Note: This is a follow-up post to my first post on caffeine in tea, which was written about a year and a half ago. Normally, I don’t really revisit tea topics because I don’t really feel the need to re-research everything, but I came across this information in 日本茶のすべてがわかる本 and I thought it was worth… Read More Tea 101: Caffeine in Tea (Part 2)
The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction is one of the library’s latest ebook acquisitions and hence featured in the “new arrivals” section. That section is also pretty prominent in the Overdrive app, which is how I found, and promptly downloaded, the book. It’s not The Tale of Genji, but I thought it might be interesting… Read More Book Review: The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction by William C Hedberg
All the way back in October, I wrote about trying 3 different Japanese green tea cultivars and finding the differences (or lack thereof). In that post, I mentioned wanting to try devoting a week of tea drinking to each tea, something that I managed to do! As it turns out, I forgot that I wanted… Read More Trying 3 Japanese Green Teas Cultivars (Round 2)
I’m not quite sure how I found this book but I was in the mood for a thriller and this sounded interesting. The Chestnut Man is about a serial killer who hacks off his victim’s limbs and leaves a little chestnut doll behind. As detectives Thulin and Hess investigate, they realise that this crime may… Read More Book Review: The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
In a new series entitled “Bookstagram Made Me Read It”, I read The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse! To backtrack in time a little, I stumbled across a copy of Jeeves in the Yule-tide Spirit in the library last November. At the same time, I found the Four Weeks of Wodehouse challenge on Instagram. I… Read More The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
I always get excited when I receive tea so when I came home to this package from Em @ The Geeky Jock (she has an amazing book blog you should check out), it pretty much made my day. There were two teas and while both sounded amazing, Mysteaque had peppermint which I love. Plus, I… Read More Notes on Mysteaque Tea + New Owl Tea Set
Death on the Nile is a Hercule Poirot story and one that I have reread often. Spoilers galore in this post because I’m going to be focusing on the characters so skip this if you haven’t read the book! Although the mystery takes place on the Nile, it starts in England when the beautiful, rich,… Read More Re-Reading Christie: Female Characters in Death on the Nile
水浒传, translated into English as ‘Water Margin’, is considered to be one of the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature. It is, along with Dream of the Red Chamber, also one of the two that I know very little about (although I now know a bit more about Dream of the Red Chamber thanks to… Read More Book Review: Water Margin by Shi Nai'an Translated by J.H. Jackson
I was halfway through my New Year Text Messages (which are A Thing if a good number of your friends are overseas) when my mum shouted. “Hong Kong Yeye is dead!” The entire car burst into chatter and tears. My brother, normally the type that refuses to deviate from a plan, especially one that involves… Read More Grief and Gratefulness
I was making goals for 2020 when I realised that most of what I want to achieve belong to two keywords: consume and create. To elaborate a little more, it would be “consume thoughtfully” and “create intentionally”. Okay, I should probably elaborate a lot more but first: Why I’m focusing on keywords instead of goals… Read More Keywords for 2020
