Truth be told, I have always thought Chingay was boring. Yes, even though I have not attended a single one.Meaning “the art of costume and masquerade”, it is an annual street parade and fe …

It looks like any other plain ol’ coffeeshop in Singapore, but the food at Joo Heng is so good that my parents always request to come here when we organise their birthday dinners. So did I, one year, for my own birthday dinner.This is Cantonese comfort food at its best! All its dishes have the ...

In Singapore and Malaysia, food is of paramount importance.If you’ve just arrived,  it won’t take you long to cotton on that folks here don’t eat to live, we really do li …

Sigh!Our website and all its contents got wiped-out over the long Chinese New Year weekend. No thanks, in part, to wrong advice (!!) by our hosting company. Oh well, no point crying over spilled milk!Please bear with me as I – painfully – try to rebuild this site from scratch. Thank God for (some) backups ...

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The Langkawi trip in December was, for us (I’m still sick. ARGH! Round two!), a real spur-of-the-moment affair. But we’re glad we took it.The trip was primarily a yoga retreat but we also had time to enjoy the attractions the island had to offer.I’ll write about our trip in three parts, just because we had ...

Thanks to a quick conversation on Twitter with @tangenghui (check out his photojournalism site), I went online to find out more about this strange quota system for entering Singapore’s latest and currently most talked-about public housing project, Pinnacle@Duxton.I say strange because I had initially thought that the visitor limit was for the different apartments. …

Snorkelling in Palau’s Jellyfish Lake was both an exhilarating and a humbling experience for us. Imagine, frolicking among millions of jellyfish in an emerald-hued lake tinged with shades of jade. I truly felt at one with the universe. Nature is amazing!We are blessed to be featured in my paper again so I’ll leave you to ...

Hi friends!Apologies for the radio silence, but we have been very busy with an exciting new project – one that will allow us to really travel and experience this beautiful of ours more. More details to come, so watch this space!Meanwhile, we’ve been published in Singapore’s premium bilingual freesheet, my paper! Our account of the ...

What better way to commemorate the birth of your child on a plane, 2,000 feet in the air?Name him Asia, of course – after the AirAsia flight in which he demanded to be let out of Mummy’s womb. That’s what Malaysian Liew Siaw Hsia named her son, born on Oct 21. Better still, his Chinese ...