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#Tea review series: Two peach teas from @roleaftea

I was pretty excited that I received the Pretty Peach White Tea because I love peach tea and had wanted to try it for a while now. There was this really lovely aroma that I just had to sit and bask in for a while when I opened the bag.

Anna's review: Okay, I'm probably biased already because it's peach tea, which is one of my all-time favourites. It's sweet enough to drink without sugar, though I personally feel that a teaspoon of sugar does help enhance the taste. However, because i...

#bookreview: The Duality Bridge by @susankayequinn

The Duality Bridge by Susan Kaye Quinn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Picking up where The Legacy Human left off, Elijah Brighton poses as the new face of the Human Resistance Movement - but he's only planning to stick around until his mother is fully healed. The ascender Marcus is hunting him down and Eli doesn't want the Resistance to be penalised on his behalf. Besides, there's a rumour of a spy in the camp and Eli don't know who to trust any more. Even worse, the more he discovers about the fugue...

Happy World Teachers' Day!

I'm taking a break from Music Monday to celebrate World Teachers' Day!

This is for the wonderful people I've met who have worked with/are currently working with/going to start working with Teach for Malaysia:
Ken Ming, Yue-Yi, Phui Yee, Wan Ying, Victoria
(And probably a bunch of other friends that I don't recall work with TFM because it doesn't appear on my FB feed.)

Also, for the long-suffering Yuin-Y.

Thank you for the work you do.


(Infographic courtesy of Grammarly)

#Fridayflash: Yearn

We are aching for the real thing

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Pei hated her new home. She hated the dry sand and the harsh winds. She hated the dust and the dirt. She longed for - she paused, wondering what she truly longed for. It wasn't the wet and the cold, surely. She'd complained enough about those. Maybe she just longed for the familiarity of the thing. She just didn't know how anything worked here, if they did at all.
Give it time, Alan had said. She had. She had given it one year, two months and four days. It st...

#Tea review series: 3 samples from @roleaftea

A couple of weeks ago, I received a batch teas for review from the RoLeaf.


Now that's kind of a lot to review at one go!

I'm an avid tea drinker but this is the first time I'm actually going to write reviews (What do I say? How do I describe them?) so I'm just going to put down my thoughts about the tea.
I'm also adding a section called "How I would describe this to my mum" where I compare the tea to more common teas (because she always asks "what does it taste like?")

Here's my review of the fi...

#bookreview: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini Flint

A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini Flint
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In the second instalment of Inspector Singh, our overweight, turbaned inspector has been sent to Bali to assist with the investigation of the Bali bombing, despite the fact that he has no experience or expertise in bombings or forensics or even anything remotely connected to terrorism. Then amidst the rubble and the mess of bodies, the skull of one Richard Crouch is found, with an undeniable, unexplainable bullet hole.

Saddled...

#musicmonday: Burn Like a Star from Rend Collective

We were born for greater thingsWe were born to chase Your dreamsCome my Lord, awaken holy fire
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It has been a Rend Collective week. I heartily recommend "The Art of Celebration".
Also, this makes Friday Flash difficult. Hmmm.

Here in the Waiting

I was going to write a flash fiction, but I was busy and

OH LOOK!
HERE IN THE WAITING PROMO VIDEO!



Also, Josh wrote a blog post. After something like 5 years. Well, maybe 4.

The challenge of waiting is keeping a heart alive with hope. While it is true that “hope deferred makes the heart sick”, it is also true that “a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” The question I asked myself often in the process of creating this album was: What do I desire? The answer to that question determines what we do...

#Bookreview: The Heir's Choice by @MGerrick1

The Heir's Choice by M. Gerrick
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I actually finished this book about 3 weeks ago, and then life happened before I could review it, so I read it again!

The Heir's Choice is the sequel to The Vanished Knight and starts with Callan's insistence on going to meet her grandfather, King Keill of the elves, despite everyone else's warnings and protests that she's making a really bad decision.

There's something of a love quartet going on here - actually kind of like 3 guys going aft...

#musicmonday: Kau Yang Terelok by @yeohjo

KAU YANG TERELOK
(Mazmur 45)

Hatiku meluap dengan kata-kata indah
Kepada kekasih jiwaku
Kuingin menyampaikan sajakku kepada raja
Kaulah kerinduan hatiku

Inilah segala nyanyian kasihku

Kau yang terelok, kau yang terindah
Di antara anak manusia
Kau yang terelok, kau yang terindah
Yesus Raja

S'perti meterai pada hatiku
S’perti nyala yang ada padaMu
S'perti meterai pada lenganku
Ku mau mengasihiMu

(c) 2015 Joshua Yeoh | JoshuaOneEight Productions

Loosely translated into English:

(Psalm 45)

My heart overflows with...