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Adrian is a lifehacking, spoon-loving, ADD-suffering, sketching, dyslexic Baptist father-to-be and aspiring writer.

Adrian has a day job that sounds important. But Adrian prefers not mix different lives together, and prefers instead to let his writing do the

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Relationships & Family > Newlyweds Newlyweds: Setting goals for the future: 1 of 8

Last week, my fiance and I went through the last of the husband-wife video series of our marriage counseling. It's taken me the past few days to mull over them; and, well, here are some thoughts. It's Not Going To Be Easy There are a few topics that stand out for both of us as we move closer to the day: some are with staying...
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values How to stop becoming a perfectionist: 3 of 10

Or, "How it can feel good not to be that good". At the very root of perfectionism lies in passionate insecurity "It does not matter how much time or how much resources it takes, if I can't get to get it just right, then I will keep adjusting, rectifying, improving, and reworking until it is." The first of two solutions may b...
Politics, News & Issues > Justice System Legalization of prostitution: 19 of 38

I have spent 13 years living on the outskirts of one of the most famous red light districts in Asia, Singapore's Geylang District. I have personally seen girls being forced into the sex trade at the legal but very tender age of 16. That is probably why I appreciated the Aidan Maconachy's missive on legalizing prostitution to...
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values Who are you to judge others?: 66 of 101

We never had a choice in it, but we are human. We have been genetically configured (or, divinely appointed, if you like) to decide, and hence, to judge. Whether this is done in the positive, negative or neutral; whether it is conscious or unconscious as a human, we are deciding and judging everything. It is not, then, a ques...
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values The lessons you learn from making mistakes: 15 of 17

If it's one lesson that I've learned well, is that if you've got less than a handful, you better grab some more. Mistakes, that is. I've made so many mistakes in my life, and I think there's hardly anyone in existence who can say that they are as dumb as I've been. I had picked the wrong school, and picked them for the wrong...