Weight lose starts now...

 Date: 07/10/2020 (Wed)

No photos but my weight lose program started this day with a personal fitness trainer my baby sis engaged.  My sis is doing it thrice a week, for me I opt for twice a week.  Tampines to Woodlands leh, very dreadful.

I have got painful knees and ankles now so I am having difficulties walking down the stairs.  I also can't go down on fours cos my wrists hurts.  Not sure how many of you know, I had multiple sprains on both ankles and both wrists lolxx....  So the trainer concentrate on exercises that helps to flatten my tummy with lots of stretching to help my poor posture.

I was still able to go shopping after my first 1hr workout.

Went Donki, was too hungry to fuss about food.

Order this beef shabu don which I could easily cook at home.

See, my home cooked version in pork:

It's my baby sis's first visit to Donki, I had no idea why she so mountain tortoise lolxx...  My kid sis and niece, nephew also hardly comes here, so everybody were very excited.  Jap products are very fascinating.

The price is a bit off, but for the fun of it.  One for myself, one for Eileen aka 猪宝宝。

狠下心 bought these eggs mainly for Luis.  He can have rice with just one raw egg.

We tugged back many bags lolxx....

As we had lunch late, were still full during dinner time.  Nevertheless we enjoyed the fresh shun hock fish.

I left the steamer and this warmer at my sis place, cos I still "owe" my baby sis thai steam fish.

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Date: 08/10/2020 (Thurs)

Made a impromptu trip to Changi City Point with Luis.

We had lunch here.

Not cheap sia, about $12 per bowl with very normal ingredients without seafood.

But taste not bad.

Myself could only have the non-spicy version, else my butt will bleed a river.

The purpose of coming here was to get a pair of shoes suitable for my trainer.

Went New Balance and a few other shops with no sales ppl to help us.  We went in Nike, finally somebody approached us to help.  I took his recommendation and gotten this pair for about $70.

Next, I was thinking of getting extra top and a sports bra.  I had no idea when, but we realized there was a guy with very messy hair, probably mentally unsound following us.  We walked into a shop which he didn't follow in.  But the moment we stepped out, we realized that he was waiting for us outside.  We walked faster and he increased his speed too.  We walked into another shop and asked for help, they called the security.  I was really scared, we waited till he was out of sight before we left the shop.

Shopping malls always have unsound ppl lurking around but they are generally harmless.  It's our first time being tailed, luckily nothing violent happened.  I didn't manage to get the clothes I wanted after the heart attack, we went home shortly.

Other than arranging for a personal trainer, my baby sis also ordered 3 days detox juice for me.

It's freaking $150, so I better not let her down and guard my food intake.

I am supposed to drink 8 bottles of these throughout the day with 1 or 2 light meals to achieve best results for detox.

Fish cake from Donki with freaking cute chop board.

Cooked for hubby and son a rice bowl filled with braised tofu, tamago, smoked duck and jap char siew.

Myself, I ate a banana muffin and went to sleep.

4/10/2020 (Sun)

 Date: 04/10/2020 (Sun)

Woke up at noon, here my brunch.  You are looking at perfect half cooked eggs, drip coffee, bird nest, pandan bread with butter and salted egg kaya spread.

Then made char siew but I forgotten to take pics of the cooked product.

Not bad but I still prefer Iberico pork jowl, these were iberico secreto (不见天).

Char siew wasn't enough, luckily enough wanton.  Made my sis's family wanton noodles for dinner.  But didn't take any photo, haiz...

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Date: 05/10/2020 (Mon)

The fitness trainer cancelled the training session.  I was already on the high way when I was informed.  If it was 5mins earlier, I would had u-turned back home to sleep.

Anyway, we did some exercise following YouTube.  My kid sis is a very rigid person, the YouTube was very boring.  Anyway after that, had a shower, and cooked lunch.  Made some foie gras with twisted prata.

After we drove off, my baby sis found this under the car:

(the pic is gross, so please scroll further down if dun want to see)

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I didn't go straight home, went to IKEA.  So by the time I was home, I was exhausted and didn't cook dinner.

PapaVoo bought nasi padang, the rice was good for 2 pax lolxx...  Beef randang was super yummy.

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Date: 06/10/2020 (Tues)

Made a big wok of yaki soba bought from SHC.

I ate a bit, the kids could actually finished it.

Luis's friends came, so I made them finger food.  You are looking at chicken cheese balls and nuggets.

Latte macchiato puffs (from Angliss) and chocolate fish puffs (From Donki)

Didn't cook dinner after this, tried to do lots of housework cos the next day was a long day away from home.

Begin of Oct

 Date: 01/10/2020 (Thurs)

It's Oct, another 2 more months 2020 will be over.

The future is unclear to me but COVID is staying that's for sure.

My baby sis had engaged a personal trainer.  I went over to see the session, the handsome trainer gave me a body analyst showing my body age at 62, poor digestion and metabolism, with some fats covering internal organs which urgently needed help.  I am just 1 more kg away to be classified obese.  Since my sis offer me this opportunity, I thought, maybe I should give it a go for the sake of my deteriorating health. 

Mimi sat on the trainer's bag and refused to return it.  She even climbed into the bag and refused to come out.  My sis had to pour her out eventually, laugh die me.

After my sis's workout session, we went for a chinese massage.

My poor knees and ankles won't stop protesting whenever I walk.  So sometimes most of the times I walked like a penguin in tortoise speed.

We had impromptu steamboat, so I didn't had time to order any meat.  Meat from the supermarket was horrible, as in no longer to my liking, we just ate more veg. 

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Date: 02/10/2020 (Fri)

Gotten these slick black stuffs.  You are looking at a drinking thermal mug that retains temperature (hot/cold) and doesn't form water droplets in the exterior.  The food warmer got a slightly bigger volume than the one I bought in Takashimaya.

The flask has got a LED temperature indicator.  No sure it's by battery or solar.  If by battery also dun know when will die off.  But meanwhile it's really cool.

Breakfast at 2pm lolxx...

PapaVoo half day leave, so brought him out to pak tor.

Watched Vanguard at Jewel.  I preferred the seats at Cathay Platinum lolxx...

By dinner time, Shake Shack long queue, A&W also long queue.

I ta bao rice with a miserable small egg.

PapaVoo and kids had A&W.  I wonder why he didn't buy waffles.

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Date: 03/10/2020 (Sat)

What does it matter since long ago Singapore already allow imports from India?

Who's coming in can't be our concern anymore, when can we get out is more important to us.

Kaiso seaweed mix looked magical.

Didn't soak too much cos I don't know how's the taste like.

Shime saba from Angliss $5 nia, cheaper than Zairyo.

Now I use Zairyo as a guide for japanese products' market price.

I torched the fish to release it's oil and ate it with porridge.  Along I cooked deep fried tofu, omelette and spicy pork cubes from can.

For more than 3months, never ate food from the coffee shop at my place.

Dinner ta bao rice with curry overloaded, not a single grain of rice was white lolxx..

They really have good curry.

Installation of the water filter came around 7.30pm.

PapaVoo started talking to the worker like a long lost friend despite of me warning him before hand.  Cos he kept talking and ppl couldn't work!  I had no choice but to tell him off directly, haiz...

Hydroflux comes in 5 temperatures which PapaVoo couldn't resist.

To me, finally water is filtered from our 20 years old dirty rusty pipes.  Whatever reason, it's a upgrade in living, 太开心了！

Ending Sep

 Date: 28/09/2020 (Mon)

Darren bought me breakfast at 10am and insisted I eat them while hot.

So I ate in a daze and went back to sleep.

I understand how some hawker/restaurant started out good but after a while food standard started to drop.  It's human nature trying to find shortcuts for a easier way out.

I didn't cook my daishi broth to let the daishi powder fully dissolve. So little specks were like freckles on the smooth chawanmushi.  Shouldn't had been lazy, I was just a step away from restaurant quality chawanmushi.

Nevertheless, my newly bought cups from Daiso was really really good, so were the Ikura from Angliss.

Grilled teriyaki chicken chops didn't work for me, slow pan fried was still better.

After grilling the chicken, I popped in the hamachi collar.  This time I used a different salt, the tray had oil and moisture from the chicken, so the fish didn't turn out well.  Luckily the fish itself was tasty, even though I screwed up big time.

I die die need to get the noodles, yes, both.

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Date: 29/09/2020 (Tues)

Lucky for those few of you reading this.  Introducing the BEST spaghetti I found.

This is how it looks like, bought from Donki.

I had tried a few brands, also bought italian pasta from Angliss, none can beat this.

The texture is amazing, seemed to cook faster also.  I am going to stick to this for a long long time if not for a life time lolxx...

The plating looked a mess but it wasn't my intention.

I did perfect lamb chops and a steak, way better than that restaurant we went last week.

It took me a long time get the correct amount of salt to add onto.  Basically for western chop, salt grains have to cover every mm of the surface on the slab of meat. It's very scary at first, cos I had never use so much salt in chinese/japanese cooking.  Salt draws in other marinates, without salt, you can add in a ton of other spices but the meat will taste bland as if you added nothing.  That mint jelly was great with a lamb chops.

First time trying pesto sauce, didn't quite make it for the family.

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Date: 30/09/2020 (Wed)

Dinner.  Hokkaido meat balls with leek.

The meat balls were $10 for 3 packs in Donki I think.  Highly recommended, we had these in steamboat and it was awesome too.

Lala in chilli crab sauce from WangLei.  Seriously good sia, it's a steal.

I cooked a little bit of rice as a backup, didn't eat any at the end.  The little buns were good enough.

Luis came home and I steal this from him.