Ultimately, maturity requires opportunity; the pace of growth does not rely on the progression of time alone. Bi Fei Yu (Three Sisters)

Poverty, not the number or the gender of parents, is what hurts children. Men, Who Needs Them?

I waited an hour for my started so I complained: “it’s not rocket salad.” Lou Sanders

Right now, I’m in a stealth-yoga-doing mode. Which also reads as eating lots of leaves and drinking lots of liquids. I’ve also been cutting any caffeine drinks, including tea, apparently the acidic nature of the beverages makes your digestive system go crazy!I guess this works because outside is too hot [...]

My DOFAS (acronym unimportant) and I baked about 13 large pineapple cakes last sunday. We needed cake for a hundred and we wanted to save money, so despite not being professional anything, we decided to get our hands dirty. 4 cakes were thrown out, but that’s okay because important baking [...]

In straying as far as possible from my  impersonal blog posts, I thought I would share some of my thoughts, especially as my first part of the summer comes to a close. The first photos come from my rushed preparations for the staff ‘potluck’, where I wrapped a zillion spring [...]

Keeping to my one Scandinavian cake a week for my staff, this week I’ve decided to go south of Scandinavia and make some æble kage (apple cake) instead. I think in Sweden they call this a ‘visiting cake’ because( like the way my parents bring oranges when visiting other folks) [...]

It’s been a while! I’ve been busy, I’m sure we’ve all been there. I also have a new lens, which is proving to require a little bit more mastery. Back to the fruits of my labor (pun intended). A Malaysian BFF gave me a pound of Calamansis the other day, [...]

So I’ve largely neglected this place for a couple of weeks. Life has been hectic and I just haven’t had the time to launch some photoshoot of my food. In any case, karma has hit back and I have decided to blog about my cooking failure. I wasn’t planning to, [...]

Ya’ll are probably wondering what happened to my weekly food entry. Well here it is, had to be delayed because I had to wait for My Korean Bestfriendforeva to turn a ripe old 22! I didn’t manage to make a cake in time for his soiree, so I had to [...]