On This Day - (21st July) #Reminders from FB#

21st July 2024

One of the reason why I always loved sitting by the window.

And I love to film every takeoffs and landings #cloudspotting#

21st July 2024

 😥 Hands numb for 3 days liao, not much strength. Been drinking too much cold drinks to cool myself down in the heat. Sigh….... the thing about drinking warm water is good for you; constant nagging from mom and then advice from TCM sinseh n tuinal is true lor. Need to go back to tuina again. #cannotfalldownwhenold# #daijiliaoliao#

21st July 2023

She saw this in the Japanese mart and wanted to try and cook.

Presenting.....

Che-che's okonomiyaki with no cabbage. Suddenly wanted to eat so couldn't thaw pork belly in time, she replaced it with luncheon meat

😂. Can lah! 

Luncheon meat is also meat 🤣

Note to her : please clean the showroom kitchen well after use 👍

21st July 2023

 @ NTUC. Suddenly the people around me have their recycling bags with them.

Depending on the bag I carry out, I didn't have my recycling bag with me today. anyway I need the plastic bags for trash so l'm not environmentally friendly and 5c won't stop me 🤭 from rejecting a bag

21st July 2023

Spent backbreaking 3hrs just cleaning n packing these 5 packs of peanuts roots.

Lil' one Aricia Ting miss drinking this, requested to brew this for her. Haiyah! Backache also must do it lor....

Can only last her for 5 weeks before I do the next round of bulk cleaning.

#ineedkoyoknow#

21st July 2022

Oh my! I didn't know that i have to go down to Service Ctr to replace Casio G-shock battery.

Needed to change her broken strap (dunno how this girl use her watch), and then the moment the guy opened the watch (assumingly to take out the strap)

1. my battery died when I only changed it a month or so ago before her SA1
2. rubber thing is a little crooked. Apparently the guy at the watch shop didn't do a good job in capping back the backing

So it's an important lesson learnt.

Next time just make her bring an alarm clock with her, only need AAA battery . Anyway, she'll be happy if her watch spoil lah, she wants to buy another colour BUT coz mummy says why need so many watches just use until spoil then change #stingymom#

21st July 2016

The joke is on the lil' one.

She wet her bed at 3-4am this morning. And so I asked her in the afternoon why did she wet her bed.

Her reply was "I heard the thunder and I ...

"And it rained on your bed before it rained outside?'

🌧️ 💧 💧 💧 

Must remind her not to rain on her bed again tonight.

21st July 2014

Only the ill' one wore costume to school. The older one wore a blue n white costume. Hee!

21st July 2012

Yay! Another unsupervised class with mei-mei. First was Shichida on Thursday then it's Yamaha today.

But it means bad news for che-che. Eyes on her doing her work; cannot slack.

21st July 2011

Goodies - kueh lapis, kueh salat, mini rice dumpling

Packed up for kids instead of eating it there coz I reckon they'll hv 24 other food. In a little bucket style container.

Little nonya with nonya goodies for her friends

Racial Harmony Day - My little nonya

On This Day - (20th July) #Reminders from FB#

20th July 2024

She can never get enuf of her boy boy.

Too bad trip ended early coz I don't have so many days leave 😅. Somebody rest 2 days and then flying off again. She 实在 good life!

20th July 2024

Omg! So cute !!

20th July 2024

モフサンド blind box is so cute. We should have bought more for this meow meow fan. #alltherubbish# #howtokondo#

20th July 2024

Our cheap and satisfactory meal.

The girls find the soup taste even better today. Sweet che-che helping to tilt the pan so her sister can drink.

20th July 2024

The look on girlfriend's face when she saw the size of our luggages. To think that I was going to show off how shocking our 5 days only trip and I came back with 3.

(It's mainly all her favourite snacks! Now one can understand how much priority over her Japanese snacks she had when she had to go back US in Jan.

She told me, "I still had to ration month by month so l don't finish everything at one go." 🤭)

"Torlong lah Lily. So small your bag! Can you please get a bigger bag?" Haha! Goes to show how I really hate to travel with huge and many luggages. I mean if only I can & if there is such thing. I hope there is disposable top, disposable pants, disposable this and that. I believe I can just travel with my haversack? 😀#thoughtshewillbeshockedhowmuchwebought#

#butshewasshockedwithhowsmallourbagsare#

20th July 2024

So hot !!!!!!!

Turn on 2 aircons + 2 fans. Hubby sleeping in room with aircon on too. Should ask him to sleep in living room.

20th July 2023

Told you somebody just loves her noodles. But she forgot to mention ネギない。She's the ネギない、やさいない person which left the lady cooking okonomiyaki baffled 🤣

20th July 2021

Short lived happiness when instructor Dawn messaged us yesterday that class would resume.

Then today, new regulations.

Revoke the KTV licences, throw all the humsup men together n they can hug each other (with no medical attention given to them), to that boyfriend who sponsored his "girlfriend" over (tho she may not be the #1 source), I hope u know she's not faithful to u... or perhaps you're her pimp?

Torlong can everyone just do your part?!

Complacency gets u nowhere.

20th July 2021

Last Tuesday lil' one told her tutor

〞我下个星期一会去打针，星期二会生病，不可以有补习。🤣

The know how to siam (dialect) aka evade Queen

lioked with tutor that she h.

Let her rest today, just mild fever at 4am. Thank goodness it's PH today.

Lil' one told me a lot of absentees yesterday, and it's a valid reason to miss school after her jab in the morning. I really didn't know until I checked with another tutor. (g) #howwouldiknow#

#我的小算命师＃

Anyway, it's expected lah! Everyone gets the same after reaction. I just need to be extra careful with her everytime she has fever.

20th July 2018

Hairstylist partition her hair bit by bit, said her hand tired. Haha! She hasn't seen the even thicker Che-che's hair. Which reminds me Youli Song last time still want to re-tie her bun for her.

20th July 2014

OMG! So funny!

20th July 2013

Can't wait for their 🎵 exam to be over. Wish them luck!

20th July 2013

Nice jazzy beat. Too noisy in the mall, if not I can imagine myself sitting in a hotel lounge sipping wine and enjoying the lovely music

20th July 2012

Y iam here? So near Che-che's school but taking forever. argh!

20th July 2011

Chat bet KZ & Ari.

KZ: wat do U 1? AuntyZet buy 44.

Lil'1: I like anything u gimme (pause) to be cont'd >>

Lil'1 : eh! Aunty Zet, u bd 1st. My bd in Sep, u in August.

KZ: what r u buying 4 me?

Lil' girl: I'm going to 放屁 (pass flatulence) in a bottle n give u. U see d bottle eh so pretty; so nice. U open it n smell n then n then u faint.

ROFL!! Can't believe she actually said that!

Lunches for Y3T2

It’s the final term before lil’ one starts her internship and then onward to the next path. 

9th Apr (Wed) 

Porridge cooked the night before. Always the easiest to settle one meal. 

Using the leftover yellowtail fish. Quite a lot of leftover actually, I didn’t use the full portion of this marinated fish. This marinated fish includes the Japanese garlic and ginger paste, I’m really beginning to love the paste. So easy to use. Kept the half for another porridge, maybe next week 🫢. 

Ready to scoop into the slow cooker. This tastes a little different as I added sole powder

10th Apr (Thu)

Back to Fight-Do means whatever I prep in the morning must have minimal mess, coz nobody helps me wash up, by the time I get home it’ll be hours later.  

Thermos flask and teriyaki chicken taken out the night before. Rice washed and Ms Thermie prepared for next morning. If only Thermomix has such function where I can set a pre-set timer. 

Still in a zombie mode walked into the kitchen. Transferred the chicken into the bowl and prepared chawanmushi. Maybe next time I’ll try pre-bowl everything the night before and fridge it? Not sure if will spoil the eggs 🤨…

Set Ms Thermie and went to get myself ready. Yawn…..🥱

Her lunch - rice with CP’s teriyaki chicken and chawanmushi 

16th Apr (Tue) 

It’s pastaaaaaaa!! Quick but messy coz can only be cooked on the day itself. Sianz! I’ll think to clean the kitchen mess up later. 

Fried with picnic ham. I tried and it’s not bad altho I did add a little extra onion (50g more) to this sauce. I had to cook the whole pack of 220g pasta sauce, I hope it won’t be dry by the time she eats it at 1pm (about 6hrs later)

After I scooped out her lunch, I had a little pasta left for myself to try, I love mine a little spicy so added chilli sauce. Maybe I’m hungry … I can’t deny this sauce is nice. This recipe is a keeper. 

23rd Apr (Wed)

Simple fare. (1) Chawanmushi with oyster + sesame marinated shiitake and scraps of yellowtail fish (2) popcorn chicken with extra rice from last evening. 

Chawanmushi look so mor-peng-diao-deng 🤣

24th Apr (Thu)

I wonder, I really wonder how the Japanese mummies can have the energy to prepare nice beautiful bentos daily and wake up always looking so fresh. I always grouchily zombie-walk into the kitchen 😂 in the mornings.  Not a morning person, not an afternoon person generally not a whole day person 😜. 

Lunch cooked the night before. Porridge! Using the last bit of marinated yellowtail fish meat and mushroom. And into the slow cooker it goes. 

30th Apr (Wed)

Marinated pork the night before with oyster sauce and fish sauce

In the morning. Super loving this style of steaming food, though for now I’m only packing for one kid I’m more than welcome to pack for che-che if she wants / if she doesn’t fuss with food. 

Done! 10 more meals ! 10 more meals to pack then I’m done packing for the year and hopefully for a longer time too or no more. 

7th May (Wed)

Cooked the night before 

Scooped out the next morning 

8th May (Thu)

The mince chicken I marinated on Monday night

Took a portion out from the freezer to defrost last night and this morning into the pan for steaming

Another easy meal settled for lil’ one’s lunch. Too bad the girls have a lousy cook as their mummy. They grow up eating shitty food 🤣. 

She likes this chicken. I seasoned with Japanese pantry items. 

14th May (Wed) 

Packed this on Tuesday. I realised my laziness has made me a smarter person. I decided to pack x2 portion. Pasta meant for Tuesday’s dinner for lil’ one and me. Fried rice for her lunch for school. 

The two portions fit into one glass container

Night before, I portioned out some into the slow cooker for the rice to be heated up and kept warm. Yup! Another smart move so I can sleep in 10mins longer. 

This morning - done in 3 mins. But pity that I can’t adjust my slow cooker to LOW setting, the fried rice and (usually) porridge forms a crust on the sides the next morning. 

15th May (Thu)

The last portion of Hanis fried rice 😉 She says it’s not nice but I don’t care.

21st May (Wed)

The easiest yet not rubbish unsustainable meal for my girl 

The night before, took out the extra rice and the marinated pork which I had thawed since morning 

Dished them into a bowl and cling wrap and put it back in the fridge

Prepared the pan with water. So tomorrow will just leave a small opening in each bowl and steam. I might steam chawanmushi for her. See what time I wake up tomorrow 🤣

22nd May (Thu) 

Prepared last night. Didn’t know the x1 portion of pre-marinated basil chicken is too little, I must have been so tired when I was packing and when I took it out last night to thaw  . 

This morning ….. ok really pathetic amount of food for the same amount of time needed for steaming 🤦🏻‍♀️.  

28th May (Wed)

I kept some clean mee-hoon-kueh soup from last night coz I wanted to make my life easier today. Cooked udon with marinated minced chicken 

29th May (Thu)

Will this be the last packed lunch for lil’ one forever? Mince pork with all the sauces ('' the best one you've ever cooked'') + chinese sausage

I had mixed feelings as I pack her food today. I have been packing food for her since primary school, that's 13 years! Holly molly! 

I can now post this out and let's see if in the future I'll have to pack food for her again. Running out of ideas what to pack for her.