Salted Fish and Chicken Claypot Rice

Have eaten a wonderful meal of fish and chicken steam rice at a food court in Ayer Rajan Cresent. Thus, when i saw there's a recipe on salted fish clay-pot rice at the "food & travel" Jul issue, i know i want to try out this myself last night. I improvised and include the chicken as well.

For the chicken, i buy 2 drumsticks, so as to get a more tender meat. I have marinated with cooking, sesame oil, corn starch, smash ginger, pepper and light soya sauce. I like it, the taste can be enhanced further but my claypot base in a bad shape now...darken.

Time for a break...

Have not blog for a long while, buried myself with lots of hard work, stress, overnight over the months. Realizing i have not been smiling at works for a while and my heart is telling me to give myself a break. Will give it a good thought.

Recently come across "Min Blog", like her blog a lot, with the smooth music, beautiful photos that brings one through her travel and baking. wanted to steal her idea =P First, i hv to learn to put in the plug-in for music. Next, i'm thinking of having another blog just for baking and travelling while this blog can share more of my life. Oh, i'm also thinking of getting a SLR canon camera and learn to capture nice pictures. I will learn to enjoy my life :)

我怀念的.....

今早我作了一个梦， 我看到了小时候的自己与年轻的母亲在挟小的旧家， 回到从前不懂事但又快乐的日子。我好怀念那段时光， 觉得很幸福。

母亲在年轻时无埋怨的照顾家里的一切，让我觉得自己把时间花费在电脑游戏上，实在不应该。我得醒悟了。

如今，父母随着岁月以老了，有了白发，动作也缓慢，时光静敲敲的过。谢谢你们无条件的爱与关怀，我爱你们。

Lunch with Old Frns

Joan back to sg for short period and glad that we get to meet up with ea and cf for a lunch gathering @ my hse today :) I took up the task to prepare the lunch and again, hv done up a bit too much. Will take ea advice and shrink the portion smaller next time if gt the chance again. But i really enjoy the preparation and done up quite a bit of spring cleaning, one whole mth bef the cny!

Prepare linguine w cherry tomatoes n crab (can be better), chicken drumstick w orange-tomato glaze (hmm...this needs a lot of improvemt), mango pomelo dessert, jane's cake station choc cake. And with complimentary from ea~ wines, nice tea and crackers with cheese, woh wat a spread :) But the best part is the gals get to sit in the cosy air con room and hv a nice chat, with karen entertaining us doing her dance and bed-climbing, happy :) Here's the link to more photos:

zq catch karen in action ~ passing motion ;p

Like this photo, mummy so caring.

Hee...sec take of our grp photos

the gals enjoying a gd laugh :D

2009 to 2010 thoughts

It's been sometime since i blog. Blame it on facebook bejeweled and my laziness. 2009 past very fast with new work on hand to pick up. My new role required shift work sometime on wee hrs, so facebook become my channel for relaxation. I forgot my priorities and new year resolution...when 2010 came, it seem to give me a chance again, i like the new year :)

Last time, i told myself facebook is for my frns i like to hv only. However, with the expand of networks, when yr boss add u in, think politically i cldn't reject. So, i hv to watch wat i said at times now. Luckily, for now my blog remains private to my really close grp of frns n colleagues only, where i cld share my thoughts and photos. I wld not update as frequent, as cos of work, family, frns and other nice things i can spend my time on and i do not wan to work for the blog :)

This year i have to be a more discipline person and not to spend my times on facebook games. Jia you!