Word Count: 15,700 words If we leave out today’s word count, I’m pretty much on track for NaNoWriMo. I missed a day, but I managed to do a bit more than 1,667 every day so I managed to catch up. Unlike before, I can’t really knock out 1,667 words in one sitting. I’ve found it… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 2: Identifying the reason for NaNoWriMo
While I was in Japan, I visited quite a few 100 yen stores (everyone does this, right?) and chanced upon Earl Grey Chiffon Cake mix. Since there was a chiffon cake mould just next to it, I decided to just buy it and try it. After all, what’s the worst that can happen from me… Read More Baking with 100 yen Chiffon Cake Mix
Quick questions: When do you use the acronym ‘lol’? Is there are different between ikr and IKR? When did we start using the phrase “it be” How many crying/laughing emojis do you use? Why? Is the Internet ruining the English language? Well, if you’ve ever thought about these questions, or even if you haven’t but… Read More Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
My sister texted me one day to ask why the green tea we have at home didn’t taste like the Japanese green tea she could buy in a bottle. A little intrigued and also a little worried about her suggestion to buy more bottled tea (we have at least three packets of sencha at home,… Read More I Try To Recreate Bottled Green Tea
I was super excited but a bit nervous to be starting the latest book in the Kat Holloway series. Excited because I’ve loved every one of the books in this series, but nervous because I read Flavia de Luce a while back and realise that I fell out of love with it and what if… Read More Death in Kew Gardens by Jennifer Ashley
Last year, my dad started celebrating Christmas in November when he realised that Panetone was available for sale and started snapping them up. This year, I’m ‘starting Christmas’ (used verrrrry loosely) even earlier this year with my first Christmas read: Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit. I’m not sure why I picked this up, given that… Read More Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse
We’re on Day 3 of NaNoWriMo and 440 words away from being on track. So far, I’m working on a zombie Singapore story (I don’t think it’s dystopian in the sense that it’s not really about survival. It just happens that there are zombies and it has to be managed) and so far the story… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 1: Is the 2019 Storybundle Worth It?
I saw this book while browsing in the library (yay serendipity!) and since I’ve been reading more about English history this year, I thought it would be nice to grab a historical mystery. One Corpse Too Many takes place in a monastery in the summer of 1138, as Brother Cadfael discovers that there is one… Read More One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
This was a tea that I didn’t intend to buy. I pretty much exhausted my budget for tea at Twinings and buying Kinettles Gold (mostly because I bought Kinettles Gold). But as we were wandering around the Shambles, our eyes were caught by the free tea samples and one sip of this left us hooked.… Read More Tea Review: Lullaby by Hebden Tea
I shouldn’t even have to explain why I borrowed this because I mean… the moment I saw this in Tampines Regional Library (cool library but on the other side of the world Singapore) I immediately picked it up and borrowed it. This isn’t a collection of ghost stories or a novel about ghosts – instead,… Read More The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens
