I would love to love you

Takes time.

Signed

Starting work next Monday, 24 Jan 2011 :)

Wish me luck!

The Cuppy Cake Song

Following excerpt from http://www.cuppycake.com/cuplyric.html

"I wrote this song about all of the sweet names my mom and dad called me when I was little

and all of the sweet names that I call my daughter Amy.

I entitled it "You're My Honeybunch" and gave it to her as a Valentine's day present." 

- Judianna Castle

..

The "CUPPYCAKE" Song

(Lyrics and Music by Judianna Castle)

is actually the chorus from Amy's version of "You're My Honeybunch"

(lyrics and music by Judianna and Buddy Castle)

..

The lyrics in blue make up the short version that was first uploaded to the internet in August of 1996.

Amy sings the lyrics in red as well in the complete version:

.You're my Honeybunch, SugarplumPumpy-umpy-umpkin, You're my Sweetie PieYou're my Cuppycake, GumdropSnoogums-Boogums, You're the Apple of my Eye
And I love you so and I want you to knowThat I'll always be right hereAnd I love to sing sweet songs to youBecause you are so dear
.© 1994 Amy J. Music (ASCAP)ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Listen!

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”

Christmas Wishlist!

 

Portable hard disk (1 terabyte)

Santa Claus mini hat (clip-on)

Canon EOS 60D

(more to come…)

真的怕了

 

每次都说得那么甜

结果不都还是分手？

 

是对爱情没信心， 还是对自己没信心啊。。。

Spaying Toto

Toto undergone sterilisation this afternoon.

Right now, she is still looking very frightened and refuse to eat.

Hope she reverts to her active old self soon.

Worried.

把床带出门

 

话说某某天，日上三竿了，丫头还死赖在床上。

Panda 一直催我起床，我不耐烦了就回答说，

‘I am not going anywhere without the bed!’

 

Panda 拿我没辙。 搔了搔头，然后很认真地说，

“宝贝，起来拉。 你先起来，然后我好好想想该怎么把床带出门 。。。”

 

结果我是笑醒的 o.O

Chicken Soup for the Jobless Soul

 

Hoping to cook this tomorrow.

Ingredients

• 2 boneless chicken thigh, trimmed fat and skin, cut into chunk pieces, seasoned with 1 tablespoon each of light soy sauce and white pepper, and sprinkle some cornstarch, for at least 15 minutes

· 200 gram of celery, cut into pieces, crosswise

· 100 gram of white radish, halved lengthwise and cut into thin slices

· 1 carrot, cut into pieces, crosswise

· 50 gram Golden needle mushroom, trimmed root

· 1 cube chicken stock

Optional: 

· 1/4 piece of bamboo shoot, halved and cut into thin slices

· 1/2 small root of lotus root (about 5 slices), halved lengthwise and cut into thin slices

· 5 fresh Shiitake mushroom, trimmed root and cut into small pieces

Instructions:

1) Heat large pot with butter and olive over medium-high fire. 

2) Place chicken thigh followed by mushrooms and vegetables into pot to sauté for a minute.

3) Add in water and bring it to a boil. Add and dissolve chicken stock cube in the pot.

4) Cover pot with lid. Reduce heat to low fire to stew the ingredients for at least 2 hours, or until ingredients are soften. 

5) Stir in salt and continue to stew for 10 minutes before heat off. 

6) Serve hot.

无业游民 之 野蛮女友

 

Damn rain woke me at 6am. Yawnz …

finally went back to lalaland when the rain quiet down at 8am.

Then the colleagues called/sms at 10am.

 

Met Panda for lunch at Suntec. Yummy buffet spread at Joaquin! Been eons since I makan there.

 

Did a bit of window-shopping at City Link.  Nothing much to see despite the number of new shops.  Noticed a Hershey shop in the making. That means City Link will start smelling like Willy Wonka chocolate factory soon.  yum yum.

 

Sighted a chinese funeral procession as I was walking home from Mrt station.  Took some pictures, using the wrong settings!  What a shame.

It’s ok. Next round will be better

 

Oh, why is this entry titled 野蛮女友? Heeheehee..because I usurped somebody’s Canon EOS 500.  He didn’t get any chance to reject me.  hohoho.  Next will be his MacBook Pro…hiaks hiaks hiaks ….

海阔天空

 

Me asking around for 海阔天空 song, then rich send me this.

http://211.140.140.138:1800/...2217212087.mp3

Gam sia!

幸福是

 

happiness is walking to Ikea with Fishie, eating hotdog bun with lotsa mustard and buying a RED bed tray at just $5.90!

And fishie bought her clothes hanging rack, finally!

有没有

 

“人家说，小指，是最为无辜也最无欲无求的。

所以小情侣们都喜欢勾着小指走路。

最真诚的喜欢，却也最不执著。

所以孩子们最爱打勾勾，。

他们相信承诺，只是他们的相信，太脆弱。”

 

这话，别人听不懂。

可是，她听明白了。

 

没有暗号。只是我们心脉相连。所以，我懂的，她也懂得。

只是我比她诚实一点。

她有逃避的机会。我却么没有选择。

 

女儿心

 

looking through old blog entries again.

 

Tuesday April 12, 2005.

爸妈

我爸和我妈

一对再平凡不过的夫妇

很单纯地

一起维持这个家

 

生了个智弱儿， 无所谓， 慢慢教 。。

只要他学会照顾自己， 做个开心的人

 

生了两个娇纵的女儿

不要紧， 女孩子就是生来疼的

女儿不长进， 工作了那么多年

仍是没拿多少钱回家

还整天嚷着 ‘穷一点比较好’

他们也不曾施以压力， 要求女儿换份高薪的工作

 

夫妻俩人， 任劳任怨

以他们的方式， 把孩子拉扯大。。

也从不曾要求什么回报

 

爸爸， 妈妈

有时候， 我真的不知道， 你们哪儿来的力量

把我们抚养成人

是什么样的一种爱

可以让人那么无私地奉献?

 

你们的女儿绝对不是这世上最棒的

可是在她们眼里， 心里

你们是最珍贵的

==

 

她什么时候觉得对不起家里

~ 张小娴

 

女孩子什么时候会觉得对不起家里?

那是她爱上一个男人的时候。

 

她是家里的宠儿，父母虽然不富有，但却十分疼爱她、迁就她。

她在家里，绝对不需要做任何家务，妈妈连一只碗也舍不得让她洗。

这么大的一个人了，连穿过的内裤，也是妈妈替她洗的。每天早上，妈妈叫她起床，她还要赖在床上发脾气，骂妈妈。

“不要吵醒我。”

妈妈噜嗦几句，她立刻就板起脸孔说：

“你很烦!”然后大力关上房门。

 

爸爸比妈妈更疼她，她喜欢什么，爸爸都尽力满足她。

她半夜三点钟才回家，爸爸也爬起床到楼下接她。

她考试成绩不好，爸爸特意请假陪她到处去找学校。

 

她一直觉得家人这样对她，是理所当然的，直至她苦恋一个男人。

 

她竟然替他洗内裤、倒垃圾、刷地板、收拾床铺、到超级市场买日用品。

他明天有重要事情要早起，她竟然坐在那里不敢睡，为了明早要唤醒他。

他向她发脾气，她哭着问他：

“我有什么地方不好，你告诉我，我会改的。”

他赶她走，她抱着他的腿说：

“我很爱你，求你不要赶我走。”

他掴她一巴掌，她含泪问他：

“我做错了什么?”

 

午夜梦回的时候，她终于知道，她多么对不起家里

Adieu

 

过了今夜

眼泪该停了

所有的懊恼，自责，悔恨

都放开吧

 

jiekor

带着我们的祝福和思念

一路走好。

How to Find Mr Right and Get Married in a Year

 

You are right

I am going to write an article about this.

 

Some day.

By the Boab Tree

~ Angela Little

 

Sing and I will hear you
No matter where you are
A song to light the darkest night
And guide me from afar

And I will never be alone
Now I know you're somewhere
You're everywhere to me
You're the colour in the sky
A reason to believe
And when the rain falls down
You tell a story
And I will hear you
Always near you
By the boab tree

Lay your arms around me
Like the falling rain
Let the feeling drown me
And life begins again

And I will never be afraid
Now I know you're somewhere
You're everywhere to me
The warming of the sun upon
The earth beneath my feet
And when the rain falls down
You tell a story
And I will hear you
Always near you
By the boab tree

Oh you are somewhere
You're everywhere to me
You're the colour in the sky
And you're the earth beneath my feet
And when the rain falls down
You tell a story
And I will hear you
Always near you
By the boab tree

 

---------------------------------

 

This song’s for you, too.

Wherever you are tonight.

R.I.P

 

we heard the cries of joys from new mothers

we heard the cries of grief from mourning fathers

 

I am sure somewhere somehow someone planned something

for each and everyone of us

 

Wesley,

wherever you are

rest in peace.

Happy Birthday to Ariel!

 

On this day

A child is borned!

 

Happy birthday to Ariel :D

Ocean Deep

 

空气冷冷的

听着伤心的歌

Puddie Bday Lunch!

 

 

 

Where?

http://www.thecoffeenations.com.sg/

过程与结果

 

Ryuen Peng 在 Facebook 问：

到底是过程比较重要，还是结果比较重要？

 

我想说过程。

可是我发现

如果结果没有你，

那个过程我情愿没有过。

舍得知足

 

舍不得的东西太多，只是让自己更痛苦而以。 

如果什么都舍得，是不是比知足更幸福？

Bleah!

 

 

we love toto

 

 

 

冷静

 

是该什么都别想

还是

慢慢想？

 

冷静

到底是什么鬼意思？

 

一天一天过。

无语

 

舌 头 被 猫 叼 走 了 。

乱

 

乱

其实有很多念头在脑子里打转

却再也无法把思绪化为文字

一一解读

 

二零一零年

这会是怎样的一年？

是不是  仍是一团乱？

 

无心伤害

我是真的希望 可是重新来过。

可是

回不去了

对不起。

 

等待

我已经不知道

这样子

算不算等待了

DippySaucy at Blogger

 

Is this broggie still alive?

Emm, I am kinda back at Xanga,

but even that I hardly update.

 

I guess this brog shall mainly consist of makan stuff,

or photo-intensive entries (windows live writer is much friendlier with Blogger than Xanga).

 

Thanks for staying tuned!

Tweet Tweet

 

Surf upon this pic

source: http://www.pencildreams.com/2006/08/tweet-tweet.html

 

Trying to replicate, but it’s seriously hard to reproduce tat blur look.  And mine look like it’s gonna run away …

udon with assorted veg and tofu

 

Plan A was to have two dishes - a pot of veggie soup and a bowl of soupy udon.

+ dried scallops and a pinch of salt for the soup

 

Veggie soup turns out to be quite bland (i guess I am kinda prudent aka kiasee where salt is concerned) …

 

Hence, Plan B:

 

which is to throw all the veg and tofu into the udon pot (with the seasoning tat comes along with the noodle)

:P

yummy!!!!

Random things about damsie

 

For the past two weeks,

My morning alarm : ‘Nobody’

Length of song: 3:34 min

By the end of the song, I wld had gotten up of bed, brushed my teeth and showered.

 

Try it, it’s good.

vegan meal and strange rabbit

 

Dined with ying at cuppage plaza basement

The rabbit studying the phone input point.

Mebbe she want to be Electrical Engineer (Comms) when she grow up.

 

This one here … dunno wat she studying.  But she purposely overturn the piggy bank.  Sigh. Poor thing.

fishie and damsie combine forces …

 

 

yummz!

还是那一句

 

你什么都不用说了。

 

我再问你一次

你信我还是她？

A Book-Crunching Monday

If you fail to plan, you have (subconsciously) plan to fail
~ Lorna Tan

 

I have learned your face as you will never.
The third day we met
you gave me all your secrets
until I held an ocean in a cradle.
Now all I ask for is more

~ The Order in Which Things are Broken, by Desiree Alvarez

Choices

 

There’s always a choice.

I chose mine.

But there’s this little voice at the back of my mind that goes,

‘hey gal, isn’t tat very selfish of you?’

Claypot Rice and Ice Cream!

 

yummy dinner with Princess and Mehz at Clementi. Oh puddie, dun worry.  We didnt leave you out.  Meh Meh kindly offered to eat on your behalf! keke.

total $23

 

Followed by Ice cream @ sunset way  

flavours:

Rum & Raisin
Avocado
Honey Vanilla
Choco

$5.20 for two scoops

salted veggie and tofu

 

Today’s dinner:

 

Random thot

Cooking is like making music.

At least that’s how it seem to damsie, who is culinary-challenged and musically-disinclined.

---

 

Salted Veggie Soup

 

I referenced the recipe from Ms Patricia BB of ‘My Wok Life’. 

http://www.mywoklife.com/2009/04/duck-soup-with-salted-vegetables-tofu.html

Patricia has roasted duck in her soup though (yum yum).  I didnt use any duck meat or no pork ribs. Simply vegs and luncheon meat (I did say I have one big can of luncheon meat to clear right?  damn sick of the thing by now.)

My soup is nothing as compared to granny’s 咸菜鸭汤.  But it’s way better than I expected.  Only one rant -– too much of the tomato taste. It shld be a fleeting, elusive accompaniment but it damn well nearly overpowered the salted veggie.   Next time I will use half a tomato.

 

Steamed Silky Toufu in Dried Shrimp Sauce

Oh! Halfway thru the preparation, the easily-distracted damsel saw a pic at the bottom of the above recipe page.  Silken steamed tofu in dried shrimps sauce!!!

http://www.mywoklife.com/2009/08/silky-steamed-tofu-with-dried-shrimps.html

Sounds and look yummy! Like agedashi tofu lydat .. haha.  So i tried it as well. 

5 minutes into the sauce frying, i thgt it’s gonna be a gone case.  Too little oil. everything stick to the pan and get burnt at horrendous speed.

So, damsie decide to throw all caution to the winds (as usual …)
and .. ah… improvise! (read: anyhow cook….) 

The end product turns out to be quite goood leh.  It has a very interesting taste to it. I dunno how to describe.  Abit charred (coz burnt), abit cooling (tofu) .. a hint of fragrance (i added mushrooms) … Together with the slight saltiness of the dried shrimps, everything blended very well.

 

Once again, thanks to Ms Patricia BB. She has an idiot-proof recipe there :D   And most impt of all, it’s the way she make everything sounds so do-able.

 

PS: Feeling quite full now … usuallie i will cook in the early afternoon so that I can split the meal into two – lunch and dinner. Today I only started cooking at 5pm.  Looks like this gotta be Dinner and Supper/Breakfast.

frens are frens forever

 

last night’s dinner with fishie

 

 

little frens

 

 

 

toto’s lunch for today

upset over the card. don’t want to talk abt it le.

not her fault. mine.

跷跷板

 

你说, 爱情像不像跷跷板?

你不下来我要怎么上去？ 想和你平起平坐，也不能靠我一个人努力。 然后你突然跳板，我从高处摔下又弹起。我一身黑青，而你已经换了个游乐场地。

哦。原来，我也不过是场游戏呢。

Hmm. Complicated. 还是找个傻耿耿的男人好了。

 

众里寻他千百度 。。。

那人 。。。躲到哪儿去了？

呼吸

有人说
生命，在呼与吸之间，在一吐一纳间。
只要还留着口气，那就是生命。

丫头同意。那是生命。

也觉得
生活，却是在静与动之间。
人活着，就该时静时动的。

如果就一直躺在那里，成了植物人 。。。
生命尚存，可生活 。。。是空白的。人生，也失去了意义。

我情愿快活地死去
也不想毫无价值地活着。

对啦对啦。丫头成天嚷着，value-add value-add
做每件事情都该有 value-add, 不然很 pointless. 
（当然所谓 value-add 也包括 happiness value 啦，哈哈！所以这个 value-add 很 subjective 就是了。 我高兴做的话，谁又能说我在浪费时间呢？）

Still, when I was running till I thot my lungs would burst and I find myself gasping for precious precious air, I thgt it’s really great being able to breathe.
我就是很享受那种纯粹为了呼吸而呼吸的感觉。  Best part is, not only can I breathe, I can also hear, see, sense, taste and move!
hence, the 呼吸 and 静动 crapz above :P

Actuallie it felt easier than yesterday, but I guess the up-slope towards the end was a killer (i changed route) … i nearly died there. hahaa!!!!!  Tomorrow I will run towards Bt Merah central...

last night’s supper :

luncheon meat + egg sandwich

today’s brunch:

luncheon meat + veg spaghetti

yes, i just opened a can of luncheon meat yesterday so have to finish it this week :P
somebody quick come and help me settle it!!!!

fried veg & yangchun mian

Lunch and Dinner :
 



After dinner, went jogging.  Run 20 min only, and I started gasping for air.  Yes, very 逊.  The last time i jogged must be eons ago.  Shall try to do it everyday (ahem ahem. Talk is cheep).

Anyway, this Thursday I want to cook this:


咸菜豆腐汤
http://www.mywoklife.com/2009/04/duck-soup-with-salted-vegetables-tofu.html

To buy : Tofu
Get from granny: tomato, oil and rice

ABC soup

Lunch: Angel Hair Spaghetti with ABC soup


What’s in this dish:
Angel-hair spaghetti with pasta sauce (a pinch of salt + pepper)
ABC soup consisting of carrots, white radish, sweet corn, king oyster. Soup base is ikan bilis and dried shrimps again. These work wonders. 

Feedback:
The soup taste good.  As usual, wish there’s more though.  I started with one big pot and ended with half.
I cooked this from memory, didn’t really check out any recipes. Now that I surfed online for a proper recipe, I belatedly realise that ABC soup uses potatoes, not white radish.  But well, I don’t like potatoes and I heart white radish. 

And I learnt today that white radish has a cooling (凉) nature hence is not recommended for old people.
Just nice, I was suffering from throat dryness and gum soreness.  The cooling effect will do me good.

Wondering how to remove the raw aftertaste from white radish though. And too much corn this time round.  Next time will just use a quarter sweet corn.

Oh yah! I habent quite reviewed the San Remos angel hair spaghetti right? It has a nice bite to it, and cook quickly.  But it’s wheat flavoured .. so … not everyone will like it.  Took abit of getting used to.