As a kind of penance and merit-gathering exercise, I've decided to be vegetarian for a month till Vesak Day. This poses a little bit of a problem here at work since there are no vegetarian stalls in the canteen nearby, although both the Western and Indian food stalls have certain vegetarian dishes.

Occasionally it has been a challenge when I want ( Read more... )

Been feeling kinda bloated and full the last week or so, and decided I would go on a liquid diet for a week to clean out the system. Lots of water, hot infusions with ginseng, wolfberries, a few milky drinks to keep the gastric attacks at bay. It's been about 1 and 1/2 days (counting from breakfast yesterday), and other than being terribly ravenous ( Read more... )

( Fasting stuff )

Today is the last day of my fast. I technically broke it this evening with some yoghurt and watered Marmite. There are a number of reasons why, but uh... rather not talk about them. Anyway, I thought I was going to have some trouble convincing my mom that I wasn't going for all 10 days, but apparently both parental units were worried sick about me ( Read more... )

Alas, we have a casualty.
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Had a pretty painful tummyache at 3am sharp last night. I think I'm making that senna tea a little too strong. The container says "steep for 20 minutes", which I did. Waaaaay too long, my stomach has told me. Will try 10 minutes instead.

I keep getting this phantom smells of foods that I think about: Fried eggs, kuay teow* with beef, oyster omelette ( Read more... )

Hokay... the lemon + maple syrup drink is pretty good actually. I went to the supermarket yesterday and couldn't find any cayenne pepper, and I'm slightly allergic to white and black pepper, so I substituted crushed ginger. The whole drink is barely sweet, slight sour, quite refreshing and warms the tummy a treat. Not bad.

Now I just have to deal ( Read more... )