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Blogging, PR and Freeloaders
A gripe ahead since it’s a topic that is rampant these days and quite close to my heart, given that I once worked on the side of PR, have clients who want results and I also write. And have a...
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Reading: How will you measure your life? by Clayton M. Christensen
I have fallen behind reading as well as I have been knee deep wading through emails and alot of work. Looking forward to sharing a piece I did on Shanghai Art Deco for Lonely Planet really soon, and...
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Kung Hei Fatt Choi! Chinese New Year Monkey
Happy New Year of the Monkey! I thought it’d be fitting to share one of my favourite photos from my childhood. I was 4 years old, carrying an orang utan in Thailand, I think? I haven’t looked up...
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Self Searching and Danielle Laporte
Apart from cooking and hosting guests over Chinese New Year Holidays, I’m so grateful for downtime to catch up on blogging, reading and self work exercises. Social media always makes life look so much...
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Eating out: Behind the Scenes of Ultraviolet Shanghai
Gastronomy, Semiotics and Paul Pairet’s art of “psycho-taste”. My chef husband got me backstage passes to Ultraviolent on an important evening when chef Paul Pairet and his team were cooking for a...
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Portrait Photography
via GIPHY Helloooo. I am still overeating and stuffing my face this festive as I spent the last few days cooking. My fridge and freezer is full of deliciousness and looks like I am eating at home for...
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Macau: Madonna Rebel Heart Tour
I am so grateful that the husband got last minute resale tickets to Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour a couple of hours before Sunday’s performance in Studio City Macau (intimate arena with great acoustics)...
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Travel: Wine country Burgundy DRC
A super belated post from last summer which was one of the highlights to wine country and drinking directly from these barrels to understand the potential of these DRC wines. While everyone was raving...
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Married to a chef: Well-fed and watered, but the hours and the grind
Many people I know make marriage sound like a walk in the park, which of course most know isn’t the reality. However, with social media, you can be who you want to be or create the life online that...
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Declutter: Project 333
It’s birthday month, so I decided to do more than Konmarie the wardrobe, every corner of the house and my bookshelf. I given away to my helper many bags of clothes, bags, shoes some new, some old,...
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Reading: Spousonomics. It’s not you, it’s the dishes.
I have been buried under work and behind blogging, reading, cooking and everything I love about life. That is set to change soon with some adjustments I’ve made to work and play as I choose life. :)...
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Reading: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Another one of Donna Tartt’s brilliant reads. I’ve now read all of her three novels – all with very different plots and equally thrilling. I can’t wait for her 4th novel. Over a decade ago I read The...
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Reading: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
I am one of those people who force themselves to finish books even if they didn’t like it because.. well maybe the plot twists and it gets better. I have to admit I really didn’t enjoy Wild by Cheryl...
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Reading: Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
“Leaning in” is such a catch phrase these days I catch people using it often and sometimes out of context, like how feminism is thrown around by brands and advertising like a trending buzzword that...
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Shop: Fabric Shopping Sham Shui Po Hong Kong
(Fabric bought from the Taipei Yong Le Fabric market – all Japanese textiles) Sewing is my latest obsession as I spend Friday nights in Macau sewing at Studio B with my fabulous teacher, an Central St...
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Recipe: Homemade Pizza
I have been practising for quite a few bakes now and have finally found the right footwork on baking a pizza in our very basic oven, well the husband calls it more than a grill than an oven with a...
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Travel: Taipei in 36 hours
A quick weekend in Taipei – my first visit and definitely have to go back to do more fabric shopping at Yongle Fabric market and have to visit all the night markets to see the variations of street...
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Married to a chef: Musings
I’ve shifted gears the last couple of weeks, put in a fair amount of time into doing more of what I love and learning lots of new skills from figuring out coding to fix bugs on this blog to sewing and...
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Reading: Why be Happy when you can be Normal? Jeanette Winterson
Such a poignant great read, I finished it in a couple of hours. I have been a JW fan for years and have in fact read all of her books. The first being Oranges are not the only fruits, that I related...
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Reading: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
The Macau Taipa library still has no system of filing their books Charles Dickens alongside Slyvia Plath and Dickens… it’s neither time, genre or author based (like most libraries around the world it...
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