November 11, 2009
Sisters talk
Cos I promised I would post something so here I am typing away at 230am.
Had a long chat with sis on msn today. Seems like after daylight savings ended, the 7hrs difference has made it quite difficult for us both to be online at the same time. Hence it has been quite some time since I chatted with sis. In the past, once a while, we’ll have night talks where we’ll sleep on the same bed and talk/gossip/bitch till one of us fell asleep (which 99.999% of the time is sis). I miss those sessions. It was fun. Mummy who is a super light sleeper will complain that we are wasting electricity cos our room light will be on or she will come into the room (to scold us) and we’ll pretend to be asleep then when mummy left we’ll burst out laughing. Its just so coincidental that sis (ace is staying at his grandparent’s and max is out) and I (net having night flying so I dun have to cook dinner) are alone at home and are free.
It was a good long heart to heart “chat”. We were discussing how our life story were actually quite similar. It seems like we were living the same life, but in different countries. I mean everything that sis told me, I can totally relate cos they are what I have been feeling lately also. I always tought only twins have telephaty. I think sis and me have telepathy also.
I just want to say that you are not alone, sis. Here I am, on the other side of the globe, feeling the exact same feelings as u are feeling. And I really miss u loads loads loads. Though our chat is short just now (as compared to our night talks) but I felt hey, I am not alone out there. Somehow I felt better knowing this. So jia you ok?? I love you!!
miss hanging out… just the 2 of us…
November 3, 2009
Tea Time Again!! Oreo Cheesecake
An and me, and our respective hubbies went down to SS (San Sebastian, Spain) when the ban was lifted finally (this was few months back). The “aunties” in us went supermarket shopping in SS when our hubbies left us to do our own shopping while they go for a glass of beer. And we were so excited when we saw Oreo cookies in the supermarket and best of all, it is cheap (only till recently, did we see oreo in the supermarket here and its damn ex la)!! So we each bought a few packets happily.
Hence when it comes to our regular tea session, we decided to do Oreo Cheesecake. Whoever invented Oreo cookies, I think he/she is damn smart la cos Oreo goes with anything. You can put Oreo cookies in ice cream, in cakes, they all taste good.
And this is the end result of our cheesecake. Recipe taken from Kraft website.
perfect for tea time…
I have baked several cheesecakes and till now my cakes still crack, although the severity of the crack is getting lesser each time I bake. I am still figuring the way to bake a perfect cheesecake. Will be baking it again for sure. I just bought a baking tin big enough for me to do steam baking. Keke.
October 28, 2009
Soya Sauce Chicken
I think everyone will have a food that is close to their heart. Whenever you eat it, you feel good, you feel happy. These food are usually linked to happy childhood memries.
One food that is very close to my heart is soya sauce chicken. This is my ah mah’s speciality. When I was young, ah mah will definitely cook soya sauce chicken when we go to her place for dinner. We will always request for her to cook this dish when we are there. We never get tired of it. And ah mah will make sure that each of us will have one drumstick. Tll now, I have never eaten a soya sauce chicken that tastes nicer than hers. My ah mah cooks the best soya sauce chicken in the world.
As ah mah gets older, she gradually stopped cooking. Now, I think she won’t even remember how to cook soya sauce chicken anymore. It has been a long long time since I last ate her soya sauce chicken and I have never stopped missing it.
Hence, when I came across the recipe for soya sauce chicken one day, I was very happy and I decided I must cook it. And this is my soya sauce chicken.
My soya sauce chicken definitely doesn’t taste as nice as ah mah’s. But it brings a heartwarming smile to my face as I was telling net how ah mah will always cook this dish when my cousins and us (sis and I) went over to her house, how we will always stay over at her place during school holidays, the silly games we play, how ah mah always cook many many dishes and how yeye will always open canned lychee after dinner…
I wished I can be back in Singapore this very moment to cook this dish for ah mah and I will tell her: you cook soya sauce chicken for me when I was young. Now you are old, it is my turn to cook for you. Hopefully this dish will bring her as many happy memories as it has brought me. 
October 26, 2009
Why You Live in France
Other than just blogging about food, I think I will entertain you with some interesting anedotes happening in my life…
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My house phone rang the other day. Thinking it was net, since he is the only one who calls our house phone. Turns out, I was wrong. It was some telemarketeer trying to get us to sign on with thier internet service. The guy was blahing away in french and I do not understand a single word he said. So I asked him my best one-liner french: parlez vous anglais (do you speak english)? He paused for a second and said: A little. You no speak french?? I answered: No. And he retorted: Then why you live in France?? Wah lau, I was damn pissed when he said that. In my mind I was thinking: KNN!! You think limpeh like to stay in your country ah?? If limpeh got choice, limpeh will go live in a country which speaks english. Kaoz. Anyway, after he said that i just told him: Je parle petit peu francais (I speak a little french). And he resumed back to speaking french. But whatever he said, I just replied: pardon, je nai sai pas (sorry, I don’t know). After a while, he got fed up and ended the call. Hahaha.
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(this is specially for power)
Lately, I am hooked to this game called cafeworld on fb, where you managed a cafe, earn points to level up and earn money to decorate your cafe. In this game, you can hire your friends to be your waiter/waitress. Su was the one who introduced this game to me so when I first have to hire a friend, I chose her. As my level got higher and I expanded my cafe, I was able to hire more helpers and I subsequently hired net (feels good to see him serving in my cafe, eventhough its just virtual) and my sis. Keke. I was so hooked to this game that I was playing it everyday. One night, while I was playing, I noticed that eventhough I have a lot of food on the counters, my waiter/waitresses are not serving the customers. They just stood at one corner, not moving. Initially I thought there was something wrong with the game so I log off and login again. Same problem. Then I thought maybe I need to change the waiters so I “fired” my sis and “hired” power. But it’s still the same. Power, being the newest waitress, is not serving food as well. So I told net something is wrong with the game. I told him I changed waiter already but the problem is still there. And net asked me:
Net: huh?? u fired me ah??
Me: no, I changed my sis.
Net: so who did you hire?
Me: power. keke
Net: aiya, you hire power, she so KL one, of course she won’t serve customer for you la. hahahaha.
In the end, after much pondering, I finally realised what is wrong. I adjusted my counters and it seems that I have accidentally trapped my waiters between the counters and the tables. :p
So, the problem is solved and now power is happily serving food on my cafe. If you are playing cafe world as well, please add me as your neighbour.
