Since 2012 started my wish to have my own home is really bugging me.  I do not have lots of money to buy a whole house in cash but if I want I can have enough to start a building a nipa hut. lol! No way, seriously, I wish to assume a house but since the tragedy of Sendong, it is hard to find a house for sale.  We even have friends who are still staying in evacuation centers because there are no house even for rent.  There is house shortage here in our city now.

In case my wish will be granted, I really want a nice kitchen. It need not to be huge and wide but at least there can be enough space to put up a sink, a regular size ref, an oven, cupboards, and some kitchen cabinets.  I also like built in shelves for microwave ovens and even a kitchenaid dishwasher. With this kind of imagination, for sure, a nipa hut won’t allow me to have these conveniences.  I wish i can have an island type kitchen but if space is not available then having the traditional design is enough.  Traditional but with a bit touch of modernity.

I like my kitchen to be painted with light color, then it must have two glass  windows that will look out a garden or a nice view from the sink area.  I can imagine that it will be one of my best place to spend time at during my retirement years.

It’s been long since I had the time to cook for myself and the family. With the demands of work, my mom seldom let me do the cooking. But she knows that when everyone at home who can cook is down – then I can do the cooking by myself. My cooking day wish is more of like a leisure cooking. It is like experimenting on simple and healthy dishes. Since the cooking place is outside our kitchen door, I feel weary to make this wish come true. My ideal kitchen needs not be spacious, but at least there is a sink, there’s lot of water, and I can do things with just one turn of my back, or reach a condiment with just a tiptoe. I wonder when I can have my own home with my ideal kitchen so that I can make this cooking day come true.

It is almost the weekend now, but there’s not much ingredients to be used, so I will try if I can do it next weekend.

Let me have a break and am going to make some bird’s nest soup.

I might stay up a bit late tonight and am sure i am going to have hunger pangs later because i just had 3 pieces of crackers for dinner.

It’s been 4 weeks that i’m on a bland diet. Not really 100% bland but i just put in a pinch of salt whenever i cook something that needs a bit of salt. At first it tastes like I wanna die but a week later, am enjoying my food. Am enjoying it but am sure for some, it’s something that will let them throw up. Even my daughter complained of the low salt. Not that she loves salty food but she loves food with really distinct salty taste.

If you will ask me how long will I have to eat like this, I will say, for as long as I can or until when I a substantial amount of excess weight have been lost. I still got a long way to go but it’s working little by little and a difference can is already visible. I thought i still need the help of cleansonix for cleansing but i changed my mind. Not for now. A girl friend who used it recommends the use. I told her I can’t use any synthetic stuff for the meantime because of my excess weight. It might do me heart trouble.

- i had this, one night this week. i so love it!-

Cucumber with eggs.  The cucumber is not as slim as the one in china, but the ones that is available here will also do.  Just remove the seeds.

Losing weight is no easy job. I’ve been there all these years. Am like a yoyo you know in this flight, but for now, am enjoying the moment. Why? Because this time, I do not let myself feel hungry as much as I can. I still eat the food that i love. What matters is the quantity and taste.

Some medicines can be fatal especially for anyone who does not think that they are allergic to a particular component of a drug. Just this evening, i woke up to the call of a roommate asking me if her bf can come in and lay down in her bed because his whole face was swollen. Of course why not! And indeed his face was really swollen. Almost no more space in the eye slits. After seeing him in that state, i fall asleep again. I was exeperiencing a normal reaction to anti-histamine. I was dead sleepy.

Now I am awake but i can still feel heaviness in my body. But my eyes are not droopy. I just had dinner with them.

In the course of the meal, we talked about how the swell started and good thing the swell did not include his respiratory system. He then remembered that years back he too had an allergic reaction to Ibuprofin and he took one again today because he forgot about that incident.

As of this writing, he looks okey now. He eye slits look better now.

So warning, there might be some of you out there who is allergic to Ibuprofin. If you need to take pain relievers, then use Mefinamic acid.