Crispy Arrowheads

With Chinese New Year just weeks away, I’m having a rather late start this year in preparing stuff to celebrate the Year of the Rat. There’s plan to bake cookies rather than purchase it, there’s also the house to clean, decorations to be put up, groceries to be bought, etc..

Tried my hand at frying arrowheads as I spotted really big ones in Tesco. The method is simple but rather tedious as you need to scrape the skins, then thinly sliced it and fry it over slow fire. No wonder it’s selling so expensive!! However I’m pleased with the result *0*

arrowheads ~ scraped and thinly sliced

arrowheads sizzling away in the hot oil

** the end product **
about 29 arrowheads that only cost me RM11 produces 5 bottles ready to be eaten

Usually salt is sprinkled on it but I prefer mine plain.

Surprise Surprise!!

I received a card from Pos Malaysia stating that there’s a document too big that can’t fit into my company’s mailbox attention to me and am required to collect it personally. First thing that came to mind was who and what is that documents that is “too big” for the mailbox!!

Made arrangements to leave the office earlier today to collect the document. It was a parcel from Nurnberg, Germany. I was like, hhmmm….. who send me this? I do deal with my German colleagues but it’s not like very close dealing or what, just casual work related dealings. So I was rather surprise to receive something from Germany.

Upon reaching home, first thing I did ~ Yes!! open the parcel to see what’s inside Was I surprise to received this….

It’s a can of gingerbread. Yeah, you’ll be thinking it’s New Year already!! this is for Christmas. For unknown reasons I don’t know why Pos Malaysia held on to this parcel as the date stated on the card is 26 Dec 2007. I guess this is the date it arrives but I only receive the card on 7 Jan 2008!!

Anyhow, I’m happy and pleased to receive this from a lady who is the Personal Assistant to one of the ‘big shot’ in our Company’s group. You feel appreciated from that far away although the dealings may be 3 times in a year the most!!

This is really a nice perk-me-up feeling I ever had since the start of this year!

New Year Resolutions?

I’m not one that has the habit of making New Year Resolutions for I never look back at them not to say achieving even half of what’s listed and the best part, I can’t even remember what I wrote!!

This year, am breaking my own rule. I’m making some resolutions which are :

(1) Be more patient with my boy
~ voices say 2 years old is also known as “terrible two”. I call it “terrific two”. Why? coz they are both terrible and at the same time adorable

(2) Blog more, post more and digital scrap more!!

(3) Follow my heart and just do what I wanna do!!
~ not telling my plan just yet. When the time is right then it will be revealed :p

(4) Better time management ~ a favourite topic I believe
~ I would need to divide my time better in between spending more time with my boy which includes doing Shichida “homework”, house cleaning, exercising (yeah, better go and activate back my yoga membership!!), blogging (per goal #2) and follow my heart in goal #3 to make it a reality!!

Let’s see if I’ll be able to achieve these 4 goals especially so for #3 as this is totally out of my league!! and I better start work on those flashcards for Cavan…

I had a dream….

It’s been a long time since I had a dream and a weird one to boot!

As may know, my little boy is enrolled in Shichida Method, a school that focuses on right brain development. In my dream, he’s at class and they were doing one activity. His Sensei whispered to him while touching his forehead and let him glimpse into a paper for a second (somewhat like a CV from what I saw). After that, his Sensei gave him a microphone.

My little boy took the mic, smiled cheekily a bit then said in perfect Mandarin and perfect sentence the following :

“Ta jia how, wo de ming zhe shi Chen Kang Wen” {sorry ah, I’m not a Mandarin speaking person, thus this is my best own translation :p}

Anyway, the english version if you really think I’m talking nuts up there :

“Good day everyone, my name is Chin Kang Wen”.

Now, we seldom speak Mandarin to him although I’ve been up my hubby’s back numerous times to talk to him in Mandarin and we also seldom call him by his chinese name.

So back to the dream, after hearing this I was really in awe *mouth gaping!!* and proud hehehe… Let’s hope this dream becomes a reality (he can minus the mic!)

Geez!! this is really bad…..

Geez… 2008 has not been good to me!!

My Sony Ericsson K700i acted up this morning. One sms came in, read it and before I could reply, the whole phone went “kaput“!!!! The looming black cloud above my head just refuse to get blown away huh… I wonder what’s next on the list!

Although I’ve been eyeing the new Sony Ericsson K850i , my K700i is still working perfectly fine and time is not right to get a new one at the moment. Just hope that the battery is the culprit. If not then I’ll be going phone shopping and will I get my dream phone?? {**hint hint** dear hubby}

{update – Jan 5th} The battery is working perfectly fine. It’s the on/off switch that’s broken and the repair costs me RM60!! Well, at least I save a lot and don’t have to fork out RM2K+ for my dream phone. Let’s wait till the price drop further before contemplating on getting a new phone.

The way to eat fresh lotus seeds

RM5 for 3 bunch of fresh lotus seeds. I always find it fascinating whenever I pluck those lotus seeds out for, from the outside you only see a nib or a black dot and when you pluck it out, it is indeed very big.

Dried version is always seen in ready to boil chinese soup packages but fresh lotus seeds are seldom seen in the streets of Kuala Lumpur. It is always when I travel outstation, in small towns that I see it being sold…

Corncobs

Bought the above corncobs from Taman Tun Dr. Ismail market for our weekend get-a-way to Sg. Klah Hot Springs Resort. It costs me RM35 for 10 corncobs!!! So expensive!! However, it was worth every ringgit as the corn is really sweet and crunchy. Just look at the kernels, it has a nice colour

And while I was busy cleaning the corncobs, my little boy was busy at the fridge re-arranging fridge magnets. He showed me his ‘art’ and I just couldn’t resist taking a picture of it! Nice work don’t you think so? (just that the head engine got queued at the back and in replace was a car!! hehehe..)

Welcome 2008!!

collection from yummyflashy.blogspot.com

While others are still basking, enjoying and welcoming the new year or sleeping-in after a great countdown the night before, I’m at the clinic visiting the doctor got totally drugged taking the medication and slept the whole day off!! What a great start to a New Year huh…

Anyway this is a brand new year thus a brand new look (header) for my blog. Little did I realised that I’ve been blogging for slightly over a year now. It has been a great way for me to keep my memoirs and I hope this brand new year will bring more happy memories to blog about albeit the first day of 2008 that left me blurred head!!

Happy New Year 2008!! and hope that all wishes comes true for all of us this year and most importantly each and everyone is in the pink-ist of HEALTH!!

Cool Pretty Drawings…

I received the above two drawings (Halloween theme) from my France swap partner, Nini today. She’s an illustrator. Isnt it pretty? There’s a whole lot more that she send to me but these two are my favourites!!

Just sharing beautiful pictures…. and if you like you can check out her blog for more cool drawings but be warned that it’s all in French!

Here’s one more that she sent through email in my earlier correspondence with her….

Table attraction…

Table centrepiece for Christmas Eve Dinner at my place. Alas, forgot to snap pictures of the foodie prepared
and yes, that’s an actual orange in case you’re wondering :p