School is finally done today ! and the first thing that came to my children’s mind was to shop for summer clothing and preferably some  hip hop clothing they had expressively told me last night.   We haven’t done much shopping for the summer yet – because we were all busy trying to finish exams and [...]

Back home in Hong Kong, you can see these kind of walkway in the local park in most housing estate.  Walkways like these are purposely put in place for health reason.  Walking on these stones aplies acu- pressure on the sole of one’s foot – thus leading to good health – almost like going for [...]

So we finally started a book club with  some of my friends from the neighborhood – we lament that we don’t relax enough and we don’t make as much connection as we should as neighbors for so long.  We chose a touch of the Irish in this book by Colm Toibin.  The Empty Family is [...]

Wicker’s Emporium is having a no tax sale ! need I say more! taxes are like 15%  and pretty high for such a small and backwards town – so any savings is good.  I was looking for a night stand – and this comes as perfect timing!  I saw what I liked and it’s only [...]

What is this?  a must have for every family – if you want to stay healthy and germs free in your mouth.  I have often wonder how do one clean your toothbrush besides rinsing them in the sink after using them.  I too wonder many a times – how safe or clean is it for [...]

In the holiday mood already and the kitchen had been busy too – cooking for parties and storing up for Christmas parties as well.  We’ve attended a few with friends from Asia – and they cooked the yummiest food from home like this sambal ikan bilis.  And guess who was gorging herself silly?  yes! yours [...]

It is that time of the year again – where one need to decorate for Halloween – especially if you have a few kids – running around the neighborhood for treats or trick.  And because of that – one also need to get into the mode for Halloween as well.  This year – we are [...]

We had a simple get together – just us adults with some really close family friends and relatives – not very many people but a table of 20.  So I did some simple table setting to end the summer – with a dinner.  We farmed the kids out to a friend’s house with the babysitters [...]

A few days ago, I wrote about getting a ride on to mow the lawn and today after 2.5 yrs of not mowing the lawn – i mowed it!!!!  wow!! it was fun – so it was hard on the tummy because it was hard to mow around the outdoor fireplace but it was such [...]

Many friends and relative who drops in to visit always exclaimed in excitement that our house smell so nice.   I usually joke that it is all because of us, we just smell extremely awesome.  But you and I know that it is not true right? and that one can have a nice smelling house just [...]