Healthy leftovers? Good or bad idea?…
i am huge on leftovers! Growing up i watched my mum cook for a battalion – this is always what i tell people and it is absolutely true. My mother did cook large amounts each Sunday and my aunts, uncles...
View ArticleIt’s a Birthday for Daddy…
This post is actually 10 days after Husband’s birthday but the week has been crazy busy and we did celebrate it late (he was away for work). So 2 days after his actually birthday, i cooked a seafood...
View ArticleSpring Holidays 2013 – Week 2…
So almost 2 weeks ago (oh my, has it been that long?) i wrote about our Spring holiday trip to Munich/Legoland. Now it’s time for a very short summary of what the 2nd week of Spring holidays was like...
View ArticleAnnual SG Picture Summary…
Yep! It’s that time of the year again when i flood you with images of our trip back to our homeland, the tiny red dot, the island nation of Singapore ;) This year, of course, we visited with family and...
View ArticleCooking Adventures Continues…
My parents are fantastic cooks and they taught me how to cook from as far back as i can remember. i remember standing on a stool, as a little girl, trying my best to fry the perfect sunny-side-up egg,...
View ArticleGong Xi Fa Cai…
… i think i have never actually devoted a post to Chinese New Year! i have looked at the archives and have not found one post on this – which is strange considering how much i like the festivities of...
View ArticleMemories…
Over the last few months, there have been little things that have happened and events/places we have been to, which i want to remember and would have loved for each of these to have a blog-post each…...
View ArticleChocolate Chocolate Chocolate…
A few weeks ago, we visited the Frey Chocolate Factory with some friends and had a wonderful time. Now we have visited a few chocolate factories already – all throughout Switzerland but this one has to...
View ArticleSingapore 2014 in Pictures…
So i have not been blogging for a whole month! What have i been up to? Well, it was the summer school holidays and as is our custom, we went to Singapore to visit family and friends and of course to...
View Article1st Week of Autumn Holidays…
Actually, we are nearing the end of our 3 week Autumn School Holidays. As usual, i wait till the end to consolidate what we did. So the first few days was given over to boring stuff like housework and...
View Article2nd Week of Autumn Holidays…
So here’s the 2nd installment of our holiday adventures this Autumn. Read about the first week here. Our little family trip to meet a couple of friends in Venice is the major highlight of that second...
View ArticleSummer Hols 2016…
We have been back from our annual visit to Singapore for almost 2 weeks now. i was going to post this earlier but we had computer issues. So finally, here is a picture summary of our trip this year:...
View ArticleSpring Hols 2017…
So it’s back to school for us this week, after 2 weeks of Spring holidays. We didn’t do very much this holiday. Our big thing was building a garden seat out of 2 pallets which we saved off the sidewalk...
View ArticleFirst Potato Harvest!…
i would have never imagined that my garden activities would take up more space on this blog because i never thought i had a green thumb… and looks like it will continue to be featured… Wishing you...
View ArticleSummer Holidays… Not quite… 2017
Yes, we are back from summer hols and today was the first day of school. The first day my boy steps into a new chapter of his school life! My teenager! More about that in another post… maybe. Usually,...
View ArticlePandemic Bakes…
Yep, it’s about food… and it’s about yummy baked treats… and all made and eaten during lockdown and the weeks after. i love baking but in the time before the pandemic something else always took up my...
View ArticleBig Trip to Singapore, Nov/Dec 2023
Yep, it’s 2024! Perfect time to look back on the last 2 months of 2023. LOL! We did, what I consider, to be a BIG trip to Singapore. Big in more ways than one; big in length of time (at least for me,...
View ArticleCelebrating Chinese New Year 2025
It has been so very many years since we have been in Singapore, in person, to celebrate the Chinese New Year (CNY) with family. So it’s been really good to be able to do so this year. It’s the year of...
View ArticleHappenings in Feb 2025
There has been another 6 weeks of no posts on this blog… not back on usual schedule yet… LOL… It’s been a busy February. The week after Chinese New Year was filled with packing. No, we are not moving...
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