{"id":72,"date":"2006-12-19T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-12-19T04:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T04:07:00","slug":"its-all-in-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/its-all-in-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s all in the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Eeewww….I am NOT going to eat that ! It taste awful!”<\/p>\n

“Oh, don’t be such a baby. Eat it, it’s good for you.”<\/p>\n

Those were my early recollection of memory on bitter gourd dishes cooked by mom. My likings for this vegetables never grew until I was 22 years old. I came to understand my taste bud better only this year.<\/p>\n

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Do you like bitter gourd? Have you eaten them before; raw, fried or broiled?<\/p>\n

When I was still a teen, my taste bud consisted of 4 senses; bitter, sour, sweet and salty. These taste buds had not evolved, it is still the same 4 senses.<\/p>\n

To me 10 years ago, any dishes cooked with this green stick would taste bitter. Nothing but just foul bitterness, during and after. A taste that will linger on in my mouth and I would gargle with mouthwash just to get rid of that after flavour. Do you share the same sentiments on this dish? Do you feel that way too, NOW?<\/p>\n

At present, I love this green thing. I eat it, enjoy it. I find the bitterness has turned to be sweet. Strange ? Not really, I came to realise that our taste bud works the same way as it always have been, however the processing central unit also known as the brain has evolved.<\/p>\n

As we live thru life, one may reach enlightenment and soon discover that every setbacks in our living span is actually a sweet experience. Hardship makes us grow. Hardship shapes us. When faced with difficult challenge in life, we may grunt and bitch about it. If you care to take a deeper look and ask yourself the reasons behind the happenings, you may find a reason after all. A reason only you, yourself can comprehend.<\/p>\n

Bitter as it seems, my brain has managed to turn the plant where my taste bud craves for it every now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Eeewww….I am NOT going to eat that ! It taste awful!” “Oh, don’t be such a baby. Eat it, it’s good for you.” Those were my early recollection of memory on bitter gourd dishes cooked by mom. My likings for this vegetables never grew until I was 22 years old. I came to understand my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inner-thoughts","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}