I like your quote and it's very true. Like I believe in many things moments are what make up your life so make the moments as positive as you can. Love yourself and others will as well. Positive attracts the like and so does negative. Like fireflies those that emit light attracts others that do as well.

-from bubbamichael

feels like sunday lunch home...

a random feast... i must say... started from Filipino national fish called bangus

fried milkfish (daing na bangus), some vegetables (mushroom, laing, etc), green salad with bits of yellow mangoes, chicken adobo, cured pork (tocino), and some vietnamese snacks plus maldivian dessert (much like leche flan).

backpackers' family house...

the yin and the yang are the basic opposing forces - negative and positive, dark and light, cold and hot, male and female which keep the world and all life spinning. because they are opposites they need each other to make the whole. out of the tension which arises from the attraction of opposites comes the dynamic of life...

- found this at Orangutan House, Jonker Street, Malacca, Malaysia (photo with Charles Cham... www.charlescham.com)

how is langkawi?



everyone asks when we arrived from the chinese new year break and what am i to say? the northern malaysia trip was special not because the beaches of malaysia are good or not...



what made the trip interesting... we went to pulau tuba which is not the langkawi island itself but a smaller island. quite a few boat rides (marble jetty!). not much tourists - off the beaten path. we experienced the rural life in malaysia... with our malay families cooking for us. i remember my childhood days in the farm of my grandfather. food - nasi goreng, nasi lemak, laksa, crabs, the mangoes with chili sauce (not for erika). najwa and i went for an early evening walk, twas relaxing and uncanningly familiar...



what else??? here are some photos...