11 years

Today marks the 11th year that Hub and I have been together since day 1 when we first got together.

It's been a long long time.

And to mark our 11th year anniversary, we had to get a plumber to come in to fix our toilets. -_-"

The silly toilets had been leaking for some time now and finally, we moved our ass in getting a plumber to come in.

OHH... Now then I know, the water tank can be removed like this! (Bedroom toilet)Bedroom toilet DONE. Lots of tools...Plumber working on the kitchen toilet.
This silly white thing (that the plumber was trying to saw through) costs us $50 JUST to replace! Made of gold or what?!

Like so easy lor and it took him less than an hour to do both toilets!

He merely changed the flushing system inside and then fix the tank back to the wall! And it costs us $270! *ouch*

Now we have 2 perfectly good flushing systems... in fact too good lor. The new system is so powerful that we use too much water! And coz this is an old bowl, there is no half flush with the knob!! *sigh* Means my water bills will increase... got to find some ways to save water.

Heart pain things aside, hubby and I went to J8 for dinner.

KFC.

Sinful but finger licking good you know. heee....

Walked around and we came back with a Monkey cushion from Mini Toons. Hubby sponsored half.. hahahaha..I like this monkey. So cute! I needed a new back cushion for office, the ones I have are already flatten. Time to change.

Best of all, it has another function! Serves as hand warmers!!! Perfect for my ever freezing fingers in office! That's hubby demostrating the warmers effects.

I saw a similiar one in Ikea before, was tempted to get it then, but that is very small and it was socks popping out so can't really lean comfortably on it. Anyway, that was supposed to be for kids to keep their feet warm and to prevent them from kicking away the blankets or something to that effect, that's why it has the socks thing.

and a black top from Cotton onWanted to get a black racer back, can't find any and happen to see this, and it's only $10. Get lor.

Took a walk back home after that in the cool night.

Certainly felt good to be strolling home with hubby... it seems like ages ago when we last did that too!

Yet, another adddition

I always nag my mom that she buys far too many pots and pans for the family... and I think I truly am her daughter.

I am doing the very same thing!!

Brand new Stainless Steel Tiger Thermal Magic Cooker, 6L.
Now, I can make my soups... something that I ALWAYS say to myself on purchase of a new pot. =/

Thing is, I have the Tanyu pots, Slow cooker all of which, I'm hardly using.

And my reasons for getting this Tiger Thermal Magic cooker?

I have to watch the fire for Tanyu pots... a luxury that I do not have. My Tanyu pot is now for porridge and barley water. Such a waste hor.

Slow cooker is easy, but the soups n food is blah... Hubby finds it ok. But I find the product soooooo blah!!

Now, with this Magic Cooker, I can just boil my soups over the stove in the mornings and then leave it in the outer case and have good soup for dinner! Maybe even desserts or some tonics...

Plus, I've been aiming at this pot for the last 3 years and it's only now that I'm getting it... So I really must put it to good use in order to fully make it worth my amount spent.

So happened that my mom is not cooking today, so, after a super long period, Hubby and I went grocery shopping after mass today!

And for dinner, we had pre-mixed rice (influenced by Clement & Wise)Carrot & Corn soup (in the new pot) re-heat on stove after cooking in the outer casing for a few hours - sorry very dark. I was blocking the light...Scrambled eggs with ham and tomatoes on lettuceAnd altogether, our dinner...

Rice with a soup and a dish.Pardon the newspaper, we are too lazy to clean up so with a newspaper, we can then just throw every single thing, have a simple dinner without worrying about splashing food on the table.

Conclusion...

Rice was ok. I was silently thanking God that the grains was not too hard... First time cooking mixed rice, not sure of the amount of water needed.

Eggs not bad. I mean how wrong can eggs go?

Soup.. ahh.... added too much water. Also, in future will get those bi-coloured corn instead as it is sweeter as compared to these pure yellow ones. But overall, can taste the sweetness of the corns and carrots. Just that silly me added too much water. The soup looks too clear to be nice. =(

I wanted to cook more soup so that I can have it for dinner for tomorrow and also some for hubby when he comes home after class. But... greedy lor...

Anyway, I shall practise more often so that I can get it right! It's getting sooo boring to keep eating outside food!

So sad lor, Hubby was not being encouraging at all. =( He was like "You sure, you will use the pot?"

=(

But then again, to give him credits, he did the washing up after we finished dinner. And he did say "After May, can cook more often already" coz that's when my exams would have ended. And he did went grocery shopping with me, lug the food back and also to volunteer to help in the kitchen.

So all in not that bad la.

OHH!!! When I was frying the eggs, hubby was helping me by covering the splattering frying pan (frying ham) with newspaper and our converation went like this...

Hub: "We probably are the only ones who fry things like this. Where got people use newspaper to cover oil wan?!"
Me: "No! I grew up seeing my mom do this especially when frying fish. Don't your mom do that?"
Hub: "No lei."
Me (Shocked): "Then how she fry things?"
Hub (matter of factly) : "Let the oil splatter lor"
Me (even more shocked):"Har??? Then after that, it's such a mess to clean up!!!!"
Me (casually):"Oh.. Then your mom and I cannot own the same kitchen... sure argue lei."
Hub: "Sometimes used the metal cover..."
Me: "Oh. Then it's ok la. Got cover can already, but not let oil splatter so messy and oily and so troublesome to clean up. But cover still got to wash ma, newspaper can throw."
Hub: "Ya lor, oily" followed by silence....

So people, how do YOU fry your things?

I'm the lazy sort. The less things to wash and clean up the better. If I can juse 1 plate for everything, I would! But I can't, so too bad.

But still, I'll try very hard to minimise the number of plates, pots and things that I got to use.