Jan
20
This is my new batch of little chillie plants and aromatic Viet herbs:
Jan
19
iNterNet sPeEd!
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It looked like that our internet provider was finally up to speed: 1000 Mbps!
Jan
18
hEAt pAtchEs!
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I found that heat patches were great for all my muscles pain including the ankle sprain. They were quite expensive so I found the perfect patch that was re-usable and it could be heated using the microwave (50 sec) for 10 minutes of pure relaxation.
Jan
17
I broke the one meal per day diet yesterday and I ate a Viet sandwich for lunch. I missed it the last 5 months and it was delicious.
Jan
16
It’s the perfect weather for staying home and enjoying a warm indoor activities day. I made the mistake to go out and I had to endure several annoying events: bike that did not work, busses that did not arrive and I hurt my sprain ankle again. Hopefully, it was nothing serious.
Jan
15
My blood results came back and they were perfect. All the vitamins and other physiological data were right on the spot meaning within normal range. The intermittent fasting diet was working like a charm and I probably should stop. However, I liked the slim and toned shape of my body so I might keep doing it until I reached 56-57 kgs.
The key point was really to stop the flow of sugar into the blood for a while so that the body was compelled to tap into the fat reserve.
Jan
14
Jan
13
liTeRaTuRe!
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On Earth, we’re briefly gorgeous: The first part of this book was so raw and so true about Vietnamese immigrants of the first generation. Like an echo, it resonated in my mind and reflected my own experience: the violence, the poverty, the shame about little stupid things. The author was a Vietnamese-American poet and the book was an instant best seller. I knew about the book and the authour because it was published in “Lemonde.fr”: LINK
Jan
12
I finally found the perfect physiotherapist for my ankle sprain. I negotiated upfront the massage sessions: 18. I told him I did not care about the exercises. I could do them at home by myself. The rate was perfect and I offered to pay more since my private insurance covered for them.
I was also lucky yesterday when someone offered to give away expensive shrimps. I immediately contacted the generous soul and I hope I’ll get my 10 shrimps today.
Jan
11
sInceriTy!
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I went to check with a physiotherapist for my ankle sprain problem: less than 5 minutes of massage and useless exercises for 93 Euros. The physiotherapist was about to schedule me for more sessions when I stopped him and I asked in a very simple and glacial manner: “That was IT?” He started to enumerate all the things he could/would do but did not do. I simply replied: “No thank you”.
It was the same thing for my doctors. Usually doctors who gave me less than 5 minutes of their times, I never returned to them. It was sad to notice that most generalists behaved like that.