★The Black Ants series’ original intention aims at getting closer to life as well as paying more attention to details. This series would like to express an attitude of simplicity and peacefulness. No matter what kind of life you are living in, the Black Ants hope to accompany and walk through the path with you, along the way.
★“THE SWEET LIFE” is a love story written to time.

The Black Ants series includes 6 titles:
AFTER 17
THE WORLD HAS JUST BEGUN
SAVOUR THE MOMENTS
THE SWEET LIFE
THE BEAUTY OF BEING ALONE
MY QUIET TIME

A small town surrounded by a huge hill; fragrant smell of baking enveloped the good times. The best time on earth was the daily company of each other.

Seven years ago, Anna and Chai Sing Long resigned from their editing jobs, left Kuala Lumpur and returned to a town down south to start their new lives. Meanwhile, they established a café selling cheese cakes as their mains. From then onwards, they began to interact daily with coffee and food ingredients. This couple, the husband brewing coffee, the wife baking cakes, with their two children; they enjoyed their slow-paced lifestyle. Looking back at their fast-tracked lifestyle in the city, they realized that they had come a long way, through toil and sweat. They said, “It‘s a transformed life.”

This book recorded 51 essays of Anna and Chai Sing Long. Intermittent lights radiated through the warm writing of their lives. The book also compiled Anna’s anecdotes on baking - the recipes of the 13 popular desserts included the sweet potato cheese cakes which were to die for, rose white wine cheesecakes and cherry-strawberry cheese tarts.

“The Sweet Life encompasses the worries about finance, mind-boggling chores of child-raising, and also to come up with new ideas to boost the sales for the business. But then we are good at magnifying our blessings, just like the cakes and desserts, our lives are sweet and blessed.” – Anna

“At times, life is like slowly drifting towards the surface of the sea after a long time at the seabed; we could see the radiant sunlight, spanned across the surface of the sea, the innocent faces of the children, the magnificent exhibits of life; were shown to us from time to time. Sometimes, you do not see all these, because you are too busy; we do not want to become people who are too busy.”
– Chai Sing Long