Alycia is having a one month semester break and classes will only resume on 25th April. As she hardly goes out to exercise under the sun, I dragged her out to walk with me to the nearby kopitiam to have breakfast last Saturday morning.
And here we are at the open air kopitiam, sweating buckets with no fan and no air conditioner, and the both of us slurped down a bowl of hot noodles, which made us sweat even more profusely. This kind of sweating is even more intense than working out. I felt like I was being baked inside a sauna. We walked under the blistering 11-ish sun, and then chomped down noodles in piping hot soup, alfresco style with only trees above us as shade in temperatures ranging from 37-40CĀ š„µ.
Darn the milk tea. After downing the glass of milk tea, I had insomnia the entire night. Again, albeit drinking it before 12 noon. As I age, my body can’t tolerate the caffeine in tea as much as I could previously.
After we were done eating, we walked to the supermarket to get some veggies and then walked home in the searing afternoon sun, ouch! But it feels good to soak in the glorious sunlight, get our dose of vitamin D and serotonin (aka the feel-good hormone).
And I always slather sun block lotion on every part of my exposed skin before going out in the sun.
Cass who doesn’t like to walk and sweat under the sun didn’t join us. She asked me to snap photos of the Western food stall menu and text her the menu for her to choose š
After eating food at the Aeon supermarket for 2 weeks, Sherilyn started to get bored of the food. So she cooked food for her lunch box the night before and brought this with her to work. She cooked Chicken Breast Sous Vide (using the Thermomix), cooked black rice + 10-grain rice and sliced up half an avocado. She only works twice a week at Barcook Bakery @ The Gardens Mall.
With the current heatwave in our country, I find myself dreading the thought of stepping into a hot kitchen to cook. So I opt for simpler meals that require minimal preparation and don’t involve stir-frying or requiring me to stand next to the hot stove for a long time.
Even cooking this simple dish of steamed egg with minced pork made me sweat buckets, though I just took a shower before cooking. After cooking, I had to shower again, which was my 4th shower of the day.Lunner for Cass when she came home from school at 3.40pm ~ steamed egg with minced pork, blanched siew pak choy with olive oil, soy sauce + fried garlic, black rice with sweet potato and dim sum items from brunch with hubs this morning. The olive oil is only drizzled onto the veggies after they’re removed from the pot, so that we reap the full health benefits of it.
Brunch of dim sum and curry noodles with hubs in the morning
Dim Sum @ Jin Xuan Hong Kong Restaurant, Kuchai Lama.Curry noodles ordered from a coffee shop a few shops away from the dim sum restaurant.
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Author: Shireen
I am a WFHM of 3 lovely girls - Alycia, Sherilyn and Cassandra. I am a health, fitness and clean freak. I am a freelance content writer and occasionally help out my other half in his food catering business.
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