Washing Dishes

Dinner was a success. You tell me I cooked a good meal. I beam. Time for washing the dishes. You insist on doing it. I say okay but I offer to dry the clean dishes. And so we get behind the kitchen sink, a two-person conveyor belt. Rinse, soap, scrub, rinse, dry, shelve. All the


Sit-ups and Thai Omelettes

We’ve had a long day. Driving from one place to another, errands to run, shopping to do, movies that we miss (an unexpected full house), slow and satisfying meals… it’s a pretty perfect little Sunday. Now we are back home. It’s late in the evening and it doesn’t seem like we’ll be having dinner. “I’m


The Missing Photograph

“I can’t find it,” I say. “Can’t find what?” you ask. “That picture of the French toast we had at Kim Gary. It’s missing.” “It can’t be missing. Have you tried the external hard disk drive? The black one?” “I have.” “The other external hard disk drive? The white one? Have you tried that?” “I


We Eat. We Pray. We Love.

“You guys really like eating and travelling, don’t you?” This question from a friend took me by surprise, though perhaps it shouldn’t. Devil and I haven’t thought about this much – we just love discovering new foods to savour and new places to experience. And all this eating and travelling can be quite a spiritual


Lazybones

There’s no need to get up early today. Tomorrow’s Wesak Day and a Saturday so today’s a free day. We wake up late, very late. We cuddle in bed discussing what we are going to eat today — from breakfast to dinner. By the time we get out of bed, it’s too late for brekkie,


Instead

The alarm clock didn’t go off. We woke up late. Instead of panicking and moaning, you tell me you’re gonna take half the day off. Let’s go have breakfast in a place we haven’t in awhile together. Let’s have nasi lemak and then come home and nap some more before dressing and going to work.


The Coffee Beans

“Here, hold it like this,” you instruct. “A little bit lower.” “But the beans will fall off the dish if it’s too low,” I warn. “Not too low then. A little bit to the right now.” The girl from the café smiles. She is used to the two of us, arguing back and forth over