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To Brighten Up a Cloudy Day

 

A Cred-ible Shrinking Woman

I am officially 5' 1". Last Monday during my annual physical check up, Adrian the nurse told me my actual height.

And yesterday, Dawn the NP called me at work and told me the pap smear test result came back negative and everything looked good except one, she said.

"What is it?"

"Your cholestrol is a little higher but I knew where it comes from. You said you love cheese cake and cheesecake gelato or something."

"I was a little overboard this summer."

"Please, please don't go out and put more mileage on your running schedule. I don't want you to hurt your knee again, just go easy on cheesecake okay?"

Grrrrrrrrrrr...............................

Anyho, Mama Z and I were back on our Sunday walk.

Mama Z parked her car on Milk Street near a deli cafe' I used to work thirteen years ago.

We walked up to Christopher Columbus Park but we started our walk on Wharf Dsitrcit along the water front at boat shape garden of Rose Kennedy Greenway. The  RKG was officially opened last Saturday.

The sky was slightly cloudy but the air was calm. And what it made wonderful was despite the cars on busy wide streets, I felt the peace embraced me when I walked and stopped to look at the plants, shrubs and sculptures along the path.

Beraya Sakan 2

I didn't go to Hari Raya gathering in 2006 (I was back in Taiping, Malaysia). I had a terrible cold last year, but I have to say this year gathering was successful. Noriah Williamson, Saerah Gillick, Yasmin Saulnier, Zul Mess, Wati Soejerto, Laila  and her sister Nina and the rest of the gang (forgive me for missing more names) did a wonderful job for organizing this event together.

I was busy stuffing my face with nasi impit (pressed rice) and peanut sauce, laksa lemak (Mama Z, your laksa Trengganu was wicked good) and black glutinous rice lemang, I only managed to get some pictures here.

 

 

chicken and beef satay, peanut sauce, fried noodles

 

Masak lodeh and dalca

 

 

 

Saerah's teh tarik was phenomenal

 

Jeha looked lovely in her new baju raya

 

Beraya Sakan 1

First day of Hari Raya- October 1st.

Papa Z and Mama Z with two of their five lovely daughters outside Jeha's and her husband's condo in Braintree.

Me and the girls.

 

Mini instant ketupats imported from Malaysia.

We cleared most of Jeha's delicious beef rendang.

   

 

Anna freshly arrived from Malaysia four days ago. Her kuah kacang (peanut sauce) was a hit.

She wore a beautiful batik silk baju kurung pesak gantung.

Our second stop was Pak Najib and his wife house in Hyde Park and the last stop was Rosita and Tim's house in Arlington. I was too busy stuffing my face with masak lodeh and rendang, I forgot to take the photos.

Fairytale Eggplants

Thursday Challenge: Tiny

   I bought a pound of this tiny eggplants at the Farmer Market at Copley. The sign said, Fairytale Eggplants.

Nature In the City

Tuesday was a last day of Ramadhan.

After I dropped two pairs of Prisca's pants at her office at Prudential which she asked me to fixed the hems, I walked up to Health Center for my acupuncture session. I told Greg, my acupuncuturist, my right knee was still bothering me from time to time. I only ran four times during the fasting month.

I've learned an important lesson about my body these past months. As most runners like to do, I used to ignore the pain I experienced when I ran. Not anymore. Any slight pain I felt in any parts of my legs, I took it as a signal, a reminder from my body. I stopped running and walked instead.

 

 

 

 The tree reminded me of some beautiful trees at Taman Tasik Taiping.

My favorite part of the mall at Prudential. When a snowstorm whips us the Bostonians during a wicked winter, I have a place to go to.

A hot cup of chai, a good book and a bench, and I'm all set.

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  The bright and colorful sunflowers in the buckets, purple mini eggplants, red tomatoes, orange carrots, yellowsquashes and pumpkins, herbs and vegetables turned the slightly cloudy afternoon into exhilarating and blissful experience for me  at The Copley.