Awake…

When I get up in the morning, the first thing I would have would be a mug of coffee, black and unsweetened. It would not matter even if it was one of those instant coffee as long as it’s coffee – for that much-needed jump start to kick off the day. Then I would have something to eat…which may be one of those instant noodles, if I have any in the house, or my own tossed dried noodles or mee sua or if there is any leftover rice from the day before, I would fry that to enjoy.

I would fry the rice in many different ways but the simplest would be the kampung version…

…with ikan bilis and chili and that day, I had it with our Bintulu cincaluk dip and that was so good!

The next morning, I found one big plastic tub of rice again in the fridge so I fried it as well – this time, with the rest of the cincaluk dip added…and also a handful of bubuk (dried shrimps)…

…and it was very good too.

And talking about fried rice, while I was waiting for my car to be serviced that day, after my kampua pian sip breakfast, I went to stroll around the supermarket there and I saw a whole range of those packets of nasi goreng ingredients from this company including one that I saw for nasi goreng kampung and another for nasi goreng Cina (Chinese fried rice). Of course, I did not buy any – I would much rather use my own (fresh) ingredients to do that but I did end up buying a few things there. Like what I said to the boss of the workshop, “Bak chiew ching phai!” (Eyes very bad) If I had not gone to look around, I would not have ended buying anything. That is why I think that as far as possible, it is best to just stay at home so one would not end up spending one’s money. What do you think?

Anyway, getting back to what I would have for breakfast, if there is any bread in the house, I would probably make some egg sandwiches at the very least and of course, it would be even nicer if I had ham or bacon or luncheon meat or SPAM to go with them. Well, the other day, my dear friend flew over from KL on a working trip and she gave me these…

…so no prize for guessing what I had had for breakfast over the next few days. LOL!!! Thank you so much, Mandy. for all those – too bad you were, as always, too busy all day at those desolate worksites till late at night so we were not able to meet up for dinner or something. Hopefully, we will find time for that sometime…