Laksa made easy
I finally got down to cooking laksa (nonya version) with the premix bought a couple of months ago. I had intended to do it while Matt was here but we were too busy eating other types of good food! Hee hee.
Driving and diving
After working out the travel and accommodation details, the third step of the process involves figuring out what to do. Usually Ling’s the person who plans the itinerary on our vacations including our most recent trip to Phuket, but I
Beach, night spots or rice fields
Here’s a continuing post from the last entry on flying to Bali.:) Ling was musing out loud yesterday evening while on our way home why is it that Asians are happy with 3D2N stays when the Europeans come to Asia
"I don't wanna die on an Indonesian airplane…!"
Or so Ling went the other week. OK, what’s this about? We started making plans for our second short vacation while at Ayara Hilltops, and narrowed the list of possible places down to a select few. It was going to
Flickr.:)
Visitors to our blog may have noticed that in the last couple of weeks, a widget on the right hand side has been displaying pictures. Yep, we’ve mirrored all of our pictures from the old photo album site to Flickr.
Oh the horror
The following video is a short segment from the Dr. Phil show, an American talk-show that features the titular fellow, a clinical psychologist, talking to troubled families, kids and marriages through their difficulties. This segment is about an especially, well,
Here's a little nugget… :D
Guess what, Yang agreed to go for a head, shoulder & back massage with me on the Phuket trip!! Ha ha, didn’t he and Matt say that massages and spa are just not their thing? Well, our suite at Ayara
My man does make adjustment for me :p
There are many horror stories told about how marriage is so very different from courtship. To many women, romance is one thing which often fades off when one enters into marriage. Money is another thing. For example, there are loans
She's a what?!
We’re all so familiar with the term ‘relief teacher’. Relief teacher = Someone who is hired by a school to temporarily baby-sit the classes taught by a teacher who’s on course, NS reservice, sick leave, maternal/paternal leave, study leave, childcare
Venturing into the Andaman sea
As beautiful as Ayara Hilltops was, we didn’t spend the four days cooped up in our rooms. I’d handled the travel, flight and resort arrangements with Tradewinds, while Ling was going to plan the itinerary for our stay. We’d already
Ayara Hilltops
The both of us returned to Singapore pretty close to midnight on the 17th from Phuket, pretty exhausted and deadbeat, but strangely still exhilarated from the incredible 4 day stay at the Ayara Hilltops. The boutique resort is located at
Floating in the sea
We’re writing this still at the Ayara Hilltops at Phuket – Surin beach. Day 3 was spent quite out of the island where we were on a day long chartered boat trip around the islands in the Phang Nga bay.
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