For the love of food, friendship & wanderlust
‘Eli ‘eli kau mai – let awe possess me Let me start by explaining. This post is the definition of procrastination. You know how that goes, right? You think you’ll write a blog post about that awesome experience “soon” and you procrastinate and procrastinate some more. Then you realise one day that the post went
I love books. Real books. Not kindles and other electronic readers but the real deal. There’s something very comforting about the smell of a book, the sound of a page turning, and the most satisfying bit of it all is when you turn that last page and the book is done. While I believe in
There are a couple of things that are linked to your time in a place. It could be a place you have lived in or even a place you just visited – some things just stick. One of my things from when I lived in Minnesota was Coconut Cream Pie. No matter what was going
A year can be amazing and long, brutal and loving, fulfilling and humbling all at once. Sometimes, this kind of year that shakes your foundations and pushes you out of your comfort zone can leave a few battle scars. “You need to come out to Hawaii,” my sister said after her move there last year. “The island
Diwali. The most wonderful time of the year for a Hindu home. Filled with lights, colours and fancy clothing, its one festival I really look forward to every year. The one thing I don’t get excited about though is the sweets. Growing up, my sister would always jump for joy because of all the boxes of pedas and ladoos
Thai food. You can’t get too much of it, can ya? At least I know I can’t. Furthermore, trying out new Thai restaurants is quite the treat and I think should be a game. Just go around the city, trying the same dish at different restaurants around the city and playing spot the difference. Too much?
When I started this series on the blog, asking friends to bring me back treats from either their home country or places they were visiting, I was genuinely looking forward to it being a more-or-less delicious affair. It would be eating treats after all! Enter Japan as a game changer, just to make it a tad more adventurous than that culinary
Well she got me the treats and a beautiful postcard. I feel like I need to mention that or I would be lying to you. Moving along. When the other she got back from Bali, she had so many amazing stories to share about that place. We always try to do this story share after
I got to spend a delightful couple of “summer” days in Wellington, New Zealand. I say “summer” because we didn’t really get the “summer” feels while we were there. The coldest day was 13′ C with winds for which this girl who loves the winter, was under prepared. I had one rain jacket and one sweatshirt and