Mordialloc Creek

Happy Onam to all those celebrating…

Supposed to be posted on 23.08.2010 - Nothing much happened today besides same old routine…reached back home from work at 7.10pm… hurried to my kitchen department to prepare Kesari for prayers and dinner… Just too exhausted to blab today…

Our Dinner tonite was Rice with Sambhar (yay…my 2nd attempt to make sambar and this time it turned out good…thanks to M.I.L), Tofu Sambal and Brinjal Stir-fry..

Coffee Intake ...

My love for coffee started when I was preparing for my Form 3 exams (PMR)… used to stay up late nights to study with my bro who was then sitting for his Form 5 Exams (SPM)… and mom will prepare a big jug of black coffee for both of us so that we would not doze off on our study table @ dining table… That’s how it started till I finished school…then slowly I reduced the coffee intake when I was in college…but the Coffee addict gotten worst when I started working…yeah I don’t have the habit of eating breakfast and I will drink coffee all the way till my lunch hours…then whenever I get hungry at work, coffee comes to rescue…

My daily coffee routine : -

Morning – Before I leave to work
- Once I’ve reached office
Evening – to have coffee on our tea time during weekends

Now since I’ve decided to cut down the coffee intake from 2 mugs of coffee every morning to one half-a-mug of coffee…what should I have/munch if I get hungry and start craving for more coffee…help me people!!!

Anyways, since I’ve decided to stop drinking alco (for maybe a year or two) starting from Sept 2010, I managed to persuade OH to buy me these BrownBrothers wines.. ;)

Calla Lily

The Calla Lily is actually a part of the Araceae family of flowers. The Calla flower means magnificient beauty by the florist. Its also one of the SPring Flowers in OZ...and when OH and I came back home after work this evening, noticed the Calla Lily plant at our lawn has its 1ts flower bloomed...yeah peepz, this shows the Spring is almost here...yay!!

Our DInner tonite : Sup Kambing

Not a sunny Sunday... :-(

Breakfast : Onde Onde & Coffee


Lunch : Rice with Fish Curry, Fried Masala Fish & Bittergourd Sambal

Saturday Night with SKYY BLUE Vodka & Hoegaarden

Breakfast : Cekodok in Skewers

Our Dinner : Rice with Lamb Perattal,Rasam,Egg Tofu Sambal & Okra Blachan

Our Supper (hehe...) : SKYY BLUE for me & Hoegaarden for him...;)

Friday The 13th..

Our Dinner on the Friday the 13th was Black Pepper Chicken Chop,Mashies & Chips...

My very personal Food Tester...;)

Yesterday’s Dinner - Mee Siam

It a dish of thin rice noodles (mee hoon) in spicy, sweet and sour light gravy. It is one of the popular one-dish meals in Singapore. It is served with salted soya beans, Grounded Peanuts, fried Tofu, Chilli – Dried Shrimp Paste,boiled egg, and Tamarind , garnished with Spring Onions and Coriander.

Mee Siam Singapore

Can't wait to wish you goodbye..Winter !!!

I did welcomed the winter pretty well, and I personally think that season has been around long enough that I am looking fervetly forward for Spring just for some change …most precisely my clothes, the Daylight, the outings and not forgetting, the Jogging (hopefully **wink wink**). It was a beautiful day on Saturday and Sunday, a waste that we spent the entire weekend at home cleaning & lazing out on the couch.. Though I did some new dishes..but whats the point of being at home when it’s a sunny out there with luminously bright blue sky looking at you… furthermore,the temperature was perfect..

As I walked towards Collin Street this morning, all I endeavoured was the sunlight and thought to myself, I’m not ever going to desert you till Summer arrives… Yeah I need to plan out some outdoor activities for weekends.. I can’t think of any which Preshious might prefer but hey, you would not know till you’ve experienced it..

Anyways, the person who had created this ‘Monday Blues’ phrase must have really detested Monday to a great extend that he cursed it as a DAY OF HELL.. Today definitely not the Monday I expected it to be.. It was dreadful..But again , the brighter side of this Monday was that I finished work at 4.30pm … and managed to catch the train at 4.40pm… and Prepared the Chicken Briyani, Chicken Curry and Cucumber salad for dinner.

Chicken Briyani

Chicken Curry

Our Dinner

10 Places in Victoria

10 Places in Victoria I want to visit by this year end :-
1. Great Ocean Road
2. Grampians
3. Ballarat
4. Sorrento / Portsea
5. Philip Island
6. Cape Schanck
7. Sunbury
8. Geelong
9. Werribee Zoo
10.Melbourne Museum/ Aquarium

Lets see…by year end,how many places I have actually visited…;)


Nyways, below Assam Fish was our Dinner on Friday, Malbari Prawn Sambal was Saturday Dinner and the Kuih Rengas was our Tea on Sunday

Kuih Rengas

Malbari Prawn Sambal

Assam Fish

Top 10 must buy items

Top 10 must buy items when I am in KL for holidays are : -

1. Shoes/ Sandals
2. Office & Casual Cloths
3. Good pair of Denims
4. Shades
5. Handbags
6. Sarees & nice tailored Suits
7. Cook Books
8. Baking Stuffs
9. Canon Gadgets
10. Hair Products

But sadly I don’t think we would go to Malaysia this year for holiday…most probably next year end… :(

Our dinner last night was Claypot Chicken Rice

Tonite's meal

Portugese Steamed Fish

Sichuan Eggplant Braised in Fragrant Sauce

Meals..

Chicken version of Bak Kut Teh

Bok Choy with Oyster Sauce

Steamed Tofu with Minced Chicken Stir-Fry

RIce with Brinjal Sambal, Chicken Paprik and Fried Egg

Tomato Rice with Ikan Bilis Sambal, Ayam Masak Merah & Cucumber Salad