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.