New Year Flowers and Fruits
New Year’s about new beginnings. Ten days before the New Year, I trim our “Mai” trees to encourage them to bud. This means picking all the leaves off the trees and then trimming away the overgrown branches so the blossoms that appear can be admired against a beautiful frame. Our largest “Mai” is 8 feet tall … Continue reading
“THE” New Year’s round the corner
Yes, it’s that time of year again! Lunar New Year’s coming up on Friday 31st January. As you all know, I got stuck a little trying to start 2014. But, the Green Horse Year is coming in at a galloping pace and I’m all ready to catch it and hop onto the saddle. Heart Guy’s … Continue reading
Traditional Popiah Redux
Blogging at the fabulous Spoonwiz site today – http://www.spoonwiz.com/traditional-po-piah-redux/ Yet another paean to popiah (my favourite dish)
The Pope is gone, my mother-in-law is dead, but life goes on…
This week Pope Benedict 16th steps down, the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years. At the University of Tubingen in Germany, the theologian Hans Kung, author of the forthcoming “Can the Church Still Be Saved?” hopes for a new spring for a fading church. But in the Mekong Delta, in my husband’s family, life flows on uninterrupted like … Continue reading
White paper – Its not about 6.9 million, it’s about hearts
The debate about the Population White Paper has unsettled me It’s the week before the Lunar New Year. Normally, this is my time for trimming our Vietnamese mai trees, baking pineapple tarts and Indonesian layer cake, getting my popiah filling ready for the family re-union dinner on New Year’s eve and arranging the flowers and … Continue reading
Lunar New Year
It’s New Year again, the real one just after the stroke of midnight at the end of a Lunar New Year, when the moon’s disappeared to God knows where. This is when I step out, new clothes on (even to the underwear inside). When I breath in, New Year morning midnight air all around. And … Continue reading
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