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Since the MCO I have not been going out for my favourite breakfast at the Mamak Restaurant. I do miss this combo which is sort of my lifeline ever since I was a child growing up in my father restaurant in Kuantan. Every morning he would prepare the Roti Canai for the many people who comes to the restaurant in the early morning for a simple breakfast of the Roti and the Tea with condensed milk. It was indeed a nutritious breakfast to start the day off.  As for us kids it was a breakfast we had every morning or snack at any time of the days. So until this age I am hooked to the combo of the Roti Canai and the Tea with the condense milk, except that at that time it is just call Teh and only now it is call Teh Tarik. Anyway I have always enjoyed taking the Roti Canai with the Teh Tarik.  Well folks as soon as the MCO was relax and folks were allow to go out to eat at the restaurant under an almost normal condition [with the condition of Social Distancing] I decided have an go a...

From the onset of the Covid 19 pandemic that hit the world in February 2020 Malaysia has put in place special measures to prevent the virus from spreading and endangering its population. The plan was called the Movement Control Order or in short MCO beginning on the 18th of March 2020. When the the Virus came into control, the MCO was canceled and replaced with the RMCO [Recovery Movement Control Order]. At the time of the MCO the people were told to stay at home and could only go out of their house to buy food. From 10th June 2020 to 31st August 2020. The MCO is being extended in a new and more relaxed manner. During the period of  the RMCO  folks are freed to move across the states borders thusnd folks are relieved and can move more freely. Likewise all businesses except for a few that are still not allowed, can operate as usual. The government has done their best to contain the spread of the Covid 19 virus.  Now its up to the people to take care of themselves, as we...

Before I go on narrating about the Hari Raya let me regress a bit and talk about fasting during Ramadan. Fasting during the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The other four are Shahadah, Zakat, Solat and the Haj. Except for doing the Haj [Do the Haj when one could afford it] these other pillars of Islam are mandatory. According to Islam we are all born as a Muslim, its our parents that change it after birth. So that is why we say when a non Muslim want to become a Muslim we say one revert to  Islam. To begin with, to be a Muslim one had only to say the Shahada, accept the Five Pillars of Islam and then conform with the norm and values of Islam. Remember we human is a Spiritual being so believing in a religion is to complete the whole. Without religion I do not believe one would be able to enjoy life to the fullest. After completing the fasting during the whole month of Ramadan it time to celebrate the victory of going through the ritual of fasting, not eating...

Well at  this trying time when everyone had to stay at home because of the Control Movement Order  or CMO folks can only go out to get grocery or by food. So with ingenuity some members of the family thought of the ideas of growing simple vegetable like the Bean Sprout or what we call here as Towgey and Mushroom at their homes.  Our youngest daughter who live at a Condo nearby decided to grow the Towgey while the second granddaughter who now work in Penang grows the Mushroom. It looks likes this Convid 19 lock-down did create changes in the way society live their lives when they cannot go out but had to stay at their home all the time to break the chain of the virus spreading. Images above are the process of growing the Beans Sprouts or Towgay at  home.  The image of the right is the Mushroom project by our second granddaughter who now live in Penang. And today we had Towgey dish [image on the left] for lunch from the one grown by our youngest daughter....

The outbreak of the virus Covid 19 starts in Wuhan, China some time in January 2020. The original source of this Virus outbreak is yet unknown. The Chinese authority took an unprecedented action by shutting down the movement of the city residents of some 11 millions. It a a complete lock-down with no one leaving and getting into the city. Immediately the Chinese authority act fast and professionally by mobilising all the experts to head to the city to help the already infested as well to stop the spread of the virus to the other part of  the country, as well to the other parts of the world. Soon the virus separate to the other parts of the world including to Malaysia. Since the middle of March 2020 the Malaysian government has introduced a Movement order or the Control Movement Order or CMO making it compulsory for the citizens to stay at home and not leave unless really necessary like getting foods or grocery. The Police and the Army was fully mobilised to enforced the CMO. The e...