Welcome to our world!

My chinese name is Yin Ling and baby Minori's unofficial middle name is Yen. Both Yin and Yen mean swallow (as in the bird) in chinese. The same swallows that migrate to Malaysia in winter to escape the cold return to Japan when the weather begins to warm up. Like the swallows here, together with daddy, we make our trips between the two countries. Isn't it nice to have two places we can call home?

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Getting it right

I'm now onto this book. It's amazing how working mothers, of all cultures, halfway across the globe, have the same set of challenges dealing with career and family, face the same kind of guilt and have the same thoughts as to whether their children will end up being some psycho because their mom is not a stay-at-home mom.

Unlike some of the other stuff I've seen, this one is well-written, and fairly credible (the writer is a clinical psychiatric and behavioral science professor who researched Stanford business school grads that spanned across decades). Can't say anything more since I haven't yet completed the book. I'm now at the chapter about guilt!

Hope to glean something from it.

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