Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

"What was it about a season’s first snowfall, Mariam wondered, that was so entrancing? Was it the chance to see something as yet unsoiled, untrodden? To catch the fleeting grace of a new season, a lovely beginning, before it was trampled and corrupted?" (79).

"The brief and interminable time of feeling suspended. The not knowing. The waiting. Like a defendant about to hear the verdict" (156).

"But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn’t, in the end, save it all"(164).

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls" (172).

"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion" (229).

"It is a hope as weak as my heart. This I know. But I will be waiting. I will be listening for your knock. I will be hoping" (360).

Nail polish from Sephora and Muji (pink color).







::Inle Myanmar
$7 Set Meal, which includes appetizer of gourd fritters or tofu fritters, main course, and desserts/drinks.
Hsanwin Makin (Semolina Cake)
Tea Leaves Rice
Fried Seafood Hor Fun and Tofu Fritters

Butter Flavoured Rice with Pork Curry

Tash Aw, The Harmony Silk Factory

"He was far too inward-looking and concerned with the neatness of his clothes to notice her. Living with him would have been like gazing at the stars. A marriage could not be happy if the husband was prettier than the wife, that much she knew" (76), narrator on Snow Soong.
"When I remember the things we did I seem to be recalling events from a very distant past" (127), Snow Soong on her relationship with her husband.
"These are the things I have already lost, I know, but what will happen to the memories? Will they remain or will they slowly fade away as old photographs do, bleached to nothingness by sunlight? " (130).
"Memories are things to be buried. They die, just as people do, and with their passing, all traces of the life they once touched are erased, for ever and completely" (285).
"For a second I thought that tears had begun to form in my eyes but I blinked once, twice, and realized that it was just the dust…" (362).

Bakerzin's Moonlight Magic Assorted Traditional Treasure (combination of 2 Baked Skin Mooncake Magic & 2 Baked Skin Mooncake Traditional) at promotional price of $28.65 nett. They are having Mooncake Sale until 31 August 2009.
♠♣♥♦Mooncake Magic: traditional baked skin with Bakerzin egg yolk blend.
♠♣♥♦Mooncake Traditional: traditional baked skin with melon seeds.

Osaka Saikasen

Red bean and chestnut filling. So so if not disappointing.

Lychee flavor filling. Not bad but not good either.

I am still trying to figure out what flavor it is. Too bad I don't know how to read Japanese. The flavor for each kind is actually written on the package. Red bean filling. Forgettable.




Nice wrapping isn't it? I wish the mochi wrapped in it was just as good. Really, appearance is deceitful.

Colors of nail polish from Sephora ($8 each)
Assorted mochi from Nippon-Ya ($15). More on this later...
::Fortunate Restaurant @ Wisma Atria Food Republic
Beancurd Shrimp Roll ($3.50)
Fried Shrimp Dumpling ($3.50)
Bamboo Pith Dumpling ($4)
Shark Fin Dumpling ($4)
Pork Dumpling ($4)
::Ayam Penyet Ria
Prices don't include GST.
Avocado Juice ($3.50) =DD. A good cure for homesickness.
Teh Botol Sosro ($1.80)

Ayam Penyet (Smashed Chicken) ($6.50) =DD.