Guava

When you eat guava, do you dip/soak it with the sour plum powder?

For me, I don't. Guava actually taste sweet and nice without the powder, unless it's not ripe yet. Furthermore, the powder contains sugar and salt. No no no...

In fact, I'm chewing on it now. =D I'm being random here.... While chewing, I start to wonder why many people say guava is good for health. So I went to google on it a bit. Found out it has a lot of many benefits! One of such is that guava actually has more vitamin C than orange! Well, that is if you eat it with the skin. The guava skin contains a lot of vitamin C. It has also other benefits to stuff like prolong menses, obesity, constipation, etc.

Anyway, I'll just do some copy pasting here.

Adopted from http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/benefits-of-guava-1612.html

Nutritional Value of Guava
Given below is the amount of nutrients present in 1 cup (165 gm) of Guava, apart from Iron and Folic Acid:

• Calcium - 50 mg
• Carbohydrates - 19.6 gm
• Fiber - 8.9 gm
• Niacin - 2 mg.
• Phosphorus - 48 mg
• Protein - 1.35 gm
• Total Fat - 0.9 gm
• Vitamin A - 412 IU
• Vitamin B - 1.15 mg
• Vitamin C - 498 mg
• Calories - 84

Health & Nutrition Benefits of Eating Guava

• Guava is a very good source of vitamins, fibers as well as minerals.
• Being rich in Vitamin C; guava is effective in treating male infertility caused by sperm clumping, adhesion and other abnormalities.
• Guava has been associated with healing of wounds, when applied externally.
• Guava has general haemostatic properties and can be used for treating bleeding nose, gums and minor internal hemorrhaging.
• Guava helps cure dysentery, by inhibiting microbial growth and removing extra mucus from the intestines.
• Guava helps the body in combating free radicals produced during metabolism and aids in preventing age-related chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, cataract and rheumatoid arthritis.
• Guava is one of the richest sources of dietary fiber and thus, is good for those suffering from constipation.
• Guava strengthens and tones up the digestive system and even disinfects the same.
• Guava, having high content of roughage, no cholesterol & less digestible carbohydrates, is good for those trying to lose weight.
• Guavas can improve the texture of skin and help avoid skin problems. For the purpose, you can either eat it raw or make wash your skin with a decoction of its immature fruits and leaves.
• Juice of raw and immature guavas or decoction of guava-leaves is known to bring relief in cough and cold.
• Researches have shown that guava is pretty effective in preventing cancer and even heart diseases in people.
• The presence of complex carbohydrates and dietary fibers in guava makes it effective in lowering cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
• The presence of Vitamin C and other phytonutrients, such as caretenoids, isoffavonoids and polyphenols, in guava has led to it being an effective antioxidant.

Guava has been found to be beneficial for people suffering from the following ailments:

• Acidosis
• Asthma
• Bacterial Infections
• Catarrh
• Congestion of the Lungs
• Convulsions
• Epilepsy
• High Blood Pressure
• Obesity
• Oral Ulcers
• Poor Circulation
• Prolonged Menstruation
• Scurvy
• Swollen Gums
• Toothache

KL Work Trip 23-25 Feb 2010

Last week went for a KL work trip. It was a last minute thingy. Well, work here is dynamic. Not the first time like that already, informing just the day before flying. Used to it. Monday morning informed me flying the next day, and next morning off to KL.

I refused to bring office laptop, so I brought my own laptop. And guess what? That morning when waiting for the boarding gate to open, I tried powering up my laptop. It's not working anymore! SPOILT!!! I brought a big and heavy paperweight to KL. Nice.....

Details of my work cannot be discussed. If I tell you, I'll have to kill you!

As usual again, during normal operation time, I had little things to do. Then evening came and as I waiting for them to prepare some stuff for me, I decided to do something "constructive".


I name this The Pyramid of Staples!

Not bad.. Work ends at 8+pm. It's a good sign. While walking out, I saw this office @ the entrance. That's Pam's company! Okay, nothing else.


DKSH

I've been telling my colleague I wanna have A&W for dinner since Monday. And there we have it! A&W


Hot Dog + Curly Fries + Root Beer Float!

The service there quite slow. The counters not very efficient. Not their fault, it's the flow of operation. Sucks.

Breakfast @ the cafe just @ the ground floor of the office building, T-Break. Their pie is very nice, but they didn't have it that morning. Don't know why. So I had their special-dunno-what-omelette. It's nice too.


Special-Dunno-What-Omelette

Lunch and Dinner had normal stuff.

Next morning! Mamak stall!


Roti Canai + Roti Telor + Teh Tarik

Luckily Friday is Malaysia public holiday. So die die Thursday I'll have to go home. So no extension of stay no matter what. When checking in at the airport, we found out our flight got delayed. Delayed by 1 hour. -_-" The flight time is only 35-45min btw.


Delayed Flight

Dinner @ Burger King

Touch down Singapore @ around 830pm.
-The End-

my new creation - eclair

looks ugly... but heck... wahahahaha..

the chocolate coating too bitter.. seems like the dark chocolate i used is too raw... need to add in more sugar and milk to smoothen it..

Relive the Japan Trip

We actually wanted to meet up on 1st July to celebrate our Japan Trip 1 year anniversary. LOL. But apparently not everyone can make it. So Daji suggested 1 week later, because that was the day Zm joined us. Hoho haha. That's so funny.

During that period, we were in Osaka. And while in Osaka, one of the most memorable experience was cooking our own okonomiyaki. Thus, the dinner shall be DIY okonomiyaki!

Finding a restaurant selling okonomiyaki isn't tough. But to find one that let you DIY in Singapore, that's quite a feat. Luckily Daji managed to found 1 and suggested that to us. Sumomo at Prinsep Street there. Sadly, Zw didn't manage to make it at the last minute, so it's 1 member down.

Zhengyi doing her heart-shaped okonomiyaki again

Super hungry Wenyao waiting for his food to be cooked

Zhengyi's done!

The guys cooking theirs

Daji's pancake

1. Cook Okonomiyaki

2. Put the Okonomiyaki Sauce and Mayonnaise

3. Scatter the Bonito Flakes and sprinkle some Seaweed on top of it.

4. Enjoy your Okonomiyaki

Yakisoba topped with egg

Daji enjoying his Yakisoba

"We commit to serve U Best! Please be patient =)"

Wenyao

Daji

Zhengyi

Cuiling

Me

Front of the wet tissue

Back of the wet tissue

Chit chatting after having the meal

Just to do a quick review for that restaurant. The okonomiyaki portion is normal, in Singapore's price context. 10+bucks mid-range for a normal okonomiyaki. I would say the price is okay lah. Japanese food is never cheap in Singapore. Tsk. But the desserts...... I would say it's a bit too overpriced. Seriously. I tried the green tea cheese cake, it wasn't really that nice and it cost $15.90!!! Ya.... Just go for the normal food. Go try if you like DIY okonomiyaki. 30+bucks in total should get you full there.

(Photos with courtesy of Zm again)

Expensive weekends...

Cham ah.. I kept saying I want to save money, but I kept going out...... =\

First up, Friday... York Lin long long ago jio-ed us go eat crab liao, and don't know why I said yes too. Anyway, so I did go... Location is at AMK Ave 3 Blk 232. It's opposite Mayflower Sec Sch, I think. The queue was insane, but luckily Mr Cai made reservation beforehand, so that saved us the queuing time.

However, that's not all. You still got the cooking time to wait too. Ho ho ho ho... Don't know why. Isn't this recession time? Why everyone still coming here to spend so much $$$ on simple thing like food. Talking about me eh? =\

York Lin ordered 1x large crab (butter style), 1x med crab (black pepper style), and another 1x med crab (soup style). Then he asked us wanna add more stuff or not, and told us to look at the menu. Naturally, when he asked that, we would think maybe not enough, so we ordered a few more others stuff - crispy tofu, cereal prawn and baby kai lan.

People! DO NOT! I REPEAT! DO NOT ORDER ANY OTHER STUFF IF YOU HAVE 3X CRABS ON THE WAY! And especially you are just feeding 6 mouths. Why? See below.


That's the size of the pincer of the large crab. =\ And the soup one it's like (fish head bee hoon - fish head + crab). So ya, thick bee hoon is inside. And it was quite a big pot. BUT NICE! The butter one is nice too. Black pepper ah, they say Bedok one nicer. But seriously, the crab itself is nice lah.

Damage - 45bucks per pax. I think it summed up to $268.xx if I never remember wrongly.


That's my Friday. Then came Saturday. Original plan was to go in JB. But I got recall manning, so I was kinda not planning to go in liao. After much tempting (news of Garry got Guitar Hero 2), and friends' patience waiting, I decided to go in. Zw went in to import Wii out. Rich guy. Tsk...

Then we went to some restaurant to eat. Leong said that place not that nice, but we wanted to give them a chance. So we ate at there. Conclusion: We know we should go the one further down next time.

Let's see what we ordered. Crabs (AGAIN!), baby lobsters, some meat (can't remember ostrich or beef), broccoli with mushrooms, more or less there lah. Food so so nia lah.. Nothing worth mentioning.

Damage - This one worth mentioning. RM90 per pax. =\ A bit steep IMO.

Anyway, the main highlight was playing Guitar Hero!!!

Zeming playing...

Rocker Zeming...

And his In-Game character...

ROCKS~ I can only play up to Medium nia. Tried Hard a while, cham.. got eye/hand coordination problem liao. After everyone slept liao, I went on and played alone until 6+am =~( I got no life. Rare chance to play this game mah. Must play until song song.

Next morning, Garry sent us out to Singapore and back home. So nice of him..... Awwwwww.... Provide transport there, provide lodging, provide entertainment, and even provide transport out!! So to express my gratitude, I'm helping him to do research on Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band. MUAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!


Now Sunday.. WMW Feb's gathering. @ Citylink's New York New York. I met Garry again. LOL. That one just a dinner though. Details, wait for WMW blog.

End of my last week! WOOT~ Packed weekend eh? And I was actually on recall manning week. YESH! Tomorrow end of recall manning week. Daji and Eddie are next!! Our country depends on them.

Expensive Weekends feat. "I got a new toy again!"

WOOT~ I bought another toy again. Cham... Overspending liao.

The Earphone

Free Earphone Amplifier

A new in-ear earphone. Crossroad MylarOne Bijou 4. Not a bad earphone I would say. But then again, I'm quite a tone deaf person, so I'm not a good tester for this earphone. Damage - 70bucks. And it comes with a free earphone amplifier! Interesting eh? I didn't know earphone also got amplifier one.

Bought it from a shop in Adelphi, Jaben. The shop has a webpage too. http://jaben.net/ The boss quite funny. A funny shop too. Beside the audio stuff he's selling, there's fountain pens and bacon salt too. Yes, bacon salt. And guess what, the boss gave us free sample to try too. LOL. The conversation was funny lah. They have good customer service too. Try all you want. They are helpful enough.

Technical and shopping stuff aside, today had lunch with zw, zm, garry, kat and her gang @ Sun with Moon. I would say their lunch is not bad you know. I had the Shogagaki set, and zm had the Saba set. Good food. And filling too. Think all the negative comments I've heard were targetting their dinner menu instead bah. Or is it because Wheelock branch has better food?

After lunch, zw disappeared. The girls went shopping. Me, garry and zm walking around aimlessly. Then we decided to sit down and la kopi. @ TCC. The Azuki Coffee is really nice. I'm falling in love with it. Coffee with red beans. Somehow it just tastes so nice. But note... I'm darn full already. I had 3 slices of prata at 11+. Lunch at 2 lidat. Coffee at 4 or so. *PUKE*

*Missing section - lengthy to say* And now only left me and zm. *Missing section again - nothing interesting* And so we decided to just go Adelphi to check out the shop and see how. Maybe if we are lucky, it might be open. Ho ho ho. It's open! And hence, the toy above.

Expensive weekend eh? Lunch @ Sun with Moon, Tea @ TCC, new Toy... Hai........ I should just stay at home next time. Otaku is cheaper. OTAKU BANZAI!

New Toy!!

Got a new cheap toy today. It's a portable speaker. Small but pretty powerful. But don't mind the quality. A bit hollow. But then again. It's cute and cool and small! Told you it's a toy liao. That means not for serious usage. X-mini is its name.



See the picture above. It's a capsule shape. You split it into halves and twist it open to expand the resonance tube , then power on! MM ZUT MM ZUT!! Cool right? It has its own rechargeable battery inside. Recharge via USB. Audio via sound jack.

Got it at one of the shops at Funan. Lazy to go all the way to SLS, so just make do with it at Funan. Went there with zm. Then tried the Soup Spoon @ Raffles City. HOLY SHIT! Okay... It's my first time there, and I quite like the food there. I'm noob. Okay, noted.

End of Short Story...

Break time...

After all the OTs for the week, this afternoon at around 5pm I've finally completed the project unofficially. Now left the tidying of the codes, synchronization with another part from my colleague, full functional test and I'm officially done! YATTA!

Great... Finally can take my mind off the work. Seriously, for the past few mornings, everytime I woke up, the first thing that came my mind was some component of the project. It was really haunting me man. Think tonight I can have a good rest. YESH! Don't need to go back tomorrow! WOooooOoOHoooOOO!!

Anyway, today after my work, I went down to SLS to meet up with zw, zm and siao. Zw's upgrading his comp. Siao was called along bcos I think zm realised it was siao's bday today, so we decided to celebrate with him. And so... After the SLS trip, we went down to Marina Sq for dinner. Chose Azabu Sabo - jap food~

Well.. the food there was pretty decent. The fried ramen thingy was nice, you can try order it and share around. Attempting to eat it alone you might get quite sick of it though. However, Azabu Sabo actually excels in their desserts. Wahahahahahahaa! I'm a dessert sucker. Its dessert is really good. I had the ice cream with fried balls and sweet potato. Nice nice nice!

Here comes the interesting part. We asked for the bill, and we split it among the 3 of us to treat siao. Siao was puzzled by it and so we explained we wanna treat him for his bday and stuff. And guess what? He's got even puzzled after that. After some verification, we then realised it wasn't his bday today. It's next month, and no a matter juz 1-2 weeks.... -_-" Zm is some kind of cousin eh? Wanted to celebrate his bday, but couldn't get his birthday right. Bo pian, so it was a way advance bday treat then. So malu lor! Hai.... Sorry Siao! It's ur cousin fault.

So, end of "celebration", back to random walking and window shopping. Went over to Suntec (DAMN! I missed my Anime Fest because I was still working in the office. Maybe I should go over and see tomorrow.), wanted to go to Carrefour to buy some rechargeable battery recommended by zm.

Nothing else special after that, so the end~

Bought a new Gillette Fusion Power razor! And restock on my Gatsby deodorant. The razor having promo now. Usual price is 19.30, now going for 14.30.
Total Damage: $22.80


And here's the rechargeable battery! They recommended me to get a decent charger.
Total damage: $29.90

omurice...

suddenly i have a craving for omurice.. omurice is short for omelette rice.. some japanese food which is a hybrid between western and asian food.. japanese has quite a lot of this kind of hybrid food.. and they are good at doing it.. anyway.. ya.. hmmm.. maybe i should try it during the weekend.. anyone wanna join me?

referenced from en.wikipedia.org
visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omurice for more information

for sweet toothy...

kapoed while stumbling upon. here's the url..

it's abt a berry that can let ur taste bud taste sour as sweet.. amazing ya? that means, u can remove sugar from products, e.g. cake, and make it sour.. you eat the berry first... then eat that sour cake.. THAT CAKE WILL BE SWEET! so good.....

then i realised the place selling this thingy was the place that i stayed previously at tokyo.. ah... damn... i'm so gian to go japan now... I MISS JAPAN!!! I WANT TO GO JAPAN!!! 日本へ行きたいです！ some more this article is old one.. that means maybe when i went there, there alreadi got liao.. sian... why that time i never go visit that Namjatown.. hai.....

anyway.. go see the url for more details..

chocolates in my kitchen..

my mum kept complaining i'm taking up quite an amt of space in her kitchen, esp her fridge.. she asked why i have so many chocolates in the fridge..

let's see wat chocs are there... dark chocolate couverture, chocolate chip, cadbury milk chocolate, cadbury dark chocolate "old gold", fondue chocolate and cocoa powder..

wahaahahahahahha!! okay.. i do have quite a numbers of chocolate.. those chocolates are not for direct consumption purpose.. they are used for some other choc stuff that i might be making..

i better find some way to finish them up fast...

the return of the cookies

i think i know why my sore throat is so persistent this time round.. i had it since the ktv session with the uni gang, which was slightly more than a week ago le..

last monday baked cookies.. and.. how to know if my cookies are edible or not before letting the others to try.. i had to try it myself.. plus, it's the first time trying this recipe.. first few round gotta trial and error a bit to get the timing, size and other factors correct... each try i need to try the cookies wor.. then i gotta try the cookies when it's fresh from oven, left to cool a while and oso when it's cool... then after the whole baking thingy.. i gotta try how's it's like from the fridge.. hahahaha.. so i actually ate QUITE A LOT of the cookies.. where's my exercise regimen???

after the cookie baking, i had the chocolate fondue mini party on friday.. great.. choc fondue.. do i have to go on and say how sinful is it? WHY AM I NOT EXERCISING YET??? blame it on the weather.. t(*.*t)

then now... i'm baking the cookies again! then needa try during the initial baking.. trying new sizes of the cookies.. so need to know if the baking time is right or not.. and hengly it's okay.. my microwave oven is freaking small.. i onli onli bake 9 cookies at 1 good.. 12min baking time.. while baking i needa prepare the next batch.. i can bake ard 45-50 cookies with the amt of ingredient i'm using at the moment.. that will be around, say 6 batches.. 1 min for mi to let the oven cool off a bit, take out the cookies, put in the new batch, close oven, set time and temp, start.. 6 x 13min = 78min.. OMG~ 1+ hr for less than 50 cookies.. "LAO BU AH!! CAN I GET A BIGGER OVEN??" if i can bake 12 cookies each time, i will onli need 4 batches! 52min!! less than an hour.. omg.. that's a lot of diff!!

then i realised the cost of baking cookies.. it's way cheaper than buying cookies itself.. hahaha.. alright, don't consider the time spent it.. if i had the proper equipment i could bake them faster.. and how's the taste of it? hey! it's not bad okay!


baking process

oh yeah.. i left out the preparation of the dough.. but, oh well, it took way lesser than baking itself.. the dough was prepared the night before.. it gotta be cold hard so i can roll it into ball shape and coat it with the icing sugar...


the cookies in the box on the left side is cookies which have been left cool already.. those on the right side are overturned and left to cool... this time i coated it with more icing sugar.. looks nicer.. and not noticeably sweeter.. but then.. juz give it a knock the icing will fall liao.. hahaha! that's the idea u see.. the icing sugar is there to make it look like snow! and it's behaving like 1 too! great!


after baking, time to pack them.. and then i realised something else.. the freaking cookie bags i bought are big!!! i think to fill them up nicely, i need 20 odds cookie.. that means each time i can onli fill up 2 bags and give them as gift!!! screw it.. i'll juz say the cookies are precious stuff.. limited stock.. sub 50 are produced each time.. so, if u received them, BE GLAD THAT YOU DID RECEIVE IT! sian.. should have juz bought those clear plastic gift wrapper can liao.. thot a flat base will look nicer.. end up the bag looks so empty bcos too big..

there.. pack into the bags.. and i had to cut half of the bag away.. hahahahahaa! that was so lame.. these 3 bags are for the 3 sisters - the fellow retard, DS girl and the pig... think i needa bake more if i really intend to give to more pple.. oh.. got another bag, but i never take photo of it.. 4 bags down.. 16 more to go... more baking to come!!!!!


alright time to sleep.. tml is subject registration day... gotta wake up by 1pm.. and get ready for fastest finger first.. though i think i dun really have to go for it.. vacancy isn't really an issue this time round...

restocked...

went out to restock on my cookies ingredient juz now, choc and butter..

saw a measuring spoon and cup set.. so bought it as well.. or else i'm forever using my mum's measuring cup which is used for her rice one..

then i saw those cookies bag.. er.. u put cookies into those plastic bags and give to frens, those bags? ya.. wahahahahhaa! can give them for xmas.. limited stock though...

oso restocked on my coco pops.. good to go for another round of clodhoppers imitations.. =))

the so-called wet moist centered cookie...

trying this wet moist centered cookie

the dough, almost used up

roll into ball size

inside microwave oven

end product

yeah~ it kinda taste like brownie.. hahaha.. i dunno why it's called cookie.. or maybe somewhere went wrong in the process of mixing.. i dun care! bcos it tastes good.. okay.. maybe to me only.. bcos it's my product.. will try to source for some other opinions..

the smaller taste like normal cookie, without wet moist center.. bcos too small, tio cooked evenly.. the bigger one will have a wet and moist center.. but most of the bigger one gone le.. hahaha.. into a few tummies of here and there.. the wet and moist center really taste like brownie.. i wonder if i heat up the cookie, will it become wet and moist again?

dinner @ ikoi

right after my exam that time, i had dinner with wenyao, zhengyi, zeming and shihui @ ikoi.. the price was 40 minus a bit after the plus plus.. but the food was superb.. it's a la carte buffet style.. and note.. THE SASHIMI IS FREE FLOW TOO!!! not to mention the sashimi was pretty fresh..

ikoi has 2 level.. 2nd level is the exclusive zone~ it has onli 2 tables there.. heard from zy that u gotta make VERY VERY VERY advance booking in order to get that place.. try 1 month in advance bah.. hahaha..

the variety of food ranges from sashimi, sushi, grilled food, fried food, noodle and rice... all can make it.. except sushi.. eh.. their rice wasn't that good.. =\ but the rest all can make it lah.. so that made up for it.. if u managed to get upstair the ambience would be good. downstair will be norm lor.. but the food is really good! give me a choice between kushinbo and ikoi, i'll choose ikoi.. kushinbo might have more variety.. but their food sucks.. but kushinbo have desserts~ hahaha.. but i'll still choose ikoi!
- 4/5

dunno why zm like to take video so much... =.=" below is another video he took that day...

ma maison - co's belated bday dinner

some post event's post.. a belated bday dinner with co feat. tam and zm.. the dinner is @ Ma Maison, Bugis Junction's branch.. first we gathered @ mac...

zm taking photo of me, with my middle finger

then we go to Ma Maison...

zm tio shot by tam

my turn

the highlight of ma maison

apparently the highlight of ma maison is the key.. i see everyone who went to ma maison has taken a photo with the key.. so i have to do it too..

the key

time for dessert.. as the pudding of Ma Maison is outta stock alreadi.. we decided to go elsewhere.. Liang Seah there oso packed.. so we went to Ben and Jerry @ The Cathay.

the table

co, tam and zm

zm and me

zm and me again

zm and me again again

zm and me took quite a few shots because the girls complained we can't keep still when taking photo.. my say is tam took too long to snap a shot!

co unboxing the prez

co unboxing prez 2

below is a video that zm took.. and they were laughing their asses off.. actually.. not that funny lah.. it's juz me keeping still.. and they seemed to be overly impressed by it..

we were laughing way too much at ben and jerry.. and i think our laughing was quite loud.. WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! my cheeks and abs were sore from laughing..


anyway... my review on Ma Maison.. it's western food cooked in the japanese style.. or japanese food cooked in western style.. okay.. whatever.. it's a fusion between japanese and western styles..

the menu was quite standard.. hamburger steaks, pasta and rice.. these are the 3 type of main course.. the omelette rice is good.. but u'll get sick of it pretty soon.. cannot juz eat it.. best is to just share it with friends as a side.. the ma maison special pasta, u can give it a miss.. it tastes like pasta with bbq sauce.. anyway, all their omelette rice right, maciam the same kind of sauce.. i had a curry rice.. the curry was good.. but the chicken wasn't.. hahha.. the food generally wasn't that impressive.. not say not nice.. i'll juz say can make it lah.. maybe i was expecting too much from this place..

it doesn't have a wide range of variety as a typical japanese restaurant.. but the price was decent enough.. however, i think i wont feel like going there specially, unless friend say wanna go.. ya..
- 3/5