Magical Bangkok
Bangkok is charmed with contradictions. Skyscrapers and temples co-exist side by side. Tranvestites and monks live peacefully next to each other. Even hawkers aspire to serve from a grand dining hall.
Something for everybody
For my neice and nephew, this post is PG16. I was so surprised to see this banner hung not so discreetly at the expensive neighbourhood of SS17. The chinese word says "Good looking male masseur". May be there are a lot of lonely puan sri and datin in this neighbourhood... Sigh...
Genting Highland
This is taken out of my hotel room window at First World Hotel in Genting. Weather has been fluctuating. Genting staff shared that it was colder some 5 years ago. Guess no where on earth escapes global warming. Some nights were extremely cold. One of my participants told me the best way to keep warm is to take hot shower. I tried and it worked for half an hour, after which I literally sat with warm socks cuddled up like eskimo.
The Little Feet
I designed this for my sister Harimau to commemorate the opening of her home childcare center in Perth. Little Feet , Plitter Platter no Small Feat !
Uh-oh, just learnt from Path-finder is "Pitty Patter..". Got to redraw again.
Warm Pumpkin salad
Business has been good but work-life balance takes a toll. Decided to declare a holiday yesterday 4pm because my brain was seriously dead. I had to turn a blind eye on two more folders of workshops scripts that are yelling to be completed and told Lilian my partner that I ain't going to work....at least not until Sunday 3:30pm when I need to fly to Bangkok for a training.
It is extremely easy to let leisure time succumb to pressure of work. My workaholic mind automatically cooperated by luring me away from yoga and fresh salad. Instead there is this lazy vocie that is inching me towards comfort food and TV.
Something decisive has to be done before I turned into a big fat coach potato, both physically and mentally. So pushed myself to get up at 7am and had a good talk with my workaholic brain so that it will simulate a holiday mood. Surprisingly it did work. I sat enjoying coffee and 3 books simultaneously, but no fashion or gossip magazines.
For dinner, I whipped up a warm pumpkin salad. It must have been implanted into my subconcious mind by the big Halloween pumpkin sitting at the supermarket entrace two weeks ago.
~ Ingredients ~
Pumpkin stewed with dried shrimps, shallots and garlic
Fresh salad
Raisin
Deep Fried white button Dutch mushroom
Balsamic vinegar
