My colorgenics profile - 24 Nov 2008

Occasionally i like to visit the Colorgenics site when i'm feeling a bit puzzled or confused.
Some parts are rather true for wat i'm feeling right now =)

You appear to others around you as a person who is simply 'laid back'. From time to time you shelve your ambitions and forgo the desire for prestige and recognition and you are often considered as mentally lazy. You have the ability and you are the first to know this, but you prefer to take things easy and indulge your longing for comfort and security.

In the past there have been - and maybe there still are - many things that you have had to do without. You have now decided to set your sights on a position or situation that could give you greater prestige and which will afford you considerable self esteem.

You are very demanding - and insisting on total involvement but you do not reciprocate with the same depth of feeling. However, it could well be that maybe an unprecedented surprise is awaiting you in the near future. For just as one whilst paddling in the sea, could flounder into a whirlpool, so you may be drawn into a loving situation that has high emotional demands - and you could well respond with a depth of emotion that you never even dreamed that you possessed.

Whatever you strive to do, something always seems to be holding you back. There is no subterfuge in you. You are a clear thinker and all you demand from life, in a relationship, is a partner whom you can trust and with whom you can, together, develop a foundation of trust based on understanding. You are your own person and you demand freedom of thought to follow your own convictions. You have no interest in 'two-timing' and all you seek is sincerity and 'straight-dealing'.

You don't like authority and you rebel against all forms of limitation. You are your own person and you intend to stay that way and to get on in the world simply by your hard work and determination.

My itinerary for today

My office closes at 3pm today for the annual Dinner & Dance this evening and to keep ourselves entertained during this time we have opted for:-
3.30pm: Upper body massage @ My Foot Reflexology 40mins for S$30 @ Centrepoint
4.30pm: Express pedicure @ Fave Nails for S$13 @ Centrepoint
probably followed by coffee or tea. Its my first time going to these 2 places so i hope it'll be a real nice treat!
The secretaries are going out in full force to doll up themselves (^.^) whoee wheet!
Hope i'll get a nice lucky draw prize tonight!

CPR!

Was smooching a dummy y'day morning, ahahah...no juicy pics though. The Management Committee of my EC organised a talk and demonstration by the Civil Defence on CPR and the use of the fire extinguisher and i got to try CPR on a dummy! Well it was a female dummy and i had probably "killed" her by miscounting the number of pumps i gave to her heart (supposed to be 30 consecutive times in 1 set) and grabbing her throat. Gosh...wonder how i would react in a real life situation under stress and with so many steps to remember! Some important pointers:-
- Do not administer CPR unless the person is both without a pulse and is not breathing
- Before administering CPR check to ensure that the airways are clear i.e. no foreign objects lodged in the throat, remove any with your index finger
- 995 is for both fire engine and ambulance services - need to specify that ambulance services are needed
=D Was pretty happy that i finally got to learn this life-saving skill!

My husband's green fingers

Look! I got a little garden going on here =) Finally something sprouted and stayed alive...realised that once i start fussing around them they wilt and die on me. I left it to my husband and voila! We've got pandan leaves (real useful!), ginger, pomelo and Mexican Heather. Hee hee and we went to Daiso to get more pots and stuff to decorate spruce it up.

Catching up

Lots of catching up to do! Been busy for the past few weeks and couldn't find the time to blog...kekeke partly attributable to the new Nintendo Wii set in our living room.

Dinner @ Ma Maison at Bugis Junction, our all-time favourite restaurant. We had scallop carpaccio, beef stroganoff and a caramel pudding (no sharing of this one! had to have 1 each!).
Lunch with Evon at Canele Patisserie at City Hall =) we had tomato and crab pasta, seafood doria (baked rice) and a slice of Le Royale cake!

My sweet hamsters

My 2 female hamsters are super sweet to one another (^_^) such a joy to observe them interacting with one another and enjoying each other's company...相亲相爱...is there room for 1 more? - me?

Pics from my birthday week!

My last birthday treat was lunch at Whitebait & Kale at Camden - where Evon and i had whitebait for appetizers (super yum!), snapper pie (real real huge) and kurobuta pork loin. We din have any space left for dessert (^.^)


Home cooked one-dish meals - Rice cooked with mushrooms, bamboo shoots and chicken & chicken porridge, simple dishes to clean out the palate

Chicken porridge
Ingredients
- 1 cup of rice (enough for 2 persons)
- 3 pieces of chicken thigh (fats removed)
- Sliced ginger
- Chopped spring onions
- Water
Steps
- Boil rice, water and ginger slices together in a pot
- Add in chicken thigh and simmer on medium/low heat
- Remove cooked chicken thighs and shred them
- Ladle porridge out into a bowl, top with shredded chicken and spring onions

Rice cooked with mushrooms, bamboo shoots and chicken
Ingredients
- 1 cup of rice (enough for 2 persons)
- 3-4 pieces of chicken thigh (fats removed) and cut up into big chunks
- Sliced ginger
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Half a can of bamboo shoots (i used Ma Ling brand), cut into big chunks
- 5 dried black mushrooms, soaked in water, halved with stem removed
Marinade
- Dark soya sauce
- Oyster sauce
- Pepper
- Sugar
- Sesame oil
Steps
- Marinade chicken and soaked mushrooms (i left it to marinade overnight)
- Using the rice cooker, put the uncooked rice, water, bamboo shoot, garlic, ginger, chicken, mushrooms and the marinade all in to cook