when cooker goes on strike....

"Cooker" aka me is on strike indefinitely coz it's actually pretty tiring. My initial plan was to have dinner with small cow or just go home makan instant noodles and call it a night. Coz I really need to catch up on my sleep.

Manatau....

The out of ordinary event started during lunch when Mr Married called to inform he is around the neighbourhood and wanna buy me lunch. It's out of ordinary coz I've been eating in for so long, I dun really go out for lunch anymore :D

Next, Zia (a long time blogger friend... we go waaaaaayyy back in 2002 :D) ding dong ding dong (whatsapp) me to let me know she is in town and hope to meet and catch up. We were reminiscing the crazy times we had during her last visit (abt 7yrs back) and how she misses my jeruk mangga. So I told her I need to scout around for mango trees to steal some mangoes to do it for her (afterall, stolen fruits always taste better ma :D) we were joking and laughing like siao charboh. And made plans to meet up later last night to yumchar.

Then the next even happened just before I clocked out. Lady boss called to tell me that she was stuck in a jam and Sandy the Dog needs to clear her bladder soon if not she will have accident in the office. After getting detailed instructions from her, I realized I have no confident in executing the task well coz Sandy is really old and she can't cross the road properly anymore and I have to carry her across the main road to the housing area for her to do her business. Me? Carry dog? Cannot la. Play can la. Scratch can la. Belly rub can la. Carry, no la. So I enlisted MyColleagueIsSoOneKind to help and my task were to coax Sandy to pee like "Sandy... Jui jui lor... Shhhhhh.... Shhhhh.... Sandy.... Jui jui.... Shhhh.... Shhhhh" :p Anyways, the task was completed not long later coz Sandy really really needed to go. :D

On the way back to the office, we passed by a fruits shop and saw a lot of green mangoes. Bought some only I stupidly asked if it's sour. Nope, it's not. Then decided to pop by at the supermarket on the way home to get soy sauce and lime (improvise coz if it's sour mango, no need lime). After buying all these, I jammed all the way back only remember that the minimart near my house sells unripe mangoes! So I went over and got some. Came home immediately went on the task of crushing the cili padi with a fork only to remember I have pestle and mortar thingie. So I took the pestle to pounce on the cili quickly (rushing for time coz Small Cow and Sam-"I am not a LaLa"-son was on the way over to fetch me) and then.... Fucking accident happened!! The bloody cili padi juice splashed on my face and hand AND Sam-"I am not a LaLa"-son have to call me during the accident to tell me they were leaving MV alre and i was pretty rude to him over the phone plus the line was breaking up, i didnt really have the mood to be courteous :P. Fucking hell, the cili juice damn pedas lor!! I think I am disfigured alre *exegerating* So I quickly made the jeruk, put in a container and chill in the fridge. Planning to come home after dinner to collect the jeruk and meet ZiaHoay later :) Quickly went to take a quick shower to get rid of the cili sting.

Small cow and Sam came not long later. As usual, I am a fickle minded person. Suggested another location for dinner and we went to Kepong for Ka Ka BKT. Seriously very good!! :D towards the end of the dinner, Small Cow's friend came over to exchange car with her coz she wanted to modify more stuffs on her car. Immediately after we enter his car, we felt damn LaLa-fied wei! LOL!! Samson kept on muttering that he is not a LaLa. and he was lamenting how stressed he was sitting in the car coz he didnt know how to explain to ppl how un-lala he actually is. we went to pump petrol on that lala car and Sam asked Small Cow to tell the attendant that the car is not ours, we are not lala :P ya, he is pretty "fai" =.=" but funny. but i wont wanna hang out with him too often la... later i vomit blood :p And the music in the car also damn lala lor!! We laughed all the way back to his condo and before he left the car, I shouted "Bye! LaLa Chew!!" LOL. He was really embarrassed!! Hehehhehehe.

On the way back, small cow offer to bring me home to collect the jeruk mang to bring to MV to meet Zia coz i was really really tired by then. and that lala viva is really really stable lor! she drove at 140kmh and i didnt feel a thing!!! :D

Met Zia briefly and she reminded me of the crazy stuffs that i dragged her to do the last time she was here :P i brought her to go Ghost hunting with Ifer and we scare ourselves shitless when we saw something flew pass and we really thought it was a ghost but see see, it's just a bat =.=" and how we tried to go up the hill in murphy and murphy dont have much power and i say "Ok! everyone lean forward and lift your butts!" - coz my illogical mind really think that will help murphy to move forward :P after hugging and laughing for awhile, i told her i better get going as small cow was waiting in the car for me and i was really really really tired. i hope to see her again soon la :D I told her to lemme know way way in advance the next time she plan to fly over here coz i will need to scout around for mango trees to steal mangoes :D our plan is, she climb the tree coz as she phrase it: "I am still very tall! i can help to climb and steal mangoes!" and i will be shaking the tree trunks to shake the fruits down :P

Back in the car, i was replaying what Zia reminded me to Small Cow and i realized that i am really really really crazy and sampat when i have the right kaki to sampat with. when i am alone, i am a boring person. no doubt i have a lot of crazy ideas, but to find the "victims" to do crazy stunts with is damn hard lor :D

i really missed those good old days when i was younger and crazier. i also miss ifer coz she is one person who will always indulge in my crazy stints :D every time we suggest a crazy stint, we will definitely act on it. most of the time halfway thru the stint, we will be asking ourselves, "What the fuck are we doing here???" :p

Alas, things always happens for a reason. Am moving on :D

After sending the jeruk mang to Zia, we went back, smoked a bit and talked more and look at the lala car even more.... u wanna knw how wrong is the car? it's own by a straight guy, but it's full of Hello Kitty stickers!!! =.="" and a lot of bling blings and blink blinks! As Sam said, Christmas has come early! LOL!

When we were in the car, i felt the urge / compelled to do something unlalafying just to prove that i m not a lala as well. lol. i know how sam feel. and i am very sure small cow feels the same but she has no choice. lol.

when i went up the apt, i looked at the kitchen sink and i couldnt take it and washed up the stuffs that i didnt manage to wash after i did the jeruk mang. bathe. and when my head hit the pillow, i slept immediately. that was how tired i was.

i guess there is no point to plan to sleep early coz it never happens!! :P

cheating on tea eggs

i was kinda tulan yesterday. and then suddenly i feel like eating tea eggs. and i dont know what happened, i just suddenly wish to cook tea eggs. and then i started to google on the recipe. ok, look simple enough, tea leaves, eggs, cinnamon, star anise and liberal amount of salt. the more i think about it, the more i got excited. so i fast fast drive outta my office area. then on the way to carrefour, i started to be fickle minded again. i stated to think, alamak! need to get a cloth to make it like a bag to put the tea leaves and the spices in, if not sure damn messy one! then i started to sort of have a second thought. then i decided carrefour couldnt possibly sell good tea leaves (i had this notion that the tea leaves needs to be good to make good tea eggs) so i decided to go to herbs & food in Subang SS15 (totally forgotten that another reason why i wanna go Carrefour is to collect my free trial contact lens!)

when i reach there, i decided to ask the uncles what do i need to make tea eggs. and he being a smart ass, told me: eggs la! =.="

then he introduced me this prepacked herbs that i can use to make tea eggs.....

YES! I TOTALLY CHEATED! I USED PREPACKED!

ya... i've said it out loud :P

the thing is, it is seriously yummy. :D

donny came over last nite attempting to cheer me up from the tulan-ness that i was feeling the whole day with a tub of semi melted vanila ice cream, a can of peaches and a can of lychee... omg... it's damn good to indulge wei! :D thanks donny! :D

then at around 12 something, i sort of chased him outta the house coz i was really tired and i needed to wake up early to come to work. sorry donny :D

anyway, back to the tea eggs. i brought it over to the office to let the colleagues try. and all of them said it's very yummy :D but i left out the fact that i cheated tho... :P

ong lai!

we have this old man supplier who does... erm.... i think roofing... i m not too sure.. anyway, he has his own pineapple plantation and yesterday he brought a lot of biji over. i brought back 1 biji home...

the top part is not ripe yet but the bottom is pretty ripe alre... what am i gonna do with the unripe pineapples? i've googled a few recipe but damn malas la... =.="

i think the best way is to make jams out of it... at least can tahan lama ma.. :D then i will attempt to bake pineapple tarts when i m free :D

oh... i cant... i dont have a grater nor do i have a blender =.="

i think i should just cook lemak out of it.... if i know how la... =.="

conversation with small cow...

... as most of you know, small cow is currently staying with me for a few months whilst her personal issues are being sorted out. recently, due to the stupid hot weather, small cow moved into my room to sleep in the aircon-ed room.

and usually before we sleep (she is working afternoon shift now so we sleep almost the same time), we will talk or twitter or surfnet or play games on the phone whilst chatting.

so small cow was telling me about she telling Guy Ash about my dream (i dreamt recently that small cow and Guy Ash got 2 sets of twins :D) and then dont know how we change the subject to what if i suddenly get married (gasp!) and have kids (shudders!)? will she be the godmama to my kids? :D and she kept quiet for a looooong time.... then suddenly she said: "oookay lor... (in the most reluctant tone)... but i dont wanna take care of them one ah" and i went "i also dont want you to take care of them la!" and then she went all hurt and ask me why?? and i told her "if you babysit them, hell will break lose lor. i can imagine me coming home from my date nite with my hubby and see my children bouncing from wall to wall super hyper" and she started to giggle non stop and ask "why ah?" and i told her la, i can imagine her feeding my kids with all kind of sugary stuffs like a cupful of sugar, lollipops, cotton candy, marshmallows etc etc... and we started to laughed non stop over all kind of silly situations. and i told her, if i have kids, i am gonna feel my kids with Sponge Bob Square Pants everyday to make them stupid :D

yes, i super fail in parenting :D

and yes, it's really a gasping moment that i m actually entertaining thoughts of marriage and kids!

and no, we are not sharing the same bed ah, she pulled the mattress in so now my room is basically covered with mattresses :D

oh and yea, i just found out last nite that i am a total failure when it comes to cooking hard boiled eggs. :D i can cook dishes and rice and what nots and when it comes to hard boiled eggs, i failed :D but at the end the end result of the failed egg is pretty nice la... here's big cow's way of cooking hard boiled eggs:

fill the pot with water in masuk 2 eggs and boil it for a few minutes, then, feeling over confident that the eggs are cooked (my logic is, eggs cook damn fast one ma, no meh?), remove the pot from the stove and pour out the water and run the eggs under cold water. use a spoon to slowly crack the shells. by this time, each crack will go toing-toing-toing. you will suspect that the eggs are not cooked yet. so you will fill up the pot with water again and reboil the eggs. by this time, you will get fed up and decided to take a ciggie break. then, your guardian angel in the form of small cow will come to your rescue and watch the eggs for you. after the ciggie break, you decided to fuck care and just proceed to remove the eggs and then to your amazement, the eggs is cooked perfectly! the yolk is not overly cooked to the extend of being too powdery and the whites are super toing-ing :D nais! :D

and that, my friends, is how you cook hard boiled eggs, big cow way =.="

super fail, i know :D

oh oh... the night before, whilst small cow were bathing, she suddenly heard the crazy next door neighbour went: nnggggggggggg haaarrrrniiiiieeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! again! :D she stopped doing anything to eavesdrops, which i think is damn funny lor... :D so sampat...

oh oh... i also ask her about her and guy ash. i feel like macam there's some sparks like that one leh... then she told me let nature takes it's course. so i started to ask her how would she know if he likes her or not leh, and she went, "i dont know" and then i suddenly burst into song "How does she knows, he loves her? How does she knows she's yours (how does she knows that you love her?)" ala Enchanted and then we both suddenly burst into laughter. i just suddenly feel like singing that mah... i think i watch too much musical la.... lol. it's like i can burst into songs any moment like that one.... :D

currently the song that's stuck in my head is:

Agadoo Lyrics

Ag-a-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees
Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody

I met a hula mistress somewhere in Waikiki
Well she was sellin' pineapple, playin' ukulele
And when I went to the girl, come on and teach me to sway
She laughed and whispered to me, yes come tonight to the bay

The lovely beach, in the sky the moon of Kauai
Around calypso sarong we'll all be singin' this song

Ag-a-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees
Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody

Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees
Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody

And down on the shore they gather romance
She showed me much more, not only to dance...

Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees
Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody

Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees
Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody

The lovely beach, in the sky the moon of Kauai
Around calypso sarong we'll all be singin' this song

Ag-a-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to



it is annoyingly funny - for now la. but i am sure when it over play in my head, i will go crazy :D

*edit* wahahahahahaha... i watched the whole vid and i find it damn fucking funny la.. :P it's sooooooooo eighties! roflmao!

cny updates

as mentioned previously, i was cooking quite a bit during the long weekend. but i only managed to take pic of the 1st day's cooking. why? 1st day cook, rakus mah, so mah take pic lor... actually... the 2nd day and 3rd day also wanna take pic one... but too kancheong until forgotten =.="

so... anyway, 1st day cooked crab meat fried rice. :D it's nice... but i think it's not enough wok hei lor...

Here's the recipe:

Red onion, cili api, eggs, rice (duh!), sweet corn kernels (canned) and crab meat (canned)

1. Sweat the onions and cili api
2. add in the crab meat and fry somemore
3. add the sweet corn and fry somemore
4. add rice and mix well
5. add pepper powder, soya sauce and oyster sauce to taste
6. pour in the beaten eggs, turn on high heat and fry at a fast speed OR just fry the eggs seperately only add the eggs into the rice mixture.

Kautim! crab meat fried rice! :D

Anyways, as mentioned previously, the 1st day of cny, went dinner with the bosses and the ang moh @ South Pacific. After dinner, the boss decided to play more tour guide and brought the ang mo to take pix of klcc. and since i've already hopped into their car, i might as well take lor. here are the snap shots:

this is like the best KLCC shot i've ever taken with my lousy camera :D

Got bored waiting at the traffic light and saw KL Tower. :D

The boss wanted to see if this junction has better view or not... obviously not =.="

Anyway, after snapping pix, the bosses and i started to talk about durians and that pique the ang moh's curiosity. and it's hard for us to describe the taste except that you either love it or hate it. there's no two ways about it. :D anyway, since the nearest durian can be found @ alor, the boss drove us to alor to show the ang moh. fucking expensive leh, but since the boss is paying, fuck care la. :P the ang moh surprisingly loves it :D (see la, small cow, u lose to ang moh liao)

After durian eating, we went pub hopping. but it was too hot to hop too much. so after 2 rounds, the boss decided to go HRC. coz the ang moh stayed at Concorde.

Some non alcoholic drink that's fucking sour. i was so bored, i decided to play with my camera. and ya, that's the ang moh at the background.

Erm... i think i dont have anymore pix to share liao. i think i damn 'sat pai' lor... the camera is in my bag all the time but i always either no mood to take pix or forgotten to take pix =.="

Prawn & Chicken Soup Noodle aka 'Ai Xin' Noodles

... i finally bought gas. no actually, i finally have time to buy gas. The thing is, it's a huge hassle to buy gas over at my place. 1st, you will need to pay for the gas 1st. Then, you will need to spend the whole day at home waiting for them to deliver when they feel like delivering. So, i was gas less for about a year :D and then on Saturday, i decided that i wanna good something on Sunday and CNY. so i went to pay for the gas. only to be informed that they will deliver to my place on Sunday morning. So came Sunday morning, they didnt come. Small Cow went over to the shop and ask them and they tell her 3-4ish will come. so i camped outside at the living room doing nothing.... for a few hours. come 3.30pm, they didnt come. i called them up to screw them and they tell me 6pm only deliver to me =.=" damn kao tulan... wasted the whole day rotting at home doing nothing! finally at 6.15pm, the gas man came. mad happy. so i turn on the gas stove for the sake of turning it on. it was then too late to go out and buy food to cook alre. :(.

So, yesterday, i damn bo kam buan. Sudah ada gas, tapi tak sempat masak! Anyway, on the way back, i was thinking, i wanna cook, but too lazy to cook dishes and rice - too much hassle la... then i remembered someone taught me how to cook maggi with a twist. and i've decided to cook that. and decided to improvise :D here are sort of the recipe (i do agak-ration so i tak tau how many grams/teaspoon/tablespoon - follow your instinct la :D)

Noodles!

Prawns! De-shelled, de-veined and beheaded :D Keep the head to cook in the soup to make the soup sweeter :D

Diced chicken! Bought some chicken fillet, cut it to bite size, marinate it with soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, white pepper powder and chopped garlic (to get rid of the gamy smell / taste that sometimes chicken has)

Vege! To 'balance' the meal :D You can use any vege, i wanted to use the white chinese cabbage but the shop i bought from dont wanna sell me 1/4. so use this 'siew pak choy' instead :D Next to it is chopped cili api and garlic - eat noodles must have chili one leh.. if not macam lack of something :D

Soup base: Chicken cubes! :D Forgive me for such a small pic, i forgotten to take a pic of it so i googled it :D Anyway, bring a pot of 500ml water to a boil, add in 1 cube of chicken cube, a dollop of oyster sauce, a few drops of sesame oil and the prawn heads. boil until you think you are satisfied that the soup is ready (i boil about 6mins - coz that's how long it takes me to smoke a stick of ciggies :D), pour in the chicken meat (not all la, i used half of it for my 1 bowl of noodles), let it cook for awhile. When you think the chicken is about to cook, add in the prawn and vege and cook for another 1 or 2 mins. Pour it into a bowl when the soup is ready.

Noodles: bring a pot of water to a boil, throw in the noodle (i used 1 square per bowl) and cook until soft. Drain the noodles and pour it into the soup.

Voila! the noodle is ready! :D

It's seriously yummy lor... :D go ask small cow :D Thank goodness i enjoy eating my own cooking :D i know a lot of ppl who enjoy cooking but dont enjoy eating :D wait. i m most of the time like that too... but i was too hungry la :D

go try it! seriously nice and 'almost' healthy ;)