The Canteen

Today's lunch brings us to what my boss and other colleagues call "canteen". It is a typical Chinese seafood restaurant in Klang that is always empty for lunch except for me and my colleagues. The company has been such a regular customer the past year that my colleagues were treated to a massive seafood hotpot ON THE HOUSE.

See, just us.

Today's steam fish was delicious.

The company even had our Chinese New Year company lunch with a company lucky draw earlier this year! Yes, still confused.

The owner likes us so much that she serves us fruits for free after we are done with the dishes. Today, she served us the sweetest jackfruit I have had in years. I have never heard the Mandarin word for jackfruit so I inquired of my colleagues and I learned a new word today - 菠萝蜜 (Bōluómì), which apparently means "pineapple honey". After learning this new word, I thought it would be fun to surprise my Mandarin-speaking colleagues but they did not understand what I was saying. Interestingly, 菠萝 (Bōluó) means pineapple in Mandarin but here in Malaysia, pineapple is more commonly known as 黃梨 (Huáng lí), literally "yellow pear". And during CNY, "to attract prosperity". My colleagues also made me realise that 菠萝包 (Bōluó bāo), a famous sweet bun in Hong Kong I have eaten so many times before that it is called pineapple bun in English. Gosh. Mindblown. Mom, please do not reproach me for being hopeless in Mandarin.

Moving on to making fun of my friend's motivational quote sharing of the day:

"Time and silence are the most luxurious things today. Good morning..:)"

Actually, I have no comment for this. This could be true in an age of information deluge. Wise share, friend, wise share.

First Post.

This is maybe the second or third First Post on this blog. I have been lazy the past year and decided for a fresh start, well almost a fresh start. I am dedicated in investing my time and effort to make this blog thing work for a long period of time, instead of the usual four months. Hah.

All previous postings have been reverted back to Draft, so you will not be able to view them. I only plan to re-post some in the near future, after some editing of course.

For this edition of Life is a Zwitterion, I will include more labels as my vision for this blog is to not have a particular theme, but to write/journal about a wide variety of subjects. (I suppose this falls under the "Personal Blog" theme.) Some labels I have thought about are:

• Daily - for my everyday bleh entries
• Nature - basically anything I write about nature, may have some "serious" entries and some photo or video sharing
• Food - I enjoy eating and would like to try out reviewing some food and maybe restaurants
• Travel - some reviews and tips for when you decide to travel to the places I have been
• Entertainment - discussions and reviews of music, movies, TV shows, games, and etc.
• Opinion - my serious "two cents" about a particular topic
• Faith - I am Christian and would like to share my walk with God, from blessings to personal struggles
• Langkawi - since I am currently working in Pulau Langkawi, I think it is apt for me to write a little bit about this mystical island, maybe even the other 103 surrounding islands
• Or a combination of multiple labels on relevant entries

So yes, I think this will be enjoyable experience for me. It will definitely make my rest days more productive. Wish me the best, guys!

Similar to the previous First Post post on this blog, I will share a cover of Aphex Twin's Flim, my favourite track out of the entire discography of Richard David James:

(Since the previous First Post post, I have indeed listened to almost all of Aphex Twin's music. The majority of tracks is a little bit too weird, with all of those ambiance and repetitive trance tracks, for my liking, but Flim and Girl/Boy song are my favourite.)