Inaccessibility makes you crave it more. If it is there, you may not want it so much. But when it is out of your reach or difficult to get, you want it more. At the moment, I feel like eating Bubor Hitam after seeing it made on TV.. and chilled durians. *Better not think further or the list will grow exponentially* Some time ago, it was bubble tea and blueberry waffles but i got my mum and sis to buy it for me.
Pandan waffles and bubble tea top my list for Comfort food :)
Other happy food combination for me includes hot chocolate and muffins (calorie disaster i knowww)
Hot chocolate from Fresh @ Blue Mountains - YUM!! Tea with Cake..
High tea with my geog gfs some time back (I love the high tea set for two @ Royal Copenhagen)or Tea with piping hot scones with clotted cream and some good quality jam :D
Taken during my Cameron Highland tripSometimes, i want to learn how to make these delicious confectionaries. Yet i am afraid that if i do, i will overeat them. This applies to all types of food i make, or food made by special people. Still, it is good to learn right?
How nice to be a domestic goddess, and more (a lot more). :)
Do men aspire to be such too? I wonder how many guys, on top of being good in career and as a bf/husband/son/parent, want to be good in housework and the kitchen? Oh, plus will take the effort to look good and dress well?
If there are significantly more women than men in this category, women indeed have more to contend with!! It is true that more and more couples with a double household income structure share household chores too, and house-husbands are becoming more common (when the woman work and the man stays at home to look after the kids and the house). However, society still expects more from women, and also from men.
See, if men cannot provide for the family or become house-husbands, their 'masculinity' is questioned. When women become the sole bread-winners, their 'femininity' is threatened while their man's manhood diminishes. Apparently, this is all a social construct because culture and traditions shapes our ideas of 'feminity' and 'masculinity'. Is there right and wrong? No, because it is all a normative conception that is, through centuries of belief and practice, disguised and believed to be a positive one. But we can't escape cultural influences, it is inherent in us. We have been socially conditioned since we were born.
That aside, personally i believe that in the ideal world of mine, men should be the primary bread-winner. Women should work but not be burdened by clearing household debts (ha ha ha), but work to have extra income to spend, and work for personal fulfillment :) A happy job outside, internal growth and stimulation through their career, money to spend on leisure on beauty on shopping, time to hang out with her girlfriends and other friends..with lots of resources and support to maintain a beautiful home.
How do you do that with a full-time job though? Hmm, have a half-day job or be your own boss (with excellent self-motivated employees)! Flexibility is the key, and so is a car or a personal chauffer (hahahaha) So you can shuttle from a meeting with clients at 10am, have lunch with the girls at a fine restaurant at noon, go for a facial/shopping at 2, go back to the office at 4 , grocery shop/gym at 6, cook (with some domestic help) and have dinner at 8pm.... or go for a romantic dinner date and drinks etc.
As usual, i am day-dreaming. Frankly speaking, you can only achieve that if your husband earns alot of stable income AND is also free from work (mentally, physically, emotionally) in the evenings.
xoxo, principessa
PS: At the moment, i am really craving for cherries, strawberries, mulberries and blackberries.
PPS: Some pictures of my trip is available at my Flickr page.
How nice to be a domestic goddess, and more (a lot more). :)
Do men aspire to be such too? I wonder how many guys, on top of being good in career and as a bf/husband/son/parent, want to be good in housework and the kitchen? Oh, plus will take the effort to look good and dress well?
If there are significantly more women than men in this category, women indeed have more to contend with!! It is true that more and more couples with a double household income structure share household chores too, and house-husbands are becoming more common (when the woman work and the man stays at home to look after the kids and the house). However, society still expects more from women, and also from men.
See, if men cannot provide for the family or become house-husbands, their 'masculinity' is questioned. When women become the sole bread-winners, their 'femininity' is threatened while their man's manhood diminishes. Apparently, this is all a social construct because culture and traditions shapes our ideas of 'feminity' and 'masculinity'. Is there right and wrong? No, because it is all a normative conception that is, through centuries of belief and practice, disguised and believed to be a positive one. But we can't escape cultural influences, it is inherent in us. We have been socially conditioned since we were born.
That aside, personally i believe that in the ideal world of mine, men should be the primary bread-winner. Women should work but not be burdened by clearing household debts (ha ha ha), but work to have extra income to spend, and work for personal fulfillment :) A happy job outside, internal growth and stimulation through their career, money to spend on leisure on beauty on shopping, time to hang out with her girlfriends and other friends..with lots of resources and support to maintain a beautiful home.
How do you do that with a full-time job though? Hmm, have a half-day job or be your own boss (with excellent self-motivated employees)! Flexibility is the key, and so is a car or a personal chauffer (hahahaha) So you can shuttle from a meeting with clients at 10am, have lunch with the girls at a fine restaurant at noon, go for a facial/shopping at 2, go back to the office at 4 , grocery shop/gym at 6, cook (with some domestic help) and have dinner at 8pm.... or go for a romantic dinner date and drinks etc.
As usual, i am day-dreaming. Frankly speaking, you can only achieve that if your husband earns alot of stable income AND is also free from work (mentally, physically, emotionally) in the evenings.
xoxo, principessa
PS: At the moment, i am really craving for cherries, strawberries, mulberries and blackberries.
PPS: Some pictures of my trip is available at my Flickr page.
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