Braised Yee Mee

I seem to be permanently lazy when it comes to cooking nowadays. Today it rained so abruptly that we have to pretty much cancel plans to eat out. So I whipped up another one of those lazy ass dinners.

The ingredients:


Fifteen minutes later it's done and ready to eat. Yay!


Hubs put on American Gangster. Wholesome family entertainment for a healthy yummiez dinner. Very educational show, with info on where heroin comes from, and how to manufacture it before it ends up on the street.

Was the yeemee good? :D

Lazy Dinner for Two

I told Hubs I was lazy, too lazy to do the cooking. So I wondered aloud if there's any volunteers. Asked him if he wants to do the cooking. He responded as below:


Wasn't in the mood for rice tonight. Hubs want some good ol' veggie stew pasta. I just got the stuff in the fridge for this. Got the chicken defrosted and vegs soaked. I just boiled the breast for an hour or two and chucked the vegs in. Then in goes the whole can of Prego pasta sauce. Sizzle sizzle boil boil then it's done. Ain't no easier dinner than this.

Behold some of the ingredients.


Pretend for a sec this is Beef Goulash or something fancy


Yeah, check out the fibre for the day


Stick the pasta in and you're almost there. Let it churn around a bit, unless you like it al dente.


Did I say I like soggy and limp pasta?


Dinner served! Thank God for small mercies.


Naturally, we emptied the bowl and were hungry by 9pm cuz of the meat-free and sour dinner. Makan supper lo, memang tak tahan. :D

S'like a fookin arcade in heah!

Hubs went right out and got a PSP right after the payraise. x_x Wanted to play God of War. This purchase proved to be a better deal than the Nintendo DS that I bought a while back. For one, the graphics and the audio is way more advanced than the NDS. I mean, shit, look at Crisis Core, fergawdssake. It totally blows the PS2 and NDS graphics outta the water (IMHO at least). Polygons and animation's definitely more refined, with less jaggies and crap. Impressed the hell outta me, it did. To anyone whom I argued with regarding the merits of NDS versus PSP, I formally apologise cuz I was totally pulling it outta my ass previously. :p

Look at this snazzy boy.



Trying out Ratatoille. Yeah, I know it's kinda lame. Gave me the worse type of motion sickness... with the nasty burps and all...




I'm sad to report we have every recent console out there except for the XBOX. So much for saving our millions to migrate. And way to go, we decided to go original. Made us feel good when we bought something and finished it for a change. Actually if you could afford it, it really pays to go original.



The PS3 is really an awesome piece of machine. If you get it, play 'Uncharted' and you'll know what I'm raving about. It totally blew my brains out. Yeah, it's that awesome. The rendered environments of the game never fail to make us wave our arms and go 'These crazy sonofabitches game developers!'

Ayup.

Cooking is Therapeutic

Did I mention that cooking is therapeutic? Had a bout of queasiness today when I was working on the double server outages. What do I do? I cook.

It was actually quite hard when I just got married to learn how to cook for only two people. The portioning and catering to Hub's eating habits was a challenge. I was used to to helping Mom cook for our family of 5 back in Ipoh. Everyone prety much eats what that's shoved in front of them. But Hub's different. He came from a family of Teochew and Hainanese family who's in the restaurant business. So our boy's got a pretty refined palate, if you ask me. :-\

I found the secret formula. He basically loves anything with tofu. So we had Mince with tofu today, spanked up with carrot bits to fool this consummate carnivore. Then the dutiful dish of greens.

Look how lazy we are. We bought a mini ricepot to steam rice. Haw haw haw. Good way to jimat rice and cook just nice for 1 person. (myself on a rice-less dinner diet). :D :D



This is kinda fun, talking to nobody in particular about my cooking escapades. Maybe I'll do this more.

Sunset Sunset

Some weirdshit weather we're having nowadays. Hubs shot these from the balcony of our apartment during dusk.

5 minutes later.

Anatomically Incorrect (A Sketch)

I don't really understand anatomy. Sure I know the
basic shapes and lines... and how certain parts of the
body will look when it bends here and twists there...
but beyond that, I'm really at loss. That's why when
it comes to painting, my inexperience with the
nitty-gritty moving parts shows itself clearly.

I wonder if I will improve at all.

Hopes are...cruel dangling carrots...

The baby issue has deteriorated into a dangling carrot sorta situation. I’m not even going to explain what happened. I just got really tired of placing my hopes and energy on it. Think it’s best to revert back to the good ‘ol watevuh mentality and see if I still feel like it when hubby wants it. Seriously, I’m disappointed enough now to feel revulsion at the idea of having a baby. I just push the whole issue into God’s hands and let His plan unravel. Migration stuff as well. This is just too much for a chronic list-maker and plan-layer like me.

 

On the brighter side, my prayers have been answered! My love for ROMB has been reignited. Last weekend in Seremban and it just happened. I was lying in bed, mulling over nothing serious, and I got that really hard-to-ignore itch to continue the ROMB story. I actually got a few scenes playing in my head! That hasn’t happened since... 2006? This is wonderful :). Could it be caused by my unhappiness over the recent events in real life? But who wants to spend time moping! Back to the drawing board I go.

 

I sure love this feeling when I’m doing ROMB. It’s so objective-driven....so focused.... and the satisfaction of knowing that I’m making progress with each page that I update. I hope I make the readers happy (whatever’s left of them since the multiple hiatuses), and most importantly, I want to feel solid, full and overflowing again.

 

At this age and time, Happiness is an elusive spirit.

 

 

Hubby, you want a baby?

I’m not sure if we’re ready to get pregnant.

 

I know we’re capable financially. It’s the emotional/psychological part that I’m worried about. KK already loudly chanted “It’s too soon! It’s too soon!” when I told him we need to go into baby production mode by end of this year. Cuz if he wants to migrate in 2010, the kid needs to be old enough marrrr....  When I ask him why it’s too soon, he doesn’t know how to put his concerns into words. I reckon it could be related to the PS3, PSP, NDS, Wii that we purchased this few years.... (talk about indulging)

 

I do know that I feel differently about this issue compared to him. Not necessarily a good thing actually. For me, it feels just like getting a new pet! Like, the anticipation when I’m about to purchase a new puppy or guinea pig. The rush of pleasure when I buy the supplies and construct the perfect diet for my newest piggledy-poo. Then, I imagine it’s the cooing and cuddling that comes next with the furball, followed by the tedium of responsibility I need to shoulder daily... the feeding, cleaning of poo, finances commited to buying cage litter, pellets, hay, kibbles, vitamins, vet bills, and the list goes on. Only difference is, the burden and joy from the experience is magnified maybe say.... 100x? And oh yeah, the critter doesn’t just go to pet heaven in the shortspan of a few years.... yeah, that might be something we need to understand.... that it’s permanent and not a fly-of-a-moment thing.

 

Still, it will make my parents and my mother-in-law infinitely happy. Deliriously happy, in fact. It would infuse a whole lot of meaning and joy into their lives. (since they aren’t the ones doing the breast-feeding at night for 6 months). I suppose that it is worth it, for this reason alone.

 

I’m not so much worried about our capability to bring up our kid. We’re pretty well-brought up people, hubby and I, with lots of close family ties and loving relatives. With all these components already intact, there’s not much reason why we shouldn’t do it.

 

Is there a switch or gauge where I can check our readiness for a baby?