • 8 min read
by Gosh! Kids This Is How You Turn Your Dreams Into Reality Five years ago, I stopped setting goals. Unconventional, yes, and rather antithetical, especially now, when most people are almost three months into realising their goals. But it’s true. I don’t set goals anymore. In fact, I’ve gone as far as to remove the word from my life, and to refrain from using it in any professional or personal conversation. I’m not trying to lose a certain amount of weight. I’m not trying to hit a personal...
about 1 year ago • 7 min read
Make This Your Resolution For Life Even as a child living in poverty, Lincoln dreamed big. He couldn’t afford to go to school, except sporadically, a chance once in a while. But his nose was always in a book. It was said that when he got a copy of the Bible or Aesop's Fables, he was so excited he couldn't sleep. “There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away,” the poet Emily Dickinson once said. Though he would never travel to Europe, he always spoke of it as if he had been there....
about 1 year ago • 7 min read