Chilies And Ice Cubes
January 31st, 2005, Jason
Since last Saturday, the “sin-seh” reminded me not to eat hot/spicy food and cold beverages. The moment he told me that, I said “Har?!” loudly until he repeated the same sentence twice, just in case I did not get it into my brain. This is a more painful than the pain on my elbow.
For all my life, my meals are consist of chilies and extra ice beverages. My family members are born to live on chilies or hot and spicy food. My sisters and I ate “cili padi” raw at the age of 5 and it was a piece of cake to all of us. It was something for us to boast around at that time. My father is even more “hebat”. He ate so much chilies until he was required to see a specialist regarding bout his anus, which I shall not blog about. The doctor said that his intestine is totally in pink colour, a very good sign. But, since my father ate way too much, something happened. It costed my father about RM1k for the operation to cure the “sickness”. Before he was discharged, the doctor asked him not to eat too much chilies. If that particular dinner does not have any dishes with chilies or something hot, nobody will have another scoop of rice. Later in the night, my father will bring us for supper to compensate the lousy dinner. If there is chicken curry, pork ribs curry, “kurma” or “gulai”, my mother has to cook extra rice. As for me, to finish one K.F.C dinner plate, three pieces of chicken, I need to have one bottle of chili sauce, which I can finish at least 50% or 75% one time. Therefore, I always try to sneak out a brand new bottle of chili sauce on the table if its a take away. I have not eaten any chilies for two days and I have no appetite in everthing I eat. How to survive without chilies?! I miss chilies so much!
Talk about iced/cold beverages, I cannot live without them. Regardless of the weather, whether it is sunny, freaking hot, drizzling, raining, thunderstorm or even hailstrom, I still need to drink cold/iced beverages. My father is also the same as me, like father like son. -wink- I believe that the ratio of my drink to ice is 2:3. Whenever I go to the mamak stalls, I shall request for another cup/glass of ice. I shall then pour half of my drinks into the cup/glass filled with ice and drink. The other half of the drink will be poured when I finish the first half. Ice blended is my favourite but sometimes I even complain the ice blended is not cold/freezing enough. Now, I am not allowed to drink cold water also.
With two most important thing in my life taken away, I feel so lifeless. Breakast, lunch and dinner are not the same anymore. They taste bad, so bad that I feel like throwing them away. I cannot eat my favourite “Nasi Lemak” that is available at 5AM only which has awesome sambal to go with it. Not only that, I need to stay away from seafoods, chicken, eggs, “tau-fu” and etc.
I just dislocated my arm, why do I need to becareful what I eat?! -Screams- It is so suffering and even more painful when the “sin-seh” twisted my arm. I want my chilies and ice back. -sniff sniff-
