My Muffins :)

Finally got down to make my muffins. I was trying to find the muffin tray for almost 2 weeks and finally I got it! I think it was not a cheap buy but at least the quality was quite good and should be able to last for a long time.

Got the premix from a supermarket (Line said I cheated because I used premixes) :P. The instructions were simple; pour out the premix into a bowl, add 1/2 cup of water, mix everything together and fill the tray with the mixture. Then, just stuff everything into the oven for 20 minutes. Here, freshly made muffins. Tasted good too! Yum yum! But the appearance was not as enchanting as those made by CanICan. I tried to act smart by greasing the tray with butter. That resulted in the skin getting charred. Anyhow, wonderful results for first try...."Chey! Use premix one!"

Mid Autumn Festival

Last Tues, we had a little mid autumn festival party. We did a pot-luck so that the host did not need to worry about dinner. After a sumptuous one, we proceeded to the roof top garden for moon cakes and had some fun with lanterns (specially imported from Singapore). We had a tough time keeping the lanterns lighted as it was quite a breezy night. But lots of fun.

We wanted to collect as many photos as possible of our stay in Moscow so that night, we had at least 4 cameras clicking away. If you notice, all of us were focusing on different cameras when these photos were taken. At that instance, you really feel like a superstar swamped by dozens of cameramen.

We did something we never tried that night too. Karaoke! It was great fun to see people letting down their hair and sang to their hearts' content, even though the beats of the music seem slower than original version (so must support 正版). My jaws were aching due to all the laughter. The boys were quite amazing entertainers that night. Did everything......except full monty! Maybe next round, boys!

9th Month

It's the 9th month. I don't know how else to remember her. There are just so much memories of her. I really dread the 27th of every month now. These photos were taken when Pebble was at different ages. She is such a lovely dog. Really miss her :(

Flower Power!

A few days ago, a friend sent me a "flower" via Flower Power: http://www.healthymind.sg/flowerpower/fp.asp?fid=1260

I thought this was a very cool idea (whoever came out with this idea....2 thumbs up for you). This site allows you to send a flower to a friend, a love one, or to any people you like. With this flower, you can also attached your message and the receiver is supposed to go to the flower bed to find their flowers. Help me make this flower bed grow. If you have something that you want to tell someone or something that you want to get off your chest, send a flower. Make this flower bed flourish. Make that particular someone smile :)

My New Toy :)

A couple of years ago, I bought a MP3 player with a memory of 250mb, thinking that it would be enough for my songs. I made a mistake. With this memory size, I could only store about 60 songs the most. A few days ago, while I was chatting with Tracy, she told me that she had 2 new IPOD Nanos. I thought it might be a good idea to buy it from her since I was looking for something that could hold the albums that I like. Here it is, my new toy. Thanks to Tracy too that I bought it for a good price :)

In case you are wondering why I featured my Garfield too. No special reason. Thought it would be too boring if I just took the Nano. By the way, this Garfield always reminds me of my college days. It was given to me as a birthday present from my committee friends. Note what is printed on the T-shirt. Yeah, those were their humors. Something very memorable. Miss you guys! See ya soon!

Jen & Ngiam in Moscow

You must be wondering why I am posting Jen & Ngiam's visit eventhough they were here last Dec. Well, it all started with Tracy introducing me to Photo Flick. I was playing around with it and I thought it was quite cool. So, I decided to upload one of my favourite set of photos as a test. I think it came out quite nicely. The only thing that I was torned now is to whether transfer all my photos into Photo Flick or should I still continue with Flickr or if I should have both. Before I make a decision, you will still see both version on my side bar.

Thanks Tracy!

New Additions....

We have 2 additions to the family in the month of Sep 07. One is the long awaited BB Sophie and the other is nicknamed Remarkable Rachel who cannot resist the beauty of this world and decides to arrive earlier than expected.

BB Sophie has a very garang mother. While she was having contraction, she decided that she should complete the following tasks before going to the hospital:

a) take a bathe (quite normal)

b) eat breakfast (I wonder how come she still had appetite considering the pain)

c) change diaper for the son so that he can sleep longer

d) wake up the husband

e) call her mum to take care of her son

f) wait for the mum to arrive

By then, Sophie was already on her way out to see this world. Here she is, arriving just less than a couple of hours later. What a beauty...BB Rachel, or nicknamed Remarkable Rachel / tough cookie, is a few days older than Sophie. She too is a beautiful one with big eyes and very smiley. Shall insert her photo later. Wah...begining to count the number of red packets I need to prepare for next chinese new year already :)

September babies & one july one too!

Wow, it has been a while since I updated my blog. Decided to start with a badly overdued one. The birthday "bash" which was held in my house. It was a pot luck as well as a birthday celebration for the September babies and for 1 belated birthday girl.

The day started with lots of food and little did these birthday babies knew that it was also a little party for them. After we helped ourselves to all the food, mahjong etc, it was time for dessert; the birthday cake. Yum yum! We rounded up the birthday "babes", got the cake and the birthday songs (a little traditional here).

Next was the presents. See what we got for the birthday girl! We spent some efforts to prevent her from getting the same thing whenever we went to the market with her. Got to do it without her suspicious too and we made it!.

I am wondering at this juncture if I should show you what did the guys got from us......Maybe not. Quite obscene. So let your imagination runs wild here. I mentioned there was also a little belated birthday present for Tracy. All of us remembered her birthday but none of us were able to celebrate it with her for some reasons. So a little something special was dedicated to her as well. All in all, it was great fun and it certainly adds on to the nice memories in this not so nice country.

First Day of Work

Today is the first day of work. I am already begining to feel the russian style of working. You need patience. I was calling some car leasing company to find out about the rates of car lease here but I was not able to obtain the information with just 1 phone call. I got to log in a case, waited to be transferred to the correct sales person who then took another history of my requirement and then I have to wait for a few more days to talk to another person who will be attending to my case. Great! Time to sit back and drink coffee.

Currently, the office is still very bare. Waiting for stationery to be ordered. Hope to get it done asap because there are more teething things to get going. Ok, enough of break, time for me to get back to what I was doing.

I think it is not easy to work on your own as you have to constantly look for new things to keep yourself busy. It is so easy to say, I can do it another day (especially when there is no boss to look over your shoulder).