"Heng Heng" Lantern

Hey Sharon.... remember this our "heng heng" lantern? :) where's yours? My 1st trip to Chinese Garden Mid-Autumm Festival....miss those days....

Lantern Festival in Chinese Garden

Look at this.... oh-so-lovely!!!! .... I'm going to hint hubbee to bring me here ....

The Singapore Chinese Garden's Mid-Autumm Festival is back and this year festival aims to enter the Singapore Book of Record. I been once to the Chinese Garden's Mid-Autumm Festival and I enjoy every moment. Soaking in the atmosphere and being a kid again carrying the small colorful paper latern brings me back to the younger days.

Back to the past... During my younger days, my neighbours are my best of friends and we play everything under the sun. Come Latern Festival time, we will find a little corner and lit up the candles around the house (thank god we didn't manage to burn down the place) and had an adventure walk around the neighbourhood carrying our little paper lantern then. We will continue this for the rest of the week till the festival ends.

Here's the link to the Lantern Festival in Chinese Garden http://www.lanterncarnival.com/

Fried Beehoon Pork Chops

Hmm... am getting mental block on what to cook everyday. Further, am getting lazier each days to whip up something different and special so today decided to fry bee hoon with stewed pork ribs.

My FIL gave this to me and was told that it will taste good especially fried with beehoon. Something I never thought or try of!

Sounds simple and something different for dinner today. Below are the ingredients I prepared...

Ingredients

1. Shallot chopped in small bits

2. Garlic chopped

3. Carrot sliced

4. 3 beaten eggs

5. Soya sauce

6. Oyster sauce

7. 1 can of stewed pork chops

8. Lettuce - sliced

Method

1. Soak beehoon in cold water for at least half an hour till soft

2. Fried the beaten eggs in omellete style - for garnishing

3. Fried shallot till fragrant and add in carrot and garlic. Continue frying til fragrant.

4. Add in oyster sauce, soya sauce and beehoon. Stir well

5. Add in stewed pork chops together with the gravy and fried till beehoon half dry

6. Dish out and garnish with lettuce and sliced omellete

Fried Pork Chop Bee Hoon

Lovely....Taste yummy and hubbee love it! :)

SOHO

This is my 3rd week since i started as a freelance and working from home. Getting adapt to my new "environment/office" as we call it SOHO. Is just a few steps away from my bed :) and dragging my foot to work in the morning is something I never get to experience before! Well, I had been working in KL for the past few years and my work place smack right in the middle of the city and the horrendous jam is unbelievable and sometimes we call it as "huge open car park".

So, this feeling of SOHO is so so .....hehe...BLISSFUL! I don have to drive and stuck in the jam, whats more I can wake up 5 mins before work start! However GREAT DISCIPLINE is needed here as you tends to sway away from other distractions like watching HKG series non stop for hours.... :p is so intoxicated!!!

Hmm....am I going to consider this after my delivery or back to the "reality" again...???

I am 28th weeks

Here's a photo of me at 28th weeks.

Baby are getting more active now which I can feel more kicking, squirming and punching. Sometimes, he will have a few series of hic-cups whereby I can feel a consistent movement of bubble like at the lower abdomen.

Up and running...

YAY! Finally my broadband and phone line is up and running again. It was a plain torture for the past 2 days as my phone line cranks up. Of all the day, it has to be "The Day". The story goes like this...

I had signed up a package for the purpose of my SOHO use this few months and it fits perfectly well into my requirements. After the installlation on Friday afternoon (tried and tested all working) I was all set to start my freelance work on Monday. Somehow, I have this nagging feeling (women instinct?) that things might not work the same on Monday.

True enough, waking up on Monday morning dragging my feet to my SOHO I switch on the computer and start pounding on the keys. Hmm....looking at my fax machine I thought of making a phone call or rather I called it "opening ceremony". I press on the Hook/Hold button and I start hearing engage tone....Tuuuuuuu Tuuuuuuuu Tuuuuuuuuu Tuuuuu...... Puzzled...I tried again and again and again...Getting very irritated with the constant Tu Tu Tu in my head I decided to check all the wirings to the fax machine and power socket, micro filter, whateva line that links to the machine but to no avail :((( . Suspecting that the technician man may miss out one of the wirings or setting. So, I decided to call up the help desk of the telco company to get them down to take a look at it.

SMSed hubbee and told him the situation and he was as puzzled as me. He was my witnessed (on Sunday night) checking on the fax and things were all right. To cut my long story short, we had an adventure time with the telco company (I shall not put any names here - but if u wan to know I can pm u) as we have to wait for almost 2 days without any feedback to us. The only feedback I received from them (calling them almost 5 times a day) was "We noted your concern and I'm sorry as the relevant dept is still following up on your issue. We will call you back once we have an answer from them". Loosing our patience, hubbee decides to bang the tables (not once-few times mine you) and only then they decided to come down on Tuesday (late afternoon) to inspect and did some testing on all the sockets and wiring again. Also, on that particular fateful day my broadband starts to crank up and play dead on me. Can't work or access my mails so I decided to watch my cantonese series to cheer me up (hope my boss is not reading this :p)

Finally, my phone line and broadband is back and running on Tuesday evening. So far so good..... crossing my fingers and toes....

Gearing up...

I have been actively and happily doing my shopping for the past few months for the baby and I must say I ENJOY IT EVERY MOMENT!

Even so the constant nagging from my friends to prevent me from over purchased but I guess I'm hooked to this so called pill "ShopaBaby". The most addictive section that I can't resist is the baby's clothing which sometimes I wonder why can't the manufacturer just make a few size bigger for us adults?

Our recent purchase was a set of baby feeding bottle bought in Takashimaya Baby Fair and I "think" it's a steal. After paying at the counter, I quickly whizzed hubbee off from the fair to prevent me from burning more holes in our pocket. However, the cold turkey inside me starts kicking in....

Our Work Station

It has been a while my study room has been left empty for some reason. One of it was, hubbee and I hardly stay here (our cocoon in Tampinese) so we don't bother to decorate it like a study room. The one and only item which makes our study room looks like a "study room" stands our tall and proud book shelf (see Picture 2) filled with many books from my dear brother. Ever since he relocated to Copenhagen for work purpose, I inherited 80% of his books and it looks like a mini library to us.

Today, FIL, Hubbee and I went to Ikea, Tampinese. We roughly knew the design we wanted as we have been doing some window shopping in Ikea. Fortunately, my FIL* has a lorry to carry back the study table. So thankful to him! Not forgetting our BIL** for helping us to fix the table too! Here's our new work station and hubbee no longer have to make do on our TV console as a study table (I quietly took this without him knowing... :p)


BEFORE
AFTER

Picture 1

Picture 2

This will be my SOHO for the next 3 months or so as I'll be working from home while waiting for my lil' one to "pop out" this Dec 07 (EDD = 9th Dec). This is so the right time for me to land on this freelance job, else I will start growing mushroom from Sept - Dec 07.

*FIL = Father In Law
**BIL = Brother In Law