Change more?

This is good news, lucky I’m a little free now to read newspaper - selective news I mean 🤭. 

The last time I exchanged, the rate was ¥123

Haha! Changing so much JPY but I’m no where close to Japan.

Power of music

What’s playing on this Tuesday, which is just like any ordinary day for me.

Music I played as I did my daily ah-soh work + changing out all the dehumidifier tubs in the house

Started with this. But thing with Spotify is sometimes they will go to other albums which I have no idea what was playing. 

Switched to this as I prepared dinner - rice in Ms Thermie and poured all the dishes out to be heated up in oven. 

Wanted to clean the coffee table and TV console but so tired now. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow together with other additional chores. Now ……. relaxing for 10 mins before I take my shower. For sure after dinner I will be all sweaty again cleaning and tidying up the kitchen & then have shower again 🤣. 

Is my washing machine clean?

Interestingly I came across this on Talking Point just as they loaded this on YouTube two hours ago. 

That made me wonder how clean is my washing machine? I can’t dismantle the whole machine coz I don’t even know how and we’re not advisable to do so. 

Admittedly I would love if he had come to my house to do the swab tests lor. I’d either be happy or be embarrassed with the results. 

I do clean my washing machine once a month (not sure if it’s enough with the loads I run every week. I have to separate che-che’s clothings, towels and bedsheets from us as I use eczema friendly laundry detergent for hers. I wash towels twice a week so that alone means 4 laundry runs.)

How do I clean ? 

1) I throw in this capsule. Leave water in the drum for 1hr or most times I tend to forget about it until 2 hrs or more later when I walk to the yard. Haha!

2) wipe the gasket with chlorox wipes reaching the hard to reach areas with chopsticks, just like what the lady owner of a laundromat in the video does. 

3) wipe the window, wipe every parts I see and can reach on the interior (except the drum) and exterior with chlorox wipes 

4) wash the detergent drawer

5) clean the debris filter and emergency drain tube

I use up lots of chlorox wipes when I clean the machine. I tend to use up lots of disposable gloves when cleaning up my house too! 

After every laundry 

After every usage, I leave the door open and laundry drawer slightly ajar until the next time I use the machine. This will help to dry up the water droplets

Is my heater helping?

I’m not sure if the heater that I do turn on, at least 5x a week, when I need my laundry to dry quickly in the night (but coz they only run for 2hrs each time. Sometimes if I’m still not asleep and I see the heater is off, I’d turn it on again. So it’s 4hrs max of hater on in my yard) helps in sucking up moisture. I really should put another hydrometer in my yard toilet to check. Although sometimes I do turn the heater on in the daytime, but coz my yard windows are open. I close up the louvre in the night thus the yard area is almost like a sauna area. Maybe my yard toilet is dry enuf? 😬

So is my washing machine clean from bacteria and free from mould from the way I maintain my machine ? I have a big question mark. ❓ ❓ Actually our current Panasonic washing machine has a dedicated Tub Clean feature, maybe I should try to use it one day. 

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.