The Cube

The only Hoya I have heard of is actually the Hoya lens. This is nothing near a lens, in fact it is a plant. Some sort of a cactus. Pardon my ignorance, but I am not someone with green fingers. Thus far, if any plants that survived under my care are purely due...

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Super duper home made yee sang Ya ya.. I know one can make yee sang (鱼生) from scratch but reading the recipe and imagining all the shredding of veges.. I'm just not up to it. It appears that yee sang (鱼生) is traditionally only eaten during new year in Malaysia and Singapore. After all...

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I took this picture this year, don't know why it's not snake though Chinese New Year or maybe, more correctly Lunar New Year or Spring Festival (probably more politically correct version to it I suppose) is not a public holidays in Australia, unfortunately. However, at least it was on the weekend. Thanks to...

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I was contemplating of moving some of my old old posts on travel to this blog, just to keep things under same "roof". Was rather disappointed to find that one of the old blog I used to post, very infrequently has been closed down. I didn't get any notification so was not able...

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Ok, Australia Day is on 26th January. So, this post was actually delayed by a couple of days. You must be thinking what has it got to do with the photo above. Aussies don't call McDonald's as McD, it is known as Macca's (read as: Mac-kers, Mac as in Big Mac) here in Down Under....

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