Friday, January 27, 2006
Steamboat with Ah Ma
Before I blabber... I wanna thank ZY for working with me on the Lit review. It was like a non-stop shift job sia! We should stop procastinating and START EARLIER on the next assignment! Heh. The brain was so fried today that when she said she wanted to rely on me for the 'oomph' in the conclusion of our essay, I offered her fried brain with garlic and oyster sauce instead. Amazingly, that whet her appetite! Hahaha! How incredible! But to her defence, the poor skinny gal din get to eat breakfast nor lunch lah... (What weight is there left of her to be lost?!)
Hmm... I also played badminton with Char today. We had a rather good game. One of the best rallies we had so far, I think. Thanks to the fantastic shuttlecock today! Oh, and we had a good conversation about the difference between Christianity and Catholicism. Thank God that Char and her family believe in Christ! =) Ignorant me thought that Catholics worship Mother Mary instead of Jesus Christ. Thank you Char for enlightening me! If any of you bright souls wanna enlighten me further, please do, cos I admit I'm really ignorant but I do wanna learn! Heh.
To end my day, Pure fren RT, PL and myself had steamboat with ah-ma at her place to celebrate CNY with her. We started the tradition last year, and so we continued this year. Simple fare, nothing elaborate. But it was a nice, tasty, simple meal which filled all of us up to the brim! Such that ah-ma couldn't even finish nibbling at the last tofu fishcake in her bowl... PL couldn't even bend... pure fren reached her limit of savouring the button mushrooms (she effectively gobbled down the entire can!) and I had to be given time-out on a small little chair afterward. I also discovered that Seasons Apple tea is pretty yummy! And New Moon baby abalone is like chewing gum which you chew and then spit out cos it's impossible to swallow!
Here are some photos...
What's your favourite steamboat ingredient??
There was overwhelming response for chinese cabbage just now. Hee.
I should endeavour to visit ah ma more often. I realised that I haven't visited her for a long long time! When there was a time when I would visit her oh so regularly... luckily my Teochew is still at a conversational standard! Should have written down the stuff that PL kinda made up in order to communicate with ah ma! It was hilarious! Like her own slang/translation of Mandarin into her own idea of Teochew! Hahaha! In the end, they had to resort to action and drawing! Ah ma was quite amused! I hope we brought some colour into her life. Life as a senior citizen can be quite boring and meaningless if we are cooped up at home with nothing to do, nowhere to go (other than the fact that mobility might be a problem) and with nobody to visit except strangers... and what you do with almost all your time is to sit by the window and enjoy the wind as you watch people walk by, from afternoon till the wee hours of the morning. How does one cope?
Think time: Ever wondered about the meaning of life? What is our purpose in this life? What happens after this?
Hmm... I also played badminton with Char today. We had a rather good game. One of the best rallies we had so far, I think. Thanks to the fantastic shuttlecock today! Oh, and we had a good conversation about the difference between Christianity and Catholicism. Thank God that Char and her family believe in Christ! =) Ignorant me thought that Catholics worship Mother Mary instead of Jesus Christ. Thank you Char for enlightening me! If any of you bright souls wanna enlighten me further, please do, cos I admit I'm really ignorant but I do wanna learn! Heh.
To end my day, Pure fren RT, PL and myself had steamboat with ah-ma at her place to celebrate CNY with her. We started the tradition last year, and so we continued this year. Simple fare, nothing elaborate. But it was a nice, tasty, simple meal which filled all of us up to the brim! Such that ah-ma couldn't even finish nibbling at the last tofu fishcake in her bowl... PL couldn't even bend... pure fren reached her limit of savouring the button mushrooms (she effectively gobbled down the entire can!) and I had to be given time-out on a small little chair afterward. I also discovered that Seasons Apple tea is pretty yummy! And New Moon baby abalone is like chewing gum which you chew and then spit out cos it's impossible to swallow!
Here are some photos...
What's your favourite steamboat ingredient??
There was overwhelming response for chinese cabbage just now. Hee.
I should endeavour to visit ah ma more often. I realised that I haven't visited her for a long long time! When there was a time when I would visit her oh so regularly... luckily my Teochew is still at a conversational standard! Should have written down the stuff that PL kinda made up in order to communicate with ah ma! It was hilarious! Like her own slang/translation of Mandarin into her own idea of Teochew! Hahaha! In the end, they had to resort to action and drawing! Ah ma was quite amused! I hope we brought some colour into her life. Life as a senior citizen can be quite boring and meaningless if we are cooped up at home with nothing to do, nowhere to go (other than the fact that mobility might be a problem) and with nobody to visit except strangers... and what you do with almost all your time is to sit by the window and enjoy the wind as you watch people walk by, from afternoon till the wee hours of the morning. How does one cope?
Think time: Ever wondered about the meaning of life? What is our purpose in this life? What happens after this?
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