Monthly Archives: February 2009

Chanson

. It’s Friday the thirteenth. Not a good number to start our night off with but tomorrow wouldn’t do. They say Valentine’s Day is for lovers, but not when you have your own spouses to attend to. We have to be careful. I abandon my car, and take public transport instead. The train. You pick

Champagne

. It’s Valentine’s Day. Oh bummer. February 14 and we have to fork out a bundle for horrendously over-priced roses, greeting cards dotted with large pink hearts, gourmet chocs, teddy bears and other fluffy stuffed animals, the whole lot. And champagne for those who are ‘truly romantic’, or so the restaurants will tell us, all

Chocolat

. Xochiquetzal. That’s not a name that gets thrown around commonly, no. But the chocolatier informs me this was where it all started — the decadence, the aphrodisiac and ambrosia, the courtship and the cargo ships of wild trade — all from the Aztec goddess of fertility. They believed that this brew of bitter cacao

Seasons of Love

. We can begin again, we can start anew. It’s springtime and the flowers are just about pushing out from the ground once more. At the start of a fresh year, we have the joy from the surprise from not knowing what’s in store. We can forgive ourselves for the chances we threw away and

Persimmon Passion Flute

. The girls are out in their weekend best, their huntress garb and their Jimmy Choos. They pad and prowl in magpie packs, never just one or two. A tidings of magpies they used to call those birds; alas these birds gather not for glad tidings but good pickings if they could. A good man

The Last Days of Loh Sang

. The days of yee sang are numbered. We only celebrate the first half month of the Lunar New Year after all. Soon our fifteen days will be up, and there will be no more yee sang for us to toss, to thrill as the joys and hopes for the eleven months to come get