Being bathed by an elephant in the River Kwai {Katchanaburi, Thailand}
Welcome to my home on the Interwebs. I’m a 20-something currently escaping reality. I did the whole graduate-university-get-a-good-job-have-a-mortgage-and-car thing for almost 5 years in Toronto, before making the hardest/easiest decision of my life to quit and put life on hold for a year. I’ll tell you in a year if it was the right decision, too.
In the year beginning on March 25, 2011, we (the now-husband and I) have made a first (and definitely not last) trip to India, spent time with family in Taiwan, and done a whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia. Then we returned to Canada, got married, and spent the summer in BC bumming around hoping for scorching hot weather. Now we’re about to embark on the official part deux of the quarter-life-crisis year: live in Paris, so I can attend Le Cordon Bleu’s patisserie program. It’s something I used to sigh wistfully about while sitting in my salmon-coloured cubicle for 10 hours a day, and I still can’t believe I’m about to do it for real.
mango on an apple is a collection of random thoughts, worthwhile recipes, and mini-destination guides. I started it long before this quarter-life-crisis thing, but if you look back, I think it was pretty obvious that I never wanted to spend the rest of my life working in Toronto. I started mango on an apple so that I could digitally earmark my favourite recipes. I also thought it would be a good place to share my travel photos and destination guides with friends & family. It’s a lot easier this way – people always ask me about my favourite spots, and I always end up drawing impromptu maps on the back of napkins and envelopes that I cannot replicate the next time I’m asked the same question.
Another thing I love is filling out surveys. Old habits die hard.