An ex-student from my English language tuition class last year, presently studying in Concord, Shrewsbury in the UK, is back on his summer vacation and he contacted me and suggested meeting up for dinner. Owing to certain circumstances, we did not manage to do that on his previous trips home. We went to the Happy [...]
Children and young people these days are so fortunate. They get to enjoy all kinds of international cuisines be it western, Italian, Japanese – you name it, they’ve eaten it! During my time, a plate of Ah Kow’s kampua noodles at Kiaw Siong was the special Sunday treat and that too, only when my brother [...]
Good grief! What month is it in the Chinese lunar calendar right now? If I’m not mistaken, it’s the 5th Month right now and it’s not even the 7th Month yet – the month of the Hungry Ghosts…and yet some people/ladies are already talking about mooncakes and making them. The Mooncake Festival, also known as [...]
Can I get by on around RM5.00 a day on food? Well, these days, people are complaining about the escalating prices. From my personal point of view, I would think that grumbling does not help one bit. It will only leave you feeling miserable and frustrated…and no matter how you moan and groan, the prices [...]
I had to see Philip again to return the draft of his mother’s 8th book that I had helped edit for him/her…but it being a Friday, my no-meat day, we decided to meet him at Kopitiam Fantasy. If you may recall, when I last had a post on the place, I said that the coffee/kopi-o-peng [...]
I did not have any of those pyramid-shaped meat dumplings this year…not during the actual date of the bak chang or dumpling festival, otherwise known as the Duan Wu Jie… Every year, my mother-in-law would make for everybody, sometimes more than once a year…and at other times, I would go and buy from the mini [...]
I met Philip again one morning for breakfast as he wanted me to help edit his mother, Angela Yong‘s 8th book. I willingly agreed to lend a hand as here is a son helping his dear mother and that was the least I could do in appreciation of such a show of filial piety. I [...]
I heard somebody saying that kissing is like eating peanuts. First, you take one…and then you want one more…and then you want more and more and more! What do you all think? Fact or fiction? LOL!!! If you go for a sit-down full course dinner at a Chinese restaurant here, they will give you a [...]
My New Zealander sister-in-law was stupefied when I told her that I made a lot of friends through blogging and she was absolutely aghast to hear that I even met some of them in person. I’ve met Claire, Elin and Ivan in Ipoh, Eugene and Faisal Admar in Penang, Nyonyapenang, Peteformation and so many others [...]
Nope, sorry to disappoint you all but this is not going to be a romantic post. I love this song by Helen Reddy…and coincidentally, I had an ex-student from the centre by that same name coming home from Melbourne to Sibu on his winter break and we went out last Friday for tea at the [...]
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