awe

after all these years, i am still fascinated by how some girls are able to dance the night away in killer heels.
me? i can’t even handle trotting around in them for more than two hours them.
not that i have a vast collection of heels of course.. i have no more than five pairs (i think), [...]

grandpappy

looking back, i realised that there was so much more that we could do to relive grandpa from his cancer-related pain.
palliative care for him was rather dismal, and the hospice nurse barely educated us on what do with my bedridden grandpa who was so ill by then that he couldn’t even muster enough strength to [...]

cuisine d’amour

it is strangely fulfilling to potter around the kitchen toiling over the stove, and i sometimes even swirl around my neat mise-en-place while stealing mischievous bites from the pot ala nigella lawson (with none of her bosomy sultriness of course), and even more so looking at him pick up the very last crumb from [...]

frugal valentine’s

because we are saving up for our upcoming hongkong trip, because i refuse to let the bloodsucking restaurants have the last laugh and lastly, and because i really don’t want to jostle with the rest of the lovelorn couples in town.
so we decided to do valentine’s (and also our 5th month together) our way.
expenses incurred:
4 [...]

milestone

today marks the first day of the rest of my (healthier) life.
i finally made my debut on a treadmill just now, and though bf and i only lasted a paltry 20mins or so in the gym.. it was already a feat considering how discussions on our fitness, or lack thereof, first started even before we [...]