Sunday, June 23, 2013

Old cucumber soup

Haze has persisted to hang around Singapore since last Tuesday. It's kind of true what people said, it looks like stock market and the movement is very volatile. Seems like all in Singapore keep checking the figure every hours (can feel the excitement of watching the stock market).

Welcoming my weekend, haze firmly positioned itself in figure above 300 in the morning. I decided to cook my curry stock, but when I read one post from my friend at facebook, it mentioned for us to better avoid the spicy kind of foods. So I told hubby and changed my mind, looked for other recipes and found the cucumber soup. It's been long time I wanted to try cooking this. So, after having our bfast, we went down to buy flowers (for praying on 15th day of the lunar month) at wet market and my ingredients for this cooling soup.

Ingredients :
Old cucumber
Carrots
Pork ribs
Chicken breasts (since my sis didn't take any pork)
Dried scallops
Dried cuttlefish (didn't manage to find one, so I skipped this)
Red dates (slicing a bit)
Salt
Sugar
Water

I also added in : chopped garlics, shallots, and wolfberries (not cooling herbs)

How to cook :
1. Scrub the old cucumber's skin clean and cut it in pieces. Take out the seeds.
2. Marinate the chicken and keep it in the fridge while waiting for others to be done.
3. Blanch the pork ribs in boiling water for few minutes, then drain them and set aside.
4. In a soup pot, add in all the ingredients. Water, cucumber chunks, pork ribs, marinated chicken, chopped shallots and garlics, carrots, dried scallops, and red dates. After 10minutes, add in salt and sugar with own's taste preferences (I added the wolfberries around 20minutes later). Boiled it for about 45mins to 1 hour.

The cooking is easy, just spent more time in preparation. Enjoy! :)




Wednesday, June 19, 2013

My hubby

My hubby :
* the one who only had few hours opportunity to date me before asking me to be his girlfriend
* the one who kept memorizing the first date of our first meeting at Starbucks, Clarke Quay
* the one who said would buy me a dinner at Chijmes on our the first date, but instead we went to Thai cafe (actually he never thought it would be fully booked that day :p)
* the one who left me to Bali after a week relationship
* the one who left me alone in Singapore twice in 2008 for his trips and promised never ever leave me alone again (which he still keep it till now)
* the one who persist to stay besides me through my up's and down's stage
* the one who proposed me in the same date, time and place of our first meeting with a surprise. Truly suprised me.
* the one who willing to wait two years after proposing me (asper my request)
* the one who have brought me to see some new places 
* the one who married me last year
* the one who fulfilled my dreams to go and taste Japan's life
* the one who give me a sweet and homey place as my current home and full of authority to take care of our home :D
* the one who always messaged me "luv u" bfore going to sleep last time and now, hug and give me a gud nite kiss plus saying "I luv u" before we go to sleep every night.
* the one who always pamper me since I am with him
* the one who always give his shoulder and chest everytime I cried
* the one who always hug and send me to lrt before I go to office, and fetch me at lrt when I go home (applicable whenever he's not going to town area on daytime)
* the one who accompany me patiently whenever I go out for shopping
* the one who always bring me to eat at my favourite places 
* the one who never complained about me 
* the one who always eat and finish my cooking with satisfying face
* the one who always give me hand in doing core housework even without I'm asking 
* the one who always keep couraging me for everything I want to do
* the one who never doubt about me
* the one who always trust me
* the one who never said nice promising words but always told me "I do my best"
* the one who never said "I would never leave you" but always said "future is uncertain."
* the one who never said "I would never cheated on you" but always said "I'll keep the five precepts"
* the one who make me feel so safe, peaceful, and trusted in our relationship 
* the one who always said to me whenever I was frustated "I was sent by goddess to take care of you, so there won't be anybody else can handle your emotion" :p
* the one who always let me to choose things
* the one who always checked on calendar and said "almost half month, near timing alr" whenever I was easily irritated and emotional (how come not to laugh everytime I heard this) 
* the one who instead saying "why are you doing that?" but he always asked me "what can I do for you to make you happy, honey?"
* the one who keep awake at nights just to watch and hug me whenever I am unconsciously crying on my sleep 
* more to come..

And, I love everything about him with his special spices :
* forgetful (except financial things)
* emotionless
* always farting 
* always laugh and smile
* his unique eyes
* smart and have many ideas
* think before talk (man type huh :p)

I'm writing all the above is to remind me how grateful I am having you as my life partner. As you said, future is uncertain and people can easily change and forgetful. So I decided to write down everything I can remember about you before I forget, and I can look back in the future to give me fresh memory how lovely you are instead of complaining you. :p

Thank you for coming to my life, hubby!

ps. will add other things once I remember 


Monday, June 17, 2013

Haze!!

My news' menu for today : Haze!

Whether I opened yahoo, facebook, instagram, twitter, or news, the only main topic showed up was "Haze". I admit it, current situation is the worst one compare to previous years since I've been here. I keep following up to the PSI updates released from NEA website, and the next it posted, higher and higher the number showed. :(

Can I wish if we all could work from home tomorrow? *wishing*

These Pictures I found from various websites, showed how bad the haze's doing right now in Singapore. Hope it will subside very soon.. 





Last but not least, I hope this one can leave you with a laughter before reading ends ;)




Monday, June 3, 2013

Our Birthday @2013

I am so grateful that we are still the same, so caring and passionate each other, as years passed. Keep it up! :)