MCO Day 21 ~ 7 April 2020

Hubs has been craving to dig into prawn noodles since the MCO started.  And so after 3 weeks of MCO, he finally satiated his craving.  Today he boiled a big pot of prawn soup whilst his mom blanched the prawns, pork ribs, fish cake and water spinach (kangkung).  The soup is from instant prawn noodles paste that he bought for his catering business. We only remembered that we left out the hard boiled eggs and fried shallots after walloping everything 😐



Brunch ~ oh so comfortingly good prawn noodles! What a hearty temptation after missing it for so long. We can't wait for the MCO to be over so that we can dig into our favorite outdoor hawkers' food again at our neighborhood coffee shop. We miss those vendors too as most of them have become our friends. We will definitely patronize them everyday to help them restart their businesses again.



Feeling really bloated and edgy in the afternoon, I pulled Cass along to walk the stairs with me. From the 5th floor, we walked up to the 18th floor and walked back to the 5th floor. Miss lazybones didn't want to continue working out with me, so I continued jogging outside our unit, back and forth the corridor and only managed to hit over 2,000 steps 😓   My typical pre-MCO daily steps is around 8k - 13k a day.




View from the 16th floor, before rain bucketed down.



A wefie after we reached the penthouse on the 18th floor.




My temporary jogging trek - our corridor



Jogging back and forth the short narrow corridor outside our unit reminded me of my hospital quarantine with Cass 11 years ago in May 2009.   Cass and I were holed up for 3 torturous weeks at Gleneagles Medical Centre in Penang when she was 13 months old. She underwent a complicated Uretheral Reimplantation surgery, which had an unfortunate complication. Two weeks later she was operated in an emergency surgery after a battery of scans (including a CT Scan and a Fluoroscopy) did not pick up a kink on her intestines.  During our nightmarish 3 weeks stay in the pediatric ward, my only form of exercise was jogging back and forth the floor of our squeezy room.

So this MCO is not my first quarantine. It's my second and definitely feels better than our nightmarish 3-week quarantine at GMC Penang. Everyday was nerve wracking as I didn't know when Cass would ever get better. I wasn't even sure if she would survive. But God is great and we were discharged a day before hubs and my wedding anniversary on 27 May 2009!  You can click on the year 2009 - Month:May on the Blog Archive on the right side bar to read all about my stay with Cass at GMC Penang.

The calming view that kept me running back and forth on the dull corridor until it tipped down outside.




Hubs brought home a loaf of almond butter cake and best-in-the-world Portugese egg tarts from Red Kettle in the evening and these really made my day 😍  This also reminded me that whilst being holed up in the pediatric ward of GMC back in May 2009, hubs would bring me some tantalizing yummy Penang food everyday to cheer me up.  But nothing could really cheer me up as Cass just wouldn't get better after the first surgery and her belly just got bigger and bigger each day until it looked like a balloon about to explode and she kept retching green stuff  😭




Our dinner:



Slimy vegetable (Malabar spinach) egg drop soup, onion omelette, braised organic chicken with ginger, sesame seed oil and curry leaves and blanched broccoli.