Gulao: Finding my Heritage and Belonging
I didn’t expect my recent article for CNA on going back to my ancestral home Gulao in Heshan, Guangdong to resonate with so many people. I am grateful for all the private messages that strangers...
View Article3 Powerful Ways To Relax Your Mind When You Need It
[Collaborative partnership]. Mental health and self-care have been weighing on my mind as I adjust my current lifestyle in this new phase of life. I’ve been in this vicious cycle of perimenopause and...
View ArticleBreak The Cycle: Top 10 Parenting Books I’ve Read
My parenting journey has been one of (mis)adventures. We were not planning on having children and given that it was medically not possible, I didn’t think I’d be sent down the rabbit hole of this hard...
View ArticleTCM To The Rescue: Master Ruth Lee is Hong Kong’s Answer to Traditional...
I’ve been seeing Master Ruth Lee for accupuncture and other treatments since 2017 when I moved back to Hong Kong after a year of intense cancer treatment in Singapore. I was suffering from all sorts...
View ArticleFavourite Cloth Diapers
Now that the pet human is 16months old, cloth nappies have become second nature to us. I started when he was 6-7 weeks old and haven’t looked back since. We’ve had to evolve our strategy as he got...
View ArticleMotherhood: It takes a village
I can’t believe a year has gone by and the baby is ONE! I finally understand the cliché phrase of “the days are long and the years are short.” We survived as a family – everyone is alive, healthy and...
View ArticleMotherhood: 8 Ways to reduce waste
I fell into Motherhood by chance and it has been the most intense and rewarding life experience ever. They say the hardest work is always the best work – unpaid on top of that. Having a child was...
View ArticleMotherhood: 10 key learnings
It’s been a while since I updated, the baby rarely naps and is always curious, wants to chitchat and hangout. A serious case of FOMO. I guess life is fair because he’s very high maintenance in the day...
View ArticleMadagascar Hong KOng Musical: fun for the school holidays
The toddler absolutely loved The Tiger who Came to Tea by Aba Productions, so I’ve decided that we’ll go see as many shows and productions as we can and figure out what exactly he likes, and doesn’t...
View ArticlePlay: The Tiger who came to tea
This is one of the toddler’s favourite books. We’ve been reading it since birth, and have read both the English and Chinese version of it. It’s his first time in a theatre. We’ve previously sat...
View ArticleSensory Play: Making Oobleck
I hope everyone is staying dry and safe in this Hong Kong super typhoon weather. We’ve been stuck indoors all weekend, no school on Friday and it’s been a very wet and windy Saturday. We made playdoh,...
View ArticleDIY Play Dough
We started making our own play dough for over a year now because the store bought one dries up really quick and it’s neither environmentally friendly or economical to keep paying for individual tubs...
View ArticleThe neverending cycle of the flu
I feel like I can never get a break as the whole family is sick and the toddler has been sick for 3 weeks. I haven’t slept much in the past weeks with the cycles of raging high fevers, multiple trips...
View ArticleLife, Death and the messiness of Motherhood
I finally understand the sacrifices, sheer exhaustion and reality of balancing life and motherhood now that I’ve got a spirited 2.5 year old. In between, life and death happens. I didn’t realise I’d...
View ArticleHong Kong Palace Museum
Hardly able to take decent photos these days running after my toddler.. so this is as good as it gets unfortunately. An interesting juxtaposition of modern architecture and ancient imperial Chinese...
View ArticleTravel: Top 10 Singapore Favourites with the toddler
Walks on East Coast beach at dusk Our trip home to Singapore was brief, eventful and memorable. My son got to meet his grandparents and extended family for the first time. He also ran a very high...
View ArticleArt Basel Hong Kong 2022 highlights
We checked out Art Basel over the weekend really briefly. The toddler likes looking at things – partly because I also love looking at things and we’ve been going to galleries since he was a newborn....
View ArticleMarried to a (*** Michelin) chef
Happy International Women’s Day! I wish women were celebrated every single day and didn’t need a specific day/excuse for this. This is a long overdue post that I didn’t have time to finish, much less...
View ArticleFavourite Cloth Diapers
Now that the pet human is 16months old, cloth nappies have become second nature to us. I started when he was 6-7 weeks old and haven’t looked back since. We’ve had to evolve our strategy as he got...
View ArticleMotherhood: It takes a village
I can’t believe a year has gone by and the baby is ONE! I finally understand the cliché phrase of “the days are long and the years are short.” We survived as a family – everyone is alive, healthy and...
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