Making Sushi

Just last month, BF and I went over to my cousin's house to learn how to make sushi. I saw from photos of her sushi making and she offered to give me tutorial lesson.

We first stopped by Jurong point to buy the ingredients at the NTUC. Then she started to explain the steps on how to mix the ingredients together. I took them down in writing as I tend to be forgetful. After cousin demonstrated how to roll the sushi, BF had his hands to try it.


I am better than BF because I spread the rice evenly. That's what my cousin said girls tend to be more meticulous in such areas. haha my strong point. :)


This cold tofu is the most easiest way to make.


A simple and healthy lunch. As it was too much to fill our glutted stomachs, we tabao some sushi back for BF's parents. Thanks cousin Rochelle for her time to guide us.


We have better start planning a sushi-making day in order to recount what we have learnt!

Cooking time!

Last month had a DIY cooking session at Des and Rain's house. Our dinner spread was penne pasta, fried Shitake mushrooms and prawns salad in a shotglass. I have to conclude this: It was a good start for the four of us though there are some pointers to take note next time like chilling the prawns salad longer prior serving and frying the shitake mushrooms in deep oil to achieve the best results! Well, more DIY dinners to come! One day, I'll enjoy cooking for my spouse.

Our talented chef at work - Mr Lie!!

Dinner spread for the night! Yummy - I would love to whip up some more dishes again!

P.S: I still have some photos for the sushi-making session at my cousin's place yet to upload. Will do so soon!

New desktop

I can't wait to lay my hands on a new desktop. Yes, I decided on getting a desktop, not a laptop. I prefer to work with a desktop when I am using photoshop. As for the time beginning, I spent weekends at BF's house and try as much as I can afford the time to edit and upload the photos. That's why you notice I haven't been active in blogging with photos!You will see me blogging soon once I get my new desktop. I promise!
Work has been pretty quiet this week and I'm grateful for it. I hate rushed orders :X
Yesterday I accompanied my brother to 313 Somerset. He wanted to get a pressie for a girl (not his gf btw) and wanted a shopping companion. After visiting Joop and three storey high @ Forever 21, we decided on a beige dress at Joop and I bought a similar one for myself too! hehe. We also ordered a petite cake from icing room.

We had chat over dinner at The Handburger at basement two. The bill sum up to $30.
I ordered the chicken caesar, tasted good and bro had the duck confit which isn't impressive.

the duck confit

the chicken caesar

The day I had my lousy mood

I couldn't have a good night sleep yesterday, wonder if it's the afternoon nap who caused it :(

When I didn't have a min of 6 hrs sleep, I always feel grouchy. But it doesn't happen all the time of course. But because my menses happened to come for the fourth day with three ulcers in my mouth. Then my mind started to pick on everything. My slow startup of laptop, slow upload of outlook, seeing hundred of emails, those emails which my salesman fwd me to quote that he doesn't seem to bother at all, nuisance phonecalls, blah blah blah.. even cranky jokes made by my colleagues that I felt so irritated I can't smile like I used to. I just can't wait to get the hell out of here and head home.

An ex-colleague of mine changed my mind about heading back to my sack. I agreed to meet him for dinner as I have not seen him since his wedding early this year. Being friends with someone who has been through hardships has enlighten me in a way or so. He gives me his rightful opinion which I find it reasonable enough to understand. It's appeasing to know there are people who care for me and to share their true live stories to me.

How many of us have true friends that we can count on for life? Do cherish the ones you met for life is indeed short. I'm beginning to feel I'm ageing as I'm going 30 next year. And I seem to have more worries than before. Why is that so?

Lazy is an excuse.

I have stopped my weekly blogging as most time I was busy reading other bloggers' posts! I have been following a few interesting bloggers' journalism on travelling trips, fashion and makansutra. You may notice the left corner of the favourite links adding up! lol.

A few weeks ago, sister suggested a group photography shooting at Punggol beach and jetty. We raved this idea so off we headed down. By chance, I spotted a small field of lalang nearby and decided this to be one of the locations to have my wedding photoshoot! So glad to find it in the eastern corner of Singapore =D

Probably some of you already knew, there is a history behind this beach. This beach used to be one of the Japanese killing fields. It brings back grim memories to older generations because during the World War II in 1942, 400 Chinese civilians were massacred by the Japanese soldiers. Thus, it has been marked as a national heritage site.

The Punggol beach view is awe-inspiring. I enjoyed the natural refreshing view. The beach is quiet, water is consider clean, not as dirty as ECP. There's many rocks lying around and the sand landed soft on our feet. I'm sure no one would mind walking barefoot.

Best photo for this shoot!

Cute gifts from Taiwan

ET returned from his reservist trip to Kaohsiung, Taiwan in March and only today I met him at the MRT to collect my souvenirs. hehe. it's very thoughtful of him since he was in ocean shore most of the time and still manage to get nice gifts for me! He even got me my mascara that I'm using. haha.

So here's sharing what he got for me which I find the packaging very unique and cute and edible! But I can't bear to eat them.

Inside: Marshmallows and candies

Packaging looks like a packet of....

Ok, now it looks like packets of wet tissues.lol

Birthday treat

I have been so uninspired to blog these days. Very lazy I can say. But shall blog a little to get this thru. :0)

Great! I have shortlisted one location to have my photo shoot! This place has a small field of lalang, just nice for me to take some nice shots! :)


There was one of the Saturdays the four of us went to the new Parco @ Millenia Walk. It was not supposed to be a planned shopping trip but I was wrong! Unknowingly I bought stuffs for myself :(

We treated Des & Rain to Ma Maison, meant to be a belated dinner for Des. The food portions were small and a little pricey. However, the ambience was great with dim lights and country style of design.

We were still hungry after the dinner and we headed to Ice Dreamland for desserts. hehehe.


We have also signed up "Before you say Yes" at Trinity Christian Centre. This 6 lessons course is a pre-requisite for couples intending to marry and wish to learn about the definitions of marriage, how to resolve marital issues and family relationships. It's like going back to school, I am all excited. :P It's starting next month and May will be a busy month for me as I also need to make trips down to bridal studio..

Family outing

It's been months since our family had our last outing. So it was decided on 13th March. I haven't fully recover but felt I shouldn't miss out on this family event as it's rare everyone was free that day.Our first venue was having dinner at Sembawang (泰国小吃) recommended by sis' BF WK, it's just beside a Hindu temple and I ever heard people rave about this coffeshop before so it must be good. Indeed everyone was pleased with the dinner.

After the dinner, off we headed to Bottle Tree Park for our prawn fishing. It's BF and my first time prawn fishing so you can imagine how ignorant we were doing the bait. I'm amazed to see how patient those people were, they can just sit there for hours waiting for the prawn to eat the bait. Seriously I find it costly and we only managed to catch 3 prawns for an hour with three rented rods.


As it's considered early for a Saturday night, sister suggested having ice-cream @ Udders, Bt Timah. It was a pretty long journey from Sembawang all the way to Bt Timah. But we quite enjoyed the night that evening.

More photos can be found in my FB.

Get over it quickly! And I wish I don't have to go through it again!!!

sick

All along, I have never thought it will struck me one day. And it did, causing me sleepless nights and dashing to the washroom several times, making me physically and mentally tired.

I have never read and pray so hard in my life hoping all will be over soon. And I am still praying for healing in faith and humility. I know this is meant to serve a warning that I should not neglect my health again. I used to be ignorant in taking good care of my body but this has come to my senses. Now, I know I should not blindly lead my life as it has been the past 28 years.

I started to read our daily journey yesterday, understanding what GOD wants to portray to me. He wants me to learn to undergo the hardships and trials so that I can be closer to him through prayers and confidence. Inmanuel. God is with you.

"Seek the kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need" (Matthew 6:33)

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well and healthy.

An album of u and me just feels like yesterday.

My Sweet Tyan 22nd Birthday

I was supposed to be blogging about Tyan bdae some time ago but I dragged it for weeks! Enough of lengthy paragraphs for today, I will try to keep it minimal. :)

We held a mini birthday celebration for Meifang and Tyan in office on 28th Jan. As usual, we ordered Rite pizza and KFC. Guys, try Rite pizza's chicken wings and their BBQ chicken pizza! Really finger-licking good!

And guess what surprise we had for Tyan and Meifang? A helium balloon on Tyan's desk early in the morning. As if it was not enough to make it memorable, we cut her face out from a printout and pasted on the balloon (This idea was from Mr E). All of us were laughing away when we saw her shocked expression. We got Meifang a mini hand balloon that looks like a magic wand.



Another round of celebration was at DBLO on 29th Jan. It was a fun-filling nite with the right crowd. We all had fun to the maximum! Here's the second part of the photos.

She absolutely had no idea what we were planning over there.

Saboo games for the birthday girl. We got sabooed too!

Tequilla shots

We made her take a photo with a guy called Mario.

My V day pressie!

Here's my V-day pressie from BF!


Ta da! A Fujifilm finepix Z700 with touchscreen feature that was just launched recently. woohooo yeah!! Finally, my own camera that I can bring it anywhere, as and when I like! And he's got my favourite colour, in red!

BF kept the camera inside the car's front seat compartment thinking I would open it up to reach for my sunglasses. In the end I didn't! He must have give up and asked me to pass him the parking coupon and yet I still didn't notice anything inside! I am *cock eye by the way but I can't help it. He wrapped the camera in a translucent plastic that I didn't give it a second glimpse. I couldn't believe it when I held it in my hands, still joke that this looked like a plastic toy to me.

To add on, on Sunday morning, he went to buy me KFC breakfast knowing that I love the KFC AM twister! muackz muackz. But dear, got to return me my $10 to prove you are buying for me hor? keke..

My BF can be inept doing the things that aren't deem perfect but I am still going to love him anyway! hugs... I know he is always trying and learning new ropes to make me his blissful GF... and wife-to-be.

I'm sorry I was upset at him and gave him the cold shoulder for two days. I'm glad things are back to normal now. Couples do quarrel but the most important thing is to learn and understand each other's needs at the end of the day.

I haven't update my blog as often as I did in the past. Sometimes I don't know what I'm busy with but.... give me more time and it's still not enough!