On Sunday, three weeks ago, my brother watched as I picked bits of mutton out of my supper of maggi goreng with chopsticks and placed them gingerly onto a saucer.
"Do you really have to weigh everything?" he asked, amused, as I balanced the saucer atop a tiny plastic weighing scale from Daiso.
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