Christmas Cookies & Flowers From A Friend

The following sky photos were taken in the 1st week of this month, December. 

Morning sky at 7:20am.

That morning, we get to see the sunrise even for a short while.

Hubby and I love to eat this messy dry colour noodles.

I will always order flat rice noodle (koay teow) while hubby will order the yellow noodle.

The thick curry gravy almost completely covered the noodle.

I need to stir up the noodle just to check if I had the right plate of noodle.

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This was about 1 week later.

This was at 6:50am.

The sky was dark but it didn't rain so we had our morning walk.

My stomach was not feeling well for a few days so I went to the government clinic near my area. While waiting to get my medication, I saw this little girl looking at the Christmas decoration. For your info, my stomach is feeling much better now. Doctor's advice: refrain from spicy and sour food.

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So for the time being, I will be a good girl.

For next morning's breakfast, I ordered 1 popiah (spring roll) to share with hubby. What about the chili on the popiah? Fortunately, it was more sweet than spicy.

The popiah tastes good. A must order on our next visit.

I ordered shredded chicken noodle or kai si hor fun.

This is quite good but not as good as our regular stall in my area.

Hubby ordered prawn noodle (combination of yellow noodle and rice vermicelli).

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Yesterday, a close friend drop by to give me something.

I received these 2 flower bouquets from her. They are not real flowers. She has a few so she gave me 2.

She suggested that I can use the flowers for decoration.

I decided to decorate my mother's mother-in-law tongue plants with the yellow flowers.

She also gave me the above Christmas cookies.

Nine pieces of yummy cookies or berry tarts with a star in the centre.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

Seek him who created the Seven Stars and the constellation Orion,

who turns darkness into morning and day into night,

who calls forth the water from the ocean and

pours it out as rain upon the land.

The Lord, Jehovah, is his name.

(Amos 5:8, The Living Bible-TLB)

Lunch With Friends At Best View Restaurant, Desa Rishah, Ipoh

This was a Tuesday. We were looking forward to meet up and fellowship with our old friends whom we haven't met for a long time.

We woke up later than usual and started our morning walk at about 7:20am.

Overcast sky the whole day.

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At about 12pm, our friends came to pick us up from our house. Our friends wanted a place with air-con since the day was warm. We took them to Best View Restaurant. Since it was a weekday lunch, there is no need for table reservation. For dinner, table reservation is needed.

I think this is "yau cham" or "soak in oil" fish with drizzling of garlic oil and soy sauce.

Sambal asparagus with prawns.

Green Amaranth (yeen choy) and century egg in superior soup.

Tofu with assorted vegetables in clay pot.

Lunch for 4 people.

This was a treat from our friends.

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My sister-in-law and her husband was in Ipoh and we were invited for a vegetarian dinner with them. The dinner was for 8 people and I didn't take any food photos. After dinner, my sister-in-law passed us the following foodstuff.

Fresh peach.

3 packets of fried tempe chips.

Sorry for the blur photo.

Some mini size sweet potatoes.

These are good for steaming or roasting.

A packet of organic soybean powder.

Thank you, SIL for your gifts.

And God has reserved for his children the priceless gift of eternal life;

it is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled,

beyond the reach of change and decay.

(1 Peter 1:4, The Living Bible-TLB)

Christmas Blessing From Neighbour And Friend

I will start this post going back to Tuesday. It was a bright and sunny day.

Kledang Hill bathed with sunlight at 7:38am.

We returned from our morning walk and breakfast to find that the roof work had started on one of our neighbour's house.

They chose a good day to change the roof tiles.

The work was completed in less than a day. All the old tiles were carted away and everything was cleared away.

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I harvested some purple and green brinjals from the garden for dinner.

I cut them into thick slices, soaked in salt water. Then I drained off the salt water, sprinkled pepper onto both sides of the brinjal slices and pan fried them until cooked. I served this with some chili oil and roasted sesame dressing.

Fried a thick slice of grouper fish with fried ginger strips and soy sauce. These we ate with plain rice porridge.

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This year I didn't make or buy any thing for Christmas.

On Christmas Eve, I received 2 items from our neighbour.

A fruit cake.

And a fruit jelly.

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On Christmas Day, I received a message telling me to collect something from a friend (ex-colleague's house after church.

Traditional roast pork with potatoes (without oven), using her grandma's recipe. I was told to heat up and sliced the pork thinly before serving which I did as above.

And I cooked non-fried Cintan dried noodle.

Before serving, I poured the gravy over the pork and noodle.

This was our Christmas Day dinner.

There was enough leftover for the next day's dinner.

Panda Bears mural found by the river in front of the Riverfront Hotel.

Linking to Monday Mural.

Judgment will again be founded on justice,

and those with virtuous hearts will pursue it.

(Psalm 94:15, New Living Translation-NLT)

Thankful For The Food And Fruits Gifts

Since we can only start our morning walk at 7am, I tried to sleep and wake up later but it seems that my biological clock has been set and cannot be reset. To pass the time while waiting, I will read news and check messages on my hand phone. If it is still early, I will sweep the porch area and take snapshots of the morning sky.

Pink sunrise at 6:58am.

Sunrise partially hidden by dark cloud at 7:30am.

No more dark cloud at 7:33am.

Golden sunrise at 7:37am.

Starting of a warm day.

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Breakfast at home.

A friend gave us 4 home made glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang). I took out 2 from the fridge to steam for breakfast.

These 2 were peanuts and red beans "chang" or vegetarian dumplings.

Very yummy dumplings.

We had Chinese tea with the dumplings.

Bigger than palm size hibiscus from my garden.

Received the above gifts from our neighbour.

4 cup cakes individually wrapped in plastic bag.

Ready cooked sweet sour black pomfret in plastic container, kept for dinner.

Ready cooked stewed preserved vegetable with pork belly in plastic container, kept for dinner.

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Lunch

Cup cake with "tong sui"

I cooked sweet drink (tong sui) consisting of peach gum, dried longan, honey dates, red dates, goji berries, rock sugar and pandan leaves.

My portion of healthy snack to be eaten as I blog hopped.

Sweet Jackfruit from a friend's garden.

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Later in the afternoon, a friend who was shopping for essentials stopped in front of my house on her way home to bless us with the following:

From left to right: 2 green guavas, 2 mangoes, 5 apples, and some Jackfruits. So thoughtful and generous of our friend. This is more than a week's supply of fruits for us.

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Dinner

All I have to do was to heat up what my neighbour bought for us.

Sweet sour black pomfret.

Preserved vegetable (mui choy) with pork.

I just did a quick stir fry the beansprout and chives with garlic and salt to taste.

There was a little bit of this and that left behind. Not wanting to throw away food, the municipal trash bin (me) cleared up everything to avoid any leftover for the next day.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven!

What joys when sins are covered over!

What relief for those who have confessed their sins

and God has cleared their record.

(Psalm 32:1-2, The Living Bible-TLB)