8/9/22 Thurs: Potato’s
friends, Joanne and Scott who stays nearby, visited our place at night and he
cooked Oyako don with salad and miso soup for dinner! They played “Keep Talking
and Nobody Explodes” on the Oculus Quest 2 for a while too.
9/9/22 Fri: Did Qigong in
the morning. Saw news of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing and though I hesitated at
first, I decided to write a piece on her and with inputs from Steven and
Richard who won the QEII Cup in 2006 with King And King. It’s never easy
putting together a factually correct-story and complementing it with photos. This
piece had to go through approval before posting. *I was a bit offended with
the “#didyouknow” comment at first, but later decided that it’s against my
principle to be angry over people not worth my time.* Reminder to self: I
should really chill, there’s no point in working that hard because the
higher-ups don’t understand. It’s a thankless job after all.Was half-hearted at Piloxing
due to work but am comforted by Potato’s homecooked meal! He helped vacuum our
place, bought ingredients and cooked old cucumber, carrot, red date and
wolfberry in pork broth soup, pork collar and oyster mushroom in bulgogi sauce
and carrot and snow peas!11/9/22 Sun: PotaTOHs went
over to YB’s to attend her son’s 2nd birthday celebration. Helped
the busy mum with the food and set-ups before her families and friends turned
up in the afternoon. WX and Jere came with their two daughters too. *Carried
Zianne who is four and weighs 18kgs now wow lol.* Caught up with Ben for a
bit as well. Pretty sure Ethan had a blast at his bday party with so many kids
around!
12/9/22 Mon: Met Pat and WZ
for lunch at I’m Kim Korean BBQ & Shabu Shabu at AMK Hub to
celebrate WZ’s 34th bday in advance. I ate buffet at I’m Kim once,
but that was many years ago at their branch their SOTA, but this time round,
there’s only meat and no seafood, no assorted sushi either… so I’d say the
overall quality has dropped and I’m not impressed. *Am not a buffet person
to begin with.*
We headed over to the
newly-opened Paris Baguette and had earl grey white chocolate cake and
blueberry yoghurt tarts. They were not bad. WZ had craving for coffee, so she
ordered the mocha latte to go long with her cakes haha. We talked mostly over
family and kids since she’s pregnant with her second daughter now. *Short
catch-up but there’s my birthday in October for another session hehe!*
I was pretty full to eat
another full meal for dinner, so only had a bit of the potato, salmon, avocado
and onion salad that Potato made for dinner.13/9/22 Tues: We "swam" in the air during aerial yoga class haha. Quite an easy pose but it's rather fun too.
Finished
reading the book I borrowed from my brother, “Don’t Worry: 48 Lessons on
Achieving Calm” by Shunmyo Masuno.
Light read has always been
my favourite, especially in times of stress. I feel so happy when I can just
lie on the sofa with Zen teachings that “enlighten” the human being in me. 人非圣贤; many thoughts and actions of
mine could be immature, so wise words from this Zen Buddhist temple head priest
cum Zen garden designer and professor of environmental design are needed from
time to time to remind myself of what’s best for myself and the people around
me.
His forewords were: Pare
away the things you don’t need. Live an infinitely simple life free from
unnecessary anxiety of worry, without being swayed by other people’s values.
It’s no easy feat trying to
emulate that, but I do support the minimalistic way of life.
Hopefully, I’d be able to
have my own “Zen garden” someday and that will be my meditation ground and
comfort zone~
Rating:
4/5
Finished watching “Life
After Death with Tyler Henry” on Netflix.
I am impressed by world-renowned
clairvoyant Tyler Henry’s ability to connect with those “on the other side”
because of that natural sensitivity I reckon. According to reports, he did not
even know who he was going to read on the show and the unravelling of his own
family mystery was unplanned as well. The minute he is on his way to do the
readings, he gets “impressions” and when he starts doodling or holding on to the
objects of those passed, they could come through and he would deduce and make
out things in the end. Ultimately, he acts as the “messenger” between the
living and those departed and most of the time, the clients get some form of
closure after the readings. Very nice to see that. Henry even helps in
mysterious police cases.
I believe in the other
world, but to know that our love ones are not really gone is comforting.
Rating:
4.75/5
14/9/22 Weds: Cooked my own
meatless dinner at night with刀削面,
king oyster mushroom, carrot, onion, kelp, quinoa powder in soba soup and
ajitama! Satisfying meal. Potato came home late, he did not have much meatless
options outside so I cooked him ramen in hot soba soup with carrot, mushroom,
onion and quinoa powder too~ plus one ajitama because he forgot to eat it the
last time haha!
15/9/22 Thurs: PotaTOHs had
bibimbap ($7) for lunch together at Yew Tee Kopitiam before he went for a music
recording at De La Selle School for their 70th anniversary. I
prepared the ingredients while he stir-fried the enoki shroom wrapped in smoked
bacon with some black pepper in the bacon’s own oil, and also mushroom with bok
choy for a simple dinner.
16/9/22 Fri: Did Qigong in
the morning, though sometimes I do find the instructor a bit long-winded haha. Enjoyed
Potato’s grilled sutchi fillet with Chinese wine, butter, salt, black pepper
and lemon! *There’s no bitter aftertaste this time, which we believe was due
to the Italian herbs he added during previous times.* It was yummy! *Looked
through some recipes I kept… should try them one by one hehe!*
19/9/22 Mon: I doubt I would
ever try the Hatha Vinyasa virtual class if my Pilates reformer class was not
cancelled this morning. Basically, I sweated and tried very hard to do the
“flow” and some of the poses I thought I could try to do half the time, and the
other half? I sat down to observe and take photos because I was amazed by how
good the teacher and some students were! *was laughing at my own
“inflexibility” as compared to them lol. 我的硬骨头啊~*
I never did a proper yoga
class from basic, though I do aerial yoga and have tried hatha yoga,
restorative yoga, yin yoga and hot yoga before. So, I thought many of the poses
in the class were definitely not for beginners like me, who hasn’t gone through
a series of beginner’s flow class before. *Maybe they could try to rate
their classes according to difficulty levels to help with participants who join
classes virtually.*
The Healthy 365 app’s
summary of the class was “yoga poses that links through movements, synchronises
with breath and builds muscle strength, flexibility, breath aware and endurance
that has a greater effect on the cardiovascular system”. Little did I know I was
in for an eye-opener haha. The more I watched, the more I thought if I could do
all those poses, then no exercises should be too difficult for me anymore lol. Yoga
intrigues me. All forms of yoga. Would love to practise strength yoga on a
regular basis should time permits next time!
For meatless dinner tonight,
Potato fried some corn fritter with mushroom, red onion, chilli and spring
onion, and he made the sour dip using sour cream as the base, and adding
mustard, mayonnaise, chilli flakes and lemon juice… the sourness helps with the
oiliness, so they went very well together! We had watercress soup with red date
and wolfberry in chicken stock to go along with it too.
Had some issues with ant
colonies in the kitchen under the sink and Potato was quite annoyed with seeing
them often along our kitchen cabinets. We thought it could be the flowering
plants outside my service yard that’s attracting them by looking at their trail,
so we bought ant traps and hopefully that resolves the problem soon. *I
always thought it’s a “common sight” since I see it so often at my parents’
when I lived there, until Potato told me such problem don’t really exist at his
parents’.*
20/9/22 Tues: I ordered zi
char dishes from Ken’s Kitchen for my brother’s 31st birthday dinner
at home. We had his favourite lemonade chicken, sambal fish slices, bitter
gourd soup, spinach with bailing mushroom and self-made tofu. I liked their
sambal fish slices, lemonade chicken, spinach and bitter gourd soup.
Did simple flow at aerial
yoga class tonight and Diana took videos for us haha.
22/9/22 Thurs: Had友记鸭面for lunch with Cherry at Yew
Tee~ their kway chup looked good too. *I’m going to take things as they come
at work. If people are in no hurry, why should I?*
Came home to yummy vongole
aglio olio spaghetti Potato made for us for dinner <3!
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