Jann's BLoG

After a nite out, bar hopping from Boat Quay to Clarke Quay with Shirin, Genevieve and Ran, our Italian Chinese hunk, the last thing I want to do is to get out of bed. But then, at about 1030am, Wendy called to say that she is bringing my dear princess over! No more fever, can come. Great news! But that means lunch to cook without a single thing in the fridge, without a menu mapped out! Mad rush to wash up, gulped down some yakky coffee and went off to get grocery. All this while, planning the menu in my mind; not too sure at that time if I was even dreaming :p 11.15pm Back from market with 3 bagfuls of ingredients A mad rush to wash, chop and cut up all ingredients. Luckily got kitchen helper and of course Wesley to document the progress Onions, garlic and curry powder Trying to pan fried fish in a non stick pan that is no longer "NON" stick! 1 hour and 15mins later Curry Vegetables with cabbages, brinjals, carrots, cauliflowers, green beans and tau pok Diced chicken with c...

090909 what an auspicous day! In Chinese, its enough enough enough... always enough, never lacking. I likey. Great day to have lunch with my old time buddies..friends of over 30 years!! Isn't that something? 30 over years... the fact that I was living abroad half the time did not dampen our friendship. There are many more lovely friends that I would love to spend today with... Susan, Shirin, Alvin, Dom, Rachael, ... and of course my little sister, Daisy. But it's a working day afterall.. plus some of u are not even in town and heheheh u gonna say, not all are taitais :P So how about a e-cheer over here.. chink chink... all the best and many great days ahead. Here's our lunch at Acacia Restaurant in the Park in Bishan Park. This Sambal Kangkong is super fresh, super delicious! All time favorite - Cereal Prawns Curry fishhead.. quite spicy for me but not for them. Would love it to be more assamy thou. This is a interesting dish.Golden Butter Pork Ribs, not bad but will lov...

told Shirin that i will not take a close up with her! Look at how radiance my dear girl is and how haggard this poor sod is beside her! Yummy cheesy Grilled Oyster This sea bass is awesome.. definitely will try cooking it myself. I've always only steam it; but grilling it, that's something new. Rub plenty of salt on the skin; that's the advice. Will definitely try it out over the weekend. Grilled Shrimp- never once tasted bad... always good! ah, Alvin, can u stop posting on facebook and be with us? Nice restaurant, nice ambience, but a bit too out of the way for us folks in Punggol. Tai tai lunch with my tai tai friend. Here's my all time tai tai, Amy.. we were classmate since Sec 1! And while we are enjoying a nice luncheon in the cozy ambience of the Angus Steak House in Ngee Ann, those folks are caught in the traffic, in the heavy downpour. Who says life is fair?

Time flies and his buddy thinks that he is ready for SEX!!!! I Don't think so. No mum ever thinks so.. . i guess. And no, .. I am not over reacting by underlining my text. For some unknown reason, I am not able to remove the underscore ;# Birthday gifts from his naughty buddies Decent and useful laptop backpack from mummy of course ;p (tks to Marion for helping me to get it) And Wow from Marion! IPod! Its been plug to his ear ever since ;p

Fruit crumbles @ Mangosteen, Vivo City Coco Before Chanel @ GV Grand Vivo A very meaningful and memorable fashion to celebrate the Big 50. Glamor shots with all her soul mates. I am so blessed to be consider one. With 7 aunties, with the exception of Daphne who is only in her early 30s, the 2 beauticians had a tough chore trying to doll us up. But hey, turn out to be not too bad. We were there the whole days. Here's some of the before shots. Was not able to take photos inside the studio. But later when the actual photos are ready, will definitely show off over here. But for now, here's the original shots without any photoshop doctored on it. ORIGINAL!

Sunday.. relaxing Sunday, everything so blissful. Got a late bfast, brunch, very late lunch. But that's fine cos it's worth waiting for when your sons cook for u. Sinful too but at least my conscious is clear cos i did run just now. Not too much but that's not my fault. It rain! And to compromise, I did my crunches, work on my resistance belt and did a few (hehehee, a few) push up. And yes, amid all the distractions from Barn Buddy and Farmville, I did manage to go thru 2 Bazi analysis. Actually about to work on the 3rd one, but got distracted again. Hey its a Sunday afterall. So it's ok. Braised a duck with a can of beer. This time around the duck is not too intoxicated. Only a can of beer. The last time I added 2 cans but realised that it just evaporates away so no point wasting my beer on that fowl. Keep it for meself! :p With all the oil from that fat duck, I used to cook cabbage with black mushroom and wooden ear. This is epic! It is awesome. The flavor ...

Life simple pleasure. Food. U know what is great about Sunday. Boys preparing sinful choc pancakes for me.. though it should be breakfast and now is almost 1pm.... lolz.. it is still worth waiting. I hope.. hahhaa Meanwhile I am trying very hard to concentrate on my Bazi analysis. Study! Is so easy to get distracted. Look I am now blogging. A while ago I was "farming" @ Farmville and clearing weeds @ Barn Buddy. Sigh... must get back to my studying!!!!!!!!!!! Oh wait, forgot to mention. Something else to look forward to tonight. Braised Duck. Will be cooking that later. After my delayed breakfast/brunch, almost lunch maybe teabreak. Even got a bottle of white chilling in the fridge for tonight. Nice eh. Ok, so now while waiting for boys to get pancakes ready, i better go back to study. And yes, photos coming later. Finally get to eat at 130pm :p Lucky mummy. Yummy!