Instant Pasta

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That day while browsing the supermarket, I chance upon a few instant pasta which I quickly snapped up. Usually I would buy the San Remo brand of instant pasta (to be cooked when I am too busy to cook from scratch) which is actually not instant as you still have to cook the pasta for a few minutes with the powder that comes with it but I would say that San Remo's taste good.

The 2 new types that I found are Velveeta Shells and Fantastic Carbonara.

Left bottom and right bottom pics is Velveeta. Small middle right pic is Fantastic.

For Velveeta, you also have to cook the shells and after it is cooked, you squeeze in the instant packet sauce that comes together in the box. The sauce looks like nacho sauce only thicker and it tastes gooood. I cooked mine with ham and sausages. My brother loves it so much that I have bought it again a few times for him. He cooks his with sausages.

For Fantastic Carbonara (it comes in other flavour too), you just have to put in the powder cheese and pour hot water into the cup and seal it for a while like instant noodles. But the taste is so different. Very salty and the macaroni is very thin. Not good at all. I will not buy this again.

Chicken... Pork... Chicken...

Tooks some time off for a little soul searching... Ok... Ok... I lie... Had been lazy but I am back now. :op

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On 3rd April 2009, my good friend Ms U treated XL and me to chicken rice at Seah Street. This place serves traditional Chicken Rice and also Hainanese Pork Chops and is called Chin Chin Eating House. We ordered both the steamed chicken and roasted chicken with some chicken liver. I prefer the steamed version with lots of mince ginger and lots of sweet black sauce. Yumm!! This place also servers traditional Hainanese Pork Chops with potato. The sauce is too mild for me though as I prefer more tomatoey sauces. The potatoes are a yummy surprise.

ignorLAND of its Desires

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On 27th March 2009, my friend Linda and me went to volunteer for a drama group. It is a chinese play and we volunteered to be ushers and stuff. Linda's friend is in the group and she asked me if I want to go. The play is in Geylang and it is about Geylang. The food, sleeze and adventures.

The play is played in 2 locations and I am situated at the Highpoint Halfway house. It is a place that helps ex convicts get back on the right track after they are released.

It was great fun.

Music on the blog

For no reason today I decided that I wanted to have music on my blog on the sidebar. Hence I went about figuring out how to do it (from 11pm to 3.30am). I thought they would have a ready gadget to add automatically but I was wrong. After trying out a few ready playlist, I decided that I want just one song and a small player.

First I went to blogger help which brought me to a site but the tutorial doesn't work. After searching on the net for a while, I found a site telling me how to do it but after trying out, it doesn't work as well so it was back to searching the web again which brought me to tips-for-new-bloggers. Every blogger should bookmark this site as it is very good and teaches a lot of thing especially it give the html code which is mostly gibberish to us clueless people. Then with their tips, I went searching for some free hosting sites for my songs. I thought that's the end but I found out that it was really not as easy as I thought and I had to join a few free hosting sites (Rapidshare, FileFactory, Boxnet to name a few) to determine from which site my music will show up. Finally I settled on FileAve.com.

Anyone is interested to add music to their blog and are lazy to go check out the sites should:-

Go to CUSTOMIZE
Choose ADD A GADGET > HTML/WIDGET
In the text box add {embed autostart = "false" height="40" loop="true" playcount="2" src="URL of music file" width="300" / > < / embed}
SAVE
Change the above {} into <> and remove all spacing from code.

The Tips site advised that it is better not to have the music auto start since some people might be reading from their office. But for a start I still put is as auto start. Please let me your comment to let me know which is better. Thanks!!

PS: I will be late for work again tomorrow and I did not do my freelance because I was so bent on learning how to do it!!!

Spaghetti

Spaghetti Bolognese that I cooked for dinner one day for my younger bro and me. As it's for my younger bro (the official food taster of the family), beef and spaghetti is used. If its for my older bro, then any kind of pasta and pork will be used because he and his wife does not eat beef. If it is for me only, then any kind of meat and fusilli will be used.

Verdict: Good.

I Forget

The list of food I must buy for my colleagues for lunch last Friday. As I am very forgetful, I find it better to write it down. But I might lose it or I might forget to look at the list in my bag so its better to write it on my hand.
The list reads:-
Mc Chick
CBM
Tea x 2
Meaning McChicken Meal, Cheese Burger Meal and both drinks change to tea.

In other news: There is a large bruise on my leg. And... I forgot how it got there...

My best guess is:-
A) I knock it on my company recept table
B) I knock it on my bunny's cage door
C) Bunny step on me when I am sleeping

To cut the cake and slice the throat...

Yesterday – 30th March – is my brother's birthday. It started out as a normal working day. I wanted to sms him HAPPY BIRTHDAY but it was a very busy day so I forgot. In the evening, I met Ms U to shop around Tiong Bahru and we had Qiji and Mcdonalds before going to TS.

Suddenly I remembered I forgot to sms him and he answered in a sulking way that I had forgotten its his birthday and to make up for it I must get him a cake. Haha!! He was kidding of course (I suspect its just his way of officially getting to eat cake since he is a snacks glutton) but I bought a cake anyways. I got him the Bengawan Solo Mango Cake which is fast becoming the birthday cake of choice for everyone in my family. At home we had a little sing song cut cake ceremony and everyone had cake. Then we chatted and kid each other for a bit before retiring for the night.

If you think thats the end of my 'eventful' day then you are wrong. After cake, I went to the kitchen and was greeted by this sight...

My grandma had washed my Baobei doll and hung him by his ears on the window grill!! I rushed to touch it and the hair inside has become slightly clumpy and there is no Baobei smell anymore!! I stood there glued to the floor and I thought "Can I kill my grandma now?? Is this why seemingly normal people fly off the handle and gun down their family members in the middle of the night??" My brother came in to the kitchen and asked me what's wrong and I pointed at the doll and he goes 'Oh.. My condolences...".

I did not wake my grandma up of course. What's the use right?? What's done cannot be undone but I scolded her anyway this morning. She said that since my bunnies have bonded there is not use for the doll anymore and that he was really dirty with hair and hay. I said (without shouting I swear) "Meimei don't need it anymore but I want him for myself". She realised what she had done so she kept quiet. As for me... I really have nothing to say... Good intentions. Yes. Dumb act. Yes. Irreversible. Yes.