People make all the difference

February 18, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

My mum is prepared to travel 30 odd kilometres or km (one way) from KL city centre to see her cardiologist in Shah Alam, the state capital of Selangor. There are four credible hospitals including a heart specialist centre within a five km radius of where we reside. I, on the other hand, sit through […]

Cookies and lion dances

February 4, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Chinese New Year (CNY) will be upon us tomorrow. Another celebration that we Malaysians have the good fortune to enjoy with our Chinese friends. To get into the mood, I put up our Lunar New Year decorations soon after storing away our Christmas tree until its next appearance in December ( I always feel a […]

Agreeing to disagree

January 28, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Recently I met up with my university mates for brunch, and in the same week, had dinner with friends whom I used to work with. That very weekend, my brother popped over to my mum’s in the afternoon, and we had tea. To be precise, he had coffee and I had some chocolate that I […]

A 3-in-1 resolution

December 31, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

I am one for resolutions. Every year, I make resolutions. I like making them because it encourages me to think. Yes, just think of what I’d like to do better or different in the new year, never mind that I forget some and ignore others. Still, I enjoy the thinking and the listing, and hopefully, […]

I like December

December 24, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

What a wonderful time of the year, December is

December is my favourite month of the year, second only to March as that’s my birthday month. There’s a sense of joy and lightness in the air, imagined or otherwise, at least in the airspace that I breathe and live in. December means year-end holidays, Christmas, presents and eating loads of good stuff. How can […]

Pooh

December 3, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

I was given three movies to choose from. Gold, Christopher Robin and Juliet, Naked; in that order. I picked Christopher Robin. My husband immediately said that he knew I would. Too right, he was. Never hurts to watch a fantasy feel-good movie with stuffed animals that talk and have adorable names, especially on a rainy […]