New cookbook

i bought the cookbook from Book Xccess some four months ago and its been lying on the coffee table untouched but today i ran out of ideas on what to cook.i adore Mediterranean food n its super delicious.this book has 500 recipes and will take me 2 years to learn how to cook each recipe. for lunch today i cooked potato croquettes,a side salad of lettuce,tomatos n grapes and chicken drummet braised in mushroom stock,worcesteshire sauce,apple cider vinegar ,honey n a dash of stout.super delicious. ive been watching Cdrama Are you the one which is set in olden times of emperors,warriors and ancient dwellings.The main character is crazy about a dish called crab roe rice.im determined to eat it as it seemed so mouthwatering.how to get swimmers crab or mud crab but im scared to kill live crabs.aiya how to get fresh crab meat unless i use chilled soft shell crab but it has no roe.they traditionally used hairy crab in autumn season but how to get in Malaysia

Syabas Pasukan penyelamat SMART Malaysia

Sebagai rakyat Malaysia dan sebahagian ASEAN,patut ucapkan syabas kepada pasukan SMART negara ini yang menghulurkan bantuan kemanusiaan terhadap negara jiran yang mengalami malapetaka gempa bumi baru baru ini.Mereka dapat menyelamatkan seorang mangsa yang masih hidup 6 hari setelah tertimbus dibawah bangunan yang runtuh dan dapat mengeluarkan 10 simati dari runtuhan bangunan. Saya kagum dengan dedikasi dan pengorbanan ahli ahli penyelamat yang.bekerja di kawasan yang terputus.bekalan air dan elektrik.Ini membuktikan profesionalisma pasukan kita di misi antarabangsa seperti masa peperamgan di Congo,Afrika bila bekerjasama dengan UN peacekeeping mission. di 1960an. Bangga nya bila pasukan diberi sambutan Wira heros welcome home oleh komuniti Myanmar yang bermastautin di Malaysia yang mengiktirafkan jasa penyelamat kita.Agar junta tentera berhenti penyeksaan seterus rakyat supaya tidak bom kampung kampung dan menambahkan penderitaan rakyat biasa.

Fusion meals

Malaysians are creative with recipes.The Malays adapted western ingredients to Malay cooking luke spaghetti in laksa Johor.I bought burgher Malaysia for lunch.Its doughnut mini buns filled with sambal anchovy,slice of cucumber n lettuce.the filling was too little so my trick is open a can of sardine,mash it n spread on top of sambal.hmnnn im loving it as it is so delicious.today i bought hot dogs to make roti John.its wrapped in an egg omelette with minced chicken flavoured with curry powder n chopped onions i had fried chicken chop,sausages and a salad n baked beans as sides.dessert is layered cake or kek lapis that is like germans baum cake in a roll.so malay food has a lot of western influence like soda gembira which is ice cream soda mixed with milk and rose syrup.yummy

Growing up. in a big family

The short clip of me growing up with grandparents who cared for us,uncles and aunts and cousins who had weekend visits,and loving patents im grateful to for giving us a stable home environment which stress on strong values like no gambling or drinking or addictions.My mom sewed. our dresses and cooked fresh,fantastic food for us as the pasar besar or wet market was opposite the road.Dad had his hobbies of fishing,hunting and swimming and passed his love of being outdoors in nature to us children.Grandma could cook anything from nien gao,zhong zi dumplings to fried peanut puffs.She loved watching live Cantonese opera and wu xia movies and took us grandkids along.im glad they always put the family first and so taking care of my grandma after her stroke was my responsibility as she had looked after us when we were young. i remembered my favourite pair of red shoes mom bought for me and a doll that was put in front of the wedding car of a relative that i got as a gift.My brother was the only son of the family and he got the privilege of expensive toys like the toy sports car to drive while we daughters had hand me down toys from elder siblings or we made our own paper dolls or sew five stones to play or use rubber bands to make skipping ropes.

AI ,looking to the future

im conscious that binge watching is addictive n may result in brain rot n degenerate to dementia so theres no point in having a healthy body but a sick mind. i viewed Yuval Hararis forum at Tokyo College with two other academics on AI who are social scientists.They raise concerns about issues ive thought of like Is artificial intelligence alien intelligence because although created by human minds,they are capable of machine learning and evolve as they get new data n form new connections. Should the tech companies be liable when algorithms spread false information that results in hatred,discrimination and mass violence against certain groups of people like what Harari used as example on how the algorithms were asked to increase users engagement with the social media platforms and it used it to amplify hate speech against the Rohingya to cause them to be expelled from Myanmar.Harari puts the responsibility on the companies that design the algorithms to be more ethical as the machines are controlled by humans. More dangerous is when humans form intimacy attachments with chatbots and lose ability to communicate with real humans.i mean you see men marrying an avatar or become social recluses as the social scientists forsee us losing social skills to form real relationships. So the social media can entertain me or educate me depending on what i choose to view.I need to go for an information diet as Harari says that if we feed our mind with excesss junk food,the result is a toxic perception of delusions and greed and negativity.

Afternoon Tea yum Cha with old friends

The German teacher and my ex superior had a get together yum cha at Malaysian cafe Ali,Muthu and Ah Hock to catch up with our lives.We can chat about everything under the sun from our health,our pets,our children n ex students.Teh tarik and kopi ais are local beverages and they cook a good fried kway teow and roti jala with curry chicken. Then after i gave my German excolleague a lift home,i drove to the night market to buy my cakes and bread for next week.The nite market sells fresh produce like live fishes to cooked thai food like fried scorpions and huge sago worms.i saw sugar coated fruits tang hulu to steamed chicken glutinuos rice with plastic chickens as display . Still in a festive mood the gazebo downstairs is decorated with fairy lights.i find it beautiful to see lights at night from twinkling Christmas lights to mid autumn lantern festival to oil lamps during Deepavali to the pelita during Malay festival Hari Raya or Eid Mubarak.May all people live a peaceful n happy life.

Childhood playground

Growing up in a shophouse with a busy wet market and main road in State and a food court behind our shop,im lucky MPPJ landscaped an old mining pond in Taman Jaya into a childrens playground.In primary school,we and the neighnbourhood kids ran to play on the slides n swings in the evening.We were one of the first residents in State and my dad used to go fishing in the mining pool at the weekends and caught tilapia,lampan and even a huge big head grass carp as long as a child.Dad proudly took photos with the fish and those pictures bring back good memories of us kids catching tadpoles n guppies in the stream that is now a big longkang. The saplings after 50 to 60 years are now towering shady trees .the relaxing park is public space for joggers and zumba dancers.the council has landscaped the park well Exercise and sports are good ways to bridge racial and religious diffetences exploited by Malaysian politicians as a tool to divide and rule. it is time for us baby boomers who grew up in more harmonious times to reclaim the public narratives from the bigots and racists who use social media to fan the flames of hate speech.From the incidents viralised to incite intolerance like the KK mart incidents or pak cik slapping non muslim eating to chicken ham sandwich,these incidents cause us to view the others with suspicions and fear.so i suggested to the zumba group that has Malays,Indians n Chinese exercisers to have an open house kongsi raya potluck to establish goodwill n foster better understanding.Food and fun unite us

more than toxic viral posts.