FollowWhen hubs told me to get ready as he was on his way from his shop to our condo to pick me up to collect my baby from the car repair workshop, I was ecstatic! I have not seen my car for almost a month after it was struck with a ‘car stroke’ that rendered…
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MCO Day 64 & 65 ~ Wednesday & Thursday (20 & 21 May 2020)
Wednesday, 20 May 2020 The sunrise at 7 a.m. today was rather spectacular – the sky was not sure whether to cry buckets or smile sunnily. It was dark and ominous yet amidst the stormy blue colored sky, the sun peeked out fleetingly from the horizon. The colors projected on the sky were too beautiful not…
MCO Day 58 ~ 14 May 2020 (Thursday)
After my usual MCO-style morning workout of stairs-climbing (5th floor > 18th floor > Ground floor), I jogged for another 30 minutes in the 10-ish a.m. sun. I find that jogging under the morning sun gives me a lot of energy and elevates my mood (not to mention the sunshine vitamin / Vitamin D), besides…
MCO Day 57 ~ 13 May 2020 (Wednesday)
Today is payment day to the girls’ tuition centers and transporters, all done via online banking since last month. Though there is still no formal directive from the Government on bus fare to school transporters throughout the MCO, there was however an opinion by a Minister in the newspapers recently that parents do not have to…
MCO Day 53 ~ 9 May 2020 (Saturday)
My day didn’t start off too smoothly today. I’m utterly disappointed with someone but I shall not talk about the specifics here. The person may be reading this post or someone known to this person may be reading it and this post may get to this particular person somehow. The internet can be agathokakological – it…
MCO Day 51 ~ 7 May 2020 (Thursday)
Today is Wesak Day but Buddhists in our country and in most parts of the world have to celebrate quietly while sheltering at home. The photo below was taken on Wesak Day 11 years ago from the 5th floor of our hospital room in Penang. Cass, my helper and I were still camping at Gleneagles…
MCO Day 49 ~ 5 May 2020
MCO Day 47 ~ 3 May 2020 (Sunday)
I sacrificed my morning workout today to go groceries shopping with hubs. It’s a relief that the Government now allows two people from the same household to go shopping together. When we buy groceries, we buy a lot, enough to last us for several days. And that’s a heavy load to carry to the car, unload…
MCO Meals & Nasi Briyani From Catermate
Friday, 1 May 2020 Our Labor’s Day lunch, prepped by Sherilyn – stir-fried assortment of homemade pastas that she hand-made a few days ago with olive oil, garlic, fresh button mushrooms, bacon, lemon zest, lemon juice and black pepper. Dinner: oven-grilled salmon, sauteed organic long beans with minced meat and organic miso, steamed egg with…
MCO Day 45 & 46 ~ 1 & 2 May 2020 (Friday & Saturday)
Friday, 1 May 2020 I didn’t realize that today is Labor’s Day until I woke Alycia up at 7:30 a.m. as usual for her Monday – Friday online classes conducted by her high school teachers and she told me groggily that today is a public holiday. Oh well, it makes no difference whether it’s a…
MCO Day 43 ~ 29 April 2020 (Wednesday)
Today the Government announced that they’re going to consider allowing outdoor jogging and exercising soon. Just like how business sectors are slowly re-opening. That’s one of the happiest news for me, to date. Not that I’m going to get out of our condo to jog. At least I can jog around our condo compound without…
MCO Day 42 ~ 28 April 2020 (Tuesday)
Today hubs has Nasi Lemak boxes for delivery again. We’ve been having his chef’s special Nasi Lemak with Ayam Goreng Berempah twice in a week already. When I asked the girls if they still wanted the same thing for lunch today, I got a resounding “YES, why not?!” So off I went to hubs’ shop…
MCO Day 40 ~ 26 April 2020 (Sunday)
This morning, our personal trainer laid out the yoga mats to start private lessons with Miss Lazybones. He waited so long for the dawdler (who was actually hoping to get away with the boot camp) to get ready that he almost zonked out on the lounger while playing with his phone. ? See the brat –…
MCO Day 37 ~ 23 April 2020 (Thursday)
Our baking queen indeed finds pleasure and satisfaction through cooking and baking. About an hour before her online class this morning, she quickly cooked Japanese rice in the rice cooker for Korean seaweed balls or Jumeokbap (주먹밥) and sushi and pan-fried some egg rolls. When the Japanese rice was ready, in hot-foot and swift hands,…
Nasi Lemak For Delivery During MCO
Hubs and I have been super busy today – me with some urgent writing jobs and hubs with prepping over 70 boxes of Nasi Lemak and arranging for e-hailing drivers to send the food to his customers. My craving for Nasi Lemak and ayam goreng berempah is finally satiated today as he cooked extra for…
MCO Day 34 ~ 20 April 2020 (Monday)
I looked at my desktop calendar to see what MCO day number it is today and next to today’s date, I’d earlier written down Cass’ Diagnostic Exam date on today’s box. Had La Corona not invaded our lives unexpectedly, Cass would be sitting for an exam that would last the entire week! And she escaped…