Age Does Not Define Me

About the Book

Looking at my daughter’s wedding photographs five years ago, I noticed a matronly woman on the cusp of entering middle age. I have no intention of ending up looking like my mother or grandmother at that age, plump, not necessarily obese, was the order of the day. I decided to adopt the health, rather than weight control approach, and with my own philosophy in addressing image, weight and confidence issues, that afflict many. I hope by sharing my experiences with others will motivate them to take control of who they want and can be.

When my mother died relatively young of a terminal illness despite her general well-being and love of life, especially her Chinese opera performances and travelling with her friends, it was almost our steady family was shaken up. At the same time my two growing children were exhibiting all the adolescence and teenage growing pains. It forced me to take stock and made phenomenal changes to our lives to keep my family intact. The journey to bring them up in the best way I know how, ensued a learning experience invaluable in my understanding of relationship and how powerful it can be to change lives.

About the Author

April Tiang, MBA, is a Certified and Chartered Accountant, trained in London and worked extensively around the world, as a road warrior in Finance largely in the later part of her career. Like most career women with children, the pressures of excelling can often take a heavy toll on one’s family. One of her children has dyslexia and mild learning disability. She felt that she did not have the luxury of choice to leave her children to fend in a competitive environment, and still believe that all will turn out well. She raised and guided them in the way she knew, firm and discipline initially, and gradually as growing adults with values she believed in. She shared the challenges in overcoming each child’s needs in helping them achieve their own dreams. Both went to universities, one in University of New South Wales in Sydney and one graduated recently with double majors from Monash University in Melbourne.