Confessions of a City Slicker

7 pm and my phone rang.  I was still snug under my blanket having an absolutely delicious dream (private :p)

"Sei Lou arr, sleeping ahh?!"  It was Froggy.

Mmmmmmmm

"You cooked the soup ah boi?" came the retort.

Of course!!!!

"Then can you please open the door for us?"

Oh?  You’ve arrived? OK.

Kar Cher and the others arrived later on with Kar Cher’s steamboat and the stuff they bought from the market.

Kar Cher soon got the preparations for dinner underway, assigning everyone to their individual tasks.

Here’s Kar Cher with my chicken stock.  My chicken stock failed according to her (blush).  Should have stuck with the chicken stock cubes :p as extra flavorings were needed.

Here’s the table all set with our steamboat dinner.  Mmm mmm!  All those lovely balls!

Hungry diners (ghosts?) waiting to dig into the dinner.

Congratulations to Kar Cher for buying just enough food so we don’t overstuff ourselves

Here’s a question - how many people does it take to uncork a bottle of sparkling grape juice?  Quite a few, we found out.

As you can see, Froggy even resorted to standing on a chair for added leverage.  Note to self: remember to get a cork screw the next shopping trip, or a Swiss Army knife.  I think I prefer the latter

Since my parents are travelling in Taiwan, I get the whole apartment for myself.  Decided to have steamboat dinner with all the ex GPS Tech colleagues.

I tried my hand at preparing the chicken stock for our steamboat dinner.  First I needed chicken bones which Kar Cher said I can buy at Tesco.  Tesco is probably the closest I’ve been to a wet market.  I got 3 chicken carcasses all nicely wrapped in cling wrap.  Sweet!

Here are the carcasses nicely cleaned and ready to be cooked.

"Did you scald the chicken in hot water first before putting them in the pot?" Kar Cher asked.

Erm, no lah……do I have to?

"Of course lah.  To get rid of the stink", Kar Cher said.

Oops, too late as the birds are already in the pot

Well, now that the chickens are simmering in the pot, that gives me a nice couple of hours to snooze.  It’s raining and that means my snooze button automatically activates.  Later…..

Last Thursday was my Lil Sis, Sher Lynn’s 21st birthday.  Yup, she’s finally legal!

Check out this adorable little bouquet I got for her from Appletree.  Don’t you just love the color combinations?  So sweet!

The Birthday Girl with her bouquet.  OK picture is not very clear inside the darkness of Momo.  I took this one with my new Nokia N76 (yes, it finally arrived!) which I am still learning to use.

Before and after the cake cutting.  Someone dunked her head into one of the cakes…..ha ha ha

I left soon afterwards because I had to work the next day, but heard that after that the party went wild.  Sorry I missed that

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LIL SIS!