My dad had a craving for afternoon tea and since it was raining, we decided to drive to Marks & Spencers. Afternoon Tea is pretty pricey in Singapore (unless you take the local version of teh + kueh) with most hotels offering tea sets for about SGD 45++ per person but to my surprise, the… Read More The Cheapest Afternoon Tea in Orchard (is at Marks & Spencer)
This turned out to be a surprisingly hard read. Not because it was bad (quite the opposite, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time) but because I got too excited about the ending. Even reading the last few chapters didn’t help, the tension was just that high. In Glass Houses, Armand… Read More Glass Houses by Louise Penny
I was going through the tea cabinet, looking for teas for the sipdown challenge that Northern Teaist mentioned. Apart from finding a few white tea flower buds that smelled a bit suspicious (I haven’t quite decided whether to sipdown or throw), I also came across a packet of tea that I’ve never seen before. While… Read More Lavender Tea (?)
I stumbled across this book while browsing through Overdrive and knew that I was going to read it someday because it’s related to the World of Genji project I’m doing. I kind of put it off for a few weeks because it looked a bit intimidating, but I told Pan Pan about it and basically… Read More The Search for the Beautiful Woman by Cho Kyo
Last week of NaNoWriMo and I’m so happy to still be on track! I broke the 40k mark today so if I can stick to the same pace that I’ve been doing, I can definitely hit 50k words by Saturday. I’ve also put up a little bit of what I’ve written on Wattpad – it’s… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 4: Almost There
I normally wait a while between series (although not too long) because I have too many books on my TBR list but I enjoyed Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit so much that I borrowed The Code of the Wooster straight away. In The Code of the Woosters, Bertie reluctantly goes into the lion’s den to… Read More The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
I know it’s not a great idea to start something in the middle of NaNoWriMo, but I’ve been wanting to do a tea exchange for the whole year and still haven’t gotten around to it. So, why not now? Presenting… the 2019 Tea Exchange! I’ve done versions of this in previous years on Dayre, this… Read More 2019 Tea Exchange
It’s another Kickstarter book! Anytime I see a Kickstarter for a book on myths, legends, and/or folktales, I just can’t help but back it. Especially if I’m not familiar with those legends. Stories from Saxo is a collection of Norse tales from the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus. His work, Gesta Denorum (Deeds of the Danes)… Read More Stories from Saxo: The Other Norse Myths by Ian Cumpstey
I saw this in the library and couldn’t resist! It’s my first documentary that I’ve watched about tea (I’m really more of a book person, as you can probably tell) so I wasn’t sure what to expect. The Meaning of Tea isn’t a history of tea, rather, this show goes around the world and looks… Read More Documentary Review: The Meaning of Tea
I’m a little late with this update because yesterday involved a lot of moving between countries (which sounds impressive until you realise it just involves getting stuck in the causeway jam between Singapore and Malaysia). I did get about 450 words in so I decided not to push it at night – I want to… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 3: Staying the Course
