I didn’t even wake up so early on my wedding but at 5.45am, I was already up with a coffee mug in my hand. It was my brother’s wedding. Mom and I were to go to his house to help him with the food preparation.

Our custom chinese tea ceremony was yesterday morning.
So he is a [...]

Every CNY, we will gather at my aunt’s place for a pot luck gathering session. This is the loudest, happiest, and noisiest gathering I enjoy the most during chinese new year. Everybody will be talking at the same time, be it same or different conversation. To cut it short, gossip, updates, jokes are in it.

~Everybody [...]

 
My cousins, brother and I were playing our gin rummy in the afternoon when hubby..
 
…. suddenly wanted to host a BBQ dinner at our place, so he went to Tesco to buy chicken wings. I had some leftover uncooked clams, so I prepared a spicy clam dish and marinated the chicken wings. Hubby’s friends brought [...]

Vivienne is back from Australia with her the other half! My ex colleague from Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Few of us met up again since Chinese New Year and not many could make it last night. I haven’t seen Vivienne since I left MO and other than that, we just MSN each other. A nice, pretty [...]

 
I am referring to my cousin who has been working in China for a year and now she is back for holiday ONLY.. So I got no babysitter for my kids or dog as she will be returning to another part of China for career advancement.
I am glad and honored that she actually allocated [...]

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,

“Oh excuse me please” was my reply.
He said, “Please excuse me too;
I wasn’t watching for you.”
 
We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said goodbye.
 
But at home a different story is told,
How we [...]

 
I have been dyeing my mum’s hair for the past 10 years? Yeah, I think it is close to that. I used to do it for her at her home, now that I have moved out, most of the time, she will come over to my house and it will be done in my garden.
I asked my part time [...]

I met Dr Laurie Murray when I was studying in US. I was  introduced to her by our International Students department. At that time, Laurie was in the Nursing Department. Then, Grace and my trips to Laurie’s house were quite frequent. No, we didn’t stay with her but Jennifer, her stepdaughter would picked us up all [...]

Have you ever thought that someone whom you met zillion years ago would become your relative by marriage? Not me. If you have read my previous post on a mutual friend whom I met more than 10 years ago is my sister in-law’s brother, Roy,read this. His wife is my friend’s relative whom I have met [...]

Two doctors flew home from USA yesterday morning. They are my cousins who are currently residing in USA, probably till very old age or retire in their original hometown, KL. And so after my heavy lunch with Ivy and family aka The Soo Family, we went home and I took a shower again and had [...]