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Klang town

The girl from Klang.

Posted on March 19, 2022April 21, 2025 by chefswifediary

Came from a small town name Klang in Malaysia, it was easy for others to overlook one’s existence especially in larger towns. Opportunities were limited unless one was cash rich. From which school I went to to which part of Klang area I lived in, people judged based on those. The girl from Klang, which…

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the end of autumn

The end of autumn.

Posted on December 10, 2021July 11, 2024 by chefswifediary

“Green calm below, blue quietness above.” John Greenleaf Whittier, ‘The Pennsylvania Pilgrim’

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rose or leaf

A rose or a leaf?

Posted on December 10, 2021July 11, 2024 by chefswifediary

“Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.” MJ Korvan

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Post Likes

Post ‘likes’ are gone.

Posted on December 4, 2021December 6, 2021 by chefswifediary

Migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is more complicated than I thought. It costed me two weeks of writing downtime and even more, juggling with temporary and permanent domains, familiarising with new features and tools, and running back and forth with support teams to rebuilding the site. Disheartened with the absence of plugin option in basic…

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Nature Capture

Posted on September 21, 2021July 10, 2024 by chefswifediary

“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf

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Nature Capture

Posted on April 5, 2021July 10, 2024 by chefswifediary

“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” —Kobayashi Issa

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Women

#choosetochallenge

Posted on March 8, 2021July 11, 2024 by chefswifediary

Since this morning, creative illustrations with #internationalwomensday and #IWD2021 flooded all over social media, appreciating women from all walks of life. I turned to my partner and asked: “Why is there a dedicated day just for women?” International Women’s Day has always been there. It wasn’t until recently when this special day catches even more…

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Landscape Capture

Posted on January 20, 2021July 10, 2024 by chefswifediary

“I’m fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.” — Matt Lanter 

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Sharing is caring.

Posted on January 19, 2021 by chefswifediary

This week, I started dedicating a few hours in exploring the topic of sustainability. A goal that I pledged for 2021 in doing something meaningful (Do something), nothing beats awareness. Sustainability topic is not a new news. We hear about it every day, especially in this part of a more mature society – Western Europe….

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Do something.

Posted on January 15, 2021July 11, 2024 by chefswifediary

Finished a long distance phone call an hour ago with a friend. I can’t help but thinking over the grievances he shared with me about his job. Admittedly, the employment market does not look favourable at present. With increasing pandemic cases, it will take a while before recovery sign surfaces. Unfortunately, Covid doesn’t discriminate geographically…

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