Dish Fetish
I never understood my mother’s generation’s obsession with collecting dishes. She and her contemporaries would spend hours in the household section of shops and shopping centres looking for a good […]
Blessed (live streamed) Holy Week
It’s Palm Sunday today and for the first time in our lives we began Holy Week with mass live streamed from the Church of the Divine Mercy in our diocese […]
Street of Lights
One of my favourite photos – oil lamps illuminating this unnamed lane in Cherlai Bazar in Fort Kochi, Kerala, India. The Hindu residents in homes along this lane had lit […]
Songs of Silence
I’m no homebody, so when the Movement Control Order (MCO) was enforced mid-March and extend into mid-April. I assumed that I would go a little bonkers in no time. Oddly […]
Gopeng’s Valley of Liquid Gold
‘Kayu Gaharu‘ (Agarwood) – I first heard this term in my history book in which it was one of the many precious commodities sought after by Arab, Chinese and Indian […]
Park Güell: Art in Nature
The colours and architecture of Park Güell in Barcelona captures the style of its designer Antoni Gaudi whose designs mimic nature, and plays with light and reflection to infuse a […]
Stuff you take for granted …
Things you take for granted until it’s beyond your reach because of restricted movement. Our sweet treat just one month ago on a scorching hot afternoon along the streets of […]
Throwback Thursday: Hotel de I’lsard Andorra
On a cold winter’s day there is noting more comforting than walking into a cosy comfortable corner for some warmth, and for us in Andorra this was Hotel de I’lsard […]
Fine French Fusion Fare
A lazy Saturday at Cafe-Bistrot David with good friends is all we needed after such a drama fuelled week in the country. Calling in that morning to book a table, […]
Tea Plantation Tranquility
After a gruelling four hour drive through early monsoon showers, and bumpy pot-holed and landslide ridden roads, we arrived at the Gruenberg Tea Plantation Haus which was to be our […]
Backwaters Adventure
I heard of Kerala’s Backwaters for the first time from my 93 year-old grandfather who was at that time, slowly slipping into early stages of dementia. “I used to sell […]
Ramadan Greetings
Ramadan greetings to all my Muslim friend from Kuala Lumpur’s point of origin – the confluence of the Klang & Gombak river where the oldest mosque in KL is located. […]
Desert Drive: Zekreet, Qatar
We were told there is not much to do in Doha when we visited last year. But, if you have the right friends, you get the right advise and shown […]
Tropical Fruit Fare: ‘Buah Bidara’
The staples in my refrigerator are packets of apples and lemons. For my parents and grandparents these imported fruits were a luxury together with oranges and grapes. They loved it […]
Fitzroy Summer Blooms
I’m more of a couch potato, eager to spend my weekends lazing on the sofa – trying to complete the final season of Breaking Bad and the Vikings. Though it […]
To A Pleasant 2019!🥂
I blinked and 2018 passed by me! Terence and I traveled to a total of six countries last year – starting with Qatar, followed by Hong Kong, Cambodia, Spain, Andorra […]
