Out from hiding

Hello everyone, sorry to have gone missing for so long. But I've only been on the mend recently. It's actually a week and a half since my return and my voice is slowly coming back. It's not completely healed but I can't be in hiding forever. So just this week, I have actually met up with a mum from school, and we've gone back to swimming and ballet classes. It was tough at first as I was utterly miserable last week, not having the energy, both fighting the very strong virus as well as the time difference. Princess was sleeping till 10-11am, and one day she woke up at 1.30pm! That is virtually unheard of and if anyone knows her well, she's one child who hates to sleep and will put off sleeping till her eyes are closing and she's still resistant to it. Hehe. I was a bit sceptical about her going back to school this week but decided that I had to be cruel and wake her up at the appointed time and I guess by doing that, she'd revert to her original body clock quicker. And she did, no problem at all.

While I was ill last week, there was one person I absolutely needed to meet as she was due to go home to Perth today and we had made plans before we both went on our holidays. Her schedule was chock-a-block full when she was here so it wouldn't have been nice to change plans else we might not have had the chance to meet. She's none other than the very lovely Daphne. Unfortunately I wasn't able to speak much to her during our meeting. My little ambassador did most of the talking and the entertaining and she even wrote some love letters to Auntie Daphne. Sometimes I wonder, they seem more like her friends than they are mine. Hahaha. Same went for sohcool when they met in Paris. I would have very much liked to catch up with Daphne this time but maybe on her next visit home, we might get the chance.

I didn't start cooking till this week, and here's some stuff I prepared.

Above - Seaweed chicken, steamed chicken lap cheong (Chinese sausage), tomatoes, fuzhou fishball and seaweed soup, plus a serving of golden kiwi.

While I was nursing my very sore throat, I was only up for soupy stuff so for lunch I made bee tai mak yong tau fu soup. We also had raspberries, blueberries and golden kiwi for our dessert. The raspberries were very expensive at $10.50 per punnet but princess insisted on having them. Blueberries are now in season and cost approx $3.50 a punnet. Guess it's time to bake some blueberry muffins. :) But problem is that wheat prices are climbing and goodness, have you seen the price of a block of butter in the past few months??? Exhorbitant! I think these days we really need an occasion to do some baking.

The day after our return, we had to take princess to have her sushi fix. In Dublin, we came across a sushi place and the cheapest plate which we pay $1.99 here, was 2.95euros. That works out to be over $6 in our currency. It was madness! We refused to pay that price, so despite the crying and protests, we had to steer away from there and promised a visit to a sushi restaurant upon our return. While in Plaza Singapura, naturally I had to pay a short visit to my favourite store - Daiso! ;) This is what I came home with.

For dinner last evening, I made some sushi for princess. Of course she couldn't finish everything.

The tamagoyaki which I bought from Cold Storage was horrendous and I had to throw the packet away. It just tasted awful, full of moisture. I believe they weren't very fresh. Macarons were from Bakerzin when we had lunch at Vivo on Thursday. Having fallen in love with macarons on her visit to Paris, she now has a soft spot for them. Haha. Her all-time favourite flavour is berries, be it blueberries, strawberries or mixed berries. On that particular day they didn't make blueberries and she was greatly disappointed. She made do with a chocolate hazelnut and some flavour which tasted like rose although the staff had told her it was strawberry. Hmmm....


Thank you all for your well-wishes while I was ill. I won't reply individually, but you know who you are. Thanks for your thoughts. :)