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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl: How do you prune an apple tree?
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl. Wednesday, 16 February 2011. How do you prune an apple tree? This year is going to be different. I'd learnt some about gardening and most importantly had the expert help of friend Belinda, the super-duper master gardener. I had learnt that a shaggy tree full of skyward shooting branches was not the best thing for a tree; that where the bark was scarred and gueyly damp. Taste This year, it's going to be different. Three and a half frozen hours later, my initial hes...
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl: Moving to Salt Spring Island
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl. Tuesday, 5 May 2009. Moving to Salt Spring Island. When I was a little girl, moving houses was always looked forward to. It was something rare and exciting. It was a welcomed change in routine, exploring. New rooms and a new neighourhood. It was looking out new windows and seeing the world in a whole new light. I guess moving houses then you're an adult isn't that much different. Which is sandwiched between Vancouver Island and mainland North America. The next day...
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl: The Slipper Chair Project
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl. Tuesday, 8 February 2011. The Slipper Chair Project. This is something I've been wanting to do since I came to Canada. Having spent countless hours watching HGTV. During my first few months in this new land, I was swept away by the slew of shows out in cable TVland that would help you DIY just about anything. Sarah Richardson and the Designer Guys found old furniture and in five TV-minutes, covered, nailed and stained and voila! The process was pretty easy, using ...
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl: February 2011
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl. Wednesday, 16 February 2011. How do you prune an apple tree? This year is going to be different. I'd learnt some about gardening and most importantly had the expert help of friend Belinda, the super-duper master gardener. I had learnt that a shaggy tree full of skyward shooting branches was not the best thing for a tree; that where the bark was scarred and gueyly damp. Taste This year, it's going to be different. Three and a half frozen hours later, my initial hes...
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl: Making Punpkin Faces
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl. Tuesday, 2 November 2010. I've never carved a pumpkin before. Enough episodes of Buffy and The Simpsons Halloween have convinced me that I wanted to at least make an attempt at one, even at this late juncture of my life. Not having grown up in a culture that celebrated Halloween, all this is new to me. First it was "OFF WITH THE Top of the HEAD! Then you scrape all the guts out. Seeds, juice and all. It was a great big messy affair and my weeks worth of newspapers.
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl: February 2009
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl. Friday, 13 February 2009. The skypad sold in under a week. After four years of living 18 floors above the. Burnaby skyline, with truly spectacular views of the winding Fraser River, Vancouver Island,. The North Shore mountains, the city and Mt Baker, I'm trading it all for island living. But that's for a later story. It took a month's hard graft to get the flat into shape. And cleaning like I've never cleaned before. Especially if we had to have several open house...
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl: A Newbie Sets up a Website
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl. Monday, 23 May 2011. A Newbie Sets up a Website. Yes For years I've been traversing across the internet doing things that most of us have come to accept as normal everyday life. Communicating by email, searching for info on Google, watching the Canucks beat the Sharks 4-2 on Youtube and talking to the family many of thousand of miles away on Skype. Everyday, I am learning more about this inetrnet creature and and how to navigate my way through it. We now have over...
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl: February 2008
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl. Saturday, 16 February 2008. It's like the gears in a perpetual motion machine always working,whirring and engaging. Always searching for a new way to. Attach a pocket or a handle. Sketching out in my mind, kinda like a butcher, how best to cut a coat. Which pieces to become what part. For instance, could the lapel really be the edge of the cover flap of a bag? Wouldn't it be too asymmetrical? Apparently not. Little Emma, The Recycled Suits Tall Messenger bag.
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl: September 2010
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The Adventures of an Urban Kampung Girl. Monday, 20 September 2010. My First Apple Harvest. Ok There is no way to prepare a girl from Singapore for the sheer amazement of harvesting fruit from a tree in her own garden. I mean, with most Singaporeans living in flats, the best we can hope for is a few limes and a couple of chillies. But here in Kampung Canada, on this little island called Salt Spring, I have two apple trees that I didn't plant or nurture that are bearing 40 to 50 apples just like that!
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