Room without the door

I came home today and found the door to my room missing.... ^_*

Tiles should be done by tomorrow, hopefully. Was not supposed to go into the room but couldn't help myself... must follow the squares to the bathroom!

Don't know what I did to the above photo.. must have stretch/skewed it not proportionately.

It's gone!

The termite people came and pronounced that the termites no more biting, meaning they are dead. The "bait" has been removed. Work will continue next week.... YES!

Little progress...

Well, my room still look like this after a month.

All because of that "bait" thingy for the termites. That's the box between the ladder and plastic bag.

The new aircon is up already. Keeping the fan.

The bathroom made more progess. I did not take new pictures but already using it.
My SIL went to the GH for check-up. Went to use their toilet and guess what? Their tiles are colours exactly like mine... sigh!

Yummilicious chilli fish!

Fried fish drown in a sea of chillies.

This was one of my favorite food for supper when I was growing up in Pontian. The shop sold rice with cooked dishes and will opened late into the night as they also cater to those fishermen coming home from sea in the early morning.

Judy was the one who brought it up again when we had lunch with Rani in May. Judy, a Singaporean, who came to visit once back in 1993 or 1994. Only once and she remembered for life!

They closed or moved to somewhere else due to some family feud. Over the years, I have always asked mum where did they go since dad and mum know the people, who's who cousin or something but I never got an answer and I made the assumption that they stop selling.

Anyway, I reminiscent with friends a few weeks back about this shop near the bridge and lo and behold I was told they are now selling at the stalls opposite Pei Chun primany school! I told mum but she did not send dad to buy from there. I don't know why.

Last Friday, mum called to ask if I was going home and what to buy for dinner. I suggested this fish and dad went to buy. When I got home they were 2 left on the table and I finished both, that's how delicious it was. Dad grumbled that mum keep sending him elsewhere to buy food .... LOL!!!

How good was it? Well, mum had it 3 days in a row.....

Day 6

This was how the room looked like yesterday.....

Have to stop work 2 months for the room because of the "bait" thing. I tried to draw a circle but obviously its not working. It is the square thing behind the pail.





The bathroom where the bathtub used to be....


the other side of the wall

These were taken yesterday during lunch time. By the end of the day, they finished the wall tiles already.

Day 2 - Day 6?

Day 2 was last Wed!!!

I know, my 'lil sis called early this morning to complain already, "Why no updates after Day 1".

It's not my fault you know... I woke up this morning and its Day .... I lost count. Time flies nowadays.

ok, if I remember correctly there were a lot of commotion on Day 2. The management send the termite people to come look at my room since they heard got termite but they knew that for a couple of years already! Anyway, to cut the story short, we cannot clear the parquet because they want to set the 'bait' and it will take 6 - 8 weeks for it to work. Sigh!

We went ahead with the bathroom... did not take pictures, sorry.

The next few days gone like a blurr. Probably because have to wake up really early, not enough sleep? Will try to snap a photo of the work in the bathroom later.

a little note to self...

you have already eaten, don't go to people's blog and complain why never bring for you to makan...

Day 1

No, not dieting…. ^_* nor exercise…

Been wanting to renovate my room and bathroom for a while now and finally made the call again last week and the contractor was able to slot me in this time.

This is how my room looks like now...

No, the apartment is not in a mess becaused the door is closed and of course SIL probably already swept and moped before I got home from work.

So I am being defensive, starting sentences with "No".

Lao Tzu Quotes

Silence is a source of great strength.

Me - depressed?

Me 'lil sis said I sounded depressed in previous post.... Am I depressed without me knowing? Who knows right? I have already kept away from newspapers with all the depressing news... so what?

Some very backdated bentos....

Bento # 45

Bento # 46

Just Because....

I haven't feel like doing anything. Being very 'sian'. Sian is a hokkien word and my defination of it is tired, lazy, bored and sick of something-I-don't-know-what...

Showing off SIL cullinary skills during the CNY 2009 reunion dinner.

About bentos that I have not posted

I have been lazy... these bentos were from previous weeks. I'll still number them, not necessary in the right order.

Bento # 40

Chicken drumstick, broco flower, carrot, mini corn and sweet pea

Bento # 41

Carrot, broco flower, mini corn, sweet peas and capsicum

Bento # 42

same ingredients again except got extra 'green ku kuih'

Bento # 43
Fried rice, carrot and chicken

Bento # 44
Top: Sauteed mock duck with capcicum and onions on a bed of lettuce

Bottom: More lettuce, onions and tomato

About oily, full of calories yummy breakfast

Just day 8 since the fateful night that Emily and I made the pact to try to move that scale (not literally) ...

After 7 days of instant oatmeal with low fat milk powder and wolfberries for breakfast... I must say this delicious mee is simply one of the reason why I am obese all my life!

There is also the mee siam...

and the nasi lemak and the roti prata and ... (sorry no more pictures!)

About something that put a smile on my face...

Donuts? Well, food always put a smile on my face... ^_* Do you know that these are the current fads? People are actually queing up to buy and the queue can be quite long. Even got TV programs about them...

But what really put a smile on my face was this.... (Rozita asked for my address so I know something was coming in the mail but I didn't know what.)

Found in my mail box this morning was a handmade card and bento belt from Rozita. How sweet is that?

Happy bento-ing!! Not that I have been doing that much. I don't know that I have been giving advise but am glad that Rozita thought so. LOL!!!

Roz, thanks very much for the lovely card and belt. They will also serve to remind me that I have to keep on bento-ing...

About Temptation

A temptation is an act that looks appealing to an individual. It is usually used to describe acts with negative connotations and as such, tends to lead a person to regret such actions, for various reasons: legal, social, psychological (including feeling guilt), health, economic, etc.
Temptation also describes the coaxing or inducing a person into committing such an act, by manipulation or otherwise of curiosity, desire or fear of loss.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This week Emily and I made a pact to execise and diet. Don't know how long it will last but the above sure looks tempting right?

It was yam cake made by Fiona's mum. Picture taken a couple of weeks ago but was 'doing nothing' so did not post....

About Emily and 100Yen shop...

Emily just called excitedly. Why?

She is at the 100Yen outlet at Taman Permata (or was it Pertama?) and there are a lot of new stocks....... unfortunately she does not have the camera with her.

Quick go post in somebody's blog... so here it is! Got new bento boxes, all in sets. Cutters, etc.. For more details, have to wait for Emily to post. LOL!!

About Happy New Year 2009..

Just wishing everyone a very Happy New Year 2009. A couple more hours and the last day of 2008 will end! Have you made your resolutions?

My resolutions is not to have any resolutions this year! Not that I ever have any.... ^_*

Cheers!

About being lazy and doing nothing...

“I’m doing nothing” is what you say when you really don’t want to say what you’re doing. Or, it’s what you say when you don’t know what you’re doing. - nothing important

Whenever I think of doing nothing which I have been doing, it will remind me of something I read from Winnie the Pooh. So, I goggle as you can find almost anything you can't remember goggling, and found Nothing's important - an interesting read about nothing.

I was looking for this:

“I like that too,” said Christopher Robin, “but what I like
doing best is Nothing.”

“How do you do Nothing?” asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time.

“Well, it’s when people call out at you just as you’re going off to do it ‘What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?’ and you say ‘Oh, nothing,’ and then you go and do it.”

“Oh, I see,” said Pooh.

“This is a nothing sort of thing that we’re doing now.”

“Oh, I see,” said Pooh again.

“It means just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”

“Oh!” said Pooh.

I laughed aloud when I read this many years ago and somehow it stuck in my mind. I wonder what goes through a kid's mind when reading the book. Is it a good idea to recommend a child to read Winnie the Pooh?

About being bless, food wise at least...

It was another one of those days that emphasize I am so blessed!!

One day last week, I came to work with just tomatoes because Fiona got other ingredients for a sandwich - wholemeal bread and tuna... So, that was tuna sandwich for breakfast.

Then Twister showed up with the above and hey, there's my lunch... ^_* Fried eggs on the left and stuff green chilies on the right. (My mouth is watering as I type.) Twister posts recipes on her blog, if you don't already know, but its all in chinese. I offered and tried/attempted to translate(with much help from Fiona) them to english as someone requested but think I failed to come up with anything.

You can find the original recipe here. And below translated to english...

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Stuffed Green Chilies

Ingredients
- 8 green chilies
- 1 slice lean pork (chopped)

For meat seasoning
- a little bit of parseley
- a little bit of five spice powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tsp sesame oil

For the sauce
- chopped garlic
- chopped shallots
- taucheo (yellow bean sauce)
- cornstrach (add in water)

Method:
1. Prepare the green chilies for stuffing - clean the green chilies and slit in the middle. Discard the seeds.
2. Chopped lean pork, add in all the seasonings, stir in one direction and marinate for 3 hours.
3. Stuff the meat paste into the green chilies.
4. Heat up some oil in a wok and fry the green chilies until golden in color. Dish up.
5. Using the same wok, leave some oil, stir fry the chopped garlic, shallots until fragant. Add in the taucheo and some water. Thicken the sauce with corn starch and ready to serve.

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That was not all... some more got dessert!

Another colleague came by with her sister's made steamed pumpkin covered with grated coconut.

Veggie Curry

SIL cooked vegetable curry for dinner one night last week. Of course, I packed leftovers for lunch the next day...

Nothing to show this week, have been lazy and cannot wake up in the morning.

That bowl of porridge

I know, it was a big bowl... too much carb. Hey, one step at a time, ok? What? It has been months already. Well, I am a real slow starter... and I love my food. Hence the size!!!

In the middle, kimchi and pickled black bean. Bottom and then clockwise - meat floss, bitter gourd stuff with meat (yong tou fu), onion fried eggs and a fish ball.