30th July 2009

Went for P3 this morning, was feeling really tire, didn't know why, could it be me trying to reduce my daily caffeine intake? Hmmm.. Went over to newton to meet Pudding after my class ended, waited for a while before he came down and we decided to go over to his place, we decided to stop by Toa Payoh to get some lunch. Bought some snacks before Pudding suggested that we walked to the Entertainment Centre to have a look, to see if they are closing it down. When we were there, I was shocked to see that only Macdonald and Long John was closed, the bubble tea shop that I loved was still there. Both my sis and I loved their Curry Rice with Chicken Cutlet, the juicy chicken cutlet and the yummy curry. So manage to psycho Pudding to eat the curry rice with me, we ta-bao and head home, since there seems to be some problem with the air con.

On our way to Pudding's place, I was grumbling "dunno when will the new lift be ready, I want my bbq" and only then we realise that the new lift was ready since yesterday, I was feeling so foolish, broke the news to his parents and they seems pretty happy about it. On the other hand, Pudding was a little sulky, cause he said with the new lift, he won't be interacting with his neighbours anymore. We stayed home and rest and I went home at about 8pm, although we didn't do much, but I still enjoyed myself a lot, starting to loved the stress-free and quiet times together.

The new lift.

I tried this cup noodle that I bought from Hong Kong when I was home, its suppose to be extremely spicy, but too bad, its not spicy at all, was really disappointed. Haiz..

This is how the noodles looked like, I added an egg to it.

26th July 2009

Today my whole family is going over to Holland Road for praying, it is Popo's Death Anniversary today. I am suppose to wake up at 7.30am to stir fry the 算盘子, but daddy did my job, so I only woke at around 8.20am. Met up with my aunts, uncles and cousins at around 9am, then all of started preparing for the praying sessions, here are some photos of the praying.

After praying, all of us went over to Aunt Lin's place for lunch, had all the food we used for praying, there are roast duck, chicken soup, chicken with wine, 算盘子, roast pork, the kuehs, prawns and many more. After lunch, Janice Jie Jie send Yi ma, Yi cheong as well as Aunt Fer, audrey and jeremy home, while linda went to attend her friend's wedding and aunt lin went to work. So it was left with a few of us, after some discussing, we girls decided to go over to Jurong Point for some shopping, its been a really long time since the last time I was there, its so much bigger now compare to previously. The aunts was tired and thirsty after shopping and walking around for 3 hours, so we went over to bakerzin for high tea before going back. I saw this Baby G watch that I like, its $118, wonder if I should get it, cause it is just a simple and plain design..

Alicia eating the Oozy Meatball, the cheese keep dripping and she keep grumbling...

Joyce fall in love with the meatball when Juan brought her to the branch at Raffles City to try it out...

Mama and Juan at Bakerzin, the dumb dumb sis is trying to hide from the camera, but it only made her look ugly..

Alicia and Me...

Alicia's Strawberry Italian Soda..

Aunt Ming Ice lemon Tea..

My Choco Mint Truffle..

The loved of my life, Macarons from Bakerzin, we ordered rose, chocolate as well as the new sesame favour, all of it are nice, especially the sesame one.

Chocolate Amer, My sis wanted this, its tasted less heavy compare to previously.

Yummy Oreo Cheesecake, I have always loved Bakerzin Oreo Cheesecake, its very light compared to the others.

Potato Wedges with bacon bits, my sis said that the bacon bits tasted like chinese sausages.

The Caesar Sauce that comes with the Potato Wedges, it tasted more like garlic spread.

25th July 2009

Woke up quite early this morning, at first daddy asked if we wanted red star dim sum, but both my sis and I think its very lay chey cause we have to walk quite a distant from either the bus stop or the train station before reaching. After discussing, we decided on going to Commonwealth for breakfast. When we were there, my parents said that they wanted Koufu, but my sis wanted Long John, and after some negotiating, my parents decided to give in. Went over to Sheng Siong for grocery shopping after breakfast, having steamboat tonight so we have to buy the ingredients, on top of that we have to get the stuff needed for tomorrow praying ready too. Was feeling really tire after we are done, but I have no choice but to start prepare the ingredients(steamboat) and make 算盘子, which is a hakka dish that Popo which is my granny loves. Mama helped me out in the process and by the time we are done, its already dinner time, so we had our steamboat and some family bonding time afterwhich.

Steaming the yam instead of following Popo's recipe of boiling it, this way, the yam would not lose the sweetness and taste in the process of cooking..

This is what the yam paste looked like after adding tapioca flour to the smashed yam. You have to add the flour when the yam is still piping hot, so burned right little finger in the process..

算盘子, this is the uncooked version.

We have to cook the 算盘子 before keeping it in the fridge for the final step which was to be done tomorrow morning.

The ready cooked 算盘子, tomorrow morning we would have to stir fry it with ingredients such as minced pork, mushroom, beansprouts and more, before it is finally done.

Vegetable we have for steamboat, Romania lettuce and Tang O with my sis favourite yuan sway.

Steamboat: Inclusive of prawns, pork slices, promfret slices, hotdogs, egg tofu, bamboo clams, quail eggs, crabmeat, honjinmeishi and enoki mushrooms and etc.

Tom Yam Soup, the soup itself is already very nice without the ingredients, this time daddy used both tom yam cube and paste instead of the just the usual cube, so its a lot of more tasty