Moodboard Monday is a weekly column devoted to chase away Monday blues with creative inspirations amassed from all over the worldwideweb. Have a great week, everybody!
Ombre fantasy //via kirsty mitchell
In tandem //via mel kadel
Everywhere is inspiration //via tripod diaries
Start the day on a good note //via uniqlo wake up
Who wouldn’t love a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows to go with a good read?
The Little Bookshop conducts storytelling sessions on weekends for the children and offers membership for access to their in-house library.
The Little Bookshop
Open Wed-Fri: 1pm-10pm, Sat: 11am-10pm, Sun: 11am-9pm.
Thursday Travels is a new weekly column (yippee!) featuring sights and sounds from my wanderlust adventures. Come, fly with me, and we’ll explore strange cultures, exotic eats and everything in-between.
Just in time for the new column is this last installment of the Seoul series. Because it was a work trip, we didn’t have many opportunities to eat out. But my friend, who is based in Korea, managed to let us try some traditional Korean food that can’t be found easily in Singapore.
This huge plate of chicken and seafood is called Andong Jjimdak, which can easily be shared among 3-4 friends. There are different levels of spiciness to choose from, but we kept it safe for the chili-phobic friend.
It tastes similar to our soy chicken stew, only spicier, and it goes down really well with white rice.
We also headed down to Pajeon Alley, near Kyung Hee University, which is famed for housing numerous pajeon restaurants.
Pajeon is a crispy and savory Korean pancake dish that can be studded with various ingredients (think okonomiyaki). We chose seafood fillings which makes it Haemul Pajeon (bottom left). Another noteworthy dish is Dak-bokkeum (bottom right) which is a spicy and zesty chicken stew.
The Koreans love to drink, so we just had to try the Dongdongju (middle right); a milky and undistilled rice wine that is similar to Makkoli. The only difference, apparently, is the rice grains floating about.
This entire set you see above can easily feed 3-4 hungry people.
Dropped by the Singapore Arts Festival’s Festival Village last weekend and it was rather… boring, if you may. We loitered around the Public Garden, sat through a Bridge Café Project performance, walked under An Umbrella for 2, and that’s basically all. How I wish I was in Hong Kong for Art HK!
Because it was so hot and humid, we got ourselves a scoop of roadside ice-cream — and found a huge chunk of attap chee!
We then spotted this dude walking around with a glass ball balanced on his head (!), how amazing is that? He was very kind to perform a short act for fascinated passersby.
So if you’re free, the Singapore Arts Festival 2012 will be happening from now till 2 June. The Village may not be as exciting as promised, but don’t forget to check out their other events!
Because Mondays are almost always blue,
a teeny bit of inspiration might just help smoothen things out.
lovely prints //via hillarybird
when I was a child, the national library used to stamp on deadlines too
//via calsidyrose
I wanna live on a treehouse too //via fox in the pine
stunning stone sculptures//via streething
through the eyes of an autistic //via carly’s cafe
Have a great week ahead!
xoxo
