Made in malaysia..

Rambutan... A fruit named after its hairy features (rambut stands for hair in Malay). It is real sweet that planting a tree in your garden means inviting red and black ants. These are red rambutans, there are also yellow rambutans. They are green in colour and turn red/yellow when the fruit is ripe for consumption.

Then we have Queen of Fruits - Manggis or Mangosteen in English. It is sweet sourish in taste and cooling in nature. Why queen you asked? You see.. durian is hailed as the king of fruits for its impactful taste and properties, but it is extremely hot in nature. Whenever there is a season for durian, you will find he is paired with the queen as mangosteen will help to balance up our body temperature.

Take care not to stain your clothes with the mangosteen purplish red juice, as it won't go off.

What do you want to be known?

Fire

Been reading books on pyromania.. many of which later developed into psychotic individuals... wonder if it is actually the same for all human being.. there is a fire within.. only a matter of who can suppress them and who can't... probably those indulgent to their own thoughts or feelings may tend to succumb to the fire easier than those who are used to live within those rules.. or is there?

Destiny is torn into 2 very different aspect here... a person destined to be a psycopath nomatter what, because they are born to break the rules, and have less control over their urges?... a person deliberately choose to break the society's mould and live by their own rules and thus destined to be outcast?... Destiny.. nomatter if it is by choice or allowing ourselves to be taken over... Still termed as destiny?

Wonder what or where I am/have destined my own path? 

Do you want to be sure of your own destiny? 

I prefer to keep it open..

If anyone can really be sure, it is because he has declined all options and potentials around him..

And in my case, this is the only option to keep me sane..

Dearest papa

Dearest papa,
It's only been 4 months, but feels as though you've been gone a long time. Missing someone is so difficult to live by.
I miss you so much. I am glad we managed to spend many happy moments together, but it is so difficult to live through the days and not to be reminded of you, because you formed such big part of my life. Everywhere I turn, there are memories of you and me and the girls. At times when I wish to share my joy or vent my frustrations, I wish you were still here.
But I know leaving may be one of the best release for you. Your loving and trusting heart is too good for the world. I hope you could let go and leave in peace. There may be things you'd planned and looked forward to in life... but since destiny took a turn.. I hope you leave without worries or unfinished business.. Life afterall will never end. It's a cycle that kept going and going. Just as I remembered the most important lesson you taught me : Life must go on!

I will papa.. In my fondest memory and remembrance of you. I will go on living. Live a life that brings meaning to your existence. Happy father's day..
From your ever loving daughter,
Ping
2012

Uric Acid and Gout

My focus in fighting the new enemy... 

Foods to AVOID for Gout:

• Wine
• Beer
• Chocolate

Fish:

• All Shellfish (lobsters, mussels, shrimp, crab, oysters)
• Perch
• Salmon
• Snapper
• Cod
• Anchovies
• Herring
• Sardines
• Haddock
• Mackerel
• Trout
• Tuna
• Scallops

Meats:

• Red Meat
• Beef (Bison)
• Pork (Bacon, Ham, Prosciutto, Pork Chop)
• Lamb
• Rabbit
• Liver (Chicken, etc.)
• Marmite

Vegetables:

• Beans
• Lentils
• Peas
• Cauliflower
• Spinach
• Asparagus
• Mushrooms
• Kale
• Broccoli

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Delicious Foods to Eat for Gout:

• Apples
• Bananas
• Berries (cherries, raspberries, cranberries, blackberry, strawberries, other red-blue berries)
• Brown rice
• Capers
• Carbonated beverages
• Celery
• Chocolate, cocoa
• Coffee, tea
• Flaxseed
• Citrus fruits  (oranges, tangerines and other mandarins)
• Grapes, red
• Greens
• Kiwi fruit
• Low-fat dairy products
• Nuts
• Onions, red
• Parsley
• Peppers, bell, red
• Potatoes
• Pasta, wheat
• Red cabbage
• Pineapple
• Seeds
• Tomatoes
• Water dilutes and flushes uric acid out of the body
• Winter squash

Delicious Herbs to Eat for Gout:

• Thyme

2013 : To love..

2013... the past years, I have been through deaths, births, gains and losses. I have always pride myself to be a responsible person who takes care of people around me. And I wonder why some people can be so selfish. And yet, they are doing well and being recognised for their achievement, despite hurting others. While I try to help, but in the process, I failed to do my own part well. Let alone helping others. And by failing myself, I lost credibility and ability to help those I cared most.
On 31 Dec 2012, it dawned on me that if I really want to take care of my loved ones, I must take good care of myself.

The road not taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

~ Robert Frost (1874–1963) ~
Source: Courtesy of Mr GC Chong