‼️GIVEAWAY‼️

I had a pretty smooth pregnancy with literally no symptoms at all, except for a blocked/runny nose in my first trimester. I thought I was pretty lucky until my 3rd trimester came when my back started to ache, my legs started to swell and ache as well with frequent leg cramps in the middle of the night. Worst trimester ever, the aches are unreal and it becomes worse with each passing week as my EDD draws near. Sit for 5mins, backache. Stand or walk for 5mins, legs ache. Just.... spare me this misery already.... 🥲

Thankfully, I managed to book a slot with @postnatalmassagesingapore and it has been the best form of relief so far!! I feel like the aches have alleviated and my sleep has been so much more peaceful for me. I'm not kidding when I say having a prenatal massage is a NEED and not a want. 😫

Good news to fellow mummies, @postnatalmassagesingapore is giving away 3 SESSIONS of prenatal massage (worth $300+) to 1 lucky mummy!!
All you have to do is:
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Giveaway ends on 16th February 2021! Winner will announced on 17th February 2021! ❤️

Good Luck!!!! 😘

【一肚子氣】脹氣、噯氣都是身體警報器

⭐ 壓力越大胃氣越多
⭐ 胃脹甚至影響睡眠質素
#星期五湯水

疏肝行氣消胃脹
經常胃脹不適？不時感到有氣體從胃中往上衝？以為是胃部不適或消化不良吃胃藥後胃脹感覺轉頭又回來，怎麼辦？從中醫角度來看，噯氣與肝鬱氣滯有關，因為體內肝氣鬱結，橫逆犯胃，令胃氣升降失調，氣行不暢以致胃脹甚至胃痛，想根治問題就要疏肝理氣，配合體質進食疏肝理氣的食材，少吃奶類或豆品類等容易產氣的食物，少吃生冷、油膩及難消化食物，做適量運動，只要氣行順暢，胃脹問題就得以紓緩。

疏肝理氣湯水小貼士：
適當地添加疏肝理氣功效的食材如猴頭菇、蓮藕、佛手、蓮子等。

青紅蘿蔔青木瓜猴頭菇湯
功效：疏肝理氣，紓緩生活壓力大引致的胃脹不適、乾咳等症狀。
材料：青蘿蔔1根、紅蘿蔔1根、青木瓜1個、猴頭菇2塊、小米1/4米杯（或一包燕麥即沖米水粉）、洋薏米20克、陳皮1角、蜜棗2枚
做法：
1. 所有乾材料洗淨，青、紅蘿蔔去皮切塊；青木瓜去皮去籽切塊備用。
2. 鍋中加入2500毫升水，放入全部材料，武火煮至水滾，調文火煮1小時，最後下鹽調味即可。

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Relieve abdominal bloating
Do you experience abdominal bloating and discomfort all the time? Always feel like stomach gas is rushing up from the stomach? You may think it was abdominal discomfort or indigestion so you some medication for it. However, that does not help. From the point of view of Chinese medicine, burping is related to liver qi stagnation which affects the stomach qi circulation. Poor qi circulation will lead to abdominal bloating and even stomach pain. To solve this problem, you should relieve stress and regulate qi. Eat ingredients that relieve stress and regulate qi according to your body condition. Eat less foods that are prone to lead to gassiness such as milk or soybean. Eat less cold/raw, oily and indigestible foods, and regularly exercise to improve qi circulation. The abdominal bloating problem can be alleviated.

Tips for soup to relieve stress and regulate qi:
Appropriately add in ingredients such as monkey head mushroom, lotus root, fingered citron and lotus seed. 

Monkey head soup with green radish, carrot and papaya
Effects: relieves stress and regulates qi. Alleviates stress induced symptoms such as abdominal bloating, abdominal discomfort and dry cough.
Ingredients: 1 green radish, 1 carrot, 1 green papaya, 2 monkey head mushroom, ¼ cup of millet (or 1 pack of oats rice water powder), 20g pearl barley, 1 dried citrus peel, 2 candied dates 
Preparation:
1. Rinse all dried ingredients. Peel green radish and carrot and cut into pieces. Peel and core green papaya and cut into pieces.
2. Combine all ingredients with 2500ml of water in a pot and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour. Add salt to taste. 

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Brave the pain, Hongkongers (Lee Yee)

In his comments on my yesterday’s article, a reader left me a YouTube link to an English version of “March of The Volunteers”rendered by Paul Robeson, an American singer who was celebrated in my youthhood. The lyrics are as follows,
「Arise, you who refuse to be bond-slaves./Let's stand up and fight for/Liberty and true democracy!/All our world is facing/The chains of the tyrant./Everyone who works for freedom/Is now crying./Arise! Arise! Arise!/All of us with one heart/With the torch of freedom!/March on!/With the torch of freedom!/March on! March on!March on and on!」

Information shows that Robeson chanting this English version in a concert held in New York in 1941 was captured in the video. That year, Liu Liang-mo, a leftist conductor, was dispatched by YMCA to further study in America. Since the Pacific War broke out, Liu had been engaged in a propaganda war against Japan. Presented by Lin Yu-tang, an eminent Chinese novelist and philosopher, he met Robeson and sang in front of the American a few war songs of anti-Japanese invasion, including “March of The Volunteers”. A few weeks later, Robeson made an announcement that he would sing a song named “Chee Lai” for Chinese. He then vocalized in Chinese before belting out the English lyrics mentioned above.

In the English version, no “Chinese nation”, “the Great Wall”nor “enemies’ gunfire” is found, which makes “you who refuse to be bond-slaves” even more outstanding. Without distorting the original gist of the Chinese lyrics, the import of the English version, which encourages people to throw off the shackles of tyranny and fight for freedom as well as genuine democracy, is even more universal and perpetual.

Fights for freedom have been waxing and waning in succession throughout times and across lands for the fact that history has unequivocally manifested that people are being relentlessly enslaved by tyranny and freedom persistently suppressed by authoritarians.

Since 1997, after Hong Kong people had enjoyed liberty for more than one hundred years, freedom has been continually eroded and chipped away. In contrary to the authoritarian of gigantic power, Hong Kong is isolated and feeble. Being put in a vulnerable position, Hong Kong people used to have only three options: 1. Abscond from home, which means emigration; 2. Get used to living in a place with less and less freedom; 3. Haggle over protection for ourselves in an inferior position. The fourth one, “struggle to resist at the cost of one’s life” , had not even been contemplated until the anti-extradition amendment bill movement last year, in which young people were the vanguard and more than half of the population got embroiled.

Why did I put forward half of the population, but not a small minority figured out by the Chinese Communist Party? The reason is undisputed with just a glimpse of the mainstream opinion online, 2 million people in the demonstration and the ballot of the District Council Election.

Dragging on and on, the last year struggle, which tired Hong Kong people out, was to no avail. Since the Hong Kong version of national security law was tabled, the three options mentioned above have resurfaced. Confronted with the peremptory China, which has been legislating for Hong Kong in violation of the Basic Law, some legal professionals and democrats in town would rather succumb to the illegitimacy and counter-propose certain terms and conditions to safeguard the rights of Hong Kong people, including the provisions of retroactivity wiping off, interpretation of the law in accordance with common law, defendants tried in Hong Kong’s courts, stipulation of a sunset clause, etc.

When the US intended revising Hong Kong’s special status with regard to the Hong Kong version of national security law, some of them suggested that to preserve a firewall between Hong Kong and China, the US should conserve a little bit of the special status.

The haggling over protection for Hong Kong people in an inferior position, the third option, is surely not out of bad intention. Be that as it may, regarding what we have been experiencing in the past 20 years, showing the white feather would not stop the mighty authoritarian from seizing the overall jurisdiction of Hong Kong. Though conflicts might be alleviated, the plight of Hong Kong people would only worsen in front of the insatiable authoritarian. Worse still, Hong Kong people knuckling under to it would hinder the US from sanctioning China and Hong Kong.

Getting pained by uncompromising struggles has to be anticipated. The US sanctions on Hong Kong are definitely painful to Hong Kong people. In the past couple of days, Yuen Kung-yi said: To take this route, Hong Kong people should brave the pain.

Perhaps those who come to the middle ground intend Hong Kong people to reserve the minimum protection. Yet, meanwhile, I am reminded of the wisdom of a classic philosopher, Friedrich Hayek: Those who fantasize about trading their basic freedom off for minimum protection would eventually find out that they are given neither freedom nor protection.

Robeson’s husky singing is reverberating in my ears.

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LYRICS:

Shoulda known better than to trust in love
It's like this whole world keeps on messing it up
I thought that I could do better if I just believed
I'm thinking back to when you were in the sweater that you got from me x2
Oooooh
Now it's so complicated
Why's this suffocating me
I felt alleviated
When you used to lay with me