Tenom Coffee Yit Foh

A day after the final exam, a first semester student WA me and asked if i still wanted the coffee. it took me a few scroll up my WA TL to see what he's talking about. Of course, its about his offer to give away his coffee a few days before the exam started and we got lost in the haze of the busy times.

He gave me 5 small packages and a large one of Tenom Yit Foh coffee.

I straightway gave one of the smaller packet to my favourite clerk at the office, Cik Ain and another one for my boss in the training division who was at our place to oversee the exam.

I'm not a coffee drinker. I'm more inclined to tea and choco. I'd drink Tenom coffee for a good reminder of home. The waft of steam and smell of a freshly brewed coffee at dawn is really soothing. I know, i can brave long hours, reading soppy novels with good coffee at hands. 

and the best-est of all? It was given free.

If you want a better packaged coffee than the one i'm showing and you're not in Sabah, head over to KadaiKu online to purchase the Yit Foh Tenom coffee. 

I'm flying home for the long anticipated Christmas and year end holidays in Ranau. I will bake a coffee-butter-cake this year for the Christmas Eve Parade, to serve with hot coffee. 

Cheers! Happy Holiday.

Things on my Kitchen's Windowsill

This is my second favourite window at my apartment. Thats 7 windows competing for a favourite. Someday, i'll show my favourite window.

This is the only window with no dressing and i never shut it completely, even when i'm away. This is my kitchen window, facing a large balcony serving as my laundry/ drying area. 

On the windowsill are;

1. Used fermented bean curds jar as a vase for green plants i smuggled from guest house in Malang, Indonesia. Nothing particularly interesting with the green plant (but, for the memory), and a wild orchid i plucked at the roadside.

2. A gold coloured tortoise i got from a very short trip to Yangoon in 2014

3. 2 rocks i got from Sg. Moroli in Ranau. The river is less than 100m from my kampung house. Item #2 and #3 serve as holder for sheets/ blanket drying outside.

4. Used moisturizer jar as a vase for my ginger seedling. The ginger i brought from Ranau, planted on a hill at Mibang, our orchard. 

5. A cat vase given as a farewell gift by ex-student containing a smallish green plant from the same stock as in item #1

Those things on my kitchen's windowsill might look like a garbage, but, they're a treasures to me. In each etched a memory. Happy ones.

A few more days to Christmas, a few more days for my long year end holiday. 

cheers to happy memories!