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Potpourri

Durian Chocolates

My sister, fresh from Malaysia, has brought us a lot of souvenirs and goodies bought in Langkawi and Kuala Lumpur. How sweet! Among the things she gave us was a box of chocolates – with a twist! Ever heard of the King of Fruit, otherwise known as durian? (How exactly this pungent-smelling, thorny fruit could be called the King of Fruit, I don’t know.) Now this is something I haven’t heard of before (pardon the ignorance!) – durian chocolates!

Durian box
Here’s the box of durian chocolates, simply titled, “Durian.” LOL

 

chocolates inside
Aww…the chocolates even come in three varieties of shapes!

 

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It’s Dyahhhhni!

My mind’s not working.

Or rather, it’s working so hard nowadays, I couldn’t slow down to blog. I’ve an upcoming conference next week (nooooo!!!), and I’m up to my neck in preparations. So bear with me and my sporadic blog posts for now.

Last Saturday found us visiting for the nth time the one and only place where kids and adults could have fun (read: we’re suckers for Disneyland). Well, actually, I got lucky again this year. Every year the recreation department offers super-duper discounted tickets for Disney Resort (Disneyland and Disneysea) to employees and their families. I applied as usual. And as usual, there were more applicants than available slots, so they decided by lottery. Lucky us, we got chosen!

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