It has been about one month since I decided to be a vegetarian. So far I have no cravings for meat, neither am I tempted to eat meat when faced with a table full of meat. :)
I only have one complain and that is the lack of vegetarian food around my office. There is only one food court near my office building which sells vegetarian and its a good 10 mins walk away. Sometimes when its raining or im in a hurry, I will have to settle my meals with the normal chup chye peng (mixed vegetable rice). Usually I will tell the aunties “aunty, im a vegetarian, which of your vegetables got no meat inside one?”
And I always get their reaction is always the same...
Aunty: Har? Why u eat vegetarian? Aiyo, u so skinny le no need to take vegetarian le lah. Must take some meat then you will have strength. U so young dun take vegetarian lah.
me: no lah. I just want to eat more healthily. Not trying to lose weight. Nothing much to lose le anyway.
aunty: orh ok, vegetarian ah. Fish can? U want to try this fish? Very fresh one. Very nice.
me: fish cannot. I only can take vegetables only. no seafood. Which of your veges don’t have meat or seafood inside?
aunty: this one dun have. This one is plain vege fried with dried shrimps.
me: dried shrimps also cannot. Which of your vege don’t have meat, seafood n dried shrimps inside? I want only plain vege.
aunty: a bit dried shrimp oso cannot?
me: cannot.
aunty: ok. This, this, this n this u can eat.
And then I’ll happily choose the dishes out of the few limited options and I’d happily enjoy my meal till im down to my last mouthfuls, and I realised an unidentified looking object which looks suspiciously like a hae bee (dried shrimp).
DAMMIT!
I dun blame the aunties lah cos I know sometimes they also dunno whether the dish has meat or seafood in it as they are not the one cooking.
But what I don’t understand is...
Why do people always associate becoming a vegetarian as wanting to lose weight?
Why do people always have this misconception that no meat = no strength? I have been taking vegetarian for about a month and I don’t feel weak or anything. I still go gym, workout a good 1 hr without fainting. Sometimes when I tad buleh tahan (cannot take it anymore), I will rebuke them: cows also eat grass but cows also so strong. And then flash them my sweetest smile. That usually does the trick.
Why do people always ask me if I can eat fish even after I tell them no meat? Meat does not consist of chicken and pork only, ok.
Why do people still ask me whether I can eat dried shrimps even after I tell them no seafood? Shrimps not seafood meh? The fact that its dried still makes it a seafood lor.
Anyway, if you know any vegetarian stalls in town area let me know okie? Or we can go together as well. Gam siahs. :)
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Friday, April 21, 2006
sleep... zzz...
Was chatting with WM online yesterday and I told her I was rather busy these days and she replied: ya, I guessed so. I asked her how she know and she replied: cause u never update your blog.
Wahaha. Now u know my blog is a good gauge of how busy I am. But sometimes it also depends on whether I have the inspiration to blog.
Anyway...
I am seriously lack of sleep lately. Has been sleeping at 3/4am for the past few days. The Easter weekend that just passed was supposed to be a good time for me to catch up on my rest, but seems that I ended up more tired and more deprived of sleep. I am so tired that 2 nights ago, I fell asleep while using the PC half way. If mum did not wake me up, I think I will sleep in front of the computer till the next morning.
I have this bad habit of sleeping late, since my study days. If you ask me to turn in at 12mn (which is considered early for me), I will toss n turn about on the bed and cant get to sleep.
How.. How can I get rid of this bad habit? How can I get myself to sleep at 10pm daily?
I think point 7 will be most effective... ;)
Wahaha. Now u know my blog is a good gauge of how busy I am. But sometimes it also depends on whether I have the inspiration to blog.
Anyway...
I am seriously lack of sleep lately. Has been sleeping at 3/4am for the past few days. The Easter weekend that just passed was supposed to be a good time for me to catch up on my rest, but seems that I ended up more tired and more deprived of sleep. I am so tired that 2 nights ago, I fell asleep while using the PC half way. If mum did not wake me up, I think I will sleep in front of the computer till the next morning.
I have this bad habit of sleeping late, since my study days. If you ask me to turn in at 12mn (which is considered early for me), I will toss n turn about on the bed and cant get to sleep.
How.. How can I get rid of this bad habit? How can I get myself to sleep at 10pm daily?
- cut off all power supply in my house by 10pm so I cant read, use my com, watch tv... Etc
- get mum to whack my head with the dumbbell every night
- force myself to read my I/o chemistry notes every night... Guarantee fall asleep within 5 mins :p (but I threw them away le leh...hw??)
- bang my head on the wall till knock out
- turn around in circles till I knock out
- stare at zai zai’s picture (cause he always looks very lifeless, n stoned, like he haven slept for the past 100 years. Looking at him makes me sleepy too..)
- kidnap jude law/keanu reeves and tie him/them on my bed...
I think point 7 will be most effective... ;)
Monday, April 17, 2006
health...
Was watching the charity show on TV last night. I didn’t really watched through the whole show, but rather parts of it here and there. In these charity shows they always have clips of stories of the real life patients and their family. I caught a few such clips myself and every time I see such clips, I always tell myself that I must keep myself healthy and I must keep mum, dad, ah ma n popo healthy. Because when one member of the family falls sick, it does not only concern one party alone. It concerns the whole family. And its very taxing and tiring on everybody in the household.
A lot of times we always think ourselves as very healthy but truth is, we will never know (cause in this day and age, due to our lifestyle, our diet, work stress and pollution, its difficult to maintain healthy unless u lock yourself 24/7 a day in a room with pure oxygen supply and only eat fresh organic vegetables... haha). Till the day your body gives u symptoms to show that a certain part of it is failing, usually, it is already too late as more likely, it has already morphed into an illness like cancer.
And its true!! I always thought I am very healthy. I dun like meat since young hence I am have been taking more veg than meat since young. I was never over weight, I dun smoke and I have been exercising regularly. By this context I should be very healthy right? Well, I thought so too till I started my detox program. About 1 week after I started the program, my whole abdominal area broke out into small red rashes. Its really a scary sight. Small little red dots all the way to my ribs. Later I found out that rashes are a sign that the liver is detoxing. And I was like : my goodness!! There are so many rashes which means there must be a lot of toxic in my poor liver. And im only 26!! Can you imagine if I don’t do the detox program, in 20 – 30 years time my liver might be damaged till it cant function properly anymore?? I mean who knows. Right?
hence this is the reason why me and sis are always stressing to mum. Dad, grandma and popo to take care of their health. We don’t mind spending more money investing on their health now rather than (**touchwood**) anything happens and we have to spend more on medical fees right? And medical fees in Singapore is not cheap, can easily shoot up to 5 figures. Might as well spend this money bring them go tour right?
Fortunately for us, I think our massage got through mum and dad. They are now religiously taking the health pdts that me, sis and ace are taking. Dad’s high blood pressure has since dropped from 150/95 to 120/80, which means he has no more high blood pressure now! :D mum is 53 today (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUMMY!! I will save this for another post) and still has no trace of white hair. And she got more stamina when it comes to taking care of ace ok, mai siao siao.
The only regret for me and sis are that we never got to know the pdts earlier else we still might have yeye with us now. Yeye is another case of you never know how healthy you really are cause all along yeye was very strong and healthy. When he and ah ma come our place to visit us, they will walk from the interchange to our place. He always walks from place to place. We never suspected that there will be anything wrong with his health. Till one fine day, he complained that his throat was not feeling well. Initially he thought that some food got stuck in his windpipe he didn’t pay too much attention to it till he got more uncomfortable and more weak as days passed.
Aunt took him for check ups, scans, tests, but the doctors say there is nothing wrong with his throat. Day by day we watched yeye grew weaker and weaker but there is nothing we can do. Till the day the doctors diagnosed that he was suffering from liver cancer, it was already too late for any treatment. Months after the diagnosed was out, yeye passed away. All these, from the day he started feeling unwell till he passed away, happened only in a short span of about one year. Till now, yeye is still the closest person to me that has left me.
Sis ever shared to me that her one regret was not knowing abt the pdts earlier else we could have save yeye and I agreed with her. If I were to have one regret in my life, this would be it. Hence, we make sure that we will not lose another loved one this way. We understand that all human beings has to go sooner or later but not through illness or sickness cause it brings immense pain to the both the patient and the family members. If I were to go one day, I want to go peacefully in my sleep so that my family members will not go through the agony of watching me wither away.
Alright I realised that the mood is too sombre...
On a lighter and happier note...
YT told me she lost 4 KGs!! We met weeks ago while im doing my detoxing. She saw me, and said she wanna detox too. And till now, 2 weeks later, she said she has lost 4kgs and is looking forward to shedding more!!
Carol also lost 2 kgs in about 4 days!! Met her last sat and she was wearing this jeans that I never seen before. So I asked her if its a new pair and she said no, its an old pair of jeans that she couldn’t wear in the past. :) I feel soooo happy for them. I dunno why but maybe cause I have achieved my ideal weight le so now when the people around me are inching towards their ideal weight, I feel a sense of joy for them. Cause I’ve been there, done that and I know the joy. And its not only the joy of losing but the confidence, esteem and overall feel good about yourself that comes together with the weight lost. But this is definitely the beginning!!
A lot of times we always think ourselves as very healthy but truth is, we will never know (cause in this day and age, due to our lifestyle, our diet, work stress and pollution, its difficult to maintain healthy unless u lock yourself 24/7 a day in a room with pure oxygen supply and only eat fresh organic vegetables... haha). Till the day your body gives u symptoms to show that a certain part of it is failing, usually, it is already too late as more likely, it has already morphed into an illness like cancer.
And its true!! I always thought I am very healthy. I dun like meat since young hence I am have been taking more veg than meat since young. I was never over weight, I dun smoke and I have been exercising regularly. By this context I should be very healthy right? Well, I thought so too till I started my detox program. About 1 week after I started the program, my whole abdominal area broke out into small red rashes. Its really a scary sight. Small little red dots all the way to my ribs. Later I found out that rashes are a sign that the liver is detoxing. And I was like : my goodness!! There are so many rashes which means there must be a lot of toxic in my poor liver. And im only 26!! Can you imagine if I don’t do the detox program, in 20 – 30 years time my liver might be damaged till it cant function properly anymore?? I mean who knows. Right?
hence this is the reason why me and sis are always stressing to mum. Dad, grandma and popo to take care of their health. We don’t mind spending more money investing on their health now rather than (**touchwood**) anything happens and we have to spend more on medical fees right? And medical fees in Singapore is not cheap, can easily shoot up to 5 figures. Might as well spend this money bring them go tour right?
Fortunately for us, I think our massage got through mum and dad. They are now religiously taking the health pdts that me, sis and ace are taking. Dad’s high blood pressure has since dropped from 150/95 to 120/80, which means he has no more high blood pressure now! :D mum is 53 today (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUMMY!! I will save this for another post) and still has no trace of white hair. And she got more stamina when it comes to taking care of ace ok, mai siao siao.
The only regret for me and sis are that we never got to know the pdts earlier else we still might have yeye with us now. Yeye is another case of you never know how healthy you really are cause all along yeye was very strong and healthy. When he and ah ma come our place to visit us, they will walk from the interchange to our place. He always walks from place to place. We never suspected that there will be anything wrong with his health. Till one fine day, he complained that his throat was not feeling well. Initially he thought that some food got stuck in his windpipe he didn’t pay too much attention to it till he got more uncomfortable and more weak as days passed.
Aunt took him for check ups, scans, tests, but the doctors say there is nothing wrong with his throat. Day by day we watched yeye grew weaker and weaker but there is nothing we can do. Till the day the doctors diagnosed that he was suffering from liver cancer, it was already too late for any treatment. Months after the diagnosed was out, yeye passed away. All these, from the day he started feeling unwell till he passed away, happened only in a short span of about one year. Till now, yeye is still the closest person to me that has left me.
Sis ever shared to me that her one regret was not knowing abt the pdts earlier else we could have save yeye and I agreed with her. If I were to have one regret in my life, this would be it. Hence, we make sure that we will not lose another loved one this way. We understand that all human beings has to go sooner or later but not through illness or sickness cause it brings immense pain to the both the patient and the family members. If I were to go one day, I want to go peacefully in my sleep so that my family members will not go through the agony of watching me wither away.
Alright I realised that the mood is too sombre...
On a lighter and happier note...
YT told me she lost 4 KGs!! We met weeks ago while im doing my detoxing. She saw me, and said she wanna detox too. And till now, 2 weeks later, she said she has lost 4kgs and is looking forward to shedding more!!
Carol also lost 2 kgs in about 4 days!! Met her last sat and she was wearing this jeans that I never seen before. So I asked her if its a new pair and she said no, its an old pair of jeans that she couldn’t wear in the past. :) I feel soooo happy for them. I dunno why but maybe cause I have achieved my ideal weight le so now when the people around me are inching towards their ideal weight, I feel a sense of joy for them. Cause I’ve been there, done that and I know the joy. And its not only the joy of losing but the confidence, esteem and overall feel good about yourself that comes together with the weight lost. But this is definitely the beginning!!
Friday, April 14, 2006
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
A*C*C n the yummy crunchy manjari chocolate cake
in case u are wondering, A*C*C stands for Angel, Carol n Clatzz...
Last Friday, carol n I went to sis’s place after work. We bought dinner along the way (1 pack of mix veg n rice and 1 pack of bee hoon) and carol bought a Crunchy Manjari Chocolate Cake cake from fullerton hotel. There was a promotion going on and she bought the 1/2 kg cake at $10 only.
So our initial plan is that 3 of us will share the 2 packs of dinner and then we’ll each have a small slice of the chocolate cake, leave some for max, and carol will take the rest home. So, after we arrived at sis’smessy but humble abode, had our dinner, gossiped, chatted and decided that it is desert time. :)
So we took out the cake, and carol cut it into 3 sections. 1 half, and 2 quarters. Plan was that the 3 of us share a quarter, save a quarter for max, and carol will bring the remaining half home for her parents.
And the Crunchy Manjari Chocolate Cake was oh so heavenly. The top of the cake was a very thin soft layer of dark chocolate, followed by a layer of soft chocolate cream, a thin layer of chocolate cake and a layer of chocolate crunch. The soft chocolate simply melts in your mouth while the crunch added some bite to the cake. And the combination of soft meets crunch is simply perfect. And the chocolate is not too sweet too. Simply delicious. Words simply cant describe how yummylicious the cake is.
And so within minutes, we finished the quarter of the cake. Well, the cake was simply too delicious, we didn’t get enough of it so carol said: why don’t we take the other quarter and we save a quarter for max and I bring the remaining quarter home? We all agreed unanimously immediately. Happily, we attacked the other quarter of the cake. ;)
What do you get when u put 3 woman and a yummy chocolate truffle cake together? A sweet time of course!!
Before we knew it, the 2nd quarter was gone. By now we were thinking aloud: I want more of the cake!! And carol again said: I don’t think I want to bring the cake home already, since my parents don’t really take sweet stuff. Why don’t we save one quarter for max and eat the rest?? With that, she sliced the remaining half of the cake into twos again, and we sinfully dig in with glee again... Till the 3rd quarter of the cake was gone too and we were like digging the remaining quarter of the cake meant for max.
By this time, we all knew what each other was thinking. We were all thinking aloud... Should we??? And sis said slowly: actually max will be coming home very late today cos his dinner will end very late. So he come home le also cannot eat the cake. With this confirmation, we decided to attack the last quarter of the cake. Down to the very last drop of chocolate cream.
And there u have it!! 3 ladies finished a 0.5kg of Crunchy Manjari Chocolate Cake!! We did it!! Yay!!
If u are reading this, please DO NOT mention Crunchy Manjari Chocolate Cake in front of max, cause he was sore that we never left any for him. Not even the raspberry on the cake they placed for decoration!! We whipped out everything!! Till today, he was still grumbling!! Haha.
This weekend I’ll be having cheese cake again cos its mummy’s birthday and sis n max have ordered a large cheese cake. Yummy!!
Last Friday, carol n I went to sis’s place after work. We bought dinner along the way (1 pack of mix veg n rice and 1 pack of bee hoon) and carol bought a Crunchy Manjari Chocolate Cake cake from fullerton hotel. There was a promotion going on and she bought the 1/2 kg cake at $10 only.
So our initial plan is that 3 of us will share the 2 packs of dinner and then we’ll each have a small slice of the chocolate cake, leave some for max, and carol will take the rest home. So, after we arrived at sis’s
So we took out the cake, and carol cut it into 3 sections. 1 half, and 2 quarters. Plan was that the 3 of us share a quarter, save a quarter for max, and carol will bring the remaining half home for her parents.And the Crunchy Manjari Chocolate Cake was oh so heavenly. The top of the cake was a very thin soft layer of dark chocolate, followed by a layer of soft chocolate cream, a thin layer of chocolate cake and a layer of chocolate crunch. The soft chocolate simply melts in your mouth while the crunch added some bite to the cake. And the combination of soft meets crunch is simply perfect. And the chocolate is not too sweet too. Simply delicious. Words simply cant describe how yummylicious the cake is.
And so within minutes, we finished the quarter of the cake. Well, the cake was simply too delicious, we didn’t get enough of it so carol said: why don’t we take the other quarter and we save a quarter for max and I bring the remaining quarter home? We all agreed unanimously immediately. Happily, we attacked the other quarter of the cake. ;)
What do you get when u put 3 woman and a yummy chocolate truffle cake together? A sweet time of course!!
Before we knew it, the 2nd quarter was gone. By now we were thinking aloud: I want more of the cake!! And carol again said: I don’t think I want to bring the cake home already, since my parents don’t really take sweet stuff. Why don’t we save one quarter for max and eat the rest?? With that, she sliced the remaining half of the cake into twos again, and we sinfully dig in with glee again... Till the 3rd quarter of the cake was gone too and we were like digging the remaining quarter of the cake meant for max.
By this time, we all knew what each other was thinking. We were all thinking aloud... Should we??? And sis said slowly: actually max will be coming home very late today cos his dinner will end very late. So he come home le also cannot eat the cake. With this confirmation, we decided to attack the last quarter of the cake. Down to the very last drop of chocolate cream.
And there u have it!! 3 ladies finished a 0.5kg of Crunchy Manjari Chocolate Cake!! We did it!! Yay!!
If u are reading this, please DO NOT mention Crunchy Manjari Chocolate Cake in front of max, cause he was sore that we never left any for him. Not even the raspberry on the cake they placed for decoration!! We whipped out everything!! Till today, he was still grumbling!! Haha.
This weekend I’ll be having cheese cake again cos its mummy’s birthday and sis n max have ordered a large cheese cake. Yummy!!
Thursday, April 06, 2006
announcement
For the past one month I have been thinking and thinking and considering and pondering over a major decision that will change my life, not drastically, but to a certain extent. And today I want to proudly announce that I have decided to be a vegetarian!! :)
Initially I was in 2 minds because I wasn’t sure if I can adept to not eating meat. I mean, if you cant resist not eating meat then dun torture yourself. But as days pass, I realised that I dun fancy meat at all. Everytime I pass by a food stall, the food that made me drool are the vegetables, not the meat. In fact, food like steak, chicken rice, sashimi kind of lost their appeal to me. Since this is the way, I decided that I might as well turn full vegetarian. Its healthier for my body too. :)
Hmmmm... I miss indinine food...
**
Lately I am looking for a present to reward myself should I achieve certain goals I set for myself. I am a pursuer who gets motivated by chasing pleasure and not avoiding pain. So this present shall be my motivational pleasure...
And I realised that the few things that I want badly of late are all electronic gadgets...
1) digital camera
With a digital camera, I can take loads n loads of photos which is good for you people because a blog loaded with pictures is more interesting and easy to read right? I have laid my eyes on 3 models but not too sure which should I get. Hmmmm...
Brand : Sony
Model : DSC-W30/W
remarks : i like the design, i like the functions and specs, but i think Sony's products are over priced. pay so much for the premium brand
Brand : Cannon
Model : ixus 700
remarks : like the functions and specs of this best and its most value for $$ too. but the design didnt really catch my fancy...
Brand : Nikon
Model : Cool Pix S6
Remarks : actually i quite like this camera except that it has no optical zoom, which is a big minus point. :(
2) a PC
My current PC is soooooo slow, everytime I use it I feel like kicking it, which I forsee will really happen one fine day because its really getting on my nerves. GRRRRRR...
i want i want i want!! a Fujitsu desk Power C620
3) SE red k610i hp
My current hp is another sad story. Haiz. The battery can be full bar in the morning and 5 hrs later, I went flat. And I did not even use my phone much in those 5 hrs!! And sometimes it just hangs while im sending SMSes and then keep prompting me to eneter SOS code. I dun even know WTF is SOS code. Haiz. Its high time I send my current phone to the grave le. And this SE phone is soooo pretty. Red colour some more. But its not out yet. I wonder when they will launch.
soooo pretty right?? but it doesnt come with a memory card which means i probably have to buy...
Hmmm... what must I do to be able afford all these stuffs without having to dig into my savings ?? Today I learnt: we must always ask ourselves "silk quality" questions... :)
Initially I was in 2 minds because I wasn’t sure if I can adept to not eating meat. I mean, if you cant resist not eating meat then dun torture yourself. But as days pass, I realised that I dun fancy meat at all. Everytime I pass by a food stall, the food that made me drool are the vegetables, not the meat. In fact, food like steak, chicken rice, sashimi kind of lost their appeal to me. Since this is the way, I decided that I might as well turn full vegetarian. Its healthier for my body too. :)
Hmmmm... I miss indinine food...
**
Lately I am looking for a present to reward myself should I achieve certain goals I set for myself. I am a pursuer who gets motivated by chasing pleasure and not avoiding pain. So this present shall be my motivational pleasure...
And I realised that the few things that I want badly of late are all electronic gadgets...
1) digital camera
With a digital camera, I can take loads n loads of photos which is good for you people because a blog loaded with pictures is more interesting and easy to read right? I have laid my eyes on 3 models but not too sure which should I get. Hmmmm...
Brand : Sony
Model : DSC-W30/W
remarks : i like the design, i like the functions and specs, but i think Sony's products are over priced. pay so much for the premium brand
Brand : Cannon
Model : ixus 700
remarks : like the functions and specs of this best and its most value for $$ too. but the design didnt really catch my fancy...
Brand : Nikon
Model : Cool Pix S6
Remarks : actually i quite like this camera except that it has no optical zoom, which is a big minus point. :(
2) a PC
My current PC is soooooo slow, everytime I use it I feel like kicking it, which I forsee will really happen one fine day because its really getting on my nerves. GRRRRRR...
i want i want i want!! a Fujitsu desk Power C620
3) SE red k610i hp
My current hp is another sad story. Haiz. The battery can be full bar in the morning and 5 hrs later, I went flat. And I did not even use my phone much in those 5 hrs!! And sometimes it just hangs while im sending SMSes and then keep prompting me to eneter SOS code. I dun even know WTF is SOS code. Haiz. Its high time I send my current phone to the grave le. And this SE phone is soooo pretty. Red colour some more. But its not out yet. I wonder when they will launch.
soooo pretty right?? but it doesnt come with a memory card which means i probably have to buy...
Hmmm... what must I do to be able afford all these stuffs without having to dig into my savings ?? Today I learnt: we must always ask ourselves "silk quality" questions... :)
Monday, April 03, 2006
my yummy nippon curry
last sat, i decided to show off my never known to poccess culinary skills. so i invited my good old sisters to my house to be my ginue pig tentalise their taste buds...
and so i woke up early in the morning at 10am, got dad to buy all ingredients ready and started to whip up a fest. okie, i admit i bought the curry paste from the supermart but still it takes alot of hard work to prepare the ingredients leh. and because i know that there are no meat in my curry, i have to prepare more vegetables in my curry so that my sisters will be full. lets see what ingredients i added. there are potatoes, ladies fingers, egg plants, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots and peas. i have to cut each and every of these vegetables to size, which is not as simple as it seems too cause have to be careful not to cut the vegetables into too small or too big pieces.
mum cooked fried rice and dad cooked peanut soup.
so 1st, i washed and cut all the veges.
2nd, i hot the 4 tablespoons oil n onion in the pot n fry till onions turn golder br0wn.
3rd, i added all the veges in and stir fry them evenly
4th, 1 added water
5th, i lower the heat, close the pot lid and let the water boil
6th, after the water boils, lower heat and add S&B curry paste and stir till curry paste is mixed evenly
7th, close pot lid for 10 mins and off the fire
8th, wait for the invited people to come
alright, u might say that its easy to cook since i bought the ready made curry paste. but u have to know in my 25 years of living, other than my home econs class, cooking to me means cooking instant noodles, adding an egg, some chye sim n sea weed. so its not too bad le lah. probably next time i'll whip out something that requires more skills... :p
and the most tedious is actually step 8. i invited all of them to come at 1pm, and my 1 pm, only max and my sis arrived. by 2.30, did all the guests arrive. haiz... ;)
anyway, though i never taste the curry, the people present all say the curry tasted very niceafter i told them im not going to open the door for them to leave till they say its nice!! :D
if u dun believe my curry is nice, here's proof...
smells nice....
all eating happily... proof that my curry is nice...
the nana sisters
all happy n smiley aft my curry... and nope, we didnt agree to wear red and pink before hand... its telepathy, i guess... ;)
well, i certainly had fun. i hope u people enjoy yourselves too!! forgive me if i didnt play a good host.
and so i woke up early in the morning at 10am, got dad to buy all ingredients ready and started to whip up a fest. okie, i admit i bought the curry paste from the supermart but still it takes alot of hard work to prepare the ingredients leh. and because i know that there are no meat in my curry, i have to prepare more vegetables in my curry so that my sisters will be full. lets see what ingredients i added. there are potatoes, ladies fingers, egg plants, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots and peas. i have to cut each and every of these vegetables to size, which is not as simple as it seems too cause have to be careful not to cut the vegetables into too small or too big pieces.
mum cooked fried rice and dad cooked peanut soup.
so 1st, i washed and cut all the veges.
2nd, i hot the 4 tablespoons oil n onion in the pot n fry till onions turn golder br0wn.
3rd, i added all the veges in and stir fry them evenly
4th, 1 added water
5th, i lower the heat, close the pot lid and let the water boil
6th, after the water boils, lower heat and add S&B curry paste and stir till curry paste is mixed evenly
7th, close pot lid for 10 mins and off the fire
8th, wait for the invited people to come
alright, u might say that its easy to cook since i bought the ready made curry paste. but u have to know in my 25 years of living, other than my home econs class, cooking to me means cooking instant noodles, adding an egg, some chye sim n sea weed. so its not too bad le lah. probably next time i'll whip out something that requires more skills... :p
and the most tedious is actually step 8. i invited all of them to come at 1pm, and my 1 pm, only max and my sis arrived. by 2.30, did all the guests arrive. haiz... ;)
anyway, though i never taste the curry, the people present all say the curry tasted very nice
if u dun believe my curry is nice, here's proof...
smells nice....
all eating happily... proof that my curry is nice...
the nana sisters
all happy n smiley aft my curry... and nope, we didnt agree to wear red and pink before hand... its telepathy, i guess... ;)
well, i certainly had fun. i hope u people enjoy yourselves too!! forgive me if i didnt play a good host.
choices, choices...
Had a chance to get into contact with my former boss and he offered me a proposal to go work for him again. I do keep in constant contact with my former lady boss (his wife) and recently she did mention something along the lines of getting me back to work for them again but I didn’t give a serious thought about it before since there wasn’t any formal proposal or anything.
So ystd, my ex boss made me a formal offer. He said since I left, the company has restructure and downsized, and now they want to expand and he is offering me the position of a purchasing manager. Salary wise, he says is negotiable. And he also said there will be a change in how certain issues are being managed. I told him I will get back to him by next week. So that leaves me with 7 days to come to a decision.
I enjoyed working with J and Y during my 3 years stay previously. They are a jovial and easy going couple. We got along well. Outside office, we are like friends, we can joke and all.
Hmmm... Now im in a dilemma.
Basically, I am one who firmly believes 好马不吃回头草. But with the offer made, I dare say that I am tempted. But there are still a lot of considerations. Anyways, I shall let u know my decision 7 days later. But its a good feeling to know that they actually think im capable enough for this new position they have to offer. I feel very honoured. :)
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Anyone interested to go watch the musical : WEST SIDE STORY ??
The musical will be played at esplanade from 7th April. I know im rather late. I hope there still are good seats. Let me know if any of u interested, ya??
* croons * : Tonight... Tonight... Wont be just any nightttttt...
So ystd, my ex boss made me a formal offer. He said since I left, the company has restructure and downsized, and now they want to expand and he is offering me the position of a purchasing manager. Salary wise, he says is negotiable. And he also said there will be a change in how certain issues are being managed. I told him I will get back to him by next week. So that leaves me with 7 days to come to a decision.
I enjoyed working with J and Y during my 3 years stay previously. They are a jovial and easy going couple. We got along well. Outside office, we are like friends, we can joke and all.
Hmmm... Now im in a dilemma.
Basically, I am one who firmly believes 好马不吃回头草. But with the offer made, I dare say that I am tempted. But there are still a lot of considerations. Anyways, I shall let u know my decision 7 days later. But its a good feeling to know that they actually think im capable enough for this new position they have to offer. I feel very honoured. :)
**
Anyone interested to go watch the musical : WEST SIDE STORY ??
The musical will be played at esplanade from 7th April. I know im rather late. I hope there still are good seats. Let me know if any of u interested, ya??
* croons * : Tonight... Tonight... Wont be just any nightttttt...
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