Hodge-podge

I really like WordPress’s fullscreen mode blogging now, it is spartanly sparse. I press spacebar in the title bar, which effectively leaves it blank instead of showing “Enter title here”, and then I start typing, and all I have on the screen are words. No text boxes, no title bars, no sidebars, nothing else. I can only wish my room could be this neat, comfy bed, perhaps a very simple bedside table, a rattan reclining chair near the window for reading, and that’s it.

You know of all the things people say they miss about staying abroad in a place of temperate climate, I don’t think I’ve heard anybody say they miss sleeping in total silence. Well I do. Total silence: No passing cars, no whirring of a fan or air-conditioning, no insect noises, nothing but the dark comforting silence in the middle of the night, when everybody in the house is asleep. And you tuck yourself into bed, letting the duvet engulf you, and allow yourself to slowly drift off to sleep.

Anyway, I think I’ve come to the point where I’ve relegated my blog to a random collection of posts none of which are tellingly personal yet not really impersonal. This is not where you would come to if you wanted to know how or what I’m doing, there’s Facebook for that.

Funnily enough, there are two main search terms that will lead somebody to this blog. The first one involves Broga Hill, a hill near my previous uni that has in recent years became a hotspot for people from the city to go on weekends. It doesn’t seem to matter that when I went there on a single occasion and blogged about it, it was about three years ago. Now the place is just overrun with people, and people making profits off it such as charging people for tours or car parking.

The second search term that leads to this blog is one that is entirely misleading: sushi buffet kuching. And it was because I blogged about once going for a sushi buffet at Yo Sushi at KL. Yes, KL, not Kuching. Well, when I did come back from UK where I was very much Japanese food deprived, I was hoping perhaps to see what there is in the way of a sushi buffet in Kuching, and there it was on one of the top search results, my blog post. It took me having to read through several blog posts till I gathered that perhaps my best bet was to try one of the hotels here if I wanted to go for a sushi buffet. But I have not actually tried any, and now come to think of it, I probably wouldn’t. Sadly, the age of my metabolism rate has finally caught up with me, and I no longer have the eating capability of a 18 year old.

Hence, I have had to exercise more discipline and willpower in my eating habits. I thought I was going to lose it when a jar of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies were bought and brought home recently. That first day, I only allowed myself to half a cookie. The second day, the cookies were still on the kitchen counter, not even half finished by the rest of my family, and it was so tempting to have one, or perhaps two, but I only had half when it was late afternoon and I couldn’t resist it anymore. There is something about these cookies from Appetit, seriously. My mum and I were at Oldtown at the Hills shopping centre when she went off to the loo, and somehow managed to be sidetracked by the bakery, Appetit, on her way back. Which was how we ended up with our first jar of cookies, which led to the second jar two weeks later, which I have had to practise extra willpower not to go near to. Well, the cookie jar has finally left all but one cookie now that oddly enough nobody seems to have taken. Hopefully, there shall be no third jar of cookies appearing at home, at least not anytime soon.

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