Seafood dinner

Since I had postponed my seafood dinner last night to go have dinner with Anroi & friends, so I thought today it must be compensated. (The shisha event took place on Sat 1 Nov).

Anyway, in the morning went to the temple but for some reason there were no chanting sessions... Very disappointed. Then went to Long Hua Shan Temple on Racecourse Road to look see look see, but nothing there as well. Oh well, guess it's just not fated. I have yet to find "my temple" where I can feel I belong there.

I've decided to cut down attending the 1st & 15th evening chanting sessions at the Foo Hai Chan Monastery in Geylang. I can't stand Master Ming Yi's chanting : tone deaf, not in tune, rhythm is out, so proud of his own voice that he can't sing any softer even when using microphone, and worst of all - so full of ego. Ade PAAVI!

Everytime I join the congregation I am full of anger, defeats the purpose right? (And we chant 88 Buddhas Repentance...) I should be training my patience right? Wait, allow me to state my case. Being musically trained, I am very annoyed when the leader is so difficult to follow and he does not make it easy for the congregation with his horrendous tasteless egoistic rubato(s)!!! On many occassions, you are still there when we should have already shifted, the fa qi players also have a hard time following your beats because the pulse is non existent...

So, if I don't like the leader of the group, I should leave isn't it? Vis a vis, why I left MPO. So now, I'm looking for a new group to join, haven't been successful in finding one yet. Oh yes, my seafood dinner. I'm such a deviant, both in writing and probably religion too. Wahahhaa.

I'm afraid the picture does not make it look very appetising, in fact it's made it look quite uninteresting and bland, but it tasted good though! There's sambal hipon (that's Tagalog for prawns), pan fried salmon, and undressed baby carrots on a bed of lemon couscous. Masarap.