Entertainment & Activities During Lockdown

We all need some kind of entertainment or activities during lockdown. Stay with me and I will show you some of the ways I entertain myself or keep me active during the series of lockdown.

#1 - Taking sky shots.

Morning sky at 6:45am, no morning walk.

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#2 - Taking snapshots of our meals.

This was my breakfast.

No photo to show hubby's breakfast because he had his earlier.

2 pieces of toast with peanut jam.

Cucumber slices with sesame dressing, just to clear the unused cucumber slices from the fridge.

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#3 - Spending time in my garden.

This is how I protect the figs from the birds.

I punched holes in the used plastic bags and used them to protect the figs.

I placed the plastic bag over each fig and pulled the string to secure and tie it to the stem.

With this method, at least I get to taste and enjoy some of the figs. If I delay in harvesting the over ripe figs, the ants and fruit flies will get to them.

#4 - Getting to taste the produce of my garden.

Nice to eat it when freshly plucked from the plant.

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#5 - Keeping my mind active thinking of ways to prepare food.

My neighbour gave me 4 jagung or sweet corn. I removed the kernels from the cob. After steaming the kernels, I stirred in some butter and salt to taste. It makes a delicious snack or lunch.

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#6 - Diligent in jaws exercising by eating lots of delicious fruits.

#7 - Exciting my taste buds to do their job properly.

Sweet like honey.

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#8 - Sweating out in the kitchen (my personal gym or sauna)

No rice dinner.

For this evening, the cook was in overdrive mood and cooked 4 dishes for dinner.

I decided to steam the last 2 pieces of fish using chopped garlic and ginger strips.

Hubby not keen on the steamed fish, so I fried onion omelette.

Sauteed napa cabbage and carrot with garlic and salt to taste.

I had some thawed pork belly slices in the fridge, so I fried crispy pork slices. They are best eaten with sweet Thai chili sauce.

#9 - Feeding and giving my whole digestive system a good workout.

Okay, these should be enough for this post.

Rattan basket on a pulley system.

In the old days, this method was used by shop keepers to keep cash during the business hours. The basket can be pulled down and released. This method was also used for transferring of items between the upper floor where the stock was kept and the ground floor (shop) without the workmen having to go up and down the stairs.

Linking to Happy Tuesday, Image-in-ing & Tuesday's Treasures.

Work hard so God can say to you, "Well done."

Be a good workman, one who does not need to be ashamed

when God examines your work.

Know that his Word says and means.

(2 Timothy 2:15, The Living Bible-TLB)

Loh Mee, Daikon Soup & Vegetable Acar

On this particular morning, we had breakfast at Restoran Meng Meng Kee, Menglembu new township. We managed to get a table for 4 people. We ordered 3 bowls of prawn noodle and 1 bowl of loh mee.

I ordered loh mee. I requested for a mixture of loh mee and prawn mee broth, meaning a more diluted loh mee broth. I don't like yellow noodle so I requested for rice vemicelli.

There were 2 couples. For each couple, we ordered 2 half boiled eggs and 2 slices of toast with butter and kaya.

I was looking for Kewpie roasted sesame dressing in my area but I only managed to find the above brand which I bought to try. This will do for the time being.

I used the roasted sesame dressing to make cucumber salad. It looks pale because I removed the skin from the cucumber. The ingredients used: cucumber, dried cranberry, pine nuts, walnuts, and roasted sesame dressing.

This season, this hibiscus plant has been blooming non stop with 1 to 2 flowers per day.

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Home cooked dinner for 2.

Daikon soup.

Ingredients used: pork rib, daikon, carrot, red dates, goji berries, and salt to taste.

For convenience and less plates to wash, the rice was placed in the bowl and we had rice in the soup. Good suggestion from hubby. Lol!

Took out another portion of vegetable acar.

This vegetable acar can be eaten as snack too.

A simple and satisfying dinner.

Pink Mexican Petunia or Pink Showers from my front garden.

Sky watching. Sunset at 6:10pm

I can see the head of a big bird (a beak and eye facing left) above the tree tops.

And just behind the bird's head, I can also see an old witch just above the tree top. Can you see what I saw? Can you see anything else?

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

No one can predict misfortune.

Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds in a trap,

so men and women are caught by accidents evil and sudden.

(Ecclesiastes 9:12, The Message-MSG)

Sweet Potota Sweet Drink & Cucumber Salad

I have boiled sweet potato sweet drink or tong sui for a long time. I bought a few sweet potatoes from a road side stall on our way home from morning walk.

Only 4 items needed: Sweet potato peeled and cut into bite pieces, smashed old ginger, cane sugar and water. Boil sweet potato with ginger, pandan or screwpine leaves, and add cane sugar when the potato is soften.

We had sweet potato tong sui for lunch.

There was some leftover julienned cucumber which I prepared for the assam laksa. I also have cranberries and pine nuts in the fridge.

Toasted sesame dressing was added to make a delicious salad.

I saw this cute poster on a wall of a hotel in Malacca.

Pink Wishbone flowers growing wild in my garden.

Sometimes I see them, sometimes I don't.

Linking to Happy Tuesday, Image-in-ing & Tuesday's Treasures.

Where there is ignorance of God, crime runs wild;

but what a wonderful thing

it is for a nation to know and keep his laws.

(Proverbs 29:18, The Living Bible-TLB)