Foodnotes and Fieldnotes since 2010
CALL ME SENTIMENTAL, but I am truly romantic by nature. March 11 has always been a significant day for me, as it is the day I uprooted my life from Manila and moved to Singapore. It has been seven years since. Initially a move done in the name of love, this journey has evolved into [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Falling off the grid is my favourite thing to do when I feel like I’ve had enough of life, which explains my radio silence for the past month and a half. April was a month of letting go and making tough decisions, while May instantly opened up a new and good chapter in my life. [...]
It's nice to be writing online again. In fact, this blog is actually more than five years old already. I used to have my own "official" website in two versions - a .com and a .net - but things got weird, and I lost both domains. So I just took it as a sign to subscribe [...]
Alone Time Sometimes, I write like this. About my day. Like Waking up to an empty apartment. Making a cup of coffee. And then Deciding I want hot chocolate instead. I love the apartment. The whiteness of the walls, the creaminess of the couch. The location. The cozy. It is home. But not so much [...]
Mikka Wee 