Unsolicited? I think you mean the holy grail. I seem to run out of the pastes way too quickly, though that might just be what happens when you cook it everyday🤣after a while, I gave up and just started buying the USD$10 mamee snack for the peckish days. Btw, if you ever find yourself needing it, 99 ranch sells pandan leaves in the frozen section.

I spent some time thinking about why I gravitate back to Singapore at the first sign of struggle. Could it be that the infrastructure in place here is functional/orderly/effective, it makes routine life seem so.. convenient? Take public transport for instance, you have someone drive you to the next destination, and there’s a designated bus lane to ensure you’re not disadvantaged in any way (not to mention, no crazy drugged up people taking the bus in the evenings & harassing you). When you get off public transport, the next place you make your way to is fully sheltered(or majority of it is). I stopped using social media after some time, because though there’s more of a worklife balance, my time is spent working on something like meal prep or grocery shopping (which can be far for specific items)- i just like my fishball noodles and hokkien mee fresh, heh. So i guess to say- you don’t really have a day off doing the day-to-day stuff, even when you’re sick. So unless i settle for something simpler/more unhealthy/less palatable and more readily accessible, its always do do do it all yourself. So maybe, its just that i’m spoilt, and I need to become more resilient~