Author: Athena

One way you can start running is building the run into your routine. If you are going somewhere in the morning, integrate the jog into your trip. I used to integrate my cycling to traveling for work. Instead of taking a bus, I ride to work and back. That saved my time to allocate time for workout and at the same time achieved my goal of going to work. Here are three types of jog that I’ve tried.

A one minute interval

Plants are in a sorry state, even with neem oil and sulphur soap, some plants slowly recovered yet others continue to shrink . I’ve also changed out two tier of water that was sitting there for a few weeks and spray some more neem oil

This looks nice

Ingredients

• Eggs
• Bread with whole-wheat
• Butter

Let’s go for it,

The next morning, my breakfast turned into crispy bread folded egg with melted cheese and ketchup in the mid section.

Neem oil is made from the extract of the Neem tree (Azadirachta indica) seed and Azadirachtin is the active ingredient. It can control a wide variety of insects including aphids, beetles, caterpillars, leafminer, mealybugs, sawfly larvae, scale, spider mites, thrips, and whiteflies.

Insecticides

• Ingredient
  • Sulphur soap one teaspoon
  • neem oil 5 ml
  • 1 litre water

Soaps are often cited as a great form of pest control. Generally, soaps work by suffocating insects they come into contact with and dissolving their exoskeletons, which leaves them liable to drying out. They are especially effective against most small, sap-sucking pests like aphids, mealy bugs, mites and scale insects, and are much less harmful compared to conventional pesticides, being safe on skin and easily washed away by rainwater.

Text by Dr Wilson Wong

My chilli and brinjal leaves are wrinkled. I can see black bugs sucking on the leaves. That’s why I bought a package to start eliminating them

Use this video as the best practice, prepare for tomorrow

Ingredients

• 6 slices of whole wheat bread
• Three tablespoon of mayonnaise
• 4 eggs

That’s about it, see you tomorrow morning

Today I’ve have started to look for books to say good bye to. I could only come out with one which I am not a fan of. Thse are books I will keep…

A. What is this thing called Theory of constraints and how it is implemented” and “the choice” by Eliyahu M Goldratt – “Only a process of ongoing improvement can sustain a company’s excellent performance.”

B. Rising strong and Daring Greatly my Brene Brown. Because I like to study psychology

C. “Influence” by authors of “crucial conversation” and “Persuasion” by Robert Caldini both contains the power to change anything.

One book I will give to the library is

55 Tips to help you say goodbye to your things:

Fumio Sasaki’s book entitled “goodbye, things.”

1. Discard the preconception that you can’t discard your things.
2. Discarding something takes skill
3. When you discard something, you gain more than you lose.
4. Ask yourself why you can’t part with your things.
5. Minimizing is difficult, but it’s not impossible.
6. There are limits to the capacity of your brain, your energy, and your time.
7. Discard something right now.
8. There isn’t as single item you’ll regret throwing away.
9. Start with things that are clearly junk.
10. Minimize anything you have in multiples.
11. Get rid of it if you haven’t used it in a year.
12. Discard it if you have if for the sake of appearance.
13. Differentiate between things you want and things you need.
14. Take photos of the items that are tough to part with.
15. It’s easier to revisit your memories once you go digital.
16. Our things are like roommates, except we pay their rent.
17. Organizing is not minimizing.
18. Tackle the nest before the pest.
19. Leave your unused space empty.
20. Let go of the idea of Someday.
21. Say goodbye to who you used to be.
22. Discard the things you have already forgotten about.
23. Don’t get creative when you’re trying to discard things.
24. Let go of the idea of getting your money’s worth.
25. There’s no need to stock up.
26. Feeling the spark of joy will help you focus.
27. Auction services are a quick way to part with your possessions.
28. Use auctions to take one last look at your things.
29. Use a pickup service to get rid of your possessions.
30. Don’t get hung up on the prices that you initially paid.
31. Think of stores as your personal warehouses.
32. The city is our personal floor plan.
33. Discard any possessions that you can’t discuss with passion.
34. If you lost it, would you buy it again?
35. If you can’t remember how many presents you’ve given, don’t worry about the gifts you’ve gotten.
36. Try to imagine what the person who passed away would have wanted.
37. Discarding memorabilia is not the same as discarding memories.
38. Our biggest items trigger chain reactions.
39. Our homes aren’t museums; they don’t need collections.
40. Be social; be a borrower.
41. Rent what can be rented.
42. Social media can boost your minimizing motivation.
43. What if you started from scratch?
44. Say “see you later” before you say goodbye.
45. Discard anything that creates visual noise.
46. One in, one out.
47. Avoid the Concorde fallacy.
48. Be quick to admit mistakes. They help you grow.
49. Think of buying as renting.
50. Don’t buy it because it’s cheap. Don’t take it because it’s free.
51. If it’s not a “hell, yes!” it’s a “NO.”
52. The things we really need will always find their way back to us.
53. Keep the gratitude.
54. Discarding things can be wasteful. But the guilt that keeps you from minimizing is the true waste.
55. The things we say goodbye to are the things we’ll remember forever.

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15 more tips for the next stage of your minimalist journey

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1. Fewer things does not mean less satisfaction.
2. Find your unique uniform.
3. We find our originality when we own less.
4. Discard it if you’ve thought about doing so five times.
5. If you’ve developed your minimalist skills, you can skip the “see you later” stage.
6. A little inconvenience can make us happier.
7. Discard it even if it sparks joy.
8. Minimalism is freedom — the sooner you experience it, the better.
9. Discarding things may leave you with less, but it will never make you a lesser person.
10. Question the conventional ways you’re expected to use things.
11. Don’t think. Discard!
12. Minimalism is not a competition. Don’t boast about how little you have. Don’t judge someone who has more than you.
13. The desire to discard and the desire to possess are flip sides of the same coin.
14. Find your own minimalism.
15. Minimalism is a method and a beginning.

All the ingredients and recipes originated from this blog. The verdict is great. There is no oil

This is a blog of a blog. Happy Father’s Day

Meat (6-7)

• 196 g skinless pork belly – our pork originated from Indonesia s$2.98
• 30ml (2 tablespoons ) of rice wine

plastic bag lives on much, much longer — perhaps as much as 1,000 years in a landfill

Bring your own bag when you shop

Kimchi & Others

• ▢ 1 1/2 cup aged Kimchi (at least 2 to 3 weeks old), cut into bite size pieces if not already $6.00
• ▢ 1/2 small brown onion (30 g / 1 ounce), thinly sliced $0.50
• ▢ 1stalk small green onion (5 g / 0.2 ounce), thinly sliced $0.50
• ▢ 4 small shiitake mushrooms (50 g / 1.4 ounces), stems removed, thinly sliced $1.50
• ▢ 300 g firm tofu (5.3 ounces), sliced into 1cm thickness rectangles, or other shapes you may prefer. Note-we uses tofu In tubes $3.00
• ▢ 2 cup water

Jjigae base (mix these in a bowl) family of 2A3child

• ▢ 2 Tbsp Korean chili flakes (gochugaru)
• ▢ 2 Tbsp soy sauce
• ▢ 2 tsp Korean chili paste (gochujang) $3.90
• ▢ 1/2 tsp minced garlic

HOW TO MAKE KIMCHI JJIGAE (KIMCHI STEW)

1. Marinate the pork belly with the rice wine and the ground black pepper for about 15 mins.

2. Cook the kimchi in a hot plate until soft. (You could do this in the pot where you will make this jjigae. Do this only if the pot is big enough to manoeuvre around.)

3. Put the marinated meat into the bottom of the pot. Add all the other ingredients (kimchi, onion, mushrooms, tofu, water and the base sauce) except for green onion into the pot.

4. Boil the pot on medium high heat initially then reduce the heat to medium once it starts boiling. Cook further until the meat is cooked. (It takes 10 to 15 mins from the beginning of step 4.) Make sure the sauce is well blended into the rest of the ingredients. (This can be done by gently mixing the sauce around the soup with a small teaspoon and  splashing the soup over other ingredients every now then). When the meat is cooked, add the green onion and turn the heat off.

5. Serve with rice or ramen (and other side dishes).

Even though we are free to venture out, we don’t and kept our kids in-house as much as possible. There is a covid cluster nearby and I was there, Jun 10 to Jun 17. So far, no symptoms of flu or cough. The headline screamed “Delta variant of Covid-19 could have contributed to spread at S’pore’s wet markets”.

B.1.617.2, which now goes by the name Delta, first emerged in India, but has since spread to 62 countries, according to the World Health Organization.

MIT technology review

Stay home Saturday

I worked up early and dragged myself to jog, knowing that if I keep on slacking on exercise, I may grow disproportionate big.

Today’s menu

Ingredients

• White button mushrooms
• Scallops
• Basil
• Loads of garlic
• Parsley
• Spaghetti sauce
• Olive oil
• Spaghetti No 5

Process flow

1. Start to boil a pot of water

1. Start to boil a pot of water
2. Add some salt
3. When water boiled, add spaghetti

Enriched sauce

• Brown garlic and scallop. Add veggies then put aside
• Use the same pot, add basil and tomato sauce till it simmers.
• Dump the ingredients back to the sauce

Baking bowl

• Start preheat the oven 200C
• Put spaghetti in the bowl
• Layered enriched sauce on top of spaghetti
• Rain down cheese
• Sprinkle parsley

• Bake 10-15 minutes
• Check to see to see cheese is not burnt
• Carefully take out the bowl and serve

Tastes test? My family said it’s good

I’ve tried growing different kinds of plants on this hydroponics shelf

Kale EC: 1.8–3.0

^{芝麻菜 Arugula Rocket and Rocket Salad Lettuce}

^{Description: Arugula launches itself out of the ground quickly, hence its nickname, Rocket. Peppery sharp-flavored arugula (aka Rocket) provides a wonderful punch of piquant flavor to any green salad or a scrumptious contrast tossed with fresh sliced fruit or served under meat, chicken or fish just hot off the barbecue.Suitable for hydroponics. EC level 1500 μS/cm (young), 2000 μS/cm (mature)}

^{Germination time: 5-7 days.}

^{Harvest time: 30-40 days.}

^{Fertiliser: High nitrogen fertiliser to be applied after true leaves start to appear.}

^{Challenges / Tips: Cut tender young leaves. Older larger leaves usually taste too sharp. No serious pests problem.}

Bell pepper ec level 1400-1750

Cherry tomatoes

For the cherry tomatoes, the plant was repot from soil and it has thrived after that in nutrients water. Now it’s flowering, I don’t think the veggies AB solution works anymore. the needs for fruiting plants are different from the needs of leafy vegetables.

Action

1. Add 30ml of nutrients to 2 litre bottle of water to hydroponics pool.

2. Wait