not a food blog
I’m starting Sunday (today) with a slightly posh breakfast at the Swood Coffeehouse, hahah. Ari has been watching some IG Reels of steakhouses and since we shared a same brain cell for the past 15 years, we decided to go here. Swood Coffeehouse is a part of Swood Smokehouse, with the latter’s specialty, smoked meat, [ ] --- The post Sunday breakfast appeared first on coriander in pho .
I have been spending quite some time in Xiaohongshu (Red Note/Little Red Book), a China-based social media, and on one video, I heard this song (slowed and reverb), the video showing a view from a train going through the cold northern part of China. Someone asked on the comment section what song was this, and [ ] --- The post Fly (飞) ANU appeared first on coriander in pho .
And now, I need Agatha Christie. I wrote, and said that, to myself when I closed the latest book that I read; a popular work of murder mysteries which somehow signed as horrors, and a confirmation that one should start writing on their personal space first before trying their hands to publish a publicly available [ ] --- The post “The Mystery of the Blue Train” by Agatha Christie appeared first on…
It was clear you were so annoyed with the previous two books. Why are you still try reading this one? Each one of them is RM 70 at Kinokuniya. Times three, RM 210. That alone can buy all four of us decent meal at Salmon Dee Kap. I have to finish this. The conversation [ ] --- The post “Strange Buildings” (2023) by Uketsu appeared first on coriander in pho .
Yes, the second book of the trio. Just like its siblings, I qualified this book as a quick read. I spent roughly 90 minutes reading this one, post-dinner. After two books, I found myself asking this question: Horror where? I… don’t understand why they marketed the trilogy as horrors. I’m a wimp, and I even [ ] --- The post “Strange Pictures” (2022) by Uketsu appeared first on coriander in pho .
It seems like for this type of person, the human being behind it doesn’t count at all. Every “content” someone puts out is a meme; further ammo to use to further their view on their own situation, or as self-promotion on their own internet presences. The source is forgettable and irrelevant, because in 5 minutes, [ ] --- The post Seeing the person behind the piece appeared first on coriander in…
This book, “Strange Houses”, is a part of a trilogy: Strange Houses, Strange Pictures, and Strange Buildings. I noticed that the “Strange Houses” book has been having more popularity than the other two, at least in Kinokuniya Suria KLCC, which perhaps due to this title was the debut title of the writer, Uketsu. Uketsu is [ ] --- The post “Strange Houses” (2021) by Uketsu appeared first on…
Last night, I scrolled on my YouTube app to find something to watch (I have been working on spending more time at long-form media instead of quick dopamine hits/doomscrolling) when I found that TV Tokyo has been uploading full episodes of Solitary Gourmet on YouTube. This series is one of my favorites, and I mentioned [ ] --- The post Solitary Gourmet on Youtube appeared first on coriander in pho…
I used to bake a lot. Despite my usual protests and grievances about baking, as baking is a precise art whereas cooking is a whole YOLO approach, I used to bake because I felt like we could always have more spinach quiche and chewy chocolate cookies in the world. That said, I stopped baking back [ ] --- The post Back to baking! appeared first on coriander in pho .
Fiiiinallyyyyyy! I finished this whole box! (I still have two more boxes to read.) I honestly can see why it s written the best of Poirot on the box jacket, because they are! In no particular order: The ABC Murders is such a page-turner. I forced myself to stay awake in the middle of the night [ ] --- The post The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie appeared first on coriander in pho .
I was in the kitchen, preparing for dinner, when Ari entered the kitchen and said, There is this chef wait, perhaps a competitor in a cooking competition. They prepared sashimi, right, and for some reason, the judges were like, Your sashimi is good, but you will need to elevate it more. How do you [ ] --- The post The Kamogawa Food Detectives (2013) by Hisashi Kashiwai appeared first on coriander…
I have been plagued by this memory of a beauty YouTuber, short hair dyed red, with stacked eyeshadow pots. This YouTuber was one of my go-tos whenever I m looking for a makeup tutorial, and while I had some of her videos saved on a playlist, I found out that she set her older videos to [ ] --- The post A trip down the memory lane of beauty YouTubers appeared first on coriander in pho .
There is always a sense of doubt whenever I want to talk about classics. Mostly because classics are usually, well, classics and well-known. That said, during my search of when should we consider something is no longer need spoiler warning? on search engine (Startpage on the browser Vivaldi, if you must), I found this: The [ ] --- The post Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie appeared first on…
I wanted to write a post here, but then I realized there is a plugin conflict going on between Gutenberg (just updated, roughly 3 hours ago from the time this post is written) and Yoast (last updated 7 days ago). While the conflict itself didn t crash and burn the site (phew!), it s quite intimidating to [ ] --- The post The Art of Sarah (2026) appeared first on coriander in pho .
There is one song on my Last.fm list that I could never find on Apple Music or Spotify. Heck, I even had to scrape it from Youtube to make it into MP3 version so I can listen to it on my MP3 player. It s BKAB by Ethan Stoller, and the song can only be found [ ] --- The post BKAB Ethan Stoller appeared first on coriander in pho .
This week, we went to Jakarta for Eid al-Adha and Java Jazz 2026. Java Jazz is one of Indonesia’s prominent music festivals since 2005, also one of the largest jazz festivals in Asia, even though I would say it has been… debatable, considering there have been non-jazz performers taking center stage. It used to be [ ] --- The post This week’s photodump (Java Jazz Festival 2026) appeared first on…
The sunsets are usually really pretty on August and September, but it seems like the reddish hue appears earlier, as early as May. The rain started to subside, replaced with perpetual sunshine. --- The post Entering the Months of Glorious Sunsets appeared first on coriander in pho .
While this blog post is generally harmless, and I have been a strong supporter of a healthy mindset on food and body positivity, a conversation or topic on body image, especially weight and food, can be quite triggering for some folks. If you got triggered by talks on food and diet culture, and you are [ ] --- The post Officially graduated from my dietitian! appeared first on coriander in pho .
Next project: Intermediate Theme Developer I want to develop themes that sing praises for the 2000s. I always feel we could have a bit more 2000s-era whimsy. --- The post Next project appeared first on coriander in pho .
JW: And along those lines, what do you think about the speed of the the internet (for lack of a better term – like more than social media but less than anything-over-https) and how much that’s affecting people and how we feel about the world around us. AD: One of the reasons the internet feels [ ] --- The post The fast Internet appeared first on coriander in pho .
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across this blog post: Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? (OOT: I miss StumbleUpon), and in my usual FOMO fashion, I mused on the idea of subscribing to Flickr Pro. I have been using Flickr for quite some time, but it stopped a couple of years [ ] --- The post Flickr Commons appeared first on coriander in pho .
Another post, mostly because it got so great of an itch and I really need to jot this down here. I have been dabbling in journaling for quite some time (Journaling: How to?), but for the life of me, I can t seem to find a method that sticks with me. I tried bullet journaling, buying [ ] --- The post Journaling slump appeared first on coriander in pho .
With the risk of being called a pick me : I am not one who usually is celebrating Mother s Day. Without dwelling on details, Mother s Day has not been an integral part of my life growing up. The whole thing has been Complicated. That said, I am now a mother of two, and Rey, the youngest, [ ] --- The post Mother s Day brunch appeared first on coriander in pho .
I have been stepping away from social media (Threads) little by little recently, starting with registering on Mastodon, and I genuinely enjoy their non-algorithm timeline. You will only see stuff from folks that you follow. That s it. I am still around on Threads, though, but I limit myself to 10 minutes only. Earlier, I tried [ ] --- The post Stepping out, one at a time appeared first on…
We had soto ayam Lamongan for dinner yesterday at a place that Ari has been eyeing for quite some time. His bike buddies have been raving about this place for quite some time, and even though Ari and I usually go to the area for breakfast at Restoran Rose, it was always early in the [ ] --- The post Warung Soto Lamongan, Kuala Lumpur appeared first on coriander in pho .
The Boring Internet But it has one enormous advantage over the platforms that replaced it in your imagination. No one owns it. --- The post The Internet is Dying appeared first on coriander in pho .
Google Chrome is silently installing a 4GB AI model on each of our devices without consent, says Alexander Hanff, a prominent computer scientist and lawyer. According to him, that’s both illegal and extremely costly for the climate. Guy finds Google Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI model on our devices Hence why I m [ ] --- The post Google: Don t be evil. Who? Me? appeared first on coriander…
Earlier today, I saw this news on my Threads timeline: Guy finds Google Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI model on our devices. I must confess, I am still using Google (Chrome and the likes; especially Chrome) on my laptop and my phone, mostly due to the convenience. That said, I m already sick of [ ] --- The post Some short updates appeared first on coriander in pho .
I’ve been noticing some blogs that I frequently visit that they have update logs on it. Something like “added page XYZ on (date)”, and so on. My FOMO has been screaming for me to follow suit, hahah. --- The post Update log? appeared first on coriander in pho .
After so many months and weeks of hemming and hawing, I finally got myself a Garmin watch. I have been feeling frustrated with my Apple Watch, mostly because it needs to be charged daily, and I reeeeeeally can t be bothered by it. I also dislike the whistles and bells that come along with Apple Watch, [ ] --- The post Finally getting myself a Garmin appeared first on coriander in pho .
I have been busying myself with bloghopping and checking out blogging communities/webrings for the past week, thanks to the renewed sense of excitement in blogging after checking some blogs on Neocities, and I found this one particular community: IndieWeb. I was initially skeptical about myself joining the community, mostly because, from where I come from, [ ] --- The post In the name of…
I rarely saved post drafts when writing a blog post because I usually able to ramble in a short period of time, until today, I decided to write about how I designed this blog (sidebar, cute background, pixel-thingy, and the likes.) Suffice to say, it’s, uh, long. My dormant Happiness Engineer-soul came back in full [ ] --- The post Long post appeared first on coriander in pho .
Whenever it’s “(month name) in pictures”, I always come into realization that I rarely took pictures of my surroundings, and mostly my food pictures for my food log. Anyway, here are some of the pics I took in April. I also starting swimming lessons in April as I want to improve my swimming skills — [ ] --- The post April in pictures appeared first on coriander in pho .
I finally finished C-drama “How Dare You?!” (2026) last week, and just recently, I started watching “Pursuit of Jade”. My friends have been watching it on Netflix and they have been raving about it ever since. I also saw similar positive reactions on /cdrama subreddit, so I’m quite excited! I usually talked about C-drama series [ ] --- The post “Pursuit of Jade” C-drama series (2026) appeared…
I don’t think I ever got the privilege of seeing someone working on something big/major, until now. I guess. (Alright. I should ve mentioned the fine folks at Automattic for their hard work in developing WordPress and Gutenberg.) I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It At first I made it so [ ] --- The post Friendster is back, with a twist appeared first on coriander in pho .
The dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory that asserts that, since around 2016, the Internet has consisted primarily of bot activity and automated content manipulated by algorithmic curation. This alleged coordinated effort aims to control the population and reduce genuine human interaction. Supporters of the theory claim that social bots were deliberately created to manipulate algorithms…
I was blogwalking and found a post by swissmiss (Subscription Cost Visualizer) so I wanted to give it a try. While I couldn t find subscriptions for website host and domain name renewal (Hostinger and WordPress.com) readily available, I was able to added them manually along with additional subscriptions such as Kinokuniya Bookstore membership. I also [ ] --- The post Expenses and subscriptions…
OK, so, yesterday I revamped this blog, right. I m not sure what happened, and it might be due to me opening several tabs of the same thing (Site Editor) at the same time and saved stuffs on some tabs without, you know, saving the others which caused cache hijinks, but I noticed weird things yesterday. [ ] --- The post Le wild multiple templates appear! appeared first on coriander in pho .
I have been busy redesigning this blog after several obsessive visits to Neocities. I thought Neocities was just another website hosting place, until I found out that it s not just a website hosting place. It literally a place where 2000s blogs thrive. I even found most of the bloggers are using imood! (and yes, I m [ ] --- The post Bring it back to the 2000s appeared first on coriander in pho .
I found a couple of red onions, tucked under regular onions, sprouting in my kitchen. I did realized them have been sprouting for quite some time, but just now I found the time (and the will) to plant them, in case there will be green onions later on. I also took the time to tidy [ ] --- The post Red onions appeared first on coriander in pho .
She handed me the comic book, finally! It s a shame that the publisher didn t make it available outside Indonesia, hahah! This is a comic book, Indonesian comic book, titled Abdijiwo by my sister. I honestly don t have any words to write here, other than an immense pride of having my own little sister publishing a [ ] --- The post Abdijiwo (2021) by Retno Widya appeared first on coriander in pho .
I love how this song is filled with pantun (Melayu poetic form). Berbolak balik berdolak dalik, lidah bercabangAlways twisting your words, making excuses, speaking with a forked tongue. Kau memang suka jaga tepi kain orangYou really love to meddle in other people’s business. --- The post Temberang Mimi Fly appeared first on coriander in pho .
Translation: Who likes to romanticise living in the colonialism era? You might want to learn the story of Pinah; a 10-year-old native Indonesian girl, taken away to the Netherlands to be a slave and treated cruelly Source This reminds me of a Threads post, saying something along the lines of “a lot of us [ ] --- The post “I was born in the wrong era”-thingy appeared first on coriander in pho .
Saw this site mentioned the other day on Slack: neocities.org. Scroll down and you will see “Featured Sites”. Never knew it brings back early 2000s, and it makes me so, so happy. --- The post Neocities appeared first on coriander in pho .
My son, a teen, has been doing the “night-time tidying up” task; that is, tidying up, cleaning up, fluffing the pillow, all those stuffs, in the night time before bedtime. That said, with a teen handling house chores, it also comes with some “rizzed up friends”. “Mom, Mr. Ducky is falling asleep in front of [ ] --- The post Post-bedtime appeared first on coriander in pho .
Back in February, I did something. Not exactly an extravagant thing, but still interesting nonetheless. It was this: It was Ari (my husband) who tried it first out of curiosity, even though he felt the need to do so because his family has a history of diabetes. He then told me that he bought himself [ ] --- The post Health update appeared first on coriander in pho .
Seen at Tasik Bandar Sri Permaisuri, Kuala Lumpur. --- The post Urban rainbow appeared first on coriander in pho .
A month too late, but I just stumbled upon IKEA France’s Tiktok video, hinting a possible collab with Animal Crossing. Unfortunately, no further information about this other than IGN picked up this news when the video was posted. --- The post IKEA France and Animal Crossing (possible) collab? appeared first on coriander in pho .
My jaw dropped when I saw this website: https://moonlit.exposed/ UM. YES. HELLO. WE NEED TO BRING BACK THIS KIND OF BLOG AGAIN. I MISS THIS. this site feels most at home on a computer screen. on phones, it sometimes loses its sense of space Shoutout to https://blogroll.org/ for being that cozy corner on the Internet [ ] --- The post bring back this kind of blog appeared first on coriander in pho .
A study published in 2018 tracked how much coffee people aged 18 to 24 drank in the course of a week and compared it to their cholesterol levels. The researchers found that the more espresso-based drinks the participants drank, the higher their cholesterol. What You Need to Know About Coffee and Cholesterol Additional readings below: --- The post What You Need to Know About Coffee and Cholesterol…