Challenge 3: Swap junk food (high sugar/fat/salt) snacks with healthier snack options. Result: Throughout the course of the week, my junk food snacks were being substituted with healthier options – the cream biscuits for … Continue
Challenge 1: Swap takeaway dinners for healthy home-cooked meals Result: This week I swapped often for sometimes. 6 out of 7 dinners were healthy home-cooked meals. Not a bad result, but I did have … Continue
As an ABC (Aussie-born Chinese) in my late 20s, I was wondering if the current Swap It, Don’t Stop It campaign has any value for me. Having moved from Sydney to Perth for … Continue
Chinese New Year is a time for well-wishes of happiness and prosperity, lucky red envelopes and firecrackers to ward off evil spirits. Though the thing I’m looking forward to most is the sweets. Here’s … Continue
The basketball season for 2010 is finished and our Slanted basketball crew are standing tall and proud as the undefeated champions ending the season with 8 wins and 1 draw.
You hear stories of people travelling to their native motherland, meeting relatives for the first time and finding themselves in their roots of familiarity. I had hoped for a similar experience, but instead was … Continue
To all those people who think yellow boys can’t jump or are too short to play ball, they ought to come down and check out our Slanted basketball team
On Friday 24th September, I attended the Telstra Women’s Business Awards luncheon. It was the NSW state finals and I was stunned at the end that none of the finalists were Asian. It was … Continue
Last weekend I went to my parent’s place to have dinner with them and their friends. I was surprised how a night with a group of older Asians brought out my custom training, which I … Continue
When I was young I only knew of two types of tea – English and Chinese. Little did I know that English tea originated from and is a type of Chinese tea. From China, tea has … Continue
