Yacht Ride @ Marina - Keppel Bay

On sat evening - 21 Feb 09, went to our first yacht ride @ Marina - Keppel Bay. Organised by GB's frn, the yacht took 12 of us for 4 hrs ride, left @ 730pm & cost $500 in total. One have to hold tight to balance in the moving yacht & most of time we stay on board to enjoy the breeze. It stopped to let us watched the Sentosa's music fountain performance & moved on to somewhere near Kusu Island where it stopped there & we have our dinner & chat till it turn back to the Bay. I managed to sleep at the front of the yacht and watch the stars. So happy to catch the shooting star "liu xing" & make a wish =P

Here's the link to the Yacht ride on 21 Feb 09

Tammy's Birthday @ The Boilers ~ 20 Feb 09

On last fri, went to St James Boiler Room for Tammy's birthday celebration. There's live band performance & the place more for drinking than dancing. We have fun & hope TM have a great time too :)

Dinner on 15 Feb 09

Tonight dinner is nonya curry chicken & vege mushroom. Actually the recent meal is real sinful & i wan to have simple light meal but zq pick up the interest of cooking and want to try out the curry chicken. Not bad but still sinful. =P

Step Aerobics

4 of my colleagues & i have signed up for step aerobics during lunch time which lasted for an hr & it started today, quite fun & really sweat it out. With the course, at least there's some motivation to do some exercise in weekday :)

Also today is dad's birthday, buy Angie The Choice's durian cake to celebrate with him & glad that he like it & took 2 pieces! :)

A Rose for the gals

Today, my colleagues & i went Aglio Olio (pasta restaurant) for lunch, for a gathering with a ex-boss. and there's a surprise for the ladies lunching there. As after we foot the bill, all the ladies will get a rose for valentine's gift =D A lady colleague & mi are "flower craze", thus we are very happy with it :) The day seem more beautiful with the rose on the desk..hee.

CNY: 14th day Dinner with my family

Enjoy the sunday as i get to sleep late, drink nice coffee and play badminton to sweat it out =P In the evening, my parents, bro & wife came for dinner. Zq & i decided to do up some dishes for them, also to experiment some interesting dishes we try when dine out. The dishes are: Potato & Carrot soup, Minced meat dipped in egg and fried, Cai Xin Minced Meat Tou Fu & i also hv the Mango Pomelo dessert :)

This dish is one of zq's fav as his grandma can do very nice minced egg meat last time. so he learned to cook this, this is prepared by him :)

This is the dish we try when we dine out bef, it used cai xin which is very interesting. So we try it out today & we all like it very much =D

Buy too many carrot & potato on sat, so the soup obviously is this =p

For this dessert, i have wanted to prepare for earlier frns' gathering but after searching high & low 2 weeks bef, there's no Mango in the market, not the mango season! So disappointed. But yesterday in the market, i saw them on shelf again, so decided to try out this nice & simple dessert. The recipe is here if u interested:

Ingredients:
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600g mango (about 2 mangoes)
500ml mango juice
150ml evaporated milk
100ml fresh milk
300g pomelo (split into small pieces)
200ml water (puree with some mango)
250ml water + 50g sugar
1 tbsp cornflour + 1 tbsp water

Method:
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1) Bring 250ml of water and 50g of sugar to boil until sugar dissolves. Add in cornflour mixture, stir in low heat until mixture is smooth then turn off the heat and leave it to cool.
2) Cut mango from both sides, and cut the mango flesh into cubes.

3) For the remaining mango, add 200ml of water and puree. Set aside.

4)Split 300g of Pamelo into small pieces.

5)When the boiled water is cooled, add mango puree, mango cubes, mango juice and evaporated milk, milk and mix well. Finally add in pomelo and stir, if too thick, add water.
Serve CHILLED

CNY: 13th day Poly Friends Gathering

Today ~ 07 Feb, i play host to my poly gfs & their family. It has been so long since everyone get together =) With the food brought by everyone & the food i prepared, the result = a lot of food. Luckily some of the gals helped me to tabo the food home for dinner =P Happy that everyone can make it, inlcuding Joan who come back from New Zealand for sometime & thought our date is tomo, managed to detour to my hse for a get together. I only rate myself 5 over 10 for this gathering cos other than the poor food planning, i also did not spend enough quality time to catch up with each of them.

Will learn to be better host next time & have a better grasp on the qty of food prepared. Hope it will not be too long when the gals can sit together to have tea & catch up again :) Here's the link to the photos taken: Poly CNY Gathering

Interesting that all the daddies sit in front & carry their baby ;) The poly gals & Chee Hock are all standing behind.

In the evening, went to watch the "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", a sad but touching story that make one think abt yr life again. Life is short, treasure very moment of it :)

Dinner on 04 Feb 09

Tonight we have decided to dine in & i prepared zq's fav bitter gourd & pork ribs soup. i apply salt to reduce the bitterness but turn out that he prefer it to be bitter. =P I also done the stew carrot, potato & chicken pot taught by Yan's mum. I quite like it :)

CNY: 07th day Badminton Grp Gathering

Today ~ 1st Feb (Sun), instead of our regular badminton session, we have a break from the game & the badminton's gang came to my hse with their babies for some fun in CNY. We have steamboat, watch dvd & card games :) I think the highlights are more on the kids, esp Darren & Jaslin little boy. Cos he's so cute & chubby, everyone jus wan to have a photo with him & he seem quite cool abt it =P Great that everyone have some fun. Here's the link to the photos taken: Badminton Grp CNY Photos

CNY: 6th day Colleagues Visit

On Sat 31st Jan (6th day of CNY), my collegues came for cny's visit. Too bad, last mins a few cannot make it, else we would have more fun. Ashima prepare nice, yummy bryani for us. She bought her sweet 5 mth old son. Kushal also bought his family along :) Michelle also came. They are are non-sg, thus it must be interesting for them to come for cny's visit :) At nite, my in-law's family & an aunt came for dinner as well. A lot of washing of dishes thereafter =P Dead tired by end of day.

CNY: 3rd to 5th days ~ Malacca & Genting

Back from holidays trip from Malacca & Genting for CNY break with zq & my in-laws family. Is a 3 days 2 nite trip, I prefer the stay in malacca compare to Genting. In malacca, i get to try the wonderful nonya food again, esp the salted vege duck soup, yummy! & also some shopping :) In Genting, well...one advice is not to go genting in holidays time, cos it is tooo crowded. Everywhere there are people, thus it can be quite unpleasent. I have the photo taking out in the nite cool air/fog jus outside the hotel, which have reminded mi on the stay i have with my ex-colleagues few years back :) Link to more photos will be attached much later..nt yet uploaded =P Below are some of the photos i like best:

One of the jonker steet

A stall @ jonker street

This photo is taken from reflection, the window is actually a mirror =P

This photo taking reminds mi of the company trip with my ex collegues which we have some fun then.