Herpes Zoster

This entry is a bit lengthy, my detail experience on the disease I just recovered from. Click read more if you really want to read more :|

Cup of Tea

Read this on http://www.islamicthinking.info. I was attracted to the picture first. Then I read on the story. Good Read. Good Story. May you benefited from this InsyaAllah :)

A group of students, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old teacher. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests tea, the teacher went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of tea and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the tea.

When all the students had a cup of tea in hand, the professor said: ‘If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the tea. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was tea, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began eyeing each other’s cups too.

Now consider this: Life is the tea; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the tea Allah has provided us.’ Allah brews the tea, not the cups. Enjoy your tea.

5 Whites to Avoid

Here are the 'white' food we need to avoid :

1) WHITE sugar

• no nutritional value and high in calories

2) WHITE rice

• high in sugar

3) WHITE bread

• flour mills use chemical bleaches to make the pure white flour.Thus, we are also eating chemical residual bleach

4) WHITE flour

• highly processed food that leaves the body malnourished

5) WHITE pasta

• high in sugar

Instead opt for 'BROWN' :

Cheese Omelette-Jia Hor Seasoning

I have been experimenting recipes using our Shuang Hor's Products. Recently, I made cheese omelette. It was goooood. Do try it :)

1 serving

Ingredients:

1 egg (organic preferably)

1 cherry tomato (diced)

1 baby carrot (thinly sliced)

1/3 sachet of Jia Hor Seasoning

1 slice of cheese (any brand)

1 tsp of Olive Gold Margarine ( attempt to make it healthier than usual :| )

Method:

Beat the egg together with the seasoning.

Heat the pan. 

Melt the margarine. 

Pour in the egg mixture.

Spread the cherry tomato and carrot evenly onto the egg mixture. 

Tear off the cheese on to the egg. 

Wait for the cheese to melt.

Fold the omelette into 1/2.

Finish! Yey.

You can enjoy this with:

1) Thai Chilli Sauce (yes we asians love our chilli). 

2) Sandwich the omelette with Wholemeal Bread. 

3) Just eat it on its own. 

Bon appetit!