botanical garden

Japanese Kimono and Javanese Belt

These are the new shirts cut from kain batik collected from Bogor, Solo, Yogya.  I like them all.

I have finished the new major kain phytocrene for Batik Komar to work on in 2014.  Now I am working on a stole design of Phytocrene that is ...

There is my painting from 1995 with the strangely beautiful light green colour.  I love this green since then and now my shirt from batik ko...

I am wearing surjan as part of my normal everyday clothings now. 

I made a few new dishes.  They are easy and very good taste. Deep-fried chicken wings and also seaside prawns with betel peppers.

This is the new Summer French Iced Tea from Mariage Freres, Paris.  The galss jar is beautiful with a cap that doubles as a measuring cup of...

I went to UBC botanical garden today in the morning to have a quick walk in the forest.  Sinofranchetia chinensis is flowering.  I love this...

Mariage Freres' Violetta (Summer French Iced Tea) is going to go on sale mid June.  The other day I found an import of tea from France a...

I took the terrarium apart in my room and cleaned up the mess and get the vines good hair cut.  Now you can see Phytocrene macrophylla, Ille...

I received my order of Mariage Freres Tea from France.  Muguet is beautiful, Ylang very fruity and Cannele I still need to try. 

Beautiful ganache chocolate from La Chocolaterie.  I have passionfruit, matcha and sakura.  The fan is my own make featuring aristolochia gr...

Magnolia trees are flowering right now at UBC botanical garden.  They are pink and beautiful, but laterly it rains a lot so it is still cold...

This is the assorted vegetable dish with a peanut sauce to be eaten with rice.  For the vegetables: baby corn, pumpkin leaves and young stem...

Thank you my friend Monika for sending me all these lovely chocolate and candies from Germany.  The Mozart Bombs are to die for.  I love the...

Spring is here and Easter is early this year at the end of March.  I love bunnies and sweet stuff!

Here is my take to celebrate Macaron Day.  I got the beautiful bedsheet made by my Mom.  The fabric is from Japan.  You can see my family in...

Today, I tried some perfume with my friend at the Perfume Shoppe.  I like the brand Parfumerie Generale the best, so we tried many of those....

I bought some cut flowers from Granville Island's florist.  My favourite is Hyacinth.  There are many colours such as white, yellow, pin...

These are the Pastiglie Leone candies made using sugar, gum arabic and the most beautiful essense of the world.  My favourite kinds are viol...