NASI LEMAK

I'm in the cooking mood again. On Sunday, I cooked Nasi Lemak again. The last time I cooked nasi lemak was last year. Well definetely a lot of work but thank God I have Mary to help me with the cutting and chopping.

My neighbour also made some Otah for us to go along with the Nasi Lemak. I'm happy cos my hubby enjoy the food very much. His comment was :- THIS IS INDEED A GOOD MEAL...wow what an encouraging compliment.

FOOD PRESENTATION

On friday my maid cook fried rice and fried vege for dinner...it was a very plain. Told my maid that she should make full use of the plates and bowls I bought from Daiso...Food presentation is important cos it will make the food more appetising. I took out the Japanese bowl and plate I got from Daiso, put some spring onion and fried anchovies. My food definetly look better...YUM YUM...

Canopy Cafe @ Bishan Park

Sometime last month my boss's son gave us a treat at Canopy Cafe @ Bishan Park. The atmosphere around the cafe is good but the food so so only. I find the food not tasty and also the food presentation not too good. Me and my colleagues tried the Linguine tossed with Lobster, Caeaser Salad, Rissoto and Cheese Nachos. Of all only the Caeaser Salad and the Cheese Nachos is nice. For the price we paid, I think it's not worth it.

Took a nice picture near the Asmara Spa.

Thought of the Day

This morning I was in a bus on the way to work. I noticed a lot of JC's students' shoes are all branded like Nike and at least a Reebok. Wow school student nia leh...wear branded shoes. Even for my own nephew who is now chasing after branded stuff (you know who I'm talking about).

What happen to the world now, why everyone is chasing after brands. Are they chasing after quality or name sake??? Is it a norm now or is it really peers pressure??? People start to show off and compare which "class" your are from...is it the "atas" or "low" class.

Compare to our time, a simple Bata shoes to wear to school is good enough, as for sports shoes we simply go Bata and get Power (the brand). Life was much simpler last time. Everyone is not so brand conscious, I feel people are less materialistic compare to now.

If now it's already like that what will happen in another 10 yrs time when RJ enter his teenage years...How can we start to educate our kids to be contented with what we have....Really we need God's guidance and wisdom!!!

DIY ICE CREAM

On Tuesday I saw an interesting program on Channel U called Instant Chef. Well the chef showed us how to do DIY ice cream without a mixer or ice cream maker...http://instantchef.mediacorptv.sg/recipes.htm. Looks easy and interesting.

After that I did a search on internet and found that Science Centre taught this experiment too http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/virtual_ssc.jsp?type=4&root=205&parent=205&cat=267.

It looks like no gimmick and a sure successful formula. Told my colleagues about it and we decided to do an experiment on our own.

Well we made it but it's not as simple as it is. On the show Instant Chef, they said only shake for 5 minutes but we shake more than 15 minutes to get the result.

Simple ingredient + lots of hard work = Satisfactory Result

I choose Strawberry Milk (nice flavour)

Milk added with sugar

Put in small ziplock bag then put inside the big ziplock bag filled with ices and salt

Shake vigoruosly (hehe that's not me shaking)

End result - nice smooth yummy Strawberry Ice Cream

Self made Banana Split

LUNCH BAG

My friend Fanny knows lately I'm into this Bento and Lunch Box thing. So when she went to Daiso, she saw a green lunch bag. She knows green is my favourite colour so she got it for me...Thanks I like it. This morning, Mary made Tuna Sandwich for me, so I can use my lunch bag liao...

TAU SAR PIAH

Recently I ate one very nice tau sar piah made in Singapore...who says we need to go Malaysia to get tau sar piah...There's one made in Singapore - LOONG FATT at Balestier Road (It's at the cross junction of Thomson Road and Balestier Road).

Last Friday, I was rather early for my appointment at TMC. So I went and explore the place, thank God it quite manageable to find this nice tau sar piah shop. A lot of people in the shop queuing to buy. Mostly people buy a few boxes, I bot 6 boxes of 5. Their production line non stop, so all the tau sar piah is very fresh and piping hot...The skin is crispy and the paste inside it is hot...SHIOK!!! Cost only $0.60 for one. They have 2 flavours, one is sweet and the other one is salty. I think I like the salty one better.