Category: Off Beaten Track

Not to make light of such situations usually – fortunately no casualties as far as I know – but this is one major case of mis-calculations. The scen...

Saw this quote at a cafe the other day. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well. Virginia Wolf While I am not exactly a “fo...

A mental “snapshot” from a few months ago, just before my month-long sojourn in Argentina. I went to a birthday dinner last night – mine, as a...

Although I have pondered on this in the past, I was reminded by a friend recently that sometimes it is not only advisable but essential to let things go and emb...

Will be going to a friend’s wedding tonight. Guess too late to suggest to them? But pretty neat, wouldn’t you say? 😉

Happened to see this bit of info on the Discovery Channel on Sunday which kind of got stuck in my head. The show was called “Time Warped” which cons...

Having been in this situation once, I can certainly sympathise with this lady who apparently went off the boil when she missed her flight to San Francisco at th...

Learned something new today. Kueh kapit (also spelled kuih kapek) is a thin, crisp cookie emblazoned with auspicious words and symbols. Also known as love lette...

I guess it pays – literally – to be a regular customer, because for the first time, I got a latte on the house today!