I buy, I cook and I eat

Sympathising a senior blogger who still has to buy meal by meal from a nearby low cost take-away shop in Singapore, I have been cooking my own food in England with ease, finishing in 30 min. Healthy, tasty really.

Steve's way of cooking

A portion of pork, 2 big onions ( after making 4 quarters), 4-5 tomatoes (as a whole), 5 large flat mushrooms (dont slide), one handful of chopped carrots, some salt, some soya sauce, a spoon of sugar, seasoning powers (pepper, ginger and onion powder, some herbs) and olive oil are ingredients. I put together into pressure cooker for half an hour. That's it.

While I am working 58hours per week at least, cooking is still a manageable business. Who said "no time to cook" " busy life", "need to buy food", "I am very important person in our firm" ...... "no cook, no cook, no cook. "



Hospital accommodation. Everything cheap. I never use this kind of small toaster before. £10 worth kettle takes ages to get boiling water, up to 3 min. At home my own one is only 40 seconds. But I like the grill on the top of cooker. Very good for grilling pork chops and chicken wings.


After 30 minutes


Start eating.

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Money matter and freedom

A friend of mine from Pakistan said human right in Saudi is zero, but so long as staying and working according their law mean it is financially secured in a short time. He is a surgeon with UK degree. His passport was taken by Saudi authority on arrival. He was provided by translator at work. His salary is twice as much as he earned in Britain. Saudi government also provide school fees for his children being educating in Pakistan.

According to him, there are loads of workers from west, where people keep talking about human right and freedom. In Saudi, all women, including westerners, need to wear veil. Why do they choose Saudi? You know what.

The US government keeps criticising against Burma for lack of democracy. Interesting thing is that they imposed economic sanction against Burma nearly a decade ago. Obviously, it is not working at all when Burma's clever generals are playing with China, Russia and South East Asian fellows. Why the US never tried to put economic sanction against Saudi on the ground of lack of democracy.

At the same time, I doubt about Aung San Suu Kyi's role in Burma. As she failed to topple the regimen in initial phase, but just gave a pieces of political stimuli, the generals have got a good time to make a powerful medicine to fight back. Anyway, I am a lazy watcher while sitting in my living room in London Docklands. It's boring, isn't it?

Foods from Burma

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I came across this BBC news about a Burmese traditional food, Green Tea Leaf which has been contaminated with industrial chemical.

It is not new. As far as I remember food processing and storage in Burma is unhealthy in many circumstances. Contamination with harmful bacteria and chemicals is very common. Peanut oil and sunflower oil contaminated. Fish sauce contaminated. Dried chillies contaminated. Vermicelli contaminated. Seasoning powders contaminated. Dried shrimps contaminated. Many more.

In England, loose motion is treated as a serious condition, regardless of frequency. But in Burma, it is inevitable for everybody. Main cause is eating unhealthy food. Lately, a friend of mine has been enjoying ready-made fish soup which is produce of Burma and offering me to try it while saying that it is a sought-after food in England. I had to decline in polite way while saying "it's disgusting" in my mind. That is the one reason I never go to occasions held in Buddhist monastery where people are traditionally served with foods, most of them are imported from Burma. Moreover, a group of people might share a bowl of soup with a common spoon. Who knows who has oral herpes in the group?

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Ups and downs

Looking back in Burmese history, that part of South-East Asian peninsula has been changing from time to time. It did not exist as a long standing stable nation. Of course, even great Roman empire collapsed when time came. Again British empire had to finish after 2nd world war. In a movie, I think in Notting Hill, Britain was described as a small, shy and retiring nation. On the other hand, China has built up its power, reaching enough world's top level, already overtaking British economy in a few years ago, under one party lead without wasting too much time by debating at the parliament. Likewise, a Malay fishing village was transformed into the Republic of Singapore in 1960s and it was successfully upgraded to an affluent country, mainly under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew. Now it also serves as second home for many second and third class Burmese people as their government failed to provide an acceptable level of education, living and economic situation while claiming that Burmese economy has been growing strong. A very irregular power supply 6-8 hours a day even in Burma's big city like Yangon clearly contradicts the statement. In fact, Burma was top country in south-east Asia and Yangon University established in 1878, was popular in that region until 1962. Regrettably, these days the university is shut down at irregular intervals by the government for political reason and the courses available are only for limited number of graduates, not for undergraduates.

History of Burma (Source: wiki)

Pyu city-states (c. 100 BC–c. 840 AD)

Mon kingdoms (9th–11th, 13th–16th, 18th c.)

Bagan dynasty (849–1287, 1st Empire)

Ava (1364–1555)

Pegu (1287–1539, 1747–1757)

Mrauk U (1434–1784)

Toungoo dynasty (1486–1752, 2nd Empire)

Konbaung dynasty (1752–1885, 3rd Empire)

Wars with Britain (1824–1826, 1852, 1885)

British Arakan (1824–1852)

British Tenasserim (1824–1852)

British Lower Burma (1852–1886)

British Upper Burma (1885–1886)

British rule in Burma (1824–1942, 1945–1948)

Nationalist movement in Burma (after 1886)

Ba Maw
Aung San
Japanese occupation of Burma (1942–1945)

Democratic period (1948–1962)

U Nu and U Thant
1st military rule (1962–1989)

Ne Win
8888 Uprising (1988)

Aung San Suu Kyi
2nd military rule (1989–present)

Saffron Revolution (2007)

Cyclone Nargis (2008)

This is in the carriage for ordinary people in Burma where military government rules

The is today's Burmese way of transportation. Estate cars for both passengers and goods.Locally that kind of car is known as van. (Photo: naing naing sanay)

Thanks Usher

2004. It was a glorious time. A big change in my life. The year Usher's album Confessions came out. So whenever I heard Usher's songs, that made me feel better in these stressful days.

London Moon at Docklands night

I don't know today's full moon day or not. I just saw a big moon struggling to show itself in the hazy sky. I noticed it after coming back from motor show in Gallion Reach. I was nearly midnight. Just sharing.

Red Nose Day for Africa

Donations and charity works are nice and good things. I support it. Today, BBC has been trying to get more red nose day donations through BBC1 Friday program while showing starved and disease-stricken African children. Are there any children who need such kind of help in Asia? Will there be a ?yelllow nose day or ?brown nose days for Asian kids?

How I use the Internet

Visiting google news links, I click the interesting news on well known media like telegraph, daily mails and independent. I don't go if it is not familiar, those known to be slow (I normally close the window in its half way of great effort to open its rubbish content) , those mcafee site advisor showing not green and those with pop up windows.

BBC is the one I visit at least once a month while I check things on Amazon every week. I don't use ebay anymore although it was essential around 2005. Now gumtree has replaced eBay in most community. I go to Facebook about average fortnightly. Firefox has got Twitter extension. It is pretty useful as a twitter user.

I have been with Firefox for such a long time after experiencing IE stopped working on its mother microsoft operation system, Window XP and Vista. Sometime I suspect that what kind of thugs have been wrongly employed in Microsoft, resulting in this IE not going OK in some occasions on its own operation system, Windows. According to old Japanese tradition, responsible person normally go suicide. But weak people may quickly resign and go holiday instead :)

This is the example of my Browser.