Bella Italia

The photos are posted upside down in that order. This was at Bella Italia, which is the restaurant at Jesselton Hotel in Kota Kinabalu. Italian anchovies and roasted red peppers for appetizer, duck ham pizza and delicious tiramisu for dessert. Surprisingly, they are not cut throat expensive. Dessert was only RM8 for wondrously big piece [...]

Spicy beancurd soup

I got a simple recipe from a website I can’t remember. However due to scarcity of Korean products in Miri, I resorted to this other revised simple recipe. 1 cube chicken stock (Knorr and Maggi sells this in a box of 6) However much chicken you want, thinly sliced Whatever vegetables you would like That [...]

Living Skills

Between the ages (and inclusive) of 13 and 15, we had a class called “Kemahiran Hidup” which literally translated to Living Skills. It was a class that made a lot of sense to us girls even back then, what more now, when we are out living on our own. They encompassed basic electronics, wood working, [...]

Kuching

The decision to come to Kuching was purely based on the prices of tickets. I think the return tickets for the both of us cost less than a hundred bucks, hence the weekend trip. This was bought during Air Asia’s big sale last year. When we got to the airport on Friday night, we were [...]

You had a bad day

You have a bad day at work, what do you do after? I remember once reading somewhere a bad day isn’t a bad day until you let it be a bad day. Though I repeat that a million times (okay, maybe only a hundred) I still fail to come out of a seemingly bad day [...]

Exams and its kind

I have never been one who could study for hours at a go, stopping only for nourishment and pausing only to take a sip of water to save the dehydrated tongue. In fact, I could not study for more than half an hour at a time when I was back in school. And that was [...]

Simply Eaton

This is not a new found place actually. We did eat here a couple of months ago before it was closed for an extended period of time. This place serves decent nasi lemak and it is quite a cozy little place to sit down and chill. This time around we went for their nasi le’8 [...]

Food and it’s gravitational pull

My relationship with food is a long and complex one, starting from my first memories and not ending very soon. I tend to be quite picky yet I can make do with sub standard food. Most of the time it really depends on my mood and the time of the day. How hungry I am [...]

Damascus steel, Nordic handle

We were only walking to explore the riverside when we stumbled upon this specialty shop called Citadel. They hand make their knives and swords, mostly katana. Walking into that shop was like walking into the Lego factory for a kid.. I have a soft spot for knives. I went around holding the knives and one [...]

The holiday

What was bought initially as a wrong ticket blossomed into a wonderful holiday. Instead of wasting our ticket back to KL, we decided to scour the Air Asia site for cheap ticket to some destination. Lo and behold, we found Cambodia. So we’re flying there in the afternoon. Through these few years of traveling, I [...]