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One year

Today marks exactly one year since we uprooted and settled in Switzerland.
It’s a been an interesting journey so far, one we’re grateful and excited for despite some of the worst learning curves we’ve had to endure.
Only 12 months down the transition road and after all my rants about settling in, it’s funny, in fact just […]

Summer sales

My favourite time of the year is here.
Right now most stores are only offering up to 50% off the usual price. I keep telling myself to hold the fort until the prices get slashed by 70% but it’s been difficult just keeping myself away from the shops and what’s worst, watching my other half making […]

Updates

Things are looking up this summer. After being put on the waiting list for so long, Alesha may finally get to enrol in a kinderkrippe soon. But it’ll be in Wettingen and not in central Baden, which is our first choice as it is closer to Azhan’s office. I have to take two buses to […]

Lunch do at the Embassy

 
The Malaysian Embassy in Berne held a lunch do on Saturday to commemorate the King’s Birthday. Everybody we know received an official invitation. We didn’t. Suspecting that we had been accidentally left out (maybe hubby forgot to update our address), we gave the embassy a ring as soon as we got back from Prague. We […]

City break Prague

We were away from Sunday until Wednesday for a late spring break.
Prague, or Praha in the local lingo, is gorgeous. The buildings are so medieval, it felt like I could walk all over the city all day and not be bored exploring all its little alleys and passageways. And the transportation system […]