Wow, Porky can't remember exactly when is the last time he ran in a race or maybe just an official event where everyone runs together heading towards the same direction. Sort of like those zombies from Train To Busan :).
It was a fun 5km (sort of) run in the Botanical Park, one of Malacca sanctuary for nature here in Ayer Keroh. The race started sharply at 0730 am, surprisingly. Hope to join a few more of these runs, nothing to prove just some exercise in masses despite the fear of Corona Virus outbreak recently, staying away from public fear. Overthinking.
The finisher medal and Jersey are Porky price possession for the the start of a healthy year, strike off one of those 2020 bucket lists or 2020 resolutions!
While in Cats City or Kuching, we wandered around to the memory lane. Each of the road, buildings, food somehow bring back memories of growing up years. This is part of the long craved goodies for CNY, feeding the soul.
this year at Monkey's Place
Sweet Home Alabama tune playing behind
Church Mass as usual @ BDC Church
Compulsory Petanak Kueh Chap dosage
Laksa premium it seems, Porky clapping
Tabuan Jaya Laksa with cockles, slowly getting tak sedap
After a long journey home, finally we reached the destination. Home! Feast and drinks and good times with the family after working headlessly for a year.
The ambience for celebrations are not so felt this year in Cats City. Partly due to the outbreak of Corona Virus in China. Everyone is being cautious and stays home.
Now lets eat!!!
home cooked recipes from dad & mom is the best ever
As we stayed in PC2 (Malacca) and will be celebrating Chinese New Year in PC Zero (Kuching), it will take a slightly great distance and effort to get home in time. Transportation planning with regards to road traffic congestion, price of air ticket, work leave planning etc are some of the factors for consideration.
Oh well, thats the exciting part of it. Its the thrill and hectiness that makes the celebration joyful, part of the essence.
It seems like is that time of the year again, where families get together and prepare for a grand feast. The journey home will be long, not that far but its kind of an art in planning. We have to take a car, bus and a plane. Yes a plane! How nice if we can have our own flying vehicle, that would cut short the hassle by a lot.
Porky was wondering why he hasn't see any flying vehicles around in 2020. He went into a deep thinking process, conceptualizing how would such a vehicle looks and function to ferry the Porkydigans around, and pass his ideas to engineer Ephant. We shall cover that soon.
For now, lets get back to CNY journey home to Porky's Cavern 0, where all it begin..
While waiting for rustbucket to get fix, Porky have to hitch a ride to work every morning unless otherwise. Wee hours, about 0615am at secret location. A Maneko cat was spotted, right after the new year 2020 which Porky interpreted to bring never ending luck and prosperity throughout the year. So today, we decided to feed the cat with some leftover MRI pack from late Mr. Bukpeel. Full summy for morning breakfast says the Maneko cat. Porky have decided to name him Marty..
It's has been a while for sure. Time really flies. Nevertheless life is good. Lots of changes over the last 2 years in the life of the Porkidygans, many stories to be told ranging from PC1 moved to PC2, new Rustbucket Camper Van, The Rise of Ephantdigans, good foods, trips and a range of crackling contraptions built in Porky's Lab for sharing. Looking forward to a new an exciting year 2020!!!
When you're doing something and enjoying it very much, like a hobby, a dream, or a long delayed intention - at that very moment in time of the enjoyment, your mind will be at peace. It seems that our wonderful mind will switch only to that channel, filtering out all other daily issues/worries in life for example dues for rent, unpaid bills, work deadline at office and the list goes on and on. The stress of worrying about all those small things in life seems to be gone, right in that moment when you're at peace with yourself, in this context - enjoying what you really like to do.
Porky stumbled over this video, a short documentary about the life of owning and running a Ramen noodle store in Japan. Well, not much into the Ramen itself, but more on the Chef sheer determination. Small setup, multitude tasks to do daily, long working hours, going back late and waking up early and small earning per sales doesn't seems to matter at the end of the day. Its a good motivational video to the Porkidigans, it inspired us to seek and do what we like the most, stop worrying about the small things and most importantly, seek peace within our inner self and live life to the fullest.
