Popiah my Bundle of Joy

Popiah from Wiki:

Popiah (Hokkien: pȯh-piáⁿ) is a Fujian/Chaozhou-style fresh spring roll common in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Popiah is often eaten in the Fujianprovince of China (usually in Xiamen) and its neighbouring Chaoshan on the Qingming Festival. It is sometimes referred to as runbing (潤餅) or baobing(薄饼) in Mandarin. In the Teochew (Chaozhou) dialect, popiah is pronounced as "Bo-BEE-a",^[1] which means "thin wafer" (also in the Hokkien dialect).

Basically you can put anything in the popiah skin, which is made out of wheat flour, roll it up and call it a popiah.

The ones commonly seen over here are made out of soft-boiled turnip filling, beansprouts, lettuce leaves, slices of hard boiled egg, lined with a chilli-prawn paste-garlic-peanut mixture and rolled into a Bundle of Pollie's Joy! Some popiahs contain thinly sliced prawn too.. but with the prawn so thinly sliced, I can't feel it when I chew anyway so prawns are optional.


Today's breakfast..

My popiah came in a packet.

Cross section of the popiah..

Yum yum I love it!
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I feel broke

My pocket is broken!




Sigh.
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My heart beats for...

You...

Continental by Thorntons

You...

Kinder Happy Hippo by Ferrero

You...

Various flavours by A Lot of Chocolate

And You!!!

Pushypanda, artist's impression

Not forgetting the fact that my heart beats to pump blood to carry oxygen, remove carbon dioxide, carry nutrients and fluids to every single cell in my body.


Maybe my heat beats faster now because of the amount of bad cholesterol I have in my blood stream from the excessive consumption of Thorntons & A Lot of Chocolate.


On this note I bid you good night.
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DIY fringe the sequel

I have been informed one time too many that my fringe looks unbalanced.

SO WHAT ITS SUPPOSED TO BE UNBALANCED TO MATCH MY IMBALANCED BRAIN.............

Well ok, I'm glad that's all sorted out then.

And here is another DIY thing done. By yours truly.

Cheers

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Rain, Rain, Go Away!

Seriously go away I need to dry my laundry and practice my running, ya.


And it's Monday again! Hiphoppotamus here I come!


Picture for you - See seafood goodness from Nagalot:

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Wedding Blunders

Goodness me I managed to make a very embarrassing mistake today.


November and December are popular wedding months and I have back-to-back weddings over this weekend. All this wedding excitement is too much for my puny pea of a brain to handle and resultingly I mixed up today's wedding invite!


It was a wedding lunch, not dinner!


The story went that I was happily watching tv and trying to get Pushy to bring me out for lunch, when I decided to check the venue of today's wedding. And it's good I checked because at the time I checked, I was already 40min late for the wedding lunch!


Well I turned up eventually, but was very paranoid that the guests would already be leaving by the time I arrived, so I kept checking with another friend, Merow, who was also invited. Disregarding the specs (I wanted to put on contact lenses), makeup-free face and wrinkled dress, I dashed out of the house and brisk-walked all the way.. Think that was many calories burnt!


Merow was really nice and she kept a portion of each dish for me so I had food to eat when I arrived. But I realised that everyone knew that I mixed up the wedding lunch/dinner thing so I had to explain and repeat myself like 500 times!


Ho hum. 


Sorry for being so uber late, Woonie! But.. Better late than never! 
Wish all the good things that everyone wishes to you!
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Excuse me, I space out.

Back home from a close friend's wedding dinner. Bride was fabulous. Groom was... ok bride was fabulous. Anyway the couple really are made for each other! Wishing them all the best..


My eyes are exhausted because I wore my coloured lenses the entire day. My eyes are the kind that grow lethargic from wearing contact lenses so despite the lenses being removed, they are still yawning...


I look desperately in need of sleep in every picture taken today. How do you permanently remove eyebags?




Want to be pretty.
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Italian Beauty

I mean the gift I got.. It's a beauty.

It's handcrafted and is supposedly unique in the Whole Wide World... like a url coz each www.xxx.etc has to be unique.


Well it should be unique.... by virtue of being handcrafted. Shaky hands shaky hands will not allow each piece to be made identical.


With that ending Pow-Wow I would like to thank Hoochie for the expensive-looking gift. 
Also I bid each of you goodnight.

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Brunchie Munchie Recap

Spent Saturday at Dempsey Hill at Jones', Ben & Jerry's, Far East Plaza with Za & Hooch.

Full of food, fun and friends!

FFF FTW!

Here's a picha recap!

The usual suspects...

Brunchie to warm the insides!

Followed by coffee - the essence of life - to soothe the soul..

Combination d'ultimate!

Cheesie room

Dessert to follow!

The cute faces... which... failed..

The wrong side tongue.. 

Entertainment on the outside!

And finally for tea time..!!

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This tickles me!

I know some people are totally against colouring dogs.. But this picture really tickles me!

Bamboo plants in the background some more!
These dog owners are crazy!


=D


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The Grapevine

"If offices had vines I'd be expecting to see grape bunches clinging on the walls."

- kooty 

If China offices had these vines that would make... 
The Grape Wall of China.

Happy 100th entry to me.
Send me an Awfully Chocolate cake with a single candle so I can make a wish and blow it out!


Just let me say to the world what I would be wishing for - 
I wish everyone could be truthful to each other. Unrealistic it may be but a wish, is a wish!


Cheers.

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What kind of mind do you find?

What kind of mind do you find
Behind those mocking eyes?


How many dreams broke in screams
As you slowly let him die?


What is the pride that you ride
That makes you grow so bold?


What kind of mind do you find
What kind of mind is that?

Why take a life with a knife

When you can heal with one?

Whom do you blurt this hurt

To him or to your soul?

What type of friends are they all

If they should let you fall?

What kind of mind would you find
What kind of mind is that?


Saddened by mindless hurt inflicted on Man by Man.
No one has the right to do this. No one should be doing this.

Hip Hopotamus

Ok first HH lesson today since a very long while. 

Instructor was the same as before, a girl who teaches really well. She looks disheveled today in contrast to her sporty look before. Eyes embodying the aura of insufficient sleep and face break-outs. Teaching HH so tough one?

Still I'm glad to have the same instructor cause she's really detailed in teaching and she doesn't embarrass people who dance like hippos like me (some instructors tend to point out the ugly moves people make to use as bad examples).

Teacher doesn't recognise me, but just as well because I feel embarrassed to tell her I've attended her lessons in the ancient past.

Warm up was the subject of today's class.

Stretching routine was:

- head isolation (damn tough)

- shoulder rolls

- side bends

- forward bends

- leg stretches (she does very power leg stretches)

- chest isolation

- hip isolation

- hand wave (super damn tough, tougher than head isolation)

I was wondering why 'hand wave' and not 'hand roll', since the move looks like any other roll only with hands. But well.. u know.. Handroll...

I prefer california maki.

After the basic isolation that was damn tough, the warm up follows.

Warm up routine was:

- bouncing to beat 

- above move adding side steps

- body rock fore and backwards (isolating from hip and above)

- above move adding alternating bent & straightened knees

- alternating shoulder shrugs

- above move adding side shuffle

- and some other moves i can't recall despite having tried for 5min.

I think the crowd was good, a majority of girls and 2 guys in class without aunty looking people. Everyone looked good in gym wear with the exception of myself who looked like a bumpkin pumpkin. 

Mental notes for next lesson:

- practice head isolation

- practice temaki - handrolls

- if socks no three quarts, if three quarts no socks. dressing properly is only the basic manners to the clothed mankind.

And now... Let there be music!

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Strong brew

Moody, reflective day. Quart-life crisis introduced something stirring in my heart. A sense of discontentment brewing inside. 

Discontented with what I've achieved so far. This awakening shakes my fragile self-contentment within and collapses it, leaving an unexplainable hollow in my heart. Like a sink-hole so deep and empty. 

Greedily I grasp and claw at the days and moments gone by. I want more out of life. More, more, more!

Maybe it's the caffeine from the many teas I had, maybe it's me?

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Struck by abrupt pangs of impulsiveness over the last few days. Perhaps I have had more time on my hands to think about things, various things. 

Did stuff that make me feel alive.

I ran the Great Eastern 10k and damaged a toenail. Despite the poor timing, I'm happy to have completed the run. Anyways check out the cool tracking functions available on the GE website! By the way I took out my name and runner ID to avoid prying audience..

I boldly designed my own fringe and executed the cut. Glad it turned out fine otherwise this will be an embarrassing mistake I would have to live with for the next 1.5~2 months.

And.. I signed up for Hip Hop dance class. Again! I like it uh huh uh huh!

Class starts tomorrow night. Crap I forgot about my injured toe! Yikes.

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My toner smells nice

And it makes me happy. 

I'm a sucker for things that smell nice. Of course I have stringent requirements for 'things smelling nice'. They can't all be nice.


Bad smells really affect me and 'turn-off' is just an understatement. Bad smells are traumatic. I remember bad smells longer than I should, and they give me headaches and mood swings.


I hope you smell good.
Wish you a bright smelling day ahead. Try and stay on the nice-smelling side.


Cheers.

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PoserPuppy Bunny

My goodness the WoW patching is sure taking it's time. I feel compelled to ensure it installs proper so here I am to continue with another brog entry before bedtime while the auto-patching works its magick.


See a friend of mine, Mane, is getting to wed soon and has a themed celebration lunch so we can all Eat, Pray, Love. Ok I think maybe not the Pray part because this is not a religion-ish wedding it's just a simple little gesture by the couple to have a get-together and something fun for the guests.


The theme for the wedding luncheon will be Alice in Wonderland, something really exciting to dress up to coz there are so many individual iconic characters to imitate. 


Due to popular demand I will be dressing up as the White Rabbit.

"Oh dear, oh dear! I shall be too late!"

The reason I was nominated to be the rabbit is because my friends say I look like Raving Rabbid when I pose in pictures with my fav buck-teeth look. I happily accepted this comment as a compliment.

I think Raving Rabbids are super cute.

I've already went and bought a pair of bunny ears. the ears have inlaid metal wires and can be bent to any shape you like - which is something I like. 


To dress the part I think I will also need to consider getting coloured lenses, a romantic cuffed shirt and a pocket watch. Also thinking of buying suitable pants but not sure where to get them yet. Think I'll be borrowing GooeyGecko's waist coat to complete the look.


Tis' really fun!
I'll go shopping tomorrow after guitar lesson and see what I can find!




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My Weekend.

My weekend, mine all mine!

Bwahahahaha...


I slept as much as I liked, I dated as long as I wanted, I shopped wherever pleased me and ate whatever I wanted and even bought home a bagful of snek snek snek!


Pushy accompanied me the whooooole day then had to go home do work. Hmm I do have some work at the back of my head also but I think today I won't bother my pretty little head with these.


I'm so happy with my loot. See which snek u like?

Muji Kimchi Ramen?

Lotte chestnut cream dessert cakes?

Lotte caramel cream dessert cake?

Meiji matcha acorn cookies?

Or this?

Kanikko chillied baby crabs?

Actually I feel a little bad eating them coz it's like I killed so many babies...

But they taste rather good.. Anyway I feel guilty after eating them I think next time I won't buy this again..


I can always buy all the other goodies to eat!


Heehee..
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