The Art of Cooking Risotto
I love risotto – it is one of my favourite winter comfort food. I have also been very intrigued on how to make the perfect, creamy, yummy risotto for a long while. Two things have prevented me from mastering the art of making risotto sooner rather than later. One - my husband doesn’t particularly like the dish – nowhere near as much as I do. Two – unlike other dishes I have made, risotto is, by far, the most slow-transforming dish I have ever come across. Stir-fry...
Read MoreLiebster Award
My sincere thanks to Lou Schwarz for nominating me for this award – I am very humbled. Rules of the Liebster Award: 1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog and link back to their blog. 2. Answer the 11 questions from the nominator, list 11 random facts about yourself and create 11 questions for your nominees. 3. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 11 bloggers who you feel deserve to be noticed. These blogs must have 200 followers or less. Leave a comment on their blog to...
Read MoreThe Impostor Gardener
Those who know me well would concur with this statement: I don’t have a green thumb. Nada. Zilch. Gardening, except from the concept of watering plants to make it grow, was very much an alien concept for me. I didn’t know the first thing about planting. No idea about which plant would survive in what weather conditions, nor how to continuously care for them to ensure they would last for more than a week. All of this… ignorance (for lack of a better word) changed when our...
Read MoreReflection
Standing by our hotel bedroom’s window in Jakarta, waiting for the clock to strike midnight on 31 December 2012 and the fireworks to start, I found myself reminiscing of the year that was. A friend of mine asked these 3 simple questions, so I’m going to take a leaf out of her book and use it to base my reflection. Highlight(s) of 2012 Definitely one of my most prominent highlights of 2012 was the career move I made from an office environment to a school-based one. I had been warned...
Read MoreDefining Moments, Part II
As Monday greeted the start of another week, I began a new chapter in my career. I had been pre-warned, from various sources, of the vastly different setting I’m about to enter into. Working in a school, even if you’re not directly related to working with the kids, is very different to the corporate, office environments I’ve been so used to all my professional life. And truly, I thought I was prepared for what was to come, thinking that the ‘worst’ I had to deal...
Read MoreDefining Moments…
There had been many of these in the past month. First, my work colleagues threw me a lovely farewell on 20th April – three weeks before my actual last day. And even though I was fully aware of the event, I wasn’t prepared for quite a few things. Like the fact that my work held a short liturgy for my farewell, complete with a nice reading from the Book of Proverbs; this was usually done for someone who had been in the company for eons (like, in excess of 20 or so years), and moving...
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