BITS AND PIECES Category

Sydney Stories

In: Bits and Pieces: Holidays, Location: Australia

I wasn’t planning on visiting Sydney this year.  Last year, I intimated to him that I wanted to celebrate my 10th year wedding anniversary in South Africa where we honeymooned in 2000.  I hadn’t been reading the news then, or I’d have known that the World Cup was taking place in South Africa this year, […]

We had just come back from Bali the day before, browner than normal and exhausted from the days of doing…well…almost nothing, except for eating and lazing by the pool with martinis in our hands.  The weather gods were not on our side.  Despite the sunny days which allowed us to get our tan, the evenings […]

I looked at the block of chocolate which Paprika gave me as a souvenir from London, uncertain how to react.  “This is so generous of you, but I don’t bake, Paps,” I said meekly and pushed it back to her.  “You take it and bake me something with it lah!”   For something so precious, […]

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Food, for me, is a means to an end and not an end in itself.

Food, for me, represents the love of family, the fellowship of friends, and the community and communality it brings.