vera wang's unsolicited advice for murderers - jesse q. sutanto (2023)

rip-roaringly hilarious heartwarming and delicious detective-story-friendship-journey-minor-rom-com-foodie-document featuring the mother of all chinese tiger mothers.

i enjoy this from the moment vera marches out of her apartment to take her morning constitutional and the dénouement when it comes is all the more satisfying for being expected and so-unexpected.

excuse me while i go and hunt out more of susanto's books.

banana bread

is just an excuse to eat guzzle butter.

yes i confess!

but HOM's b-bread, based on J2's recipe, is really rather good.

solo

HOM travels without me, which is a rarer occurrence these days. this makes for solitary dinners and a cold bed. it's a good thing i still have E's company and a good appetite.

l'inattendu

a reminder that my day needs to make space for the unexpected unplanned unsought unforeseen and unscheduled, just as Someone makes space for unprepared and unworthy me. 

morning walk

september downpour

drenched and squelching

the end of the year approaches! yeah! (brrr)

bao er cafe, holland v

as a kid we said, best.

as youth, we said, solid.

today i inhale and enjoy. yummo.

bodies

we meet a posse of young-ish runners this morning. 

here are two thoughts they inspire:

• one young man running shirtless is ok, especially if he has a nicely developed six-pack
• a posse of men running shirtless is overpowering, especially if they are a little endowed

that's the polite version of my thoughts.

how medicine works - f. perry wilson (2023)

useful and readable introduction to evidence appraisal. with a dash of faintly maudlin idealism thrown in. but he is generally charmingly likeable and i've enjoyed his medscape columns in the past.

it makes for a refreshing change from elderhood which if you recall suffers from much depressing verbosity.

new kaya toast joint*

crispy toast dripping kaya cold butter

especially abundant cold butter

BETTER THAN YAKUN

yesssss

*bao er cafe

lost in space

i receive greetings for a non-existent birthday from a professional organization i no longer belong to.

failure of information management, if you ask me.