I was looking through my photos folder in my lappy and I saw this big breakfast that Dear had prepared for me a few months back.
Very nice leh! And of ‘cos taste extra nice because no need to cook myself 
I hurt my neck when I sneezed this morning…how silly can that be?
I was chatting with Jimmy on MSN and suddenly I felt this sneeze that was coming..I wanted to pinch my nose but I was typing a message for Jimmy, and I think because of the confusion sent by the brain, my hands did not know which to do and I ended up trying to control my sneeze…and that’s the most wrong thing to do..
Ended up with a badly strained neck, which the pain extended to the upper spine area, down to my right shoulder and numbness on my right hand. When I walked to the clinic from my office, I nearly wanted to break down and cry, it was so pain can?!
The doctor gave a funny smile when I told her about the sneeze & pain and when she pressed her hands on my neck, she said “wow, it’s quite bad!”
I was given 2 days MC, and the medication is super drowsy… I can sleep like a pig even under very noisy construction work 
Faster recover…it’s a pain in the neck!
Happy Birthday to ME! 
Took leave from work because work should be the last thing in my mind today. Hmm…yah, I agree that birthdays are no big deal but I chose not to be bothered with things that doesn’t make me feel good and could potentially spoil my day.
So being that it’s my day, I went for a relaxing facial and massage in the morning. Talking about facials, I used to go once a month before I have Dawn. But now, If I want to go for a facial, I will need to apply leave from work! So I ended up going for facial like once every 2-3 months. Eww! No wonder the glow on my face is slowly diminishing. Plus the fact that my age is adding up every year. 
Dear bought me to this chinese restaruant at Tiong Bahru and I totally forgot what’s the name of the eating place. But the butter crab is superb! Though there’s no gravy (which is a pity because gravy goes nice with man tou!), but I have no complains. And I don’t mind going back to this restaurant again, just to have the butter crab ↓. Heh.
Besides the crab, we ordered the Oat Prawns ↓ and the champaign pork rib. And these are enough to fill us without taking any rice.
I had a very peaceful & enjoyable dinner, because there’s seldom opportunities to enjoy a feast without having to feed Dawn, and doing disciplinary work on Dawn’s table manners. And looking at the mountain of shells ↓ infront of my plate, I know I had a satisfied meal. Thanks Dear!
My Goodness! Half a month of no entries.. Not that I am having that “blog drought”…but I was too busy with everything else and ended up too tired at night to even log in to write.
I went away to Malacca for some work matters for a week too. Initially thought that I could have some time to upload some photos taken in Malacca, but I was so wrong. Had to work till late at night most of the days over there..for those slightly early nights (which is 9ish or 10ish pm), I would just want to hit the bed and snore..heh
Just a note here that I am still around, alive and kicking. Will upload photos and write more about the trip, my little girl and everything else soon!
Pardon me for the lack of updates recently. It was a super busy weekend and a tiring one.
I bought a new lappy in the recent PC fair! That also explain why I wasn’t posting over the weekend because I was trying to make my new lappy work; had to reinstall a lot of software again and playing around with Vista. I am still not very used to Vista
I bought the Aspire 6920G-833G32Mn, with free upgrade to 4GB ram. The specs are :
Model
Aspire 6920G-833G32Mn
Operating System
· Genuine Microsoft® Windows Vista®Home Premium
Processor and Core Logic
System Memory
Display/Graphic
Storage Subsystem
This lappy is quite heavy, maybe because I am too used to my Travelmate lappy weight. With this heavy box, I felt that the distance between Suntec and Raffles MRT station is so far. My arms and fingers were breaking by the time I reach the station!
The lappy cover…should I Zhng it? Skins? Crystals?
The lappy before and after switching on. The power light up is blue, that’s why they call it the blue gem series. The touched screen media console on the left looks cool hor?
And my free gifts! A 20G pocket drive, which I love it very much. So slim and the space is good for me to transfer a lot of files to the new lappy. I don’t need to download WOW updates at all as Dear helped me to copy the whole WOW folder into the new lappy, and BINGO, the WOW works immediately!
Acer also had this package freebie where you can chose Microsoft office (package A), 500G external HDD (Package B) and 2nd & 3rd Year extended warranty (Package C). I went to the fair with the 500G HDD in mind, but I was convinced to take the extended warranty instead. Heh. Acer also gave me a free luggage tag with number lock, which I think it will come in useful when I go for my holidays.
I was happy with the deal I had (freebies + $150 discount from selling price), but I think this will be the first andlast time I will buy a laptop or PC from a PC fair. It was kind of messy in that place and the wait to close my deal was so damn long. Imagine, I decided to buy the lappy at 5:25pm, and only at 6:10pm, they started taking out my lappy from the store and put in my free ram upgrade. Their working counter was too small, with so many salesperson and customers, the place was overcrowded.
And, I think something was wrong when the guy inserted the battery into the lappy because my media console was not working when I boot up at home. It was always on the “HOLD” button and I couldn’t “un-hold” it at all. I was indeed pissed because I wasted the whole morning trying to figure what was wrong. When I was about to give up, I remember that “when all else fails, take out the battery pack, reinsert and boot up again”. And it works. LOL.
Sunday (8 June 08) was “Duan Wu Jie”. Though I am someone who doesn’t really know how to cook (too blessed with a mother who cooks for me, so have not master the art of cooking YET), but I always wanted to learn how to wrap the rice dumpling (”Ba Zhang” in Hokkien). Its a skill which not many youngsters nowadays know.
Duan Wu Jie (is 端午节，not 粽子节！！) came about because of a hero. You can read the story here.
I had a chance to learn from Dear’s family on how to wrap Ba Zhang on Saturday! It was fun learning and seeing my little improvement from an almost shapeless Ba Zhang to something which finally looks like Ba Zhang! Besides Dear’s mother, Dear’s sister is also very skillful can! Her Ba Zhangs are all in very nice shapes!
These are the 2 Ba Zhangs for my breakfast. The right one is wrapped by me..with obvious tell-tale signs.
The bottom tip is not pointed enough, means, I did not shape the Ba Zhang enough when wrapping it. The 2nd picture shows that the leaves are quite loose…which also means that my grip was not very good when wrapping it. Heeee..
Very delicious Bah Zhangs! :p
I found this step-by-step guide on how to wrap the dumpling, a nice guide!
I went to Amoy Market for lunch with my colleague today. There are alot of yummy food in Amoy Market, but it is also a place where it’s crowded during lunch time and need to wait around for tables.
Tried the chicken curry mee today. There was a queue for this stall, but the aunties and uncle were quite fast in preparing our food. When I was queuing, I realised that this stall was up on Channel U before.
Da-dah! Here’s my chicken curry mee!
It’s not too bad. The spiciness was just right for me. The mee was chewy, the soup was nice. However, some of the chicken were not as tender (some are alittle hard) and the curry taste is not strong enough. I still prefer the chicken curry mee from Hong Lim Market! :p
After lunch, one of the colleague who joined us yesterday, bought a box of strawberries for us. And the strawberries were so big that everyone of us were fascinated about them. They are very sweet too!
Strawberry with a comparison of a fifty-cents coin.
Carine gave birth to Baby Darryl today! Went to Thomson to visit them after work today. Darryl was sleeping all the time when I was there…sleepy
Dear came to Raffles and met me for lunch today. We were caught in a sudden heavy downpour. Initially planned to go to Asian Kitchen for some soupy stuff, but because of the rain, we went to the Japanese Resturant at Far East Square instead. Both of us were too full with our set lunches and 10 pcs of maki that I ended up eating the filling of the last maki. And naughty me decided to create something silly using the leftover sushi rice and the cucumbers. Pardon me with the bad clarity of the photo because it was taken by my mobile phone and the lighting condition was bad because of the gloomy sky.
Cute?
One of my colleague, Elaine, went for a cartoon drawing class. The other day, she came over my working area and drew this for me with pretty fast strokes. Not bad for a beginner right?
We finally brought Dawn to the zoo today. Had been wanting to bring Dawn there because she will always point excitedly to the animals shown on the TV. It’s a good way to futher stimulate her growing mind.
I didn’t know that the Zoo is just a 10 mins ride from CCK interchange. I thought it’s far away! And its quite convenient to take the train to CCK and change to bus 927. It brings us right to the doorstep of the Zoo!
The entrance fee is $16.50 for adults (without the tram ride) and it’s free for kids below 3 years.
We saw quite a lot of animals, though some were hiding in the shade due to the weather. The tiger, the lions, the giraffes, the elephants and many others. We were always on the move and never stayed for an animal show. The zoo was quite crowded due to the weekend.
We saw this statue built in the remembrance of Ah Meng. Ah Meng, adored by most Singaporeans, passed away in the beginning of this year.
We were all tired after all the walking in the zoo. Dear was carrying Dawn most of the time so that she can see the animals. Instead of having her relaxing in her pram, we made Dawn walked too. Kids need some exercise!
Admission Fees - $33
Time Spent in Zoo - 2 & 1/2 hours
Energy spent - countless (+ litres of sweat dripped)
This Sight >>>>>
>>>>> Priceless.
