New dish? New resolution?

I'm thinking to cook Fried Vegetarian Brown Rice and Oriental Pork Chop.  But I will figure them out when I back from Korea next week.  Looking forward for it.  :)

I've been planning my next yr resolution.  Nothing concrete yet.  But definitely I need to start to look out for jobs.  Could be temp or contract or perm.. Cos I planning something to align with it.  My mind just have lots of question than ans, maybe because nothing is firm.  Also, my plans are not for myself now, it includes Tiong-san cos the impact affects him too.  Therefore, the topic must be communicate and discuss thru between us, just to ensure both of us are ok to deal with it.

Hope so!

Tofu, wok-fried with peanuts and chili

Ingredients

2 tablespoons oil

1 tablespoon sesame oil

1 cake tofu, cut into cubes

2 chili padi, deseeded and sliced

1 green pepper, cut to sections

1 carrot, cut to cube

1 garlic, minced

1 cup roasted unsalted peanuts, skin removed

Sauce

1 tablespoon light soy sauce

1 tablespoon rice wine

1 teaspoon sesame oil

1 teaspoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. Mix the sauce ingredients in a small bowl and set aside
   
2. Heat both oils in a wok over med heat and when hot, add the tofu and chili.  Stir-fry for 1 min.
   
3. Add green pepper, carrots and garlic and stir-fry vigourously for 1 to 2 min or more.
   
4. Add the peanuts and the sauce mixture and continue to stir-fry for 2 min.
   
5. Ready to transfer to a serving dish.
   

I learn this dish yesterday, turn out good.  It was spicy and slightly sweet, crunchy and soft.. The dish is colourful and easy to prepare.  I encourage everyone to try, cos it is healthy and easy to prepare.  :)

Preparation and accomplishments

Hi, I bought quite a few items for the coming winter trip, like a bright red winter coat, which is so striking that I wun get myself lost.  I still need to get a pair of shoes which I can wear for winter.  Tiong-san said better dun wear track shoes, cos will easily get wet and slippery.  Maybe later I go central  area to look look.  For this trip, I think we have already spent quite a bit before going, just to prep ourselves for winter.  I guess these days I will be busy washing, packing the clothes and see what else that still needs to get before boarding.   Probably I still need a pair of shoes, a pants and moisturizer.  Gosh, I spent a lot this month.

Beside that, I just finished 1 HK drama series - Forensic hero 2.  Quite nice show, touching towards the ending.  But too many bomb scenes for this series, a bit unrealistic.  I complete reading about the super ah Ma, written by japanese artiste and translated in Mandarin.  It was quite light-hearted, yet Ah Ma taught abt the meaning towards the life in her own way and lifestyle.  I can't help but to agree how she treats her life in such simplicity and sincerity to the people around her.   Just got my hair cut yesterday, felt lighter and more refresh.  Though I lost my voice these 2 days due to cold.  Hopefully, my sensitive nose would not get worse when I'm in my winter trip.   O ya, I gotten my teeth for dental not long ago. Polish and clean :)  Good, I treat myself well enough.  Yesterday, at mango sale, I bought 3 tops, 2 will bring for winter trip.  Hee Hee, Happy...

What's next, Hmmm, I start to read Harry Potter last book again, and target to finish this month.  I bought 2 books to read after that, P.S I love u & secrets of the millionare mind.  I will decide later which one to read first.  Got to start to tidy 1 of the bedrooms, getting more messy.  If any of u have more ideas for me, let me know, ok?  

2 months files....

Supposely I plan to go for the early bodycombat class this morning.  Maybe I should go for the evening gym instead.  I just stay at home to do some readup, update about myself and catch up some emails.  

These days, I think i more often meet up my sister, niece and mum.  Spent an afternoon with them was nice, had lunch, seeing the small one enjoying herslf trying out shoes in the department store.  Of course, I go back home more often and get to see dad more.  He even tot I was retrenched.  Anyway, these are all the family quality time.  Yesterday, back at home, playing SG monopoly with my sister and niece and ended up the richest gal was my niece.  She own most of the MRT station and that was a constant revenue for her.  It so difficult to get her assets depriciate.

Recently over the weekend, I learnt to play magic cube.  Tiong-san and I bought a rubik's magic cube, cos the old one will be soon to gone case.   It reali worth the money, cos the feel to twist and turn was much much better and faster.  I have not master, the last few steps still need a few more tutitions from him.  By the way, Toy r' us now having promotion for magic cube and we bought it from there.

I'm looking forward to my trip for snow skii in South Korea, spending a white christmas there.  Praying my sensitive nose will not catch a cold over there.  Hopefully, I can take plenty pictures as well.  My camera had send for servicing and I have not got any news to get it back yet.  Looks like I got to give a call later, it has been almost 2 weeks, before jun went to thailand.

Why am I still muscle aching?

On 22nd Nov, Tiong-san and I together with Celine and Fab and his friends for cable ski at Batam.  It's a whole day package include lunch about $90 per person.  It's at the waterfront batam where there is this 800m lake for the cable skii.  Since it is a whole day event, I can take my time to skii slowly.

I was anxious for the first kneeboard, I lost my grip when I got pulled by the cable.  Shocked abit and let out a scream.  For the second time, I was able to sustained a while before drowning to the water.  But the jerk when the cable pulled was a big force.  My hand muscles started to ache after the first drown.  I did not complete the course after 2 attempts on the kneeboard.  

I still have some courage to try for the wakeboard.  A total of 4 attempts on the wakeboard, cool.. I'm not afraid of drowning because I was wearing a life vest.  It just that the distance to swim back to shore was shorter than using kneeboard, less tiring.  Of cos, I prefer wake board because the impact of being pulled was not as great as kneeboard.  By then my hands were tired after a few rounds.  I just enjoyed rest of my day chatting with celine and Tiong-san and the scenery.  There was a surprise of this golden retriver, Tina visiting all of us. She was such a friendly dog, allow us to pat her and even ate the corn we had.   She lived on the opposite of the lake.  I can't wait to see the photos taken with her.

Let's talk about food

Food has been many Singaporeans' fav' topic.  I am no exceptional, food is my everyday topic. Talk about where to find nice food, how to make nice food myself, share with friends and family.  

Okie, let talk about this today.  It makes me happy and high, haha...

I very enjoy sitting together with family members, having meal and making conversation at the same time.  This is the time for bonding, updating and fighting for the favourite part of the food.  Whenever mummy cooks pork cutlet with sweet and sour sauce.  The siblings and I will be fighting to search for the border parts of the meat because it is the tastiest part and crunchiest of all.  I know it's rude to have such manner on the table, but it develops since when we were young where all the border parts of the meat are too delicious to resist.  Another dish which I love mummy to cook for us is the spare ribs with black vinegar sauce.  Mum first deep fried the spare ribs, then she will separately cook the sauce  which  I don't know the receipe of it :(.  Okie, I will try to find out these days if she cook again.  Oh, I miss it so much.  The secret of this dish is to find the small spare ribs.  They are more tender and tastier.  Even my nieces love it.  O man, I love home-cooked food.

Next, share with you some places where the nice food are.

There is this old Perankan at Katong, a traditional restuarant has been there for many years.  The interior deco is retro and the ambience is warmly.  It is a good place to chat and enjoy food.  What is good there?  Otah, their home-made is splendid, 1 big piece  filled with the fish meat and fragant otah smell.  If you like sour, try their assam fish, very appetitizing.

Another place to recommend is the Harbour Cafe at Tanjong Pagar.  Good place for gathering and the western food is 3 stars and above.  This the place where I first drink Eringer beer, like it on the very instant.  Should try it, worth to drink.  I like the mash potato and the sausages.  Soft and tender.  There are other western mix eastern food like pork cutlet with rice, celine likes it.

1st homemade pandan chiffon cake

It was Rain's lsat paer yesterday.  We decided to have lunch and do baking at my place.  Followed the recipe provided by http://bakingmum.blogspot.com/2007/11/pandan-chiffon-cake-ii.html.  Our 1st attempt was a failure, it turn out the cake was not spongy enough, more like a kueh than a cake.  We added too much pandan colouring, it was too greeny.  I think who ever eat it can become HULK 2.  Anoother mistake we made i think was the folding part we did was wrong when we added the flour to the green mixture.  失败是成功妈妈，though i have the urge to call my mum and asked what went wrong.. I think we 2 talented gals should be able to figure out eventually.  Therefore, we did the 2nd attempt.  The above pic shows the result of our labour.  Hee hee, if din succeed , I likely will buy the $2 chiffon cake from the nearby cake shop.

I'm very satisfy with the result I have.  Tiong-san feedback the cake too heavy, unlike the cake outside.  Never mind, next time I will try again.

Shin's Blog

I came across this brave and beautiful lady fighting over her illness on the Tuesday show broadcast.  Admired her attitude towards life and her love for the family and friends around her.  To her, death is nothing to be scared of, yet she face it and deal with it straight away.  Instead of moaning, she rather spend more time  with her family and create wonderful and happy memories for her children.  I'm very touched for her attitude towards life, and inspired to be someone like her.  

Here, I like to pray for her to continue her fighting spirit all the way and live every moment to the fullest.  Hence, I like to encourage everyone to read her blog.

Recent Me

Working out is good.. ever since I stop work for sometime.. I feel I achieve something, like doing body combat is kind of tough for the fist time.. I would said, please kill me!  Y the session haven end...  Keeping the mind and body to continue on the workout is amazing... I enjoy the "torturing" myself at this very moment.. Feel great to perspire... 

Recently, I been working on blading... I think a person like me that so afraid to fall must face to fall.. learn to stand up after the fall, dun give up easily... Tiong-san has been a great companion to guide and coach me on this.. There was once we blade together side by side 1st time, and i made him fall for that 1st time.  Opps!  

I'm still in the learning process of blading, slowly to pick up the speed, pick up the momentum....

Tell myself, I'm improving and that's good.  Continue on...

My first BBQ with family (Labrador Park)

1 Oct was a children day, well also my dajie's Bday.. I think is a nice way to spend the day together. Lucky that day was not very sunny and windy, we spent the whole afternoon bbq together.  I prepared chicken mid-joint with teriyaki sauce.  My dajie prepare popiah and beef steak.  Erjie got the satays and otak.  Too bad my bro couldn't make it becos of work that day.  (Working in europe banks are like that, I think).   

My mum's son-in-laws are all busy helping to cook the food and eat the food as well.  The food we prepared really a lot.. But all very nice and delicious... I tell what other food we had.. like assam sotong and fish.. We bought a good brand assam paste and the taste was fantastic, partly becos I added plenty to each sotong and fish. Wrapped in aluminium foil and let it cooked.  Superb!

I must really gave credit to dajie's popiah.. The ingredients were given but we need to add the amt on our own, wrapped by ourselves.  I dun mind dirtied my hands, it was fun doing my own popiah.. 

By the way, the marinated chicken mid-joints which I prepared the night before, din have much teriyaki taste after all.  And got covered up by the honey coating instead.  Hahaha, next time I try to do better.

My 2 lovely nieces had fun running around picking dropping branches and eat of cos.. I think they had a great time, but I couldn't capture a nice single shot of them... They jut dun let me took one for them.. Naughty gals! Ah Yi dun fren u!

 

30th.......................................

This is the last working day i will be in my current company. After this, I'm a 闲人。

感觉会怪怪的，希望不是迷失自己，而是找自己。我会期待下一步怎么走，虽然我不是很清楚，不过想冒冒险。

Hopefully...

Baking Day with Mimo and Rain

Ha, we applied our off-in-lieu together, suppose to go to spa and relax and rest. But you know, there are some rainy days happened, so we took a Plan B instead - Baking at my place.... See each of us put our sweat and muscle for the biscuits and fondants. Mimo loves everything big big, biscuits big, very generous on the ingredients. People who eat her homemade biscuits, u are so fortunate.. Rain was high on her first made fondant.

Hello, I miss my blog...............

O gosh! A month plus since my last blog entry. I've been a bad girl indeed. Let me just do a quick update of what had going on so far. I think the most happening was the iPhone launch at midnight. I volunteered to be a volunteer assisting customers on tutorial for the iPhone. The queue was long that night, I had fun at the launch. It's a long time that I got to stay awake thru out the whole night till 9am next morning. First time I drank red bull becos of this event. Hahaha, I think it worked for me. I had fun with the gals. :) See the "swee "swee" gals!

Birthday

Just back from Kuantan, a retreat for tiong-san and I. We stay at swiss garden resort for 3 days 2 night, really sleep, eat and stay at beach do nothing. I enjoyed playing with the little crabs at the beach, playing waves with tiong-san. He made a sand cake for me, very sweet of him. It was a long ride to Kuantan, took us 8 hrs to reach there. Tiring right? But it doesn't matter, I just wan to experience this with tiong-san.



Today, the dinner was good! Fully prepared by tiong-san - 1) the red pepper olio with spahgetti 2) the grilled chiken topped with parmesan cheese cornflakes and 3) salad. I must say he did splendid work to celebrate my birthday. I'm touched when he even bought me a mini cake for me. By the way, there was power failure this morning at Comcentre and I was trapped in the lift with Mimo and Rain. What a coincidence! Then realized that, the incident happened becos of the sparks fire at Power Building just opp Comcentre. Get to know that 4 workers got injured and all the people evacuated from the building. Very unique to spend my Day.

Singapore Flyer - 14 June 08

I enjoyed the ride a lot, it was a great time to spend with whole family. Too bad, dad's not joining. I guess everyone likes the ride, even the cutest little girls had their fun in the capsule. Not exactly 1/2 hr ride, much shorter than that. We keep shooting and shooting lo. Took for each couple, as a whole, the capsule seems just belong to us. There was another family and a couple taking the same capsule with us, but it seems to fill with our voices only.

A gals night

It's a friday night. Having great dinner with drama38 gals, chit chat, women talk. I love Canele cakes, they are just great. I love the gals.

Zouk with Jun and Yen at the later part of the night, love their company always.

1st Baking session at my home

Gathered drama38 ladies to do something we din do together. After decide what to bake, our main chef, ying has the receipe in her head. On Sunday, 8 june, we depend on her brillant head to buy all the necessary stuff. Beforehand, I bought a "ku-lat" hand mixer, branded ok...hahaha. anyway, we start off making cornflakes cookies, ying, yun and i took turn to mix the butter and sugar.. I tell u, our hands got tired after 2 turns each time. Hua helps to prepare the rest of the ingredients. With ying explanations and guidance, making cookies sounds so easy, hee hee.. so we make more cookies, more cornflakes, more almond cornflakes cookies. All of us are just enjoying our fruits of labour.

Lastly, we make blueberries muffins, which the flour and blueberries can easy bought from ntuc in a pack. The instructions are easy to follow, anyone who wan to make muffins dun have to start from scratch. Just buy the pack from ntuc. Make sure you have a nice oven. Once the muffins are done and ready, we replace cake with muffin and sing a bday song to ying and tiong-san(he insist he want it :P). This ends nicely for our baking session.

Looking forward for the next session with the ladies again.

Ingredients for cookies

• caster sugar


• brown sugar


• plain flour


• self raising flour


• butter


• vanilla essence


• cornflakes


• almond

5 June celebration

I plan for this very day for almost a week. Knowing that Tiong-san had presentation in the morning.. I arranged activities in the morning that within his working but he never been before.


It been long since our last massage therapy. Therefore, I arranged a session on this special day at Aspara - Goodwood park after his presentation. Ha Ha, I must say, he din expect me to bring him there though he know what we are going to do. At first, he tot I may bring him to orchard hotel instead, I still manage to surprise him a bit with better destination. We enjoy our massage therapy together, first time on hot stone which helps to relax the tension at the muscle area. But I think we ache more after the massage.

Near to lunchtime, I took him to Camden medical for plastic surgery... Just kidding, i want him to do liposuction. Ha ha ha, no la.. I wun wan him to do that. Just wan to bring him there for a nice lunch. Whitebait & Kale. Must give credits to Jun's recommendation. We had the signature dish -baked snapper pie and lobster cheese pasta. I enjoyed it a lot on the food and the venue.

Well, as for the rest of the day, I wun disclose so much. Ok, just a bit...Prepare a simple dish for dinner. :)

My 1st pottery works

Done at Kaoshiung... But were injured when delivered to Singapore.

Piano lesson

Once again, I wasted my trip to Yamaha on last sunday. First, the school had holidays and I called up it said that the class resumed. Argh...Heard, there was make up class, but was not meant for the last 2 weeks that I missed. I was very upset to encountered the same situation twice. Of cos, I did show my displeasure with the Yamaha service but I din yell at anyone. But I want an satisfactory answer at least.

The school then revealed my instructor had already tendered her resignation. I more sian than ever, thinking, that's why she absent the last 2 weeks and not responsible to inform the students earlier for her absence?!

My 3 days of free membership at california fitness

Last 2 weeks, i gotten a free membership cos Jun get me to go classes with her. Then I end up sign up 2 personal training sessions, each cost $77. Ok, pls dun say out loud for me being so rash or foolish... Although I promised Tiong-san not to buy any package from the california fitness, I still sign up something in the end. He was upset when he knew abt it. He tried to be angry with me, but I managed to prevent the fire from burning. :P

My official 2nd day at california fitness was the saturday 2 weeks ago. I spent almost 6 hrs there. My first hr with the personal trainer, actually was quite alright. The start was warm up on some stepping machine, got to last for 15 mins. The 15 mins was a long long 15mins for me. I really want to give up, lucky the trainer keep pushing me to continue. But I can't felt my legs after that. Then i get to train on the abs, triceps, hamstring etc.. on different machines.

Later that, Jun and I went for the JC boxing. I really enjoy the lesson. The lady instructor was cool and funny! She taught us a few strokes like jab, hook and cut and I can box Jun liao... hahaha. We took turns to wear the smelly gloves and pads, boxing each other. The instructor even wanted me to give Jun some unexpected attacks. Hee hee, I like that. Jun commented my right hand was strong when I punched. I tried on Tiong-san, he said ok lei, got the strokes there. :P I din put in my full strength on him nah... Will he feel pain if I give my best shot? hee hee...Btw, I'm not good at handling the pad.
The next lesson after JC boxing was belly dancing. It was fun seeing the instructor danced beautifully. But i really can't make it!!!

The following sunday I had another section with personal trainer. My whole was aching becos of the previous day doing training, boxing and dancing..... I really tot my body can't make it on sunday. But surprisingly, I could get used to the stepping machine and last the 15mins with no complaints. That was an improvement, but too bad, that was the last day of my free membership. The training was not bad, get to try many machines. If I ever back there again, I still will not sign for the membership.

Piano lesson

I miss my lessons. It had been 2 weeks from my last lesson at Yamaha. My instructor fall sick. Hope she had recover and this week can contiune.

I remembered the 1st lesson cancelled i was not informed by the school. I already made the trip down then realized the lesson was cancelled. Later I know my information was not updated in the database which was why I was not informed.

So after that I went window shopping at PS before the start of my last gym training at california fitness at bugis. Hahaha, in the end I bought 2 tops.

Recommendations on Taiwan’s food 3

接下来，我要介绍是旗津物超所值的美食。应该是叫万二的餐馆。这是陶瓷老板老板娘介绍的地方。 我说呀，我喜欢台湾人的友善招待。老板娘的介绍真值得。每一盘料理只需花100台币。我们点了烤鱼，高丽菜和鲜虾。有免费的饭呢。Yes, is free and cold tea too. Our Ms. Sim loves to eat rice. Think she had 2 helpings in rice. Her eating habit is to finish the rice first then follow by delicious dishes. Unique isn't it? 旗津有万一，万二等等的餐馆。 一定要光顾万二，可以免费试吃鱿鱼丝喔，哈哈。。。

我在台湾吃了很多肉，下一个介绍我再详悉解释why....

Recommendations on Taiwan’s food 2

麻辣火锅。。。。
我们第-晚吃的好料可真不错，而且是当地人：毛小姐介绍的。他真是对我们很热心，很好客。在我们住的酒店附近，他开了一间买organic健康食品。我们也跟她买了很多健康食品回去。 以上是我们的战品， 哈哈哈。。。

说回麻辣火锅，这间应该算是挺不错的，在当地满多人光顾。幸好我们去的时候，人还不算多。 饭是免费的，能吃多少就多少。 不过，要在限制时间规定内，竟量把食物吃完。好在我们3位美人胃口不大，能在限制时间内，吃饱饱。

材料挺新鲜，汤底味道浓，香味好，吃的真过瘾。 这间的店名叫鼎王，值得推荐。:)

Recommendations on Taiwan’s food 1

珍珠奶茶。。。。
不是普通的奶茶喔。 我们平常看到的都是黑珍珠，在高雄喝的是水晶珍珠，里头有不同口味。有我们熟悉的绿茶口味等等。很多颜色，很美喔！！

Thank you all......

Hi, I'm here in the morning 6:56am at my home. Earlier than normal days, rare is it? I like to thank my frens and relatives for coming on Sunday, 9th Mar for housewarming. Thanks for the lovely gifts given, we are honor to know you all. Another chance to gather the people together. My guests, i hope you enjoy the food, i'm sorry if I have not been a good host. Blessed and thankful to have you.

Me and Kenny. We gain weight, imagine that our faces should be rounder.

怪夜晚

我很少会遇到熟悉的人。这一晚我遇到两个。一个是君常叫他grocery,就在我回家路上碰到。没打招呼，too far.很意外竟然碰到中学同学，很久很久没见。 她很瘦， 比以前更瘦了。刚没多久，妈妈打来。 婶婶刚过世，来得突然。难以想象，　想见多一面，来不及。但愿她开始另一张美好的路程。不管心里的难过了。

my new singnet

i think i have share this many times. My new broadband just activated on Monday. Yesterday, I hit wireless connection problem. The modem is unable to get the DSL connection up when my hubby power on/off several times. Kenny was anxious due to his crucial period for the software release. He needs to work remotely in order to get it done. We thought getting the technical support may help to improve the situation, but i was wrong. Instead, I get more fed up when he advice us to look for the vendor directly for one on one exchange. This is simply an unpleasant and unfriendly experience and add burden to our situation. I tot calling customer care the situation will improve and will have less hassle. Today, i called CCO, unexpectedly the advice given was same as technical support. I can't stand the attitude, so i contact my fellow broadband colleagues, who are helpful to find personnel for me. I must specially thanks to Emran making the extra effort to help me get a one on one exchange with the network engineers. Thanks to him again, my hubby can work from home.

搬家后，下一步 是什么

After move in, i just started to take up some cakemaking lessons with Jun. My first lesspn yesterday, the instructor taught us eclair, cream puffs. Though no chances to hands on, but we got to take some pastry home.

I was thinking after my piano shift in, i will start to take some music courses from yamaha. But first, i have to go to the school to find out more.