#BATTERED

[nealsneen]

My handsome, battered and bruised husband.

Post inspired by @l1ve-l4ugh-lov3craft

[vizreef]

RZA's E-mu SP-1200

up for auction at Sothebys today

[buffetlicious]

Brought mum to try the Japanese foods at Tokyo Shokudo (東京食堂) located in Northpoint City. This restaurant chain is halal certified so all the pork ingredients had been replaced with chicken. Browsing through the menu, I picked their recommended tempura rice dish while I chose ramen for mum.

The Signature Tendon (特製天丼) priced at S$13.90++ came piled with an assortment of fried battered prawn, fish, vegetables and a sheet of nori or seaweed. As I lifted out some of the crispy tempura items to get to the rice below, there it is, a hidden fried egg still warm with oozing egg yolk! Mixed the yolk into the rice and proceeded to devour the donburi.

The portion in mum’s Chicken Cha Shu Yuzu Ramen (鶏チャーシューラーメン) seems underwhelming considering it cost the same S$13.90++. Unfortunately, mum didn’t take to the ramen with modern twist. She found the yuzu and ramen combination flavours strange so she didn’t finish her meal. :(

Menu courtesy of Tokyo Shokudo.

[redrcs]

Old soldiers never die

(They just get used for target practice)

[mumblelard]

the lodger's new roommate or the lodger's old roommate, a tale of woe

i mounted them using the forty pound command strips and the lodger ripped them down thrice. message received

also, i'm into site specific maps lately and thinking a lot about hand drawn maps. i drew a map of the roads between my girlfriend's house and mine and i like how it turned out

i treated myself to early solstice presents this week: fancy new earbuds that sound so good, new trail shoes, a pink krink k-42 with an opacity that will make you swoon, and a t-shirt by an artist i like. i am still struggling with wanting stuff

i hosted all four of finn's cats yesterday while pest control treated their building. we had a nice visit. kreg keeps saying she wants to live here but i know she would miss her finnie

it got in the high fifties yesterday. i opened all my windows to let the fresh air flow and did a big clean. it was such a pretty day

i have been writing more poems lately. they are built like tiny verbal wunderkammer and filled with bright treasures i find on my rambles. i think, with practice, they are getting better

i'm making cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and roasted chicken this weekend. a makeup dinner for the traditional thanksgiving feast i missed last month

this year has been so packed full of change for me. a struggle that has plagued me for the last four years ended in a most dramatic way. a brutal passage that i survived, mostly, intact. i wish it could have ended some other way, but at least now, it's finally over

[munchiep]

160.

im locked in.

welcome aboard dr franks.

[babblzoom]

[petejj]

humanitie harmonies

(hope)

🔥THIS ABYSS

⚛︎

◉horizons

holistic ⦿

hovering

☸︎

i choose ▶︎ a continuing

◀︎as one▼

}. We ‣▫︎▪︎all bleed

❖

some -⁃‣▫︎●

◦・•are ()a

A•ble

☒

☑︎

❊

Some R

bro Ken

⏎❦

We are (all

❂

brused

↸⇲⎃

& so many are still❤️‍🔥

branded...Breaking

wE aLl BlEeD

. . •♲

/🀰

we all bleed •we all bleed

〄

some don’t ␦care)full- …

⏦⑅

⌖

enough ⌒⌓

i 🌙

⌽⇢⚙︎⇣

don’t know -

⌄⌃❂•

how(ever🤝🫱🏿‍🫲🏿 hope)full🗣

✴︎✺

✡︎

☞ ‣◘

✠

yet & again

☍ 🧖🏿‍♂️🧖🏼🧖🏻‍♀️

so 🪢

✧⚢♅⚣

i will👨🏽‍🦼‍➡️👨🏽‍🦽🧑🏽‍🦯‍➡️🧎🏾‍➡️🧎‍♀️

sing. 👨‍🎤👩‍🎤🧑🏽‍🎤

☄︎

into

☺︎

☻

this

abyss

Ω

☾ because ☽

all bleed

🔻

🔺

⭕

🟥

[thelowestofthelows]

[whats-in-a-sentence]

It wasn't even a battle-axe, just a small, battered, rusty woodcutting axe the gully dwarf had apparently picked up somewhere, thinking it was a weapon.

"DragonLance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight" - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[borderlandsappreciationmonth]

Beer Battered Fish

[euesworld]

"Your smile.. tears at my soul. Your eyes.. tear at my mind. I'm torn between smiling and falling into the sky. The edges of my pages are battered, yes.. but I must confess, your ink spills upon me even as I sit here a mess in tatters. But your laughter, oh that matters.. I can feel it with my soul, it must feel like a rose as it grows. Pull me close and never let go.."

I may not have the prettiest cover but what you find when you look inside may just blow your mind - eUë

[burtontracks]

Allies – 221001bd

the survivor 

[buffetlicious]

Bought some after dinner sweet snacks from Dough Culture (小麥家) before going home. Choose three pieces of 3-in-1 Sweet Cake which has a layer each of sweet potato, nian gao (年糕) and yam (taro) sandwiched together before dipping into batter and deep-fried to crispy golden brown. Also selected one Green Bean Cake which is sweetened mung bean paste in crispy batter.

[seraphaltima]

Beer Battered Fish Tacos

[redravenpoems]

Tired of it

Pushing onward, broken inside Cannot stop, I fear would cause me to die. Battered and broken, a life lived roughly Seeking peace, yet denied unjustly. Day in. Day out. Nothing ever changes Everything stays the same, I always take the blame. I tire inside of this game. I tire of it all, yet I sleep, and repeat.