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09/06/2025

"Why do you always close your eyes when you sip your coffee or iced milo?”

I get asked that a lot by my close friends.

“I really like watching the way you eat your meal”

That’s another statement I often get.

And if you observe close enough, you might even see me nodding and mumbling words of gratitude to myself while enjoying my meal 😂

This is just how much I cherish and celebrate every single meal of mine, doesn’t matter what kind and what price.

I celebrate life and all its beautiful moments with great intent and I try to be fully present, truly living in the moment, and I’ve been living this way since my early adulthood.

As a kid, I had a very rough start growing up, tasted only a few years of peace and normal childhood before my dad was diagnosed with cancer when I was 10.

Everything after that was downhill and chaos. Anxiety and fear creeped into my life permanently. That 10-year-old me helping to flush the basin after he vomited so much blood remains a vivid and painful memory.

Cancer death or single parenthood is a very common thing these days, but not so back in the 80s. Every family unit is expected to be complete. You lose a parent, and you might stand out in the neighborhood, society and, in my case, my high school years for the wrong reason.

A family without a father figure is disadvantaged in many ways and those years impacted me deeply in all domains of my life. It was a tough journey to navigate, but it also made me into who I am today.

So now you know why I have such a deep appreciation and gratitude towards everything in life.

Nothing came easy for me, not even a quarter Ayamas chicken.

But I am in a peaceful and blissful place in my life now. I get to pursue my childhood passion and interests and build life projects while having complete autonomy over my time.

So snap those food photos, post them if you must, take selfies with your loved ones, but then please chuck your phone away.

Instead, engage in meaningful conversation with your loved ones because one day that one final meal with them will come.

And as for why do I close my eyes when I savor my drinks and meals?

Give it a try if you want to know why 😎

05/06/2025

A monthly car installment of RM1.6k and your monthly eating out expenses.

Which one deserves your attention more?

It’s not the car installment.

Granted you are a financially mature person and the car purchase is not an impulsive but a diligent one, a RM1.6k installment would remain around RM1.6k throughout the repayment tenure.

No unplanned surprises here.

Yes, it is still a liability with bad depreciation, but as long as it is a well-informed financial decision, go for it if it brings you joy.

And, it’s almost disaster-proof if you bought something well within your means. That could mean RM900 monthly installment for some or RM3900 for others on both ends of the spectrum.

Both are doing it right.

My personal benchmark is, only proceed with the installment if you can afford to buy a car outright in cash. Otherwise, make do with whatever you have now. Stressing over huge monthly commitments is no fun.

There’s nothing wrong in going after your life aspirations and dreams. Some like houses, some like holidays, and for some, cars. Savor them from the design perspective and inner experience, and hopefully never for superficial reasons like status symbols. Then all is well.

Meanwhile, eating out bills add up fast, and there’s no ceiling to it.

An average of just RM20-30 per meal will set you back RM600-RM900 per month and that’s on the very conservative side.

Even with that kind of spending, you’re probably only getting meals that are 80% carbs and 20% protein.

And, figures for impulsive indulgences are usually much higher than that. Think milk tea, gourmet coffee and ice-cream.

The most dangerous part is, since everyone else is dining out most of the time, it must be the right way to go, right?

So most people do not give it enough thoughts, they stay reactive. And they wonder why their finances are always in a mess.

Don’t get me wrong.

I truly savor the occasional dining out experience, checking out new interesting dining places or catching up with friends over a nice meal and coffee.

My point is, home cooking should remain the major part of your lifestyle regimen. Make that trip to the wet market, plan the meals ahead and commit to it. Start with simple recipes and progress from there.

And you will end up appreciating your next dining out experience even more.

RM10 prawn pasta here, 15 mins prep time 😎

14/05/2025

Aquatic species grow to a much bigger size in the wild.

Wild-caught fishes taste much better than farm-bred ones.

The above is true because of the physical and tangible factors available in the wild.

A bigger volume of clean and well-oxygenated water means better health for the aquatic species, so they are able to hit maximum growth potential.

Freedom to move around in the vast ocean with an endless supply of natural food means sweater-tasting meat for wild-caught fishes.

So then, what sets humans apart from one another assuming all other physical factors and living conditions are the same?

Our thoughts.

Humans survive on the conceptual level.

Meaning, if we think we are not loved, we are not loved, even if that is not factually true. Think about kids running away from home.

Our mind is a mental superhighway and what we allow to take root in our head is the key determinant in setting us apart.

As kids growing up, we received a pre-assigned default setting from our parents and from our growing-up environment, but the good news is, we can always recondition our minds.

We need to take full ownership of our current situation and reinvent. No one is going to save you except you.

The mind can be reconditioned. Think about what you think. Pay careful attention and write things down.

Do not get lost in the hustle and bustle of the world because a reinvention in this area will set you free in all other domains of your life. The health of your mind should be your number one life-long pursuit.

Below is what I wrote down over the years.

Limiting self-beliefs, past hurts and the ensuing bitterness, living in the eyes and expectations of others, the need to please and to be liked by everyone, difficulty in saying no, making myself too available to the needs of others, fear of rejection, perfectionism, waiting for the perfect condition to start, not worthy, low self-esteem, good things are for others. The list goes on.

Writing them down gives me the much-needed clarity to address them head on.

And since the mind is a mental superhighway, anything can still enter anytime.

But now that I know who the culprits are, I can simply overtake them 😎

12/05/2025

I have more than enough to work with.

I don’t need to add more things to my life.

I just need to unleash the fullest potential of what I already have to design a great life.

It is important for us to function that way so that in every situation we search inwardly for real solutions instead of jumping straight into spending precious time, energy and money adding new things.

Nothing wrong with adding things, just make sure they are truly necessary to solve problems or to improve the quality of life.

Don’t add for the sake of adding, thinking that the new things will help to solve the old problems.

I once bought an expensive juicer hoping that it would help me increase my fiber and vitamin intake. I don’t like chewing on fruits.

The dopamine hit from the pricey purchase was enough to make me think that I'd put enough effort into the matter. Juicing happened for a brief period before the juicer was retired.

What happened there?

The availability of fruit in my home was inconsistent. No fruits, no juices.

I did not first address one core issue.

I was never a big fan of going to the wet market due to the heat and the tight parking.

So I didn’t really need to jump straight into an expensive juicer right away.

I needed to design a lifestyle that included often going to the supermarket to get fruits if the wet market was the stumbling block.

A wet market is still good for certain things, but supermarkets offer a better overall shopping experience - clear pricing, personal space, comfort, parking.

These days, the expensive juicer is still retired because I find the post-cleaning to be quite tedious, especially if you’re only juicing for one.

I now juice my oranges and lemons manually and chuck a banana and some yogurt into a blender to make a nice healthy smoothie.

Consistent fiber and vitamin C intake, checked.

Buying that set of expensive cooking appliances feels good, so is signing up for that expensive gym membership. But dopamine hits can be misleading and short term.

Instead, always start by addressing the core issues first and try to find true, long-term and economical solutions inwardly.

Used electric facial massager, anyone? 😎

10/05/2025

“Sir, jaga diri baik baik ya dan jangan bagi persahabatan ini putus ya sir”.

And that was the last time I saw her alive in person.

Mani was a loyal and diligent maid, and a wonderful human being. She came as a maid but left as a family member.

Of all the maids before her, she was the oldest, and heaviest, but in a good way. The stout and heavy build worked to her advantage when she had to carry my then-bedridden late granny. Granny felt safe in her arms, and we felt the same.

As with most foreign maids, they work to support the livelihood of family members back home. And after all these years abroad, she was slowly building herself a nice home back in Malang, Indonesia.

We followed her back home once and saw the other side of her. The grandmother, the mother, the provider and the rich little lady among her peers in her outskirt village. She had a car and a driver rented for the trip and went around in sunnies, gold jewelry and spaghetti-strap top 😂

She is, after all, a human being just like any of us, with her own life aspirations and dreams.

After the demise of my granny, I was ready to employ her for the rest of her life just so she could be around us as a family. And she could surely use the income too, as she was slowly getting older and not as strong as before.

One day she started coughing, the kind that would not go away. Lung cancer, terminal, 6 months left.

We did all we could here medically, to make her comfortable. Soon, the doctor would advise us to let her take that flight home while she’s still able, for that would be her last window to be with her family back home for those final few months.

She took that flight. She lived for another 9 months and passed away peacefully surrounded by her loved ones.

So the story didn’t go according to my plan. We didn’t get to see her grow old, and we didn’t get to travel with her to the many interesting places in Malaysia as a family. Or all the nice food that she could’ve tried.

That night, when she passed, I saw her face. No words were uttered, but I think deep inside, she knows that she is loved.

And in life, that is all that matters.
Nasi Dalca Rahim was her favorite food in Penang

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17/01/2022

Do not play for the audience, do not play to please anyone.

In fact there is no audience in life, rather just live out that inner being in you.

And when you do that, the one who planted that seed in you will take care of everything else.

And you will taste true joy.

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05/02/2020

What was that one thing you did in the last 10 years that you glad you did?

We rested.

01/01/2018

We stayed off FB for the whole of 2017 to see what might happen.

Life happened.

All's good then. Happy New Year folks! -:)