Photo Hunt: Sweet

One of my all time favorite holiday sweets is salt water taffy. It always brings back fond memories of driving up to Cape Cod with my family when I was a kid. So you can imagine my joy when, on our recent trip to the Oregon coast, we found a little candy shop in Florence [...]

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My New Best Friend

I finally did it! I bought a digital SLR! I’ve been pining over the Nikon D40 since it came out in December, and this weekend, I finally bought one.
Thanks to the advice of the wonderful Sijbrich, along with some other friends, I had settled on the D40 quite a while ago (but I will admit [...]

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Goodbye KL

Sadly, the time has finally come to say our official goodbye to KL…
The movers came and packed our entire house just about a week ago. The house went from this:

to this:

to this:

in record speed thanks to the fabulous work of the Asian Tigers Transpo relocation team.
I wasn’t there for any of the packing because I [...]

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Dinner on top of the world

My first time in a revolving restaurant! On the top of the super-high Menara KL tower!

Last week we had a (very expensive) dinner at the Menara KL Tower restaurant with our wonderful friends Darby and David (who are moving to Taipei, Taiwan in a few weeks):

In all honesty, I wasn’t expecting much. These kinds of [...]

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The Perfect Malaysian Souvenir

With only one week left, I’m trying to find the perfect Malaysian souvenir – for myself, of course! Something extra special that I would not normally buy, but also something that I could actually use, and proudly say “it’s from Malaysia!”
When we left Germany, my school gave me two beautiful Villeroy & Boch crystal decanters [...]

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Photo Hunt: Shoes

One of my favorite things about living in a tropical climate is never, ever having to wear “real” shoes. Just sandals and flip-flops will do. Here’s a cute pair I bought in Bali last October:

What kind of shoes do you like?

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Non-stop

Phew! I’m on a whirlwind of “last weeks in Malaysia” craziness! We are moving in less than two weeks and trying to make sure we fit it all in before we go. Over the next week and a half I need to:

Finish out the school year – grading, writing report card comments, clean out the [...]

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One Word

I was tagged again by George for this “one word” meme.
In all honesty, I’m not really a big fan of memes. I’m very flattered when people think of me when they are tagging, but it’s not really my favorite thing to do. They remind me of those dreaded chain letters from when I was [...]

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De-clutter your life

In a recent issue of one of my favorite magazines, Real Simple, there was an article about de-cluttering your mind.
The article recommended throwing away 50 things that weigh you down or have negative memories attached (magazines and catalogues only count as one thing no matter how many you throw away). The idea is, [...]

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Photo Hunt: Art

I love art! All kinds of art. I wish I could create my own art, but unfortunately, I do not have the talent….
Alex and I used to have so much fun exploring all the art museums in Europe – especially because they are almost always free. Very often we would spend a Sunday just hanging [...]

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