Finally the art is here

Finally I did it, after best of my 3 years

April 01, 2016

On April fool, but don't mean to fool anyone. And everyone know I am not fooling. Rumours being flying around. And yes. Its confirmed. One of the saddest, one of the most reluctant and one that is the most appropriate. Will update a super long on this. At month end.

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My econ plan for home improvement

March 07, 2016

Like i said before. I need to periodally purchase big expenditure very alternate month. Sometime it can be a overseatrip, a iMac, some random luxurious item, a car, an iphone/ipad, a PS4 so on and so forth. That set me off my saving plan a fair bit. And they are trash item that can only to used infrequently and some even not been used yet. It hard for me to save hence i need regular saving plans.

But this month i spent another 3k on bulk purchase but i felt money well spend. I am upgrading my home to econ friendly. I need to replace home applicances to energy efficient and hence giving me long term cost saving.

My monthly utlilities bill for 2 person is around $200 which is quite a lot. We were seldom at home excepted after 7pm. Electrical bill shouldnt amount to so much. I reackon my 25 years old aircon might be the culprit. I had a 55" plasma TV, obselete technology already and everytime we watch tv i just emit a lot of heat. Must get those replaced.

Went for the 40" philip at gain city roadshow. For $499. It is HD digital ready. 4 star on energy efficency.

Installed a ceiling fan to fight the heat and due to I decided to go for system 2 instead of having aircon in the living room. The diff price for system 3 is around 1k. Don't want to spend on air con that i will unlikely use.

My new system 2 , 4 star rating from Mitsubishi. With ion distribution. But i smoke in room hence i think i don't get to enjoy the benefit.

Leveled up my aquarium. I really enjoy watching the shrimp swimming around. I might build a better tank in the future when i buy my new house. Although i have no find my wife yet.

Staycation at hotel Changi cove

March 06, 2016

I believe this hotel is only 4 yrs old and relatively new, i book it as it adv as 4 star going for $140 sgd per night (after discount) which is quite worth it. However i think they are not worth 4 stars as adv. hard to access room from lobby, lack of smoking point and not fridge in the room. My shower got no hot water although later they had water back online. Good thing is we went off perk, very little people hence quite quiet which we are looking for when going for staycation.

Whats special is that the room will be complimentary nespresso coffee and a bean bag to snuggle. They also have a guest loft where u get free flow of espresso machine and board games to play. But still i hate they didnt include fridge in their room.

Another highlight is that they allow us to draw arts on their wall. Let me vent out some creative juice inside the hotel.

A lot of tree and jungle green around the hotel but lack in swimming pool and smoking point. The whole hotel only have 1 smoking point at the lobby which i have to travel 3 mins from the room to the smoking point. Enough on the hotel.

Sat morning i surprise her by picking her up after her yoga and when to changi village to have lunch. She wasnt aware about the staycation that i had planed. Suddenly she had the urge to go toilet and i told her the public toilet was too dirty and i would bring her to somewhere cleaner and with aircon. Driving to Changi cove, the hotel doesn't look like one. It do looks more like a country club which she used the toilet while i secretly checked in. Unfortunately, the checking in took so long and she caught me checking in already. Killed the surprise.

The rest of the afternoon and evening we just laze around watching cable and movie on my ipad. There are itnerary and we suppose to visit a musemum and changi boardwalk however i was really really lazy. But the boardwalk had stunning view at sun set. Could love to go there one more time to enjoy the senceria.

These are some of the images from evening boardwalk. Would really want ti be there sometime again to take picture myself.

At night we went to Changi village to dabao walking will take ard 8mins, driving take 2 minutes but hard to find parking on weekend.

Our dinner cost me around $60. Oh my god. I am so broke.

I can cook so can you

February 12, 2016

Gordon ramsay is a inspiration to me and i had been watching his hell kitchen, kitchen nightmare and masterchef. This new year is a stay home for thru 1st day till 4th day. Took 2 days MC after 2nd of chinese new year to "regroup" myself. For the highlight is I started cooking. What put me off cooking so long is because its damn expensive if you do not cook often.

Invited some friends over to try my home cook meal, 酸菜鱼，洋葱蛋，炒香菇，老干妈辣椒虾 and 酱油鸡翅。simple, delicious and favorful. I had got positive reciew that i cook better than some mums and maids.

Endosement for my good food. I am going to elevate to western cusine soon. Going to explore steak and some western spices in near future.

For the simpliest. I tried salad. They are easy to do but they do cost me hand and leg. I didnt know veg can be so expensive they have the organic version which is like double the price.

My prepare my own salad lunch box with canned sardine as my protein and french source as dressing. First attempt and the source is too acidic to my liking. So i try again with home made salad dressing.

Fresh greens with nice japanese cucumber and red chilli.

Pan fry my own crutons with bread crumbs and garlic infused olive oil.

Its good seasoned with ground pepper, parsley and home made mustard lemon dressing. Better this time round.

I tried simple western receipt with garlic prawn. They are one of the easiest to cook.

Using excessively on garlic and it make me have a bad gas day. Fart like crazy. I went to read up about gasing problem from over indult in garlic.

Raw garlic is difficult to break down at the stomach and went the garlic got pass down to the large instestine, the bacteria broke down the garlic and release methane and a by product and usual accompanied with foul pungent smell. I know its disgusting reading in conjunction with food post. Haha

I also make some french toast. This time i nailed it. 10 years ago i tried cooking for someone using just eggs and bread. Didnt turn out right. Now i got it with eggs, milk and brown sugar for the sweet after taste. They are just great. Just need some maple syrup and they can pass of as restruant quanity.

Some honorable mention of my mums cooking thru this new year.

PL sneak out her mum home cook meal for me during lunar new year. Loved the prawns.

Knowing to cook is certainly a plus point on so many different level. Cooking for some one you love and feed them to a full meal is nothing less of a sweet things to do. It will be a rewarding endevours :)

So much of nothingness going on

January 28, 2016

Recently not much time to blog, because there are so much of a nothingness going on. I seems to be always busy, but busying with something irrelevant and insignificant. I don't really know how to manage my time well.

2 things I cannot manage well, my time and money.

This Jan comm scheme changed, booth got replaced and moral basically rock bottom, so long like almost 2 years, I had difficulty hitting comm. 26th and I had only 19 ntb. FML. Somemore david helped me 2 ntb. Job wise, I am impatiently waiting for CF result for 2016. I didn't put in as much effort and focus as compared to last year, if I didn't manage to get it, blame it on myself. But of course I would like to be in one of them. Finger crossed, hope god bless.

I was lucky too to get promoted to "assistant manager". It something of a concept like a deputy manager but with a catch. We are just same role DS with different job title. albeit slightly better paid. Only slightly. But nonetheless still a recognition for my consistency. Annual income of end year 2015 was out and I got managed to hit above 120k. Time to get my credit reviewed!

Alright, enuf say on my work. Let see hows well we ate for the past one month.

Yup yup, dress up for dinner and took a selfie in the lift.

When to suntec during my lala timing on weekend to eat Pasarbella, we can be staying inside car and watch movie all day. We need to walk a bit of shopping and eat some nice food. We were glad that we choosen some of the best dishes like the wolf burger and shew pork japanese rice. The pork rice was so fragrance with garlic infused poach eggs with corn and chewy tofu. The tofu kinda special because it was fried with special coating that make the outer chewy and crispy.

Another day we hang out again at Suntec for Hoshino coffee. It was japanese imported coffee, I went there to try what was the gimmick behind it. It was just basically arabic roosted long black served in japanese milk i guess. Nothing fantastic about it.

Shrimp sandwich, I think I can game enough to make that myself. I think there is avocado. Had been practicing to include avocada in my own salad making. Will update soon about my home cooked meals.

The spaghetti is creamy and I love anything that is creamy. Some wasabi on the grilled salmon and seaweed. I think I can recreate this dish myself.

This is the most famous and recommended dessert of the place. Don't know about the name but it is totally not my cup of dessert. Too sweet and I basically can't find anything recommendable about this dessert. I ate only 1 mouth.

Forgot to post about xiao long mookata at Yishun. He had turn chef from sales and he basically fight at the coffee shop for people to eat the mookata. That the spirit man. Cheap and affordable. Hai now not many time to hang out with good friends like xiao long and brentaline. I didn't even have the time to meet my BFF joyce for the longest time.