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Today, after reached home from office, saw mother busy preparing dinner. I saw half chicken and I suddenly told mother, “Tonight let your son (which me) cook the chicken, no problem, don’t worry”

This is self created recipe, a very simple recipe.

Ingredients:

Half chicken for 2 persons
3 onions
Spring onions
Plain water
Oyster source

Firstly of course have to heat up the wok with small fire. Pour some oil onto it. First ingredient to put onto the wok will be onions. Stir around until the onion half cook.

Now put in the chicken follow by oyster source, stir around until all the chicken mix with the oyster source. Pour some plain water onto it, depends on how you want the chicken look like, if you want the chicken to be more source, then pour more water else less water. Cover the wok and wait for 10 minutes. At the mean time have to open the wok and stir for few times, this is to make sure the chicken does not stick on the wok.

Hmm… can you smell it? Of course you can’t. Ok, lastly put the spring onions to it and stir around. Now the chicken is ready to serve.

Below is the picture of it. But where is the spring onion? Oops, is gone. Actually this picture was taken when I cook the 2nd time. I am running out of spring onions on this round, but it still tastes good.

This evening after back from office, feel hungry. Dinner have not cook yet, so what is left on the table is bread. Only eat bread is too plain, so I decided make garlic bread using the microwave, the old microwave but never use before (it is from my wife lucky draw, is few years ago, never use before, actually is never open the box before, so it looks very new).

A very simple self recipe, garlic, butter and bread. 1st of all, smashed and minced the garlic then mix with butter, I use normal butter. Cut the bread into slices, and then spread with the mixture of garlic and butter over the bread. Until this stage, everything is under control, come into final and most important part, heating the bread in microwave. That is the part that I feel more difficult part, because need to control the heat and timer. I did do a search in internet, found out different people have different durations, some in seconds and some in minutes, all is depend on temperature of microwave. But they did not mention what temperature they are using, low, Medium, High Or?

Since I did not have any clue on that, so I did some test, first use low and put 2 minutes. After ‘Din’ sound, I look at the bread like nothing changing on the bread, so I suspect duration is not enough, then I put another 2 minutes with the same temperature, and the result not much improvement. OK, this round I increase the temperature with same duration, ooh, this round I saw the bread turning black colour, I think this round is over cook. Yup, the bread is half dark colour and is hard or I should say it is crispy?

After 2 bites, the bread is thrown to dustbin. This is my first time using microwave to make garlic bread. I failed my mission.

As I mentioned early I will captured some photo on the furniture and also some nice view taken from balcony of the house. Let’s look at the indoor view, fewer items make the house look tidy and neat. We might want to rearrange the position of every item inside the house after we manage to buy a TV rack. Actually we did ordered one from the same furniture shop, but is out of stock, got to wait until middle of February, after Chinese New Year which we think that is too late. So we will use the remaining days to find a suitable TV rack, basically cheap and nice, do you think in this world got such offer?

Now, let’s look at the view taken on the balcony, got left view, central view and right view from the house. Straight in front is the football field. Left and right side are housing area. You can see some are double storey and some are single storey, those double storey houses are rebuilt last time, most of the single storey house is more than 20 years old. Don’t look down on those single storey house, because is landed property, so the price is within 200K-400K, of course it depends on the condition of the house, the better condition the higher price. It is lease hold not free hold.

After few days of renovation, the house almost fully refurnished. Painted each wall inside the house, bought new furniture (3+1 seated red color sofa, 1 red color lazy chair, I dining set, 1 bed frame together with 1 mirror and 1 side table, kitchen ware, etc)

Total spending so far is between 4K to 5K, might need to spend a little bit more.

Already few nights sleeping here, open windows at night, weather is windy, can sleep without air conditional. The most important thing is NO mosquito. Maybe is because 1st floor, that’s why no mosquito come to visit.

Everyone inside the house feel tired these few days, mummy need to prepare for her company events, my mum need to buy foods and do cleaning, Carmen busy running inside the house, now more spaces for her to run and play.

Tomorrow is a public holiday, so we will make use of tomorrow to decorate the house, do a quick checklists to find out is there anything left out and make it looks better so that everyone can live comfortable.

This afternoon went to do shopping on goods, realised that one of the rack is empty! Do you believe that you can see an empty rack in hypermarket? Guess what are the goods that suppose to be on the rack? Is cooking oil! Those cheaper brand cooking oils are out of stock, only left those corn oils. Is it really running out of stock on those cooking oil?

I heard from 1 of the radio station, they open discussion on this topic, ‘Where those cooking oil are goes to?’, they did some research and mentioned that Malaysia is one of the largest export cooking oil to the world. They come out a figure that, 5% of cooking oil is supplied to local and 95% of it is exporting out. It shown that Malaysia is full of those resources.

Some peoples comment that media does not announce the news so early, announce supplement of cooking oil to local are not enough on next week, and cause this situation happen. This bring me think of the price increase of petrol, every time when petrol price is increase, the night before that you can see a lot of cars stuck into the petrol station to pump petrol. Basically news will announce on afternoon news and most of the peoples will receive sms and they will forward the sms to their friends. I did receive those sms before. Don’t know when is the petrol price will increase in next round? I remember got one time petrol price increased RM0.30 per litter, those hawker stall also increased their foods RM0.30 per bowl as well. That time government did take action on those hawker stall that increase price during that time, of course we must make the report. Be the smart consumer.

2008, time really flies, is already year 2008. Many people will think of setting up the goals for the whole years, what to achieve. For me, the 1st thing to achieve is to move out from the room to a house. Is actually moving out from grand floor to 1st floor. I am staying in double storey house, 1st floor consist of front portion and back portion, and both are equally size, same structure, 3 bed rooms, 1 toilet, 1 bathroom, 1 kitchen and 1 dining hall. I am now moving to front portion of the house which facing the football field, got balcony, good view and windy at night.

Today is the 1st day of the year, the renovation work started yesterday, basically does painting, repairing or changing the faulty stuff. I and mummy these 2 days busy travel around to buy stuff, buy the basic stuff like refrigerator, rice cooker, dining table, sofa and 1 bed frame for my mum. We plan to slowly upgrade the house monthly, maybe next month buy washing machine, next few months later buy other stuff, if not will be very hurt, I mean my wallet will be very hurt.

Both of us are not just busy traveling, but also do cleaning at night, late night. Condition of the house is very dirty, need to do cleaning, especially the kitchen, toilet and bathroom, can see all the stains, yark.

After 2 days painting, the house looks fine to us. Now is the time to arrange when to move the new furniture in, set up the air conditional, arrangement of the furniture, etc.

Now I realize not easy to move in to new house, really lot of works to do and lots of money to spend as well.

Tonight can not work too late because tomorrow has to work. Nearly forgot tomorrow afternoon during lunch hour have to go to a shop to collect the stuff that I ordered 2 days ago. Is clothes hander in bathroom, basin in kitchen, etc. Better sleep now.