Boss... Hugo Boss

Collected Nick's Birthday present yesterday! Its a pair of hugo boss eyewear.... It a birthday present from me. Still 2 weeks away to his birthday. For the past few years, we celebrated his birthday on short holiday. This year, due to his busy schedule, we are grounded in Singapore. 

His current eye wear is also a birthday present from me. But....there was once I sat on it with my bum..hahaha... can imagine the outcome.... So I proposed to buy him a new one as birthday present.
He get to choose his present this year. We went to a few shops but none fancy his eyes... until he saw this piece. His criteria is must be plastic and half frame. Picky loh... He managed to pick this last week. Hahaha! We collected it yesterday...it come in a very nice spec case and embossed logo on the cleaning cloth! 

Today he wear his new eye wear to work...in the morning he tell me, this glasses hor, cannot bio mei mei... cos side glance is blocked by the thick frame. Too bad loh... :P

I wanted to take his photo but he refused, he say I sure post online! I promised to take a "artistic" one... so wont see the face.... Hahahaha.... in the end I managed to take 1 photo but din turn out very well... so no photo for the time being....

Updates:
I saw zhu hou ren in that 9.00pm drama wearing the same hugo boss glasses! I even took a photo to show nick! Hahaha... he wasn't disturbed at all....hahaha
This morning I make fun of him, calling him zhu hou ren. He mimic "hi ni hao, I am hou ren" Then I ask him where is "qian ren" (前人)??? Hahahah... you got to understand Chinese to get the joke!

Ondeh Ondeh... its Orange colour!

Hahaha... my ondeh ondeh is orange in colour! Its the original colour without any added coloring! That the color of sweet potato! 100% real ingredients! 

This morning saw in market sweet potato offer. So decided to try make ondeh ondeh... I make 2 types. 1 is the with coconut filling and the other with the gula malaka filling. I always like the coconut filling type, but its difficult to wrap. I think next round if I wanna try again have to make the coconut flakes less watery. The small ones are the bite size with gula malaka filling, like the one sold in Bagawang solo... But typical of me, my bite size is also very big in size and gula malaka in super big bite size too! Hahaha!

This is the 1st ball of ondeh ondeh I make! Of course its in my stomach now! Hahahah....
These balls of ondeh ondeh has to be boiled in water just like "tang yuan".... due to my lack of skill in wrapping, I had some problem keeping the juice from ozzing out! Hahaha... too much filling inside... those ozzing ones, I got my bro to stuff them into his stomach! ***wicked smile!
Ondeh ondeh are really filling, eat abt 3 pieces already bloated liao...hahaha... later I m going to bring these for Nick as his teabreak. :)

 
ondeh ondeh

Ingredients:
600 gm of steamed and mashed sweet potato
2 tbsp pandan juice
250 gm white coconut shreds (add 1/2 tsp of salt and steam)
150 gm tapioca flour
1 tsp green colour (if sweet potato used is orange in colour, omit the colouring)
3 tbsp brown sugar

Mixed mashed sweet potato, tapioca flour, sugar, pandan juice and knead into a dough. If dough is dry, you can add some water (a tbsp at a time) until dough is soft and not dry.

Pinch some dough and make into a small ball. Flatten it with your palm and put filling in it and wrap it up. Boil a pot of hot water.

When water boils, put the wrapped ondeh ondeh into the pot and let it cook. When ondeh ondeh floats to the top, the dough is cooked. Roll cooked ondeh ondeh in the steamed white coconut shreds.

Filling:
Either use 200 gm of gula melaka (cut into small pieces)
or
250 gm gula melaka
4 tbsp brown sugar
4 tbsp water
1 coconut w/o skin (shredded)
1/2 tsp salt
6 pcs pandan leaves (optional)
1 tbsp flour mix with 2 tbsp water

Boil gula melaka, sugar and water until all the sugar dissolve. Sift the mixture. Pour the shredded coconut into the sifted mixture. Add in salt and mix well. Pour in flour mixture and stir until well mixed. Leave aside to cool before using.

The world is damm freaky small

Ytd on my way back from work, it was raining heavily.... as I was driving off from office, realise the steering wheel keep slanting to one side... the 1st thought might be that the rain cause the wheel off balance??? Or maybe its time to do wheel balancing...

I din really take that seriously... back to my home carpark I forget to check on the tyres also... Only after I drove out again to pick Nick then I notice that the wheels is off balance too much liao... I check the wheel of my driver side, no problem. Got a shock when I saw the passenger side, 1/2 of the tyre is flat!!!!

I drove to the petrol kiok near my hse.... I tried to pump in the air but the tyre refuse to take the air... there was a taxi uncle trying to help by pressing the air pressure on the machine to 300! I told him "Uncle I dun need so high pressure!" then the uncle keep meddling with the machine... it getting on my nerves liao.... I tried on the other tyre it works lei..

Just at this moment, a guy who offer to help and explain that I have to choose the deflat function first then it can get the air in... we chatted and realize that he is driving a Vios too.... and he happen to be in the car forum too. I thanked him for the assistance and left.

When I met up with Nick, I told him my encounter. He say the guy who drove Vios sound like his class mate... so I gave him the description and Nick is pretty sure that it might be his classmate! So Nick sms his classmate to find out and the world is damm freaky small!!! It was indeed his classmate!!!!! Just the night before, I was still helping Nick and his classmates to book airticket! He was in that list! I have never seen his classmate before.  

This is not the first time we have such experience! The last round is when me and wc and ws talking in MSN and wc mentioned that she make some money from unit trust in her cpf investment. 

Although I already have a agent in the same company as the one she has... I m keen to meet up with her agent. Ws is keen too. So wc gave her agent our numbers and he called us immediately to fix appt. Nick did not went with me the first round when I meet up with wc's agent. After talking to this agent, I wanted Nick to meet him too to discuss his policy. We agreed to meet the following week.
Nick has mending the day before we meet this agent and just that evening, I told Nick the name of this agent and Nick got a shocked... He say this guy is his army fred and he was just talking to him that afternoon at the mending camp! Nick call this fred of his and disturb him that he wanna meet him the next day, which he has arranged to meet me. So after a while of fooling, Nick told him that we are actually couple and the world is so damm freaky small!

好吃的chicken wings & Yam Cake

Rem last few weeks, I made some 好吃的chicken wings??? Hehehe... this is how it looks like!!!! I made them again! 

Never really like yam... but I like yam cake! Hahaha... my colleagues always say the yam cake we buy from stalls are not "yam" cake cos they dun have much yam... recently I saw a yam cake recipe online... thought might as well give it a try!

My yam cake is full of ingredients! I think I put too much ingredients!!! Hahaha... every bite is full of "liao" hahahah! 

Tomolo Nick can have Yam cake for breakfast *evil wink  Hahahaha!






Yam Kuih
Ingredients400 g yam, peeled, cubed and steamed
Filling :50 g dried shrimps, chopped
1 - 2 Chinese sausages
10 pieces dried mushroom, soak till soften
½ carrot, shredded
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsp oil
Batter :
200 g rice flour
40 g tapioca flour
400 ml hot water
Seasoning :½ tsp sugar
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper
Method :1. Stir-fry garlic in oil till fragrant. Add in rest of filling ingredients and sauté.

2. Put both flours in a bowl and pour hot water over. Mix well with wooden spoon to dissolve flours. Pour into a cooking pot. Add cooked yam, fillings and seasonings.

3. Cook all the ingredients on low heat till batter form a smooth, thick mixture.

4. Transfer to a steamer, smoothen top and steam on high heat for 30 - 40 mins.

5. Allow the kuih to cool completely, so it is easier to slice. Fry the slices in a little oil till crispy and light, golden brown.

Mango Temptation

Hee hee hee... yummy yummy!!! I got a mango sweet and nice... wat to do with it??? Decided to give the mango sago recipe a try!


Pearly sago.....

My creation of Mango Temptation!!!


Mango Sago
Ingredients
600gm mango (abt 2 honey mangoes)
400ml mango juice (Peelfresh or any other similar brands)
125ml evaporated milk
80g sago pearls (or 300gm pomelo, split into small pieces)
1 tbsp cornflour/tapioca starch
1 tbsp water
250ml water

Directions
1. Mix cornflour/tapioca starch with 1 tbsp water
1. Cut the sides of the mango and cube them. Scrap the remaining mango
2. Add cubed mango, mango juice and evaporated milk  and conflour mix into 400ml of mango juice then stir
3. Add sago pearls and stir, if too thick, add abit of cooled boiled water or more mango juice.
4. Chill before serving.
 
Preparation of sago pearls1. Boil about 3 cups of water in a saucepan. Add in sago pearls and bring to boil.
2. Once it boils, cover saucepan and turn off heat. Leave for 20 minutes.
3. Remove the lid, stir the mixture, turn on the heat and bring it to boil again.
4. Once it boils the second time, cover again, turn off the heat and leave covered for 10 minutes. The sago should be cooked by now.
5. Drain the sago from the hot water and rinse. Soak in cold water (to stop it cooking further). When completely cool drain again and set aside.

April Sat

Sat is whole day of nuai sai...hahaha... and I experiment with braise honey chicken wing... marinate the chicken wing then braise over fire and then grill it... taste good... then din want to waste the balance sauce... cook it with potato!!! hahaha... forget to take photos.. :P next time I try again will rem to take photos. 

Went to tomb sweeping on Sat midnight, its the usual practice of the ANGs.... hahah... we would 1 big family goes to Lim Chu Kang to tomb sweep...starting from last yr, we only goes to the Chinese cemetery to pray to my grandmother, cos my great grandparents shift "home" to Sin Ming de Guang ming shan liao...

We reached there about 12midnight as usual... could see a lot of families doing tomb sweeping too... its getting more and more crowded during this kind of timing.... last time we would go sweep great grandparents de at 12 and by the time we reached my grandmother de is about 2 am in the morning and usually crowded liao...

This year we saw a lot of procession for the Chinese hell god, "the elder uncle" and "2nd elder uncle"... I saw one who standing in the coffin , very traditional old kind of coffin. Of course no picture taking.... respect...

We reached home about 2am and sleep though till 11am the next morning! Hahaha... In the afternoon we went back to Jurong... feeling hungry... i search through the fridge and come up with this Chin Chye spag! Hahahah...

Chye Sim, hot dog, mushroom, jap mushroom, spag, a mushroom and becon sauce... Verdict is chye sim dun go well with spag... hahah... next time opt out chye sim. I think chye sim is a very chinese taste, spag is ang mo... so a but weird, I think broccoli is better ba.

Just for Fun

Just for fun... nothing to play with...hahahaha... so put this picture on a fake mag cover...hahahha.... long time bo update my blog here... means????

Boring loh....hahahha... Nick is very busy with his class, assignments...almost every weekend I rot at home... but I love rotting away lei... lazy to move also...hahaha... also spend more time on my tv programme... 

Over the past few weekends, I manage to finish the taiwan drama 公主小妹 on via internet its a funny typical taiwanese drama where all things end well... hahah.. I also watch the spiderlilly by Rannie... now I am hook to channel 8 weekend 7.00pm de 刁蛮公主, going to finish soon.
It time to get my butt moving.... sometimes back I am quite into baking, making cookies, trying to make cakes... It time to continue my experiments! Recently I came across some recipes off some blog... will try these one of these days.

Tomolo is weekend! Yeah!!!! Nick has no class, but I think got to stay at home also cos he need to do his assignment... I am looking forward to the nuai sai weekend!!! Hahaha... share you guy a blog I recently discover, its damm funny and really bo liao:
http://sibehsibehsian.blogspot.com/