Category Archives: Friends

Friends

Far, Far Away

Some days we all wish to be far, far away. If only. I’m driving into the city. The middle of the afternoon, early for our dinner appointment but hey, that’s how we avoid the traffic, right? Maybe not. The cars do not move, not one inch. And when they do, one crazy Mercedes after another

Three Women

There were once three women, wise and bold, who travelled far in search of a miracle foretold. Some say they were witches, some say they were queens. Perhaps they were none such and nothing in between. Across seas and deserts they roamed afar, to chase after a falling star. Three wise women, they walked like

Simply Christmas

I am walking along Orchard Road, heavy with a blanket of artificial lights, and the gaudiness, the gawkiness of it all is deeply depressing. Hordes of Singaporeans running around for their last minute Christmas shopping, terse and tense. It’s warm, of course, humid and unhealthy. Christmas, I guess, hasn’t been one of my favourite times

Les deux garçons et la dame

As-tu déjà croqué La pomme à pleine dent? Pour la saveur du fruit Sa douceur et son zeste?   Have you ever grabbed an apple, casually from the basket of fruits that is always lying around somewhere, and simply bitten into it? Really sinking your teeth into it, not for sustenance but solely for a

Peter’s Pork Noodles

We let the alarm ring a few beats longer than normal before hitting the button to kill the noise. Too early surely for waking? We would have turned and slip right back into slumber had we not remembered: Pork noodles. Joan promised us pork noodles, some real good eating if we got up early enough.

Live Blogging

  9:37am   So. It’s November. Let’s try something new, shall we? I received an email this morning, bright and early, from the inimitable Sean Yoong of Eat Drink KL, a snippet of which went like this: the imbi place was nice. very peaceful, very pretty (got melbourne vibe, my friend said), with decent crowd-pleasing

A Joy

I celebrate the hours and the days and the weeks and the months and the years that I am alive. I celebrate all the minutes and seconds in between that I fill with laughter and good work and with simple moments of joy. I celebrate the rain that falls and nourishes the earth so that