White Rice

                                SongHe Thai Hom Mali Rice 5KG, $15.89 from PandaMart

This is my first time buying this brand of white rice -- SongHe, Noble Pine Crane as shown above.  I ordered it from PandaMart delivery.  Normally I buy white rice from Redmart or NTUC.  But that day I had to buy coconut cream and it was raining.  So I ordered grocery from PandaMart.  If ordered above $50 then is free delivery so I purchased a few items from PandaMart above $50.  

                                  New Moon Jasmine Fragrant Rice 5Kg, $8.95 from Redmart

White rice is said to be beneficial for our body.  It contains carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins that give our body energy.  Rice is an amazing source of a variety of B vitamins. Because rice is so rich in B vitamins, eating it helps to improve the health of your nervous system. Eating rice is a sure way to regulate your digestive system. Consuming high-fiber foods like rice also helps to reduce our chances of getting cancer! There are of course more benefits of eating rice and rice is our staple food.  My family almost eat rice everyday as my children loves rice.  They prefer eating rice to noodles.  You can see photograph of the Chinese New Year Reunion dinner which was rice being served too at this post, The Opportune Time.    

For my own preference, I prefer to eat Japonica Rice and it cost $9.90 at Redmart.  But Clara like to eat Jasmine Rice, so I mostly cook New Moon Jasmine Fragrant Rice as it is cheaper.  So that day I try out SongHe, the more expensive rice with many recognition like Trusted brand 2020 (voted by consumers), Influential Brands/Top Brand in Asia, Brand of Singapore and Department of Foreign Trade (originated in Thailand).  It is 100% whole kernel and after eating I think that the difference from this rice and the other cheap one is that this is much 'softer' when ate in the mouth, something like 'glutinous rice' but is not like glutinous rice as it is not sticky at all.  The cheaper rice tend to be 'siap siap' (in Teochew language, like very dry) and not at all 'fluffy' (SongHe rice is like 'fluffy' but not really that kind of real fluffy, and it smell so nice).  

A plate of SongHe white rice for our lunch on 21.2.2022

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Evangelize a not

 

             Photograph showing the white cross on the cardboard box that Dora had loved.  

To write or not to write.  To hide or not to hide.  Finally I had decided to publicize my blog again after so many months of stopping and 'hiding'.  

I cannot earn much from online.  So I found a job in the childcare industry.  I quit my full-time job after some years working with them.  Now I am back to write again.  Why?  I find that I must 'tell' and 'share' if I had discovered the truth.  I had witnessed IT and I had to share to tell the truth, the truth about Jesus, the presence and existence of God, the blessed trinity.  

I saw on Tik Tok, a man asking or wondering to abort their baby.  He talked until so easy, asking girlfriend to abort the child.  As I had experienced before, I would not advise women to abort their baby anymore!  It's a life lost.  

A life is so precious.  Take my cat for example.  Dora was just gone in an instant on that night of Chinese New Year Eve.  She was our precious cat, giving us joy and companionship all the time of her life.  But just for a moment she was around, but for the next moment she was gone...

Not everybody knows the values of a life.  So I feel that since I had experienced it, I should do something to reveal the truth.  If Jesus shown his love for me and had forgiven my sins, then I should bare all the embarrassment and pluck my courage to reveal the truth.   

The Parable of the Lost Sheep:  … What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.… ~Matthew:18:12-13

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Purpose of Life

 

Photograph taken at Church of St Mary of the Angels on 26.12.2021

Is it too late to discover your purpose in life now?  I discovered the meaning of life when encountered Jesus.  During my childhood years, I often had chance to sit in my father or brother's car to travel around.  There were times where we went to far away places like Malaysia, so the journey is extremely long.  The feeling was no good.  I did not feel well sitting in car most of the time.  Sitting in the car, I often looked out of the window and I love to see trees, different sort of trees and plants.  When the car stopped, I would look down, bend my head down on the car seat and I would think of questions.  

I wondered what is the meaning of life -- why parents give birth to children and then children grow up to become adults, married and then the life cycle continue.  I thought why there must be sufferings where the parents died and the children are so sad.  The life cycle of birth, death and sufferings continue like that.  Children crying over the death of parents.  In some cases parents crying over the lost of their premature death of their children.  

I finally came to the realization in the year 2008 where my questions seemed to be answered.  Our lives on earth is to know God as God serve as our parent on earth.  By knowing Him, our burden can be lighten when we shared them with Him.  By turning to Him, we are not walking alone.  Finally, there is someone we can commune to when we needed help.  By our Faith, there is a HOPE.  Hope that on the last day when breathe our last, we will finally able to meet our departed loved ones.  Though we cannot see them after they died, but we know that they still exist.  And it will be everlasting life with God.  

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.… ~ Matthew 11:27-29

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The Opportune Time

 

Photograph showing an early reunion dinner with my mother on 29.1.2022

My mother said she would cook for our reunion dinner on Saturday.  You can see the six dishes on the dining table.  

                                             Photograph of Dora eating chicken at the table

Dora waited at the dining table.  I saw her waiting and so decided to give her a piece of chicken.  She smelled fish, but it was spicy so I did not give her fish.  

On the fateful day, it happened just after our dinner when everyone was free, really free -- even Clara finished washing the dishes.  After the incident, we talked about it, and came to know that Ricsson saw Dora at first at the window.  But we were so used to her walking in and out and nothing happened.  She was so skillful.  So apparently he left her alone.  But moments later, when I was walking to Isaac's room, and at that time, Ricsson was looking for Dora too.  Ricsson saw Dora.  He did not know that was a reflection of Dora or the real Dora outside the window.  Dora looked at Ricsson and she 'fell'.  Ricsson conveyed the message next.   After the incident, we talked and thought and it was like all planned carefully.  Dora 'fell' as though planned, waiting for Ricsson to see her and then waiting for Ricsson to convey the message to me.  I heard the news with disbelief.  It was so unreal.  How can it be?  But still we have to face the music.  

We were suppose to eat Yu Sheng after the dinner, but in the end we need to tend to Dora's departure.  We went downstairs and I saw her lying on the ground.  I quickly carried her in my arms.  She was not dead yet.  I called out, "Dora, you must pull through." and the children helped to search for emergency hotlines to call vet or pet ambulance.  Dora was so weak and warm in my arms.  But later I saw her eyes not the same anymore.  She was gone...

Still we sent her to the vet, Mount Pleasant Veterinary Group.  It was still open during Chinese New Year Eve, a day where many shops closed early.  Carrying Dora in my arms, we took Gojek to 2 Jalan Gelenggang.  Over there, a vet quickly tend to us.  However, he declared Dora's death.  He told us that her legs were broken too.  Her jaw also dislocated.  

The vet brought us to a small room where we could spend the last moments with Dora.  It was a sad moment for everybody yet we were grateful that Dora had chosen to end at this perfect timing where everybody was around.  There were even time allowed for us to grief.  Not only was she obedient, she was so considerate until the end of time.

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