Thursday, February 29, 2024

Baked hot

Oh my! Today’s temperature is 31 but feels like 36. I feel more lethargic than before, but maybe coz I was still feeling drowsy from medication but couldn’t rest after that. I spent my time tidying the bomb shelter instead of going for my exercise, well only managed to do 1/3 by the looks of it.

Left home at 4+ to pick lil’ one and the sun shined a huge torchlight on me! I didn’t enjoy my drive today, then again I should be thankful that I have the car with me.  

Now at 9pm, I can’t take the heat anymore and went to my room with both aircon and fan blasting directly. Feeling so so sleepy now. 

On This Day - (29th Feb) #Reminders from FB#

 29th Feb 2020

Date with the Harry Potter fan, che-che




29th Feb 2016

Tension headache! Argh!




29th Feb 2016

* tagged in YL’s post 




29th Feb 2016

Enjoying the Bach piece she's playing, closed my eyes and ...then suddenly played wrong note. Spoiler!



29th Feb 2012


You get the idea, Athena n Aricia?




Home-cooked dinner

7th Feb (Wed) 

We have prawns and a ‘bowl’ of rice from the day before’s 拜拜🙏. Hubby brought back prawns, rice, fruits and few other food. 
Hubby suggested to cook tomato prawns but I know lil’ one doesn’t like it though she often eats it with ketchup. But no harm trying. Dropped by Eastpoint Mall to pack her lunch and NTUC before picking her up from school. Wanted to go to the economical rice stall to pack another ‘bowl’ of rice, but thought it’s weird. I don’t think the stall holder will do that, so will pack one more dish. But lo and behold the food court had to close for reno! Hubby was out for lunch himself, messaged him to get the dish and rice instead.


Now we have 2 bowls of rice 

So funny! I came home with tomato garlic prawns sauce and I saw this salted egg butter prawn paste hubby bought. Really funny how we both think about the same thing. He knows his wife is hopeless, can’t cook 😂 so had to get a premix. 

True enough, lil’ one saw the paste and said she wants her prawns plain. 


Cooked purple colour soup. My bad, I thought we had a lot of pork bones so soaked lots of dried scallops before cooking. The soup taste scallopy weird coz I wanted to cook double portion and keep the extra for another meal. 

Looks like I’ll need to rescue the frozen soup with more pork bones next time. 

Blanched bak choy and shiitake mushrooms. Heated up the sauce in pot and poured it.
No mess cooking! If only I can cook all proteins and seafood this way too. 

Packed dish which I didn’t eat much. Taste weird. I think this is how my family feels when they eat my cooking. 



16th Feb (Fri)

Was supposed to cook the black chicken on Wed, but coz I returned home later than planned (lil’ one wanted to get kamaboko from Century Sq J-Mart) I didn’t feel like cooking and tire myself. By that time we had already left CSquare. So asked hubby to help pack lil’ one’s dinner. I have the lor-mee which he packed for my lunch. So ya.. I was just simply lazy. Turned out it was a good decision not to cook coz he didn’t even pack dinner for himself, after a superbly full company lunch. I would have ended up with extra food (and extra anger from me). 

Quick cook today as we only had 1 soup + 2 dishes

 I wanted to finish the other half of the chicken this week so today’s a good day to cook. Played cheat with this. Hubby finished the soup, so I think he prefers this ginseng pre-pack. 

Finished the last egg tofu with an all-in-1 dish 😉 - leftover cut cabbage, enoki mushroom, garlic sprout. Lil’ one was hoping I’d steam her egg tofu but no… I wasn’t going to wash more attachments and I wasn’t going to thaw my 200g mince pork when I need only less than half. After deep frying the egg tofu, I dumped the rest of the ingredients into the pot. Finito! 

Hey-zhor 虾枣 bought frozen from Restaurant 121. Finished the whole box of 16 pieces. Left with one box in freezer for another meal.


Note lil’ one’s prisoner plate with no veggies at all. She don’t like black chicken. So fussy!  


While having my dinner, I set Ms Thermie to pre-clean. I used to struggle with rice grains stuck in the simmering basket, but after I tried pre-cleaning I noticed I have only 1-2 grains to remove or sometimes no grains at all. Happy! At least now I solve this problem. 


Easy washing up in the kitchen while cooking so was left with not much dishes to wash after. 
The weather is pleasant today, can feel the wind in the kitchen (from my north-facing yard)


21st Feb (Wed)

Still clearing the very little veggies we left. Only cook once a week, I chose to in order to save my sanity. Quite impossible to cook too if I need to leave house at 4+ on most days and only reach home at 5+ and then rush through cooking. Not like it’s one dish meal I’m cooking. 

When I gave up on cooking 😂

Presenting one of the dish from this evening.

Used the last bits of veggies in fridge and really anyhow cook, abit of soy sauce, sesame oil, sambal chilli (what?!), sprinkle abit of haochi. I really have no idea what I was cooking.

🤣 Surprisingly the plate is

emptied.



Cooked karaage. Lil’ one don’t like to eat fried chicken. Hubby don’t like to eat fried things. Told you so difficult to cook for my family. Why can’t they just eat anything and everything? 


Added new pork bones to the purple colour soup. Tastes better now. 



Looks like I’m starving my kid like that 🤣. 不吃菜咯!
Her fav “purple colour soup” where she had second helping and more scallops. Cannot waste the scallops as it’s so expensive. 


28th Feb (Wed)

Basil fried chicken fillet, boil Choy with mushroom and her 麻婆豆腐


Don’t think will be cooking for the next few weeks so will conclude this blog post. Hoping to be able to cook more for them next term but I’ll probably have to see how her new time-table will be like. 












Wednesday, February 28, 2024

On This Day - 28th Feb #Reminders from FB#

28th Feb 2020
Made a happy detour after picking lil’ one up from school. 

Suddenly craved for ice-cream, then che-che wanted too, lil’ one wanted her fries. Surprisingly traffic wasn’t that bad on TPE after that, normally at an earlier time (back home immediately after pickup) it’s a much slower drive. 

My mango sorbet, her dunno what flavour, lil’ one’s cheese fries and packed a pint home. 

#howtoloseweightlikethat# #everyoneishappy#


28th Feb 2020
This is the reason why che-che keeps her books.




28th Feb 2016

There's never a time I felt so so grateful for advance technology. Finally reunited with my ex-helper in FB after some time. The last time she called was in 2014.

Tonight she made a call to us in the night. Half the time while on the phone, Aricia wanted to press

"video" but I told her not to touch anything lest we lost connection. Finally KZ asked abt video and we tried. Woah! As good as Facetiming, she could finally see the girls after so many years.

The girls have grown; I have grown too! (sideways) & It is a happy reunion after all!

I guess sometimes fate works in different ways. For a long while, her niece didn't reply my message but I was able to see her posts. I dunno why last night I decided to drop another message to her again to try my luck to see if I could reach KZ. Niece replied and she directed me to KZ's new FB account and we were one step closer by pictures. And what I found out later in tonight's call, she did tried calling me on 19th Feb many times. I didn't know who it was and didn't pick up. Fortunately, we got to get in touch with each other before this month ends.

Thankful 感恩



28th Feb 2016


Same song but l'm using diff scales. Pardon me if it sounds horrible. Anyone knows? I heard it from a neighbour and a portion of the tune just keeps ringing in my mind. Nice song but dunno what.


Footnote written in 2024 :

It was an audio attachment in FB. In it, I was playing Kiss The Rain by Yiruma



28th Feb 2015



28th Feb 2014
* tagged in LH’s photo

She loves it to bits!!!! Thanks auntie lily Lily Ann Teo and where is mine huh hahaha.



28th Feb 2014

And u know what ?? It doesn't really bother me anyway. Why? Coz I spend most of my time hiding in shopping malls waiting for che-che to be dismissed from school or their tuition.

And I normally perspire coz l'm rushing from place to car to place to car to home.




28th Feb 2014

Lil' one came back with a form, said she told teacher she wants to do (KAPO!!!).

Guess what form?

..... Creative Toy .....

WHAT!! Aiyoh this girl ah.. I hv to help her but I hv no time. N I hv absolutely no idea such thing exists. So what other surprises is this girl giving me?





28th Feb 2013
Lil' one wrote rubbish again!

Footnote : In my comments in 2013. I wrote - She's really hilarious, writing notes and then hiding them (I clean their room, always get slips of papers) or paste on the wall above her bed. The nicest part is when I see notes of love declaration for me. The hatred bits when she complained she didn't like her daddy to shawer (shower) her.
Prob hoping one day her sister becomes a monkey.


28th Feb 2013

Can't believe that I'm busy labeling every thing that she has....even toilet roll?! Panties need to or not?


Footnote written in 2024 : it was for Che-che’s P5 camp. Why? I want to teach my kids responsibility, so was hesitant to label.



28th Feb 2011


For the girls




28th Feb 2010
* tagged in MMI Katong’s photos

Nice smiles



Tr Stella, Tr Amy and the N2 children






My comments in this pic : Ah doh! I didn't know the kids change oranges by bag. My bag is so .... ugly.

Hahaha!






Tuesday, February 27, 2024

On This Day - (27th Feb) #Reminders from FB#

 27th Feb 2024




27th Feb 2021



27th Feb 2020

The most horrible thing happened.

One side of lil' one's earring dropped in school. And it's a diamond earring!!



27th Feb 2018


Athena's height : 1.62 or 1.64cm? Can't rmbr what she told me.

Aricia's height: 1.34

If not in school uniform, pol think they're 7-8yrs apart. But then again, if pol hear them quarrel....confirm the small one is not that young after all. 😂



27th Feb 2018


Because she is so small … 😫



27th Feb 2015

Che-Che's back in her primary school....


Footnote written in 2024 : for what? Is it the concert band introductory thingy to the primary kiddos? Where she was asked by Mr Sim to go back and play the saxophone. 




27th Feb 2015


Long day for all of us. School, swimsafer (lil' one) / CCA (che-che), ballet, PTM. If everything falls on plan should end at 9pm. By the time we reach home... need to do today's wash. We're gonna crawl to bed tonight. Daddy, don't Facetime tonight.

Think it's the heat getting to us too.



27th Feb 2013


Since this year, at 7 +am the half zombied girls in school always get a shock when they're walking to class and a loud sharp voice woke them up with a

"Bye bye che-che! See you later!! Bye!" Athena is always so embarrassed when the girls all turned to look at them.

Yah....goes to show how close they are right??

In reality, the hidden meaning for 'Bye bye che-che' means goodbye sister I will miss you (miss fighting with you).

'See u later' - when I see you next, I'll start fighting with you.

Yesterday, Athena had to go early recess, same timing as the P1 & 2s, lil' one was shouting "che-che........" And introduced to all her friends "this is my sister". Guess what? The che-che is so embarrassed that she ran away from her. Hahaha!



27th Feb 2012


Shichida HW - Suggestions given by me n (2) hubby.

So will you make her our next Prime Minister?