Today is the kind of day when I am retreating to the comforts of my air-conditioned gym equipped with swimming pool, steam room & sauna to escape the merciless heat.
I mean, sure, I will willingly subject myself to the heat of a steam room but that is only for five minutes 😜
This particular iteration of my moebius scarf (frogged the previous for length issues) is going well but adjustable cable needles + continental knitting the way i do it apparently don't play well - my motions are apparently in the direction that unscrews the needles and that just adds to the work, trying to fix that. So now I'm trying to do it English-style, but it's much slower since I'm not so adept to it (since I started with crochet to begin with, so I'm more used to feeding the yarn from my left hand). But hey, an endless loop of herringbone stitches!
About 15 years ago, I had to travel around Britain for work. I discovered that cold sandwiches were a thing in the UK. When I asked for them to be toasted, the server behind the counter looked at me like I was crazy.
They weren't wrong. Cold breakfasts are not a thing in Malaysia, so after 7 days of cold beef sandwiches something in me broke.
I wonder if toasted sandwiches is finally a thing in the UK lol.
When I go to the office I imagine that I am in the future where everything is so automated that I am there just pretending to work.
Or something.
On a more serious note after watching urbanism Youtube videos, I have to appreciate the business park wonder that is KL Sentral. It is actually well designed and a perfect place for a business park to be.
The top two places I strive to visit in a new town: museums, and the local market.
For breakfast, I tried one of the local carenderia (eatery) in the marketplace, for a taste of the local fare. 🤞
I thought the piaparan looked especially interesting because of the unlaid chicken eggs. That brought back childhood memories of how mama made arroz caldo with chicken, and unlaid eggs (when available.)
I just knew our kababayan would be there. The only question was how many 😨
The Philippine government is preparing to evacuate #Filipinos from #Sudan, a country caught in a deadly power struggle between the military and paramilitary groups. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has requested more information to ensure the safety of around 300 Filipinos in the African country.
"We are looking at three exit points. One would be from #Khartoum, by land, and exit via Aswan into #Egypt. That’s a land trip. The second one would be by land to #PortSudan and then by ship to #Jeddah. The third one would be by air through #Djibouti in cooperation with the US government, because they have a #US base in Djibouti,” said Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople
"Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Eduardo de Vega said seven more buses carrying at least 300 Filipinos left from Sudan to #Egypt on Wednesday morning.
This was in addition to the 50 Filipino evacuees who had started moving out of Sudan on Tuesday through government-assisted land services."
I don't know why people do this. I will be reading in a cafe, enjoying myself, when some idiot will pop nearby turn on his streaming app and watch it with speakers on blast.
The worse one will be when you are in a packed train.
Is this just a #Malaysian problem because I find it sooooooo annoying.
Are you trying to tell the world you watch cool shows or something?? Have you heard of headphones???
#Pater (aka patil, pastil in #Maguindanao) is definitely a popular meal in this city. Downtown, there's a stall on almost every street corner, and in-between.
It consists of a fist-sized ball of rice, topped with kagikit. The sauteed, halal protein (fish, chicken, beef), that goes on top of it. The kagikit adds (salty) flavor to what would've otherwise been bland rice, then molded and wrapped in banana leaf.
What's in a name? Had to laugh when a friend shared this. Reminds of the time when I lived in the fancy schmancy condo, "Establishment Bangsar". Except that it is in Brickfields and on the "wrong" side of Bangsar.