Understand the family values and cultures are important in knowing who you are. Celebrate different cultures together.
Every family has one - What is your family secret recipe? DO you have family recipes that you love? The past few nights I was on the phone discussing with [...]
Connections is about shared experiences Recently we had family visiting for a week. An aunt and uncle spent about a week staying with my family. We had a good time [...]
When you bridge both cultures, you bridge the connections with your children Your culture is your heritage; it gives you the foundation of WHO you are and WHAT you stand [...]
Our backgrounds influence what we do. My husband and I are migrants from Malaysia. We settled in Australia after we finished our tertiary education. There were things that we introduced [...]
Why are they important when it comes to empowering your children? Your core values are basically your beliefs and philosophies in life – perceptions of things that are important to [...]
Connect and bond through sharing meals together. Life allows us to have many adventures and many new beginnings. It has been a wonderful and memorable five and a half weeks [...]
Every family has it and we probably don't even realise – We have Family Rituals! Family rituals are things that you do with your family members only, and may not [...]
A young child's brain develops at a very rapid rate, especially from birth to 5 years of age. This is a time when they absorb information very rapidly through exploring, [...]
"Language is fundamental to cultural identity." Kakadu National Park, Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre, NT I remembered waiting in a queue at our local post office, and I could not help [...]
A whole week of great food and connections with relatives and friends! Over the past few days I had the opportunity to host my cousins from Melbourne. It was really [...]
Do we really ever stop connecting? Our next stop was Kuala Kurau – Perak – my husband's hometown. Kuala Kurau is a small fisherman's town in Perak, Malaysia. This is [...]
Penang – our next port of call – My home town. We arrived at the KL airport to board our flight to Penang – the place where I spent the [...]
Malacca Connections to our roots can occur in many places... now to Malacca! The next stop of our journey was Malacca – the third smallest Malaysian state. It is located [...]
Kuala Lumpur Going back to where you grew up brings about connections. The whole duration in Kuala Lumpur was relaxing, hectic and fun. We had the chance to relax in [...]
Connecting to who you are can be any form; however, reconnecting through food can be one of the more pleasurable. Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting two guests [...]
Today is the third day of Chinese New Year. There were so many greetings being sent through Facebook, New Year cards, e-mails and mostly via phones for those celebrating. I [...]
