Aha!  It is time to put a big smile on your face!  Why?

*Because we are alive
*Because we are in good health
*Because we are surrounded by our loved ones
*Because we don’t have to starve
*Because we have a job
*Because we can do what we like (legal activities :D)
*Because we can travel
*Because we learn a bit more every single day
*Because we are not perfect but we love who we are!

And etc…etc…etc…

Shouldn’t we be grateful and thankful?

So, remember!  Be positive and be inspired at all times!  You’ll do great things and achieve tremendous results!

Have a fabulous day every day!

We eat at home more often now.  There aren’t many choices at where we live when it comes to vegetarian food.  Perhaps we haven’t been looking hard enough.  We used to take away economy rice, which is white rice with dishes to choose from and pack into a lunch box but that seems to be difficult to find here.  Most are non-vegetarians.  For lunch or dinner, we have two dishes with white rice.

Sometimes, we have other things like vegetarian sushi.  They are made with vegetarian sausages or soy ‘chicken pieces’.  With some mashed potatoes added in, the sushi taste marvelous!  Lately, a new flavor has been invented, corn kernel salad, which is a good combination for sushi too!

We also use bread as pizza base to make vegetarian pizzas.  Nowadays, they sell readily mixed pizza cheese toppings and it is so easy to use.  Just cut some tomatoes and capsicums, lay them on the bread, spread the cheese on top and put them in the oven.  Within a matter of minutes, you will be served with hot and yummy pizzas!

Well, there you go!  Some of the food that we eat now.  We intend to try more new things and keep you updated soon!

This is one of my favorite food - Vegetarian Nyonya Fried Rice.  I tried it at a vegetarian restaurant near the place where I live now.  The price is quite reasonable, but the portion is too small.  What do you think about its plate presentation?

This is the vegetarian mushroom noodle.  I tried it in a food court in a shopping mall.  Like it, except it is a bit salty.

Most of the time when I had lunch with my colleagues, we went to an Indian restaurant.  It is a new type of food to me, since I have never tried it when I was in Kuching.

The way of eating is special, there is no plate, but we use banana leaves.  We have an option to eat with our hand also, but I have never tried and I am not going to try as well.

After finish eating the banana leave rice, I was told by my colleague that we should fold it to tell that we have finished with it.  There is a way to tell if the food is delicious by the folding direction, but my colleagues are not sure about it, and most people just simply fold it.

Out of all the food I ate in different restaurants, Indian vegetarian food is the cheapest.

Every Friday night, I went to the night market to buy this “Peanut Pancake“.  I like to see the seller cut it into pieces from a big round pancake.  He usually cuts a few horizontal lines and then cut them diagonally again to make them into triangular shape.

There was one time when I was queuing to buy a few pieces for my dinner, I heard someone in front of me told the hawker that he wanted the pieces to be cut out from the border.  Yes, the border is crispier, but also harder to bite.

The smell of peanut makes me mouth watering when they are served hot.

Ice-cream is my dessert after I have my dinner.  I have finished 3 boxes in 2 months.  And this is my favorite flavour - Lava.

I always buy this fruit from the night market as well.  This is called “yacon“.  In Chinese it is called “XueLianGuo“, which means the fruit of icy lotus.  It tastes like pear.  It can be cooked, but I like to eat it raw.

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SiewPeng has come here and I am not living alone anymore.  I have brought SiewPeng to try the vegetarian restaurants I have been to, and bought the same things from the night market.  They are our favorite food now.

I have very minimum knowledge in cooking, but I have been staying alone since weeks ago, therefore I picked up cooking again since I last touched the kitchen tools years back.

From what I have discovered within these few weeks, I have learned that first thing first is important in order to prepare a meal efficiently.

The first thing is to prepare ingredients, and the first ingredient to be prepared is the dried mushroom.

It is a very common material in Chinese style cooking, but the mushroom take a bit longer to turn soft, therefore the first thing is to dip it in water, and I can prepare other things while waiting for it to be ready.

SiewPeng told me that this process can be made faster by dipping the mushroom in hot water.

After the mushroom turn soft, I cut them into slices.

I will tell you more on the my kindergarten-style-cooking stories.

… …  To be continued … …

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We have not updated since more than a month ago, we were really busy.  

This moment is another turning point of our life.  SiewPeng and I will be experiencing different life style and pace of life.  We will be seeing different things. — Yes, I have moved to a “big” city, and SiewPeng will be joining me very soon.

Luckily I took its photo during noon time, it was gone in the evening when I try to find it again because it has been removed by my mother who also loves gardening.

Days later, I found the other leaves which were also dotted.

I am not sure if it is unhealthy or it is just the life cycle of a water lily leaf.  Hope more leaves will grow soon and bloom beautifully.

If we keep our body healthy, sickness is not part of our life cycle.