United Buddy Bears

Visited an exhibition featuring United Buddy Bears at Esplanade, Penang.  Of the 146 bears from Berlin in Germany, 140 represent countries in the United Nations while six are general ones.

The bears have been exhibited since 2002 and travelled to five continents covering cities such as Astana, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Havana, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Montevideo, New Delhi, Paris, Pyongyang, Rio de Janeiro, Seoul, St. Petersburg, Sydney Tokyo, Vienna and Warsaw  to promote tolerance and understanding.

It was last exhibited at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur in 2011.

God did not promise days without pain

Pain is not an indicator of God's wrath, but rather His grace and His mercy.

Suffering is the fertilizer to the roots of the tree of Character bearing fruits of Righteousness to feed the hungry soul of man.  Your fruits are not for you to eat but to be tasted by people.

 

God may use hardship to get us give up a bad habit or learn a new virtue.   He used a thorn in Paul's flesh to teach him about grace (2 Cor.12:7-9).

Dinner at Little Saigon

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Kimchi

Kimchi also spelled kimchee or gimchi, is a national Korean dish consisting of fermented chili peppers and vegetables, usually based on cabbage.  It is suspected that the name kimchi originated from shimchae (salting of vegetable) which went through some phonetic changes: shimchae > dimchae > kimchae >kimchi.

Common ingredients include Chinese cabbage, radish, garlic, red pepper, spring onion, ginger, salt, and sugar.  While kimchi is generally identified internationally as Chinese cabbage fermented with a mixture of red pepper, garlic, ginger, and salted fish sauce, several types of kimchi exists, including regional and seasonal variations.  There are variants, including kkakdugi, based on radish and containing no cabbage.

Kimchi has been cited by Health Magazine as one of the world's five "healthiest foods", with the claim that it is rich in vitamins, aids digestion, and may even prevent cancer.  The health properties of kimchi are due to a variety of factors.  It is usually made with cabbage, onions, and garlic, all of which have well-known health benefits.  It also has active and beneficial bacterial cultures, like yogurt.  Lastly, kimchi contains liberal quantities of red chili peppers (gochugaru) which has been suggested to have health benefits as well.