There must be something good about it !

It's the last working day before we enter into the year of dragon. I was at work and feeling far from being motivated to do anything. Guess I am still feeling lousy over the exam paper on Monday , which I might have done quite badly ( Read as : I am going to fail ). Even for the assignment , I ended up with the lowest score in class despite spending lots of time working on the assignment… Sitting at my work desk feeling bored , I took out my phone and started watching bubz’s video on “paint with me”. I must say that she have a talent for arts …. Be it painting on canvas or on her face, and she can speak to inspire people all over the world. The video was on chasing her dream for arts. And I asked myself do I even have a dream ? Seems like I don’t.

To make things worse, I felt that I sucked at almost everything I do, even though I did put in effort. Seriously. I can’t think of anything that I am good in. This is sad. I suddenly felt that I dun seems to get anything right. Then I open up words document starting typing furiously , ranting and pulling out all the stuffs I successfully screwed up in life .....

Then another colleague interrupted my self –demotivating act by chatting up with me. He was also not in the mood to work, We started to chat about rubbish. After chatting with him I looked at what I typed again .. Suddenly I wondered to myself . Why am I writing such boring stuffs to further demotivate myself ? How come I seem so good at picking at all the dumb things I have done?
I spent a lunch time with some time over lunch about this .... And I figured that can’t there is any good things about things happening around me .. There must be something good about everything right ? Then I decided that I will set this new resolution for myself.

I want to change at least 10 things that I have negative feeling about into something positive . Yes I may not achieve anything but at least I should be as positive about stuffs to at least makes things not so bad … The dragon year predicts a good year so let’s gambate see how I’ll fair for this resolution I have set !


Happy new year

Resolution 2011

Late… late…. late ….I know I am super late in penning down my resolutions for 2011.

I swear that I do have a list at the beginning of the year, and I am also working on it over the months. I just find it incomplete and did not really pen it down.

Now I finally decided to stop procrastinating and PEN what ever I have in mind down. Personally I feel that actually penning down resolutions means more than just having the list in your head.

(1) Improve driving skills

(2) Sleep early

(3) Cook a dish each month

(4) Clear all my examination for 2011

(5) Read a Lee Kuan Yew Book

(6) Learn video editing

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I couldn’t really complete the list because for the rest areas of the improvements, as I do not know how to quantify for it …. So that is why the list never really got completed. Just for jotting down purposes those items includes things like


-Exercise more

-Love more

-Spend more time with parents

-Be more tolerant & patient

-Learn to listen more

-Take a little more care of my face instead of leaving it just like that cos I am a lazy pig (bad habit). I rather head straight into my pillow rather then caring for my skin.

- Stay more positive

- Take less cab to work!

12 Dishes

One of my 2011 year resolution is to cook a dish every month, which translates into 12 dished to complete this year. I didn’t aim to cook a perfect dish, nor to cook everything from the scratch, just to cook an simple, edible dish.


Moving into the last 2 months of 2011, I feel that I should review the list of items cooked so far


(1) Bak Kut Teh
This is the very first dish of the year. I am ashamed to say that most chopping , cleaning was done my other half, who is definitely better than me in the kitchen. This explains why I am getting fat.


The spice was bought off the shelf. Pork ribs were put in together in a slow cooker and left to cook for an hour.

(2) Pasta
Bought the pasta and pasta sauce off the shelf again, cook them separately and mix.
I seems to have lost the photo of it .... :(

(3) Chee Chong Fun

 I learnt this from my Mother in law. It is one of my favorite dish. It was after been shown many times to me before I finally could get it.

(4) Prawn Mee Soup – I got the recipe online here.
Getting all ingredients in place

Going to be ready soon

This is the final product!

(5) Gyoza

(6) Cheese Mushroom

One day I had a dinner at Plaza Sing with my friend and had this great tasting cheese mushroom for their finger food and taste heavenly. As I kept thinking about it , I decided that I must learn this

(7) Hawaiian Baked Rice
I used this Recipe
Before putting into the oven

Done !

(8) Watercress Pork Rib soup
Used this recipe

(9) Cereal Prawn
I just followed the instruction at the back of the packaging , but excluded curry leaves & chilli

(10) Old Yellow Cucumber Soup
This is my own recipe , throw all ingredients in and leave it to boil ....

(11) Niang Toufu ( MIL taught version )

(12) Pork Loin with aspargus - No recipe. I cook it just because I felt like eating pork & aspargus. And pork loin is one of my favourite parts 

Of course , there are always failed experiments mainly due to my lousy skills, listed some here

(1) Minced pork salted egg with Toufu

(2) FIL one day cook a dish with mushroom , dark beans , and tofu + i also duuno what else.

It was damn nice and I tried to replicate but failed big time.. sad man !! I am still trying to steal his recipe ....

(3) Chicken wings

Was experimenting with different ways to cook chicken wings .. None of it turn out nice :(

Top :Some Japanese recipe Wings

Second on the right : Soya sauce wings

Left bottom : Coca Cola Wings

Right Bottom : Salt Wings

(4) I also realised that I do not know how to make steamed eggs !!!! I am still trying !

No photos cos it damn lousy

My Recent Passion ….is coloring

I was never a good art student. I am boring and dull. I only manage to scrape through my artworks in school only. But being bad at it doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy it right ?

Was browsing through the videos in you tube. I usually look at video from Michelle Phan & BubzBeauty. These gals are as usual very inspiring; I get my 3 minute passion from these gals.

There was some recent videos of nail painting and I decided to do something about mine… The ideas and credit goes to them as all I did was to COPY. Haha …

This is the collection of my nail polish

Some humble nail art done by myself ..

(1 ) Bumble Bee

(2) White Hearts On Red

A lot people laugh at my white hearts... Saying that it looked like it was painted on with correction liquid :o/

And this photo looks blur because my iphone can no longer take decent focused photos .. :o(

(3) Yellow French

(4) Panda French

(5) Going Retro

Then my colleague passed me her black shatter to try ..

(6) Black on Red

(7) Black on Pastel Purple

(8) Black on Gold Glitters

(9) Black on Neon Pink and  Orange

 

I am so falling in love with this Shatter thing

Till I get my hands on the other colours !



My Affair with Balls

I started with it occasionally. It was half year back that it became twice a week affair, because I found someone super onz ..

What ball(s) ???

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Yes You!

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Out of fun, we assigned every single ball we have to someone we know, and took a group photo of them. I thought it will be interesting to intro the characters of our ball game.



PRINCE

Leading the pack is Prince aka "TaiZi Qiu" , named after a high flyer with super good potential to take our our company director. He just join us and takes lead in pissing every other people off by pushing others to do job for him. Cant blame him , that is what he is paid to do so. We are wondering if he would kill to get what he wants… The Throne..

ATP HEAD ( Second Row, left most)

This is our HEAD. aka "Cheng Xiang" aka Prime minister. Brought in by our director and linked to him as friend. We find it a pity that he came in a little later than prince, and we cannot just anyhow de-crown a prince, ( unless he is being assassinated ), so we got choice but to give him a title of a prime minister, welding more power than the prince.

Each time you try to bad mouth the director, he will jump to his defense. Typical of a prime minister. Super loyal.

Dunlop

We call this Old DOG. The guy, who pays and irritate us with his barking, The actually name comes by just because he is born in the year of DOG and he is OLD. Dunlop was assigned to him because that ball can’t bounce as well as the others.


Wilson Trainer (Second from the left)

We call this Lousy, who is good at rephrasing your problem statement and comment a lot of rubbish without giving a solution. The bosses love him for an obvious reason; he narrates the emails that the bosses never read and appears to be on top of everything.

Wilson 3 (right most)

Some pp call him Korean , some call him by his name. I prefer to call him FT. He does not seems to understand that respect is earned, instead keeps complaining that people is not giving him respect as he feels that he is a BIG F***. No one cares about him and I dislike his face. I hope he gets deported one day. Muahahaha …….

T1 , T4 & the un-named at the back

These are the all other monkeys, clowns and jokers.... Like me …

Just in case you are wondering to why I have got so many different brands of balls, it probably was being picked up from the court , or mixed with someone else , or due to separate purchase, I don’t stick to one brand .. I stick to the cheapest, as we are amateur players.

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Some Misc Posts

 The first few months of 2011 does not have much event enough to register a post, but trust me , my life still runs like mad.. I kinda hope this year will quickly pass so that I can get down with the last 3 subjects of my course. It's really sucking up load of my time and annual leve. Imagine living off with 4 days of leave while you are only 7 months into the year.

Anyway, the below's the nitty gritty stuffs

Payback time for bring a BIG UOB card user ! Actually is points of 3 different cards owners :)

Carried home a OSIM back & leg masseger with those vouchers

We also went to a seminar and got some discount coupon for Lawry's the Prime Pork Ribs

 The place is beautiful .

 This is the legendary pork rib served on their famous silver cart.
Their USDA Prime Rib comes in different cuts for those with smaller appetites, the SINGAPORE cut,  (slightly smaller cut) , or the the CALIFORNIA cut, (even smaller one). For those with bigger appetite, there is the ENGLISH cut , LAWRY’S CUT and the "THE "DIAMOND JIM BRADY"CUT

The Prime Rib Cut with Idaho Mashed Potatoes
 
Verdict : 8/10  but the ambience of the place can compensate for the other 2 missing score. :)

 Their chicken breast with ..errr... I forgot ... But well , dont bother to order it.  The meat was too tough and dry for my liking..Not nice.

 Yorkshire Pudding, this is nice ..

We caught some street parade on our window while having dinner

I dunno how often other couples does it , but we often go over to the construction site of my future home to look at the progress...
 Oh my , I am so looking forward toward it .... Why can't they build faster ?!

I also got BIG scarrings from some MEGA Pimples that erupted right on my face!!

One of the weekend , we passed by the club my girlfriends and me went for my Hens party - Club Giorgio

During the general election , we also visited Potong Pasir- another place which I have never been to and we love the the place. Look how gorgeous the house is there.

Night out !

Valentine's 2011 @ Hotel Re!

This year is out first V day after getting married. I got my Advanced V Day pressie Advanced. My very first LV cluth bag!

This is an expression of mad happiness ... OMG , wrinkles !

After signing off hugh bills for the past few months , we decided to have a more economic v day celebration.
A Search on google engine return with good results

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$49 PER PAX for 6 course dinner at Hotel Re!

My must-have on V-Day

When we reach the hotel , the friendly staffs greetted and offered help take a photo for us

The place for diner was nicely decorated

  

The waiting time was however , quite long.  Quite expected as it is V day and crowded everywhere.

Out of boredom , I took a picture of my own shadow with the spot light

Finally the food arrived !

Dish 1 - Endless Love

Escargot Bourguignonne, Scallop Mornay on Shell
Marinated Tuna with pink Grapefruit Salsa and Chilled Japanese Pasta

Dish 2 - Careless Whisper

Light Crab Bisque with Swiss Brown Mushroom
Scented with Chervil, served with Cheese Stick

Dish 3 -More Than Words
Oven- Baked Cod Fillet, Lobster Risotto Milanese
Lavished with Peppercorn Beurre Rouge Sauce
Brunoise of Vegetables

 

Dish 4 -  Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Lychee Sorbet with Mixed Berries

Dish 5 -  Sunshine of My Life


Roasted Rack of Lamb, Romanced with Raspberry Au Jus
Mushroom Fricassee, Chickpea Mash, Medley of Vegetables

Dish 6 - P.S I Love You

Tiramisu, Mango Custard, Chocolate Mint Ice-Cream
Selection of Coffee or Tea

I could not be bothered to take a photo of it as I was soooooo cheesed waiting for ages for a pathetic dessert which do not look anything like what it was promoted ....

http://sylistic.com/travel/2011/02/07/romantic-valentine-day-dining-hotel-re-singapore/

HAHAHAHAHA ....

Well, what do u expect for $49 ?

Was a little pissed not because the actual differs A LOT from what was promoted, but because of the LOOOONG waiting time for everything ... including billing.

It is my bad, as being patient was never one of my traits.  (I'm still working on it though  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ )

Nevertheless , it was a good evening with good food and a good man !

Took photo with a Beautifully decorated buggy for the event

Finally home and happy, Yup I kapo-ed the ballon from the hotel .. Hee hee