Foodnotes and Fieldnotes since 2010
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 [...]
News update: Singapore finally announced that it was entering Circuit Breaker Phase 2 last June 19, 2020. This meant most establishments were allowed to open up. For example, dine-ins are now allowed but with safe distancing measures put in place. Gyms are allowed to operate (sadly, I had to terminate my membership because the circumstances [...]
During these extraordinary times, I’m sure you know that there comes a breaking point when a bite of comfort is inevitable, and when that breaking point comes, one must succumb to the pull of the palate. I have been dreaming about the elusive St. JOHN Custard Doughnuts for a while now, which are filled with [...]
Hey, there. Wow, it’s been a while since I wrote here, and to think it’s only now in this pandemic that I’ve started writing again. To say that 2020 is a strange year is such an understatement. To be living in these times feels like a dream—I always tell my friends it’s like living in [...]
Mikka Wee 