| It's A Wrap! |
[Jun. 21st, 2007|01:18 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | bamboo, beans, blog, blogosphere, chestnuts, chinese, closure, dean, dragon boat festival, dumpling, dumpling festival, egg, festival, kl, lunar, malaysia, meat, mum, mushroom, nikon coolpix 2100, penang, qu yuan, rice, sabbatical, salted, singapore, solace, yolk, 屈原, 战国, 端午节, 粽子 | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Taman Kinrara, Puchong | ] |
| [ | Mood |
| |  indescribable | ] |
| [ | Music |
| | Ivri Lider & Idan Raichel - Strong World | ] |
Steamed rice dumplings.
It was Dumpling Festival yesterday. Some call it Dragon Boat Festival. In Mandarin, it's called Duan Wu Jie (端午节). It's the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar, a day of commemorating the Chinese patriot and poet, Qu Yuan (屈原) who killed himself by jumping into the river to show his disappointment to the downfall of the Chu Dynasty he loyally supported during the Zhan Guo 战国 (Warring States) period. Traditionally, people would throw zong zi (粽子) or rice dumplings into rivers in hopes that the fish in the river would feed on these dumplings instead of the body of the fallen idol. These dumplings are usually consisting of rice wrapped in bamboo leaves stuffed with meat, beans, chestnuts, salted egg yolks and mushrooms.
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| The One With The Food Poisoning |
[May. 13th, 2007|04:17 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | bbc, bbq, borders, carrin, clinic, cousin, ee won, food, food poisoning, ikea, klinik, meat, medical, mother's day, muscle, nikon coolpix 2100, pain, phad thai, rain, seafood, shellfish, steamboat, sutthisan, thailand, the curve, top gear, สถานีสุทธิสาร | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Taman Kinrara, Puchong | ] |
| [ | Music |
| | Coldplay - Bigger Stronger | ] |
The rain brought cheers to my otherwise vapid and warm afternoon, with not much entertainment except for that Korean movie about a kid and his love for his grandma and BBC's finest TV programme on cars, TOP GEAR. I cannot eat anything but bread and bread only thanks to the food poisoning episode.
Looking out from parents' apartment during a drizzling afternoon.
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The patient sat on the hard bench cringed down, moaning in pain that was twisting in his tummy as his two cousin sisters stood helplessly, nervously watching and wondering what they were going to do.
Oblivious to some curious patrons to the mall passing by the scene, next to the BORDERS book store which is conveniently located next to the washroom, the patient almost cried out in the excruciating pain that came like giant waves of tsunami that hit almost every time he tried to relax. It was as if someone planted multiple punches in the gut and the shock that came with it felt like an elephant trampled on it. It was embarrassing to let the girls see the non-macho side of their cousin. In contrast to the earlier part of the evening at the escalator, Ee Won pressed his firm chest and commented, “Wow.. got muscles eh?”. No muscles no more now eh?
In the background, Carrin was calling her boyfriend for help on her mobile phone. “Jin, where are you? Vince is having a severe tummy ache, what to do?”
“Should we send him to the hospital?”
“Is there any clinic at The Curve?”
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