Busy Ms Thermie

Got up from the wrong some of the bed and was a little hardworking today. 😬

@ 2pm - after cleaning the peach gum time to cook. The peach gum I bought from Hock Hua is very clean, I love it!

What I always need to do to expedite the cooling down, with another hand stirring continuously.

Ms Thermie washed n cleaned. At 5.30pm after prepping ingredients started makings corn soup

Using the same recipe as I used in June this year. My sweet corn came up to 543g. 

Cook the soup: Cook for 15 min / 100°C / Speed 1.

I used chicken stock (correctly this time)

Must hold on to Ms Thermie while she blends, afraid my $2k baby commit suicide

Adding milk.

This milk gives a creamier, richer and more flavourful taste to the soup that even Meiji milk can’t match up. It’s for our consumption so I never like to 偷工减料. 

All weighed into the mold, so it’s proportionate.

@ 6.41pm All 90g except the last one is 36g 

Into the freezer it goes until I’m free to vacumn seal them. 

Sip, Recharge, Repeat: A Simple Ritual for Overcoming Daily Exhaustion + info abt royal jelly

Taking a moment to rest between the two slaving in the kitchen work. Haha! Actually Ms Thermie worked the hardest today. I’m just too tired coz it’s stuffy and hot in the kitchen, and I’ve just been too tired lately (not sure if the haze is the cause). 

Weekends - I don’t cook on weekends so I’ve one job less to do but I feel my energy is sluggish. Somehow I wasn’t craving for plain water or matcha (I did say I wanted to make matcha today but in the end I didn’t coz I was tired) but I think my body gave me the answer that I needed sugar and also something sourish  to wake my tired brain. Honey lemon! Where’s the manuka when I needed it? Or maybe I didn’t replenish after I finish it the last time. 

I saw this honey for cooking, took my lemon juice from the fridge. Wah…all jipun brand 🤣. No choice my body says I need it now, I shall make do with what we have at home.

Busy taking pictures and acting like a lifestyle blogger …..but the moment I drank it - bleh! 😛 I’m really not used to this honey. I need to buy back my Manuka honey. 

That reminds me, I haven’t had royal jelly for a very long time. Perhaps I should look into that as a lady’s support instead of Herbal Harmony.

🐝 Royal jelly 🐝 

A very long time ago, mom asked me to take it. “It makes your skin smooth and nice”, she says. And I’m the vain I’ve unlike my sister. 🤣 All I had to do was to scoop out a teeny weeny bit in a teeny weeny spoon and just eat it. Sounds easy but she didn’t tell me it tastes awful. But for vanity sake, I psyched myself ‘nice skin’ into hundreds of small spoonfuls. Flushed down my mouth with water after that. No matter how awful it tastes I WILL EAT IT. I believed her, I believed it work coz my skin is flawless. Ahem… I was young then, of course my skin is flawless! Duh! 🤦🏻‍♀️ My sister must be thinking, such a dumb girl 😂. 

Some info :-

Royal jelly is a gelatinous substance secreted by worker honey bees that is rich in water, proteins, sugars, lipids, B vitamins, and unique bioactive compounds like 10-HDA. 

Potential Health Benefits

Menopause and Hormonal Support: May help reduce menopausal symptoms (such as hot flashes, mood shifts, and fatigue) and support vaginal health, partly due to weak phytoestrogen-like activity from 10-HDA.
Blood Sugar & Cholesterol: Some research suggests it may assist with glycemic control, lipid profiles, and reducing total or LDL cholesterol. 
Blood Pressure Regulation: Specific proteins in royal jelly may help relax blood vessel walls and support cardiovascular health. 
Wound Healing & Skin Health: Promotes collagen production, skin barrier restoration, and cellular repair when applied topically or used in skincare. 
Antioxidant & Immune Support: Contains compounds that may combat oxidative stress, lower inflammation, and support immune function. 

Important Precautions

Allergies: Royal jelly can trigger severe allergic reactions—including asthma, contact dermatitis, and anaphylaxis—particularly in people with bee sting or pollen allergies.
Hormone-Sensitive Conditions: People with hormone-related cancers (such as estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer) should avoid royal jelly due to its potential estrogenic activity.
Medication Interactions: It may interact with blood thinners, diabetes medications, chemotherapy, and hormone replacement therapy. 
Dosage: There is no official recommended daily dosage, though studies and supplements commonly range from 300 to 6,000 mg per day. You can explore product forms and safety guidelines via Healthline or consult oncology insights from UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Royal jelly offers several potential health benefits for women, particularly regarding hormonal and reproductive well-being, though most human evidence remains limited. 

Key Benefits for Women

Menopause and Aging Support: Taking 1,000 mg of royal jelly daily for eight weeks helps ease menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, anxiety, mood swings, and back pain. Localized or vaginal applications have also been studied to help improve vaginal atrophy and dryness. 
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) Relief: Daily supplementation (around 1,000 mg) has been shown to significantly reduce common PMS symptoms like irritability and emotional distress. 
Antioxidant and Preconception Support: Royal jelly contains unique fatty acids (such as 10-HDA) and amino acids that fight oxidative stress, which may support overall reproductive health and cellular protection in preconception women. 
Skin and Collagen Health: Its rich profile of proteins, lipids, and vitamins promotes skin collagen synthesis and helps combat oxidative skin aging. 

Important Safety Precautions

Hormone-Sensitive Conditions: Royal jelly exhibits mild estrogen-like activity. If you have estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer or other hormone-sensitive conditions, you should avoid it unless cleared by an oncologist or physician. 
Allergies: People allergic to bee stings, honey, or pollen are at risk of severe allergic reactions (including asthma or anaphylaxis) and should not use royal jelly. 
Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: Royal jelly is not recommended for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. 
Common Dosages: Most clinical studies use between 300 mg to 6,000 mg per day, with 1,000 mg daily being the most frequently studied dose. 

You can learn more about its general properties through Healthline's Royal Jelly Guide or consult clinical overviews on MD Anderson Cancer Center.

❤️ this 🍜 noodles

I’m just so in love with this chicken cutlet noodle from Bugis 新源记鱼汤. Been craving for this chicken cutlet noodles. So after Fight-Do on the 15th went to the outlet near home to have this. 

17th Oct (Sat) : just barely two days and my craving hits again 😬

** edit **

On 21st (Wed) hubby packed dinner for us. I didn’t say anything but I think he read my mind. Muahaha! I was so happy when I saw this. He used to say it’s so easy to bribe me with just siumai when we were dating, now I feel he can bribe me with this noodles. 🤣

Spontaneous meetup

11th Oct (Sun)

It’s really funny how we were messaging and then we spontaneously agreed to meet the next day 

12th Oct (Mon) 

Excited coz I haven’t driven into the road for many years, the last time was during the open house visit (?). I got my phone ready and hit the record button coz I wanted a pic of the signage tho I used to drive past here when I send/pick lil’ one to/from school. 

lol. men at work

Sigh…. What if ? What if ?….

Lunch at Tampines. We used to hang out in Tampines often too on our off days 😄

She used AI to generate these two pics

with our mini-mes. Why do I look so weirdly ugly here?

We adjourned to Sinpopo (actually wanted to go Chagee but no seats left) at Tampines1 for part 2. Funnily it was the same place I went to meet my batchgirls in July.  Chatted for another 2hrs before we left. 

Then coz I remarked that I’ve never seen her in her red uniform before, she mentioned that she’s doing a DPS turn the next day. Ok, so it’s going to be another day of meeting up with her. 

13th Oct (Tue)

Picked her up at arrival hall. But because I felt it’ll be stupid if I parked at T3 then drive out to park again at Jewel, I decided to just park at Jewel immediately and both lil’ one and I walked over to T3 to meet her. OMG! Why is the belt at the other extreme end of the terminal?  

Had lunch at Lotteria and adjourned for a drink 

Lil’ one passed a remark few days ago randomly about never having any chance to sit near the fountain in the restaurants or cafes. This cafe heard her and we were ushered to this table. 

Having fun with AI with Ghibli theme

Dropped her home since otw. Had to make sure the car is back in time for che-che to go for her 🎻 lesson. 

I was gifted this. Birthday is a week ago and I still got present lor! So touched. 

That sums up my two busy days. Busy days doing nothing at home. Now I have tons of backlog work which I need to do in the next two days. Cannot go out anymore.

AI fun

After 美女 showed me what she did I was hooked on making cute AI images. I never was interested in doing all these cool I don’t have the time. It’s fun to do but I’d rather take the role to clear photos in my camera roll 😊. I spent the evening playing with the phone. Which one do you think is nice? 😊 

As a Studio Ghibli fan, I asked for A Spirited Away theme.

It's not what I expected, quite fake.

Tried again. Now they gave me this nice pic of us slurping ramen. I like myself in this pic coz the fat face is proportionate to the fat body unlike the first pic.

Setting more appropriate too as we were in a Japanese restaurant.

Changed the colour

Ohh...and then coz it reminded me of our hilarious tahu telor meal in JKT I requested for it to change to tahu telor. I had to also ask to add my fav susuwatari

Oops! It was too many of them, so reduced the number of susuwatari 

And to keep to the storyline, we had to turn into pigs 🤣

I didn't know she's so disgusting eating lizard. Yeeks!

I’m such a cute piggie 😂

Changed colour again. I think the previous pic colour looks nicer.

This is so funny

Changed to Kiki Delivery Service but I don’t like it cos it looks just like them plonking in a clipart any o how

This is more like the theme. I even had one of her in her uniform but I can’t post online. That pic is a correct depiction as she was going to do a turnaround the same day.

Not forgetting Totoro. But super weird of us carrying umbrella, couldn’t change to us holding the leaf 

This is nice

Happy place one 🍨 scoop away

Just yesterday, lil’one spotted on Instagram that Baskin-Robbins Singapore is bringing in limited-edition Japanese flavors—including che-che’s absolute favorite, Popping Shower! When this news was conveyed to che-che needless to say she was thrilled and begged to go immediately. 

So here we are today, tracking down a scoop at the NEX 

Here’s the scoop

And here’s chr-che’s 3 pints of Popping Shower + my free pint of musk melon.

Yummy musk melon