The Missing Ingredient …

That all too familiar longing for the comfort and warmth of home, and mum’s cooking, is captured here beautifully by our Uncle Nelson (Nel) Philips’s musings on a cold winter day as he tries to recreate the famous family ‘Christmas Stew.’ His memories are peppered with nostalgic recollections of being our (now 99 year-old) grandmother…

The Fading FaΓ§ade Of A Quaint, Reverent Place

    No this is not a haunted house, but a chapel that served at least three generations of Catholics in the town of Kuala Krai in Kelantan, East Coast of Peninsula Malaysia.     This year we spent Good Friday at this old dilapidated chapel along Jalan Geale located along the Kelantan River near…