Looking through the Singapore Vegetarian Food Guide I got the other day from my vegetarian synchronicity, I decided to try the LivinGreens restaurant along Beach Road for dinner today.
I thoroughly enjoyed an avocado salad (the avocado spread was great), a potato wedges starter (delicious with the dip) and the mango sushi (crunchy and full of flavor) with my girlfriend. Also had a coffee substitute called orzo for the first time, it’s made from roasted barley and had a satisfyingly similar taste to a warm cup of coffee. This is all part of my recent drive to eat healthy and be healthier.
This next part’s gonna sound kinda sappy and out of point, but whenever I have a great meal out with the people I love, I feel like the luckiest person in the entire world.
I was attending a PDR (Personal Defense Readiness) class this evening near my workplace, and thinking of what to have for dinner I was sick of the usual unhealthy food choices in the area, and in my life in general.
Wanting to find better places to eat, I searched online and found vegetarian Yes Natural restaurant just a short drive away (I’d eaten an oily chicken rice dinner just a few meters away and never suspected a healthier option was just around the corner!).
After parking, I walked in the place and an Indian gentleman and I reached the only small table left at the same time, so we agreed to share it. He was quite friendly and we started talking, he shared that he was a life-long vegetarian, and I told him about my quest to find healthier places to eat.
Lo and behold, he turns out to be a member of the Vegetarian Society of Singapore, whips out from his bag an extra copy of the Singapore Vegetarian Food Guide he’d helped to compile, and gives it to me!
How cool is that!
Note: This is a short post to remind myself that not all my blog posts need to be long and lovingly slaved over, but can also just be simple updates on my life for my friends. Namaste, friends.
See those cartoons to the right of this column (if you’re reading via an RSS reader, click to go to 21 Dragons)? They’re all drawn by Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes wise, Hugh’s work is always original. And if you haven’t already guessed, I’m a fan.
So I was really excited when Hugh announced that the most popular series on his blog, Ignore Everybody – on how to be creative – was going to be published as a book. So excited that I pre-ordered two copies, one for me, and the other as a birthday gift for a friend who works in the creative industry.
Having read my copy of Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity twice over already, I love the book. (My aforementioned friend who works in the creative industry as a 3D artist called me to tell me how he loves the book, and called it ‘life-changing’. Real story.) Here’s why.
5 Reasons Why I Love Ignore Everybody
1. Ignore Everybody is Real
Ignore Everybody isn’t full of politically correct quotes. In fact, some of the cartoons are down-right cynical. But they’re honest. And honesty connects.
You’ll never see a cartoon like the one below in any motivational book. But it is oh so true. Hugh isn’t a motivational speaker, he’s an artist. There is a difference.
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