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I don’t know 🤷🏻♀️ whether these facts are funny 😆 or simply gross 🤢 for this week #weeklywins theme. Here goes…Fun Facts:
#1: Hubby said it was so easy to win my heart ❤️ When he was dating me, he would buy salmon sashimi for me after discovering that I enjoyed eating it so much. I ate LOTS. He must have used up a lot of his savings to feed me🤣
#2: I loved swordfish 🗡 🐠 sashimi. There are much pricer than salmon sashimi, but I would have a plate, at least, with few plates of salmon sashimi
#3: I ate pig’s 🐖 brain 🧠 when I was young. I would use the stick, that is left over from burning an incense, to curl out the tiny red blood veins that covers all over the brain. What is left was a creamy white cleaned pig brain, ready to stew into a tonic soup.
I would get to drink some of the soup and eat some of the brain. I didn’t really fancy eating the brain, more of that “I eat because I am asked to eat.”
#4: I love sucking fish’s brain! It didn’t matter whether it was a small fish or big fish head, I ate them all! I was so good that I knew exactly where to break open the bone to locate the brain.
#5: I loved eating fish’s eyes 👁 especially the soft jelly surrounding the eye ball. I would eat and chew the hard eye ball till it became a clean translucent pearl
#6: I loved to eat chicken stomach, so crunchy, and well balanced with the softness of the chicken liver. I ordered this dish as a side to the plate of chicken rice
#7: I ate cubes of pig’s blood in Kway Chap
#8: I ate pig’s tail…it tasted so soft and looked so cute, yet at the thought of it near its poo poo area freaked me out. I often wondered whether the cook did a good job cleaning it
#9: I loved seafood, especially shellfish, all except the bloody cockles, the “hum” in Laksa and Fried Kway Tiao
#10: I loved to suck the bone marrow! I would use the chopsticks 🥢 to dig all the way inside to get the last tiny bit out
Hubby always said, “She is the last person I would think would ever be a vegan!”
What was the trigger?
Here is the story…Hubby had just came home from his overseas trip. He was one of the volunteers supporting his spiritual teacher’s tour in Asia. As he stood in the shower, and I sat by the edge of our bed, he shared with me what he had learnt.
The teacher was on a silent meditation retreat. Cows from the nearby farm had wondered near his place of retreat. There was a particular cow that visited him everyday. One day, she didn’t came to visit.
Few days later, she came back with a calf. She had brought her baby to visit the teacher. Sadly, the teacher noticed a tag on the calf’s ear. It read “kill.”
Everyday, the mother cow would bring her calf to visit. One day, she came alone. The teacher knew what had happened.
He saw the cow, with tears in her eyes, walked over to the fence, and banged her heads over and over again, in pain and tears.
As I sat on the edge of my bed, my tears were flowing… I felt the pain and sadness of the mother cow.
I love my children. I hold their little hands as we crossed the road. I keep them safe. Yet, this mother cow couldn’t save her calf. She loves her child as much as I love mine. I believe she did everything she could to save her child.
But, unfortunately, she was dealing with a human. Someone who was stronger than her, and snatched her child away.
I told myself, “I will never ever partake in this senseless killing anymore.”
It was at that moment, I switched. I no longer eat any meat or seafood. This story is the trigger, and the start of my vegetarian journey, and eventually becoming a vegan.
No matter where you are now in your journey, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you continue to walk on this journey. Your shift will come. You won’t walk alone, everyone here at abillion community walks with you ❤️