Frozen hard-boiled eggs
Drew this upon discovering people in New York don’t need to buy fresh eggs. Yasmine get frozen hard-boiled eggs from the supermarket. All she needs to do is pop it into the pot of soup or gravy. Wow
My Raya: doing a cooking demo at the Popular Bookfest
How was Raya? I spent mine doing at cooking demo at the Popular Bookfest at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Though I miss visiting friends at Raya open house and didn’t get to wear pretty baju raya, I consoled myself that perhaps few of the hundreds of people who watched my cooking demo would be inspired …
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A durian education
“You missed out on the durian”. “Nope, I didn’t miss out…I got a durian education!” I don’t like to eat durian but that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in it. This is what happened when I go to a durian stall with durians lovers. While they were busy eating, I was busy questioning and observing: …
Better than Fatty Crab + Failed Crab Hacks
I cook, but I don’t kill. I’ve read that one year Mark Zuckerberg challenged himself to only eat what he killed and ended up being almost vegetarian that entire year. Then I read in detailed how Tim Ferriss killed different kinds of animal for consumption (lobsters, chickens, squirrels and even a doe!). I was inspired to …
The perks of living with family
Since I moved out from my parents home, I do everything on my own: grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning etc. While I do not regret my decision (I would never have learned so much and would not have found my passion), today is one of the very rare days I miss living with my siblings (I suspect …
An equal
I am a friend, not a girl. I like to be treated like an equal, not a princess.
Creativite explorer
“Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.” —ROBERT WIEDER, JOURNALIST
Office dilemma
My good friend Yasmine and I were talking on FaceTime about problems we face at the office: Then we came up with some strategies to keep unhealthy snacks at bay, like striking a yoga pose instead of snacking when bored at work (?!) =:D
Beef on my wall
The walls in my house are rather bare and I like it that way. It looks uncluttered and peaceful; exactly how I want my home to be. So I never had the urge to put anything on it until I saw a beef cut chart at Le Cordon Bleu London. I wanted to get one …
Order and originality
Be boring and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert