Saturday 10pm

my popo very hiong today (description is coined by shuping). LOL. keep making me laugh and laugh.

i'm at her house now - today my mission was to accompany her and help in any way needed in bao-ing ba zhang (wrapping dumplings)

Heheh! i got to wrap one bunch myself! but i only get to wrap once a year and today my po po think so highly of me (coz my first time wrapping last year produced quite beautiful ones) that she left me completely on my own... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA bad idea man...

in the end got to snip away FOUR out of 15 (est.) - couldn't passs the test. and my hands too small can only wrap small sized Ba Zhang.. hehehe :P

anw, why say she hiong leh?

today my young cousin is also here. Popo called her a fan shu becoz she kept taking the wrong things for her... it's the way she says it that makes it so farni. you know the way old cantonese people speak right?

She went like, "zhen hai faaan suuu ah lei..." (really sweet potato ar youuu)

and for the whole day she kept saying my cousin Chun (dumb). hahahahahaha but she's just making fun. coz my cousin is like many other kids, whatever u ask her to do she wont; whatever u ask her not to do she will freaking do it.

the last straw came went her mom was mopping the floor and asked her to stay put. so needless to say she intentionally goes and walk back and forth somemore. Anyone see liao also du lan. ending up got scolding from evryone... finally popo said something that landed me in stitches.

"Lei zi mh zi ju hai dim sei ga?!"
(do you know how pigs die?)

waaaaa biiiang i ji tao burst out laughing man!!!

Sunday 2pm

today's my second day bao-ing. but only got to wrap five only. BUT this time much much much nice than yesterday! the shape is much nicer and i got to put slightly more liao inside too! hehehe... here's popo in action!

First, she selects the leaves...


then she stuffs in the liao...


and fills it up ith rice


This is how much she wraps in one morning


then she boils them in this big pot


after a few hours, she take sone out for me to try =D


the ones i wrap only 2/3 of this size...

hehe so fun!

and while i wrap my ba zhang, she'll sit beside and tell me alot of stories! like yesterday, a childhood friend of HERS CALLED! Den while she chatted, i listened and smiled along as she laughed. After that, she told me about her kampong days while she was a KID! imagine leh, a Popo 70+ liao still able to tell me stuff about her childhood.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaa...

then she suddenly recalled - the person who called her was the one who taught her how to wrap ba zhang!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa...

my goodness, this tradition really went back a long long long way. and i'm so blessed and honoured to be under my popo's wing learning the ropes (or shud i say rafia strings)!

Crabbs

BOught on 4th May 2007 by Candy and Shenwei =)

This is the tank Superman bought and landscaped for me but what u see now has been revamped for the crabbys..















CAn u spot the 2 of them?

See the fishes in the front? yup, there're 3 of them. these are the little suckers that ATE ALL MY TADPOLES!!! =(

I caught the tadpoles from the Zooooo... 15 of them leh, all kenna eaten. Now it's their turn to be eaten. Muuuaahahahahahaaaaa.

"Bye bye, i don't wish to see you soon"

one night in yishun

hehe last night was the eve of labour day and i spent with my family.. Mmh, it's been quite a while since we did something like that.

we da bao indian muslim food to lower seletar reservoir, brought out our own picnic table and ground sheet... Lookie lookie:

This is one of my bro's million dollar smiles... nearly never got him to smile for the cam before, donnoe why this time auto smile until lydat!!!

See his pose now? wanna box me already... coz i keep snapping photos of them 360 degrees around them with the flash on! hahahahaha

Can u see what we've having for dinner? there's tahu goreng, chicken murtabak, 1 spring chicken, mutton satay, teh halia =P

Hmm there're also alot photos i wanna showcase... but only got time to load one more photo.

I exposed the shutter for 15secs and saw my cam screen many stars that we couldn't see with our naked eyes... then just when i loaded the pics into my com, i saw at the bottom right of the photo:




Is it a plane or a shooting star!?

I'm soooo excited!





Then 2 plus hours later, we went to orchid country club, use the toilet, watched pple play golf - the norm la...

OKay.. to be CONTINUED.. (now blogging at popo house- bu fang bian marrrr)



hey i'm back home!



okay what next ar? Oh my dad drove us into khatib bongsu! Never heard of it right?! Heheheh but i did lar... it's one of those sacred nature- nature places la - and what does Singapore do to remaining places as such? they "preserve it" i.e. close it to public so as to collect money.... Hahhahaha no la, for this case, they're closing it down because the army wants to use it for their training grounds - _ - okay la no better lor.



Anwz, i videoed the whole process of my dad driving into the place. the road was all gravel and dirt and lined along the path was all bushes, tall grasses and trees. did i mention about the street lamps? ya. there wasn't any. hahaha. pitch-blackness. too bad i can't show the 14 minute video here for the 1.9km drive in coz it such an adventure lor!



and we had a bad scare too... i spotted a reflection of a creature's eyes but when we drove up to it, the eyes disappeared. SUDDENLY, something flew up from under the car and across the windscreen....



FREAKIN GROUND OWL!



yup:) when we reached the end, there was a humble fishing pond. there were 2 persons fishing there. there're also a few families living there i think... it's really a rural surrounding and whoever lives probably relies only on backup generators for their electiricty supplies.



but it wont matter soon, coz they're being forced to vacate :( THE ARMY LA! All their fault sia :'(



...even tho i stepped on gao sai there last night, i still think that's a beautiful place lor...