Peggy Chan's Blog

I have crafted short read love stories, poems, children’s poems and books, as well as non-fiction books. Do read them, and I would appreciate it if you could leave a review of the book you chose to read.

This blog is a place for me to write about my ideas, about upcoming books, and about my life and writing. I hope that you enjoy reading it, and leave some comments for me!



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August 30, 2021

Learning Requires Effort

Learning involves so many things. I thought I had left it all behind when I left school but another kind of learning had crept up. The internet was here and computers came into existence, followed by mobile phones, rather huge clumsy things unlike the sleek smart sophisticated phones of the present. I wanted to learn how to use a computer so I attended a couple of short courses but having a brain that is not wired to absorbing anything technical, I learned practically nothing. It was too complicated, with the computer language, loops and what nots. There were floppy disks which had to be slotted into the drives. Anyway, time passed and computers became smaller and cheaper. Then came laptops!! And the mobile phones evolved into smaller ones which you could keep inside your pocket. These gadgets were expensive and I couldn’t afford them. So, it was the old computer on which I hunched over for hours on end trying to get the brain to understand and learn. By trial and error I discovered how to create a blog on blogger.com using a very basic page. I had a few blogs because I wanted to try things out. Later on, […]
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May 30, 2021

Looking Back

Twenty one years ago I became a Christian. I wasn’t born into a family that embraced Christianity. In fact, our elders practiced ancestral worship and visited Chinese temples to pray on festival days. From a young age, I followed my maternal grandmother whenever she went to the temple to pray. She taught my siblings and I how to pray and what to say in our prayers during ancestral worship at home. Ancestral worship was a way of life for us. As we grew up, one of my sisters was introduced to a friend whose family encouraged her to attend church services and soon after, she became a Christian. Then two other siblings also got baptized. My late mother became a Catholic when she was in her late sixties, a long-cherished wish of hers, after my father gave his permission for her to do so.She taught me to say “Hail Mary” and to pray from young. Her faith was very strong. However, I continued to practice ancestral worship as did my brothers. How then did I become a Christian? When my mother and my two Christian sisters were suddenly stricken with deadly cancers, it dawned upon me that their Christian God, […]
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May 15, 2021

The Covid-19 Vaccination

Here’s a story which I would like to share with you. As we are all aware, these are stressful times with the Covid 19 pandemic ravaging the world. I too have my fears and anxieties. I registered for the vaccine in February and got my appointment in April. There had been lots of information and misinformation about the Covid vaccines circulating on the internet and it was frightening. The Pros and Cons of having the vaccine and the likely outcomes for people in the vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, especially those with comorbidities were terrifying. I fall into this group. Many thoughts crowded my mind, all beginning with “What if……”So, I set about writing a list of instructions to my daughter, what to do in case I was incapacitated or worse, kicked the bucket. Whatever I could do before D-Day, I completed. Included in the list was to inform friends and relatives via FB should the worst happen and then to close the account Fortified with prayers invoked by siblings, friends and church members, and with great trepidation I went with my spouse to get our jabs on the appointed day. After getting lost en route, we finally got […]
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December 5, 2019

Book Reviews

When a book’s completed and uploaded online, if you’re self-publishing it, your work’s not done. No, by no means. In fact, it’s just the beginning of more hard work. What? You’ll be thinking, I’m sure. Isn’t writing the book all the hard work? Is there more? But I’m done with the book! So you think!! Far from it. I know, because I’ve been there! After uploading my books to Amazon, I thought that was it. Mission accomplished. I had learned through trial and error, how to format and upload my first book. I felt very happy. I had a book on amazon.com Then after many months, I started to wonder why I didn’t have any sales. So I looked at other books in Amazon. Hmmmm…..what is missing? What do they have that I don’t? Aha!! Something caught my eye! Most books had reviews!! 5 stars, 4 stars or at worst, 1 star ratings. So I realised my book was missing reviews. Why are reviews important? Well, they help to sell books on Amazon. Potential buyers would usually click on the reviews to read what other people had to say about the book. Then they’ll decide whether or not to click […]
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