Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Chee Cheong Fun


Introducing my favourite breakfast food, chee cheong fun, as fun as it sounds, it's flat rice noodles with fried tofu skin, fish ball, fish cake, and everything else off the shelf, served with slightly sweetened black bean sauce. Basically the hardest part was to put everything on a plate. An absolute no-brainer. Ofcourse I didn't make it up from scratch.

I could have fooled you..


Monday, January 13, 2014

My Deepest Thoughts, 2014


Another year has passed, right before my eyes, when tough had not been suffice to express.

365 days ago, at the very same second, uncertainties filled within me. Was I to stay, or was I to go?
More than I could have ever imagined, to be standing in the center of the road of reality, I find myself caged before decisions and struggling in a long game of endurance.

Being a servant to existence, as mandatory wants shelter, as mandatory needs assurance, as vulnerable takes life for granted, day after day I took a step forward as Hope believed in rainbows behind the clouds. Letting fear take over me. How foolish were people, who left their life of solid stability, the normality, one that I would beg for, the life of so called perfection. And still, today, I am standing where I was, my search seemed like a never ending journey. Seek forgot his intention.

Exhaustion made me a prisoner of my own dreams.

I want too much from life, yet I am not sure which part of me is willing to give back in return.

Faith, Hope, where will you bring me, where will I stand in the next year, at this very same time?



Thursday, January 2, 2014

A Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice, Brisbane 2013


This festival brings back lots of memories, never had my family and relatives missed the Winter Solstice. Mum enjoys making colourful, 'kosong' (empty/without filling) tong yuen, glutinous rice balls. The only thing that is different is, it's missing me, and I have to emphasise that Mum calls me, on the phone, to ask me to use carrot juice for colours to the tong yuen. Well, that never happened.

We both have very different takes on culinary.
The only way to resolve, is one of us has to keep our mouth shut depending who's dish it is.