Bz Mommy

Trying to wake Dawn up before I leave for work and this is what she did :

She continued to sleep in this position. LOL!

I forgot where I had that very nice white bait and dear reminded me that it’s from Akashi @ Paragon. And yes I had been craving for it and through these months, I had tasted the white baits of different restaurants but none is the same as the ones I had in Akashi. (And the worst so far was from Canton-i :< )

So here’s the very very nice white baits.  Though is fried, the inside is very soft and the white bait is very sweet! I can just finish the whole plate by myself But we do realised that the serving is much lesser than the time we first had it.  Haiz..inflation sucks!

close up of the white baits!

We also ordered the  cold cucumber with miso paste. This is our favourite dish in Nirai Kanai but the miso paste is really in past form.  So when the waitress delivered this to us, we stared at the miso beans.  I was alittle deceived by the look but I could not stop myself from attacking this dish after the 1st bite.  The cucumber is so fresh and crunchy and it’s so refreshing.  It served as a good appetiser and I think it will be a good dish with beer too.

I had the udon set and Dear had the Saba set.  Actually he had wanted to order another set but the waitress had heard him wrongly.  Well, he seems fated to eat Saba anyway. :p

What comes into your mind when you see or hear this?

~ Very noisy leh! Stop disturbing my afternoon nap!

~ Dusty leh! Better close the windows or all the dust comes into my house!

~ Why everyday also dig de! Dig here liao then dig there, cannot stop de meh?

and the list goes on…the above speaks your mind?

Well…there must be reason for all the digging lah, incase you are wondering.  And bear this in mind, the people who are doing all the hard work under the hot sun, they didn’t like it either. But they have mouths to feed..

And one of the mouths was me…

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Yap, that’s my dad profession. I used profession because does your dad know how?  If it’s not something of a common knowledge or skill, then my dad is indeed skillful and professional enough.  Just like not everyone can be certified as an accountant, nor as a doctor or a lawyer, same goes to the one who operate that machine!

He’s my dad, and I am proud of him!

Sunday Breakfast, a weekly affair for many but a rare occasion for us (for now).

Ya Kun Breakfast ~

Runny egg with pepper and soy sauce~

Kopi~

And of cos’ the Kaya + Butter Bread~

And Dawn showing how to enjoy the bread!

When I came back from Japan and was walking though the streets of Singapore one day, I came to realise that I had missed out a big part of Singapore. Partly because I had lived in Singapore since birth and the tendency to say “Singapore is small and boring” was much influenced and perceived.

So I was walking from Suntec City back to Raffles Place MRT Station; and the usual way for most people was to walk though the CityLink underpass where there are various shops lining through the tunnel. I guess this is the usual case because the weather here is too hot to bear most of the time, plus the fact that shopping is the common activity in Singapore.

Instead of walking the underpass this time, I took the “sunny” way and  walked passed the The Civilian War Memorial.  And it hit me at that moment that I almost forgot of its existence.

I remembered I learnt alot of this during my school days of Social Studies and History subjects. This forms a very precious part of our history.  Wonder how many youngsters still know the existence of this?  The images or experience of war could be something so far away from our generation but can you imagine the pain that our forefathers had went through? Selfish thought, but I really do wish that I never have to go through war of any kind in my lifetime.

This is the very tall memorial.

And picture captured with Swissotel The Stamford at the side.

Catching the moments of 2 kids playing on the swing

Ahem..okie, the big kid sat on the swing because I said that it’s too hot for Dawn to sit on it

Pretty moments, priceless ones.

Had salad for lunch for the past 2 days (because vegetables have a short life span and they come in a packets instead of one day serving! One day serving is damn ex!)

First day is just greens plus some cherry tomatoes.  I added in Tuna and raisins on the 2nd day.

Strange to say, having salad kept me awake for the afternoon instead of feeling sleeping infront of the PC over a usual lunch of noodles or rice.

Might decide to have Salad for 3 days in a week, but let’s see how long my determination will stay (which usually don’t when it comes to food). :p

Do you create your own salad too? Share how else you make your salad more interesting and tasty!

Looked through my posts and realised that I had not written much about food for a few months already.  Not that I had stopped eating (how can that be?!), but I was alittle tired to write about food.  Why, you might ask.  My folders in my lappy are full of food photos and somehow it had made me felt drained when the thought of having to blog all of them.  Strange me.

We were out to ION Orchard during the first few weekends where it was first opened. Really crowded at the Basements but it was quite empty when it comes to ground floor and above. And we found ourselves in Canton-i for dinner, which is at the corner of the 3rd floor in the shopping mall.

We ordered a couple of dishes, which includes their signature roast pork and cha sao. Both taste very good!

Look at the meat! Look good enough issn’t?

The shrimp dumplings are generous with shrimps but I do feel that the soup taste like it contains alot of MSG.

We had also ordered the beansprout but it was a disappointment to us. Nothing worth talking about.

But the biggest disappointment was the fried white bait.  I had wanted so much to eat the tasty white bait that I had eaten in another restaurant but this was a disappointment to us. Don’t quite understand why chefs do not know the basic of changing frying oil regularly or the food will turn out to be super er xin.  -.-

We also ordered the mince pork with steam egg, and I must say that it’s very good! Dawn loves this and kept asking for more!

And here is happy Dawn..waiting for food and saying that she has her bib ready!

Canto-i

2 Orchard Turn

#03-14 ION Orchard

Was browsing a toy shop near Dear’s place while Dawn was sleeping soundly in her pram and this caught my eyes ..

A Bubble gun!  I had wanted to buy a bubble gun for Dawn because she had illustrated that the neighbour jie jie was playing with bubbles the other day.  I know that we have to buy a bubble gun instead of those that need to use mouth to blow incase the soap water gets into her mouth.  And look! A Hello Kitty bubble gun! Dawn’s favourite! Guess how much is it? I must say that it’s a good buy!

And Dawn gets real excited with the bubble gun.  After demonstrating on how to play, she gets into her action!

First, dip the gun into the apple container…

Then press the button on the gun! Tada! Bubbles!!!

Can shoot at the camera (and poor mummy felt very soapy on her arms and legs after the whole play)…

Shoot upwards…

Shoot sidewards….

Shoot upwards again…but can never go higher than papa…

Shoot downwards…

She loves it to the core and been talking about “I want Bubbles” ever since..but because this has to be a supervised play, I had kept the gun and soap water out of reach from Dawn and she plays only on the weekends.

The small bottle of soap water had long finished and because papa and mama are both lazy people, instead of making our own soap water, we just bought a huge bottle of soap water from the toy shop again.