My Oyster 123

Quayside is an exclusive condominium beside Straits Quay with a resort like swimming pool and amenities. My aunt owns a unit there and she comes here to stay whenever she is out from Singapore. She has also bought a brand new Mercedes Benz E250 2 - 3 years back for her own use whenever she is out here for holidays in Penang. She is a property investor and makes money buying and selling properties. As a law graduate, she used to do conveyancing and prepared Sales & Purchase Agreement for clients. Hence, she will be the first person to know a good buy whenever any property is out for sale in Singapore. However, she is in her eighties now, retired and suffering from the early stages of dementia. As she is single and unmarried, she has asked my mother, her youngest sister to take care of her should she have advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease. My mum had promised to hire two nurses to take care of her in the later stages of her life when she is incapacitated.

I shall be flying via Firefly to KL tomorrow to Subang Airport which is very near my condo. I will be there on business and only come back on Friday night at around 9:00pm, departing 1 hour earlier. The return fare for 2 cost slightly over RM 1k just for a 2 day visit and we need to come back before Bersih 5 demonstration starts with Red shirts trying to stop them at whatever costs - even bloodshed. Well, as a citizen, I am concern over the developments of the country but sometimes this is much we can do and need to concentrate on our business than politics. I just wish for a peaceful assembly to show the world that we need a clean government.

Every month I give dad RM 550 plus RM 250 for the church and RM 50 for mum - totalling RM 850 per month! Thst is a lot of money but it does not seem enough for dad. He thinks I make too much money and should share more with him, giving hints now and then. I am not exactly a favourite daughter, so I give as much as my youngest sister who is favoured over me. My dad's favourite, my second younger sister is not longer contributing since she needs money to pursue her PhD programme in the UK. Right now the house is divided equally amongst the 3 of us siblings. But dad in his defense, told me he can change the percentage anytime! Such is the support I get from my family who squeezes money from me and does not give me the due respect as a daughter.

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Money is important but not everything. It can buy you comfort but not health, even though you can buy supplements and vitamins to prolong your life. It is a tool to exchange for food, clothing, transport and the like. With more money, you can live more comfortably during your retirement years and hopefully stretch the money to a lifetime. Everyone works hard for a golden retirement and not a woeful one where one has to beg in the streets like a vagrant. You want to be surrounded by loved ones and money can buy their love and loyalty.

Marriages break down and divorces happen all due to money problems and financial difficulties. But once the breadwinner starts to earn more money, then the wife may reconsider reconciling with her spouse. Hence, money speaks louder than relationships.

Blogging certainly takes effort and each post is painstakingly written with images processed for faster uploading after enhancements and resizing. You also need to be able to type fast and think on the spot as you type along. As I have changed the URL to the new blogs, they are basically still new and need time for being indexed by Google search engine. I have around 6 - 7 blogs that I update at least once per week to keep the contents fresh. Sometimes, you encounter writer's mental block and don't know what to blog on. But as long as it is not on politics, criticism, it is safe to write. Being in business, we keep ourselves free from issues surrounding the Malaysian government and don't comment on it. I can only pray for the country.

At the basement of a megamall of 1 Utama in Petaling Jaya, is a gem of a cafe called Porridge Time Cafe as can be seen in the photos above. This is the front view to the cafe full of wooden furniture of tables and stools.


The is the ambiance and you can see, almost all things are wooden except for the cutleries. Being a weekend, it was full of diners who patronize here frequently. The place is usually packed with people due to its affordable yet delicious food.


This is Porridge Time Cafe menu with a selection of choices to pick from just a single page. I ordered a few dishes for myself and my partner. There is a wide repertoire of food to choose from with many selections of various porridges of different ingredients and drinks.


Here was my order of grouper porridge even though the sliced grouper was hidden by the porridge. There were generous portions of it. The porridge was boiled for a long time until the rice beads almost become liquid in a thick gravy.


I ordered extra 'HK Choy Sum' or also known as Chinese flowering cabbage according to Wikipedia. Choy Sum is a Cantonese name for green leafy vegetable, similar to 'kailan' that is usually used in Chicken Rice Shop and topped with oyster sauce.


Above was my partner's order of fish cake noodle soup consisting of fu chok, fish cake, choy sum, spring onions and springy noodles like wan ton noodles. The soup was a bit salty though, but nevertheless, I finished it leaving the noodles after my partner had his share.

If you are interested to try this place, the address is as below:

Address: Bandar Utama LG113A, Lower Ground Floor,
One Utama Shopping Centre, 1, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.