I FEAR...SO I RETIRED.....:(

I was once doing quite well in my horticulture business....until the bulldozer set in...
when i think of it...maybe the mean bulldozers were godsend...if not with the wealth that i acquired from my plants business, it might have killed me..or make me suffer a fate worst than death!

i was having this lame mentality...WORK SO HARD...ALSO MUST EAT SO HARD...so it's bingeing and pigging out BUFFET STYLES...sup and sup...no joke...
BUFFET BREAKFAST....then lunch...sometime buffet high tea...then dinner...and as if not enough...hit those midnight buffet taiwanese porridge at GOODWOOD HOTEL...etc...
and i was like bingeing at least 3 or 4 times a week...and on top of that...i belanja people...people will belanja me back...and so the walloping continued for years ...until JACKPOT!!....I WAS HIT WITH DIABETES!....;9(

IT WAS A CALLING CARD....and i awaken from all my gluttony...hahahaha....
and since the bulldozer was outside my nursery....i called it a day.

I QUIT AND RETIRE FOR GOOD!...and eversince was laughing and laughing...n really having a whale of my time even though i m poorer now...
no more buffetting...just plain porridge and a good tea...and my health improves tremendously.....

we cannot be sick in this incompassionate country called singapore....u can only die... u cannot fall sick...and too sick means whatever u ve earned in ur lifetime will surely be wiped out...
and u may not be completely well even after u spent away ur life fortune treating urself.....u would be weaken by the sickness. and by then, ur saving is as good as kaput!!

then ask ourselves: WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF LIVING IN THIS LAND CALLED SINGAPORE???

WE WORK SO HARD ALL OUR LIFE....THOUGHT OF HAVING A LITTLE TIDY SUM SO THAT WE CAN ENJOY OUR GOLDEN YEARS....AND WHAT HAPPEN....ALL GONE BY A CHRONIC SICKNESS...AND OUR QUALITY OF LIFE IS ALL THE WAY DOWNHILL.....
WHAT SWISS STANDARD, MR GOH??....WHAT COCK ARE U TALKING HERE???....medicals are made so ridiculously exorbitant, an average singaporean can only afford to die....

HE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE SICK.....if the disease doesn't kill him, the hospital bills shall instead!

THAT'S WHY I FEAR.......SO I RETIRED!!.........;9)

MUM'S COOKING IS THE BEST!

I THINK NONE BEATS MY MOM'S

when her old classmates aunties gang gather....they will sure pester for her popiah....

when her emigrated pals returned..sure equipped with pots and pans and asked her to make for them...pots and pans u know..

and they would give her boxes of bird's nest for her effort...her popiah is shiok...and me will be her only disciple...hahaha....;9)

Among other food, meesiam....

her meesiam gravy...power man...just power!! the sambal that accompanies it...hmmph..hmmp...mo tak teng!

nasi lemak....my goodness!! i dun think people know the meaning of lemak!! and sambal...
a good nasi lemak is the rice and the sambal chilli...the rest are secondary....

her laksa is a DIE DIE GOTTA TRY....shiok!!....the gravy can just be drunk as soup...so so shiok and fragrant!

her timsum is out of this world...but she hesitant to make cos' very very troublesome. she learned it from the late TAM RUI KAR.....the head of the 4 heavenly chinese cooks in singapore.

she also learned many cantonese cuisine under TAM.....and for those who really dine canto style...RED STAR, DRAGON PHOENIX, YAN COURT..and another one which i forgot belongs to this 4 heavenly cooks.....

then there is her steam yam cakes, pumpkin cakes, her yam beehoon.....the ter kah chor or vinegar pig trotters with ginger. this one takes like weeks and weeks of soaking before the ginger absorb all the essence of this dark soy sauce dish. the gravy is damn sourish devilishly shiok and fragrant. the scent just linger inside ur mouth...damn damn shiok...makes u wanna eat an extra bowl of rice along with it....

so so many.....i hope to master everything and take over from her....hahahaha.....;9)