Finally all done

I didn’t stay free and relaxed long after my last post. Tho must admit the music made me doze off on the sofa for half an hour. 

Once energised I began my last bit of cleaning the split ikan bilis, a job it took me 3 days (not consecutive) of butt-pain sitting sessions. 

Music playing in the background 

All 250g cleaned! 

Now I need to lock them up before the lil’ mouse aka lil’ one steals them 😁. Small hands she might have but when she grabs them to snack…. it’s HUGE! 

Power of music

 Today’s agenda : relaxation

Power of music

Music while having my dinner which consists of a subway bread and my corn soup

LV bag - I hope this works

After my last complaint in this entry, I decided to try something. I wasn’t willing to buy a new LV bag which girlfriend W offered to help me buy as she’s heading to Paris soon. Thanks for her kind offer. While it’s nice to have a new bag, a pochette bag that looks like what I have, is it really worth to buy a new one? And what am I going to do with this bag? I’m one sentimental person who will also make full use of my bags, shoes, home appliances until they spoil. Money don’t just drop down like that. 

My bag only has that problem, which I think the fault lies with me 😬, so I decided to look for something with a loop ring. I wasn’t going to sew on my bag, coz I use a bag organizer I might be able to sew it on that. I finally found what may be my solution. 👌 Placed order on the 10th the narrowest one I can find. 

Original price was ¥35, I had some discount from shopping too much in Taobao (haha! Is it a good thing or bad thing?) and paid only $6.42.

Arrived 16 days later 

I couldn’t use the yellow thread they provided coz my needles’ eyes are not big enough, so just used normal thread. 

After all the pushing the needle without a thimble thru the thick bag organizer aligning the holes on both sides AND 🩸 BLEEDING from those few accidental pricks 🤣 this better be worth it. 

Looks alright. Next step is the testing. 

I hope this works! A $6.42 + donating my precious blood solution. 

On This Day - (26th June) #Reminders from FB#

26th June 2025

After a short break (actually I think I worked harder during my trip 😝, it's back to my class. Yippee!

I forgot i washed my sneakers, luckily i still had enough time to re-lace the shoes.

#workthosefatsaway#

#thenhaveaheavysinfullunchafter#

26th June 2015

Received with big thanks after Wendy Low heard my call. Wah....sibei wasted man! I mean the oysters..

26th June 2013

哦！老天爷，你昨天吹冷风今天也在吹。要吹多久？其他地方都已经

吓大雨了。这边两天还不下。你要带雪给我们是不是？

26th June 2012

Does anyone have a sleeping bag to lend me? If possible, can pass it to me by 3rd July? Girl going for overnight camp on 5th. Thanks!

26th June 2011

Lil' girl only trusts her cock-eyed mother to cut her hair. Didn't want to go to the hairdresser.

26th June 2011

Look! We bought something back from NTUC!

The girls fav

Nothing is as comforting as their mummy’s mee hoon kueh. As I had been wanting to make my corn soup, I decided to do it today as I’d be able use up all the chicken broth (should have used chicken stock) for both corn soup and mee hoon kueh. I usually don’t use chicken broth so the taste might be a little different, who cares I just needed a place to dump the leftover. 

Frying ikan bilis, left some in the pot to enhance soup taste 

Mee hoon kueh prepared

Boiled the soup with fried ikan bilis and shallots 

After boiling the soup, I went on to cook my corn soup. 

2hrs later - Dinner is served! 

The next time I want to use Thermomix to cook mee hoon kueh

Corn soup

I’ve always loved the sweet corn soup served in MOS burger. Thus making this has been long on my mind. Finally did it. 

Searched for recipe just by keying in “ recipe in Thermomix” and AI immediately gave me this.

It is actually a converted recipe from this YouTube account - Simply Noms

Things I used. Was using the Heinz brand then cause of my blunder I poured the broth into the mee hoon kueh soup and didn’t have much left for the corn soup, I end up opening the Swanson brand. The corn kernels though stated 432g only gave me half the weight 😏

Lovely smell during the sautéing even tho I’m not a fan of  yellow onion

Aiyoh! I only got 263g of corn kernels

Using Yotsuba milk 

Soup has a hint of corn taste 🤣. More like I’m drinking corn milk. Need to re-do the remaining soup another day coz it’s already 6+ and I’m still in my dirty gym wear + I don’t have anymore corn kernels at home.

A bowl for my dinner, the rests in a container. Too lazy to freeze them in cubes coz I need to re-do the soup another day + no space in freezer to put in the wider mold

Mistake (or maybe not) I made

Recipe calls for chicken stock but I couldn’t find it so settled for chicken broth, thinking that broth is probably thicker and tastier. Ok I’m wrong 🤣.

Broth uses the meat + aromatic veggies n herbs. Stock uses bones, cartilage n connective tissues, often roasted beforehand to deepen the flavour.

A layer formed at the top just before I close the container lid to put it in the freezer. So it’s probably chicken fat 🤭. The next time I’m going to use chicken stock coz chicken stock = collagen. 

As what Mr Google said : For creamy rich soup like chowder, chicken stock is better. For clear broth soup like Chinese style sweet corn soup, chicken broth provides a cleaner lighter flavour

Two other recipes that I found and saved

Next projects : 

- Cream of mushroom soup 

- chicken stock paste

- Fish scale collagen. Need this for my old wrinkly skin.

Interesting oven

Had to make a trip down to Courts Tampines after my Fight-Do to get a new ceiling fan for lil’ one. Finally the first item paid for using the Climate Voucher. 🤭

After settling her fan, I went to look see look see ovens. My oven is still functioning after 10 years but recently the light fused out and I’m struggling to get the light cover out (maybe too much grease). Not changing just coz of the fused light lah! Just thinking if one day my oven kaput what choices can I find if I want a microwave + airfryer combined into one. I don’t have to climb up and down the organ bench to reach the microwave and I can clear my airfryer in my small cabinet. 

Our neighbours used to say that it’s challenging to find one oven to fit into our existing cabinets. Anyway 反正人在那里了 just 看看吧！难得有机会 I’m alone so I can see things better. I’m surprised tho he said, based on the pictures of my existing oven and measurements of cabinets, it fits most standard size oven. I was looking at this impressive oven , he mentioned this fits but it sure looks big to me. 

Bosch HSG7364B1 Built in Oven, combi steam, air fry 60cm, home connect (71L). Selling at $5999 now.

Wah… so impressive! Can watch the video here. I want to buy but the price is 💸💸. Think he knows he’s talking to a 穷光蛋, he pointed out to me another cheaper one. 

Whirlpool W9 OP2S2HBLAUS. Selling at $2699

According to him, Bosch ovens are made either in a Poland or Turkey and Whirlpool made in Italy. But when I checked on Google on the particular Bosch oven, it’s made in Germany. 

Some explanation of the functions 

A comparison chart. The guy said there’s microwave function on Bosch but it didn’t seem like there is. But I reckon if there’s a keep warm function, I’d be able to do that albeit it’s much slower

Which is better? And why choose one over the other? 

Extra information on ovens with microwave function

I’m leaning more towards the Bosch oven. Both ovens look good, tho I know the thumbprints marks will drive me crazy. I just hope I don’t need to change the oven that soon. 

 

Power of music

Listened to this when I had to clean the split ikan bilis. Had been on a quest recently with any short free/break time I had doing this. 

Music that accompanied me this afternoon. 

Power of music

As what Hans Christian Andersen said “Where words fail, music speaks.” 

More often than the other, I tend to have music playing in the mornings. All really depends on my mood and how I feel about certain music at that point of time. Realistically most times I start with an energetic music to ‘start my old tired engine’, but it really depends what kind of energetic music I’m leaning towards that particular morning. Throughout the day it just varies, sometimes no music sometimes another music genre when I’m cooking or when feeling shitty. 

Perhaps I should find the time to note this down, what I played this morning to remind myself in years to come what I did and listened. Hopefully I’ll be able to continue to keep up with this, maybe not everyday coz I’ll have added another ten to my hundreds of unposted-still-in-draft blog entries 🤣, but I’ll try my best.

I won’t be writing long stories the next time I post entries on this music related posts.   

Have a good day on this mid-week to whoever is reading my boring blog! 

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

21st June 2025

So funny.

Lil' one showing off her snack - ¥129 kamaboko. So cheap, I won't nag at her for sure. 😂

21st June 2023

起床咯！太阳晒到屁股上了！

Saw this teeny weeny spot here so moved the rack over, just coz the big one said "I have nothing to hug tonight".

that white one is the important one I need to dry quickly

#todaysshowerdayforchechetoys#

21st June 2021

You hardly see this done locally so it was a surprise when a gentleman knocked on my door. Such a sweet gesture from a new neighbour, as an apology for inconveniencing us with noise as they will commence renovation tomorrow.

I think I should also give something to my neighbours for enduring the girls' noise level all these years.🤣

还也还不够咯！😂

21st June 2019

Somebody (lil' one) can't sleep at all. She came into the room at 11+ eyes wide open . I can still hear her moving around in the room now. Hubby laughed at her and commented "this girl drank a venti coffee and refused to share with me. Good lah! Cannot sleep"

Should make her security guard n walk in compound.

#nightduty#

21st June 2018

Girls looked forward to this for a very long time.

Had to prepare the buttercream a day in advance, while they were sleeping I was perspiring in the kitchen. Goodness! I can't even remember when was the last time I baked!

One wants cake; the other cut cookies. Can you guess who wants what?

Footnote written in 2021 : 

To think that I had so many ideas on what I want to bake during this period where I hv no tutors coming into the house (which makes it difficult). Nothing is done so far and unlikely I will do it for this last week. I can't eat, man don't like bakes, the girls cut down on bakes for quite some time already. Since I have no guinea pigs then I shall not bake.

21st June 2018

One hour plus later.....

che-che crumb coating her cake 

First batch

And she is doing her second batch coz it isn't enough for one batch

Che-che’s first attempt in …..

Drip cake. She meant drip front and back. Haha! She didn't hold the bag properly and the rests fell from the top backwards

Yah yah got drip down technically. See! Drip down so much!!

Whole time she was laughing at her failed attempt. I thought it looked more like pandan cake. But she used the blue colouring!! Then she commented hers is like a failed mirror glaze cake.

End product. She didn't use all the toblerone. But now it looks like a dinosaur's head (Oreos are eyes )

Not bad for a first attempt.

Ahem...there's a huge chunk of white chocolate in the middle.

21st June 2014

Arrived a big box, containing our favourite ramen.

The last time I gave a pack to Mr Teo, our postman, to try. He said it's really very nice. The Singapore ones don't taste as good as these.

21st June 2011

Lil' girl was so comical yesterday (as ever). She took one Malay storybook at the library and proudly told her sister "I can read this." We laughed at her n her remarks was "oh yah hor! I'm so stubborn."

21st June 2010

KZ's not home 2day.Apparently some problem with her departure card, the immigration linked problem 2

her income tax. Said not paid prior 2 returning 2

Myanmar. Explained tt she tried but the Embassy in SIN was closed 4 an undisclosed time prior 2 her home leave (and it's like very sudden - no notice. Not stated in their website also)

Should be back tomorrow. Pray hard! Aricia cried when we left the airport just now.