a Secret Recipe for failure

some weeks ago i found myself at Secret Recipe in Malacca. in Malacca. of all the places we could have gone to in a town famed for incredible Peranakan cuisine, we had to collectively gravitate towards the most convenient and familiar place: a shopping mall. now, Secret Recipe isn’t bad. their pastas are pretty decent, [...]

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of cabbages and queens

i keep promising myself i’ll keep a diary. not a diary where i write down my thoughts, but a notation of what i did from day to day – can’t remember it otherwise. i’ve forgotten what i did every single day of the past month, and twitter isn’t much help since i don’t really tweet [...]

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a real quick update (for zw who apparently checks this everyday)

this place has been dead, i know, and it stopped being alive just when someone died. i really do have several posts in limbo – on Kow Leong Kiang (since july), on some of the best Italian food i can find around here (at Buonasera), a sublime braised cabbage i can’t stop talking about, on [...]

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colours seem to fade

a friend’s father died yesterday; i found out this morning, and cried for most of the day. it’s not as though we are best friends, or even close friends who hang out often, who confide in each other. thinking back to my reaction – the overwhelming rush of sadness was for him and for the [...]

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visitations, guitars and chocolate

time goes by far too quickly; sometimes – anytime at all – i take a mental step back from the present and think to myself, this is a moment; it’s gone. it happens especially during conversations. i listen and watch intently, trying to preserve words and motions in my head. how can i preserve this? [...]

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