online shopping

Been buying stuffs from Zalora lately. Blame it on discount vouchers. But this site has a very peculiar issue. They don't seem to ship stuffs out together.

For example, let's say I'd bought 3 items in total under one transaction. Strangely, they shipped out the items separately into 2 shipments although the delivery timeline of the purchased items were the same eg. delivery within 3-4 days. And since they use external services (for example courier or Singpost), then logically a single shipment should be cheaper than multiple ones. Duh.

Recently, they've decided to cease the pickup service for returns. Now, though the return is still free, the onus is on the customer to drop the items at the post office. Probably quite costly to have courier picking up returns since the probability of returns are quite high. Hmm.

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luna park (f(x)) and sunny lee (snsd) collab "It's me"

angelhair ragu with butter spinach

Ingredients
1. Otah-otah
2. Ready made tomato pasta sauce
3. Spinach
4. Butter
5. Pasta
6. Salt

Steps
1.  Put salt in water and bring to a boil.
2. Cook the pasta till one step before al-dente. Take out the noodles and run through with cold water. Set aside.
3. Blanch the spinach. Remove excess water from spinach.
4.  Melt some butter on a hot pan. Add little bit of salt. Throw in spinach and cook with the butter. Set aside.
5. Cut up the otah into smaller pieces and cook with the pasta sauce.
6. Throw in pasta noodles and toss in sauce.
7. Serve and eat while still hot.

angelhair ragu with butter spinach

otah 'bolognese' with spinach

mish mash dinner

vege, fish, dumpling and gochujang

mish mash dinner

kimchi tofu dumpling

salmon for omega3

Let's just say that I won't be doing this combi anytime soon....The oil from the salmon belly was quite jelak... *shudders*

spare ribs soup with baby chye sim

Ingredients (serves 1-2)
spare ribs half a packet
one sweet corn
one carrot
some anchovies
one small tomatoes

Dipping sauce (for meat)
one small red onions
one or two red chili padi's
one small lime

Steps

1. Wash ribs with salt and rinse off
2. Season some salt and add some pepper onto ribs and let it sit for a while
3. Wash and break the corn into two
4. Wash and cut the carrots into chunks
5. Wash anchovies 
6. Put ribs, corn, carrots and anchovies into the pot
7. Add one and a half bowl of water into the pot
8. Cook for one hour
9. Wash and cut tomatoes into quarters and add into soup
10. Cook for another half hour
11. When it is almost ready to serve, add in the vegetables

For dipping sauce
1. Wash and chop red onions into small pieces
2. Wash and slice chili padi's
3. Squeeze the lime onto a bowl of chopped onions and chili
4. Add dark soy sauce onto the concoction

spare ribs soup with baby chye sim

closer view

On hindsight, it'll be better to trim off the fats from the meat before cooking. The soup ended up abit oily because I didn't trim enough of the fats... Hahah!

sweet kiwi

zespri gold

sweet

scooping up the flesh

gone~

today

Today, at some point in time during the bus ride home, a young chap sat beside me. Didn't notice him at first because I was on my ipod. Then began to notice him when he started to get sleepy because he'd jerk his head abruptly at times. It was kind of funny 'coz he was trying his darndest to sit upright but can see that he wanted to sleep. I tried to plaster myself as much as possible towards the right side (he was sitting on my left) so that he gets enough space to manouvre. He was quite ok since he left a small gap in between of us but our positions were uncomfortable for both of us, I reckoned.

Strange thing was, the seat in front of us was empty after a while but he didn't make any attempt to move over. Actually contemplated whether to ask him to shift over there but thought it could come across as quite rude, ya? Or maybe he thought if he moved away, then it might seem to offend me? Hahaha, I don't know the answer to that.

So we remained where we were for about 15 minutes till the bus reached the interchange. He was nodding on and off, left and right, with a hand holding onto the pole so that he doesn't fall off the seat, while I remained as small as possible. Kind of funny come to think of it.


On another note, watched the Olympics women's volleyball quarterfinal game tonight. Japan versus China. Quite good both sides, with Chinese team having really tall and fierce looking girls while Japan's team were at least one head shorter than their Chinese counterparts. They were quite equally matched because their scores were very near. In the end, Japan won. Good game!

Provence Bakery

Can't resist getting a few of the breads when walking past the shop.

New in their bread lines, the coffee cinnamon bun. This bread smells good. Actually all cinnamon bread smells nice~ Taste wise, it was so-so. Can't taste much coffee, and cinnamon was really mild. Sweet and bread quite soft.

coffee cinnamon

closer view of coffee cinnamon

 Then, chanced upon this white coloured ball that looked so pillowy soft. It has red bean fillings. Didn't like the bread texture for this one but the red bean filling was nice and not too sweet.

red bean bun

nice filling

My all time favourite? The tiny brazillian cheese ball! It's rather chewy but it's fun!

brazillian cheese ball @90 cents per piece

sugar coated

chewy cheese