My Life and Time

Bread and butter pudding is one of my favourite dish. Imagine my surprise when I went to a dinner at of a hotel in town, and among the desert table,
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I found that favourite food of mine,
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and I really had a good time that evening.
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with black tea (I don't take milk and sugar with tea) and sweet cream added on top.

Has anyone wonder about the photo at the top of my blog? Its the beach near where I spend about 2 weeks of my time in a month. I don't live near the beach, but I can go there whenever I want to when I am in town.

It has been a long time. In that period of absence I keep thinking about what I hear, all over. But have I ever listen to anything? I hear a lot but I never listen. I just want to get my points across, but do I ever on many occasions let other people get their points across? I hear all their noise(s) but that was about all. I outshout them when I can, if I can, whenever I can, and when I am allowed to (or even when I am not allowed to). And shouting mean anything from TV shows, to newspapers writing/reporting and even to blogging. Is this the sort of world that I choose to live in?

Then it was the 'bad' people who invaded other people's country. Now its the 'good' people who invade other people's country.

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Ever thought how we learn how to tolerate others? I suppose many have low tolerance of other people, outside one’s social circle. And I presume the tolerance level depends very much on one’s upbringing, personal needs, fear of the unknown, expectation on others and others on you, and other intangibles which one can hardly describe. One may say, “He/she is not my kind”. Or, “I have heard stories about him/her”. Or, “He/she may disrupt the social standing of my circle of friends”. Or whatever other excuses that one may invent. Maybe one may just say, “I don’t like him/her”. Many I have heard saying, “I don’t like him/her at first sight”. Just think.

Sometime I wonder why people make friends. Is it for selfish reasons? Or is it to boost up their ego, to make them feel popular and to seek praises. Has anyone of us looses friends just because we never praise them. Is that it? People looking for praises? Honestly I feel that such artificial friendship is not typical of us humans, humans just need company I feel, need to communicate, verbally or physically. But of course the ego boosting part plays a lot to make that friendship last. And of marriage (to those of us who are married or have been married) its an institution of having a permanent friend ………….. till death us do part ………. for many of us.

What of those who have no friend?

Years ago I was told that when discussing issues in polite company or in the company of strangers, never discuss on race, religion and politic. Now if you discuss race you get accused of being racial, on religion you may start a riot and on politic, every body wants to listen.

Many of us are very bias towards our own food, those that we have been familiar since childhood days. Other's food, eaten by 'other' people are either too hot, too spicy, too bland, too smelly, too saltish, too oilly, too raw, too cheesy or whatever else we can describe, which in real terms are put there to differentiate 'their' food from 'our' food. If we have grown up with fish and chips or roast beef with yorkshire pudding then we will normally like to have those, and for sweet, rhubbard with hot vanilla source (or hot custard) would probably be the ideal followed by a cup of hot tea.

Say what you will, we are biased when food is concerned.

What do men ask their Doctors mostly if they are not that seriously ill? I sometime wonder. Well, .......... I can only presume but the results can be quite obvious. "Those sex pills you gave did not go down far enough, Doctor --- all I got was a stiff neck".