Sketching food
I show my love for food in many ways. I don’t only like to eat. I like to read and write about it, hack, cook, style, photograph and draw it. Maybe one day I shall participate in #klsketchnation
Finding my capsule wardrobe
There’s an article on FT about how millennials are anxious about appearing too often in the same outfit (Title: “Shopping: Retail’s Holy Grail”). That’s rather alarming as I’m trying to do the opposite. I want to put a ‘positive constraint’ in everyday things like choosing what to wear and channel those energy and time into …
This is one of the many reasons why I won’t sacrifice sleep:
“When I am sleep-deprived, I feel like I don’t have full access to my brain” – Maria Popova
It’s the penny-farthing!
We like to debate who’s smarter. He believes that he taught me a lot of things and hence he’s smarter. I seem to always amuse him with random facts he didn’t know, so I think I’m smart too. Here’s a conversation at the Edo-Tokyo Museum Sara on a penny-farthing, wearing a chained t-shirt dress c …
10 things I did in Tokyo
My last trip to Tokyo was more exciting to me than any other trip. When I was sixteen, I went on a student exchange programme to Japan and told myself that I’ll be back. As it was very memorable to me, I remembered my feelings and thoughts then, hence able to compare and contrast to …
I don’t want whatever I want
“I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?” – Coraline
Doing the Miss Universe Makeup
Last weekend, Manda came and taught me how to put on Miss Universe kinda makeup. I requested a one-to-one makeup session as my belated birthday gift (Our family values time and skills over gifts) So Manda bought heaps of products over: primer, foundation, putti, eye palette etc. With them, Manda did some magic on me. …
Your body is not for looking at; it’s for doing things
Like other girls, I think about beauty a lot. How to attain it? How to resist it? How to subdue it? Why is it so powerful? What is beauty to others? What’s my definition of beauty? This is one of my favourite perspective of beauty. We will always desire it, but it is not the …
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I’m a full-fledged hakka moi
I made hakka abacus beads! I believe in humanity more than ethnicity. I also introduce myself as a Malaysian when I go overseas, not Chinese and definitely not Hakka. Once in Hong Kong, a local ask me “So Sara, where is your family from?” and I answered “Kuala Lumpur”. She actually wanted to know from …
Stay strong
“Kia kaha!” (stay strong) -NEW ZEALAND MĀORI PHRASE