Cake Researcher

11 years into motherhood. Happy birthday, my dear girl. My daughter doesn’t like having birthday parties because she always struggles with deciding which classmates to invite and which not to invite. She doesn’t like the feeling of leaving anyone out, so every year she asks me to make dinosaur cookies, one for every child in her class!

Another side of me you probably never knew: I was a professional model for a couple of years until my early twenties. Brands especially liked me wearing wedding dresses. I never counted carefully, but I think I wore more than 200 wedding dresses back then.

One great thing about being a cake artist is that I can make a celebration cake for myself anytime, no need to wait for a wedding 🥳

I just spent another wonderful two days making this wedding cake with my dear . I want a cake like this for my 40-years-young birthday 🥳

If you want a celebration cake like this, ping us 🎈

My first vlog, capturing a day of my life in Berlin.
Special thanks to for the beautiful production .nl

Last week, I made a trip to Berlin.

As a research scholar, I was invited to speak at the Government AI Summit co-hosted by the German AI Research Center (DFKI) and PwC. I shared a talk titled “What AI Cannot Do.” At the same time, I was also commissioned to create desserts for the event.

Many people ask me how I manage my time. My answer is: do things you love with people you enjoy being with. You’ll find that you don’t really have the energy to procrastinate, each day, you naturally move forward with a sense of clarity and momentum.

In recent years, many wonderful young women have come into my life. They are so full of light that I often find myself smiling just looking at them.

I sometimes wonder whether I had the same confidence and wisdom at their age. When I’m with them, I laugh along with them and receive their care. In front of them, I don’t feel the need to always be “the older one.”

From them, I draw a lot of youthful energy, mindfulness, and a grounded sense of moving forward.

Kiwi ( ) and Olivia (.nl) are exactly like this. They joined me on this trip to Berlin. Kiwi and I took turns driving along the way, while Olivia captured many moments on camera—some of which I only noticed later when watching the vlog.

Seeing these small, fleeting moments being documented made me decide to start sharing more of my daily life through vlogs, from today onward. To share the people and moments around me that feel real and beautiful.

Kiwi once told me that seeing me makes her feel less afraid of turning 40.