AFTER A VERRY LOOOONG TIME....

I know that it's been a very...very....very loong time that i haven't write anything in my journal. It seem that it is a very big sin that i don't care about my journey on becoming a vegan here in  my home town. Being an Asian people who decided on becoming a vegan is very difficult because most of people around you will think that you are a freak person because you don't want to eat any kind of meat or any product that been related to animal. It happen to me always and it really make me feel angry sometime because when i go to the party or celebration, when i looking at the dishes, man ooo man  lots of meat and just a few of veggies dish. When i put veggies and rice ONLY on my plate, people look at me and say.........KO CUKUP JUGA KAH MAKAN TU........????? (is it enough for you with that meal????) really....i mean really...it's my meal not yours...so back off sister....

See i just start writing on my journal then  i start  writing something that really make me feel *(&^$^&&  :)    Peace yooo

It's been 8 months that i becoming a vegan and yeahhhhh i really happy about it. I realize that when i ate i feel easily full not like my previous lifestyle. I'm very picky with my food specially when i'm  going to the grocery store. When i go to the grocery store it will take about a couple of hours for me to finish my shopping time because i have to read the label on each of the product that i want to buy just to make sure that the product that i bought do not contain any kind of animal product. I wish i live i US or other western country because they do have lots of vegan products in their grocey shop but here in Ranau......emmmm what can i say.....there are only few things that have a label of VEGAN product. That is why i have to read the label first.

What i really excited that i want to share here is .... ta daa my husband decided that he want to become a pescetarian. It is a music to my ear when he decided not want to eat meat because when he saw me not eating meat for a couple of months, it make him that he also want to cut off meat in his life but he only want to eat fish which for me his decision show that he support on what i am doing right now... LOVE YOU PATRICK hehehehehe....

There are lots of thing that i want to share with you all in my journal but i have to stop right noW because my children keep screaming because of i don't know so i have to go now...before some of them will get injured....

BEING A VEGAN IS A GREAT LIFE I EVER DONE IN MY LIFE.....

EXPERIMENT NUMBER 2.

HELLO....

Ya i know it's been verrrrryyyyyyyyy looooong time that i haven't write anything in my journal and i'm afraid this time i got to write it so short. So here goes...

My place still have the water problem but not really bad like before and the tremors still happen here in Ranau but not rarely  like before. Thank you GOD.

I want to share with you with my second experiment that i have done after i become a vegan.Like in my previous journal i like doing experiment means that if i want to try i will do it.

My experiment number 2 is about my flu and i keep coughing all the time and i think i got fever. The first thing that bear in my mind is after i done with my work, i go to clinic and get medicine from the doctor to reduce my flu and my cough. But then i think that since i becoming a vegan, why not i tried not to go to clinic but i tried to eat more veges,fruit and drink more water to reduce my cough. I think that if i keep taking medicine when i got sick, i'm afraid that my body will be spoiled with it then later it will not try itself to get rid the toxic in my body because the medicine always pamper it with  drugs that it help body to eliminate the toxin from my body. For me, if i don't do something with it then i'm afraid when i get old, i may able easily get more serious disease because i keep using drugs to my body. I don't what that happen to me.

So what i did is
Number 1..EAT MORE VEGES
Number 2. EAT MORE FRUITS
Number 3. DRINKS MORE WATER
Number 4. GET ENOUGH REST AND SLEEP.

So the result is..........within in 3 days,my flu is gone, my cough is gone even my fever also reduce. I'm so happy with this experiment which i think i want to do this kind of experiment with my husband because he always got  gout.

See you all in my next journal....bye

IF YOU THINK THAT ISSUE IS NOT REALLY GOOD FOR YOURSELF THEN TRY TO SOLVE IT BY YOUR OWN.....

WATER CRISIS.....

HELLO...

Yeap..it's been o verry long time that i haven't writing anything in my journal. Right know at my hometown Ranau we do have a water crisis because of the  earthquake and tremors happen lately and it cause the river raging and  start to flowing then corrosive the soil and trees near the edge of the river. The river does the massive obliteration that makes the dams here are full with the trees and the water of the river contain with mud that makes our water supply totally cut down by them. It's been 5 days we don't have water and this issue really makes me and all people in ranau worry and panic because we don't have any water supply that we can use to cook, drink, shower and etc...

Some of the people here do have the gravity water mean the water are came from deep down the soil that they have dig to get these water and some of them got water from the river that it is not link with the river from Mount kinabalu. But what i want to share is...i am proud to be SABAHAN people because when people from other district heard and know the problem that we been faced, quickly they had contribute and helping us by giving us the mineral water and some food because right know the supply of mineral water from the shop are getting lower and people will scramble to get it. Contribution and helping from other district really helps us a lot and we don't know how we can repay for what they did. We so thankful to them and only God can bless them for what they did to us...

This situation also do effect with my eating style because to cook my veges i should wash it with lots of water. This make me feel worry because right know we only cook simply food that it does not using lot of water to prepare it. This means that, mostly i only cooked eggs, sausages, instant noodle and others that it is easy to prepare. For me i keep thinking what is the best veges that it will not used lot of water. Then i realized that there are  some veges that i can cook without using lots water to prepare it like tomatoes,brinjals, celery, zucchini, and etc... What i did is i just wash it then cut these veges then i cooked it. I'm so happy because i still can apply my eating style even tough we have water crisis right now.

What i want to share here is...when we have this problem, when i'm chatting with my aunty about food that i want to prepare, and at the same time i also decided to sell all my baking tools because i don't have time  to do baking at my home and i'm also don't want to  used any animal product when i'm baking because at my place there is limited and very hard to get ingredients for baking that i can used. When my aunty ask me why did i want to sell my baking tools i told her that i'm a vegetarain (actually i'm a vegan now) and it's hard for me to get ingredient animal free here in Ranau if i want to bake. But what really surprising me on what my aunty told me that....

IF YOU A VEGAN NOW IT DOES IT MEAN THAT YOU WILL BE A VEGAN FOR EVER.  YOU ONLY BECAME A VEGAN FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS... that is what she told me and with this statement by her, it makes me feel angry and sad because it seem that they never take serious on what i want to be. If i want to be a vegan that mean i want to be a vegan FOREVER..... and not in a short period like they think. But this thing make me feel more determined to show that i will be a vegan forever and i am not  fooling around with it.

If other people do not support you and don't believe on what they telling you about your decision, just ignore it. I know sometime their statement can make you feel hurt and angry but don't take it too serious..Just forgive them but show them that you are not messing around with your decision about it.

SHOWING PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT THING THAT YOU WANT TO BE CAN MAKE THESE PEOPLE BECOME MORE APPRECIATED WITH YOU.

THE BREAKING NEWS...

This might be the breaking news that i have written today.There is an earthquake at my hometown RANAU SABAH.It is 6.0 Ritchiem and for us here this earthquake rally make us feel scared.We rarely  face earthquake and don't want it but only God knows what it does. Recently there are group of tourist that been hiking the mount Kinabalu and they did something that it is not allowed when you hiking to mount kinabalu,at the peek without telling anything to the guide, estimate there are 12 people suddenly takemoff their clothes and naked at the peek of the mountain. Their action had been commented by their guide but that group scolded at him and saying something that is not nice to him.For us here (PEOPLE OF RANAU)WE QUITE BELIEVE THAT  Mount Kinabalu is a holy place and when you hiking to mount Kinabalu you shouldn't do cursing, shouting and do something that is not appropriate thing to do just what these tourist had been that recently here.I mean why should you say something that it is not nice to people just because that person told you something that it is not supposed to do and you should respect to that place that you been. Just image that your home got a visitor  then out of the blue your visitor taking of their clothes and naked at your living room and at the same time there are your children with you.How does it you feel???

Sometimes if we go to other places,we should respect their culture or belive, even we not quite agree on what they belive but we have still have to respect it.Don't just simply do something that you think it is ok for you but think about others feeling.

Same goes with your eating lifestyle,if you decided to be a vegetarian we cannot ask other people to follow your eating style. Just let them do what ever they want to be.Maybe we can give some suggestion but if you keep comment about others eating lifestyle ,it seem that you not respect them. If we want to get respect from others we should be the one who respect first  to the other people and surely other people will respect with us.

The bottomline here is,we are not have to respect to other people on that place that we been to but also to other people who are been surrounding you.To respect others people can make our world more harmony and peace will be exist among us.

BEING A VEGETARIAN FROM PAST AND NOW...

HELLO....

What can i say. It is school holidays here means i'm also have a holiday season. Most people will say that being a teacher is great and easy because when the  is a school holiday we as a teacher also will have holiday season. BUT... what others never thought about it.... even though it's a holiday, teachers still have to come to school because there is a tans of work that need us to do it. Yeap its holiday but we still have to do the work...anyway i don't want to talk about it....change the topic now.

Ago i try to  be a vegetarian but i failed because i'm not able to conquer the temptation of meat. I lost and i'm only became a vegetarian for a year. But now, i want to try to become a VEGETARIAN  again because of my health.

Recently i'm keep thinking's why did i did not able to conquer the temptation that been given to me. Maybe because on that time i don't have much knowledge about VEGETARIAN and also i don't have many recipes that i can used in my daily eating. Or maybe i'm eating too many meat substituent that i can get easily from the grocery or maybe i'm not eating many veges that i'm supposed to eat.



For the first time being a vegetarian, i don't have much knowledge about this eating habit. I know what does it mean but the info that i knew is just little and it's not enough for me to apply it in my previous daily eating. Most of my food are still cooked fried because i like fried food and i still ate lots of desserts which it's still contain animal product. I'm also taking too many fast food likes burger, pizza,chips and etc which it does contain animal product. I think these factors contribute towards to my failure of becoming a vegetarian in my past.

But now before i'm starting again on becoming a vegetarian, i'm doing lots of research about this eating lifestyle. The reason why  i still insist to be a vegetarian because:
1. my health
2. i want glowing skin hehehehe ( i'm sure all women in the world want it)
3.i love animal.
4. for my children
5. reduce my weight in natural way....

I'm still getting more info about this lifestyle because i'm kinda addicted with it :). It really helps me with my health and my perspective about lifestyle. I personally not drinking alcohol but most of my family and people around me is quite a heavy drinker. I'm not smoking because i can't stand the smell of the cigarette and i don't like drinking soda because it does contain a lots of sugar. 

I am still learning about this lifestyle and i hope that i'm able to get more info and able to gain more benefit from this lifestyle because i want my children will follow it without me to urge them to follow me.

ME KEEP TRYING AND TRYING IN ORDER TO GET SOMETHING GOOD FROM WHAT I BELIEVE IT IS GOOD FOR MYSELF AND MY FAMILY.

THE CRAVING....

Hello..........

Today i would like to talk about craving of food. Lately i'm craving on meat and pastry and chips. I remember when i'm was pregnant, with my first pregnancy, i'm craving on eating Logan but it's not the season on that time. This thing make me feel crazy because i do and dying want to eat logan. On my second pregnancy, i'm craving on strawberry but in my country Malaysia, we don't have that fruit and if we have the price will be so expensive. On my third pregnancy, i'm craving on mango but again it's not the season on that time and this make me feel angry because i cannot fulfill of my craving of the food that i want to eat.

I also remembered on my pregnancy i really don't want to eat meat mean any kind of meat. When i went to pasar malam when i saw hawker who sell their chicken wings, the aroma of their chicken make me feel very angry and at that point i want to go to their stall then throw all their chicken simply because i don't like the aroma of their chicken. But luckily i did not doing it hahahaha if i have done it surely i will become a famous person at my hometown hehehehe. THE PREGNANT LADY WHO DISLIKE THE AROMA OF CHICKEN WINGS. On my pregnancy i dislike eating meat and i don't eat meat till i give birth to my baby. I just don't know why i don't like to eat meat on that time. I only eat some veges and more fish. 

When i'm thinking about that, i feel silly, because of small matter i become a sensitive person, moody and irrational person just because i don't like meat. But now, being a vegetarian i don't quite thinking about eating meat only sometime i do craving on it but i manage to get other solution to break my craving on meat.

How do i break my craving on meat. I look for any veges that i think it will have same taste with meat that i can substitute it. Usually when i'm craving on meat, i will cook some  mushroom or brinjal/aubergine because these veges do have quite similar taste like meat. I just cooked it like i cooked meat which i do add some seasoning like oregano, thyme and rosemary just to get the smell of the spices that can make the taste of the veges even more delicious.  And believe me i'm the only one who ate the whole meal without sharing it with my husband hehehe....and ya it's really full up my stomach. 

For the desert, i'm usually change the recipe of the dessert because most of the desert do contain lots of animal product such as butter, milk, eggs etc...most of my desert i substitute the sugar with dates or raisin because i also want to cut of using sugar and salt in my meal. One of my desert  that  i always make if i'm really craving on desert is avocado and date. the taste of it so delicious and sometime i ate it twice. 

The whole point here is if we desire or craving things that we cannot have it, we can get other solution to solve the craving that we had. Try to be creative and try to do new things because sometime the new things that we done came with the best result than the one that we want it badly.

KEEP TRYING AND TRYING UNTIL YOU CAN GET THE BEST RESULT.......