This morning I had a craving to eat bitter gourd pork noodles but there was no bitter gourd or fish balls in our fridge. As I’d skipped exercising in the morning, I decided to go toĀ our neighborhood supermarket instead to pick up the items for our bitter gourd pork noodles tonight.
The thought of the SOP for pre and post groceries shopping trip often turns me off going shopping these days. I used to look forward to doing my groceries shopping everyday but now it feels like a chore and a tall order too. And the fear of bringingĀ the Virus back to my family is numbing.
Before I left the house, I sprayed Sodium Hypochlorite disinfectant water all over my body and grabbed a face mask. The mil who wasn’t convinced that I’d sprayed enough of disinfectant came towards me and slathered more SH disinfectant water on the back of my armsĀ šĀ I think she was more worried than me.Ā Suddenly going groceries shopping felt like going into the battlefield!
I reached the supermarket at around 8:15 a.m.Ā I was lucky that I managed to get a parking spot right outside the supermarket the moment I arrived, thank God!Ā The queue into the supermarket was already building up. All the shoppers had to queue outside the supermarket with a 1 meter distancing from each other. Our temperatures were taken too and hand sanitizer provided.Ā Each time a shopper exits from the supermarket, a new shopper enters. Even with this controlled entrance, it was still crowded inside, particularly the fruits and vegetables section.
Within 5 minutes after I queued up, I turned back and saw a long queue that spilled onto the road, at least 30 people deep. Thank goodness I was 5 minutes earlier than them!
Once back home with the groceries, I quickly wiped down each item with Sodium Hypochlorite water, sprayed the shopping bags with SH water and wiped the kitchen tops and floors with disinfectant wipes.
Today hubs prepped breakfast of fried eggs and boiled sausages.
Lunch was quiche that hubs bought yesterday.
Dinner was bitter gourd pork noodles with fish balls, fish cakes, ‘fu pei’ and cabbage in anchovies soup.
In the evening our neighborhood pau seller delivered the assortment of frozen pau and siew mai that I ordered to my condo, which I collected at the lobby.Ā I ordered over RM100 worth of these via Whatsapp and paid via online banking last night.
And again, as per our usual SOP for bringing new food items into the kitchen, I wiped the plastic packaging of all the paus with SH disinfectant water.Ā It’s so tedious having to carry out this sanitization step on all our newly bought food items every single time.
On my birthday tomorrow, I will eat these paus and siew mai for brunch and don’t know what for dinner and then slog in the kitchen washing and cleaning upĀ šĀ It will be my first time celebrating my own birthday in my beautiful country that’s in a partial lockdown.Ā Cass will also be celebrating her 12th birthday in similar fashion next month.Ā š
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