Wifely Steps

Thanks to these 5 lovely ladies for kicking off The Ref Door Project! Can you spot the banana on Anna Banana’s ref door? Talk about fusion! Iska has Korean stuff on her Chinese ref door! Check out Daphne’s ref door to get an idea of how well-traveled she is. Meeya’s ref door can serve as [...]

Taking a break from work. Write one word that you associate with the given item. Write down the first word that comes to mind okay? I’m tagging all those reading this right now!

Here’s what we have on our ref: magnets of H’s favorite movies and some local TV shows, souvenir magnets from trips, a grocery list pad, a picker-upper thank-you note from H’s officemate, my magnetic poetry magnet (no poems though because there’s no more space!), a medicine prescription, and some cute magnets given by friends.We used [...]

Ah, the classic blueberry cheesecake. What could be better than biting into its creamy cheesy goodness and letting the gooey sweet blueberries burst in your mouth? Sublime, sublime. Sadly, that wasn’t my experience when I ate this particular cheesecake. The crust was terribly dry and fell apart the moment I tried slicing a piece off [...]

Happy Anniversary! Click on each flower to take you to each of my Marikit sisters’ blogs. Thank you Tin for sharing that it’s been a year of good friendship, for keeping our group together and for always guiding us. Here’s to more years of Marikit sisterhood!

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts Sheila, Gigi and I have been friends for 8 years now. We’ve seen each other at our most glowing moments (stellar careers, lovelife highs) and our worst (career dilemmas, hangovers by broken hearts). While our [...]

Why does it look weird if you top a spoonful of rice with crabstick, mangoes, cucumbers and mayonnaise? But if you roll them in a perfect Maki way like this, it looks so appetizing? Thank you Japan! And I just learned that in other countries, they’d use avocado instead of mango in their California rolls. [...]

If I were part of South Park, I’d look like this… And H would look like this… Cute ‘no! Create your South Park character here! Have some fun today. Enjoy!

Click to enlarge. Mouse over for captions. I’ve always been fascinated with this board game. I enjoy watching my piece and my co-players’ pieces progress through a simulated life by landing on good spots (Win talent contest!) or bad spots (Ski accident!). We pick out careers, get married, have babies (sometimes none, sometimes so much [...]

These are a few of my favorite things upon coming home. No talk of work is allowed. No bright fluorescent lights or harsh airconditioning. No clocks ticking to a bomb of a deadline. Just pure relaxation, moving as slow as you want, feeling the warm wood beneath your feet. You take no orders from anyone [...]