Satisfied

The biggest part of my project was finally done yesterday. We went through a 6 hours workshop, running through the presentation, delivering the results and in between stuffing my face with coffee and muffins! I was knackeredd by the time it was all over and actually left work at 2.30pm!!! I was so totally buggered that I fall asleep on the couch when I got home and scared the daylight out of myself when I thought I had overselpt and forgotten to pick JD up from daycare.

I am still buggered...it will take me a few sleeps before I feel like a human again.

Today is a non-eventful day...not minding it at all. I spent my time catching up on emails and realised I was in the list of the worst email offenders at work. Hee hee, I have far too many emails sitting in my inbox, oopsy!

Now, going back to the question of how I made the Crispy Chicken Noodle in my previous post...

Steps as follow:

1. Soften the noodle with some boiling water
2. Next rinse the noodle under cool tap water to prevent it from sticking together
3. Pour some oil into the work and shallow fry the noodle in batches till it is just crispy
4. Stir fried the chicken and add in the bean sprouts, choy sum
5. Seasoned it with soy, oyster sauce and some salt and sugar
6. Thickened the sauce with some corn starch
7. Pour the chicken and sauce over the crispy noodles
8. Tuck in and enjoy!

Another option is if you haven't got time to shallow fry the noodle, you can get Yee Mee from the shop and just pour the sauce over it when it's done.

It's all good

I have been wanting to blog on my weekend, but the sleeping bug got the better of me last few nights. I only wanted to have a lie down with JD last night and ended up falling asleep at 7.30pm well before JD did, gosh! And I woke up at midnight realised I haven't done what I set out to do, doh!

I didn't have to work last Friday because JD had a cold. I gathered this child was just run down and I decided to keep him at home with me. He was good, pretty much just spent his day lying on the sofa watching his kiddy show, have some fruits, play with his toys quietly while I did a bit of work, surf the net, chat with my sis, have nap, folded the laundry and in between went to the shop to get some groceries...

And the good thing about staying home on that Friday was the weekend felt so much longer.

Saturday night, hub and JD had their usual "boys night out", i.e. camping in the backyard :) I love seeing them doing that together, so crazy that it makes you laugh. JD would get his backpack ready, stuff it with his toys, spare clothes, milk, nappy. Oh yes, and he would want to have a torch light too. He would try to help his daddy with the tent, bringing the mattresses, pillows, blanket into the tent...sitting back and watching those moments were PRICELESS! And before JD headed off into his tent with daddy, he would always come around to give me a cuddle, kiss, and a "see ya mommy!"...Sitting back in my study that night, I could hear the giggles from the tent, and I know deep down I have 2 very happy men in my life : )

Sunday was a home day. We all felt too lazy to go out and instead spent time chilling out at home. JD at 2.5 yo has a good mix of angelic n devilish days. Some days he will be an absolute darling, some days I just couldn't wait for Monday when I could send him to daycare, hee hee. He was my darling, happy, crazy little man on Sunday. We spent our day doing painting, drawing, doing craft, building blocks, preparing lunch together, sleep, dancing around in the house to The Wiggles, reading books, rolling and tumbling around in the living room.

A day like that made it all worthwhile for all the bad days we have had. It makes everything all okay again and I think back to myself "what was I worrying about?" - SMILE!

That night, I made a nice big bowl of wonton soup, slurp, slurp, yum, yum!

Came Monday, I felt good, and not dragging my feet to work. I felt rested, relaxed, spring in my steps and well at work by 7.30am!

The night, I came home and made us all a yummy dish of chicken crispy noodle!

But Tuesday came and I felt defeated. It was one of those situations when you felt taken for granted. I started off well but soon went downhill. Of all the hardwork you had put into a project and spending your days, weeks, months slogging over it, the project mgr decided to change it all . Like a big slap on the face, you came to a point when you became so tired with putting up a fight and you are happy just to let them have it all.

With that, I have still won myself a peace of mind. There will be more rewarding things along the way!

"Dual" parenting

Recently, I couldn't help but laughed at the different parenting styles hubby and I had.

Earlier this week, I was in the kitchen busy getting the dinner ready for everyone. I realised we have ran out of bread and juice, and so I got hubby to do a quck dash to the shop. My hubby is not the best behaved person when it comes to groceries shopping, he will buy a lot of extra bits along the way, ie. chips, crackers, little treats for JD...which I am trying very hard to cut down in our pantry.

So, upon arriving home from his little trip for OJ and bread, hub proudly and happily flashed out a box of Cheese in a Biskit from the shopping bag and guess what, JD has only had a spoonful of the home-made chicken n mushroom pie and wanted to go straight for the biscuits instead. In one split second, all my efforts were gone, all overtaken by a flimsy looking carton box of biscuits, with little nutritional value, high in salt and flavouring, little protein and carbo...argggggggh! Compared to my golden crust top home made pie, that just wasn't "marketable" enough.

My face turned as black as my mom's 30+ yo wok and you know my spiel from then on...

As I told my friend of the story, we couldn't help but to laugh at the differences between Mars and Venus.

Venus - Upon finishing work, we jumped into the car, driving along to pick up the kid from daycare, we are already planning what to make for dinner. As we arrived at daycare, we talked to the carer, how the child behaved, what he did, if he had a nap, if he went to the toilet, bla bla bla. On the way home we talked to the child about what he did during the day and then we told the hubby what the child got up to when he comes home later on. See, always thinking of someone else, huh huh!!!!

Upon arriving home, we normally (and usually) put the bags down in a designated spot, changed into casual clothes, tie the hair up and start getting the dinner ready. The child get a quick snack (a healthy one) like a juice and some small pieces of fruits. Then dinner time, then bath time, then story time and lights out for the kid by 8pm! Yes, run like a military school!

Mars - Finished work late, got to daycare late. Ring the wife up while driving and then asked the wife to inform daycare he will be late. Point deduction here already. Upon arriving at daycare, that is if he gets there before daycare closes, the child will just get collected, hopefully the right child. As for conversation with the carer - none!

Upon arriving home, bags would land itself wherever it feels like, and the MAN will head straight to the pantry, look for snacks (a NOT healthy one), plonk himself in front of the TV watching the latest news. Wife gets home later, and dinner not done, kid still in daycare clothes, not shower, not eaten. And by the time dinner, bath, story time is over, it is way way past bedtime!

Me -
I love routine
I think kids love routine
I like things done by a set time
I hate mess

Him-
He hates routine
He thinks I am too rigid
He loves taking time to "smell the roses"
He ignores mess

Why did they say "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus?" Arghhhhhh!

What I love about HIM...

This is a belated entry...

It was hubby's birthday on last Monday 6th March! That made him a Dog Pisces as well.

What I love about a Doggy Piscean....

- Compassionate and kind
- Selfless and unwordly
- Reliable and responsible
- Honest and forgiving

I bought him a new belt from Country Road for everyday use. I think he needs a new one and he likes the new one for his birthday. He thinks it looks pretty cool : )

At night, we went to an Italian restaurant nearby for a little birthday celebration before heading home to blow birthday candles. I was looking everywhere for some candles which I thought I had bought previously. Unfortunately, after turning every single drawers out in the kitchen, we had to make do with a Wiggles Wags the Dog candle, hee hee!

Here are some pics we took using a tripod that night and my favourite was this pic of hub and JD grinning cheekily at the camera. I love them both...they made me so happy!

And here some are some shots of JD blowing the candle with daddy...and with zero patience, JD wasn't going to wait for daddy to cut the cake before licking some icing from his finger. JD, JD....

And as you can see, we are all very happy : ) Now, let's eat the cake, yum yum yum!!!

Dr. Not so Scary

Apart from trains, cars, automobiles, cash register, JD loves playing with his doctor's set. I opened up the last of his Xmas presie (yes, we managed to ration it, and today was the last of his Xmas presie from 2005). Inside the pack was a pair of very cool and "professional" doc-look alike glasses, a microscope and some specimens!

He spent hours fiddling around with the microscope, looking far and close with it, doing some CSI, examining the sample of specimens, putting my big fat finger under the microscope to have a thorough examination. Then he woukd listen to my heart, examine my ears, cutting my hair, giving me jabs, taking my temperature and etc etc .

But he LOVES the pair of this very cool-looking glasses the most. You gotta love it, muahahahaa!

Traffic jam

This long weekend is gonna be a stinker. We have had the mildest summer is something like 90 years but the mercury is going be sitting at the high 30s of between 36-38 deg c this weekend. Oooo, I can feel the heat, and drinking gallons of chilled fresh squeezed OJ! Hub has prepared us for the hot weekend by buying a huge watermelon for $2 from the market this morning. It is supposed to be the start of autumn, but I bet summer is just trying to have a last squeeze.

Honestly, it is too hot to be going out, so we just gonna chilled in the house with the air-conditioning working overtime :)

And this was JD's creation of a traffic jam while I was in the shower. Cute! he took out his box collection of cars and created this traffic jam on the coffee table.

Actually not sure why all the cars are queing up to a cash register...probably traffic jam on the way to shopping :(