Friday: Tried 2 recipes in the afternoon. one was cornflake cookie, the other was chocolate truffle cookie. Cornflake cookie, nothing fantastic, too sweet, simply blah, not gog to try this recipe again forever, even till now, it's untouched... it just goes to prove how much my family and i "like" it... But, the chocolate truffle cookie is one that is worth exploring and perfecting. it was simply out of the world and uniquely chewy and soft. however, some stuck to the baking tray although the recipe did not call for lining or greasing, and some were ok, so something wrong somewhere. have to experiment more to find out... either they are too big, so hard to remove... or have to catch the timing cos when taken out from oven, too hot, it's still stuck to the tray, have to wait for it to cool a little before removing, but cooling too long will be stuck too... or i simply have to line or grease the tray...
Met dear after dinner to go walk walk in central for a while. dear recently got a package from videoezy, for a month, you pay 29.90, unlimited vcd movie rental. so we went to change discs. then as we made our way to the bus-stop, we got stopped by kfc. we stood outside kfc n decided to have supper. but, that kfc is always so damn bloody cold, we decided to take-away, back to dear's place to eat. dear's mum loves kfc, so he made a call home to see if his mum wants supper too. his mum wanted one piece chicken, n i want chicken, coleslaw n whipped potato, but i cant finish that much. dear wanted burger. so in the end, we got a 2-piece chicken set and a burger set. after supper i went home. after talking to dear on the phone, was a little sleepy already, but was still feeling quite full so i tried to sleep half sitting up, with 2 pillows. still, i can't fall asleep, and the full feeling got worse till i feel bloated. i was thinking, mayb i should try to burp, or worse come to worse, vomit to make myself more comfortable. so i went to the toilet, stood over the sink n started burping, instead, i cough once and everything started gushing out. my mum woke up and was shocked. then i got scolded for stupidly vomitting into the sink, as if as i could help it... After i cleaned up, i called dear and asked him if he was feeling unwell too cos i wanted to rule out the possibility of food poisioning. he said he was ok, so i guess it was indigestion problems again... thereafter, i fell asleep very quickly...
Saturday: Woke up and called dear. "original" plan was to watch the vcds we got till dinner time and then watch soccer at my place. but his pal, alex called and asked for a boardgame session. Since its been more than 6 months i've met his frds and played boardgames, and plus the fact that, i'm waiting for doc's confirmation that i've completeed chemo after a scan next week, we decided to abandon our plan and met his frd at minds cafe for boardgames. I've never had so much fun! we played diviends, samurai, monopoly: lord of the rings edition, some willage/clans game which i forgot the name and game of life. during monopoly, i bit the hand that fed me. alex exhanged one property with me so we could start building houses and hotels, in this case was something (i can't remember) and fortress. after i succeded in building all 3 fortress on my properties, poor alex landed onto my property and had to pay 1200 bucks, in this case, power. he did not have that money so was declared bankrupt and we ended the game. dear was laughing n laughing... i really had such a great time that i didn't mind missing part of the 8.40pm matches.
we left the place close to 8.45pm and went over to parklane side to see what we could get from the foodcourt to add to the dinner my mum had kept for us. In the end, we got 9 pieces of yong tau foo for less then 4 bucks, again, my memory fails me cos i cant remember the excate price. we left the foodcourt saying it was quite worth it cos it's at least 50 cents cheaper then other places. near the taxi-stand, we got ourselves a ramly burger and a cheese hotdog. we ate the cheese hotdog on the spot while waiting for our burger. it was so-so only, cant taste much cheese. as i still cant take chilli, n had requested for no chilli burger, we saw the hawker add (to what it seems to us), chilli powder. so dear said again, no chilli, the hawker smiled and nodded his head. then i saw him putting chilli sauce onto the burger and secretly hoped that it wasn't ours, but it was... so i hoped again that the chilli was not hot at all on the way home in the cab.
we reached my place, heated up the food, changed and settled down to start eating while watching soccer. to my surprise the yong tau foo was good! the soup was tasty. some young tau foo soups are too bland with the bean taste overpowering, some just taste like salt water, cannot taste the beans or the ikan bilis. but this soup had the beans and ikan bilis taste while not too salty, it was just nice and wonderful. the ingredients we took were all so fresh although it was already close to closing time! the fish paste on the ingredients did not taste fishy though it was out for a whole day already, and it was tasty and u could taste the fish, not like some, just overpoweringly peppery. the beancurd did not have a tinge of sourness and the beansprouts looked like fresh bought from the market, not blackish at all... Now, i'll have to eat it again b4 it ends up on my favourite makan places list cos consistency counts too... As for the ramly burger, dear had to eat it all up, cos there was indeed chilli sauce and dear said it was a bit hot, so i dare not even try.
after the matches, i went over to dear's place to sleep, something which i haven't done for more than 6 months too... felt like it was back to the good old days. but b4 we slept, we watched vcd... hehe...
Sunday: dear woke up earlier than me as usual. when i woke up, his mum was preparing to go to the airport to fetch his dad home. we bathed and went to central for lunch, bought a cashbox and change vcd again. he was planning to mit the guys for boardgames then dinner then dota, so i will tag along till dinner. since they were planning to mit ard 4pm, we decided to squeeze in a chinese movie cos it was only close to 2pm when we got back to his place. while i was watching the show, he and the guys were messaging n seems that plans will be shifted back cos one can only make it at 9pm. so it would be dinner 1st, then boardgames then i go back home while they dota. so in the end, we were only miting at 6pm. so after the chinese movie, we watched 40 year old virgin. after the movie, we quickly got ready and took a cab down to mit the guys. it was raining very heavily.
dinner was at rex restaurant. its a muslim eatery but selling chicken rice and zi char. we ate chicken rice and shared a you tiao sotong (squid/cuttlefish paste stuffed in dough fritters and deep fried). the rice was fragrant, soup was nice and tasty, not overpowering with msg, but the chicken was average. the you tiao sotong was yummy! i think its the best you tiao sotong i've ever eaten, cos it was so crispy, not like some others, not crispy at all. definately have to bring my family there to try the food one day.
after dinner, we walked over to minds cafe but it was full house. since alex brought modern art to return to dear, we decided to find some place to play modern art instead. we settled at the foodcourt. after one game, it was almost 9pm already. dear insisted on sending me home, while i told him i can manage myself. but still he insisted, hehe... so while his frds made their way to the lan gaming place to "book" computers, dear and i made our way back to my place. i love ramly burgers, so i wanted to try the burger again. this time, i supervised the hawker and while he was reaching for the chilli sauce bottle, i told him dun want chilli. haha, so in the end i got my chilli free ramly. when i reached home and started to feast on my ramly burger, i felt that it wasn't as nice as always. dunno why, but it just wasn't as nice. so i kinda lost my appetite, and finshed only the sweet hamburger bun. i wanted to know why it just didn't taste just as nice, so i took the egg and mayo and black sauce away from the patty and tasted only the patty. i could taste only pepper, it just tasted meatless. though i could take the spicyness, i threw it away...
Monday, woke up kinda late and couldn't make it in time for brunch like my parents planned. instead it was almost 1pm when we started lunch at zi yean at lengkok bahru. we had dim sum and porridge. the fried shrimp wanton and shrimp dumplings were good. the rest of the food was just average. then we wanted to go to jurong phoon huat to get some baking stuff, but my dad spilt his coffee and had to go home first to change. i had brought home dear's modern art the night b4 cos he did not have a bag with him. and i left the cashbox at his place first cos it was kinda heavy. so since i'm gog home, i could get his game, chocolate (yue's xmas gift for him) and umbrella (which i also brought home) and bring it to him. so i called him and it was decided that when i reach his place i'll call him again so we could get back our own stuff.
reached home, took the stuff, dad changed, and we're out again. bought quite a lot of stuff at phoon huat and went over to dear's place. got each other's stuff and i went home. my mum wanted to make the almond cookies cos we already received orders, but my sis did not wana go out for dinner. so we had dinner at home and started on the cookies at 9pm. by the time we finished 3 recipes, it was already 1am... chatted a while with dear and went to sleep.
Tuesday: Woke up at 8.30 cos i had to go for bloodcount at the clinic. dear accompanied me cos he took leave to work from home. dad was ard too cos he's on leave till hari ray haji. mum was ard as usual. my white blood cell count was 2.5, so dr hwang said no need booster. after the checkup, we went over to wisma c-jade express for breakfast. it was really crystal jade standard, not bad, above avg.
as my toner is running out, i had to get it from my consultant at robinsons centerpoint. i wanted to ask her about some products too cos i'm starting to have wrinkles due to the dehydrating effect of radiotherapy. on the way, i saw a poster outside isetan wisma saying mango has further reductions up till 70% instead of 50%. so, being a mango fanatic, i went to see if i could get anything. i bought a sweater for my sis and a casual pants for myself. since during sales period, there's no aleration, i'm intending to bring it to mum's tailor to get it altered. as we walked further down in the comfort of air con towards robinsons, dear went to the library @ orchard, and i said bye bye to him cos after that he would be gog back home to work. then we passed by ngee ann city's mango as well. but nothing inside caught my eye.
At robinsons, i bought my toner, a deep wrinkle concentrate to save my wrinkling skin, and repairwear day to prevent and help mend lines. total cost, 200+... guys may start to frown and scratch their head wondering y spend this kinda money. but pls understand that at 24 and having wrinkles and not starting to take any preventive measures would end up having a 40 year old skin complexion at the age of 30. then whn i start to go out with my hubby, pple would wonder if i'm bringing my son ard... tt would be really disaterous!
i once watch a taiwanese program and they said due to environmental, food intake, stress and other factors, our skin is really ageing faster then it really should. so ladies at the age of 25-27 can actually start using anti-ageing, wrinkles prevention products. In fact, the earlier you start the better, cos your skin will build up its own immunity against these anti-oxidants, and prevention is always better thn cure. but of cos, i'm not saying gals as young as 16 should start on anti-ageing products. to me, as long as you start spotting very fine lines under your eye, start using. All along, i only had fine lines under my eye, but due to not having my usual beauty regime due to radiotherapy for more then 6 months, dehyration has set in. right now, the fine lines under my eyes have offically called themselves wrinkles (yikes!), and more fine lines are appearing around my mouth area, the excate area where the radiotherapy beams came in contact with. luckily i have a babyface, so i dun look my age. but my complexion now looks older than me! sob sob...
Now, as i end off my 1st offically entry in blogspot, the man u n arsenal game has already played for 18 minutes... back to my soccer match...
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