Cooking

Cooking is unfortunately not my forte. I tell everyone that I wash dishes better than I cook.

I have a few resolutions made for 2011. One of them is to cook simple dishes once a month for starters.

January's attempt was edible... Edmund was most encouraging by finishing everything up!

Ear-holes

One of my resolutions for 2011 is to get my ears pierced. The last time I pierced my ears was when I was 4 years-old.

Back then, my ears got badly infected and dad had to use 2 pairs of pliers to remove my earrings. I was told I screamed the whole apartment block down and traumatised my dad for life through the earring-removal process.

One week before I got married, I was still hunting high and low for clip-on earrings, which are terribly hard to find!

This ear-piercing resolution of mine hasn't any significance. I just decided I would get it done once and for all!

I kinda regret it because of the pain and care involved, but since I've done it, let's try to keep the holes open!

Edmund has been very sweet to help me clean my ears with hydrogen peroxide at night.

Daiso

Edmund and I always enjoy our visits to Daiso. There are so many pretty, cute, interesting, clever things to buy there. And because everything is only $2, you're willing to buy it for fun, or just to try it out!

After a lovely meal with Seb & Steph at Pete's Place at Hyatt Hotel, and an unfruitful query made at JTB, we happily walked into Daiso at Ion Orchard.

Some bo liao things I ended up with:

* Japanese 4-stones (child-hood game)


I always envied a primary school friend who came to school with 4 stones bought from Japan. They were so pretty (although I found it too fat for the game compared to my smaller stones).

Anyway, I fulfilled my childhood wish of getting myself a set of pretty 4 stones whose design probably originated from Japan but was now made in China.

I came home and started playing with my pretty stones immediately. After 2 decades, I’d forgotten quite a few levels!

* a rolling pin for my feet (physiotherapist's recommendation)


I’ve been having plantar fasciitis where my left heel hurts especially when I’m barefooted. I went to see a physiotherapist and he recommended that I roll my feet on something cylindrical.

I went to the baking section in Daiso looking high and low for some rolling pins and found 1 rolling pin sticking out from a pile of non-rolling pin stuff. It was just the buy-me sign I needed. It was meant just for me! Haha!

Spruce

Sometime in 2010, we borrowed the electric steamboat pot we bought for Matthias and Cynthia for a sukiyaki party we were having. This was even before they had their own "opening ceremony" of the pot! *paiseh*

Edmund and I were having breakfast at MacDonalds while Matt & Thia were on the way somewhere. They brought the pot to us at MacDonalds and we caught up for a good 30mins in MacDonald's standing around the table we were at.

I thought it would be nice for us to catch up properly over a meal seated down! We finally did at a really nice place recommended by Matthias!