Sony Headphones

Finally I get a rest day 2morrow. Not entirely true coz I still have to fetch worker to work as early as 6am morning 2morrow... crap. Let talk about some happy stuff then. I went shopping with colleagues after today's half working day. Since I got enough of new clothes for CNY already, I wasn't really shopping new clothes.

Since I don't have anything particular to buy, we randomly walked around the mall and I walked into a CD shop. They have this CD players that allows customer to listen to some of the latest CD available in stall and huge headphones are connected to the CD player. After sampling some songs, I really love these headphones~!! So I was on a mission to look for some headphones.

Saw some Philips and Panasonic headphones but I dun really like them. Finally I decided to buy a Sony one~!!



I tried them on with a mp3 player connected. It was really comfortable and the sound quality is not bad. The bass is not really good though but vocals were awesome. The design is not bad also.



So I bought these headphones in the end. SGD76.50 gone just like that. I know I'm gonna enjoy these headphones though. Life is short, just trying to enjoy as much as I can.

Continue my movie marathon first. :p

Next is Death Race. w00ts~!

Old Cucumber Soup

I cooked 老黄瓜汤 Old Cucumber Soup today. Although I have to work, I still manage to buy some ingredients to cook. Soup would be the most ideal for me as it doesn't require much attention to cook. Didn't really planned to cook actually but then I just couldn't stand eating outside food.



The ingredients are as above photo.
1. 1 Old Cucumber
2. 1 Carrot
3. A small plate of salted veggie
4. A small bowl of red dates. (Actually a estimated a handful of it)
5. Pork ribs/bones (U can also use chicken carcass actually... but I prefer pork ribs or bones coz it gives the soup better flavor)

I missed out tofu and dried stingray. T_T
It was a rush job gathering the ingredients. Was double parking also... hahaha... luckily no saman.

Preparing it is also easy like the Lotus Root Peanut Soup I posted few days ago.

First you should wash the salted veggie. Wash out all the salt and sand and soak it for about 15 - 20 minutes. It should be about time after you prepare all the items below.

Then u scrap out some skin from the old cucumber. You dun need to skin it. Cut it into quarters, remove the seeds at the center of the cucumber and cut them to about 1 inch wide evenly.

For the carrot, skin it and cut it into small pieces however u want to consume it.

You can cut the dates into half or slice it open so that the sweetness of the red dates will blend into the soup.

The pork ribs/bones just rinse it with water. My advice is as usual, get the butcher to cut it into small pieces for you. Dun get urself injured and damage ur chopper. Actually my mom would boil a pot of water and scald the pork for few seconds and take it out. She told me that would get rid of some smell present in the meat and it would also make the soup clearer. But I dun do that coz I think the nutrients would have been washed away.

The forgotten ingredient: tofu... just cut it into 4 quarters and throw it into the pot. Dried stingray u just need to rinse it and throw into the pot.



U can look above photo as reference.



After 2 hours plus of slow fire, THE SOUP IS READY~!!!!

Note: U do NOT need to add salt to the soup. It should be salty enough due to the salted veggie. Control the amount of salted veggie to put in. Ideal amount would be salty enough for you to consume the soup without further adding salt. However if you put too little and find ur soup is not salty enough, feel free to add in more salt.

This time I was able to take pictures of the soup b4 it was finished~! YAY~!!

I think the next soup I will make is either radish soup or Sai Yong Choi Tong.

Not So Sunday

I'm going to write 2 posts today. I'll write this frustrating one first.



There's nothing special about my Seiko watch here. It's there just to show that I have to work at this time on this very Sunday. Actually I could be home by 11am... but nooooo... The shipyard decided that they would like to perform bunkering on this ship for the very first time on this fine Sunday. *bunkering - The act or process of supplying a ship with fuel.*

The reason I have to be here is because my company is the sub-contractor doing the piping job for the shipyard. First time bunkering would require a representative from our side to ensure that there's no leakage at the pipelines and valves during the bunkering process. From the safety point of view, it's very dangerous if there's any leakage coz diesel is very flammable and we have a lot of hot work such as welding and gas cutting around the area.



As we need all hot work to be stopped b4 the bunkering process starts, we have to wait till 5pm when most contractors stop work after 4.30pm. Most workers are waiting to punch their time card and head home to rest already. I'm still on board the ship observing these people go home... T___________T



While waiting I took some pretty nice shots on board the ship. This is a crane barge doing some repair in the shipyard. Crane barge this big should be easily able to carry items as heavy as 500 tonnes.



Across the sea here we can see a land filled area here. I heard that there was nothing at all 9 years ago. Now there are warehouse, factories, workers dormitory and also shipyard built at that area. It's amazing that Singapore has done this much to expend their limited land in their country.

In the end, the bunkering process completed smoothly. 3000 liters of diesel was bunkered and there wasn't any sign of leakage. Left the shipyard around 6pm and I have to ferry the workers back to their domitory. My workers are sure damn lucky to have me as their driver to drive them back home. How I wish I have a driver to send me home too.

Frustrated

I have to work on the first Sunday of the year... Really frustrated...

Sunday was suppose to be the day I wake up early (not as early as normal day) and go to the fresh market. Dun think I can cook this Sunday. Sien leh... everyday eat outside food. Hope nothing much happen tomorrow and I can go home early. Really hate it when I have to work on a rest day.

Sienzzzz.....
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ARGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH~!!!!!!