Jann's BLoG

Chinese tea espresso? Incidentally this is oolong tea.... very nice fragrant Mini sesame buns with pork floss Sliced pork with spicy garlic sauce. Don't be deceived by the photos, these 2 dishes come in exceptionally mini size too! Everything is served in very mini portion.. or they chose to call it dainty & tasty:-) Asparagus with Fa cai Yu sheng - a must. First time I have it with crispy salmon skin along with fresh salmon. Crispy skin is pretty interesting. Dor & muah la Pui Fann & Amy Our annual CNY's do. Not bad that we've been so constant after all these years..considering these are my Secondary school classmates! All for the exception of Pui Fann, an ex colleague of Dor. We meet up for lunch or dinner at least 5 times a year - each other birthdays and CNY. Exceptionally well since in between I've been away from Singapore for 14 years and of course not to mention how long ago Cedar's days were....lol.. Some friends are for life and that's a r...

The joy of dressing up a gift. Isn't this lovely? And all these, except for my gold mesh, are recycled materials. Two Christmases ago, after seeing the amount of wrapping papers discarded after the holidays, I've decided to stay away from wrapping papers. Well most of you who knows me probably heard about that. And since then I've been using left over fabrics from my workshop for such purposes. Here, I wrap first with a piece of burgundy satin (an offcuts from some curtain materials), then wrapped over again with gold mesh that I bought from Arab Street. No scotch tape is required too. Just bundle up with some matching color paper bindings that I've kept from some gifts that I received. For the finishing touch, a small bouquets of nylon flowers,. And even this could be reuse.

Photo of peony taken in the morning Photo taken same day but in the afternoon. My red chilli plant. Have to put an order to mummy - No plucking of chili! This is the most satisfying. It really blooms well. Hope to keep it up. Actually come to think of it, it is time for feeding them some plant food already.

As usual, a trip to Waterloo Street, Kuan YinTemple is a must on the first day of New Year. But this year in addition to appeasing the Gods, we also went to pay respect to my daddy. Look at the smoke from the joss sticks. Big challenge for my new implant :-) Reward after the heat n smoke

LOok at my poor baby's toe! This is what happened when he helped me washed car today. Thinking that the poor maid been busy all days preparing the Reunion Lunch, and the big washing up afterward, I got the boys to help with the car wash. This is what happened when they are not used to any chores. Too dependent on maid. Car is clean alright, but on the way back, Bez made the brother carried all the pails and stuffs. Yes, Bez already got reprimanded by Grandma and Mummy. And guess what, the entire pail dropped on his toe! I was away parking the car and so not there to witness the drop. But knowing these boys, they must be fooling around. Bag up ready for mummy to shower for him No kidding, that's the blood stain! Nasty right?

Mixture of shredded yam, "shao la", rice flour and dried shrimps Preparations for the LUnar New Year. The 2 grandmas hard at work.

Reunion Dinner, round 1. Round 2 will be next week. This year we joined the crowds of many and decided to eat out instead of cooking in. Not a bad idea considering not having to do the massive grocery shopping, prepare the dishes and then the washing. Thou of course by now i hear all the boos and ahs saying "yeah right, u wash up; u mean your maid's wash up" But hey, I really would have done all the cooking since these maids cannot cook ...Well round 2 will be at home with my own kiddos and Victor n partner since he cannot join us tonight. The Matriach with her Grandsons Isn't it obvious who is her favorite :-) Boys horsing around and doing some pretty obscene stuffs.... they don't need alcohol to do that Sister's power? Mum and her grandchildren...can Alex photoshop Victor into the picture? Spinach... the one at INternational Seafood is better. Fish with Black bean sauce Yu sheng - a must have.. the first of many..."Huat ah!" Super garlicky Lobst...

A restaurant worth mentioning. Nihon Musa located at the basement of Cathay building. Biggest attraction is of course the 99cents sushi. Any plates, including my favorite salmon sushi is 99cents. There are your regular teppanyaki, toufu, udon etc... lots of others in fact. NOt your best sushi but hey for that price you really cannot complain. As with all good value restuarant, there's a queue. This tofu is not part of the 99cents deal, but still it was only about $1.40 (i think) Unegi sushi (99cents) Between Susan and myself we managed 17 plates plus vegetable tempura and toufu