A day in my life with a one-year old baby in Singapore. Leaving this video for future me.
Childcare was closed and my wife had to work, so I spent the entire day looking after my one-year-old daughter by myself.
My daughter is half Singaporean and half Japanese. I mainly speak to her in Japanese, while my wife uses English and sometimes Chinese. We hope she can grow up speaking all three languages.
In this video, we attempt lunch at Chinatown, introduce her to durian, teach her how to chope a seat and practise some Japanese manners.
Along the way, I share my honest thoughts about raising a child in Singapore, how fatherhood here compares with Japan, and the advantages and limitations of parenting in such a safe but highly urban environment.
I mainly filmed this video for my future self. My daughter still reaches for me and wants to be held, but this stage of life will disappear before I know it.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:34 Solo parenting begins
2:25 Baby Nap time is my happy hour
2:42 Lunch with a baby
3:41 Parenting in Singapore vs Japan
5:13 Singaporean training #1 – Durian
6:55 Mall life with a baby
8:04 Singaporean training #2 – How to chope
8:32 Capturing memories with Ray-Ban Meta
9:44 Japanese training
10:19 The reality of parenting in Singapore
11:14 Giving children access to nature
11:47 Why I filmed this video
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Just that here in Singapore, young or older healthy people are jamming the lifts instead of taking the escalator. I need to use the lift with my grandson but often I have to miss because insensitive people are not considerate to us with strollers. Oh well! I just forgive them
Soon you will be running with baby
Being born in sg, she will be a singapor lang rather than a jippun lang. Japanese will become a dialect to her since SG schools don’t teach Japanese until maybe secondary school where you get a choice to learn a 3rd language. So the responsibility for her to learn to speak and write Japanese lies entirely on Ghib San.
Ghib, how much did you bought those AI glasses?
If you are not ready to be a dad? Why married?
My 11 yo daughter is also half jipun half sg can speak Japanese ,English ,Chinese and Singlish! Of course her favourite fruit is Durian!
Bring her to the beach or park in the evening. She’ll enjoy the sand and water.
She’ll love the grass.
Evenings are cooler.
chope with milk bottle. hahahahaha