Frozen food n western breakfast

i buy frozenn precooked food whem im too lazy tocook or dine out.the convenience of

heating up chicken soup dumpling orxiao long bao or eating vegetarian grilled mushroom bak kwa makes me thankful for wide choices in precooked meals.had sarawak layer cake,a parfait of greek yoghurt,oats,blueberry n strawberry,a glass of grapefruit n a cup of tea n some mamgo susu for breakfast

Teach mindfulness meditation in schools,community centre and nursing homes

i was in a lift with this young mom who looked so stressed out handling a terrible three year old girl having a meltdown crying n screaming loudly.so pity the young mom trying to pacify her n failing to do so.wish people sponsor courses teaching mindful meditation to handle anxiety n stress in urban daily life when we re fuming in a long traffic jam or caught in a long queue at cashier cpunter or trapped in a lift with wailing child.how to stay cool and unaffected cause yesterday i bought a long fluroscent light bulb n was holding it vertically in the lift when that little terror tantrum kid next to me grabbed hold of the fluorescent tube and started shaking it.i told her off as i was worried it may crack and the glass splinters n poisonous gas inside injure all of us in the lift.she hollered again so im hoping the young mom gets a chance to learn how to destress for how can she live 24 hours in peace with a terrible kiddo without going crazy. i need to go back to the buddhist centre for some calmness now less restrictions for gathering.been getting insomnia n anxiety due to the gloom n doom.my best friend n her whole family got covid infection as did my domestic part time helper.the virus is endemic n like the common cold.due to vaccination booster,symptoms were mild.friend altho elderly recovered in 2 days with vitamin booster.son recovered in a day.they said daily exercises n lots of vitamin c n no solid food,fruits n vege n rest.lucky i managed to get the tcm tablets lian hua zheng wen as aid in recovery from covid.it is selling so fast in pharmacy. a friend warned me as some chinese medical hall are making imitation tablets for tcm cure.trying to make a quick buck as its three times the price of genuine ones n look for the ministry of health hologram to know its authentic.thats how counterfeits are dangerous like when they fake the blue pill viagra to unsuspecting consumers and some old fool may die of heart attack while making love.so govt should set up web sites to educate people on what to do during home quarantine like buy oximeter to measure oxygen level.better than falling for fake news or medicine

Fresh food

as a Cantonese,we place importance on freshness of ingredients.still remembered in grandmas time,they bought live carp or catfish or crab from wet market and even live chicken to slaughter for food.so ive learned to chop live mud crab or fish which many young dare not.now that really goes against buddhist values of ahimsa n ive probably accumulated enough bad karma to be reincarnated into a rooster or a carp in my next life. anyway,to steam meat,it must be superfresh and when i bought the red snapper,i knew i had to steam with superior soy sauce,ginger,sesame oil n wine.the fish tasted so sweet.ate leftover vege. my strategy is go to wet market near closing time.i get lots of discounts,sometimes buy one,free one.i bought 4 packets of vege at rm 10 from ss2 wet market including 8 tomatoes,some lettuce,bak choy and watercress.bought deep frozen pacific cod at rm 15 from nikudo and bamboo clams at rm 15 a box.its cheaper to buy frozen seafood but i cant steam them as it smells fishy n texture rough.can only stir fry or pan fry them.so i adapt to using deepfrozen seafood which mom disapprove of.

Estuary in hikkaduwa sri lanka

Breakfast n dinner

today was thunderstorm in wee hours of morning so i cancel workout outdoors.jun prepared a delicious breakfast of xiao long bao soup dumplings he bought from mix mini mart.the skin is thin and the fillings juicy.yum.ate with cantonese egg tart,a mixed fruit salad n xiang pian chinese tea.for dinner i cooked french beans stir fried with minced chicken,carrot,tofu n shitake mushroom in sichuan hot bean paste.then i cooked fish in creamy Tuscan sauce of tomato,cream n spinach. tonite i will bake a lemon loaf with sweet potato cubes,black sesame n chopped cashew nuts. healthier to cook n eat at home.jun says my johor mee rebus is better than the commercial mee rebus he eats at cafes i never compromise on every ingredient as im a fussy cook.the soup alone has rempeh spices,sweet potato,carrot n pumpkin mashed n prawn fritters,eggs,fishball n dried prawns.

Give peace a chance

Imagine

May peace prevail

pray that peace is restored and people can resume lives.refocus on fighting the pandemic killing so many innocent instead of destroying each other in this madness. repercussions affect food supply like wheat in developing nations to soaring energy bills for ordinary people to disruption of food ,medicine n essentials for russians. in this troubled times,the anxiety,doom and gloom of twin threats of war and pandemic has destroyed the mental shield of many young or old.so choose optimism over despair said American activist Noam Chomsky,for if people believe there is a better future,they will step up and take responsibility to make it happen. but if they lose the will to live,they will lose the fight to live on.thats why the French family living in Switzerland barricaded themselves at home,stocked up home with food supply,cut themselves off from the world.believing in conspiracy and survivalist theories,they felt despair over the pamdemic and war in Europe and lost the will to live.one by one,father,mother ,twin sister,son and daughter jumped down from their apartment one after another.its heart breaking that the social isolation and lockdown of pandemic measures cause people to commit collective suicide before the actual covid virus kills them.im malaysia,a middle aged bachelor who lived alone caught covid and the anxiety caused him to jump into the river to kill himself.the pink wristband of a covid positive victim was found on his wrist .its not fear of death but the alienation and isolation of being cut off from the world that causes them to lose the will to live. in Hong Kong,the covid is spreading in old folks homes and nursing homes like wildfire.when they should be living peacefully in their twilight years,now they live in stress and isolation in quarantine centres,cut off from family and friends and die among strangers without a chance for a final farewell from loved ones.worse is staff shortage means tbey lack good nursing care,poor hygiene and welfare.its so heartbreaking to see the elderly being given poor treatment in their old age.so its no point keeping the body alive when the person has lost the will to live.might as well euthanise the sick and elderly to save resources for the young and living.what Hitler termed as the final solution or collective suicide. i find in this pandemic the absurd meaningless existentialism of Kafkas the metamorphosis in which the protagonist transformed into a cockroach and is alienated from his loved ones who despise and fear him or IT.

Malay cuisine

for dinner,i cooked Malay mee rebus.having many Malay excolleagues who were good cooks,i learned their secret recipe.the most important is soup base which i used chicken cube,prawn shells,chilli,sambal,onion garlic,lengkuas,lemon grass all ground together ,tamarind paste,mashed sweet potato,carrot n pumpkin with ripe tomatos.it was a lot of work to cook the soup.the garnish are eggs,prawn fritters,hard tofu,fish ball,cucumber,green n red chilli n limes.forgot the sprinkle of crushed peanuts n coriander leaves.so sedap

Food treats

Jun likes to buy special treats for me as he knowsbim a foodie.he gets my plant milk like macadamia or almond milk.or my snack of steam keropok lekor and japanese green tea.he bought a delicious sarawak kek lapis from amcorp mall flea market.it tasted moist,fragrant n creamy and i had a piece of pumpkin brown sugar home baked bread,and sencha jasmine brewed by jun using cold brew method.the cast iron japanese tea kettle can be put on direct fire unlike the chinese porcelain yixing teapots which will crack.the persimmon is a chinese tea canister from purple cane cha house. dinner is steam porato,salad of cucumber,tomato n avocado cubes n a grilled brown sauce chicken breast with a glass of tea

Nyonya meal with high school pals

our sisterhood bonds was from high school days thro sports n charity event.we over ordered inche cabin fried chicken,joo hoo cha vege,perut ikan curry,asam prawns n kerabu squid.had sago pudding for dessert.im feeling real fat

Nite at pjpac

my friend treated me to a puppet theatre show at pjpac.we got senior citizens discount.the stage design was innovative ,the manipulation of the iron rods puppet was skillfully done and the lighting was excellent.the songs were beautifully sung.it was experimental fusion of modern n traditional but the korean princess didnt jive with the storyline,so i would have prefered a javanese princess.the main prop was multi functional and turned upright became a statue.bold inception.wish the young can revive the old art form.i love the wayang kulit at the start of the plot.

The fat cat

this stray cat looks like bobby my pet cat at previous condo.tabby with fat belly.i was getting grocery when she purred n lick my feet.she melted my heart .meow im so hungry.they only gave me a bowl of water.i got whiskas tuna for her.she ate happily

Housework

decide not to use foreign part time domestic helper to clean home 2 hours a week since maid got covid 19.i cant risk catching covid if maid is asymtomatic altho she wears a mask.i cleanbedrooms in one day,kitchen nbalcony n toilets next nlivingndining rooms third day.work atmy own pace coz cooking 3 meals a day is tiring scary my nephew n bro in law went nilai cemetety for ching meng qith 3 other families n his qhole family got covid including the maid.

Homebody

i aint somebody big or important which is good coz i dont like invasion of my privacy .pity the celebrity coz their private lives are public property with tabloids n press hounding them for juicy details. i like the quiet homelife,reading,cooking ,gardening and painting.thats my happy hour too exercising outdoors in nature or swimming.id prefer to be a homebody to somebody. having weekend brunch of fruits salad with avocado,local rock melon,wax apple and fish ball.i bought deep fried yam cake and cempedak a softer kind of jackfruit that i love.drink roselle kefir.its pretty vegetarian except for three fishballs.ive pretty much lost appetite for all red meat nowadays. im angry scalpers are hogging medicine like chesty cough mixture and chinese medicine for relief of covid like lianhua zheng wen.even the Malay consumers are stocking up on lianhua zheng wen and greedy scalpers are reselling at a profit of rm20 a pack.profiting from the sick at this time is unscrupulous and reselling them online to desperate patients.no ethics.

Peace garden kuala lumpur

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Starry,starry night (to those fleeing)

Even on the darkest night,the sun will shine the next day Its only on the darkest night that the stars will shine the brightest. even in the bleakest hour,there is still a glimmer of hope so dont ever give up fight to live another hour another day another year