Month: December 2008

My first moleskine

Yeah, I have succumbed. I needed to get something to celebrate my new job so I (or more accurately the boyfriend) got me a moleskine to mark this milestone in my life. It’s one (the job, not the moleskine) I’ve been pining for weeks and I’m really excited that everything’s confirmed. Signed the dotted line this morning. w00t!

moleskine
My first moleskine.

Got my own parking space, FOC. Very relieved when I found out about it cause the area where my office is known for horrendous parking. Really excited about this new position. It’s not easy to find a job in a company where you really believe in the product and would proudly endorse it. I have and I’m so thankful.

Yeah, I’m itching to tell the world who I’m working for but lets not be so blatant right. I’ll probably sneak in some clues here and there on the blog soon.

So KimKomm is on hiatus now…to be honest, I’m rather sad to put it on hiatus. Many people have truly believed in me when I started the venture and I feel like taking on this new job is equivalent to abandoning my loyal clients, for without them I will not be where I am. I want to especially thank Tim and co for believing in KimKomm and always recommending my PR services to other people. Motif Etika and Lasseters too of course. You know who you are and thank you, thank you for your unwavering trust in my capabilities.

I’m leaving KimKomm not because it’s not doing well. In fact, it’s doing so extraordinarily well it’s quite unbelievable to me sometimes. I just feel like I need to move on to a different stage in my life. Take on different things and find out more about myself. Simply put it, I’ve gotten answers and closures so to speak on questions about my work ethics, capabilities and confidence from KimKomm so now I need to pit myself against a different environment to see how I’ll fare. Yeah it all sounds so philosophical and blah right but that’s how I feel.

Well, here’s to another chapter of quarter-life crisis, CLOSED. Cheers!

What I did on public holiday.

Jo has been talking about this super spicy Taiwanese sausages sold at Meng Tien for weeks and finally, we made the trip to try it out.

Boohoo, when we’re there, the stall was closed so we ended up eating a lot of deep fried stuff instead. Which wasn’t half bad, really :D

#1
Bee, Rinnah and Paris.
Bee, Rinnah and PB. Jo refused to be photographed. Why so shy -_-

#2
Privy
Jo’s chihuahua, Privy. He’s so cute and lansi at the same time, hahahaha.

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Me and Sisi.
Me and camera shy Sisi.

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Bee and Privy.
Caption this.

I had such a fun day! Just a bunch of girls chatting, eating and playing with our pups :D Next outing, supaspicy taiwanese sausages!

By the way, my parents are on vacation so I’m dogsitting. Sisi’s getting used to the new surrounding (my bf’s pad) and we’ve been taking her to Desa Park City for some exercise. We even met the pretty Jojo Struys who was jogging with her 3 month old pug. The lil pug was trying to get a bite out of Sisi, it was so funny!

Here’s a picture of Sisi all wrapped up in yet-another-tshirt-from-random-event, asleep with Mr. Hippo, Super Mario and her new chew toy.

Sisi sleeping.

6 days to my new job. If you hadn’t known, yeah, I’ve made the switch to marketing. Will be managing a slightly tired but really sexy brand…i is gonna bring it back to its former gloreeeeeeeeeeeh!

Making Abacus Seeds or Suan Pan Zi

Eversince I’ve had that overpriced hakka dish, Suan Pan Zi or Abacus Seeds at The Curve, I’ve vowed to make them myself one day. That was a year, maybe two ago.

Making tong yuen was actually a sort of warm up exercise to revive my dormant cooking l33t skills. And after the 1st two failures in making tong yuen, I thought Suan Pan Zi was never going to happen. At last, I did manage to make them, so my confidence came back.

Making Suan Pan Zi was the single hardest, most painful thing I’ve ever done in the kitchen. It didn’t help that my boyfriend’s kitchen is as bare as bare goes. I should have bought a motherf**cking kitchen mixer before I embarked on this, cause using my bare hands was FRUSTRATING. Those online recipes made it sound sooooooooo easy but it’s all a LIE.

Anyway, here are the instructions on how to make Suan Pan Zi or what I like to call Journey to the World of Pain. You need dried shrimps, minced pork, yam, tapioca flour, cloud ear/black fungus, salt, pepper, minced garlic and oyster sauce

No sizes or measurement again because I keep it real like that. Which also meant I ended up with more than 3 extra portions :P

#1 – Dried shrimps
Dried shrimps
Wash and soak em.

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