12 Mar 2024 – With Some Beneficial Health Values

Sat: a weekend to heal with just constructive&postive actions, foods, memories, thoughts, words, etc.

Lemongrass,Cymbopogon,香茅; PandanLeaf,PandanusAmaryllifoliusRoxb,Screwpine,班蘭葉 /七葉蘭; Tamarind,TamarindusIndica,塔梅林德. These are the 3local ingredients used regularly for cooking&tea in my4walls – all supposedly have some beneficial health values, but more important, like the taste. Also make good teas – would usually make a pot with any of these+honey, bottled&refrigerate to last for a few days. Pandan can be used for flower arrangements and when not so fresh looking cooked for tea, also the aroma of all 3 make my 4walls smell with natural pleasant fragrance.

Sun: still feeling some discomfort around certain areas in the gum, and this set of false teeth is not feeling welcome in the mouth yet but will have to use it for aesthetic reason! Strange to feel a gap like when missing my 2 front teeth during childhood, hahaha!

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us ― Jane Austen

Soft foods&soups can be comforting&tasty when made with fresh herbs,ingredients&spices. Top comfort local food for me is Cantonese-style-congee made with rice&home-made broth, garnish with green-onions,cilantro,ginger with a touch of sesame-oil. Time consuming to make but best tasting when made from scratch and none of my children or grandchildren like it!

One of my favourite cream-soups is home-made carrot+pumpkin with a touch of fresh-cream,ginger,sherry, not too difficult to prepare.

Mon: to those living in Daylight-Saving-Time-Zones do remember to move your clock forward – makes it easier for me with 12hrs ahead of SC/USA than the 13hrs!

Go raibh maith agat to Ambassador of Ireland H.E. SarahMcGrath for a reception to welcome the Irish Minister of State HildegardeNaughton T.D. Let the St Patrick’s Day celebrations week start with thoughts of all my Irish friends around the world and fond memories of Bro Joseph McNally.

Singapore – A Sense of Ireland 2024 – The Ireland Funds, Progress through Philanthropy

Tue: wishing all Muslims a blessed month of Ramadan which starts today in SIN – pix downloaded. If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people – Ja’far al-Sadiq.

Muslims in Singapore to mark start of Ramadan on Mar 12 – CNA (channelnewsasia.com)

Places of interest here in SIN during the Ramadan – GeylangSerai&KampongGelam

Check Out These 14 Ramadan Bazaars in Singapore This 2024 (theasianparent.com)

Brunch&shopping@IKEA/AlexandraBranch using up the gift voucher. FOC-ShuttleBus gets too crowded and seats not always available from Bedok-TampinesBranch. Hair-cut@Ecoin using S$10CDC-vouchers@MarineP.