It’s Photo Hunter week again. wheeeee…. cooking!  I love cooking!

Lately, I’ve been trying to eat healthy and it’s not easy for Asian as we stir-fry a lot.  So, instead of stir-fried my greens, I blanched them in boiling water for less than a minute to retained the vitamins.  You can opt to use the water for sauces or soup.  That way, you don’t loose anything.

This is organic kai lan with organic apricat mushroom.  So healthy. Can.

Used a teaspoon of olive oil to brown your garlic.  Add a cup of water and bring them to a boil before adding oyster sauce and mushroom.  Thicken gravy with a little tapioca starch.  Pour gravy onto your blanched kai lan.

Or you can brown some baby anchovies till crispy. I was told that olive oil is used only for cooking but not for deep frying.  As for me, I used sunflower oil to brown my anchovies and use a kitchen towel to absorb the excess oil.

Brown some garlic + water + oyster sauce + tapioca starch = gravy.  Pour them over your vege and garnish anchovies on your kai lan.  I find the crunching sound from the anchovies is very therapeutic!

Happy Cooking 🙂

On the way back from Red Rock Canyon, we passed by a deserted cowboy town hence I’ve forgotten the name. Let’s just called it The Cowboy Town. Can? The place is meant to be targetted at tourist hence there’s a small (it looks BIG after conversion!) fee to pay at the entranceVery friendly people here

Talking about lansi fansee, I was tagged by Wuching to name my lansi fansee. Let’s see how the respond going in this post 😉 . Make sure all my lansi fansee comment ah.

When I say there is nothing to do here means there is really hing to do here. All we did is camwhore and lots of camwhoring.

Hmm…. if I’m not mistaken, I took three different poses. I couldn’t find another pose in my memory stick. *sigh… can’t remember if I’ve deleted them.

They have a show shortly after our arrival but it was so boring can die lidat, I walk out of the show. Dunno what shit they are talking about. All I know that it has something to do with American history. What do you think of a show when half of the audience is falling asleep and one of the stage presenter have to hold up a plank reading “applause”, “standing ovation”, “booooo”, “awwww”, “cry”….zzzz….

The only thing that facinate me is the stuffed yak buffalo and bull head. Pardon me if I’m wrong on this. ooOoo and I love their interior. Look at that big and dazzling hanging wheel light. Nice! Can get my carpenter to made one for my dining hall 😉 The pic above the yak buffalo is a chappel. Who’s getting married?

If you read my ‘twisted’ meme, under item no. 4, hubby did mentioned that I criticised his photography skill. Nah, show you this…

Very nice scenery hor. Just take a look at me! He did not tell me I squint my eye! grrr…. That is the problem when you rush thru a photography session. Point, focus and shoot. Then wait 2 second for the preview. My camera has 3″ monitor screen. Lidat also cannot see meh? It is so ridiculous if I were to screen thru each and every picture. Anyway, the battery is running out. I’m trying my best to conserved it. *Grrrrr! Beh kua.

Just incase you lost your reading glasses it says here – Please do not give me so much water. I am a desert plan and don’t NEEd much water. You’re KiLLing ME with your kindness.

If you are in a desert, please drink lots of water. Or else you are going to looks like a raisins.

There is a small pet zoo too. Horses, bulls, mandarin ducks, peacocks and WHITE peacocks!

Quick! Make a wish. I read from forwarded e-mail, if you chance upon a white peacock that is horny aroused showing off it’s erection tail, make a wish and it will come true. And I squat there with my camera, waited and waited and waited. Dem smelly somemore. Now you see why I did not strike lottery. ooOOoo, they have a fig tree. Too bad the blooming season is still early.

Ok. Enough photos of me. Coming to food! We had Vietnamese food for lunch. Too much of American mia burger makes us very uneasy in the tummy. Constipated konon!

As usual portion is very big can feed 2 Malaysian with petite size like us. My all time favourite…

Vietnamese rice spring roll.

I’ll let you guys have the recipe in due course. Hopefully…

… go back to read Day 12 (part 1) in Red Rock Canyon here

… proceed to read Day 13 here

The original meme was given a twist by Mott . Lidat also can ah? *ish. Previously I was washing linen in the public. This time, I’m opening a can of worms listing the ugly side of jessieling and how her hubby is pissed at her. And Mott ah… no need to be shy to comment in blogs la. Ain’t all bloggers love the attention shower by readers?

*ahem. This is the innocent Hijack King cos I don’t hijack anyone. She claimed I have bad attitude. Her’s is even worst.

1. She nags a lot.
2. She has a very bad temper. If you make her angry a bit, she will turn into a big godzilla.
3. She love to spend time in the kitchen thus throwing leaving the kids under my care. I don’t have peaceful time reading my newspapers or have my afternoon nap. And when I take my afternoon nap, she will nag nag nag again. If you don’t believe, please refer to item 1.
4. She’s such a perfectionist especially when come to photography. So fussy can die lidat and always complain that I don’t have enough skill. Cheh, as tho she is full of skills. She will nag nag nag again after downloading the picture to her laptop. If don’t believe, please refer to item 1.
5. She always want to win and if I don’t give way, she will start yelling and stomp off. Sometimes she will leave the house. One thing that I really don’t like is she will slam the door so loud. I mean really L.O.U.D!
6. Sometimes she will call me names. Never show her respect. When I look at her fiercely, she will go, “WHAT?!”
7. I work so hard to earn money for my family and each time I come home late, she will show me sour face and talk rudely to me. Worst thing she will go nag, nag, nag. If don’t believe, please refer to item 1.
8. I hate it when she end a quarrel with “Whatever la” and stomp off.
9. She never pick up after the kids leaving their toys all over the floor. I have to do that even if I comes home so late at night. (And the wife say: Who cares!)
10. She shed hair like a persian cat!

Now you know the ugly side of me, huh.

Next come the tagging…

1. 5xmom (You asked for the tag. Don’t you 😉
2. King’s Wife (The original meme started by her. Now let’s see her twist!)
3. Sasha (First time tagging her.)
4. Zara & Zaria’s Mum
5. Angeleyes

I was tagged by Hui Sia to list ten way how Hubby pisses me off. Come to think of it, it is like washing dirty linen in public. Gee…

1. He stay back to work in his office pretty late everyday. He claimed that this is how I.T. people work. Any I.T. people out there would like to claim otherwise?
2. Everyday I have to called him, “What time are you coming home?” “Are you coming home for dinner?” “Where are you now?” . This is like everyday routine! The only time I don’t called him is when I am angry with him.
3. At time when he don’t informed me of his wherebout. He love to do that. Acting like he’s still single and no commitment.
4. Tho he don’t go outstation as often as compared to other mummie’s hubby out there, the frequency is enough to killed me. Not that I can’t live without him, but without his presence at home, situation will turn havoc. Kids screaming, mummy screaming, bla bla….
5. When baby having a afternoon nap, he will read newspapers. When baby is up, now is his turn to do so! He does that all the time.
6. He love to swear at other drivers, “Stupid, don’t know how to drive”, “Drive faster la”. I hate it when kids is in the car. At one time, Princess started to say “Stupid” hence I banned the word at home. Whoever say that Mummy is going to beat the mouth. No one dare but sad to say…. Daddy’s skin is too thick to feel the pain. grrr…. Whenever he does that I’ll yelled from the back seat, “WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE!”
7. He’s bad at patching things up. He don’t apologize even if he’s at fault. For example this scenario: Unintentionally he called me lazy. I got so bad and refused to talk and even look to him for 3 days. He finally called me in the office on a Friday. The first thing I said to him is, “Don’t you ever dare to called me LAZY!” He apologized and admited that he is having PMS that morning! Wah lau. Good thing he made the first move to patched things up or else hehehehe *rubbing hand in glee* I won’t cook for him over the weekend and I’ve got all my evil plan in head.
8. Is hard to get him to talk things out when we have a misunderstanding. I will be the ‘broken record’ and he will be the listener. He make me looks like I’m talking to myself thru the mirror.
9. To be added the next time he pisses me off.
10. Hopefully I won’t reach number 10!

As you can see, the only grudge I have on him is his bad attitude. When come to hygiene, I have nothing to complain about. He don’t fart on bed, throw his clothes on the floor, his aiming is superb ;). His car is in top notched condition. No dust or rubbish or pebbles at all (unlike mine. sheeshh…). He’s a great guy overall. He washed up after dinner, he clean up baby’s poo, he vacumn and mopped the floor. He helps me a lot around the house. That is how we can have 3 kids and not hiring a maid. And you think he does a lot at home? There are 20 more other chores that he doesn’t do! After 10 years of marriage, I have to be an eye opener. I have no time to grunt on little things like that. If he can’t be a good husband/father, I’ll take over the role. He can’t be there for the kids, I will! Let’s think on the brighter side. He worked so hard to provide us a better life. In return, we try our best to compromised what is missing. Like the saying goes – Behind a successful Man, there’s a women. Oh and did anyone tell you the continuous? – Behind the women there’s a mistress. 😆 Just kidding! Just kidding! That is the biggest fear being a wife to a man, huh. Don’t you agree? Let’s just end here as I’ve gone a little out of track.

Since this meme has been going round blogosphere for quite sometimes, I bet most of you have done it before. Here’s my list of 5 bloggers. You will have to list down 10 things how your spouse pissed you off.

Let’s hear from the man. I bet the first thing they are going to put is “My wife is a nagger!” lol.

1. BengBeng
2. Simple American
3. The Razzler
4. yenjai
5. Wuching

This is not the end. I was tagged again by Mott with the same meme. But this time it was a twisted meme. Adoi!

Other than outlet shoppings and The Strip, today is another day not knowing what to do in Las Vegas. Our hotel’s (MGM Grand) front desk recommended Red Rock Canyon. It is about 30mins to 40mins away from LV.

Again, this is an isolated desert.

Nothing much interesting here. Everywhere is dry. There is a trekker’s path. Wondering what is behind the mountain.

What facinates me the most is desert cactus.

There are life-sized…

.. medium sized ….

or tiny ones.

Watch out for it’s torn.

O.U.C.H!

What amazed you the most in a desert? Water! Water is next most precious thing see in desert. And when we chance upon a cave with a little stream of river, we exclaimed, “Water! Water!” As if we never see water before. 😆

Some ppl just can’t resist to take a sip. They believe the water contain some minerals that is not found in our normal drinking water. I’m not taking chance. I’d rather not have the abnormal minerals than to be toxicated!

Even the rocks is not spare from looking normal.

Shall we named it – The Holey Rock?

Everything there is highly aggrevated. For example their public washroom.

They looks nice and sleek on the outside.

On the inside…. *pinch nose*

*run and puke!*

p/s: My first attempt in photostitching.

I salute Sila for making them look easy. But aitelyu, I almost pull all my hair out! Neway, they looks pretty good for first timer 😉 . Need to brush up my skills tho.

Since there are nothing much to do there, we continue our journey to some cowboy town. Tune in for Part 2. Adios!

… go back to read Day 11 with lots of bitching here.

… proceed to read Day 12 (Part 2) in Cowboy Town here

I remember on May 13, 1994, it was a Friday. You pop this question to me all of a sudden, “Do you believe in Friday the 13th?”, and I said, “No”, not knowing that day was your birthday. You should have told me but it’s ok. It’s not too late to know.

I’m glad this year May 13 doesn’t fall on a Friday. It was a Sunday and coincide with Mother’s Day. Which means we have double celebration. Yay! As you know, I do get my day off on Mother’s Day and you get your day off on your Birthday. Looks like we have to toss the coin.

But to be fair, you was away on holiday business for three days. I know you missed the kids and so are they. You can spend your quality time with them while I finished my romance novel which is collecting dust on the shelf. Oh, the clothes need to be pressed, toilet yelling for a scrub and Princess school shoes need to be washed. Or you can dump them in the washing machine like what I did 😆 .

I hope you like the presents I bought and I know it’s the same as every other year. You shouldn’t complain since you don’t get me anything for Mother’s Day *sticking out tongue*. You know I don’t ask for bouquet of flowers and I sulk at Hershey’s Kisses (to be precise cookies and cream!) ;). On second thought, I think I’m going sideway and needed Yoga to put me back on the rightway * 😉 hint 😉 *.

I won’t blame you if you don’t get all the hint-hint and wink-wink. As usual, man never think out of the box. Most important, we still have each other (WHICH REMINDS ME, YOU FORGOT OUR ANNIVERSARY DATE AGAIN! HOW COULD YOU! yala, I forgot also. 😳 )

Happy Birthday, Low Kong. ailubyu kau-kau xoxo

p/s: Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers who is reading this 🙂

Great theme this week!

This is not my daily bread as I’d still prefer Gardenia anytime.

Kids having fun at the beach and this is definitely a High-5 time!

I have been coughing very very badly since last Friday and still coughing badly today! The antibiotic and cough syrup that the GP prescribed doesn’t help bits. I can live with coughing during daytime but come night time, it was a nightmare. If you’ve been thru it, you will know what I meant. Especially parents with little children at home, these little ones will cough so badly that they puke all over the bed. It’s a tedious job to clean up pukes and not to mention the S.M.E.L.L! And we are talking about all this that happen in the middle of the night. No joke.

Few weeks back, I received a forwarded e-mail. It sounded like this.

To stop night time coughing in a child (or adult as we found out personally), put Vicks Vaporub generously on the bottom of the feet at bedtime then cover with socks. Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. Works 100% of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly.

The head of the Canada Research Council described these findings on the part of their scientists when they were investigating the effectiveness and usage of prescription cough medicines in children as compared to alternative therapies like acupressure.

And of course I tried them to see they really works. It is a common practise to rub Vicks on chest and back but bottom of the feet? Let’s see….

Day 1 – Applied. Wear socks. Slept till morning.

Day 2 – Applied chinese medicated oil. Wear socks. Midnight coughing. Applied Vicks. Slept till morning.

Day 3 – Applied. Wear socks. Slept till morning.

Day 4 – Applied. Wear socks. Slept till morning.

Day 5 – Lazy to apply. Midnight coughing. Cough so badly. Applied Vicks. Slept till morning.

So it is proven E.F.F.E.C.T.I.V.E!

I badly wanted to do it too during day time, but wearing a socks in the office??? You must be kidding me.

This post is NOT sponsored by PPP *ngek

p/s:  The above action will sooth your coughing but won’t cure them.  Heck!

Yesterday’s conversation –

Mummy: What you want to pack for lunch?

Princess: Bread and cheese spread.

Mummy: Good!

10 minutes later, I put 2 packets of biscuits in her school bag.

~~~***~~~

Mummy: Can we have french toast for dinner? (lazy to cook ma)

Princess: Yay! I love them.

4 hours later, I went and cook porridge.

*sigh…. I’m not myself yesterday. My mind is wandering far. Far…..

After proscratinating for almost a year, finally I pick up my courage to see the dentist for an extraction. Don’t everyone hate wisdom tooth. I wonder why such a problematic tooth was given such a wise name.

And aitelyu, with the technology advancement at this century, you can stop asking other ppl their horror story when they extracted their wisdom tooth donkey years ago. That will created more goose bump in you. Just pick up the phone, dial the number, fix your appointment and the next thing you know, you are on the dentist chair with a headphone (listen to music la) over your ear and *thug*! Your wisdom tooth is out. Peanut!

There’s no ant bite during local anesthetic.

No blood pancut keluar (oozing out). How on earth did someone get such a horror experience??!!! Gosh!

See…. a bit blood only right? After washing away the blood, this is how it looks like.

I’ve better reduce the pic size just incase you will vomit all your lunch hor.

Eeeyerrr, Jessieling! Look at you! How can you live with 2 teeth badly eroded and decayed?

Now I’m glad it’s all over. Two down. Two more to go. *sigh…

Guess I’m left with 2/4 wisdom now.