27 Oct 08 Dinner

Sichuan, pork rib and carrot soup
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* A tip for preparing the meat. Rub it with salt and leave for a few minutes. Rinse off and blanch with hot water to get rid of the weird raw taste. You dont need to add salt when making soup as the meat would have absorbed the salt you rubbed it with earlier.

* Wash the Sichuan vegetables to remove the chilli. Slice into 1/2cm-thick slices. Soak them in a bowl of water for 1 hour, but change the water every 20 minutes (ie. 3 batches of water) to reduce the saltiness of the vege.
















Mixed Vegge:
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Cost only $2 in Sheng Shiong supermarket and come with white cabbage, tomato, mini corn, green bean, slices carrot. Fried it with oyster sauce, a bit of salt, pepper, soya sauce, half cup of water.

Visting the Zoo...

Today i have organised a family outing to the zoo...there are some dizzling in the beginning but luckily it stop. We have followed the animals feeding schedule & their showtime to go round the zoo and saw more actions from them than usual. Ann have packed some nice cute sandwiches comes in the shape of dinosaurs, pooh bear in ham and cheese, plus baby carrots, cucumber and tomatos plus rebina drinks for us to do a mini picinc, while i contributed the strawberries....hmm healthy & nice :p

We came to a place that kept only 2 goats and their 3-days old (told by the zookeeper) new born goats. The 2 little black goats was released by the zookeeper to roam around the area and amazingly we saw the mother goat stand tall over the fence looking out for her little ones. The father goat also paced near the fence. The animals like human also have the parental touch in them :)

By end of the trip, we are all tired from a whole day walk and go for a nice dinner @ thai resturant. The last time when i go to the zoo with my family is when dad & mum brought us there when we are still kids. So now just want to enjoy a nice trip to the zoo with my family again :) Link to the photos taken for the animals in the zoo: Visit to the Zoo @ 26 Oct 08

I'm tagged.

Have agreed to play the tagging game, which i'm being tagged by my dear frn and need to reply 20 random facts….thus here’s my reply after much procrastination.

1) Fact one is I dun really like to be tagged. Hmm…if I rece any email or sms which asked me to fwd to 5 or more people else i be cursed or not get the blessing, I have dutifully deleted the email or msg and spared all my frns from it … hee same for this tagging game =P

2) I like and tried my hands on a lot of things...e.g. baking, beads making, flower arrangement and knitting but never really good in any of them.

3) I find simple joy in life...e.g. nice weather, a nice cup of coffee =D

4) I love to drink coffee brew from normal coffee shop that serve in traditional coffee cup, not starbuck or coffee beans type. That’s why I rece a traditional coffee cup for Christmas once =P For good coffee, I will faithfully try to visit the stall everyday (near working place) till I found another better dose.

5) I'm a peace lover, never like to make enemy and once have the belief that if I’m kind to everyone, they will be kind to me as well ...but realized the world does not work like that.

6) I dun play role playing games, e.g. maple story which is the fav of many of my frns. Maybe i dun have the patient to gain pts by wracking a monster or solving a quest. I prefer games which give result immediately, e.g. shooting game or the bowling game I hooked on to in Face book recently.

7) I dun read instruction manual.

8) I scare of cockroaches, esp. the flying one...Heeelp. And they have some fun scaring me when I throw rubbish at the common rubbish chute sometime ...*sign

9) I did not take up driving as i want to emitted the chance of having someone get hitted by me on the road...all of you are saved :)

10) I organize badminton games on every Sunday morning from around 11 to 1 plus for past 4 years....but I’m still not good at the game =p

11) I like rainy days esp. when I’m in door, i like the feel and think that is romantic.

12) I never finish the full course of medication when I’m sick. Usually I consumed for the first or sec day and let myself recover naturally thereafter...unless is antibiotics.

13) I like cleanliness but lazy to do housework...ha

14) I enjoy outdoor activities. E.g. badminton, table tennis, tennis, volley ball, netball, swimming, cycling, canoeing, kite flying, roller blade…etc

15) The ball game I like best is table tennis cos is fast and is fun!

16) I feel blessed to have my wonderful family and zq there for me :)

17) I like Christmas Eve...maybe Santa Claus will grant me a wish on that day =P

18) The fact is I’m running out of facts...hmm…fact 18, I love nature too :)

19) Fact 19…. I’m still brushing up on my communication skill in English.

20) Finally the final fact is I’m happy that I have completed this tagging game. Yeah!

19 Oct 08 Dinner

Eating a healthy meal can make one happy and comfort...a meal that i hope to prepare often but usually didn't make it happen. Hope to have more healthy meals in future.

Girls Nite Out

Meet up with JL n TM for dinner as well as clubbing at double O. Think lst time go Fri nite, need to pay cover charge n drinks, the place was packed and still quite awake after sharing 3 jugs of diluted Vodka except tired. Sorry ladies, think i got no stamina...hee old liao =P Glad that TM is facing everything quite bravely & decisive, jia you!










(Pic from JL's camera)




Catch the movie - 20th Century Boys (Jap movie) with zq today. Have high expectation as we thought it will be as good as Death Note series but is still a bit far from it. But the plot is not bad though, will wan to catch the sec series.

Amore's Woman Day Out 2008

Have joined the Amore's Woman Day Out 2008 yesterday, where JL, her sis and me done 3hrs of aerobic exercise at the open space in front of Taka. Except badminton on every Sun, have not done exercise on stamina for abt 2 mths. Thus, my body ache all over today. x} But it was fun and i enjoyed the whole session esp the kickboxing. And i feel good after sweating it out. :)











(Ist 2 Pics from JL's camera)





























Above is the goodie bag collected after the exercise, not bad really got lots of useful goodies in it.

05 Oct 2008 Dinner

Zq doing dinner tonight again. For healtier choice & with jap craze, we decided to have fried salmon, udon in miso soup and fish cake which are prepared by him. I added on the salad. Quite filling, like the taste of udon as well as the salmon.















Recently been real busy with work and having taking up a new role, the stress level is there. I'm eager for the challenge and the whole team are in full gear for the work schedule ahead as well. But unexpected things do happen, on fri we are told that there is a change in the direction...again. Maybe is the recent economic climate, hopefully things are going for the right direction. *Hold breath