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

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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!

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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.