We Just Scored A Curry Tree 🪴 & Other Random Life Outtakes 👨💻
The wife and kids are back home from their holiday tour of Cambodia, and I was surprised with a curry sapling, provider of much needed curry leaves.
🥵 Mobile Hive Office Is Also A Dry Sauna
With the return of the family comes my 6 days a week commute to the public school 30 minutes away down the mountain, with a one-hour return trip that is mostly an uphill slow climb. I am getting more and more accustomed to my diesel-saving technique of setting up a mobile Hive office near the school inside my tuk-tuk. From 7am to 11am I Hive in a confined space, and although far from ideal, it's easier on my back and body than returning home only to go back to school a few hours after arriving. At around 10am it gets so hot that my clothes get drenched with sweat and my iPhone starts to malfunction.
👩🏫 A "School" Next Door
Our neighbor recently decided to start "teaching" in the afternoon after the kids have returned from public school. I placed quotes around school and teacher because it's actually just the interior of her drink shop with whiteboard on the wall, and teaching is actually just the kids copying stuff from the whiteboard, sometimes as much as 30 minutes spent just copying information.
In most other countries, a handout would be given to the students so that precious class time could be spent learning instead of copying information. After 12+ years of working on and off as a teacher here myself, I've learned that 70% to 80% of time spent in a Khmer classroom is dedicated towards copying information into a notebook that is written on the whiteboard by the teacher. This usually leaves the teacher free to focus on their side hustle and/or play some Candy Crush while students are busy, and also accounts for why Cambodian university graduates globally rank almost dead last in critical thinking skills.
🕵️ Daily Lice Check
A typical sight each day is the good ole' lice check. This is still a common problem in Cambodian public schools, especially because 2-3 students often share one desk, you can imagine heads touch quite often. If we don't perform daily checks, the lice can get established, and then it's exponentially harder to get rid of them. Also in the above shot are some of the other plants my wife brought back from her travels, but the curry tree was the only thing I was excited about.
Sorry I haven't been engaging much lately, I've also found very little time to post despite being a full-time Hiver. Some of us have major life goals with a high bar, but for many months my goal has simply been to find time to post 7 days a week. It seems an impossible dream, and if I read and engaged with the amount of posts I'd like to each day, I'd never find time to post at all, so it's obvious I still have to make some life changes. Well, at least now I got a supply of curry leaves for many rasams and sambars.
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Hello, @justinparke. I feel the struggle to commute and walk in the mountains just to get to school. That's how our lives were when we were kids in the countryside here in the Philippines. And that Lice check, we often do that but at home, though.
I hope some day a school will be built closer to us, but until then it's a 30km one-way commute 6 days a week. If a village school ever opens, the kids will be able to walk to school and save me over 5 hours a day. The schools and parents here don't monitor lice, so we check nearly every day to prevent outbreaks.
Hey you should cook some of your awesome curry for Hive Top Chef. It's the topic for the week. No pressure but the timing is right isn't it?
Hmm.....I'll get the culinary wheels turning and see. I think I've already shared most of my favorite curries on Hive already, but surely I can whip up something new. I haven't ventured outside the ASEAN Hive Community for a long time, I should get out more 😉. I think ASEAN Hivers would be really interested in your content if you ever publish a post within our little community. I'
Haha ya you should get out more with your master curry recipes. You could easily recycle them as it's been a while. Nothing wrong with that.
I feel weird publishing in your community when I am a Canayjun haha.
We're all stocked up on ingredients at the moment, now is the time to do a recipe post if there ever was one.
If you're an ethnic SE Asian, living in SE Asia, a Southeast Asian citizen abroad, or even possess any loose connection to SE Asia, the content is welcome.
Life is like a constant juggling act isn't it, and time is always our ultimate master.
And I have to always check back my post or comment just to be sure this kinda stuff doesn't happen 🤣
My mother also grows curry leaves at home and of course it is one of the ingredients of a very delicious dish where of course later usually the curry leaves are mixed with yellow sauce which of course is curry sauce which has a very good taste in my opinion but it is more delicious the other 2 days are enjoyed during the day, not at night or in the morning, that's how it is in my own opinion
I didn't know you also use curry leaves in Indonesian cuisine. I've never been to Indonesia, only eaten Indonesian restaurants in various countries. I would love to to use curry leaves an Indonesian recipe, I'll have to do some more research online and find a yellow sauce recipe 🤔.
Lice check. My daughter had head lice 4-5 years ago and it took us a couple of weeks to get rid of it fully. Nasty bugs. Heh. I can relate to the posting struggle. When life gets too hectic, I just stop posting altogether. I envy those who can do it consistently for years.
I wish the public schools monitored lice here, but because they don't an outbreak at school usually goes unchecked by teachers until 60% to 70% of the students have them. Funny isn't it, some people have big dreams, but we Hivers are weird individuals. My dream is to post 7 days in a row, but life always throws me too many curveballs for it to ever happen.
I have long given up on posting daily. At this stage of life, with 2 growing children to raise and other things, it is just not possible. And I am okay with that.
I should also accept this is just not always possible.
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Good evening Mr. @justinparke . how are you doing tonight? for now i have a little hive and i have added a delegate for this beloved community.
Thank you for your support and delegation. I had previously muted for a lack of genuine engagement, so please keep this in mind going forward. Engagement is key to what makes our community special. 🙏🙏🙏
good sir @justinparke . for the future I continue to try to be active in the community and I also want to present the best. sometimes I can't be active, please forgive me. because I have several activities in helping my parents. but if I have time I still want to present the best for the community.
Just a reminder, that's all, don't forget that engagement is much more than a 4 or 5 word comment like "nice post" or "good work."
good sir i will do my best
Since long ago, I have seen many women spend their free time during the day looking for lice in their hair, usually they do it with their closest neighbors and this has become a common activity found in the villages where most of these women populate. their free time with things like this, and I see you are trying to get quality time to make posts or do work but you are trying too hard to do your best and every post you have is always quality and I also salute every day you have new ideas in making posts and I think you are very responsible with the ASEAN HIVE community going well and according to the rules because even though I have never been a moderator or controller of a community, I understand a little about how responsibility is in a large community like ASEAN HIVE .
Lice checks are such a common scene in Cambodia. The schools and parents don't check very much, so lice is a never-ending problem in the public schools.
Thank you for your kind words my friend, I do my best to make ASEAN Hive an engaging and rewarding community, and I also know how important HIVE earnings are for many ASEAN Hivers. It does bring me great joy to be able to use our collective HP to support many families in SE Asia, and of course my own in the process too 👊🙏.
That shot of finding lice suddenly reminds me of zoo 🤣 the one standing is Srey-Yuu? Did she put anything into her mouth?
I WAS not a big fan of curry leaf until the age of 25 iirc. That was the first time my vegan girlfriend throw a bunch of curry leafs into coconut milk extract. Followed by chopping a stick of chili padi into it, reduced the coconut broth into thick gravy and finally pour the gravy on the breaded seaweed wrapped perfectly fried tofu. Saw her added pinch of salt, msg and possibly sugar, but I only care about the final taste back then 😂
Monkey's definitely have a better lice picking technique than humans, but at least we don't throw poop at passing tourists.
Curry leaves are such a unique flavor, and there are so many dishes that I won't make unless I have fresh curry leaves. Coconut milk is quite a nice partner for curry leaves, geez, now I'm getting hungry and it's far too late at night.