Run, baby run!!!

cheers!!! yeh... that's my baby cousin!!!

My cutie cousin, hector won the baby race! He broke the local record! Wow! yeh... You go, baby! When i left last august, he was just beginning to crawl, but now, he is the champ runner! and he can talk too! When i called home last week, he shouted into the phone "jie jie" aww.... So i asked him, "is hector a good boy?" and he answered "Um.." and after that he refused to let my mom come to the phone. haha.. then when he noticed that my grandma had a bowl of stir-fried beehoon in her hands, he tossed the handset and charged towards the food! haha... cute boy.

classes resumed!

whee... it's over. Yup, my very last spring break in ORU is over! hmm.. well, am really not too upset over that coz that just means that the time to go home is drawing nearer! jump for joy! was talking again to curry about being able to be home FOR GOOD. gosh! what a blessing! we talked about it so much that i simply can't wait to go! hehe.. but i know i know.. I need to work really hard from now till then :)

I just realized that i've watched lots of movie in this past 3 months. gosh... have never watched that many movies in such a short period of time... Let me try listing them.. er..

1) Cheaper by the dozen 1
2) Cheaper by the dozen 2
3) In her shoes
4) Bridget jones diary 1
5) King kong
6) Walk the line
7) End of the spear
8) Bride & prejudice
9) Cinderella story
10) Janette oke's love comes slowly (i think)

haha.. 10 in 3 months! awesome. I think i left out some.. i'll keep thinking. hmm..

Aga-aga

haha... No friends, i don't mean "agar-agar" the jelly. I mean 'aga-aga' (approximate/ estimate) the amount of seasoning to add into my cooking :) Curry (clarice) just re-introduced that word into my dictionary! Yupz, I used "aga-ration" for my own cooking.. it's really hard to explain how much soy sauce or salt to add... the key is just "aga-aga". Gosh.. this is such a singlish post! haha...

My Dinner

A picture of my dinner as promised... :)

1.Stir-fry Kai-lan w carrot & mushrooms
2.Sesame chicken with mushroom
3.Fragrance white rice.

Recipe:

1/4 tablespoonful of SWEAT
plus +
1 entire motivated heart
equals =
A set of wonderful dinner!

Got it? i bet.

Food.. Mmmm..

the beginning of spring break triggered my passion for cooking. I bought so much food, ready to cook up a feast for myself :) haha. Tried cutting the carrot like a pro.. but the pieces ended up severely distorted. haha...I had stir-fry broccoli with carrots and mushrooms last night! that was yummy, but let's skip the part on rice k? coz i messed it up.. ha. I prepared the chicken last night.. just removing the fats, cutting them up and marinating them.. that took me forever!! and i was SOO tired after that. Guess that's how my mama feels all the time! oh my gosh. But i've become really excited about cooking nowadays. One of the reasons is that Ann has been cooking so much and she definetely inspired me to do likewise. She always says "girl, it's easy. U can do it too. Just vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, chicken n oil" yupz, and that's my favorite Ann's special "chicken adobo" (philippino food).

I'll be cooking again for dinner later. Will remember to take a picture of it! haha.. just to PROVE to u guys that hey, Ho can cook, so can u! hahah... that was funny! Thanks for reading my blog. In return, u get a free recipe of my favorite singapore food.

Fried Carrot Cake aka Chye Tau Kuey Vote for the BLACK!

Ingredients:
4 radish flour cakes
4 tbs vegetable oil or lard
1 tbs chopped garlic1 tbs red chilli paste
1 tbs chopped chye poh (salted radish)
2 eggs
1 tbs fish sauce
1 stalk fresh spring onion, chopped
5 tbs oil

Method
Heat two tablespoons of oil or lard in a wok. When smoking hot, brown the radish flour cakes, cutting it into small pieces with the spatula as you fry. Push aside the pieces. Heat another table spoon of oil in the wok. Sauté garlic and chye poh till browned. Toss with the radish cake pieces. Make a space in the middle, add the last of the oil and break eggs into the space. Leave to set for a few minutes and then push the radish cake on top. Drizzle with fish sauce, add chilli paste and toss some more to ensure an even mix. Serve hot garnished with spring onion.

Taken from cookbook titled “Singapore Heritage Food” by Sylvia Tan

A popular Chinese dish that used to be eaten for breakfast, is now eaten at all hours. Teochew in origin, it started out fried and scrambled, until the 1970s when a smart hawker in Toa Payoh fried it crisp like a pancake, followed soon after by the Hong Kong dim sum chef’s version - steamed with a seasoned soya sauce.

uncertainties

I'm sad :( i like things to go MY way! sigh..

I want to go to dallas
I want to get out of my dorm for a bit
I want to do something that'll make me smile tonight
I want to watch a cute movie
I want to hang out with friends

I guess i need to zzz. Just zzz and i might be happy tomorrow.

Home

yes... this is the song.. HOME by Michael Buble! am pretty much ready to go.. was looking at some pictures i took with my family and those i love, and suddenly realized that i've been away for seven months.. gosh! seriously, i miss everyone and everything back in singapore! anyway, just enjoy the song friends.. i took it from elaine's blog. haha. oops.

Another summer day has come and gone away
In Paris and Rome but I wanna go home
Maybe surrounded by a million people I still feel all alone
I just wanna go home I miss you, you know

And I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you,
Each one a line or two I'm fine baby, how are you?
I would send them but I know that it's just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane, another sunny place
I’m lucky, I know... but I wanna go home
I’ve got to go home

Let me go home I’m just too far
From where you are I wanna come home

Dying Empty

ooh.. what does that mean? It means living a purpose driven life and die without unfulfilled dreams & visions. It means to die when "it is finished" and die having "fought a good fight". This was the principle i learnt from Pastor Myles Monroe in chapel today. He set me thinking about this for a while. I think that it is so true! We should pursue our dreams and live it out. wow.

"for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain"
-Paul