Year end feasting

Endless feast at years end to Dragons year n to celebrate a creepy Snake year.Msia is food paradise n we can find food to eat 24/7.i m seduced by food trucks that offer hot pot,taiwan rice rolls,stinky tofu, or sweet dessert like peanut tong sui..Another year end party for the weekend n im gonna celebrate as my blood test biannually shows i have achieved my fitness goal in terms of muscular strength n cardio.My Blood pressure of 120/60 n blood glucose of 5.0 non fasting random test n good triglycerides n HDL but i need to improve gut heath destroyed by long covid side effect.take yoghurt,kefir n kim chi n sourdough. My result is better than Juns at half my age Ive been nagging him to revamp his diet to include more vege n fruits n more exercises but it falls on deaf ears. i hope his serious food poisoning is a wake up call to focus on healthy habits.From young my dad n uncle loved to swim and hike and the love of outdoors is what ive learnt.i ve to stop the hiking and paddleboarding or kayaking as the Selangor forestry department issued a ban to enter forests during this rainy reason of flashfloods n landslides. Time Asean get ready a climate change team and a change to sustainable resources before we become climate refugees.

A tale of a monk and his tabby cat

Food security

The modern societys chemical romance is risky.Now microplastics dont disappear but enter our bodies through seafood.They are saying to throw away the black plastic cookware like spatula as it causes cancer.The scare over excessive pesticide residues on Muscat grapes is scary. I now cook all meals ar home as its more hygienic n healthier.Jun often has food poisoning dining out at unsanitary outlets.Two days ago he had severe food poisoning and used the toilet every 10 minutes,going more than 40 times to the loo in one night.lucky i had oral rehydration salt at home besides paracetomol for his fever and Lomax anti diarrhoea drugs.But the toxins were so strong that the doctor administered antibiotics in a drip and extra drip of OR salts.It took another day before he fully recovered. Now eating out.is risky when you get food poisoning.Food security is compromised by unhygienic food handling practices.

Face recognition app

its a problem for face recognition app if someone does plastic surgery,has accident that changes facial structure,gains a lot of weight or loses a lot of weight.but its first time i see a thai monk with shaved eyebrows reattach fake black masking tape as eyebrows for getting face app to tecognise his pre monk appearance.so very very funny.

New ideas for language learning

It will be a big challenge to attract students to read for pleasure in the internet age when exciting games n social media entices the young.The younger students dont read for pleasure as they grew up in a visual text era and instant gratification .Its so hard to visualise written narratives and wait for climax of plot to unfold and reaching the conclusion The use of emoticons and memes and avatars has deteriorate skills in face to face communication and ability to interpret body language and detect tonal shifts in speaking. when asked most students read for academic purpose ans majority read one book for pleasure a year and some only read manga or comics. I forsee a demise in literature and poetry in modern society for more functional use of reading and writing.forget the great classics of literature when even contemporary fiction works are ignored. Im still traditionalist when the human condition was the concern of writers and painters.When i viewed the digital art installation in Rex KL,I was sorely disappointed by the lack of a gripping narrative.The digital show PiYing dreams a shadow puppet by the China motion graphics Temple of Lights that i saw in RexKL with french collaboration was a million times superior in the quality of motion graphics and artistry and narrative quality.Whai i viewed in Batik Malaysia was like no more than a propagandic attempt at aggrandisement with iconic buildings,personality and no narrative development.I felt embarrassed to introduce my foreign friend to a boring low quality digital animation when Malaysian graphics had reached Hollywood standard like the tiger in tbe Life of Pi was done by a Malaysian arthouse and Seafood the movie funded by Al Jazeera so please dont showcase substandard artwork.buat saya malu dan hilang air muka saja. Now my German excolleague has extensive experience in language training and i learnt so much from her in using dance,movement and songs to motivate language learning.Her experience in theatre and stand up comedy and acting made me realise the lack of expressiveness in body language of Asian language learners.She gave me good ideas to develop EQ in learning communication.For example i could mime a scenario in which a guest is honoured by being served a disgusting delicacy like sheep eyeballs or soup torpedo or bulls testicles for dinner and they use body language to decline eating it without offending the host.not easy to get away with hospitality of host. I feel that introducing literature could be done through drama or short movie making and poetry through poetry slam or choral speaking. The literary pursuit has to be kept alive by re engaging the young to read,act and recite. Just like great paintings,great literature are part of humanistic development in culture.What i saw in the digital art installation in Rex KL is the dehumanizing effect of technology that has lines and shapes and concrete structures and objects but non humans take centre stage in a bleak world devoid of warmth and vibrancy of human vitality.