220624 The Raining

 

It rained early this morning while we were sleeping.

Then it rained again while I was on the way to work.

It did not rain much when I was about 3Km away from the Office.

But it was flooded, almost like the December of '21.

I can tell my Vee-chai was wet because the horn sounded more like a little croaked peep.

I know the roads would be wet from all the rain but surprisingly, the whole stretch was quite clear with minimal traffic bottlenecks. Over the radio, there was some reports of accidents which I guessed was what slowed down the traffic before the Federal Highway.

I know that the exit from KESAS would be jammed and was prepared to use the shortcut. Unfortunately, I had to re-enter the KESAS and take another detour back to the shortcut and refill my empty tank as well. Coming out back to the main route, the road was clear (since shortcut leads me past the flooding) and well, despite my best effort, I was about 3 minutes late. Still this was one of the three floods I had to go through and the last was much deeper so I had to step on the gas to prevent the water entering the exhaust.

 

Last Night's Dinner is tomorrow's Lunch

 Waste not, want not, they say. During the Pandemic, this has been my daily Lunch ritual. I would either pack sandwiches and use other food from the fridge as filling. Sometimes, if there were food left over from dinner, chances are, my Wife would pack it as next day's lunch. I am not sure what my Daughter did at school yesterday but she slept through until this morning. So, yeah, this was practically her Dinner.

 Which is fine with me. Because although I love doing this, there are a few positives from it. For one, it saves money because since the Pandemic the average cost of a simple lunch and a drink (you need to order a drink) has gone up to, and past the RM10.00 limit. Secondly, I do not need to go out in the hot Sun or heavy rain, hunt for parking/table space and also, wait for others to finish the meals or vice versa due to long waiting queues at the stalls and so on. But the most important thing is, I do not have to interact with people. Much.

 Lastly, one of the side effect is that I think I am losing some weigh as well. Which is strange because I seldom walk around nowadays and becamse lietrally desk-bound (another story, another time)

 Yeah, I am starting to begrudgingly accept that I am an introvert. And some even say I am an INFJ.

The awesome potatoes deep fried with hot chili oil and anchovies, a smidgen of pork and yam plus fried egg.

 

Mickey can't swim

I hate it when there are rodents around. When you see one, it means there are others and then I would have to start to play the usual waiting game with it. Setting the trap is easy but it takes a average of 5 days to get one trapped.

What I hated most is the getting rid of it part. Unlike termites, mosquitoes,  and cockroaches, getting rid of a rodent is not easy. Sure, you can bake it under the Sun, drown it even and well, give your Cat a present and other stuff. But since no Cat has officially adopted us...

Anyway, my usual would be to give the rat a nice midnight ride in the car and then introduce it to a new environment. 

But, this evening, I did not have to do that. Remember those YouTube videos where some guy would construct weird inescapable traps with buckets? We indirectly did one.

The rat somehow got into this pail and drowned. The pail was actually used to catch waste water from a leaking sink. How it do there, I am not sure but I did watch them jump at great heights.

In the end, I took a farewell photo and dumped its body into the drain.

Big ass Nangka

 

So, yeah, my Wife finally opened the huge Nangka which we guessed was about 30 kilos. And it is about the size of a big pillow. By the time I came back home, she was already done with it and so, I helped to to remove the sticky gum off the chopper. It's not easy but with some flour (or even talcum powder) and patience, I got the job done.

I learned this from my ex-Boss a decade ago when we were dealing with gel-filled cables. It's like wrangling with buttery wires which means there's a lot of stubborn gunk from your hands to the tools to the area, to almost everything you touched or did not touch.

So, this is one of the few times we get to see and eat big Nangkas. Even after sharing it with her sisters, we still had a lot left.