FollowBarely 24 hours after Christmas day and our neighborhood supermarket has already started to change decor and food stuff on their shelves today! The faster they change, the faster the kaching comes in! 
I’ll wager that by tomorrow, CNY songs will be blasting away. Oh no CNY is less than a month away! I don’t…
All posts in December 2019
Winter Solstice & Eve of Christmas Eve 2019 (21 & 22 December 2019)
My big brother Raymond from Singapore always tries to make a trip back to either Ipoh or KL to celebrate his birthday with our family. His birthday falls on 22 December, which is Winter Solstice festival. This year the celebration was held in KL. Despite an unfortunate car accident that happened on his way to…
Reunited Again
Jenn (pic below – long blond hair in black shirt), my childhood friend from Ipoh since kindergarten came back from Seattle for a holiday and we had a short meetup over lunch on Monday. The last time we met up was in October last year. The four of us pictured here have been friends since…
Dental Braces
Today is dental appointment day for all 3 girls. Alycia’s due for her monthly change of braces wire and I took the other 2 girls to have their teeth checked. Sherilyn has opted to wear braces to fix several flaws on her teeth. She will require extraction of 4 of her molar (just like Alycia) after…
Best in the World Cream Puffs and Chocolate Eclairs
Our baking queen went on a sudden baking frenzy again. Just because her dad brought us to Lee’s Frozen to stock up on butter, UHT milk and whipping cream, her hands were itching to whip up a new recipe. And this is by far the yummiest bakes that she’d produced. Everyone including her very critical…
The Yummiest of 2 Worlds ~ Crème De La Crème’s Artisanal Ice Cream & The Tokyo Restaurant’s Burnt Cheesecake
On my eldest daughter, Alycia’s sweet 16th birthday on 5 December 2019, I took her and her sisters to The Tokyo Restaurant (TTR) @ Lot 10 to sample the launch of something incredibly yummy – the marriage of Crème De La Crème’s artisanal, beautifully-crafted ice creams with TTR’s famed 6th Avenue Cheesecake (burnt cheesecake). This marriage…
Kak Jat Ikan Bakar @ Jalan Bellamy and Vintage 1988
I was itching to taste some Malay food today and hubs brought us to one Kak Jat Ikan Bakar on Jalan Bellamy. There are a few stalls on this road selling the same dishes and specializing in grilled fish. As far as choice of fish goes, you get pari (stingray), kembung, terubok, tilapia, and more. There’re…
Asia Junior Got Talent Finals, 1 December 2019
The Asia Junior Got Talent Finals held on Sunday, 1 December 2019 at the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS) saw 48 extremely talented finalists competing to vie for the first prize of USD1,000. Some of the talents are from China, Norway, Indonesia and Thailand. Competition was so stiff that I really didn’t think that…