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Shanghai Mooncakes
This slightly melancholic mid-autumn poem is on the surface, lamenting a million-mile distance from one’s lover and the solace of gazing at the same moon, but actually it’s a very clever metaphorical reflection on how life itself, and by extension the history of mankind is an ancient and unchangeable series of coming together and apart, happiness and sadness waning and waxing like the shadows and imperfect wholeness of the moon.
CA-MT-WY-WA Campervan Road Trip Guide: Harvest Host Stays, Bear Spray Hikes & Alpaca Farm Adventures
CA-MT-WY-WA: Have van, will travel. A campervan was Iggy Goh’s idea of rolling travel and accomodation expenses into one, he also found a great resource called Harvest Host, for an $84 annual subscription, you can stay at 4000 farm, winery and attraction locations across the US. These provide safer private land overnight parking,
Pacific Northwest Family Adventure: Literary Road Trip Through Farm Stays & Natural Wonders - From Multnomah Falls to Seattle's Monster Trucks
CA-MT-WY-WA-OR: Multnomah Falls to Bend, Oregon to spend time with Dad’s roommates and Purdue swimming alumni families.
Scenes From The Road
CA-MT-WY-WA-OR: scenes from the road. Some lovely photos the boys sent to reassure me that they are managing well (although I do see a fair amount of instant noodles!)
Backyard Fresh Veggies
Lunchbreak lobang: I have new doozies, I’ve just been too snowed under. Many years ago at school, I was assigned as a secret santa for a girl in the younger class. One thing that impressed me was that she was quiet, polite and gentle but every note I received from her was timely, thoughtful and neat, it was like she was incapable of colouring or scissoring a line crookedly.
Homemade Childrens’ Nasi Lemak
Kid-friendly nasi lemak for dinner! Showed the boys how to squeeze the blue colour out of the blue pea flower.
Browned Butter Prune and Pecan Cinnamon Croissant Buns
Thank you for your kind wishes! This was my birthday bake- browned butter prune and pecan cinnamon croissant buns. They were very good.
People always ask, how do you have time to bake, which I find an odd question. I stress-bake and I make time for it.
Announcement
This Chinese New Year, Iggy Goh and I are so pleased to welcome Wesley James and Paxton James Goh, 6 lbs 3 oz and 6 lbs 6 oz, to our family.
Kyushu is the best roadtrip, a dramatic wide open low-density country with colours and cragginess reminiscent of the US. We took the train past the Mazda factory to Fukuoka and drove through Beppu, with its steaming hillside sulphuric aquifers, pausing in the charming Diagon Alley-like gourmand town of Yafuin and the narrow and expensive ryokan-strewn cobblestones of Kurakawa Onsen;