Preparing For 8th Chemo Treatment

My pre-chemo blood test will be on the 4th August and my next chemo treatment (8th) will be on the 7th (Monday) August.

Sunrise at 7:05am.

Our purple bougainvillea plant outside our house.

One of the Branula needles insertion.

Add-on chemo drug which I have to buy which the hospital did not supply.

Big grasshopper in my garden, took this shot long time ago in 2021.

Photo credited to Julie Choon, artist of this lovely mural.

Thank God for His faithfulness and thank you to all who have been carrying me in your prayers.

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

Hardy Cactus From My Garden

Hello friends, I am back again!

In case you are wondering what happened to me, it is just that for the past few days, I will be feeling sleepy and will be napping throughout the day. Some days, I will be feeling wide awake and slept very little. This is probably some of the minor side effects of the chemo treatment.

Morning sky at 6:45am

Some mornings, I will wake up very early and if I remember, I will go out to check on the sunrise and snap some photos. Recently, I went out to the garden to check on the plants. Many plants have been neglected and left to fend for themselves. Hubby only has the time to water them. 

The plants that are doing well and growing bigger are my cactus plants. The above has grown bigger.

The one above has grown more babies.

This photo was from the year 2021. Can you see the grasshopper clinging on the green brinjal? This morning I harvested some green brinjals or eggplants or aubergines from my garden.

I think this is the same grasshopper. Since then, I haven't seen any grasshopper visiting our garden.

Linking to Skywatch Friday & Saturday's Critters.

The Lord's my Shepherd I'll not want

He makes me lie in pastures green

He leads me by the still still waters

His goodness restores my soul

Chorus:

And I will trust in You alone 2x

For Your endless mercy follows me

Your goodness will lead me home

He guides my ways in righteousness

And He anoints my head with oil

And my cup it overflows with joy

I feast on His pure delights

And though I walk the darkest path

I will not fear the evil one

For You are with me

And Your rod and staff

Are the comfort I need to know

Dinner At Fung Sheng Steamboat, Bercham, Ipoh

Yesterday afternoon (Friday) while I was having lunch with my sister and friend, a Whatsapp message came through and the message was "I have booked 4 places for steamboat for tonight." It was because we as senior citizens (60 years and above) can enjoy special price at RM25.90 per person. For those 13 - 59 years, the rate is RM59.90. So yesterday evening, we were here at Fung Sheng Steamboat which our friend came to know through Facebook.

Our friend booked a table for 4, indoor with air-con.

Upon arrival, we requested to change our table to the outdoor with fresh air.

Fortunately, there was a table that was not reserved yet, just next to this little garden.

To get the food that we want, we have to walk a short distance to the indoor with air-con.

This is where we get the plates or bowls to hold whatever we picked for the steamboat, grill or bbq. Just take a walk around here to check out the food which are displayed on your left and right. The following are some of the food items available.

Some of the seafood available.

Meat on skewers.

Shelled prawns on skewers.

For the steamboat or hot pot, we can choose 2 out of 6 soups available. We picked pork bones and tom yam. The other 4 soups are tomato, cheese, and etc. (I can't remember the other 2 soups).

We started with crabs, prawns and fresh mushrooms in the steamboat.

Nice big and fresh prawns.

 Both the soups we picked were tasty. Every now and then, they will come to top up on the soups.

Then we had cuttlefish and scallop, After 2 rounds of food from the steamboat, we moved on to grilled food.

To start off, we picked some meat and shelled prawns on skewers.

Grilling in action.

We tried different types of meat, chicken wings, prawns and crabs. At 8:30pm, we were informed that we can try our luck at catching live prawns and crabs with locking tongs. Only limited number of prawns and crabs were let loose into the water trough. Not easy to see because the trough was dark and the bright lights shining up from the bottom of the trough is glaring to the eyes. I went with our friend. Hooray, our friend managed to catch 3 crabs and 1 big prawn.

We can use this oiled paper on a metal tray to grill our food. When the paper gets black, one of the staff will come to change a new one for us.

The chicken wings were well marinated and very tasty.

We need to watch the chicken wings because it gets charred easily.

While waiting for the crabs to cook on the grill, we had our jelly dessert and fruits.

This was the last item we ate. By then we were all very full.

The cost of dinner came to RM113.95 for 4 people including 10% service tax.

On our way out, I saw this painting on the wall.

This place is worth going again because the food is fresh and the service is good.

I used to share about the big grasshoppers seen in my garden. One day when it started to munch on the edibles instead on just on the leaves, I decided to move the grasshopper to a shrub away from my house.

Since then, it has not appeared in my garden again. I hope it likes it new home.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

A father can give his sons homes and riches,

but only the Lord can give them understanding wives.

(Proverbs 19:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Prawn Noodle & Curry Noodle (Pan Mee)

This was Monday morning. We started out early for our morning walk.

Sunrise at 7:28am

Sunrise at 7:48am

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Breakfast in Restoran Meng Meng Kee, Menglembu.

Yummy prawn noodle.

This place also serve yummy loh mee.

Sky shot from the Aeon Big, Falim car park at 2:15pm.

I was planning to have lunch at Sin Yin Loong Cafe at Aeon Big but was disappointed to find that it was closed for good.

In the end, we ended up trying out the above curry pan mee at one of the stalls. We were recommended to try their pan mee. Curry is tasty and the pan mee texture is good too.

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What's for dinner?

Blanched broccoli and whatever brinjal and long beans harvested from the garden. Dressed with garlic oil and Kewpie roasted sesame dressing.

Hubby wanted porridge, so boiled plain rice porridge for him.

He likes his plain rice porridge with salted egg and fermented bean curd.

2 hard boiled eggs for me.

This was my dinner: Blanched broccoli with hard boiled eggs.

The last time I saw this grasshopper, it was clinging onto one of my brinjal leaves. The brinjal flower looked like a spotlight shining down on the grasshopper. I used a long metal pincer to catch hold of the grasshopper and placed it on a roadside bush far away from the front of my house. I told the grasshopper to stay there and it is no longer welcome into my garden. So far, so good, no sign of the grasshopper. Hope it likes the bush.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Do everything without complaining and arguing,

so that no one can criticize you.

Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like

bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.

Hold firmly to the word of lie; then, on the day of Christ's return,

I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and

that my work was not useless.

(Philippians 2:14-16, New Living Translation-NLT)

Savoury Glutinous Rice With Chicken Curry & Lui Cha Pan Mee

We started our morning walk early. No sign of sunrise, probably another cloudy day.

Breaking of dawn at 6:50am.

After morning, we drove to Menglembu to buy breakfast because hubby wanted to eat yellow glutinous rice with chicken curry.

We were told that the yellow or turmeric glutinous rice (nasi kunyit) was sold out. Hubby settled for the savoury glutinous rice and the chicken curry and was charged only RM5.

Hubby's breakfast.

We drove back to our own area and I bought the above Lui Cha Pan Mee aka Thunder Tea Pan Mee. The green soup is made from blended herbs e.g. basil and etc.

I added the lui cha soup and ingredient to the noodle.

I enjoy this noodle but its a no, no for hubby.

I harvested the above green brinjals and okra to add to the fish curry for dinner.

I spotted this big grasshopper clinging onto this green brinjal.

On another morning I saw this clinging onto the pole I used to support the brinjal plant.

I think it is the same one that was clinging onto the brinjal.

This is the 2nd portion of the fish curry that I ordered for the previous day dinner. I added in the brinjals and okra.

Remaining lettuce with roasted sesame dressing.

Delicious dinner for 2 people.

No need to sweat in the kitchen.

This was my okra plant when it started to bear okras.

It is now about 4 months old and it has grown very tall and the okras getting smaller. I shortened the okra plant. New branches appeared sideways and are now bearing okras.

Again I saw the grasshopper feeding on the okra leaf.

I zoomed in for a closer look.

It looks like an alien from outer space.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

The Lord says: Be fair-minded. Do what is right!

Help those in need of justice! Quit your evil deeds!

Protect the rights of aliens and immigrants, orphans and widows;

stop murdering the innocent!

(Jeremiah 22:3, The Living Bible-TLB)