What’s in my bag

It must be the trend to post “What’s in my bag”. It’s quiet and peaceful now and here comes my entry.  I’m such a good girl to fulfill your request… you know who you are. =P

Some girls just love their bags and they keep changing it to match with their outfit. I guess I’m not them. Here’s my current “take me everywhere” bag until I find the next one/ got the urge to transfer everything into another bag. It’s a “fit as much as I could, put on the floor and won’t heart pain” Agnes b. It’s surprisingly hardy to matter how I abuse it. The shiny material is a passe but what the hell… who cares!

The trash bag

Turkey stuffing! How fat it looks like.

Exposed!

The bag has identity crisis.

It’s stuffed with mumsy survival kit – nappy (oh forgot about the newborn one), flannel, spare clothes, my Panasonic camera (on it’s last leg) and a United Colour of Benetton shopping cum whatsoever bag. These are the “loose” items packed “around” the Muji handbag organizer (the smaller bag in my big bag).

The mumsy stuff

Inside Muji handbag organizer are the basics – cards organizer (I don’t know how I ended up with so many membership cards… it must be a SG thing maybe one day the veggie stall at the market will give us one too), purse, iPhone cum shut the kids up “toy”, wipe everything baby wipes, tissue paper and hand sanitizer.

The survival stuff

I have a bit of “vanity” stuffed in the smaller compartments of the bag organizer… well key, watch, pen and sweet don’t count. Chanel lipstick, Sugar lip treatment, Banana Boat lip treatment, Estee Lauder lipgloss, two sample size Dior sunscreen, some stringy thingy to tie my hair, hair clip and plasters.

A bit of vanity

I’m very fragile aka clumsy that’s why I keep plasters in my purse, bag and even in the car. Well most of the time they are given out to little kids who have a little accident at the parks.

When I know that I’ll be taking a lot of photos, I’ll remove the Panasonic and change it with my DSLR. Oooh btw, sometimes the stuff it all bag is stuffed with an iPad too.

Yup! I’m carrying a big rock around.

Sinful salted egg prawns

Another successful attempt following Olga’s recipe! This time it’s salted egg prawns. It’s soooooo sinful but yummy!

Sinful prawns

Ingredients:
12 large prawns, shells removed, keep the head and tail
4 salted eggs
20 curry leaves
Chili, diced (optional)
Garlic
Chicken stock
1/2 tsp Salt
Pepper
Corn flour
2 tbsp Butter

Instructions:

1. Coat prawns in corn flour and pepper. Fry in hot oil. Dispose excessive oil from pan. Remove and set aside.
2. Steam and smash salted egg yolk.
3. Melt the butter, fry garlic, chili and curry leaves in low heat.
4. Add salted egg yolk, fry until it looks foamy.
5. Add prawns, chicken stock and salt. Stir well.

I’m Spring

Long overdue post. Colour does wonder to complement our skin tone. I always have this uncertainty when I go shopping – does this colour look right on me? Do I look dull? In the past I had my shopping buddy who would tell me the absolute truth. Now that I shop alone all the time, I do make mistakes… especially under the deceiving lights in the shops as well as the fitting rooms.

To avoid making more expensive mistakes and save time on being indecisive, I signed up for a colour analysis session with an image consultant last year. People are categorized according to the four seasons. It was absolutely interesting. Apparently most Japanese are Summer, South East Asians with yellow undertone are Spring, while Caucasians are divided into Winter and Autumn. Absolute white and silver complements Winter while the rest of the seasons are good with gold.

Apart of looking at the skin colour, analysis was done on the colour of my eyes and the patterns. There was another European lady in the same session and her eyes have different patterns. To show the impact of different tones of colours and to confirm the analysis, clothes with different tones of the same colour were draped over my shoulder. It was amazing to see red with blue undertone makes me look old and dull while red with yellow undertone brighten up my face. When both colours were draped side by side, I could see that the side of the face with red yellow undertone had a face lift! Amazing! Apparently with the right colours, it will reflect light on the chin and undereyes. The effect was like the glow from having a very good facial.

I was given this colour fan for my future reference. I have green veins, yellow undertone and brown eyes, I’m Absolute Spring whereby the colours of the first two rows suit be best! As I age, I can gradually graduate to the colours in lighter intensity. The colour fan applies to cosmetics and accessories as well!

This one is used to find complement colours to complete an outfit. In other words, it’s used to avoid looking like a xmas tree or showing up in a party with the most surprisingly put together outfit in shocking colours. It’s advisable to have max 3 colours in an outfit.

So far I’ve found it quite useful. As the consultant said, everyone has a rough idea on what works best but they just aren’t sure. Now I can play with more colours in my wardrobe!

Bad Day

Today’s theme song is Bad Day. Bad things are happening to me. One after another.

A thorn pricked my right middle finger and it bled profusely. Haven’t seen myself bled that much from a stupid prick. That happened in the morning.

Somehow pulled my left arm trying to pick up my little Cur. Can’t do Chicken Dance now. My wing won’t flap. I can’t lift my arm and it’s getting worse.

Spent one whole hour ransacking through drawer after drawer looking for my Malaysian bank ATM card. Couldn’t believe I went through the bag cards thrice… thrice… and found it at the end. I swear I knew it’s there… always in the same bag and I didn’t see it!

Then… the oven didn’t leave me alone and I accidentally touched the top element and burnt myself. Thank you very much. That’s my evening. Oh yes and I screwed up dinner. The simplest fried long beans for the kids somehow turned out yucky. The same for the supposed to be yummilicious green tip mussels. Leave me alone!

Just as I thought it’s about the end of the day. I should be fine. I found there is a mysterious swelling in between my right index and middle fingers.

I thought I should take it easy. Take a shower and relax. Lie on the bed and call it a day. Hell… a bloody disintegrated cockroach body is in the drawer where I put my stash of beauty stuff. God knows how long it’s been there. Why didn’t I see it in the past few days? Is that because I normally don’t have my glasses on until I leave the bathroom?

It’s still sitting there… I’ll have to disinfect everything later on and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that nothing bad will happen to me. I won’t touch anything sharp. I’ve made sure the floor is dry. And I won’t even try to edit a video or run iOS upgrade tonight.

Oooh… did I mentioned I have a bad sore back after picking up my kiddo?

 

爱，害

有个很爱她儿子的妇人，飞到老远去探望他和刚出世不久的孙儿。儿子和儿媳妇正烽火连天，关系闹得很僵，一个月前他们吵到男的被锁在门外，衣服通通被丢在家门口，女的已经摆明不喜欢夫家的人来探望，更何况是小住几天。

妇人仗着自己是长辈，她有权去探望她的孙儿，更有权利住进他们的家，难得来到这么远，当然要住上好几个礼拜！

妇人和他的老公就浩浩荡荡的出发了，她的老公有自知之明，知道媳妇有洁癖，知道自己只会弄脏别人的地方，不想添麻烦，就住在别的地方，而妇人要享受天伦之乐，就硬往儿子家里住进去。儿媳妇因为她的存在，磨擦更多了，吵得天翻地覆，更不用说给老人家有好脸色看。

结果呢？妇人把回程机票废了，承受不了压力，买了机票提早飞回家。儿子呢？闹离婚了。

这样的爱不是爱，是自私，是害。就算当妈的也要试事务为俊杰，明知道不受欢迎，为什么硬要踩地雷了？就算多想孙儿，也要看形势，去跟他玩个几个小时，大家见个面，那就不用为难儿子，大家的日子也好过一点，相见好，同住难啊！更何况他们已经快闹翻了，这样不是在那快断的红线补上一刀吗？

给老年的我共勉之。

快到了

很快就要欢迎 BB 来到这个世界，很多东西都还没准备好。

真的要照顾三个小瓜了吗？才刚刚开始享受和Cur的两人世界，很多东西都还没教会他呢！他还很“婴孩”，很爱撒娇，觉得他很可怜，永远要和别人分享妈妈。
才刚刚有充足的睡眠，真的要半夜起来喂奶了吗？两个哥哥们的心理建设打好了吗？

小瓜的名字还没取，有些衣服已经穿旧了，该不该为他添新衣？玩具呢？还有他的床还没有准备好，还有很多还有。

体重差不多增加了十公斤，越来越吃力了。这个小瓜踢人不留力，有时真的很痛！医生有点担心他会提早来报到，吩咐我们有什么不妥一定要去医院，她会用药物来让他乖乖地待在肚子里，如果赶不及到医院孩子就报到的话，妈妈和小孩一定要侧躺，不然他会没发呼吸，要叫医院的救护车，不然我们会被送到最近的公立医院去。

燕窝虫草还有一堆，你真的快要来报到了吗？

Butter cookies

Baked some butter cookies and just as I thought it’s going to be another joke… it turned out GOOD!

Butter Cookies (adapted from Food.com)
Ingredients
110gm unsalted butter
90gm sugar
A pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 egg yolk
1 cup of all purpose flour

Instructions

1. Beat butter, sugar, salt and vanilla until smooth and creamy.
2. Mix in egg yolk and continue beating.
3. Add flour and knead into dough.
4. Wrap in cling wrap and put into the fridge for a few hours or freeze it. (I skipped this step)
5. Preheat oven to 165 degrees. Roll and shape cookies as desired. Bake until cookies start to turn brown.

I find rolling it into small balls and find something with a flat base like a glass, wrap the surface with cling wrap, put some pressure on the balls and it will flatten the cookies perfectly. This recipe yields 30 small cookies.

V-day special menu… for the kids!

V-day cookies for my lovers in my previous life.

Mini Wagyu burger for lunch

Heart shaped pasta with baked salmon for dinner. Too hungry to arrange the food nicely…

top it up with some crabs