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My Inspiration, My Life
By peace | July 25, 2007
This is oyster sauce stirred fried Cai Xin with prawns.
Without inspiration, my life is a blank piece of paper. Yesterday was a day of cooking inspiration. I had the inspiration to cook. I had all the motivation and inspiration for cooking. I have not had a good cooking for a long time, since I was busy earning money from blogging.
I learned cooking from my mother — basic skills; no certificates, no diploma and no degree, no graduation from cooking yet. In the past, several years back, when I just got married, I would have cooked ‘complicated meals’ — chicken chop, fried spring onion frog legs, drunkard prawns, fried Assam fish and so on. I love to eat my own cooked food. But somehow my cooking was not appreciated. I worked in the past. Cooking is what I do when I was back from work. Sometimes weekends were spent cooking and eating at home. A lot of time taken to prepare and cook a meal, just for the two person. However, it is good if ‘everybody’ enjoy eating. But this is not the case. Somehow the weird person does not like any home cooked food at all. He likes Food Court Food and junk food. He does not seem to enjoy any home cooked food, whether at home, his mother’s home or at the workplace — those ‘mass production’ type of cooking.
That is diversion from my topic. Back to cooking inspiration. I cook what I like to eat, but I also cook what other people like to eat. I used to refer to cooking books for ideas and methods of cooking. However, now I do not buy anymore cooking recipes books. I prefer to taste the ‘natural’ taste of food. My favourite shrimp recipe is just steaming or boiling the prawns. I boil corns, carrots, broccoli and potatoes. At times I will have stirred fried vegetables too. Everything is just a balanced.
I like to eat corns just by boiling it (not too long, just cooked), one can taste the real ’sweetness’ of the corns. I do not put butter too. It is so nice just to savour the natural sweetness of the corn like that.
Inspiration has added a lot of colours to my piece of plain paper. Inspiration had not only inspired me in the area of cooking, it has motivated me to learn many things as well. When inspiration comes, my heart is filled with interest and desire to get my mission accomplished. This can be my work of art in paintings, in making of several craftswork and even cottages, it has definitely helped me to get all my blogs updated regularly with different topics. Not all people loves the piece of paper. However, to me, it is just following my heart, letting my inspiration at work and blending it with my heart. With love, I found inspiration. With love, everywhere could be a source of inspiration. You don’t need to spend money to have inspiration. All it needs is your love. Over here, my love for food has motivated me to cook. The sight of good food had brought me inspiration and all the necessary ‘fuels’ to motivate me to cook my favourite dishes. Perhaps all the inspiration at work is the help of God’s holy spirit and this is the way how God communicate with us. Not all people loves this kind of cooking. However, this is a healthy diet and I tried to cook a balanced meal. I feel satisfied with myself. I had put in my efforts, I had optimized all means I can, and I have no regrets in life, for I had tried my best.
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July 25th, 2007 at 9:34 am
[…] I was updating my blogs, checking for tasks and emails messages. I got all my photographs from my handphone to be uploaded to my computer. I was writing on my cooking inspiration, how inspiration had played a role in my life, and about going to church on last Sunday.As I was writing and uploading the videos onto YouTube, a song suddenly came to my mind. I have no idea what song it is. However I know the tune. For the whole afternoon since the moment the song come to my mind, my brain is very preoccupied with this song. When I was not talking, not doing anything, the song just ’sang’ naturally in my head. Later on, it occurred to me that this was a childhood song which I had heard from my sister. She had used to play this song. For a very long time, I never call my sister. But for this reason, I wanted to call her. I wanted to know what song it is. I called her, told her the song, tell her the tune of the song. She went to check her song lyrics book. It was a song by ABBA, Chiquitita. While I was talking to her, my stomachached. It was so painful, don’t know why. As soon as the phone was cut off, my stomachache was gone. I went to YouTube to search the song. I had found the Chiquitita song lyrics. Everything was like what God seems to be telling me. This is really funny and amazing. I had never buy any ABBA songs nor listen to his songs. This is the first time, this song has come to my mind. And this is the first time, I had called my sister to ask her about this song. After listening to the song on YouTube, what was on my mind was that God is telling me all these words. It was not a message to me by anyone, but God. It is very amazing. And just when I was getting this ‘message’, I had another surprised. I was filled with awe and deeply touched, very touched and very grateful to God and to that person — a person who had given me a chance to write an advertisement for him. Whether he really gives me a chance or not, I am deeply grateful and really touched. Two things coming at one time, together. It just got to tell me that I need to be thankful to many people in this world, especially to all the advertisers who had given me a chance, a chance to blog about them and a chance for me to earn money from home, and at the same time look after my children. I am deeply touched and sincerely want to thank everyone who had helped me. God is definitely guiding me and helping me. It seems like my answers to all my questions will one day be found…. […]