Views from Singapore Flyer Capsule

I was going through some old photos and decided to make them into a slide show/video. These photos were taken on Christmas day of 2020, inside a Singapore Flyer Capsule. 

Shrimp Paste Pork Belly on Beancurd

I found this recipe on Youtube and tweaked it slightly. This dish was easy to prepare and not time consuming. 

Ingredients:

Pork belly 150g

Beancurd 1 pack (300g)

Ginger, cut into thin strips

Seasoning:

Sesame oil 1 tsp

Shrimp paste 1 tbsp

Light soy sauce 1/2 tsp

Wine 1 tsp

Sugar 1 tsp

Water 1 tsp

Steps:

1. I used the frozen pork belly bought from NTUC which were meant for Shabu Shabu. As they were already thinly sliced, I only need to cut it into slightely shorter/smaller pieces. After cutting, I put the pork belly in a bowl.

2. I used beancurd that was meant for steaming. I cut the beancurd into smaller pieces and placed it onto a plate that had some depth.

3. I added the ginger strips, sesame oil, shrimp paste, light soy sauce, wine, sugar and water to the pork belly and mixed them.

4. Next, I poured the marinated pork belly onto the beancurd.

5. Then, I placed the dish in my Tefal electric steamer and steamed for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, the dish was ready to be consumed. 

This dish was tasty and very appetizing :). 

《祖先保佑II》("Blessings 2")

Recently，I got to know that 《祖先保佑II》("Blessings 2") would be airing on MediaCorp channel 8, starting on 1 Oct 2018, 9 pm.

I had enjoyed watching 《祖先保佑I》("Blessings 1") which was shown on MediaCorp channel 8 in 2014. 《祖先保佑I》("Blessings 1") is currently airing on MediaCorp channel 8, at 5.30 pm. According to the trailer of 《祖先保佑II》("Blessings 2"), it would be Lian Daxi (starring Chen Hanwei) travelling back in time to help his ancestor (starring Sean Chen) to get married and establish his career.

Hope this sequel will be as good as, if not, better than part 1.

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Episode 1 to 13 of 《祖先保佑》("Blessings")
Episode 14 to Episode 20 (Last Episode) of 《祖先保佑》("Blessings")

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Merry Christmas!

Here's wishing everyone a very Joyous and Wonderful Christmas!

Display Case for Small figurines/Toys

I have this drawer organizer which did not really fit well into any of my drawers. So, as I was reorganizing Sera's toys, I used it as a display case to showcase some of her "My Little Pony" figurines and "Disney Princess Magiclip" dolls.

《女汉子真爱公式》“The Rise of a Tomboy 2016"

Ardon and I watched 《女汉子真爱公式》“The Rise of a Tomboy 2016" on Youtube recently. This, being a romantic comedy, was hilarious at times and we enjoyed watching this movie. 

He Xiuwu (starring Zhao Liying) , a Masters degree student, believed that everything can be explained by Mathematics. Her Masters thesis was about finding the right mathematical formula for true love. She hoped that everyone could find true love during the prime of their years via the most accurate mathematical method. She believed in helping the most compatible people find the best love possible. 

Her dissertation was not approved by her professor, Maria. Maria asked Xiuwu to change the topic of her dissertation because Maria did not think that true love could be proved with a formula. Xiuwu refused to do so. Xiuwu was confident that her formula worked because she had experimented it on her roommate, Lily. 

However, when she found that things did not work out well for Lily and her boyfriend, Xiuwu decided to do the experiment on herself.

She did some calculations and found that she would find true love on 23 September, in Beijing, China.

So, she went back to Beijing. She met Liu Siyi (a man whom she had mistaken to be Lily's ex-boyfriend) in the airport. She took his luggage by mistake and subsequently ended up staying in his house. 

Xiuwu's friend recommended Xiuwu to work in a company to develop her "True Love Formula" into a smartphone app. Coincidentally, the manager of the company was Ge Yang. He was the boyfriend of Sun Qiao Qiao (the girl whom Liu Siyi was infatuated with). 

Things took a turn later and Ge Yang later broke off with Sun Qiao Qiao and started wooing Xiuwu. 

In the meantime, Siyi realized that he had fallen for Xiuwu. Xiuwu also realized that she had fallen for Siyi and was in a dilemma because the face of her true love that appeared from her True Love formula app was Ge Yang.

She chose Ge Yang as she wanted to stick to her principle of being rational in love. They seemed compatible as they both believed in the True Love formula. However, she was not truly happy and always felt uncomfortable whenever he professed his love for her.

She realized that Ge Yang was not the one for her and her formula might be wrong too. She decided to follow her heart and looked for Siyi. It turned out that Siyi was the son of her professor and they finally got together.

So did she really miscalculate? 

While I think love could not be calculated, I do think that one should still be rational to consider some important factors before taking the plunge.

Last Episode of "The Truth Seekers"

Last night was the last episode of "The Truth Seekers" .

There were quite a number of surprises that were slowly unraveled throughout the last few episodes.

As it turned out, neither Huang Deliang nor Bai Qingxiong was Huang Yuyang's biological father. Wang Kunxing was also not her father. So who was Yuyang's biological father? Drum roll...

It was Ye Rongtao (starring Guo Liang).

How did that happen in the first place?

Yuyang's maternal grandmother worked in a hotel owned by Rongtao's father. Rongtao fancied Xiulian in their younger days and he tried to date Xiulian but was rejected by her.

Huang Deliang, also an employee in the same hotel, promised to help him. He organized a party for all of them and got both Rongtao and Xiulian drunk. Rongtao ended up having a one night stand with Xiulian. Rongtao's father was subsequently blackmailed by Deliang constantly.

Anyway, Xiulian got pregnant and married Huang Deliang as she thought that the child was his. She only knew about the trap set up by Deliang and his friends when Yuyang was 12 years old. She tried to commit suicide but was saved by Wang Kunxing. From then on, Wang Kunxing helped her plan her revenge on Huang Deliang and his accomplice.

Wang Kunxing was resentful towards Xiulian and Qingxiong when Xiulian refused to accept his love after she met Qingxiong recently. He wanted to kill Xiulian and opened fire but Qingxiong shielded her from the bullet. The rest of the CCI members arrived to help Qingxiong and the police came in time to save them.

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Quote from Episode 13 of《真探》"The Truth Seekers"

Quote from Episode 13 of《真探》"The Truth Seekers"

《真探》"The Truth Seekers" is currently airing on MediaCorp channel 8, Mondays to Fridays, at 9 pm.

Cold Case Investigators (CCI) was a private investigation agency set up by Bai Qingxiong (starring Chen Hanwei) with the main aim of cracking unsolved cases. Huang Yuyang (starring Rebecca Lim) and Hong Junyan (starring Desmond Tan) were CCI's team members. 

In the first few episodes, Lan Haifeng (starring Yusuke Fukuchi) engaged the services of CCI to find out who murdered his ex-girlfriend. Subsequently, he joined CCI as an investor and team member. 

It was interesting to watch how CCI used new technology to solve those cases. Even Sera enjoyed watching this TV drama serial.

I liked these lines from episode 13 of 《真探》"The Truth Seekers"

“人生烦恼就十二个字

放不下 想不开 看不透 忘不了

但是它们不会找上我

因为我早已放下 想开 看透 忘了”

which was translated as:

"We are troubled only because we are unable to put what happened behind us and move on, but not me. 

I have long put it behind me and move on."

You could go to toggle website to watch the catch up of this TV drama serial.

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《富贵平安》"Peace and Prosperity"

《富贵平安》"Peace and Prosperity"  is a 170 episode TV drama that is currently airing on MediaCorp Channel 8, Mondays to Fridays, at 7.30pm.

The story revolved around the people working in Prosperity Hall (富贵堂，a 50-year-old Chinese medical hall) and its immediate neighbourhood. Besides the big cast, there was always something to learn in each episode about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Some of the characters would mention that some foods would clash with other foods and, thus, would cause allergic reactions such as diarrhea, etc. They would also educate us, the audience, on the benefits of certain herbs. 

On top of that, the pace of the story was just right. The relationship between the characters and how they would develop was also interesting enough to keep watching.

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Our Leaflet and Flyer Box

I was looking for the right material to make a leaflet and flyer box for our flat. It so happened that Lynn bought a box of Lego and the size of the box was just right for this.

I cut the sides of the box and punched two holes behind as shown in the picture below.

I typed some words,  printed it landscape on a piece of A4 sized paper and pasted it on the front to the sides of the box.

Then, I used 2 fasteners bought from Daiso and tied the box to the gate of our flat. This type of fastener can be removed and re-fastened or re-adjusted.

This helped to reduce the mess created from pieces of leaflets and flyers that dropped to the floor. This also made it easier to open the main door as sometimes, those people placed the flyers/leaflets in weird positions that made it hard for us to open the door without first removing the leaflets. This was a problem when our hands were full of things.

Most of the flyer distributors were quite cooperative and put them inside this box. There were some who still placed the flyers and leaflets elsewhere, but those were in the minority. So now, we can take the leaflets out when our hands were free.

Episode 9 of 《隐藏的歌手》“The Hidden Singer" - Leon Lai 黎明

Episode 9 of 《隐藏的歌手》"The Hidden Singer" was telecast on MediaCorp Channel U last night. This is a variety show where a real singer and 5 impersonators would sing behind 6 closed doors for the audience to guess where the real singer is. 

I don't usually watch this show. However, I watched episode 9 《隐藏的歌手》"The Hidden Singer" as Leon Lai (黎明) was the real singer in this episode. It was quite funny how this episode started with the TV host 黄子佼 coming up to the stage singing one of Leon Lai's songs, 《甜蜜蜜》。Most people of my generation or earlier would probably know that this song was originally sung by Teresa Teng (邓丽君)。《甜蜜蜜》was also the theme song of a Chinese movie of the same name. When I first heard Leon Lai's version of the song 《甜蜜蜜》, I thought it sounded a bit weird (probably too used to Teresa Teng's version). However, as I listened a few more times, I found that Leon's version was just as nice. It had a flavour of its own (别有一番风味).

In this episode, Leon Lai and his impersonators sang a few Cantonese songs. However, one of the Cantonese songs sung by Leon, which was one of my favourites, was not performed on last night's show. It was 《如果这是情》。It was one of the songs in the Hong Kong TV drama 《人在边缘》"The challenge of Life".

There is also a Chinese version of this song named 《今生相爱 来生再相聚》。However, I could not find it on Youtube.

“Our Humble Lodge” recipes - Salted Egg Chicken Wings - Toggle

This recipe looked easy to prepare and appetizing.

“Our Humble Lodge” recipes - Salted Egg Chicken Wings - Toggle: From the kitchens of 'Life - Fear Not'

Monkey Soft Toys

We saw these while shopping at Nex's NTUC Xtra a few weeks ago.

8 Feb 2016 would be the start of the Year of the Monkey. It was no wonder that NTUC Xtra had started selling these. These soft toys had a suction cap attached to each of them so one could hang these on windows or glass panels. 

It had become a "tradition" for our kids to get the "soft toy of the year" ever since the year of the snake (2013).  So we bought 2 different designs for them.

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Last 4 Episodes of 《志在四方II》"The Dream Makers II"

It turned out that Chen Guang was not the one who exposed Zihuai's evil plan. Zhong Yiming had engage the service of a private investigator (PI) and the PI had secretly filmed the conversation between Chen Guang and Zihuai.

Yiming then tried to persuade Zihuai to surrender to the police. Zihuai refused to do so. Yiming then instructed someone to send the video clip to all the newspaper publishing houses. With Zihuai's plot exposed in all the newspapers, the police came to her for further investigation. 

Jason made a short video clip with encouraging words from Tonglin's fellow colleagues to root for her so that she could return to her normal cheerful self. She was touched and decided to try and accept her new appearance. VBS's chairman, Zheng Shouyi, also gave her the opportunity to be a DJ.

Meanwhile Fei'er went missing. 

Zihuai was later touched by her father's love and was then truly repentant. She helped Yiming to look for Fei'er. Yiming's mum even went to the extent of offering a US$100k reward for anyone who came forward with a lead to Zhao Fei'er's whereabouts.

Zihuai managed to find Fei'er but was injured by Fei'er while trying to stop Fei'er from cutting herself (Fei'er). 

Fei'er went for treatment/therapy for her depression in the hospital with Zhong Yiming by her side, giving her moral support. Jason and Tonglin came to visit Fei'er . They sought her forgiveness for not believing in her and helping her when she had depression. Fei'er accepted their apologies and forgave them.

At the end of the show, Zheng Shouyi found his long lost family and got their forgiveness. Chen Guang and Guan Xie'en became good friends. Lin Tao and Zhou Weiyun became a couple. Chen Guang and Zihuai got together too.

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Final Episode of 《志在四方》 ("The Dream Makers") and Jason's choice

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《志在四方II》"The Dream Makers II"

《志在四方II》"The Dream Makers II"

《志在四方II》"The Dream Makers II" began airing on MediaCorp Channel 8 on 4 December 2015, from Monday to Friday, at 9 pm. 

In 《志在四方II》"The Dream Makers II" , there were many new characters including Guan Xie'en (portrayed by Huang Biren), Zhong Yiming (portrayed by Romeo Tan, Chen Guang (portrayed by Zhang Zhenhuan, Lin Tao (portrayed by Li Nanxing) Dong Zihuai (portrayed by Julie Tan) and Zheng Shouyi (portrayed by Damian Lau)

Zhao Fei'er (portrayed by Jeanette Aw) was caught by surprise that she actually had a younger sister who is none other than Dong Zihuai. Her father, Zhao De, was equally surprised. It turned out that Zihuai's mother was raped by Zhao De (after they had divorced) when she came back to look for Fei'er. Zihuai's stepfather ill-treated her since childhood and she also felt that her mum did not love her. She blamed this on Zhao De and came back to take revenge on Fei'er and Zhao De.

Zihuai is the main villain in this series. She plotted to cause misunderstandings between Fei'er, Tonglin (portrayed by Rui'en) and Jason (portrayed by Qi Yuwu). This eventually lead Fei'er to suffer from depression. 

Zhao Fei'er was portrayed as an even more pitiful character in part II of "The Dream Makers" as compared to part I of "The Dream Makers".

In episode 28, Zihuai pushed Fei'er (holding a big teddy bear) forward towards Tonglin, causing Tonglin to be stabbed by a knife that Zihuai had hidden inside the teddy bear. Tonglin was hurt and she accidentally knocked onto something. This triggered some mechanisms and caused her to be swung around in the air. Subsequently, she fell on the floor and her face came into contact with acid that came out from a broken bottle. It seemed that this caught Zihuai by surprise though. One of the staff saw Fei'er holding the knife and Fei'er was arrested by the police. 

Zhao De overheard what Zihuai said to Fei'er and finally believed Fei'er that Zihuai is out to harm her.

Tonglin was disfigured and lose the vision of her right eye.

In the next episode, it seemed that Chen Guang decided to help Fei'er to expose Zihuai's evil plans or deeds. We shall see how Zhong Yiming is going to help Fei'er too. When all these are exposed, the misunderstandings between Fei'er and Tonglin should be resolved.

The next thing to watch out would be how Tonglin would survive the ordeal. 

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Final Episode of 《志在四方》 ("The Dream Makers") and Jason's choice

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Alive Museum Singapore

Alive Museum was a new attraction that opened in Singapore on 12 June 2014 at Suntec City Mall. We had wanted to go for quite some time.

Recently, we visited it on one of the weekdays as part of Sera's birthday celebration.

Sera and Lynn loved to use their penguin soft toys to pose with these 3D art pieces.

Soft toy penguin taking a shower using water from our iconic Merlion, lol!

The kids decided that both Ardon and I should pose with the art pieces as shown below :).

Quotes from Episode 26 of 《起飞》（“Crescendo")

I liked these lines from episode 26 of 《起飞》(“Crescendo") spoken by Yafang (played by Cynthia Koh).

幸福不需要你咬紧牙根争取。

不管你经历多少挫折，

它都在你随手可得的地方等着你， 

只要你愿意接受。

which was translated as :

There's no need to grit your teeth to gain happiness. No matter how many obstacles you face, 

it will always be waiting somewhere within reach，

as long as you're willing to receive it.

《起飞》“Crescendo"

《起飞》“Crescendo" is a drama production by WaWa Pictures and is currently airing on MediaCorp channel 8 from Monday to Friday, at 9 pm.

So far, I enjoyed all the Xinyao songs in 《起飞》“Crescendo". 

I had suspected that Irene (played by Jacelyn Tay), the ex-wife of Jiang Chufan (played by Zheng Binhui) had hidden a agenda when she volunteered to to use her company's funds to invest in the music company called Crescendo - which was initially jointly owned by Yang Yiwei (played by Christopher Lee), Luo Dawei (played by Darren Lim) and Jiang Chufan. Through her careful plotting, she finally got rid of Yiwei as the CEO of Crescendo. Luo Dawei and Chufan were not interested to be the CEO of Crescendo, so naturally she got to be the next CEO of Crescendo.  I wonder how the story would go on from there. Would she make a better CEO in terms of improving the bottom line of Crescendo? 

I am also looking forward to watching the Crescendo concert on the last episode which would be edited from the real life concert that was held on 14 Nov 2015. 

Folders for SG50 Commemorative Notes

We collected the two complimentary SG50 notes folders meant for each Singaporean household from our Community Club last Friday. There was no queue in the afternoon so the collection process was very fast and hassle free. All we needed to do was to present the collection card (sent to each Singaporean household via mail) and the counter staff (in charge of the distribution of the folders) would then gave us the two complimentary folders.

Very nice folders! Our children loved them too. 

Thank you MAS!

Quotes from Episode 241 of "118"

I like these lines from last night's episode (episode 241) of "118".

人生本无事，庸人自扰之。
...
今天有今天的烦恼，明天有明天的烦恼。
人活着就有没完没了的烦恼,
最好的办法就是不要为烦恼而烦恼...

These were translated as:

Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
...
We have worries today and tomorrow will bring its own worries.
Life isn't worry free,
but don't worry unnecessarily or excessively...

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Episode 53 of "118"