My Niece No 2.

My eldest sister gave birth to this baby boy on 07/12/2009 which is supposed to come to this world later. His name is Jia Yi 家亿. My brother-in-law said the Chinese character is easy to write so it would torture his son when writing his name.

He is still quite small cause now is breast-feeding by my sister. Anyway his is the 2nd grandson of my parents. So my mother always wanted to hug two babies in one time, I guess few months later, her dream will come true.

莫生气

Lately I am easily get angry. I don't know why, maybe the hot weather or I ate too much chillies. Emotion is the hardest things to control in this world -- I guessed.

But after cooling down, I am thinking a couplet that I saw in a restaurant. The title of the couplet is 莫生气 -- means "Don't Angry".

人生就像一场戏 因为有缘才相聚
相扶到老不容易 是否更该去珍惜
为了小事发脾气 回头想想又何必
别人生气我不气 气出病来无人替
我若气死谁如意 况且伤神又费力
邻居亲朋不要比 儿孙琐事由他去
吃苦享乐在一起 神仙羡慕好伴侣

I am lazy to translate it. If you can't understand, ask someone to translate for you, but dont compare yourself and the person who did the traslation for you.

If you really can't understand, dont angry.

Mentha @ Mint Leave

Mint is one of the plant that must exist in our Spice Garden. My mum get the mint plant from my neighbour. I never thought it is so easy to plant mint. All I need to do is just put the mint leaves into a small hole and cover with soil - that is all. Water the plant and few week later it will become a mature plant.

My mother used to fried the eggs with the mint leave. The dish is full of mint aromatic flavour and it is so refreshing eating it. Another use for the mint leave is making cocktail. Although I never tried before, but the Mojito prepared by my friend is very refreshing and delicious. Another use of mint is preparing the mint sauce for lamb chop.

Maybe I should create a new dish using Mint...

Long Pumpkin

I never saw the long pumpkin before until that day I visited my client. My client is actually an onwer of fertilizer shops. She got this pumpkin from one of the farmer who is her client. So my client just gave this long pumpkin to me.

I felt very grateful to my this client. She was so supportive to me until all her family members get the insurance policies from me. Actually I learn a lot of gardening techniques from my client. She shared the skills on how to put the fertilizer and natural pesticide which is chillies water and garlic water on the plants.

Of cos the long pumpkin was transformed into "Golden Pumpkin Sago Dessert" and "Golden Pumpkin Pao". And of cos my clients was very happy to share the delicacies from my mum and asking the recipe for "Golden Pumpkin Sago Dessert".

I guessed that is one of good mutual interaction between me and my client.

Basil Leaf @ 九層塔

I dont really like basil leaf. But there is plenty of basil plants grow at my backyard.


Basil Leaf is a famous ingredient in Italian cooking. I know one of the Taiwan dish called "Three Cups Chicken" @ 三杯雞 also need to use a lot of basil leaves. The "Three Cups Chicken" is a very easy dish because you just need to put one cup of soy sauce, one cup of white rice wine and one cup of sesame oil into chicken and add the basil leaves for finishing. Although it is a very easy dish but I never try it because I don't really like basil leaves.


But some people like basil leaves very much like my mother as she will use basil leaves to fried eggs. My mother seems quite enjoy to use basil leaves as a cooking ingredient. I have no comment for basil leaves because it is just like durian. The people who like it will like it very much and the people who hate it will hate it very much....

Pandan Leaf

I like Pandan leaves very much for its fragrance and versatile usage. I use the Pandan leaves to cook dessert, Nasi Lemak, Pandan chicken(which is I always failed to make it taste delicious).

I remembered when I was at primary school, I will go to Pandan leaves bushes to catch the fighting spiders. I will put the fighting spiders into a trasparent cassette box and let the spiders fight among themselves.

Anyway, Pandan leaves actually already built up some space in my heart......without acknowledge me.

Banana Tree

Just planted a banana tree at my backyard. My feeling to banana is just like no feeling --- I dont like banana very much but I also never hate it. But I like about banana tree is the banana leaf. I don't know why maybe I like to eat Nasi Lemak which is wrapped by banana leaf.

I used planted several banana trees at my backyard and my mother always cut the leaves from the banana trees. My mother's action had caused the banana trees cannot grow normally as the leaves take time to grow. I even warned my mother not to touch the banana trees that i had planted. She always like to use the banana leaves to serve her home made " Koo Kooi".

My mother still making her Koo Kooi now but I dont know where she got the banana leaves probably from my neighbour. I dont care where she got her banana leaves as long as she didn't cut the leaves from my banana trees.

I dont know why I will become agitated when my mother cut the banana leaves without acknowledge me. Perhaps that is the tree that i put hope into the banana trees to grow well.

Hope is so important? What do you think about hope?

Blood Donation

It had been more than six months since my last blood donation. So I decided to donate blood again and the blood donation location is just next to my University I studied before.

After I filled up the blood donation form, I saw there were 50 peoples already donated their blood. After checking my body weight and having a blood test to identify the blood group and haemoglobin level. After that the medical officer will ask me several questions before I lied down on the sleeping chair.

After I laid down and there was a nurse came and identified my personal data. After that the nurse started to locate a blood vein and sterilized my arm. Here is the part I was not so enjoyable and not dare to look which is the nurse pierce the needle into my arm. After a short pain, the blood start to flow into the blood pack.

While I am waiting the blood pack to be filled up 450ml of my fresh blood, I always closed my eyes and take a light nap. But my mind cannot rest because the nurses on duty were chating and laughing noisily. Then I was looking at all the nurses, I realised all of them are plump in their body shapes.

Of cos I dont have bias on them but I just imagined if there is a pretty nurse serve in the blood donation event, there must be a lot of guys willing to donate thier hot blood. Sometimes I am thinking to write a story about romantic encounter between a blood donor and the pretty nurse. But I just dont know how to start it. Maybe I should go to more blood donation events and observe the scene so I can get more ideas how to write the story.

The small booklet above showed the record of my blood donation. I actually went to donate blood for my own health conciousness. So everytime I quite enjoy blood donation, it is also like I save my blood first and one day I might need to use it.

Anyway, I am planning to donate blood twice a year. Although a normal person can donate blood 4 times every years but I am not going to do that. I dont know why, maybe there is a big gap bewteen reality and imagination. In real world, there will be no pretty nurse apprear on the blood donation event.

Maybe I should write down my imagination in real world......That is the only thing I can do. You should try to donate blood if you are healthy, Maybe you could be the one of character in the Romantic Blood Donation Encounter.

Chillies

I like Chillies very much and I can't remember when I started to like it. What I remembered is I was used to play badminton for betting during my primary school time. Guess what I betting for the badminton game? The answer was Nasi Lemak. These was done by me when I was standard four in primary school. I still remembered I had to let my friend to lead 10 points first in a 15 points game and what I need to do is fight back in order to win the game and the ultimate prize is Nasi Lemak. I can remembered the Nasi Lemak only cost 30 cents per pack and with sotong one is 1 ringgit.

Of cos these was not my idea to win the breakfast but was my coach's idea so each of us will fight full heartedly to win the game. The loser not only need to pay for the breakfast but also need to be punished by physical punishments like frog jumpings, duck walkings, push up, sit up and etc...

So cruel but the fact is my friend who used to lose to me before now play better than me now. Maybe he is keep on playing and training but I need to admit he is really consistent in playing badminton game and always tried to play with strong opponents.

I guessed eating chillies and playing badminton has a common place. You ate chillies and you will request more chillies for the next meal. Eating chillies and you will request the chillies which is in higher degree in hotness. I like chilly padi very much and I request more everytime and prefer the hottest species one. Chillies make you immuned to it and you will gradually eat more so your taste buds will have feelings.

Playing Badminon also the same, you need to play with the player who is stronger than you and only you will improve. Of cos you need to challenge those who are stronger than you so you will able to learn from them. It is just same when you challenge yourself to eat hotter chillies.

Anyway, the chillies trees was planted at my backyard. There are white, red and orange chillies which make the plant looks very colourful. There is another Mexico Chilly at my backyard and somebody said the degree of hotness is 9 /10. Are you dare to try?