Deepavali open house

it was very generous of Kanna curry house to have an open house invitation for all Malaysians,the Chinese,indians n malays.The food was super hot and spicy but i like their tagline No diet today because its Kannas open house today. Throwing caution to the wind i ate everything from rava thosai,putumayam,roti bom, dalcha,brinjal pajeri,chicken perumal,deep fried tenggiri fish,fish head curry,cabbage currg.even ate kesari n coconut jelly with hot frothy teh tarik n spicy rasam soup. i feel like a fat hippo now n go to workout for extra an hour to burn off the calories.i thank Kanna curry house hospitality to serve good food to all semua lapisan masyarakat tak kira bangsa dan social strata.tbey get loyal clients support.

Food n music

Shakespeare said if music be the food of love,play on. i really hope to be able to wake up to a new day,to work out or to go on working. The day i lie in bed the whole day is when ive given up on life Either losing my body or mind is a sign of letting go.so to me its music,dance and food that has the deepest memory of being alive.To a person with dementia,food imprints evoke memories as does a familiar well loved piece of music or a dance step. I get bored of the same old diet and enjoy new foreign food.i cooked angel hair pasta with the truffle,porcini sauce in olive oil,sweet basil leaves,wine,mixed vege n shumeiji mushroom n paired it with portobello mushroom filled with minced chicken and panfried it was a wonderful meal. then for lunch today i ate vietnamese banh mi or baguette with lemongrass chicken chop,vietnamese spring roll with peanut butter dip.Vietnam food is influenced by french n chinese cuisine and this dishes epitomises it with iced coffee. Vietnam is the only indochina nation with sinic influence.tbe rest are indic bias. for dinner i bought basmati ponni rice to cook Spanish paella.i use tumeric,not costly saffron,paprika and bay leaves.added squid rings,shrimp,mussel and chicken and some green peas.bell pepper,tomato,the paella turned out like the one i ate on holiday in valencia and the valencia orange tree laden with fruit outside the cafe so we could pluck n eat fresh oranges.what a memorable meal with sangria to drink to hearts delite.i love mediterranean cuisine like mad.exotic herbs n spices,cheese n wine are heavenly

What's wrong with our public education system

Failure to prioritise on important issues see Malaysian public school systems going to the dogs.in this dog eat dogs world,global competitiveness is fierce to develop human resources. At higher education institutes,they focus on fashion policing like how short is your shorts and we see the closing of public intellect to new ideas and innovation. Then at high school level,students go for extracurricular classes and know more than the teachers at school about coding,software programming,playing musical instruments,modern dances or painting.What is worse removing standardised public exams enable weak students to be promoted without mastering basic skills like reading,science and maths until high school graduates are barely literate by PISA standards . Now i find many of my young relatives studying at international schools and learn so much more than the public school kids who will end up in the gig economy as food delivery riders or civil servants. The Singapore civil servants recruit the best and deliver to meet global service standard whilst we are shiock sendiri.How to be globally competitive if the public education system is going down the drains.We are not suffering from brain drain but no brainers syndrome.

Chat GPT

Now students have to write a short story in an exercise .they learn about characters,plot,climax,metaphor and style of language.How can a teacher detect if writing is done by a human or artificial intelligence.its really hard to tell. i started with the introductory paragraph and Chat GPT completed it in seconds while i was still cracking my brain after 40 minutes of frantic scribbling n rewriting. The humour of ChatGPT is really understated but could pass the exam with an A.The human composition is made with local slang and Malaysian fathers thinking unlike the American dad who dresses in outdated suspenders and a typical teenager lingo in American context.So Char GPT is too western centric unlike what a localised fiction with Asian father child relationship would behave and say. im gonna throw a few ingredients with western n asian flavour n see who can comes up with a more creative fusion recipe.Now Chat GPT has no sense of smell and taste bud so lets challenge it with a human culinary test. Shit Chat GPT is creative in cooking up a delicious dessert.i never thought it would think of tapioca pearls.i would use real tapioca and cut into cubes,make a bubur with lemongrass n golden syrup with coconut milk and a dollop of cooking cream infused with pandan leaves.i would add cubes of sweet potato and chopped agar agar so that its like Filipino halo halo. what Chat GPT created was like Malaysian sago pudding.

geopolitical strategic

China should stop supplying military aid.to the junta.to be fair supply the aid.to the resistance too as they align with ethnic territorial militia to fight for self rule. the Chinese has lots of.business investments in Mandalay and northern Myanmar and these investments will be disrupted by civil war. Myanmar when returned to civilian and non military rule stand better chance of sttracting foreign investments to spur growth.Look at Vietnam that draws in foreign investments.from Korea,Japan,China,the West and Asean so that its GDP has improved the living standards of its populace. its national airline is expanding globally as tourism flourishes.Myanmar has pathetic infrastructure linkages from railways to highways to port facilities. Myanmar has strategic geopolitical position bordered by 2 Asian supowers of India and China.From India it can develop software engineering projects as indian software engineers are highly sought globally.With China,they can attract hi tech investment in microchip manufacturing and EV batteries as the nation has mineral resources like rare earth. By leveraging its geopolitical position it stands to gain a lot from Asean investments too and Thailand can boost its fast moving consumer goods production with its expertise in agribusiness like Frozen and canned food production. So if the junta returns power to the people,the peoples lives will improve instead of regressing. Rohinya refugees will not ovetwhelm neighbouring coutries and opium and drug production reduced There will be less reliance on the black market economy or the illicit business of scamming and gambling. The restoration of the popularly.voted government will restore peace and order.

Self portrait

i feel the plants are much better looking than me.i feel i look like a paper effigy of myself which i can burn into ashes during the Humgry Ghost festival.

Vegetarian Thali set lunch

i ate korean chicken ramen with a green tea drink at KLCC food court .it cost a bomb and came out to rm30 include tax. i ate vegetarian north indian Thali set cost only rm10.90 and a cup of masala tea at rm 5.even after tax its much cheaper than food court in KLCC cutthroat price. maybe vegetables cost less than chicken.but im an adventurous foodie and persuade my younger colleagues to sample exotic Turkish food or north indian paneer puri and kulfi.Even my korean kids like pani puri,vadai and putumayam.why settle for ordinary food when you can sample out of the ordinary.