Peiven/Carlos Pueblo
Peiven is a
daughter whom I have adopted during my stay in
Birmingham,
England. She has just finished her master degree
In Architecture
and at a practical training in the city before
returning to
Malaysia. I feel the kinship with her due to her
speaking of
Amoy language, my mother tongue. She has an
excellent
language training since her childhood, fluent in
Mandarin
Chinese and traditional Kanji calligraphy, an under
graduate degree
in Japan, English, and Malays, a common
language
between the neighboring Indonesia. Not only this
talent, she
is young, kind, and pretty most of all. I am very sure
that she and
her younger brother will eventually inherit their
father’s
construction business.
She
recommended me visit several cities in England such as
York and
Newcastle, reinforced some visits to the other such
Bristol and
Leeds, of course, I still missed sever of her advise
due to tight
schedule. I’ll wait for the spring of 2019. I met her
at the
kitchen of the hostel at which we prepared our meals.
She would
prepare some instant noodles and dumplings, etc.
I invited
her and some other fellow guests to share my excess
chicken soups.
One day I bought a box of three pompanos from
an indoor
fish market which she referred it to me nearby the
train
station. I cooked them on a hot pan till the surface turned
brown. We
all liked them. After that, I kept on searching for
something to
cook when I came back from the station and I bought
three
chicken skeletons, very unusual in the U.S. market, for a
British
pound. I prepared a whole pot, might be a whole gallon
of chicken
vegetable soup for noodle, tomato, potato, cauliflower,
cucumber,
carrot, etc. She even knows what we call left over food
in Taiwanese
custom. We finished that pot in three meals. I appreciate
her
friendship and her like of my cooking.
I also
adopted another two lovely daughters after Sheila and Peiven
during my
trip, one Chinese and the other Argentine. I shall introduce
to all my
readers later. After 10 more days, I am going to visit my
75 plus
daughters on board of a cruise ship in the Caribbeans.
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