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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 23/09/2026

I bought some silicone lid grips for this reason

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 01/09/2026

It’s not even the first one they made like this. This is at another busy intersection K Rd/ Symonds St

Traffic light pole smack bang in the middle of a cycleway at a traffic intersection

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 01/09/2026

This is where it used to be

Screenshot of a streetview showing a traffic light pole not in the middle of the cycleway shared path

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 01/09/2026

I'm no civil (?) engineer but why would you place a massive trafffic light pole RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of the line where people on wheels will be going? This is brand new!

A handdrawn line showing where bicycles and scooters would naturally use but it is blocked by a massive traffic light pole

An oncoming cyclist negotiating the tiny space in between the traffic light pole and the road to get onto the shared path

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 21/08/2026

Went to two Chemist Warehouses and both sold out of the 4-in-1 RATs. I guess it’s a good sign that some people are testing at least. Found some tests at the pharmacy inside Woolworths

An empty retail shelf where 4-in-1 rapid antigen tests should be. The only thing stocked are the 5-pack Covid RATs, priced at $16.99 each

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 17/08/2026

Works for not teens too

Screenshot of text messages requesting food and water

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 14/08/2026

Surely The Boss of the Underworld?

Cover of Boss of the Underworld by Tor Freeman

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 13/08/2026

(But also it's buried deep in their policy pages?) www.greens.org.nz/research_sci...

Wall of text of Green party policy. Highlighted text reads:
1.3.3 Ensuring that, for research that focuses on blue-sky thinking, curiosity, and knowledge generation, there are suitable environments to foster it and funding models that don’t require commercial benefit as justification.

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 07/08/2026

You should try this stew-type Buldak. So good on a cold winter’s day

A packet of 5 Samyang Buldak Hot chicken flavour Ramen, stew type

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 04/08/2026

Why was I not blowing through the stop sign? 🤔

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 04/08/2026

Haha guess what those numpties do when you’re a cyclist

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 31/07/2026

Similar palette but for yesterday. Shredded leftover roast chicken, and celery, in spicy Sichuanese sauce

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 29/07/2026

Plant sale time! Carried three basketful this trip 👍🏼

A boxful of houseplants (Calathea and Ficus elastica) in the front basket of a bicycle

Various plants including some philodendron Xanadu and lemongrass in a double-stacked basket on the back of a bicycle

A basketful of succulents and houseplants

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 22/07/2026

Also this laughable statement (from her candidate page)??

Statement that reads: "I want to see Queen Street thriving again, but that can only happen with a National Government"

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 14/07/2026

We kinda did for a little while 🥲. (I seem to read a lot of graphic novels huh)

Two panels form Alison Bechdel’s comic novel “Spent”.

In the first panel, Alison is pictured wearing a mask saying, “Y’know, I might just keep wearing this mask after Covid. It’s been such a relief to get my anonymity back”. Her partner is seen putting on her mask too, saying “Yeah, that was a real problem”.

In the second panel, someone asks: “Excuse me, are you Alison Bechdel?” to which she replies: “Why yes, I am”.

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 14/07/2026

To think that it used to be normal? This was in a graphic novel published in 2018

Hand-lettered text that reads: “I’m brought to what will be my bedroom for the next 5 or 6 weeks, in the "protected" section (individual room with air filtration and positive pressure < the filtered air circulates from my room INTO the hallway so no microbes come in from outside). Visitors, including hospital personnel, are required to wear a mask.”

Below the text is a line drawing of some hospital equipment like an IV line next to a hospital bed

Cover of graphic novel “Down to the Bone: a leukemia story” by Catherine Pidi

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 14/07/2026

The light brown one has been the youngest’s favourite companion for most of her pre-school days! Pictured here at the library 🐰

A little child half-seated at a green table with a book open. Seated next to them on a lime-green chair is a realistic-looking honey-brown bunny stuffed toy

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 08/07/2026

Also tradies: just let me quickly set up my workshop on the cycleway

Some tradie blocking the cycleway with his vehicle and trailer, using their own road cones — probably with no permit from Auckland Transport. Other tradie vans are also parked on the berms, which is also illegal

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 24/06/2026

The kid was not having any of it

Cover of a 2013 book: Usborne Illustrated Classics for Boys, with the ‘Boys’ part covered up with a cut-out piece of paper with the word ‘Everyone’ on it

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 20/06/2026

The AUDACITY of a white dude with a heavy non-NZ accent telling me to "go back to your country" when I call him out for riding his motorcycle in the cycleway. He was previously mounting footpaths to circumvent red lights, while also running other red lights before turning into the cycleway

A motorcyclist on a blue motorcycle registration MZZ459 going through a red light.

Motorcyclist clearly using a cycleway with a hand signal that I should get out of "his lane"

Angry-looking motorcyclist, angry at being called out on his law-breaking ways

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 02/06/2026

There's a cycleway under here somewhere 🧐

A protected cycleway completely innundated with dead brown leaves, leaving only the concrete barriers visible

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 20/05/2026

We have one of those but I think only one

A screen grab of Google Street view showing 1 Lower Hobson Street with a bidirectional cycleway on the left, separated from the main carriageway by a line of yellow metal bollards

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 20/05/2026

Like, this is what they are ok with. (In this particular screengrab, the car has stopped because I was riding interference to make sure the driver has seen us)

A black car with some of it's bonnet crossing over the cycleway. A child is in front of that bonnet

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 20/05/2026

Same situation with Franklin Road. This, just now. Those "rumble" pavers don't do shit

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 19/05/2026

Maybe you can use subtitles?

A post by Christina Mayo: I'm so jealous of people who know how to shut up. I shut up and subtitles come out of my face.

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 17/05/2026

OH MY MISTAKE. There was also this Audi driver

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 13/05/2026

Reminds me of Kate Beaton’s velocipede lady 😄

Kate Beaton’s illustration of an old timey lady on a velocipede, legs akimbo, cigarette hanging off her lips, looking 100% badass

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 09/05/2026

@lucyknisley.bsky.social Surprise Linney cameo in a comic by the kid!

An eight-panel page from a comic about a ghost ‘wooooing’ contest. On one panel, there is an orange cat caterwauling. The cat, Linney, is from the book “Woe” by Lucy Knisley

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 27/04/2026

Here’s the recipe anyway for your reference

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 27/04/2026

I just read some tips from this book I picked up at the library last week. Making fluffy bread is something I’m still learning to master too 😩

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
Stand mixer + dough hook

CHALLENGES
Kneading the dough with a dough hook until it is smooth and homogeneous.Without an electric mixer, this will have to be done by hand.

USEFUL TIPS
Use bleached or unbleached flour with a low protein level of around 9 to 10 percent for very soft baos, or 10 to 11 percent protein for a good balance between softness and elasticity. With higher protein levels, you will lose softness. Although the dough will be more elastic in this case, it will be more flavorful. For the gua baos, use medium-protein flour. Since the dough is filled like a sandwich, it needs to hold up to the filling and will have a little chewiness. It is all a matter of taste and personal preference!

USEFUL TIP
For the gua baos (page 242), you can add 1 teaspoon of salt to the dough with the other ingredients.

VARIATIONS
As with dumpling dough, you can customize it by adding chopped herbs or spices (paprika, chile powder, etc.) when kneading. You can also replace the water with the juice from vegetables to make a colored dough (spinach, carrot, beetroot, etc.).

Cover of ‘The Complete Illustrated Guide to Chinese Cooking: Techniques, Ingredients and Recipes’ by Orathay Souksisavanh

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 24/04/2026

This book might help some people struggling with apologies today

Cover of the book “I’m sorry you got mad” written by Kyle Lukoff and illustrated by Julie Kwon

Page from the book “I’m sorry you got mad”. There are two handwritten notes with the text:

Dear Zoe,
Ms. Rice says that a real apology has to say three things:
1) What I did
2) That I’m sorry
3) And I’ll help you fix it

So:
1) I knocked over your castle
2) I’m sorry, I guess
3) You could build another one if you wanted to and I won't knock it down again. Okay?
Jack

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 24/04/2026

I yelled at her but best she could do was:

Shocked pikachu face but with the front of the car subbed in so that the headlights are the eyes

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 24/04/2026

Nah, it's fine. Just do a left hook across the cycleway without looking

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 14/04/2026

Found a cool tiny fungi in the garden today

A closeup of a small white fungi with a frilly cap and lanky stem

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 12/04/2026

Ugh, is it this guy www.fsu.nz/blog/liberty...

Three bottles of rosé labeled: NZ Free Speech Union Liberty Blush Unreserved Rosé 2023, Wairarapa New Zealand

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 04/04/2026

I like big caudices, I cannot lie

An Adenium obesum (desert rose) with a fat caudex and semi-exposed roots

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 03/04/2026

Bonsai is not in my wheelhouse but I’m quite fond of this wee fella

A Trichodiadema densum “tree” and some moss as “grass” potted in a very tiny rectangular bonsai pot, being held up aloft with some fingers

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 26/03/2026

That was a wet school run! We have peeled off the wet weather gear and now enjoying some hot beverages and a bikkie

A selfie of a woman wearing a wet orange bike helmet and orange rain jacket. Behind her is a child whose face is concealed behind an emoji, wearing a wet teal helmet in a blue rain jacket. Behind that child is another child wearing a white helmet with multi-coloured abstract flower patterns

A bird’s eye view of the front half of a very wet Tern GSD, the front basket has a rain cover over some school bags in an attempt to keep them dry

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 23/03/2026

Plant sale let’s goooo

A hand-drawn poster advertising a plant sale to raise money for Year 6 camp

Rows of potted baby plants lined up on a giant blue tarp

A stainless steel counter covered with potted baby plants

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 23/03/2026

And here is my kitted up Tern GSD next to a mountain bike

A black mountain bike parked next to a Tern GSD cargo bike

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 22/03/2026

Wow, what a handsome specimen! I do have the rounder-leaf species aka baby burro’s tail, here looking a bit sun-stressed

A small pot of baby burro’s tail, Sedum morganianum

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 22/03/2026

Day the Last. Nothing toppled over despite some drivers being absolute eggplants this morning

A child holding a small Litwick plush, seated on the rear of a longtail cargo bicycle. There is a big tray of baby succulents in front of them

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 22/03/2026

No need to apologise!!

A photo of a person in a salmon nigiri costume riding a folding bicycle. Big caption over it says: Sashimi rollin’, they hat in’

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 22/03/2026

Found a rare photo 🙂

The rear of a cargo tricycle. The basket is covered with a black basket cover with a reflective strip running down the middle of it

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 20/03/2026

No idea what caterpillar/looper this is but look at its leaf sleeping bag!!

A caterpillar/looper half encased in a cocoon made out of cut leaves like a leafy quilt. It is hanging on for dear life on a pedestrian beg button

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 20/03/2026

Day 5! Penultimate crate 😮‍💨

A crate full of baby plants, mostly succulents

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 19/03/2026

Day 4. I keep forgetting to take photos of the morning haul

A crate full of baby succulents on the back of a Tern GSD bicycle

A box full of baby succulents on the front crate of a Tern GSD bicycle

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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 18/03/2026

Day 3. I have to cycle super slowly because the roads/paths are bumpy as heck and upset the pots. This greatly annoy some impatient drivers who should be going slowly to conserve fuel anyway

A long rectangular box sits atop a blue crate on the back of a bike. They are filled with baby plants, mostly succulents. 2 other boxes are on the floor filled with similar plants. They are about to go on the front of the bike

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