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Wednesday March 14, 2012


After Seng and Ann left for work in the morning, I went out for a walk.  The road behind the house leads to the top of the hill, and is a good exercise path because that part of the area is not developed.  The roads are there, but no traffic or houses on those streets.  The entire path is uphill, until you get to almost the top at the water tank, then you have to turn back and walk downhill.

I remember when I first took this path a few years back, it was somewhat of a struggle to get uphill.  Nowadays, since I have been bicycling at home, I am able to walk up the hill easily.  Yay for the exercises at home.  I would make sure I continue to bicycle.

I pretty much spent the rest of the day at home, sleeping most of the time after lunch.  Mom complained that I slept from noon to 4.  I guess I must have been tired.  You must listen to your body.  If the body says you are tired, then you must rest.

For supper, we went out to a choo-char place.  (choo - cook, char - stir fry.  Choo-char places are hawker stalls that cook dinners, instead of noodles, cakes, etc.)  The waiter who took our orders is a very good salesman.  The way he described the dishes made us mouth-water and wanted to order every dish he described.  As it was, we over ordered.


Here is Theng2 playing games on the cell phone.  She is very much into dancing and in particular Ballet. She takes ballet dancing a few days a week.

Here is KL - Kian Loong. He is in Form Four (high school junior year) and takes Advanced Math. Good boy!  He likes gaming, and plays on the computer as much as he can get away without getting punished. There are strict rules set by his parents for him to follow, one of which is "no gaming after midnight."  He is doing very well in school.













Ann is still working at Fairchild Semiconductor, managing a team of computer professionals.

Seng manages at Agilent Technologies.

Both of them part time as taxi drivers for the children.

This is bitter melon omelette with soy sauce. It is a very good dish.  I like the soy sauce on my rice, and the fluffy sweetness of the eggs with the bitter melon on the rice.  Very delicious.

This pork dish is to die for.  In fact, I think Siew Kai will love this. The pork is not as overcooked as it should be.  Don't get me wrong, it is cooked, but this type of pork should be cooked until it literally falls apart when you try to pick it up.  The sauce of made of salted shrimps, with a couple of hot chills thrown in for good measures.  The gravy was excellent to go with white rice.


The Tom Yum shrimp is very similar to what we had at CRC on Sunday, except they are smaller.  The dish is called "Four Chin Kung", or the four Buddhist gods.  It is fried with four different kinds of vegetables, although as you can see in the picture, there were not too many vegetables in it.  I can find ogra in it, for I cannot remember the other three.

The stir-fried beans on the right is fried with ground pork. Strange! but tasted pretty good.  I tend to like dishes with gravy, so I can pour the gravy on my rice, so this one is okay, but not my favorite.


The sweet and spicy chicken is my least favorite.  Chicken pieces were deep fried, then stirred fried with some beans and onions. The sauce and the vegetables are nice, but the chicken is a bit tough and hard to handle.

Seng cut open a pomelo fruit at home after dinner. This is very much like a graphfruit, but is sweet and not bitter. The fruit is big, about two pounds in weight.  The inside is like a regular citrus fruit, in sections, and containing little juicy pieces. The rind is thick, and we saved that for mom to cook the next day.
Mom cuts out the green outer skin of the rind, soaks the white meat of the rind in water for a few hours, then cut them into pieces and cook with a paste of preserved shrimps. The resulting dish is very tasty.