My life these days has been reduced to these few activities:
- work- to earn money for rice, soy sauce,cooking oil and shoes.
- sewing- I have started my 7th project whilst even though there are still 4 others Work in Progress pieces. But when it is all done I'll have 4 new quilts and 1 laptop bag.
- watching charismatic China actors play emperor on DVD (Hanwu Dadi)
- jogging on the treadmill -we have a "chop card" system at home where every 12th 15 minute slot entitles us to a treat like roti prata, hamburger, ice cream and so so. Self-defeating no?
- photography, Photoshop Elements and flickr, what will I ever do without photo-editing software?
- trawling through the 400 feeds I subscribe to on Bloglines. Is this considered excessive?
So, there is no time for shopping, not the window shopping shopping, though I have to say the nice lady at Foot Fetish has analysed me down pat, she keeps shoes for me that she thinks I'll like, this past three weeks alone I have succumbed to 4 pairs and a chocolate leather handbag, even though I spend less than 20 minutes in the shop on both occasions! Me very bad, but me now have super gorgeous shoes in me closets, hah.
Like I said, no time for non-shoe shopping, no time for reading glossy magazines. So how do I keep myself current? Well, remember the 400 feeds? Turns out that reading blogs is not just a time-sucking activity, occasionally life can even be positively enhanced by it. Take for example, last weekend. slurp met up with us to go take pictures of the NDP rehearsals fireworks. For dinner after, I decided on nearby Diandin Leluk simply because I had happened to read in The Baker Who Cook's blog how she enjoyed her meal there and remembered only good things about a dinner with my friends at the same place almost 3 years ago. Truth be told, even if there wasn't an NDP preview happening I would have dragged myself there to partake of the luscious looking crab tunghoon. The crab was sweet and succulent, but the tunghoon was to-die-for, having absorbed all their crabby essences.
We had other dishes too, for instance the mango salad was unrestrainedly spicy, pure torture honestly.
Thai BBQ pork was more palatable, a little like char siew but not so sticky, more aromatic with lemongrass and tamarind accents. I'll gladly order it again.
Olive rice came in a claypot but it wasn't really cooked in the pot, just tipped into it for serving purposes. I would have preferred more olives but it went well with the salad and bbq pork.
We didn't have room for desserts but earlier on I had finished a young coconut before the first dish arrived on the table. Tummies full, we went home and started to plot our next crab adventure....
