Thirteen. Thirteen short and long years – that’s how long we’ve remained happily married. I feel as though it was just not too long ago that we arrived at this beautiful plantation-style building in the middle of the Singapore Botanical Gardens, we’re getting ready for our solemnisation and then blink – the tok kadi officially […]
Before my pregnancy at the age of 36, I knew nothing about giving birth, absolutely nothing. I knew there would be pain. I knew that my mum endured 22 hours of labour before giving birth to me, her first child, and that since I inherited her hyperemesis gravidarum in my first trimester that rendered me […]
I began this post talking about the second lockdown in Melbourne but just had to backspace all of that because I feel, if this is the first post I’ve written since March – I want it to be positive and all about the good times. And sure we do have days where it’s like groundhog […]
…as a sequel to my previous blog entry, we’ve really been enjoying lots of gatherings especially because Ery’s birthday this month. We were invited to a random tandoori chicken BBQ night at our friends’ place but as it turned out to be Ery’s birthday that night – we decided to celebrate it along with the […]
We flew up to Launceston as it was nearer to drive to Cradle Mountain from there, about two hours and there’s a few quirky pit stops along the way. We came by this rural town Sheffield, near Mount Roland that’s reinvented itself in recent years as a Town of Murals – it was murals everywhere. […]
I’ve been slightly obsessed with gathering ideas, it being summer and the perfect season to invite people over for a meal and chit-chats in our backyard. We love our backyard, we really absolutely do. It’s quite tiny but it’s ours to call our own, an outdoor area where we can do whatever we want to […]
If there’s one family heirloom I’d like to get my hands on, it’s this one book. It’s this one book that’s lovingly tattered, pages all crunched up – you know someone has been flipping it from page to page, at times gently when looking for one inspirational recipe or harshly flipped when pressed for time. […]
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” I wish it’s a quote of mine, but I googled up family+quotes and found this one by Michael J. Fox that resonated strongly to me and how it relates to marriage. Make family important, make time for your family, make time to learn about one another and […]
The Runaway Act 