Isn’t this beautiful? To me it is obvious that this is drop dead gorgeous.
Yet not every one I know thinks this is beautiful. Some expects it to be beautiful and takes the beauty for granted. Some are too stressed to notice it is beautiful. Some simply don’t think it is an efficient use of the sky.
Step One: Choose the freshest fish from the ice-box and feel gleeful that your fish is the most delicious of the pile.
The house renovation is moving ahead speedily which makes it very exciting. Every day that you walk out, you’ll see new progress. All the new rooms are already up although they are not yet ready.
On Monday, the interior designer brought us out to select all the tiles we’ll need. These are the crowd favorite:-
They can be lasered in any shape to create your desired pattern. You can even form words on the floor.
Before we went, my brother and his wife already had their hearts set on a dark grey and bright white theme. When I saw this photo in one of the tiles factory, I was thrilled to bits as the layout of their private bathroom is similar to this picture - with large glass windows overlooking a lush garden.
We chose from hundreds of tiles design and left the factories as bright as sunshine. Looking forward to the renovation completion in July. 
The last time I saw SuYin was many many years and moons and stars ago. It felt so unreal to be sitting across the table from each other, we couldn’t stop snapping photos.
Then we reminisced about our schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails and having two of the “most huggable” bums in the history of Infant Jesus Convent.
After all these years, we still have that one thing in common.
I’m meeting a friend from school days whom I haven’t seen since 1996. I will usually want to rub in a huge dollop of anti-wrinkle cream and flash some bling bling when meeting up with girls from school days, but not with SuYin.
Even after all these years, I feel as though I will be perfectly comfortable with her. I would have happily met her for a roti prata in shorts and cotton tee had we not decided to meet at City Hall where the green train line meets the red.
SuYin just came back from Tokyo where she visited Afiza. Siew Ming is in New York and SuYin met up with her too when she came back for a holiday. I haven’t caught up with any of them since 1996 and suddenly feels ashamed to have kept to myself.
Suddenly I feel like I want to fly to them and give every one a hug. Some other girls have gone to Munich, London, and other big cities. I want to see them and touch them again.
Since every one has flown so far away, do you think it will be crazy for me to live in every big city of the world for a year each? I’ll start with flights to India then go around the globe…
Thank you God for making chickens and thank you for making them lay eggs. Thank you God for making wheat and thank you for making them sprout grains. Thank you God for the flour mill and the pots and pans. Thank you God for the baker, the farmer and the cook!
If you have ever visited Melaka, you will have seen this guy, perhaps even eaten the food off his wok.
Rumor has it that his wealth is stored as gold bars in a secret bank vault so no one really knows the full extent of his prosperity.
I don’t know if that is true. All I know is, his family’s recipe have famed the entire state of Melaka for Or Jian (Fried Oyster Omelette).
There is no sit-down dinner here. His food is sold in mini wrapped parcels.
After you’ve bought one, you’ll want to grab the pack and heave to the nearest Kopitiam (coffee shop) as quickly as possible. Here you can order a drink as an excuse to use the table. Then, you’ll want to open the package with your clumsy fingers.
As the golden treasure is exposed, a small cloud of smoke rises into the air, filling you with its salty pungence.
Take a bite. It is crispy and lumpy and melting and altogether too delicious.
This Kopi Tiam next to the old cinema is one of my favorite places to enjoy a good scrumptious breakfast in Melaka.
When I get a chance to come here, I always order my favorite - Kaya Toast and Soft-Boiled Eggs.
I love food that is served near a good view. The reason I love watching Nigella Lawson’s Forever Summer and Mark Gardner & Ben O’Donoghue’s Surfing The Menu is partly because of the cooking, mostly because of the views!
Since I can’t be sampling wine and cheeses in a vineyard along Margaret River in Perth, Australia, this Kopitiam in Melaka the next best place.
It is breezy enough here for me to have wind-swept hair.
My coffee!! Kopi Oh, Tze Puei!
The eggs are bowl-slurping-ly yummy! The Kaya Toast is better than Yakun’s but could be better. I suggest you keep your eyes on the view while crunching to distract yourself from its mediocrity.
You know what I realized? This is one of the few eateries that haven’t put up a huge projector screen or plasma TV mounted high up on TV bracket to screen football or cantonese soap operas. No wonder it is so tranquil here.
I think Plasma TV wall mounts are good for the bedroom or the entertainment room. Just not for dining when conversations should take lead. Get what I mean?
Dove Cresswell is a Hollywood North dog trainer. Some of the feature films she's worked on include: Saved! and Sam's Lake; TV shows: Romeo, Behind the Camera: Charlie's Angels, and Cougar Crossings; and commercials, including: The Source.
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