Silv's Journal

The Singapore Flyer is an amazing feat of technology made of 1800 tonnes of steel. Standing at 165m tall and 20m taller than the London Eye...

This is the third and final installment regarding Foreign Domestic Worker (FDW).  The online orientation program highlights the rights of a...

As a follow on to my Foreign Domestic Work (FDW) blog, below is an account of the process we went through to engage our helper. So for the...

It’s been a long time coming but nearly two years since moving to Singapore we finally came to the conclusion that we wanted a full-time hou...

Wanting to use whatever I had on hand, I trolled the internet for a pumpkin & potato soup and came across this little beauty. Fun to ma...

Four days ago we had the honour and privilege of attending our friends' wedding on Bintan Island, Indonesia.  Lindsay and Marc are South...

Bintan lsland is the largest of 3,200 islands in the Riau Archipelago and the third largest of twenty seven provinces in Indonesia. Locat...

I always find that when I can't come up with something for dinner, like tonight, a good ole' and quick frittata always saves the day...

On a whim I purchased a Betty Crocker chocolate cake mix to find out that it doesn't come with the frosting as many other pre-packed cak...

I am Romanian by birth with the language skills of an 11 year old which was the age that I left the country for Down Under Oz. During a re...

Together with my daughter, we spend enormous amounts of time painting, painting and some more painting.  Not an artist myself, I ran out of ...

This dish is inspired by a recipe from A Taste of Singapore cookbook and my desperate need to know what to do with two large white fish fil...

On a recent shopping trip with Trinity, I came across Mega Puzzles' latest jigsaw puzzle design.  With the patent pending the latest jig...

Fellow cook, Jenny Filips, posted this very yummy soup on Facebook's Homemade Recipes Group.  Immediately I made it and devoured it with...

A year ago I wrote about my love affair with my new iPad.  Since then, it continues to be loved dearly along with all the other digital gadg...

There's not much to be said about this recipe other than that my sister has been making these Vol Au Vents for about 21 years.  They ...