Preparing For 5th Chemo Treatment

It is Monday again. Wishing everyone a happy new week. Yesterday (Sunday), we celebrated Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to all fathers.

I was awake and I wanted to walk out to check if there was any sunrise for me to snap photos.

Sunrise photo.

Sunrise photo.

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Below are some of my surviving plants in my garden after I delegated the garden to my hubby.

Croton: yellow and green coloured leaves croton.

Aglaonema pink lady: placed in semi shade.

Coleus, placed in semi shade.

Bauhinia Kockiana.

This cat has been a nuisance to the neighbourhood. It climbs and left footprints on our car, scratch the seat of hubby's motorcycle and poo in our garden.

Mural.

Photo credited to Julie Chong.

Linking to Skywatch Friday, Saturday's Critters & Monday Mural.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children;

instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

(Ephesians 6:4, New International Version-NIV)

Lunch At Q Roaster, Bandar Cyber, Ipoh

We happened to be in Bandar Cyber, and initially we intended to eat at a friend's shop but it was closed. Then I remembered this place that someone shared on Whatsapp chat. It is just behind our friend's shop. 

After browsing through the menu, ordering and payment is at the counter. I would prefer them to provide order chit for customers to tick and then proceed to the counter to order and pay for the food.

While waiting for the food to be served, I took some photos.

Just some simple decorations on the wall.

Sour mustard green was to first to be served @ RM3.50.

Hubby enjoyed it all by himself because I am still refraining from spicy and sour food.

A quarter roast duck,

accompanied by the above: egg wrappers, cucumber strips, spring onion and 2 types of sauce.

Oiled rice for hubby and plain white rice for me.

Place a piece of roast duck, cucumber strips, spring onion, sauce and wrap it up to enjoy.

An enjoyable lunch for both of us.

Would love to return to try the pipa duck and herbal duck.

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Critters for Saturday's Critters.

Fire coloured beetle.

King fisher on a power line outside my house (left side) one evening.

At the same time, same evening, these birds were perched on the power lines (right side).

Cat sitting on the roof of a car.

I took this snapshot on our morning walk.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Laziness lets the roof leak, and soon the rafters begin to rot.

(Ecclesiastes 10:18, The Living Bible-TLB)

Wan Tan Noodle & One Dish Home Cooked Dinner

Last Friday we went out to buy prawns.  There is a stall that will only open on Friday morning.

That Friday, this roadside stall was crowded with customers waiting to buy fish and prawns for the Chinese New Year celebration.

Fish and prawns selling like hot cakes.

I didn't want to wait around. I quickly bought 2 kilos of prawns at RM60 per kilo. A friend wanted 1 kilo and 1 kilo for myself.

After cleaning, I was too tired to cook dinner so we went to Buntong village for wan tan noodle.

That evening I only want a bowl of minced meat dumplings (wan ton) because I was not very hungry.

I have seen mother-in-law plants flower but so far the ones in my garden have yet to flower.

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I have harvested some bok choy from my hubby's vertical garden.

I had a small taro in my fridge. I cooked the taro with garlic and dried shrimp and added the bok choy to the taro. This is the 1 dish dinner with steamed brown rice on a lazy evening.

Saw this cat outside a shop. Just look at how it sat.

I saw this cat outside a restaurant and it look sleepy.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

My son, obey your father's commands,

and don't neglect your mother's instruction.

Keep their words always in your heart.

Tie them around your neck.

When you walk, their counsel will lead you.

When you sleep, they will protect you.

When you wake up, they will advise you.

(Proverbs 6:20-22, The Living Bible-TLB)

Exhibits At Aeon Falim & Saturday's Critters

Instead of sunrise, we had a mist covered Kledang Hill view on this particular morning.

Cool morning with mist covered hill at 7:15am.

That afternoon we went to Aeon Falim Shopping Mall and saw there was something on. I went to take a closer look.

Galeri Uniti Keluarga Malaysia from 3rd - 8th Oct, 2022.

A program to foster the spirit of unity among Malaysians.

The time was about 2:30pm. Only a handful of people there, so easy for me to snap some photos.

The stage.

A snake and ladder game on the floor in front of the stage.

3 mannequins displaying the national costume (for female) of the 3 major races in Malaysia. From left to right: Malay, Chinese & Indian.

3 mannequins displaying the national costume (for male) of the 3 major races in Malaysia. From right to left: Malay, Chinese & Indian.

Circular design on the ceiling above the escalator.

Time to go home. It looked like it might rain soon.

A friend came to visit and gave me the above biscuits. The filling has coffee flavouring.

That evening we had small group meeting. Since the pandemic, we have been meeting online using the Whatsapp group video call feature. It only allows 8 contact numbers at a time. Meeting this way is convenient and works well for us because most of the elderlies no longer drive at night.

I stopped to snap photo of the cat on the roof of the car.

This dog came into the picture.

The dog was not happy and started barking at me.

The cat doesn't look happy either with me taking its photo.

On the walk home, I saw this big cat cleaning itself on the roof of a car. It doesn't look happy either! It seems to say, "Hey, why are you taking my photo without my permission!"

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Who can command things to happen without the Lord's permission?

Does not the Most High send both calamity and good?

Then why should we, mere humans,

complain when we are punished for our sins?

(Lamentations 3:37-39, New Living Translation-NLT)

Chee Cheong Fun & Pan Mee For Breakfast

We were away for a 2 days and 1 night trip in Penang. I will need some time to sort out the photos, so today I will do a simple post about one of our breakfast that we had in one of the nearby coffee shops.

Hubby ordered the above plate of rolled steamed rice flour noodle (chee cheong fun) with yam bean strips filling. He asked for curry gravy with sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds and crispy shallots.

Add on a few pieces of fried stuff (aka liew to us), consisting of fried fish cakes, fried bean curd sheets and stuffed bean curd sheet with yam bean or "sar kok fu pei".

Hubby's breakfast and I helped to eat some of the fried stuff.

I ordered handmade pan mee in soup. A friend paid for this noodle and before he left, he came to inform us. Thanks to him for the free bowl of noodle.

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One one of our morning walks, I saw this cat climbing up the fence in a slow motion.

When I stopped and pointed my hand phone camera at the cat, it stopped and stayed motionless for some time just watching me.

Then it slowly made its way to the top of the concrete pillar and crouched there with its face turned away from me. After this shot, we continued on with our walk.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?

But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door;

it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.

(Genesis 4:7, New International Version-NIV)