I'm not ignoring my blog, it's just that I have nothing to say.

The 'W' word.

A few nights ago my mum came into my room and asked me to do some researching online.

For good diapers.

Can you believe it. =\

So I told her, well, it really depends on the kid himself, if the diaper is unsuitable, his skin will tell you that. So even if people rave over this brand of diapers it's no use if my nephew Ethan doesn't like it.

She said Ethan has been having some kind of rashes on his skin, and it also shows that the diaper was too tight.

So I asked her to get bigger ones.

She thought to herself, hmm, the biggest is XXL....

I asked her what size Ethan is wearing.

She said XXL.

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I brought Ethan to preschool today, and had to get him off his pram. By doing that means I had to carry him up.

The teacher commented, wow you guys are great, you all are able to carry him.

I didn't know what to say.

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I hope Ethan won't hate me for mentioning this on my blog. =Þ

Prawn risotto

One fine day when I went home and there was no dinner, I whipped up risotto - for the first time.

Heng it turned out well, there was no specific recipe to my tastes I could follow.

It was yummy! Hahaha. I'm gonna try with more ingredients next time. *rubs hands*

I know, I know, the colour isn't enticing.

But it's still nice okay. I only put four prawns for the entire serving which was enough for two.

I think I ate 1.5, my mum took the 0.5.

Ohhh my carbo intake =\

I'm finding it hard to smile.

Why is this happening to me?

Housewifey.

I busied myself in the kitchen yesterday for about 10 mins, sprucing up a really simple dish.

I still have the thyme sprigs lying around ma, so I went to look for recipes which used thyme.

And it was this marinated tomatoes dish. It wasn't exactly a recipe, it merely stated what was inside. So I put the ingredients in according to hweeling lo. And it turned out not bad, mum liked it.

I had the tomatoes with toasted baguette plus a smear of butter. YUMS.



I used cherry tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper, brown sugar, thyme and garlic. Would love to put in green onions but I couldn't find them thus left them out. Leave the tomatoes in the fridge for at least four hours (I left them overnight).

But then again.

Maybe housewife isn't a correct term.

House-daughter.

Yea, house-daughter it is.

AND I STILL HAVE THYMEEEEE. Hahaha.

Dinner at Yonghe

We had tau huay at Yong He which is located in Geylang Road/Geylang Lor 27A.

I didn't upload the photos here on fb cos there are only two photos.

Of the two I'm only gonna upload one.

And here's the one.


Just showing our spread.

And I really ate a lot sia. =X

无眠 苏打绿

This is a song by Sodagreen called erm, No Sleep. It's a song in 台语, the native dialect in Taiwan or what Singaporeans will blatantly put it as - Hokkien. Though I think linguistics wise there are some differences in pronunciation.

Maybe the band lacked a better word but I thought 'Sleepless' would sound better. Or 'Insomnia'.

Anyway.

I got this from the YouTube page of the MV:
這是一個愛情等待者的自我獨白，他無悔於等待，守護著愛。他希望 像鳥一般比翼雙飛，卻成為了失去水的魚。

Sounds cheesy right. But the song is really simple and nice.

I did some work last night (since I'm like a full-time house-daughter) and translated the lyrics the best I can. It was quite tough because I don't understand the dialect well in words! And how to pronounce too. Don't blame me if you still can't speak the words! I do not know phonetics well and doubt that all my readers know too. HAHA.

Hope this can help you people understand the song better! But there are parts that I still don't understand too. Ha.


无眠 (I typed out the lyrics from the lyric book in the album FEVER 夏/狂热)

今阿日月娘那这呢光
kim na lee wui niu na hiang ni geng
[今天月亮那么亮]

照着阮归暝拢未当睏
zhio tio wun gun ni nong buay dang kun
[照到我到夜都还没睡]

连头毛拢没休睏 （亲像鱼死底花园）
lian tao meng nong bo hio kun (qin qio hee si di huay ngm??)
[连头发都没休息 （很像鱼死在花园)]

你甘知阮对你的思念
lee kum zai wun dui lee eh su liam
[你该知道我对你的思念]

希望你有同款的梦
hee bang lee wu kum kuan eh bang
[希望你有同样的梦]

咱两人做阵返来那一天
na leng lang zuay din deng lai hee jit gang
[我们一起回来的那一天]

互相依偎的情爱
or xiong yi wa eh qeng ai
[互相依偎的爱情]

底你的心肝内
di lee eh sim gua lai
[在你的心里]

是不是还有我的存在
see mm see kou wu wa eh cun zai
[是不是还有我的存在]

永远拢底等
hee wan nong di dan
[永远都在等]

有时阵嘛会不甘愿
wu see zun ma eh mm kum wan
[有时候也会不甘愿]

想讲要作伙飞
shiu gong bei zho hui puay
[说要一起飞]

去一个心中美丽的所在
kee jit eh sim tiong bee lay eh sor zai
[去一个心中美丽的地方]

所有的一切
sor wu eh yi cey
[所有的一切]

拢总尬你放作夥
nong zong ga li kerng zho hui
[全都跟你放在一起]

希望你会当了解 （为着你 我一定等）
hee bang lee eh dang liao gai (wei tio lee wa yit ding dan)
[希望你会了解 （为了你 我一定等）]

我不管 多少时间 多少目屎 多少失望 来忍耐
wa mm guan wa zuay see kan wa zuay bak sai wa zuay see bong lai lin nai
[我不管 多少时间 多少眼泪 多少失望 来忍耐]

我不管 你当时会返来
wa mm guan lee dang si eh deng lai
[我不管 你几时会回来]

其实我嘛不知影
kee see wa ma mm zai yia
[其实我也不知道]

为怎样 为怎样 戆戆等待
wui zua yiu wui zua yiu gong gong dan dai
[为什么 为什么 傻傻等待]

你 是我唯一的爱
lee si wa wui yi eh ai
[你是我唯一的爱]

It's so nice.

And don't think you can use this to ask me go K, I won't. =Þ

Roast chicken.

I'm officially unemployed for 4 months, unofficially unemployed for 6. Oh gawd. Maybe I didn't try hard enough.

I shall look into the official unemployment for some comfort for a while.

Anyway.

Since I had time on hand.

I made roast chicken.

Time spent in the oven was around two hours, when the recipe said 1 hr + 30 to 40 mins will do. The chicken just wasn't cooked thru enough.

And my oven was too small. =(

Small oven equals to lower heat and longer time taken when you are roasting a big batch of food. And I didn't have a roasting pan of the correct size too. Time to do some kitchen shopping.

Before.

During.

As you can see here, the chicken was very near the roof of the oven.


After.


This picture was taken the first time I took it out. It spent more time in the oven after that.

And the chao tah part was due to close proximity to the heating elements of the oven. Kinda sian about that.

But guess what.

It was damn nice lo. Seriously.

My family was raving about it, and we polished the entire dish clean.

No la, except for the onions and bell pepper and chicken bones.

Even my mum asked me to do it again some time.

Yeayyy.

Recipe from here but I changed a little stuff here and there.

And if anyone I know here needs a bunch of fresh thyme, they can get from me. I don't know what to do with the remaining bunch I have.

我不难过

这不算什么，
只是为什么眼泪会流？
我也不懂；

Breathe in, breathe out.

I need to relax and calm down. Calm down calm down calm down.

And be brave!

Breakfast.

I made breakfast for myself today since I had some produce lying around in the kitchen.

By the way, I had breakfast at 2 p.m. today.

So you know.


Yums.

Scrambled eggs were made by following instructions from Jamie's Ministry of Food. They were great!

But a bit too much on the sausages though. Well they were small, I thought I'd double my usual intake. HAHA. Yea right!

Oh, the anal beings of this world.

I'm sure you know of people who are not very well-liked in general, because they have irritating/weird behaviours.

Sometimes I take pity on them, and talk to them to make them feel more accepted in the social sense.

However most of the time, being nice can backfire.

It was like, becoming a bait for them to irritate someone else.

For instance.





{LLC}~ 我终于看开爱回不来, 终究还是太晚明白, 最后还是放不开, 哭着痛着是活该. ~ says:
*but u not getting a job ??

erina says:
*tsk
*of course i am

{LLC}~ 我终于看开爱回不来, 终究还是太晚明白, 最后还是放不开, 哭着痛着是活该. ~ says:
*hahaha .. but u like quite slack

erina says:
*ya i know

{LLC}~ 我终于看开爱回不来, 终究还是太晚明白, 最后还是放不开, 哭着痛着是活该. ~ says:
*lolx
*slack and looking for a job like dun go together ???

erina says:
*TSK.
*it's the process can, the process, hello?

{LLC}~ 我终于看开爱回不来, 终究还是太晚明白, 最后还是放不开, 哭着痛着是活该. ~ says:
*oh ok ..

erina says:
*it's not like everyone is lucky and can get a job anytime he/she wants right

{LLC}~ 我终于看开爱回不来, 终究还是太晚明白, 最后还是放不开, 哭着痛着是活该. ~ says:
*true
*all the best for ur slacking .. i mean job hunt
*actually wat job u looking for ?? u got a deg in science ???



I chatted with this person. And I usually will want to avoid talking to him as it wasn't the first time he irritated me. So after some time of ignoring him, I decided to be nice.

Now I know I should not be nice to him.

He deserves it.

The line 'all the best for ur slacking .. i mean job hunt' pricked too far into my nerves and I ignored him after that.

It's not like you're talking face to face you know, if you meant it to be 'job hunt', then you would've backspaced and replace 'slacking' with 'job hunt'.

Don't think that you're funny, because you're not.

And I'm gonna ignore him from now on.

When I don't ignore him, I'll be shooting him.

I don't care if I ate the mooncakes you made, because I've already shitted them out.

And cut your long hair, sucker.

Totally man, this is what I'm talking about!

It's coming it's coming it's coming!!

Who's game for this!

I can't wait, haha. Next year, next year~~~!!!

This is agonising.

Read this.

Like hello, you beat up your daughter over cigarettes??? One pack costs $10+, while your daughter's life is priceless!

And you dare plead not guilty?

Argh!

It's as if she understood what wrong she was doing! 23 months old, not 23 years old!

I'm very pissed off.

I think I feel a lot about this case because I have a 23-month old at home, and if he ever gets in contact with cigarettes, then tear them up, I'll compliment him and give him a sweet treat.

Whereas that asshole should die.

Life of the unemployed.

It is hard to satisfy the human mind, when we have something, instead of counting ourselves lucky for it we tend to mourn over what we do not have.

That's quite the same for me.

Now I don't have a serious daily business to see to. No school, no job.

I'm unemployed. (as I say this, I still write my occupation as 'fresh graduate' whenever I need to fill up something. HAHA. 死爱面子, what to do.)

People around me kept asking me about my job search, I'm ALWAYS greeted by the same questions, sometimes from the same people I have to meet once a month, and I really am kinda irritated about it. If I'm employed I'll let you know okay, quit asking. Why not be more concerned about other aspects of my life?

Now I'm at the low morale and procrastinating stage. Maybe due to zero replies. =\

Anyway. If people don't ask about my jobhunt, they ask if I prefer to be in school or at work (I did temp). I'd reply I prefer the life of the unemployed.

Which is true, because you get to do what you want within your monetary limits, instead of having a lot of money and not having the time to do what you want to do. And since junior college I've never really enjoyed school life. The academic part, that is.

However in this day and age, I have to get a job, no money's gonna drop down from the sky. Savings will deplete, you know. Parents are not there to feed you throughout their entire lives.

As much as I like unemployment, I have to face reality.

Sigh.

Conversation.

Chats with this friend of mine are usually unsuitable for the eyes and brain of the conservative.

But really, we were only talking about phones.

Click on the pic to blow it up!

I absolutely love this ad!!!!

I think it's totally amusing and amazing! You should watch!!!



It's a guide to taking better pictures, everyone needs this!

Been tweeting!

Tweeting is way convenient than blogging, so track me down here!

I'm feeling more drowsy and tired than usual.

I think I'm really falling sick!

It's been long.

I'm back! After a little hiatus.

I'm back mainly because I need some entertainment.

The IT guys at the office denied our access to Facebook. So many people have been suffering. HAHA. Supposedly this will increase work efficiency.

They better not let me catch them using fb themselves!

So maybe you'll see me blogging about sth whenever I have sth to say.

Or should I revive my Twitter and tweet all day.

Hmms.

I can feel the onset of a sore throat and flu and cough! =S

Say hi to Evan!

Evan Tan (no Chinese name yet) came onto Earth on 090909, around 0530hrs, at KKH and is around 3kg.

*swoons*

Say hello to my sister's 2nd son.

This is lame!

They should've given Trombone Man a costume or sth.

Yesterday, once more.

I'm down for a perf this coming Sunday at the Durian, and I was just checking out its website when I saw...

Do you see my gentlemanfriend there? =D

Okay I know it's not the point of this post, so, the performance's at 3pm at the Esplanade and please start queuing at noon if you wanna enter.

No la, I think 2pm should be fine already.

Come come come!

IT'S FREEEEEEEE!

More details here.

My Milk Toof.

This is so cuttte.

Reminds me of a website where there was another blog using tiny human toys to make up stories. I wonder what it is, can't remember the website. Anyone?

Awww!

Recently the embedding from youtube are getting longer and longer I dunno if I should do sth about my blog skin.

I'm too lazy to bother, though it does affect the aesthetic values of my blog. =\

Tired.

Sleeping in's are simple but helpful.

I wanna sleep into the afternoon.

But it is no longer practical to do that =(

I am temporary working at some office/call centre that provides yummy overtime remuneration. So whenever I can, I do OT. That's probably 12 hours three times a week, plus travelling, probably 14. Ten hours left per day in my life, half of it goes to dinner and slack and the computer and folks and the gentlemanfriend. The other two weekday nights that I don't OT are set aside for band practices. This is about 14 hours two times a week, plus travelling, 16.5 hours. 7.5 hours per day left. I don't even have a lot of time for sleep.

Saturdays I have to wake up early for driving lessons, come next week onwards, it'd be both Sat and Sun that I have to wake up early. Then weekends there'd be catching up to do etc., when I reach home it's usually quite late.

My room is extremely messy and my wardrobe needs more tender loving care.

There are photos that I wanna upload but too lazy to do so.

I grumble when I have to add water to myherbgarden because it was taking up my sleep time. (However when I see them grow prettily I tend to forget all the angst.)

I have to get a job and have to apply for them. But by the time I get home, I'd be really tired. So applications have been running low. Don't ask me about my job search, 'cos that might be the 1000th time I've answered that question, thank you very much. I have to answer that question to almost everyone I meet along the way. So now you get it, just keep quiet.

It is also a time management thing.

But I can't just work and have no life!

I have dark rings around my already dark face. If I add a scar in the shape of a moon between my eyebrows, I can get a job as a judge. If you don't get it, never mind.

Hello there.

I'm back. I've been missing for 11 days.

Now I'm back again.

For nothing much, really. Just wanna clean up this layer of dust.

*wipes*

庄子 - 齐物论

昔者庄周梦为蝴蝶，栩栩然蝴蝶也，自喻适志与，不知周也。

俄然觉，则蘧蘧然周也。

不知周之梦为蝴蝶与?

蝴蝶之梦为周与？

I don't really understand what this excerpt is trying to imply, but I think it somehow sounds nice.

This is hilarious.

It's like a sex comedy in words.

Read this.

Oh but please bear in mind that it has explicit content.

Just as I was saying...

...now JO has a sequel to Jamie's Ministry of Food, and it's gonna be released in October. -_-

It's called Jamie's Food Revolution.

I dunno much about it, I'll read it up some more because I'm not at home now.

When I get my paycheck,

I am going to buy Jamie's Ministry of Food. (I've wanted to get it since like, forever.)

But of course not immediately. I'll wait for the Kinokuniya sale first. =Þ

~~~~~

I think I need to tweak my body clock.

I'm still sleeping in the wee hours and then waking up less than five hours later to get ready for work.

I'm so f-ed up that I'm still awake now. I think I'll be damn tired this week.

More food.

Olive oil bread.

It actually is not called olive oil bread.

I made it up myself. HAHA.

Because I used olive oil instead of butter. Healthier choice, you see.



Thing is, the bread was supposed to look like this.

Please pardon me, I didn't have a French oven, nor did I really follow instructions.



At least mine turned out to look like a normal loaf right =Þ

If I ever wanna try it out again next time, probably I'll be good and use butter.

The guy used a mixer to mix the dough for ten minutes, I didn't have a stand-up mixer, and I kneaded the dough till I sweated all over for twenty minutes and still didn't achieve the effect that he wanted.

And then I gave up =(

Maybe I should go to the Community Centre to take up bread-baking sessions.

Then it was banana walnut muffins.

I did this twice, the first time was better. I don't know what went wrong. Maybe the bananas weren't as fragrant as the first time, or I over mixed for the second time.

Well at least I know I am guilty of the latter.

These photos were from the first try. I thought I was pro enough to ignore the second time. Well at least the difference was in the taste la, not so much of looks.

So in here there were flour and bananas and walnuts and cinnamon etc.


Preheat the oven.


Put them into muffin cups.


I decided to make it fancier by placing a piece of walnut on top of each muffin.


I later realised it was a mistake. HAHA.





You see, it was too hot for the nuts to bear and they got kinda scorched.


But the taste was quite nice and texture was perfect =)


Oh, it just lacked some banana taste.

Do you have any recommendations what bananas to use?


Yummmmmm.

But the second time was no goooooood. =\

Okay, I finally caught up with what I wanted to blog all along haha.

Now I just have to catch up with my Taiwan blog.

I'm around halfway there. Still a long way to go.

Food from some time ago.

I don't mean really old old long ago, but probably just within the past few months.

I cooked. What's new.

And I didn't put them up immediately because I don't know if anyone will be interested to see them.

But since I have nothing much to blog about - oh I'm quite enjoying my temp job, that's all - I think I'll bring the pictures out of their folders.

First up.

Spicy Orange Shrimp. I got this recipe from PW/Pastor Ryan. I think.

Peel and de-vein prawns. Shrimp. Whatever.


Then add some butter to the pan.


In the meantime, mix orange juice, garlic and some herbs and spices together.


Sear the prawns.


I honestly don't know if what I did was called 'searing'. I doubt so though.

I think it was more of, pan-fry and cook 'em.

So when the prawns are done, take them out and put aside.

Add the juice mixture into the pan with the prawny flavours.


Let them simmer but not cool down.


When the sauce begins to thicken (I added a little flour), bring the prawns in and stir fry a bit.


And you're done!

~~~~~

Faux Red Lobster Biscuits from Dutch Girl Cooking.

This is somewhat like the kind of biscuits at Popeye's Chicken, just that this one has got more flavour.

And so.


Investment.

Grate it up.


Done.


Another investment.


I went to Cold Storage at Tampines 1 thinking that there'll definitely be sundried tomatoes, since it's a kind of ang moh supermarket, surely it'll store such produce.

In the end, after searching high and low and asking the staff for assistance, there was no sundried tomatoes at Cold Storage.

No.

Zero.

And guess where I found the prized (and also expensive) bottle?

NTUC.

But anyway. Chop up some garlic and onion.


Measure out some bisquick.


Here.


Add the ingredients together.


Put them on baking paper.



Please be careful while taking them out.

You might be as stupid as me.


That's a burn mark, if you're asking.

But as of today it has completely healed.


They turned out to be quite yummy, albeit kinda salty. =Þ

However no one in my family fancied it. =(

And I made a sundried tomato pasta salad with the remaining sundried tomatoes.


The end.

There's actually also the olive oil bread. But uh, the photos are still in the camera. And obviously I'm lazy to do anything about it.

Good night, I need sleep.

I don't wanna do I don't wanna do I don't wanna do!

The test.

I'm being asked to talk about the greatest achievement in life and how it relates to my strengths and weaknesses.

I'm so screwed.

I don't know what I've achieved.

Erm, those SYF gold medals? But if that's my greatest achievement in life, then hundreds and thousands of people share the same achievement. And then there are those who got honours attached to their gold medals.

I don't even have such honours attached to my degree.

There is nothing I can talk about with regards to my school results.

I did a random google on 'greatest achievement in life' and someone talked about being the best wife and mother.

Oh god.

Another writing test from the same organization, but a different department.

Grrr.

At least inform me of the email right, so that I can go home earlier to do.

*expletives*

So I read the email at 1 a.m. on Wednesday (today), the script is due in the evening, and I have a temp job which starts on Thursday morning.

Things were being thrown at me today. Firstly in the morning an agent called me regarding a $6.50/hr reception job in Marine Parade.

Thank goodness I rejected that one, because at 2 p.m. she called me to inform me of a better job offer.

This time, I was supposed to reach her office by 1430 so that I can make it for the interview which was at 3. Of course this meant cab fares that went unclaimed.

Because there was nowhere that I could claim from.

And then the interview ended at 4 plus, I went to town. At 5 plus she called to inform me that I got the job. And I was told to head down to the branch in town to sign the contract. That was like, immediately?

Then I came home and saw the email.

Everything has got to come together at the same time.

I hope the job that I really want will call later.

Like, next week, so that I know my schedule and it's easier for me to settle stuff.

I'm hoping and hoping that the temp job will be nice enough so that I won't be missing band practices. And especially the September 13 performance itself.

*crosses fingers*

Julie & Julia

I'm so gonna catch this.



Tomorrow I'm going to the library to get some DVDs.

Of Julia Child!

And I'm gonna get a book she wrote.

Today I went to Pasir Ris Library (because Tampines Library doesn't have) to borrow Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. I'm gonna start on it soon!

Yeay yeay yeay.

It's things like these that keep me from getting employed, I suspect.

Pardon my occasional emo-ness.

Anyway.

I'm a sucker for these things.

Especially those sold in old-school shops and scooped out of huge glass containers.

I hardly buy those from the supermarkets, even though they might very well be from the same supplier.

But buying it by the weight makes all the difference.

Am I really useless?

Sigh.

United Breaks Guitars

What happened was this guy was travelling with his band by United Airlines and they broke his guitar. He tried to get them to settle this for the past year but there was no way he could get compensation. And he promised the last UA officer that he'd write three songs about this.

Here's Song 1. Song 2 and 3 are not out yet.



Instead of showing a very angry video I think this is quite light-hearted actually, and brings a little laugh too.

In a week the video's viewership hit more than a million, far more than he expected, and here's a video response from the 'victim' himself.

Natural World

I've been hearing this song for the past week.



Summer and autumn and winter and spring! Every season there's a special song to sing, to bring the season in!

Da daaa da daaa da daaa da da

1st driving lesson.

I made a U-turn today and my heart almost leapt out of my mouth.

And then a group of foreigners dashed across the road. Though I was driving slowly. Like, damn slow, the speedometer didn't even looked like it moved. HAHA. But still, I was so freaked out.

I feel very troubled.

Because everyone is saying no but there's something inside me that says yes.

WATCH THIS.

I'm serious.

Other than the sourly-cute song, watch the MV! It's damn cool!

Remember Luigi?

You don't?? Oh man, he's Mario's green sidekick.

Ooops, better not let him hear that.

Watch this.

It's damn funny! Must watch all the way to the very end.

Anyway, there's another video worth sharing.



At first I didn't really bother about the body paint thing, I merely watched the video and waited for a body-painted guy to come along.

It was until the third person then I realised what's so different about this video.

I guess I was distracted by their kiwi accent.

Please be considerate.

To sound nice: Please don't ever consider suicide, there are better ways to solve your problem. Be considerate to the people around you who will be hurt if you disppear from the surface of the Earth.

To sound mean: Please don't ever consider suicide by jumping onto MRT tracks during peak hours/meal times. Be considerate to the hungry and tired people who might be holding their bladder. That's hundreds of people.

Look, this is what you caused.

At Kallang MRT on Friday evening

And then they turned off some of the lights within the train to save energy as much was wasted.


I mean, you must had been really desperate to do that.

But you know, please don't. Don't ever, ever want to jump onto the tracks.

H1N1

Yikes.

Two schools delay opening by a week.

If you can't be bothered to read, here's what is bothering me:

As for Hai Sing Catholic School, a trainee teacher attached to the school tested positive for the H1N1 virus on June 27. He attended a staff seminar on the morning of June 25 and six staff who were in close contact have been asked to take Leave of Absence from June 26 to July 2.

As only a small percentage of the school staff is on Leave of Absence, the school will operate as usual and reopen on Monday, June 29.

=S I still think they shouldn't open that soon. Maybe like, next week? In any way someone in the school was infected ma, who knows on Day 1 several kids might be infected. Scarly they never wash the school properly. =SSS

Baba Yetu

RC showed me this video just now.

It's Baba Yetu from Civilizations IV of Video Games Live - Part 1, a piece NUSWS is gonna perform tomorrow at East Coast Park. Playground @ Big Splash.

It's nicer than what was arranged in the piece haha.

June 20

is the Gregorian date of my lunar birthday this year. Which is 28th of the 5th month in the lunar calendar.

I had mee sua with red eggs for dinner which rather customary when it's your lunar birthday. Very little bother with this detail now, but my family still does.

I haven't had this mee sua for the past two or three or more birthdays because either I forgot or I wasn't home or whatsoever.

Finally got to eat it! =D

Hmm.

I really need to watch my weight.

Eat and eat and eat.

Why must greed be a sin.

Current favourite drink.

It retails for SGD 1.30 at almost all 7-Eleven stores.

Almost all. The one at Buangkok MRT doesn't have.

Love it.

It's not like reallllly milky that makes you full after drinking. It's actually quite refreshing, surprisingly.

Kids.

This happened when I went to teach a bunch of kids this morning.

Kid 1: (walks over) HELLO AUNTIE!!!

Me: -_- yyyeeess? (that kid is supposed to call me teacher.)

Kid 1: You married already not?

Me: Noooo.

Kid 1: Too bad!

Me: -_-

Kid 2: You got boyfriend?

Me: Why must I tell you??

Kid 2: Who is he?

Me: Why must I tell you?

Kid 2: (telling his friends) She's getting married soon la, she got boyfriend already. She's getting married soon!

*kids giggle all over the room*

-_-

Quote.

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own, and
you know what you know.
And you are the one who'll
decide where you'll go.

-Dr. Seuss

I have a brain, and I have feet.

I just need to have courage to face the obstacles that might come, and patience for a good future.

And work hard.

I'm deciding.

Envious.

Now they get to learn photography as part of Home Economics.

My, am I deprived!

I don't even classify photography as skills I can learn in Homec.

I also want.

Know your mushrooms

This is good knowledge!

Just that I don't really know how to appreciate. But it's still good knowledge =Þ

Check it out!

Know Your Mushrooms

勇气。

真希望 我是个很勇敢的人 为自己生活都能做出最好的选择 现在看来 虽然一切都太迟了 后悔都来不及

还是因为我没有勇气

但我只可以向前走 也希望将来长远的路 即使艰难辛苦 我都不会感到一丝后悔 天天都活得很满足

SERIOUS STM.

Please read the previous post before reading this one.

I have serious short-term memory.

Serious.

Do you know of any medical help I can get for this?

I might even forget that I blogged.

This is bad.

Okay the thing is I took photos of the mee goreng (which was not spicy at all, to my dismay).

I totally forgot I sorted them in the food folder already.

T_T

Alrights, this food porn post will be a minor one. It's not something that I can stop and take photos of because I was afraid the noodles will get charred. It just carries on, you know.

And it was kinda my first time with a wok without my mum around. She went to Malacca for that weekend.

The recipe called for me to cook the noodles first.


I think that was a mistake because the noodles were too soggy in the end. Mee goreng isn't supposed to be soggy you know.

Here's the sauce that goes into the noodles.


And egg. Only two eggs left in the fridge, when I was hoping for an egg for each person. Too bad. It was really short on the eggs.


Heat up the wok.


And a series of events happened. This was what I got thereafter.


Looks like Chinese fried noodles right. 福建面。

But tasteless, that's all. I hadn't put the sauce mixture in.

Fry fry fry.

Sauce in.

Stir stir stir.

Fry fry fry.


Pardon the cabbage haha.


Totally unlike the mee goreng I know. The recipe I got was from a Malaysian blog. And I wonder if I added the wrong kind of chilli sauce.

Who cares.


Got prawn.

Other than the lack of spiciness and soggy noodles, this was edible and quite nice actually =Þ

I miss the mee goreng at my primary school.