I started off the day at 6:45 a.m. with the usual house chores while the entire family was still in lala land and then dragged Cass along to exercise with me at around 9:30 a.m.  After walking up the stairs to the 18th floor and back to the 5th floor, Ms Lazybones didn’t want to proceed with stretching and jogging at the corridor.  Hubs didn’t let her off the hook and dragged her to do 15 minutes of stretching and then had a ball game with her at our corridor before breakfast.
During the MCO, it’s really easy to fall into a lazy rut, even for adults. When there are no online classes, the girls are glued to their devices. I have to think of activities for these dopamine frazzled zombies to detach their eyes and fingers from their idiot gadgets. Sherilyn will be experimenting with recipes in the kitchen when she’s overdosed with everything that her device could offer. Alycia spends most of her free time working out in front of her phone. And Cass, this brat is addicted to online games, which I am trying with my might to break her addiction. I’ll get her to fetch things for me and to help to do some chores, besides having to do her duty, which is pretty easy – keeping the dishes after her sister has washed them and dad has dried them.
We had toasts with chicken mayo (from leftover roast chicken breast), French butter and Emmentel cheese for breakfast. For lunch, Sherilyn cooked instant noodles with kimchi, spinach and lady’s fingers for her sisters and herself.
My parcel from Shopee finally arrived today. So happy that despite the MCO, delivery wasn’t badly delayed, though longer than usual. Hubs forced me to bring along the bottle of PECA disinfectant water to the lobby to spray on the parcel before bringing it into the house. I am expecting another parcel from Shopee, which is a yoga mat, shipped from China. I hope to receive it by next week.
I had a sudden craving for haw flakes and Mamee today. I think I just need something sentimental from my happy worry-free childhood days to give me some comfort to pass these forlorn days. My late maternal grandma used to order these from our neighborhood sundry shop as treats for my brothers and me in the late 1970s till 1980s. Simple treats like this was a luxury for us. It only cost 5 sen each (or maybe cheaper) back then.
Another long forgotten snack that we used to indulge in back then was fresh lotus root seeds which my grandma would buy from the wet market. We would while away our free time at night peeling lotus seeds skin and core one by one before popping these sweet and healthy seeds into our mouths.
Dinner: sweet and sour fried mackerel fish slices, leftover sweet corn soup, steamed organic chicken with assortment of fungi and red dates, stir-fried mustard greens with fried foo pei and sauteed bean sprouts with red and yellow capsicum.
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