Category: blog
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[THAILAND] o20. Day Trip from Bangkok to Khao Yai
If you have less than 24 hours for a day trip from Bangkok, consider Khao Yai. Sometime early last November, we fuelled up at Breakfast Story, one of the brunch joints we frequent in Bangkok, before setting off on our long drive. We always rent an SUV with a large car boot to drive around…
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Make New Memories
It takes an incapacitated phone, with no means of immediate resuscitation, to let go of my digital being and live in the moment. It’s been three days since my 6-month-old Samsung Galaxy Flip 4 flashed the black screen of death, completely unprovoked since I’ve been very careful. No scratches at all. So it’s probably a…
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A Road Trip, A Wedding & A Cruise
The year-end holiday season that came and went marked many firsts and truly put the right things into perspective for me. Attended the wedding of my Singapore Airlines batch girl in Bangkok. This was last November – my first time being away from my newborn, my first trip since Covid-19 happened, and our first overseas…
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Boob Talk: Spectra S1+ vs Hegen Double Electric
The Spectra S1+ and Hegen double electric pump were my breast friends for the first months of my boy’s new life. Every new mother will do extensive research on breast pumps. Likewise, I read hundreds of reviews from multiple sites and new mothers forums before purchasing what I trust will suit my lifestyle preferences. I’ve…
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Boob Talk
Nothing quite prepares one for parenthood except becoming a parent yourself. At its core, parenthood is a deeply personal and subjective affair. The most important mindset I’ve adopted over the past weeks is to quit feeling guilty over ignoring anyone’s advice. Case in point, let’s talk about breastfeeding. During a regular visit to the pediatrician,…
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5 Books To Read in Perpetual Summer Heat
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”― Rudyard Kipling Whenever New York Times publishes book recommendations for summer, I go mad with jealousy. A change of season warrants a whole new category of books? But I live in year-round tropical heat! I assume we’re entitled to perpetual summer reading. As working adults…
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Lucky the Japanese Spitz | Dog VLOG Episode 1
A day in the life of Lucky the Japanese Spitz. He’s of Taiwanese descent hence a lot smaller than most fully-grown Japanese Spitz. He’s 8 years old, mixed with Pomeranian blood, loves begging for food while standing on his hind two legs, and is a crazy lover of cheese (much like his owner). Here’s a…
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French Gothic Acrylic Nails Tutorial – Nailed It!
Styling my nails today with a French Gothic-inspired manicure. With a few simple tools, anyone can give their nails a good TLC at home! What I’m using in today’s video: ♡ Gelish Colours: Loritta #25, #28, #37 Harmony Gelish #28, #1325 ♡ Acrylic Nail Tips * UV/LED Curing Lights: bought online ♡ Nail Glue: MXBON…
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2021
“Perhaps that is where our choice lies — in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.”― Elana K. Arnold, Burning Today we ushered in the first of 365 wonderful days and we get to choose how we spend every minute of every single one of them.…
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[APPEAL FOR HELP] RENOVATION HORROR STORY
[APPEAL FOR HELP] RENOVATION HORROR STORY AHEAD Dear friends, please help to share. I’m appealing for some kind of advice. Am currently being bullied into going to CASE / small claims court for a dispute over 1 simple cabinet fabrication (not yet even fabricated). The other party, Smartbox will not allow us to proceed with…
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[Qingdao] Broken bones? There’s a tea for that too
“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There’s a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother’s pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, ‘In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes’.”
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What comes to mind when you think of bullying?
I read this in We The Urban on the idea of perception: “If you are willing to look at another person’s behaviour toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time, cease to…
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[Qingdao] Starfish, Sea Urchin and Other Exotic Foods
This is a mega-post on everything worth eating in Qingdao. I’m a total travel foodie, and hence made it a point to visit Qingdao’s two most popular street food haunts: Pichai Courtyard and Taitung Night Market, For all who’s seen my Instagram stories, yes, starfish is actually edible!! Despite its tough outer skin, a cooked…
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[Qingdao] KeEr Cafe 可儿咖啡馆
We discovered a gem on Day Two, in the form of a quaint two-storey establishment nested along Minjiang 2nd Street. Drawn to its warm façade of multi-coloured stained glass windows and brick walls lined with backyard pottery, we entered through a homely wooden wrap-around porch where patrons can dine on hand-painted blue wooden furniture overlooking…
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[Qingdao] 5 must-haves on your bucket list
All beer enthusiasts would have tasted the famed export from Tsingtao Brewery, whose name derived from its city of origin in Shandong Province. Unlike most Western lagers, Chinese beers tend to add rice into their fermentation process, hence lowering a certain taste of acidity in its end-products. For the sake of tasting only the freshest…
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When writing feels good again
For quite a while I’ve forgotten how writing was my main (perhaps only) catharsis for getting a load off my chest, or when I simply needed a go-to outlet as a person who never felt a need to pour my feelings out in entirety to someone else. Throughout my schooling days I’ve kept journals detailing…
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You’ll always hate how your writing used to sound
I’m having a roaring good time cleaning out a writing folder filled with incomplete, half-assed fiction, themed articles on beauty, tech and health, as well as a bunch of incoherent poems, and God knows what else I might unearth. Painful as it is, the Recycle Bin is where they shall all go. I thought I…