Like China and Thailand, Austria has a Lantern Festival celebrated on November 11 (along with Belgium, Germany and Netherlands, other European countries have theirs too in a different form). It is the the Feast of St Martin of Tours or Martin…
Love Actually
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that….
Prague-tically
One of our recent trip was to Prague, early October — a somewhat confusing month for the weather. ^_^ Normally, October is a cold month as autumn has begun in September and rain sometimes pour along. It has been like…
Old School and My Style Icon
For the sake of Girls Talks’ theme last week, albeit late, I’m digging out this photo – a 14-year-old photo of my bestfriend and I. That’s also when we were into the 40-45 kilos range. (lol) I was the first…
Louis Daguerre on Google Doodle
Louis Daguerre, father of Daguerreotype and co-inventor of the Diorama was honored by Google with a doodle. It is a vintage photo frame with the google letters dressed in clothes of an earlier period, say 1800s, set in black and…
Scrat on Second Short for Ice Age 4 (Continental Drift)
Our beloved and tormented Scrat continues his quest to retrieve an elusive nut in this short film, sort of a teaser for the 4th installment to one of filmdom’s most loved animated franchise, Ice Age. The fourth part, Ice Age:…


