Food and culture

A lot of cultural legacy is contained in how food is caught,prepared and passed down.
A lot of food history shows how cultures intermingle and assimilate another alien culture.It's also how families create memories as cooking and feasting is a celebration of life wedding,birth and good memories.
  i saw in the ancient Chinese manual of gastronomy from The Garden of Contentment how food recipes are created.I remember how uncle and granny bought soft shell turtle to make tonic soup or snakehead fish is filleted and how ferocious the survival of the fish thrashing on the floor.I remember the catfish with the poisonous sting barb in front but when cooked with black beans in claypot smelled awesome.
       A lot of cooking is a labour of love so nomatter how backbreaking or how hot and sweaty, alot of good memories come out of the kitchen.The frugality of our ancestors who lived through famine and starvation sees my late dad talking about eating rice mice as a delicacy or catching frogs from the rice fields for food.How pomelo skin is dried and cooked as a vegetable just as the Italians  use flowers of zucchini to stuff and deep fry or Japanese eating wild vegetables for health.
        This New Year I think of panfried dry prawns marinated in superior say sauce and caramelised with sugar,steam pomfret,stewed trotters with dried oysters and black moss,soya sauce chicken and steamed winter melon soup as the traditional new year food I miss the most.

How social media coins new words

The use of social networking sites has allowed  new vocabulary to be coined as users make up words to express a particular idea which will later be viralized and enter popular usage.

 Words like manhandle and blacklisted goes out of fashion with the rise of social trends like feminism and anti racism.So current lingo shows the creativeness of the inventor like blamegame or kickass.The young people go a step further in reducing words into acronyms like LOL or MILF or YOLO.
   Some words come and go very fast .Last year the word was milkshake duck to describe someone once highly regarded is found to be not true to character .In English we say that idols have feet of clay.Now the word of the year is "Me Too" in view of the anti discrimination of female victims and anther word that lost to it is Big Dick Energy,Deepfake and Single Use.How language evolves has to be understood in line with the socio-cultural context of the changes in society.I guess the dumb blonde and the dickhead has gone out of fashion .

Art of the Soul

Really would like to see the exhibition of China's artist Shao Fan in Malaysia.Next year some exciting cultural events like Ed Sheeran's concer and musical Phantom of The Opera performance in Malaysia.Need to save for these pricey events by eating home cooked meals or buy less novels.It's a hard choice-sigh.

X & Y or Y X?     Get more ZZZZZ
The Art of Soul or the Art of Life.

"Art for me is like a pearl," he says.

"I see the pearl as a result of self-healing after suffering harm from the outside world. Art has that same function-serving as a kind of enduring self-relief or self-comfort to cope with our feelings of helplessness." China's artist Shao Fan at exhibition 

The Art Of The Soul.

Doggone it

That's my favourite word.When my owner Cathy got a new baby poodle with curly white fluffy coat and sappy round eyes,she seem to have lost all interest in me.When  i rubbed against her leg,she would pick me up and tickle the top of head and smooched my face.Poor bobby, You miss me don't you but I told the kid next door to feed you everyday.Did he do it? Why are you getting so scrawny?
          Look what I bought you from my holiday in Australia.Here its a lovely green collar with a medallion of your name see Bob .
       Now she pushes me out of the room and her bed and she cuddles Fifi in her bed.When I see Fifi,I took an instant dislike to her fawning ways.I would hiss and snarl at her "Doggone it! What are you blinking at me for?"
         last night,she said Bob come you have to go to the vet.You need to go for your injections.Your knees must be giving you a lot of pain.She put me in the plastic carrier and carried it down the lift.Then she forgot the keys and rushed back up the lift,leaving me in the carrier.A sexy white bob tail peered inside.Hi you wanna join me for the great hunt today.She pushed the door lightly with her paws and whoa,it swung open.Cathy must have forgotten to latch it as she was in a hurry.
  Come on I'm Sasa ,don't be a pussy,come on out,We'll have so much fun.
  Well,I jumped at this chance,to be a free cat .Follow me,she beckoned and we dashed behind the huge black refuse bins.It reeked of fish bones and rotting vegetables.As Sasa leaped to the edge,she called,Quick you scaredy cat!Me scaredy,no way,