Fried rice from way back when… (Taken with Instagram at Rotonda Building 5)
Posted 11 months ago | 0 notes
I have the most brilliant idea. Po driving Optimus Prime, Tigress Bumblebee, Mantis Arcee, Monkey Jazz, and Viper… Sideswipe? And then, they stopped at a traffic light, and then they looked at each other, and say “1/5 for a million?” and they all revved…
Posted 11 months ago | 1 note
I guess, there will always be a time in one’s life when one’s role and one’s parents’ role become reversed.
I realised yesterday, that that moment has come for me and my sisters.
Yesterday, I called my sister who still lives at home to talk about possible diet solution for my mum. My mum has problems with fluid retention, some blood pressure issues, and some other health problem. I think a big factor might be that her diet is just carb, without much of anything else. I think, this contributes a lot to her fluid retention issue, and the blood pressure and heart thing could be solved by cardiovascular exercises on regular basis. Which means that I will need to tell my sister what to watch out for, and what to make my mum do.
As we were talking about things, I started telling her about how I had to snap at my mum’s hand to stop her from grabbing my sister’s noodles when she was here, and how I had to order food for her so that she would eat right.
In the middle of telling her all these, plus remembering the time that I made my mum take the stairs instead of the elevators, I realised that that was it. The time has come for us to look after our parents. We have officially become the care-givers.
I wonder how this happened. I mean, when I think of myself, I still don’t think of myself as an adult. An overgrown teenager, probably. Or maybe a stubbornly-clinging-to-childhood person, instead of a full responsible adult. I guess, I think that I am not worthy, and that my image of an adult is not what I am right now. I don’t know.
It’s amazing that when you realise that you need to look after your parents, you sorta grow a little, too. You feel that you need to be more responsible because you are also responsible for the well being of your parents. And whether I like my parents or not, I do love them, in my own way, and I do want to care for them, if not to just torment them quite a bit longer with my complainings.
Posted 12 months ago | 0 notes
So, we watched the Chicago Bulls v. Miami Heat basketball game on the telly (yes, I know, it’s the OTHER day, not yesterday, but I was busy yesterday with other thoughts…), and at one point or another, they showed the coach doing some talking to the players.
“We need more hand-to-hand combat out there, we need to make less mistakes.”
or my favourite from the NBA 2K game series that the boyfriend plays quite often,
“They need to bring in the physicalities, bodying up without fouling”.
Wait what? First of, that just doesn’t help. Bring in the physicalities? Brutalising without fouling? What is this? Oxymoron? Seriously. First, what is “bodying up”? I thought it meant you just dump someone’s body around to someone else. If it is, how the heck would you be “bodying up” someone without fouling? Isn’t that the very definition of fouling?
And what the heck does “hand-to-hand combat” means in a bloody basketball game? Should I be putting in the judo chop to the other guys if they get within range?
I am wondering why is it that people like these vaguely philosophical yet utterly useless advices. Seriously, how do you apply “it’s not the destination that matters, it’s the journey” into the situation where I was peeved because my exam mark wasn’t as good as I’d like it to be? I should be taking a vacation and journeying somewheres? What about the application of “if it’s meant to be, it will be” to a crumbling relationship? Or “Just get over it!” to a clinically depressed person?
Seriously, if you want to give out advice, give a useful one, not one that you think will make you sound cool. Give one that someone can actually apply in their life and situation. Not one of those cliché vaguely Zen comment people throw around when they are stumped. If you are stumped, then just say so, it will make people feel better just to have talked about their problems. No need to complicate things.
Posted 1 year ago | 4 notes
Gouda, in particular, I think is exceptional with 65% dark chocolate.
I am very often puzzled why there’s no chocolate covered cheese, or cheese covered chocolate pre-made in the grocery stores. I mean, those two are probably the best things ever, and combined together, cheese and chocolate are just sublime. Why not? We get all the other things covered in chocolate: coffee beans, almonds, some random nuts, fruits, etc. Why not cheese? We can keep the whole lot in the refrigerator section, and we all should be fine.
Instead, I have to buy a wedge of smoked Gouda and a bar of 65% dark chocolate, and mix them myself.
And if you intend to try, no, don’t try anything with pepper on it. Just stick with mild-ish cheese like Gouda, Brie, Fontina, etc. The sharpest I would go is mild Parmesan.
Posted 1 year ago | 0 notes
