i needed a good dose of SPICYness!

Friday 16th July. OMG! what else can i ask for? my dear fren dap came by and we were planning what to do... the rain and napping baby slowed our plans and we needed to think again... then i received an important call.... that changed everything! a call from GX.... it was 3pm and he asked where i was.... have i left the house.... "cos i am ont he way home!" WoooohoooO! i love everyday that he was home before 6pm but it was a blessing when he was let off early on Friday!

i had my cravings inserted into our outing! early dinner at Geylang. not sure which lorong but its easy to spot the place. the shophouse is on the right side of the road heading in from Paya Lebar side and stop when you see a HUGE red signboard with a chinese character SONG! the peanut served here is special! Malai peanuts! the spiceness isnt hot... its kinda like wasabi.... it numbs the tongue and gives your mouth a "weng weng weng" feel! i liked it! dandan mien is something daddy eats in SH. he say he didnt get choices like in singapore.... they only have 1 kind of noodles! Kou Shui Ji (directly translate as Saliva Chicken!) is a cold dish. spicy too with the good dose of chilli oil! 4 season bean (si ji dou) was soft and nice.

the reason that bought me here.... Ma La Crabs! i first tried the crabs bought by my uncle K and i loved it. i fell for the Ma La and the fact that i got to eat the savoury kind of Nian Gao was a treat! to my surprise .... A HUGE surprise to all of us... was the price. i knew the crab was the tiny kind. i didnt ask my uncle how they charge... we looked thru the menu was taken back.... we ordered a small crab not knowing how many would be served.... 3 crabs in a huge silver bowl with nian gao and peanuts for $18! the other dish we ordered and we all liked it was Jin Sa Yu Mi Xia (salted egg fried prawn with corn nibblets) this was the most expensive dish we had $22 but it was all worth it! my dear who dun eat corn... took spoonful of the corn! esp when it was served hot it was so shiok! the fried prawns was 2nd to the corn!

Thou i enjoyed the meal.... baby R was also a good gal till we took too long to eat the crab and the many dishes we order.... everything was good till someone came up to tell us the traffic police is here.... i was in trouble! well... gx couldnt find a lot so he park illegally and wanted to sit downstairs. but i find the place smelt weird downstairs and so near the road, the noise.... and we were given a choice to go upstairs where there is aircon.... i chose upstairs... and thus he couldnt stop the fine.... but he didnt flare.... he took it calmly.

the funny thing was... when we were in the car... daddy told us that he still smell the stinky smell... so we checked our shoes.... i gana a big patch of stuff on my sandals! dap gana alittle and no wonder the smell followed us! what luck..... lucky the car mat didnt get any of it .... we quickly wiped off and got it cleared out of the car.... dun think daddy will bring us back so soon....

playpen

finally i took the chance that daddy was home to juggle with our little pipi, i finally opened up the playpen given to us by my Aunt K. she bought this esp for baby R and to ease my "helpless" moments. yes, my Aunt K pitied me that i had to struggle with baby r alone esp moments when i need to go to the loo and i dun have hands to cook dinner at all.

the test out with the playpen seems ok. she was in there playing but still she was looking at us for attention. i am not sure if this would work or she might sit in there crying if i left her in there to do some other chores... yes we opened it up but i was made to close it again. reason - we havent cleared our things to make space for this playpen.... so as good as new, its standing at a corner in the living room... and my shoulders still aches.

baby R visit Ah Gong at work!

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13th July Tuesday. i wanted to go down to get my dose of pokka milktea, instead plans changed and i head down with mil to surprise ah gong. that morning, daddy had expressed that he wanted to eat dad's beef cos since he was back from SH, he hadnt had chance to. so i decided it was good time for us to head down to 1st surprise Ah Gong, sit and wait for daddy to arrive to have his dose of his craving, settle dinner and drive us home to catch his korean drama! it was a difficult time to handle baby r alone as she couldnt stop wiggling!!! i went home feeling so sore all over! But at least Ah Gong was happy to see baby r and thou this isnt baby R's first visit to Ah Gong and Ah Ma's working place, its the 1st time she see them working at the stall. this trip has made daddy had a satisfying dinner too!

Brain Food

July 12th Monday. went to my gynae for my check-up at last.... i suffered the same kind of backache as before and i was worried. As usual, its a long wait. thou i brought my own recipe books to see, i read the papers 1st and chanced upon Parent mag from US. good to know the clinic now has new overseas parenting mags. chanced upon this article.... brain food. sadly, my gal has rejected salmon. i was really upset over the salmon saga. she used to take it without a problem. in fact i was pretty mad over this issue. still is.

i msged my dear fren Joyce to see if she mit pop by on the same day for her check up. her baby is due within 2 weeks and i was still around when she came! i have waited for almost 2hours before it was my turn! but i was happy to be able to do some reading, looked at my new recipe books and most of all catch my dear fren with her big baby tummy before she gave birth the following monday!

Somen

Somen = Meesua?

while mum got busy with her buy at the supermarket, i walked about carrying my heavy little 8kg around as she cannot stay still or stay at one place for too long.... chanced upon the jap session and at punggol ntuc, they do carry a good range of jap products. remember my aunt got some packet jap noodles from isetan and i looked thru and decided to try it out as baby r loved the noodles at crystal jade.

didnt remember what my aunt bought.... and i think i got the wrong one... this noodle seem thinner, super thin noodles just like meesua! i cooked the noodles 1st before adding it to some soup that my mum brew for many hours!

thou it wasnt the right kind of noodles i wanted, baby R seemed to enjoy it, cos she finished everything!