Category: Drama

Hopefully

Despite my best intentions, I am once again updating far too long after my last post. It’s a struggle to do all of the things I want to do even when I have the luxury of time. The days slip past even faster when happy and despite all my whinging,...

Amazing S***

I just finished S*** Town by Serial productions and was as intrigued by it as I was in 2016 when I listened to Season 1 of Serial. When I first listened to S*** Town awhile back, I lost interest at the very beginning as it was so different from Serial....

Thumbstruck

When I watched Mulan as a kid, I remember a particular lyric of the song, Matchmaker striking a real chord in me. My mom regularly nagged me to 快手快脚, and here was Disney declaring Men want girls with good taste Calm Obedient Who work fast-paced With good breeding And a...

Cunningham Recklessness

Well… I did something stupid. Background facts During the Covid lockdown, we adopted Loki. Loki is a pomapoo. It was August 2020, and he was 8 months old at the time. J was overjoyed. It had been J’s dream to have a dog for many years, albeit a more “manly”...

Blink and you’ll miss it.

Once again, the last few weeks have passed by in a whirl. Felix and Alexis took part in their first swim meet two weeks ago. It was very ambitious of us because they had only attended seven or eight classes before the Swimin12 Sports Day. Alexis was very insistent that...

Bloody Valentine

Since Valentine’s Day fell on a Monday this year, J and I decided to celebrate on Saturday. With kids, schooling, Loki etc. it’s just easier. Early LaLaport is yet another behemoth of a Malaysian shopping mall built on what was Pudu Jail (I do not have plans on going or...

Curbing my home ID enthusiasm. Not.

Unfortunately for J, I have been obsessed with interior design since 1995 when I discovered interior design mags in the UK. I would give my parents’ house a makeover every night like a sleep meditation exercise. I still remember walking through Ikea in One Utama for the first time in...

A splashquatch.

After many years of saying that I would send the children for swimming lessons, I finally signed them up with Swimin12 at PJ Palms Sport Centre. Yesterday was the first of 12 paid lessons following which I am guaranteed that they would be able to swim. If they can’t, they...

A piano of my own

On a car ride a few years ago, I asked my dad a random question in my usual habit. “What is the one thing you wish you had learned but didn’t?” His answer was playing the piano. The Gift. He was unsurprisingly really happy when the neighbours gave him their...

Sabar.

On our ROMniversary this year, my weekly cleaner broke the wedding cake topper that I keep as momento. It was not the first time, so the damage was pretty bad. Both bride and groom decapitated. Hands and arms broken on each. Bad omen? I definitely wondered. However, putting it all...