Foodnotes and Fieldnotes since 2010
IT IS DIFFICULT TO LEAVE A BUSTLING CITY SUCH AS BANGKOK and not feel a certain degree of inspiration. My first trip outside of my home countries, Singapore and the Philippines, I flew to Bangkok for a work trip. And while it has been a good three years since I last stepped into the Land [...]
WRITING HERE AGAIN AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR feels like coming back to an old lover. It feels familiar and soothing — with just the right amount of uncertainty and awkwardness to keep it intriguing. A homecoming of sorts. I took a personal hiatus because I shifted career paths, and as life eased back to [...]
Living in this pandemic-stricken period, I have been forced to introspect a little bit deeper than usual, which led to a need to declutter digitally. I had tons of photos from my phone (27,638 to be exact) that have spanned from 2018 until today. It is now 2021, and the digital declutter and organization has [...]
I am a New Year’s kind of girl. I have always relished the idea of clean slates, blank canvases, the idea of cleansing, healing, a meaningful sweeping away of the past and the ushering of the new (present, future, etc.?). And, of course, I am never not found with my artillery of goals and resolutions. [...]
Apart from my diaries and journals, one thing that I have consistently owned in the past decade is a planner. Yes. I've loved planning ever since I was young, because I liked having the idea of knowing what I had to do in a day (even during my vacations and trips). My days could get [...]
There is a song from the hit musical Hamilton that is entitled, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story”. I am living, and I am here to tell the story of Rocket, a nine-year-old Maltese who gave us the biggest joy of our lives. Rocket died last Wednesday, the 21st of October at 9:29am. [...]
Andre was mentioned that he wanted some satay bee hoon for dinner, and upon his mention of this messy, hearty dish, my mouth started to water. I knew we had to satiate this craving. - I’ve been living in Singapore for four years now, and I’ve turned to satay and satay bee hoon as a [...]
Hello! It feels so nice to be writing again. So, I guess, this will be the first of its kind on my blog, but I wanted to start writing about my journaling habits and my journaling journey because honestly, it’s a habit that has religiously stuck by me ever since I was a child. There’s [...]
I never really considered myself to be a “morning person”. I’m the type of person who relishes sleep as much as she does sandwiches—so much that reading all these articles about successful people waking up at 5:00am nauseates me. Because I could never be that type of person who wakes up at 5:00am... ...or so [...]
The onset of July brought about another contemplative season. I was forced to put things into perspective, living in this pandemic, and to think hard and clear about what it is that I really want in life. One of the things I am proudest of in my 30 years of existence was to have begun [...]
Mikka Wee 