Tea at Cher’s is always interesting because she’s a woman of great tea resources and has all the interesting teas. So after our tea blending experiment, we continued to just drink from her collection of tea. One of the teas that she brought out was this gorgeous Yunnan Purple Bud (云南古树紫芽苞). Look at how gorgeous… Read More Trying Yunnan Purple Buds (云南古树紫芽苞)
There’s a Wonderland exhibition going on right now, so obviously I’ve got to read something Alice-related while waiting for my friend to finish Alice in Wonderland so we can visit. Ever Alice sounded like it was right up my alley, so I was really excited to read it. As you can expect, Alice’s tales of… Read More Ever Alice by H.J. Ramsay
I talked about this in my review of How Not to Fall Apart, but my mental health hasn’t been too good lately. The glass wall that isolates me from the rest of the world has been appearing a bit more frequently and I’ve been wanting to cry and generally feeling like the whole world hates… Read More Breaking the Smartphone Addiction: The Start
I totally missed this the first time I visited London, but when my dad told me that he wanted to visit the Greenwich Royal Observatory and see the prime meridian, I started to look at what else was in the area. That’s when I found out about the Cutty Sark. It’s the last surviving tea… Read More Visiting the Cutty Sark
This was a book that came at the perfect moment. It’s been a tough time for me lately and I needed to hear from someone who has gone through something similar to what I did (although Maggy faces much greater challenges than me). I stumbled across these lines in the first chapter and I knew… Read More How Not to Fall Apart by Maggy Van Eijk
When my cousin asked me about getting a tea bar for his wedding, I decided to volunteer. Or rather, I decided to ask Cher about it and we volunteered to do it, reasoning that with Cher’s contacts and my um… ability to plan, we could do a tea bar at a low cost. Well, the… Read More Experiments with Tea: Blending Black and Green Teas with Rosebuds
After Nicole posted about Sarah Dessen books being adapted into Netflix movies, I had a sudden hankering to read another one of her books. I first read The Truth About Forever (still my favourite book of hers) in Secondary School and binged everything back then, but many years later, there are new books for me… Read More Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
One of the things I’m trying to do this year is to meet with more friends. Since I am normally the first to arrive (since I hate being late and will overestimate the amount of time it takes to go anywhere), I brought this along. Not only is it the perfect size for my bag,… Read More The British Home Front Pocket-Book 1940 – 1942 compiled by Brian Lavery
The 2019 edition of the Singapore Tea Festival (STF) is over! I’ve got to admit, even though I was working there the whole three days, it’s all a bit of a blur. Most of my time was spent solving problems or working the registers and when I wasn’t at the event, I was helping at… Read More STF 2019 VIP Bag: First Look
The back of Twinings’ Golden Rose Hearts has the following description to describe the tea: “Handmade using a traditional Chinese technique known as ‘Tuocha’, a single rosebud is placed into black tea leaves and compressed into a heart shape. When infused in hot water, the rosebud delicately scents the strong, brisk black tea.” I was… Read More What is Tuo Cha?
