Wednesday, October 22, 2003 0 comments Post a Comment Today is a good day. It's been a long time since i had good days. days good enough to be actually labelled 'good'. Well, it started well with enough sleep. e determinant. then i had my daily dosage of couch-potatoing in front of the PC. a light 2 hrs, as compared to yesterday's 7 plus hours. met 3 frens online! which is extremely encouraging for a day! not 1 but 3 ! in e morning too. how generous Today is! had a fair amt of chatting to make me feel social enough to get out of e house. Then i went out. i jus like days which aren't too hectic. u're decided, u're given enough slack time to do it and u're focused but relaxed. Life and work should be like dat. Cycled down to Bukit Panjang, locked mi bike and got chicken rice, jiu ceng gao and chrysanthemum tea for mi granny. Then went to get some incense. Took a bus down to Mandai to go offer prayers to my granny. A long walk down fm e bus stop to e crematorium but well, with my md, i can walk for eternity. Like e crematorium, u get a peace that's healing, but i dun suppose ppl go down there for that purpose. Spent some time with her before returning to Panjang. Went Macs to get lunch for granddad and i. I love e feeling of buying Macs for mi granddad, it's sorta like a treat for both of us. He loves fillet o' fish. Then i bought Jiang Mei Qi's album. haven heard it yet. she's one of e few artistes whose albums i buy. not that's she's fantastic. it's jus sorta become a practice. Well, e highlight of e day was when i was waiting for e bus at Mandai to go to Panjang. Cos i saw e bus past when i was walking out, i knew it'll take a good 15 mins for e next to come by. As such, i walked over to e bus stop slowly. And when i neared e busstop, i was captivated by e serene beauty of e Mandai reservoir ( i think dat's wat they call it ). It was like a small lake dat was slightly stirred by e wind, a little bit sunny if i was fussy but quite fine. So i suddenly had e urge to go sit by e reservoir and soak mi legs in it! veri zhengyi u might say. so i went over, and sat on e nice and dry grass patch, no ants, no bugs dat buzzed ard, onli a nice red dragonfly (Hong Qing Ting by Xiao Hu Dui --> first time i saw one ) and butterflies. I was in outdoor wear so i had no qualms abt rolling abt but i didn't. E water , on proximity, was a little bit chalky so i decided against leg bathing. But still my feet were only abt 20 cm from e water surface (e bank i sat on was pretty low, very near water surface ), so i sat there and waited for e bus! While reading e sypnosis for He Lan Chun. Felt realli good. Looking at e water rippling and enjoying e quiet of e mmt, and chewing on super melodramatic developments in e local series. Think e funny script added to e joy of dat wait. haha. realli crappy storyline but i'm still glued to it. Then e bus came and i jumped up and sped over to e bus stop. caught e bus. heh. Well, decided that i'll picnic there on another nice day. maybe alone, maybe not. we'll see. Well utilised off day. going out later to see mi combimates. hope e day stays pleasurable. 10/22/2003 04:41:00 PM

yi A student (and maybe one always) / from Singapore in Shanghai / a hopefully chronic baking OCD / aborted mission Noble entirely / decided to stop believing in change and creation but work on succeeding heritages / food is culture. culture is heritage. / dreams of cooking classes in France where everything is white, light & shadows and old mastery - a typical Western enchantment/ wonders if Singaporean food will ever turn into haute cuisine/ will hump a madeleine more than anything else (for now)/ half-worried and half-proud that solid lava cakes distress him more than alot of things/ baking is my first (practical) skill/ believes that fine food can be found in the dodgiest alley after China/ will one day make his baking compulsion serve Charity / The Yi Cafe (a concept not a name)/ has the most pot-bellied father and a kitchen-prodigal mother (thus!)/ the second son with the less discerning tongue/ an aged interest in literature/ a perpetual weight issue / grams not pounds / measuring out my life with tbsps/ feeds the one with a sweeth tooth/ says, "my heart is stollen" homemade berry tart for the jaundice. SH culinary endeavours 1 : tang yuan in glutinuous rice wine SH culinary endeavours 2 : morbidly obese morning sandwich SH culinary endeavours 3 : herbal chicken soup YOU HEAR : Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I'm A Radio oh honey you turn me on i'm a radio i'm a country station i'm a little bit corny i'm a wild flower waiting for your broadcasting tower waiting for you fellow pebbles Archive Archives 10/12/2003 - 10/19/2003 10/19/2003 - 10/26/2003 10/26/2003 - 11/02/2003 11/02/2003 - 11/09/2003 11/09/2003 - 11/16/2003 11/16/2003 - 11/23/2003 11/30/2003 - 12/07/2003 12/07/2003 - 12/14/2003 12/28/2003 - 01/04/2004 01/04/2004 - 01/11/2004 01/11/2004 - 01/18/2004 01/25/2004 - 02/01/2004 02/01/2004 - 02/08/2004 02/08/2004 - 02/15/2004 02/15/2004 - 02/22/2004 02/22/2004 - 02/29/2004 02/29/2004 - 03/07/2004 03/07/2004 - 03/14/2004 03/14/2004 - 03/21/2004 03/21/2004 - 03/28/2004 03/28/2004 - 04/04/2004 04/04/2004 - 04/11/2004 04/11/2004 - 04/18/2004 04/18/2004 - 04/25/2004 05/02/2004 - 05/09/2004 05/09/2004 - 05/16/2004 05/16/2004 - 05/23/2004 05/23/2004 - 05/30/2004 05/30/2004 - 06/06/2004 06/06/2004 - 06/13/2004 06/20/2004 - 06/27/2004 06/27/2004 - 07/04/2004 07/04/2004 - 07/11/2004 07/11/2004 - 07/18/2004 07/18/2004 - 07/25/2004 08/01/2004 - 08/08/2004 08/08/2004 - 08/15/2004 08/15/2004 - 08/22/2004 08/22/2004 - 08/29/2004 08/29/2004 - 09/05/2004 09/05/2004 - 09/12/2004 09/12/2004 - 09/19/2004 09/19/2004 - 09/26/2004 09/26/2004 - 10/03/2004 10/03/2004 - 10/10/2004 10/10/2004 - 10/17/2004 10/17/2004 - 10/24/2004 10/24/2004 - 10/31/2004 11/07/2004 - 11/14/2004 11/14/2004 - 11/21/2004 12/05/2004 - 12/12/2004 12/12/2004 - 12/19/2004 12/19/2004 - 12/26/2004 12/26/2004 - 01/02/2005 01/02/2005 - 01/09/2005 01/09/2005 - 01/16/2005 01/16/2005 - 01/23/2005 01/23/2005 - 01/30/2005 01/30/2005 - 02/06/2005 02/13/2005 - 02/20/2005 02/20/2005 - 02/27/2005 02/27/2005 - 03/06/2005 03/06/2005 - 03/13/2005 03/13/2005 - 03/20/2005 03/20/2005 - 03/27/2005 03/27/2005 - 04/03/2005 04/17/2005 - 04/24/2005 05/08/2005 - 05/15/2005 05/22/2005 - 05/29/2005 05/29/2005 - 06/05/2005 06/05/2005 - 06/12/2005 06/19/2005 - 06/26/2005 07/03/2005 - 07/10/2005 07/10/2005 - 07/17/2005 07/17/2005 - 07/24/2005 07/24/2005 - 07/31/2005 07/31/2005 - 08/07/2005 08/07/2005 - 08/14/2005 08/14/2005 - 08/21/2005 08/21/2005 - 08/28/2005 08/28/2005 - 09/04/2005 09/25/2005 - 10/02/2005 11/06/2005 - 11/13/2005 12/11/2005 - 12/18/2005 01/22/2006 - 01/29/2006 02/05/2006 - 02/12/2006 02/26/2006 - 03/05/2006 03/05/2006 - 03/12/2006 03/12/2006 - 03/19/2006 05/14/2006 - 05/21/2006 06/11/2006 - 06/18/2006 06/25/2006 - 07/02/2006 09/17/2006 - 09/24/2006 10/15/2006 - 10/22/2006 11/26/2006 - 12/03/2006 12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 06/03/2007 - 06/10/2007 08/26/2007 - 09/02/2007 11/04/2007 - 11/11/2007 09/07/2008 - 09/14/2008 12/14/2008 - 12/21/2008 12/28/2008 - 01/04/2009 01/04/2009 - 01/11/2009 01/18/2009 - 01/25/2009 01/25/2009 - 02/01/2009 02/01/2009 - 02/08/2009 02/08/2009 - 02/15/2009 02/15/2009 - 02/22/2009 02/22/2009 - 03/01/2009 03/15/2009 - 03/22/2009 & I want these Apron Stains! Madeleine Attempt 3 (with baking powder?!) ML's Stollen SY's Baked Almond and Marzipan (urgh) Peaches ZW's Ricotta Cream Cheese Pudding Citrus Delight 4 Lavas + 4 Purins for e Family replica of JG's FG with port gelee, candied pistachios and dried sour cranberries Upcoming Gastronomic Gorges Haiku by Hatsune Geylang Tze Char Pilgrimage Peranakan Food Liver @ Hong Long Xing