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Snowboarding Day 3 – GRAD DAY!

On the first day of Spring ( March 20) , BH and I went for our final beginner snowboard lesson ( oxymoron?) haha.. the weather was superb.. it was bright and sunny!

we were expecting a crowd at the ski area BUT it was so empty! haha… which is good.. coz we did at least 15 runs! and there was NO line at the chairlift!! nice!!

 

BH and I don’t even need to share a chairlift – see the pic of me on the lift? heh.. my mum wld freak if she sees it :X

YayI can do 1 complete run ( easy one la) w/o falling most of the time! and I can control my speed and direction! quite proud with my achievements!

BUT I still can’t come out of the chairlift w/o falling 🙁 BH can lor… soooooooo… the instructor was very nice.. hahaha… quite cute can….

 He ride with me and………

caught me when I fall!! heh… I almost made him “fall” on me! haha.. if only it is ‘for’ me lor…wahahaha… This instructor is super good.. He even helped me to tie my boot’s laces coz it came loose!!! :O I feel like a princess!!

I had alot of difficulty trying to master the toe side turn, so he held my hand and I kinda snowboarded with him 😀 cool!!!

Some interesting things we saw….

haha… that’s all! Looking forward to the next season!!!

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back to school!

The weather in Seattle is fantastic today… it’s sunny.. skies are blue.. you can see the mountains.. the temperature still abit low.. it’s chilly.. SPRING’S here! In my opinion, it’s the most beautiful season of the year! 🙂 well, I won’t be able to enjoy spring if I didn’t come here.. ah… can this be forever?

Since we I had to go to University Village to run some errands, we decided to drop by UW ( University of Washington aka U-dub)

The environment brought a continuous ‘WOoooooW!’ to our mouths *do u have a mental image of this??!! haha…* Anyhow, the campus is huge! I personally thought that the ‘old’ feel of the whole place is like NUS? haha… but then again.. the architecture is totally diff from what we see in SG… somehow, both of us were like ” Our offsprings is gonna study here..” heh… well, so weird to say ‘offsprings’ right? haha… we were inspired by the season ‘Spring’ ! 😀

Overall view – the cherry blossoms are so pretty!! erm.. they are nt really pink though..

The flowers on this tree are ‘worshiping the sun’

More Cherry Blossoms !

haha.. a pic of me! just for in case, you miss me?? heh… we haven’t met for sooooooooo long!

Shoes from Gmarket which i bought last year 🙂

Note: DSLR are sooooooooo ‘IN’? Out of 10 pple today, 7 pple are holding onto DSLR.. and that includes the wannabe who took the pics above.

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The ugly truth

I know the truth.. I know the best way out BUT when i hear the truth from someone else, someone dear to me.. I can’t accept it.

If it’s the decision I made and finalised myself, it won’t have felt this bad. Hearing it from him, just made me feel ‘unwanted’, ‘unappreciated’ – Did I do something wrong? Is my food so bad tt he wanna eat microwave food? If it’s gonna end up like this, why did we try so hard to come here together?

I am not angry.. I just need to blame myself for what I am now. The 1 thing which changed the rest of my life 🙁

I feel lousy – what I have done is not worthy or/and good enough to mk him think abt me ( i’m only at the back of his mind?) .

Swallow my pride ..it’s just 9 more mths

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Stay or go?

This have been a huge issue and it’s always at the back of my head.. i guess, i can’t be truely happy knowing that I have a HUGE burden back home

BH woke up this morning and the first thing he asked me was ” Should we go Korea on our way  back to SG or on our way home?”

We’ve not been to Korea.. and it sure sounds nice to go to a new place…. BUT i’m not sure if  I should or I could make it back 🙁

“What if I don’t wanna come back?” I asked BH. He was like ” Then I’ll have to come home alone.. what to do? ”

Seriously do not know what to do… I have been saving every single penny, cooking nearly every meal.. and we are not 1/2 way there 🙁

It’s so frustrating… I only have myself to blame.. it’s all me , my fault 🙁 I wanna be 17 again – i promise i’ll do better

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Bittergourd with salted eggs

It was my 1st attempt to cook this… in fact, the FIRST time i bought bittergourd here… BH doesn’t like bittergourd.. so i DON’T cook bittergourd at all…

I LOVE bittergourd 🙂 It feels good to cook your fave food for yourself! It’s sad but  true…Only my mum will cook my fave food for me ..

Looks great – taste great! heh… Better than Facing East imo.. hehehe..

I always make sure that BH goes to work with lunch – if he doesn’t I feel guilty 🙁 Maybe it’s just me… So I made Char Siew in addition with the Bittergourd + Rice

Hope he’s enjoying his lunch? I always thought going to work with a lunch box is the most ‘xin fu’ thing.. I wonder if BH feels the same? oh well… he’s just so bz and he doesn’t mk me feel appreciated for the things I do for him..

*ahem* Chanel Classic Flap Cavier will be nice 🙂

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Unboxing Kitchenaid mixer

After thinking long and hard on whether we shld open the mixer or sell it…. we finally decided to KEEP it! 🙂 heh.. no regrets! The size of the 6qts bowl is even bigger than my head BUT big bowl is good… it allows space to add ingredients and prevents splatters!

I love the all steel construction. Even the beaters and dough hooks are steel! ( unlike the Artisan, it’s plastic? not that sturdy esp if u r making bread dough) The colour of the mixer ( Dark Pewter) is really chic and pretty – matched our Brita flask. So we opened the mixer and we needed to test it out right? Used a cake mix ( the simplest way to bake) to bake cupcakes and a 9″ cake.

Cakes turns out nice! NO FUSS at all… no need to clean the batter which landed on the table… I have free hands to do some washing while the mixing is in process… wah! worth every single penny!

However, maybe the engine is ‘powerful’ ( 575 watts) – it’s super noisy, sounds abit like vaccum cleaner.. and maybe it’s new.. it has some weird engine smell coming out.. ohh… some parts of the flour was not mixed properly – so i needed to stop the mixer on a few occasions to scrape down.

Other than that…the mixing action is superb. It keeps the place clean and does the job done FAST 🙂

Us and our great kitchen helper – Will definitely try to bake bread soon!

PS: Being able to bake with BH is bliss… it’s like doing your fave thing with your fave person.. happy! I wonder how long more do I have.

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Be my cupcake!

This year’s Vday was a super unromantic and simple one…no flowers.. no eating out…  so we didn’t have any plans… Just tt I told BH that i wanted cupcakes and suggested that he ordered from Cupcakes Royale

So we collected the cupcakes from the store and bought an extra box for Keying and hubby – Hope they like it as much as we did? 8)

We also ordered their Lethal cupcake – Deathcakes. Chocolate in this cake is sooooo rich and yummy… thinking abt it makes me drool!! heh..

Then we went to the outlets. Heng ah.. i spotted a pair of really pretty Kate Spade earrings! haha.. else I won’t have any Vday gift can! hehehe…

Dinner was Herbal Chicken We co-cook this. Though it’s nothing fancy,we enjoyed our dinner! 🙂

Vday – it’s just like any other day…

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Herbal Chicken

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach!

Our Vday dinner

The spices which my mum brought over the last time was super good!

first of all, cleaning the chicken was hard work.. the innates were so disgusting… and the fats were slimy and lumpy… i exclaimed ” eeeeeee…. yucks!” x 10000 as i was cleaning it ( 2 days before) then marinated it with the spices and stuffed mushrooms inside it.

The part abt cooking a whole chicken is the TIME – it took us abt 2.5 hrs on medium heat to steam the chicken. So we started steaming at abt 5pm and ate at 7.30pm! BH watched the fire and made sure that the water ( for steaming) in the pot does not run dry.. You can smell the herbs when steaming.. the aroma reminds me of my mum’s cooking!

after the hard work, the result was great! Chicken was surprising soft and tender! We both happily ate everything up! Finger licking good !

ok fine… i allowed myself to relax and forgt to count the calories for that meal 🙁

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Snowboarding Day 2

If you have been following our blog, you wld have read that we went Snowboarding last mth. As we bought the 3 days pass, we still had 2 more days to go ( actually, the cost wld break even if you go for 2 lessons) So on the bright and sunny morning, we decided to go on our Day 2 lesson 🙂

I woke up with a bad headache – I have no idea why. I kinda thought that we shld cancel the trip as I wasn’t feeling my best. However, the weather was so good! the sky’s so blue – it’s a great day for snowboarding! Ate panadol and hope that the headache wil go away.. BUT it didn’t 🙁

After breakfast at Sharis, we went to Snoqualmie Summit. The Q to sign in and collect our boards was horribly LONG. It was only 1/2 h more to our lesson. I was worried that we might just miss it ( there’s only 1 lesson for the day for Day 2) … So we rushed our way thru’ and managed to get our stuff, wear them and we were 15mins late!!!

Fortunately, there’s another lady who’s just like us.. so we kinda have a pte lesson. Just 3 of us + the super cool instructor, Jason! wah.. he’s cute can ( erm.. not tt i like the piercing on his tongue) HE KNOWS HOW TO TEACH! ( but my headache was so bad tt i was counting down to the end of the lesson)

BH and I actually improved and learnt alot from him 🙂 So we were super proud of our achievements – 

1) We can control our snowboards better

2) We can stop without falling

3) We can board the chairlift with our snowboard

BUT we still can’t alight from the chairlift w/o falling.. hahaha.. I literally slide down the chairlift! practise makes perfect!

Some pics of us in action!

I think this is our new past time 🙂 I cld have enjoyed and done much  better w/o the headache

Last pic for us to rem the day

Hope to go 1 last time before the season ends? haha..