Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Cass’ best friend, A and her mom visited us today! A’s mom brought a huge bag of Enid Blyton books for Cass as A knows that Cass loves everything Enid Blyton from the Famous Five series to the enchanted tales series. We had lunch together at our condo’s in-house Japanese restaurant for the 2 girls to catch up on the 3 months that they missed out with each other in school. Cass is enamored of A and they are upset that they’re going to have very little time to spend with each other before they go separate ways to different high schools next year. This is their last year in primary school and they have to miss all the important and exciting events in school because of the pandemic — sports day, concert, canteen day, jogathon, trips, parties, UPSR and the culmination of their 6 years in primary school — their graduation ceremony. As the MoE announced yesterday that the year end school holidays will be shortened by two weeks, a graduation for the Year 6 students may still be possible in December with strict SOPs in place.
When we came back from lunch and stepped into the house, the aroma of fried chicken from the kitchen wafted in the air. Someone was deep frying chicken, something that both the mil and I will never do! And the chicken tenders were coated in flour – double the calories and fat! I freaked out but Alycia and Cass were all excited and couldn’t wait to dig into the forbidden food!
Not exactly chicken Karaage but a cross between it and oriental style soy sauce honey garlic fried chicken. And the girls loved it to bits. Food that’s usually forbidden always tastes extra yummeh eh?
Thursday, 25 June 2020
Today is the 100th day of MCO that our country is in and let’s all pray that our country never has to relive the MCO days again when the RMCO ends on 31 August 2020.
In the morning I brought Sherilyn to the clinic for the doctor to check out a corn on her right big toe that has turned inflamed. A corn is a tiny, discrete callous that can be very tender if it’s on a weight-bearing part of the foot. The corn developed on the bottom part of her big toe as a result of over-friction — from over-twirling on that toe during dance practice for several competitions, during taekwondo, kickboxing and Muay Thai classes when she had to train bare-footed and during running practice for an inter-school competition. This dancer of ours has been having rather frequent injuries to her legs caused by dancing, running and accidents. Early last year I took her for an x-ray when she fell during dance practice, injured her spine and had a swell on the spine. When she was 11 and 12 years old respectively, she fell from the stairs when she didn’t listen to my warning to her not to run down the stairs. She missed a step and landed on her ankle. The exact same accident happened around the same time, two years in a row and I thought that she was really jinxed.
Our lunch today was glutinous rice dumpling / zhong as today is Dragon Boat Festival. The zhongs were gifted to us by hubby’s aunt and are deliciously replete with ingredients.
Today we ate the last two Gula Melaka Nian Gao (glutinous rice cake) that my mum made for Chinese New Year this year. With this, we will have to wait for another half a year for her to make these sweet delight again. Mum makes really good Nian Gao that’s full of aroma from the palm sugar with soft and chewy texture. She makes it with her Philips pressure cooker.
This is my spunky, sociable and social media savvy 74-year old mum who enjoys baking and cooking. She makes almost all her food from scratch. In this photo taken last week, she’s prepping the dough to make ‘yau char kwai’ (Chinese Crullers / Oil-Fried Devils). My mum can fix anything in the house from changing light bulbs to simple repair works to changing the single handle kitchen faucet on her own! If only she lived near us, we could exchange homecooked food and visit each other more often 👩❤️👩
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