MANGO MAYO TEA TIME

Do not put the mayonnaise on the mango. Yes, they were bought during the same shopping jaunt, but they aren't meant to be savoured at the same time. At least breathe between the two. This is sound advice. And it's free.

After I finished smoking my pipe I did my shopping, purchasing a net baggy of lychees for the elderly Indonesian Chinese woman downstairs in addition to Japanese mayonnaise, veggies, throat lozenges, and the mango. All of which stay in this apartment. It is a truly lovely mango, which will not be improved in any way by the addition of mayo. That's something that only a deviant would do. Neither my apartment mate nor I are deviants.

Tea time was fabulous. Quiet, restful. Nice pastry.
A long pause that refreshes.
Good beverage.


By the way: Do NOT tell anyone that hamsters and fried oysters taste different. They will naturally ask "how do you know?". Let them panic instead, do not reassure them.
This childcare advice is provided free of charge.

Fried oysters are crunchy on the outside.

A phone call to the pharmacy earlier took care of refills, which I will pick up tomorrow, and I also managed to postpone my jury duty availability dates by a week, so that I don't have to do that during my next doctor's appointment and optometrist's appointment. Serving justice takes a necessary back-seat.

While reading before lunch I ran into a famous quatrain (五言絕句 'm yin juet keui') by Jia Dao (賈島 'gaa dou') which almost everyone knows. It's often quoted.


松下問童子， 言師採藥去。
只在此山中， 雲深不知處。

['chung haa man tung ji - yin si choi yeuk heui - ji joi chi saan jung - wan sam bat ji chü']


"Amid the pines I queried the servant, who answered that his master had gone picking herbs; but in these mountains, with this deep fog, it's impossible to know where he went."


Such short verses are very easy to memorize.
As one does.



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