There’re actually both upsides and downsides of getting older by the years. On the downside, there was that time round outside Hougang Mall when a flag-seller referred me to as “Uncle”. On the upside, I get to start counting down
Seeing that Ling’s shared about her experience of learning music, I figured I should put my take on it too. Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch, basically refers to the ability to tell a note without a reference note first. So
I’ll just keep on humming. With his rare gift of perfect pitch, Yang would often just snort “out of tune” from under his breath. I have long come to accept the truth about my musical nature; me = nothing very
As much as he tried to play it down, I know that darling was very happy with our latest acquisition. A colleague saw our new car and told me that she, too, had placed an order for Nissan Latio just
It is no joke to be burned by a tiny, red fruit – the chilli padi. It happened to me on one of those days when all the hard work poured into cooking turned out disastrous. Yeah. I was into
This is not the Western cake with the stredded orange root. It is an Asian dish. Actually, its name is quite a misnomer as the main ingredient is raddish. There’s no carrot involved at all. I got the recipe from
(This one’s continued from the last entry.) I didn’t find McCullough’s subsequent books as refreshing as the first, so aside from computer city-building games based on the Roman empire, over the last decade I didn’t find similarly engaging material to
This one’s a long post, so I’ll need to break it into two posts. Two of the most powerful non-fictional books I’ve ever read are Citizen Solders by the late Stephen Ambrose – the book was incidentally one of the
Yang can attest that when it comes to buying groceries, I tend to over-estimate or ‘over-buy’. Of course, my rationale is “What if the thing I need turns out to be insufficient, dear?”. Then we would fuss over the item
I have been trying out cheese cake recipes lately. I prefer those lighter versions while Yang likes the heavier, creamier types. I found a very good recipe for the cotton soft Japanese cheese cake from this website. I followed the
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