CNY 2012

Bento #186

Our neighbour was baking pineapple tarts and the aroma filled OUR house!! Jaimie actually stood at the door to enjoy the smell! My very generous and kind neighbour, Pauline, packed a tin for us (yipee!! No, she didn't notice Jaimie at the door...) and the greedy little pig immediately asked for a piece.

With the pineapple tart still in her mouth, she asked me, "Mommy! Do you know how to make pineapple tarts?" "No~~ I don't! Aunty Pauline is so good at making the tarts, isn't she?"

She swallowed her mouthful of pastry and said, "How come you do not know how to make pineapple tarts? And you do not know how to bake cake. And you do not know how to sew. You only know how to make bento."

ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

*wipe tears off the corners of my eyes*

Bento #185

I put in 2 candies in Jaimie's bento as a little treat but they were "robbed" by her classmates. Yesterday, she told me that her classmates "robbed" her strawberries... I have to teach her the art of defence for her bento...

媛媛画五月天

超厉害的吧！！！五迷们应该不难猜出谁是谁！

有一种精神叫萧敬腾--14th January 2012

这场演唱会让我很期待，因为是第一次与朋友们同坐一排一同看演唱会。而萧敬腾的演唱实力，也不必我多加介绍。

萧敬腾每次换一套衣服出来，就是不同的音乐场所。是古典音乐演奏厅、是酒廊、是百老汇式，还有一个我实在不知道是什么，因为他外穿着一条闪着灯的内裤耶...是不是rocker啊？我不太清楚。

为什么演唱会叫“有一种精神叫萧敬腾”，我也不知道。其精神是什么，我也不知道。感觉上缺少一个明确的主题。萧敬腾在台上做的动作，或许连他都觉得滑稽，因为他老是在偷笑和露出腼腆和难为情的模样。跟观众说的话，只有“大家好！”“你好吗？”和“这首歌，你们都会唱/你们会喜欢的。”。

但是，在充满爆发力和情感的歌声中、在杂乱无章和尴尬的交流中，却出奇地好玩和好笑！我和朋友们都乐翻了！

这，就是萧敬腾的精神吧！

Bento #182, #183 #184

3 ultra simple and quick yet nutritious meal ideas!

Basil chicken with fusilli -- inspired by Pasta Mania. Marinate your chicken and leave in the fridge. Takes only 7mins to cook in the morning, including the pasta!

Yoghurt with berries breakfast. Power!

Baked salmon, ham and onion omelette.

My Christmas Present For Myself

My Second Life has begun.

First Gathering (and Sleeping Over) @ 2012

What is a better way to start a new year than gathering with a group of best-est friends? We had a warm and fun get together to renew our friendship, foster closer bond and celebrate our lives together.

Ced and Elo are not with us but we keep exchanging messages in watsapp and sent pictures over. Technologies do draw people closer, especially when we are at different parts on this earth! Here's (part of) the wine for the night... cheers, my friends!!

As I was saying... technologies do draw people closer... look at the children...

1st bottle of wine opened for the evening.

Ah Seng brought 2 guitars and the guys started to sing all the oldies from our school days!

These were the only 2 audience for the Old Uncle Band. The children were watching Smurfs and/ or running around, the ladies were busy catching up with one another. Nevermind we just met during Xmas. We are never short of any conversation topics.

Food!

All of them stayed over at my place except Ray's family. The daddies watched bollywood movies, played Tabu (yes, it's TABU, the iphone app), played chor-dai-dee and eat eat eat till 8am.

The kids were quite tired by the time they went up to the house. None of them wanted to follow my plans and wanted to squeeze together on this inflated queen size bed. Fine. In the end, they found it so uncomfortable to squeeze together (although it was fun -- only when you do not need to seriously sleep) that they dispersed to different beds to sleep. I missed out 3/4 of the night because Jaimie developed a fever suddenly. She was all teary, clingy and whiny. I had to sponge her to keep her temperature down while the people outside played Tabu (arrghh! I so wanted to play this game!). The ladies rested at about 4am while the guys continued with their card games till 8am.

Everybody was trying very hard to stay awake in the morning to go for breakfast and go home after that. We all lamented that we were really old... just one night of not sleeping and we all turned into zombies. It was a very simple gathering but it's always the company that counts. Hanging out together in one house, eating, drinking, chatting and watching movies together till the wee hours was a weekly activity when we were in UK. It definitely feels like going back to those good old times!

Happy New Year, our dearest friends! May we make time for more of such gatherings in the year 2012...