10/5/24
Fri: Finished all eight episodes of 《블랙의 신부》(Remarriage
and Desires).
Open
but bad ending lol. I thought it would be a slow build-up for the female
protagonist to take revenge but as the kind-hearted, good-natured No.1 lead,
she was only “all words and no action” until very late in the show… then
everything happened “too smoothly”.
Not
much “skinship” between the leads either… very unromantic haha.
Rating: 2/5
PotaTOHs
watched “3 Body Problem” together.
The
story tells of astrophysicist Ye Wenjie and her belief that the “San Ti” would
be a saviour to humankind before the whole saga began. Her decision at the base
to respond to contact from an alien planet implicated a group of scientists in
the present day, forcing them to confront humanity's greatest threat.
I
enjoyed the story though I’m not good at Physics nor do I understand their
terminology well. Yet, it was another “open ending” that left audience hanging.
Well, I look forward to the second season.
Rating: 3.5/5
11/5/24
Sat: Finished reading “Singletasking: Get more done one thing at a time” by
Devora Zack.
I
quite enjoyed the read! I’ve always thought I’m not one good at multi-tasking
but it seemed multi-tasking is a requirement in life that many “superman and
superwoman” can do it well, until I learned that single-tasking was actually
the way to go!
By
the way, “multi-tasking” does not mean listening to music and exercising at the
same time. The brain can process two tasks when one or both do not require our
conscious thought.
I
agree with Zack that people “short-circuit” because they do too many things at
one go. We feel the happiest, most creative and productive when we’re
completely immersed in what we’re doing. For me, whenever I attend my exercise
classes, read a book, cook, or watch a drama I enjoy etc.
Rating: 4/5
Bought
my walnuts (1kg for $10) at Albert Centre before meeting SS, MT and LC at锅里香for dinner. *LC’s mum,
maid and two sons, SA and YA were there too~* It was a nice recommendation
by SS because I liked their spicy蒜泥白肉,
chicken hotpot and clam hotpot. The ladies added three bottles of青岛啤酒for an extra $15 too haha. *Came
up to $32 a person.* It had been some time since I saw them but it feels so
nice to update each other on our lives and hear our difficulties out.Did
my foot bath at night and my feet were “lobster red” after 20 minutes of
soaking lol. I did not feel any bit of giddiness like the last two times
though, to which I take that it’s a good sign.
12/5/24
Sun: Had Japanese curry noodle with chicken, shrimps, potatoes, onions and
carrots with cabbage, tofu and wakame soup cooked by Potato for dinner~ nice!
13/5/24
Mon: Good Pilates Reformer session with Chisa as usual.
Shared
the tarts Carol got for me from Pâtisserie CLÉ’s Dairy Farm outlet, which was
opened by her niece, with Trinice and Triston. I had a bit of the Orh Blanc
tart and found it quite nice, chocolate hazelnut tart was sweet.
I
whipped up cabbage with black fungus, scrambled egg with onion and mushroom and
the tofu cold dish I hadn’t done in a long time for dinner.
Potato
and I tried the lemon meringue tart at night… he thought it was fine but it’s a
bit too sour for my liking.
16/5/24
Thurs: Potato cooked Okonomiyaki with shrimp, tuna, mushroom, cabbage and onion
tonight! It’s a mix of 1/3 water, 1/3 chicken stock and 1/3 corn flour for the batter before he poured the ingredients in and topped it off with the
Okonomiyaki sauce from NTUC, mayonnaise and bonito flakes after he pan-fried
the mixture beautifully~
It
was very yummy although the sauce made it quite sweet and I thought one was
good enough for two people to share already.
Did
my own version of Yin Yoga cum Wheel Yoga practice session at night and I must
say… I enjoyed doing it under dim lights in the living room and when it’s so
quiet outside!
17/5/24
Fri: Attended Car-Streng-Dio after a long while and sweated a lot haha.
Did
Masa’s Wafu-style pork cabbage spaghetti for dinner and I substituted Dashi
with chicken stock and Japanese cooking wine with rice wine for the stock and
it turned out yummy during the process… a pity I cooked the spaghetti a bit too
long in the end and it turned out a bit soft.
18/5/24
Sat: Took a photo with my mentor, Lydia, outside of the weighing room.
Had smoked duck breast meat with mushrooms and cucumber slices, miso soup
with enoki mushrooms to go with cold soba for dinner after race day duty~
yummy!
19/5/24
Sun: PotaTOHs had the self-heating rice meals I bought for lunch. He had the
beef tomato curry-flavoured one while I ate the lean pork one. It was not a lot
nor that tasty but still okay. I had originally bought them to bring it on our
trip to Iceland but did not know airlines cannot accept self-heating meals for
check-in nor carry-on.
20/5/24
Mon: Good Pilates reformer workout on my Monday mornings as usual. *Renewed
my package and whoa, the price increased $100 in two years for the 20-session
equipment package! Oh well the new package should last me till end of December.
Let’s see how from there.*
Tried
making my own酸辣汤because I
loved having this outside and it didn’t seem difficult to make. I realised it required
a lot of white pepper, light soy sauce and black vinegar! I guessed I put too
much water for two also… hence some leftovers were thrown away in the end. The
sweet black vinegar we had was nice usually, but too much became too sweet for
me here, so maybe we can use apple cider vinegar in future instead?
21/5/24
Tues: Bro and I shared and ordered fish-flavoured eggplant, prawn paste
chicken, pork ribs, seaweed soup and Thai fried tofu ($63.70) for parents’ day
dinner. The prawn paste chicken and eggplant were still not bad.
22/5/24
Weds: Practised cycling with Potato for an hour at the MSCP near our place this
morning and I went up and down the slopes successfully hehe. He also reminded
me about the changing of gears while cycling and how lower gear helps when we
cycle upslope but engaging in higher gear while cycling normally meant we could
go at faster speed more easily.Met
Jess for dinner at Hoodadak. I had the Sundae Gukbap ($21) while she ate the
Dwaeji Gukbap ($19). *omg they had chuka wakame as part of their side dish!*
The soup tasted rather milky and it was okay I guess. There were two types of
sundae: one with Korean glass noodles and the other one had more ingredients
like pork and chives in it. Nothing to shout about I thought.
Had
been a few months since we last met and it was nice to hear updates about PH
and her work. *I should worry more about myself since I need to look for a
new job, right? Lol.*
23/5/24
Thurs: Attend mat Pilates from HPB workouts in the morning… okay session.
I
said I wanted a meal with prawns, so Potato looked up for recipes online and
found one which was not pasta-based haha. He tried this Mexican prawn soup,
which was more like a stew and the pairing with rice was really delicious. The
original recipe had avocado (but the one he bought was not ripe yet), lime
juice, celeries and coriander, but he replaced them with Japanese cucumbers and
lemon juice, and added shimeji mushrooms instead.
Also
spent half an hour or so doing my Yin and Wheel Yoga session tonight, but I thought
I rushed through it a little hehe.
24/5/24
Fri: Did Car-Streng-Dio in the morning. I bought two Vietnamese fried pork
vermicelli ($6 each) from Happy Hawkers for our dinner and we both quite liked
it. Also ate the instant红油抄手云吞from开小灶 ($5)… okay but not
something I’d buy again.
25/5/24
Sat: Ian came to pick me up after work and we headed home for homecooked salmon,
mushrooms, maitake mushrooms and cherry tomatoes spaghetti Potato cooked for us
for dinner! 很够味but Ian was
right, the cheaper spaghetti I bought probably wasn’t that nice and he
recommended us some other brands to consider for future use. Had a good chat
into the night!
26/5/24
Sun: PotaTOHs slept at 1+am yesterday and damn my body clock’s really used to
the usual timings so after I turned off the alarm clock at 8am… I knocked out
till 9.30am lol.
Tried
the Zi Shan self-heating Japanese ramen Tonkotsu and Spicy Tonkotsu flavours I
bought on Shopee for dinner. My original tonkotsu with char siew meat was not bad but Potato’s spicy one with beef had mala taste to it.
27/5/24
Mon: Good Reformer Pilates session with Chisa this morning.
Cooked meatless dinner for us and we both thought the “bite” of the chives and egg dumplings were better pan-fried than cooked in soup.
28/5/24
Tues: *Weird red bumps and rashes on my limbs since Monday night and applying snake powder and thermal water spray helped temporarily, but as it did not heal completely by Tuesday night, I took Zyrtec-R to help. Relieved the itch to a huge extent by Wednesday morning.* Helped with media registration and attended Singapore Racing Awards 2023 at the Derby at STC.
Had homegrown band 875 serene the crowd. I liked the slow cooked salmon with pickled pear and orange salad, yuzu foam, crab croquettes and trout roe dressing but the lobster bisque with pepper seafood dumpling, lemon oil and chives was too salty.The roasted Barramundi was meh. Dessert was similar to last year's. Probably the last Racing Awards in Singapore's history so it was kind of bittersweet, but congrats to all winners!
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