Healthy Eats: Soft tofu stir fry with soya sauce

Tofu (or beancurd) is an excellent source of protein and it's famous among Asians.

Today I've prepared an easy Tofu stir fry recipe.

Ingredients:

2 blocks soft tofu
1 green chilli
1 lemongrass
1 onion
5-6 curry leaves
1 tbsp ginger
3-4 cloves garlic
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp oil

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Instructions :

1.Heat oil in a skillet over hight heat.
2.Add onion, chilli, lemongrass, ginger, garlic and curry leaves and stir for about 5 minutes.
3. Next, add the tofu cubes into the skillet and stir carefully so that it doesnt scramble.
4.Add the salt and soy sauce and cook until heated through.
5.Serve it with rice or rotis.

There you have it. A quick and easy stir-fry recipe and its all healthy.

Bye guys!

Healthy Eats: Chickpeas-Kidney Beans-Flaxseed Snack Bowl

Hola Amigo! Today I've created an easy healthy snack bowl recipe.

All you need is :

1 cup chickpeas
1 cup kidney beans
1/4 cup flaxseeds
2 tsp salt

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Instructions :

1. Soak everything in a basin overnight ( or 18 hours for best results) .
2. Drain the water and rinse it twice.
3. Add 2 bowls of water and 2 tsp of salt and cook it in a pressure cooker (in low) for 15 minutes.
4. Drain the excess water and have it!

A bowl of Goodness!
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This recipe serves for 3 and it contains a total of 1174 calories, 31g fat, 173g carbohydrate and 62g protein. That means per serving of 391 calories! That's an energizing yet yummy snack.

Have a wonderful day ahead, guys!

I'm down

So I've been feeling low these days. Not my extreme yet but feeling low is just not one of the sweetest feelings to embrace.

I am confused. They say 20s is when you feel all confused and lost but i guess in my case at all ages I'll still be feeling confused and lost.

I gained 2kgs when I'm suppose to lose another 10kgs during this holidays. My weight gain has added to my depression.

I am officially a graduate but trust me, stepping into this new phase (oh well, its not new for as I was employed before this) is ain't easy. Getting a dream job is too much of a profound.

Moving back to a big city requires a whole new mental set up too. Now I can no longer go back to my 'own home' in Sunway as a student. Now I have to go back to KL city as an adult, something that I'm still striving my best to accept actually. I don't think so I'm ready to adult but damn, reality is hitting so darn hard.

That's enough ranting for the day, I guess. and oh yeah, I'm also having fever now. Too confused until my body temperature rose?

Adios!

Book Review: A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe

This time I've picked this book, A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe which is my first book by a Japanese author. This book was indirectly recommended by one of my friends and thank goodness I was found this in my university library.

The story is about Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child.

The story is semi-autobiographical and it revolves around the life of Bird, a confused young man trying to figure out what he could do to his brain-hernia child when the doctors had labelled him a 'vegetable baby', to Himiko and his wife.

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I would recommend this book for its depth, open-minded and unconstrained imagination.

My rating : ☆☆☆☆

Till we meet then!

Book review: The English Teacher by R.K.Narayan

Hello people. Im baack after what it feels like a forever, yes my first and last post was almost 2 years ago. Apologies for not adhering to the blogger ethics. He He He He

Well this time I'm starting off with a book review. The English Teacher by R.K Narayan. 

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Look at the condition of the book. It's been carelessly handled over the past two decades. I've borrowed this book from my university library. (Protips: Borrow books from either university libraries or public libraries to save money :D )

This book was one of a kind. It was absolutely amazing and too beautiful that I did not want it to finish already. I was secretly searching and praying for more pages to appear from nowhere when i clearly knew the end page is approaching already.

It's too beautiful that I teared. It's attractive in the sense that the love-filled and simplicity of the story while this being an autobiographical novel. This is my second time reading R.K's work, first being his The Painter of Signs.

This book has been penned about a decision that will change his( Krishna) life forever. Some of us might think that some day we might also opt for this decision but after reading this book it had instilled the realisation it might sound light and easy.

I've promised there'll be no spoiler, hence i recommend everyone to have a take on this. YES, you should!

MY REVIEW : ☆☆☆☆☆


Hope you've enjoyed this post. Take careeeee

I am a learner

Have you ever had the feeling you don’t give a damn for anyone and when you get it you might be thinking why the heck didn’t you get this self realisation  long time ago. At least you would’ve lived those moments rather than wasting them in vain thinking of others’

Standing 21 this year (2 more months to be 21), life of 20 years pretty much taught me how to be a human, a lady, a relativist. Those were the days when I don’t get myself a dress assuming I would look really ugly in it because of my chubbiness. I always thought I am overweight, too big, never beautiful. People’s compliments on me never convinced my insecurity. I was a former athlete during schooldays but during my second semester of my Matriculation year I was drown into a deep depression. I was lonely, I lost myself into the dark and small world of mine. I locked myself into my room, staying away from my family and friends. I had no appetite and I was totally living a dreaded life.

After a year of struggle in depression and then I told myself its time to get out of this darkness and its time for some sunshine. As a reader I learnt a lot by reading. Reading healed me, it calmed me. I learnt that the world that I have been witnessing wasn’t the real world. It is a manipulated world. I learnt that everyone dies but not everyone lives. We were bound to the society and live according to the acceptance of the society. Why that is every parent wants his/her child to be a doctor, an engineer or a lawyer only? Why don’t they encourage their child if he/she is interested in music or arts?

Fitness also healed me. Whenever in doubt go lift. Sweating breaks the toxins and it gives you the feel-goods. I also love travelling. Travelling and meeting new people, learning new cultures are a lot more of experiences. Your experience is your greatest teacher.

It took me piles of effort and struggle to come out of the darkness and to amend whatever broken. A few months later I started to live the normal life. Attending classes and living an ordinary student life.

I am the type of person who could be all hyped up to the need of a peace space for myself. Hence, an ambivert. Now, I live a life for myself, realising I could never satisfy the world, at least I would satisfy myself. As long as I don’t harm anyone. Today I could walk chin up despite of my body size, skin colour or even the acne scars on my face. I have learnt a number of lessons, some of them the hard way. We are all learners. We learn everyday and it teaches us lessons.