Happy Halloween !!!!!!!!

Asia do not celebrate Halloween. Unless you are a 'angmoh' - This is a very western kind of thing.
Nevertheless Halloween costumes, candies are being sold in our local supermarkets. There is not a big selection available but enough for my boys to amuse themselves while they follow me around the supermarket.




















As usual it is only #3 alone in front of the camera. While the other 2 dress him up and fool around behind the camera.

Trick or treats.... the nearest we ever come close to are the games we play virtually. I guess virtual candies are in a way much better than the real ones.

So whether you are trick or treating virtually or really out there ...

Happy Halloween !!!!!

An Old Friend

As long back as I can recall I love to bake. Love the smell of freshly baked cakes or cookies. Always hang around my Mother whenever she does any baking. She and her Kenwood. The droning of the machine will go on and on especially during festive seasons.

I have always told myself that one day I will take over this machine of hers.

Well, I have. Here it is. In my kitchen. An old friend who had accompanied me through out my early days of baking. From simple to complicated cakes.

It is very old, comes with a porcelain bowl instead of a stainless steel one. It still works. Although it does not sound as smooth as before.

I sent it for repair before I brought it over. The beaters can't be attached. Got it fixed and found out that even though all the Kenwood looks the same. You can't interchange the K beater, whisks and hook. So, I have been warned not to lose them.

Today, I tried out the Kenwood for the first time since I brought it back. Baked a cake, left it in the oven. Cooked dinner and went over to my virtual kitchen. Came back to check on the cake and found that some one switched off the oven !!!.

Pounced on H as he was in the kitchen doing the dishes earlier. He thought I had forgotten to turn it off.

GRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr.........

Lucky for him that the cake turn out OK - so far . It is now cooling off. ( Me too )

Have to wait until I take it out of the tin.

Told him he will have to finish the cake if it is half baked !!!!

A Rainny Weekend

Last Saturday it was raining cats and dogs in the morning. This shot was taken while we were in the car. The rain was so heavy that we could hardly see the cars in front of us.It started to pour once we hit the highway.

Darn... wish I had woke up later ( woke up at 9am). I would have lazed around the house the whole day !
The sun was shining right on to my face, warming up the room. Told the boys we were going to make another trip to the Southern Ridges again. Intend to continue on the path where we last stopped.

" Oh ! No !!! "

" Too bad. "

Yeah, I am in the mood for morning walks.
In the end I did have my walk - around Vivo City, a big mall opposite Sentosa Island.

While wandering around the mall we came across a book fair - on board a ship; Doulos. Went on board and took the tour. Luckily by then the rain had stopped.

OK. This ship is mighty old - over 90 years old. Built in 1914, it had carried onions, immigrants, was once a cruise liner. Now a floating bookshop, travelling around the world. The book shop is built over where the swimming pool used to be.

Walking along the live boats - another old relic here. The side of this particular life boat
has dots on it where they are welded together. The rest of the life boats have smooth surfaces.

An ancient compass that is still working. The green and red knobs are magnets. It seems this compass is older than the ship; 100 years old ++.

The compass. They have another modern compass beside it.

The engine room which is super noisy and hot.

Oh ! Btw I forgot to mentioned that our guide was a girl from China. She has been on board for a year. She told us all the crew members are volunteers. The youngest crew is 2 weeks old. There are families on board too.

And lastly a shot of Sentosa Island - where the new Genting resort is being built. If I am not wrong this is where the ferry terminal on the island used to be.

Look What We Found ?

What is an evil looking axe doing in this post ?

Please excuse the bad picutres. I was using my mobile's camera. These pictures were taken when we were going through Father's belongings.

It is because the boys found a tightly closed tin in Ipoh. No matter how they shake it, use all their mighty strength, they can't open it. In the end roped in their father but to no avail.
This tin used to belong to Father. No one knows what was inside it. We were all mighty curious.It sounds like it contains some sand. I said it might be tea leaves that he had kept and forgotten all about it.
Or ashes - somebodies ashes ?????
Gory ???

Hence we bought out that evil looking axe. Before that H had used screw drivers to break the rubber seal that had harden and sealed the tin tight.

What did we find inside it ? All our guess were wrong.
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A Camera ! Not any old camera but a Rolleiflex !!!

Father had told Mother that he had lost the camera long ago. So we were not expecting to find this. Before that we had found the camera's leather casing and external flash. We were wondering what to do with them earlier with out the camera.

Looks like he might had forgotten about it.

#1 was really fascinated by it. So Mother gave the camera to him - under my care until he is older.

I can't help wondering how to take care of the camera plus how much it is worth ?

$$$$$$ Yeah I am money mad. ($_$)

Anyone have any idea ?

#@*%!!!!

Today I am feeling real "FAAAAN" !!!!

I can't sleep.

It is 2am in the morning.

The wind is howling like mad.

Bringing the rain it had promised by the cuaca man since yesterday morning. It made me get up from my seat to close the windows and doors.

Plus the stupid mouse just won't won't go where I want it to. Can't find it on my screen. At least I am able to type and press the arrow buttons and type and edit my..... errors. Which is what I am doing now.

Took me a bloody long time to fix it... knowing how savvy I am with computers.

See..... I am not happy with anyone....

I even made time to rant my frustration here. A place I have not dropped by since .... knows when.

And the best thing is I can't really rant my frustration here.

Short of letting the WWW knows what is going on.

SHIT !!!!

Scissors Cut Curry Rice

Whenever you mentioned curry rice to me, the first thing that comes to my mind is those curry from an Indian restaurant/ Nasi Kandar. Especially those back home around the clock tower in the old town section of Ipoh. Father use to brings us there for some good curry rice.
One weekend, H recommended a place for dinner.

Beach Road Scissors Cut Curry Rice.

The first thing I notice was that it is not on Beach Road. This shop is located along Jalan Besar, right at the junction turning to Kitchener Road.

We had passed by this area a couple of times and we were really curious about it. There is always a queue snaking out of the shop every time we pass by. It takes up 2 coffee shop lots too.

Scissors Cut Curry Rice.

Are you curious ...........like me ?????

Aiyah it is just Hainanese curry rice.

We joined the queue, ordered the curry that comes with only the wings section (not my fav part of a chicken), belly pork cook in soy sauce with some five spice powder ( that taste so much like the pig ears that Father use to prepare). Btw the way the pork was all fats and minimum meat but then what do you expect when it is already a belly pork . FATs !
We also added some fried chicken chops and taugeh. They brought the food to our table. One look and I know I am in trouble. For me that is. They dumped a whole lot of curry (that part I don't mind) and another lot of those black sauce from the belly pork onto the rice too. YUCKS !!!!!

I don't mind the pork dish. Actually I quite like the sauce but not mixed with the curry !!!!

The Hainanese curry is non spicy but super sticky. They thicken their curry with some starch. The same goes with the belly pork too.

See the queue in the shop. Customers queuing all the while we were there. The stall is man by men who slap on the curry and side dishes you chose on to the plate of rice. Ours happen to be only the gravy as we ordered for a few heads. The dishes came in smaller plates. If you are ordering as an individual everything was dumped on to that plate of rice that in the end it looks like a mountain.

Personally I think they can improve on their presentation.
Why the scissors ?

The only reason why I think so is it is because they cut the chicken wings with a pair of scissors.

On that same evening we tried something else too. We saw this stall deep frying some dough while we were walking to that curry rice shop. It is just opposite it, but this stall happens to be facing Kitchener Road. Might be because we were supper hungry because they sure looks delicious. We bought some to try. Asked the lady what it was and she told us it is a Hokkien cake.
That's new. Not even my H who is a one had tried it before. Must be a different kind of Hokkein group.

Anyway here it is. It has oysters, prawns, meat, slivered fish (ngan yee chai), peanuts all mixed up in a dough and deep fried in a vat of oil. Not healthy at all but damn shiokalingam !!!!

Evening Walk

OK, this post is for someone who had mentioned that I have been too quiet for so long. The reason for my long absent here was....... what else....
I am just too lazy to post or do anything. But very hardworking in harvesting my plants in Farmtown. One of those virtual farm thingy in FaceBook .
Who to blame but that 3crazydogs. *_*


Other than being stuck to my computer we have been going for walks around our area.
Boring, right. That is why there has been no post !
But because of that comment I made myself download the pictures from my camera and make another mark here. Meant to do it much earlier just too plain lazy. Plus today's internet connection seems so bloody slow. I can hardly do anyting. What else to do but to blog lah .

More pictures taken at the Changi Boardwalk. This time we went in the evening before sunset. Not only that we started our walk from the Changi Beach Club. I manage to take some shots which I think looks OK to me. Malu to say I still have not master all those gadgets in my camera.
A couple having their wedding shoot .

Here the boys were all sweaty and exhausted after the walk. Or should I say we walk, they run and jump and climb.