opeloyeru luqman
@holapluz active 7 years, 6 months ago-
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Oh.It looks like a great escape. Such experience became very common in Hyderabad, especially in summer. But, these are confined to an area where most of the residents live in huts and thatched houses.
I had this experience only once when I was on tour and happened to stay in my friend’s room. It was a room attached to a house. After attending the daily work we slept deeply and there was no one other than we too.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. The owner was knocking the door. I opened the door in the sleep itself only to be informed that the adjacent house caught on fire. I could not understand him as most of the houses are cement roofed. When I expressed my doubt he told me that one of the rooms of the house is not having a concrete roof and it is a thatched one meant only for resting during a summer season and that it had been richly furnished one.
we both rushed to the spot and helped the owner of the house poured buckets of water and brought it under control. There was only minimum damage to the costly articles inside the house.-
Oh good thing , all of you helped in stopping the fire.
Here fires usually happen in squatter areas where the houses are of light materials and are very adjacent to one another. One house burning would end up hundreds of houses burned at the end of the fire.
Then when the fire truck arrives, it sometimes cannot go into those very narrow pathways, thus the hose can only be at those that it can reach.
And some scrupulous persons would take advantage of the situation and would steal those saved appliances that were usually place on the open where they can’t be reached by the fire.
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I wasn’t aware that you could eat any sort of gourd. Sounds like it would be healthy to eat these, but I’m not sure if I’d be able to cook them good enough to get rid of the bitterness. lol Great informative post. 🙂
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From where are you, my friend? So,I suppose you have bitter gourd in your country.
Actually, there are two kinds of bitter gourds. One type has smaller of those vein-like covering and those are said to be bitter. But those with vein-like structure as big as those in the picture, are not.
We can still lessen their bitterness by soaking them in a bowl with about one tablespoon of salt for 15 minutes the washing them again in plain water before we cook them.
Do you also cook a dish of this bitter gourd.
The recipe I wrote above has a finished product like that in the picture within the post.
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When I was young, my mother would scold me every time she serves Bitter gourd because she can’t forced me to eat it even if she mixed it with more eggs.
I only start tasting it when I was in College and finally liked eating it when I had children of my own. Every time I cook bitter gourd, i add sliced sausages or hotdogs and more eggs so that my children will also try eating it. Nowadays, it is already my children who are requesting me to cook for them bitter gourd.
Another way of cooking it is with coconut milk. You can mix it with string beans and squash.-
I think as we mature our taste buds matures too because we already eat those veggies we previously don’t like .
Actually when I was just a teener, I don’t eat any vegetable except potatoes. How much more bitter gourd.
But after giving birth, it’s as if a lot of hormones in me was awakened, because it’s the start of my loving vegetables specially bitter gourd.
Perhaps our daughter who is now 26 year old and a doctor already , will one day start liking bitter gourd. ha ha ha
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You’re right. It’s a very beautiful scenic place, but as you pointed out, it could be very dangerous. I wouldn’t want to live there, but it definitely would be a place I’d like to put on my bucket list as a place to visit some day.
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Yes, please put it in your bucket list of places to visit. You will be so proud posing for a picture with the Mayon Volcano in the background.
You can actually ride those all-terrain vehicles and go to the foot or a bit up the slope of Mayon Volcano. Actually, the PhilVocs or Philippine Vocanologist Authority always issue a restriction or alert level warning if ever they monitor some activity of the Mayon. So, tourists can only come near it when it;s not having activities.
The towns are usually out of its danger zone. Though when they have monitored it to seemingly erupt, they warn all the near towns’ people to evacuate for safety.
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@Dina, this blog made me remember and miss my old best friend whom died at age 35 due to suffered from cancer.
She was suffered from breast cancer at 26, the year just after she finished her university degree study. I was curious on why she didn’t look for a job to make a living after graduated. I only knew she was done her surgery when paid her a visit.
Luckily, she has just bought a medical insurance policy with her when she was second year student, she has no income bust still have to pay for insurance premium…I blamed her for why made herself in financial burden as a poor student.But, the medical insurance took care of her medical fee later.
The cancer recurred after 10 years after she worked afternoon shift in new company. The cancer cells spread very fast and to other organs. She died after the radiotherapy.
I have no fried died at that young age. More over, this is my best friend, I felt so sad to hear this bad news. I still feel painful today. But, I know she is fine with the her Father in the heaven now.
We will meet one day later.-
Oh how sad that your friend died too early in life.
But at least she was still able to live 10 years more, before it recurred and took her life.
Some people says that the chemotherapy , as in her case, radiotherapy, is what hastens the life of a cancer-stricken person. It is said that its because the cancer cells would spread fast and that even the good cells are targeted by the chemotherapy.
It seems there is truth in these, because I have heard of cancer-stricken persons who died after they were operated.
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As much as I am afraid to even look at a corpse, i had no choice but to do it. The first time was my dad who passed on a few years back. It was shocking to all is it came like a bomb shell not knowing what to do or how to behave given that it was the first time we were experiencing a death in the home. When we want to th3 morgue I was told that I have to touch him before they laid his body into the casket. That was the hardest thing ever for me to do in my life. With my mum and brother by my side I held my dad’s hand and he was still warm and soft even after 3 days in the morgue. I just said a prayer and walked away. It was very sad but God have us the grace to go on. 4 years down line I lost my sister, now this one was pretty bad because she had an accident and died on the spot. Watching her lifeless body lying there was so devastating, when I put my hand on her forehead and felt how cold she was made me feel so lonely, it made me feel like a big part of my life was torn apart. You find yourself thinking who will help me when am stuck, who will be there to guide me through stuff, who will teach me new stuff so many things go through your mind that you can’t really explain. So I know the feeling and it’s not a very nice one.
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