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Creating Friendships

It's that time of the weekend again where I share about some life stuff that's been happening or something that's just pure joy and inspiring to share. That's why it's called Sunday Multivitamins cause it's supposed to be good for the soul. Like chicken soup for the soul.

Just yesterday, my partners and I who are running a new business together met up with a very prominent figure in the charity business to have a chat on collaboration efforts. These same partners, who are my good buddies, are also going to start an NGO (non-government organization) to help teach the lower income group to survive and start their own businesses. We are all VERY NEW to this sort of grounds because my partners and I all come from marketing, advertising and media background. I am glad that God has sent people our way to help us just like our meetup yesterday which went really well and productive.

'Teach a man to fish, and he will feed himself for life'

Is our motto and vision for our soon to be NGO. We are all about teaching the lower income group and providing them with resources to start their businesses. My partners and I know that this isn't easy to do because these people definitely have a very different mindset and mentality to most of us, corporate people and dare I say, our Chinese mindset where we're all about pushing ourselves in making something out of whatever we can get a hold of. The lower income group contains mainly of the aboriginals of Malaysia and these are the group of people that are still very uneducated. This would definitely pose as a challenge for us but I know that we will definitely make a difference once we get everything up and running. I'm grateful to be able to connect with amazing people for collaborations like these.

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Helping out in the Kitchen

It is very RARE for me to be in the kitchen. Firstly, I don't cook because of the time I always get home from work and secondly, I like eating and usually there are too many chefs in the kitchen so I don't want to crowd the place. To be honest, I actually enjoy cooking. I enjoy experimenting with flavours. If we were to go out to a cafe right now, I would usually pick the weird dishes and drinks that have weird names. I am pretty adventurous at that.

Today was a little different, I wanted to help a little and in anyway I can. Though my friend and the aunty are both excellent chef, I wanted to at least help prep some of the dishes. After church, we head for grocery shopping and got a bunch of ingredients. We got some for the salad that we were going to make, seafood chowder and beer battered fish fillet. Of course, all these ideas came from my friend, who works in the F&B industry as a chef and is a pretty good one too.

We got to marinating the fish first with a ready-made Japanese sauce called Kewpie. I was just indulged in staring at my friend slicing the fish up. It is kind of therapeutic, just like watching fishes swim in the aquarium. We had fresh potatoes in the fridge and we've decided to make some potato chips with light seasoning just for the itchy mouths waiting for dinner to be ready. I started to slice these potatoes using a peeler and leaving them in the bowl of water so they don't turn dark quick. The frying took awhile because these potatoes are pretty moist but the outcome was great. Potato chips seasoned with sea salt and lemon and pepper herb.

The aunt cook one of the best Chinese dishes I know. Even better than the 5-star Chinese restaurants that I've been to. She made her infamous fish maw and portobello mushroom. Fish maw, is deemed to be one of the 'treasures' in Chinese cooking. That and abalone who is known as the 'gem of the sea'.

Portobello mushrooms

Adding Fish maw

The abalone gems

This dinner was themed the 'Seafood Dinner'. As you can tell, the chefs have planned to make everything seafood. Next up was the Seafood chowder. One of the best I've tried. The portion of oysters, scallops, grilled salmon, mushrooms were so generous that every bite have you chewing on the softness of the oysters. The soup itself was amazing with all these tantalizing flavours mixed into it. It gets better overtime.

With the oysters, the chef made some pasta with it and for the fish that we sliced earlier. We used it to fry in a beer batter which would be topped with cheese sauce later. I personally loved just drenching it with the seafood chowder. We also made a salad with mint sauce, cranberries, mix nuts, cherry tomatoes, asparagus and baked mushrooms.

Salad

Seafood Chowder

Seafood Pasta

Beer Battered Fish

All ready for the feast

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Happy 3rd Birthday Steem!!

We also celebrated my friend's birthday after dinner and had the chocolate cake as dessert. Not forgetting that Steem today is 3 years old!!! It's amazing how far we've come and so much different from when I first came in.

More communities, more dapps, more initiatives are now on the Steem blockchain. We are definitely still in the infancy stage and I so believe that Steem is still the potential social media of blockchains. I have always believed Steem would change lives and connect people in ways you've never even thought possible. I've seen so many opportunities budding from various communities and I've met so many amazing Steemians on this blockchain too. Part of my life is now Steem and I am here for the long term.

Here is to wishing you all an awesome week ahead!

 

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