Cleaning kitchen fan

The kitchen fan has long over due it's scheduled cleaning date. I planned to get it clean before the lunar new year. However, it has been dragged, and dragged and dragged. I was simply too lazy to climb up the stool, to bring the dirty fan down. I hate those greasy black soot clinging tightly to the fan >:/

This afternoon when I looked up to that poor dirty fan, I said to myself, "no more delay". Unscrewing, dismantling, wiping, washing, drying and finally fixing back. I have a clean fan again :)

The fan blade starts spinning again, and it's counting down to my next cleaning ...

Striking out an item from your to-do list, is one of life's beautiful moments ...

Blessing in disguise

My son would hang this small Doraemon plush toy on my kitchen fridge door every time before he left for school. He would collect it back when he returns from school. When all the family members left for school or work, this plush toy will become my kitchen companion.  

Day by day, week by week, it has become yellowish with dirt unknowingly.  I told myself, I need to give it a scrub one day.  However, it drags and drags until yesterday ...

I accidentally stained the plush toy with sour cream while mixing the bread. My first thought was to wipe the stain away using a tissue paper. But, second thought, although the stain has been physically removed, the sour smell still linger. The only way was to give it a bubble bath. After a few rounds of rinsing, it looked like a brand new plush toy happily sunbathing in the morning ray.

If not because of the stain, the Doraemon plush toy would not have its bath :)😊🌻

Is the haze episode over?

Singapore has been blanketed by haze starting from 14 June 2013. It's The island worst haze episode since the year 1997. The haze PSI hit a record high of 401 on 21 June.

However, the blue sky returns after 1 pm on 22 June without any warning. No rain, no strong wind. I came out of the kitchen, and was greeted by the pale blue sky when I looked up through the hall's bay window. Astonishing!

In the midst of people queuing frantically for N95 musks, the haze cleared off without leaving any trace or smell Amazing nature...

Never Give Up ...

20 June 2013

I baked a butter marble cake by steaming. I went wrong in one of the steps. I supposed to soften the butter, but ended up melting it after leaving it in the warm rice cooker for too long 😔

I was uncertain whether I could still carry on the process. I may end up with a flat cake.  However, I decided to take the risk, by counting on the baking powder to do the leavening job. 

During the first 10 minutes of steaming process, the cake didn't show much height increase. My hope of getting a raised cake was slim. However, towards the last five minutes of the steaming process, the cake amazingly trying to gain height like a normal cake. I kept my finger cross that the cake wouldn't collapse when it left the steamer.

It was a beautiful small cake with fine texture. I was glad that I didn't gave up on it :)

An achievement

I'm so happy that readers from far away lands have clicked on my blog. 

Hello my friends :)

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Have a wonderful day, my friends :)

Captured a flying bird through iPhone 4S

I've tried several times in capturing the flying birds outside my window using iphone, but failed. 

Sometimes they flew out of my camera range;

Sometimes they just appeared like a black spot, without any shape of the bird;

Or sometimes, they just blended with the background, and you couldn't tell there's a bird in the picture :(

Today must be a lucky day for an amateur photographer. I captured TWO perfect pictures with clear outline of the zipping bird silhouette :

Picture 1

Pictures 2

 

What a lucky day despite a hazy day :)