How much more time left in 2012 to make a Dragon Baby

recently I was told that a friend's friend is being pressured into making a dragon baby in 2012 .... then we start to wonder how much more time does this friend have left .... now we got the answer (up to the very last sec)

click on the countdown picture if you are interested to find out

timing as of when the countdown and this blog post was made

Dragon Babies Wannabe Makers ... set your timer!

2012 Chinese New Year Yu Sheng Lo Hei

The Seven Sayings for preparing Yu Sheng Lo Hei are Nian Nian You Yu 年 年 有 鱼 Every Year Also Got Fish / Extra Da Ji Da Li 大吉大利 Good Fortune & Prosperity Wu Fu Lin Men 五福临门 five fortunes arrive at your door Zhao Cai Jing Bao 招財進寶 Wishing you bring in wealth and treasure Shun Shun Li Li 顺顺利利 Smooth Smooth Success Success Tian Tian Mi Mi 甜甜蜜蜜 Sweet Sweet + Close Close Pian Di Huang Jin 片地黄金 Gold all over our feet

Why cannot go to bed hungry?

Q. 为什么 不 可以 饿着 去 睡觉?
Q. Why cannot go to bed hungry? (饿 è)


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Remaining Flights to MT Fuji Booked

Booked my remaining flight from SG to KL (10th Jul 2012) and KL to SG (20th Jul 2012). 

Total Damage = $29.38 + $54 (inc Tax n Baggage) = $83.88

INCL Flight from KL to TYO n TYO to KL = 306.20

Total Flight COST = $389.58

Thanks to this Free Seats Promo, the total cost for the entire flight from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo and back is about 10 bucks cheaper than my estimation. 

Mt Fuji & Tokyo - 10 Jul 2012 to 19 Jul 2012

Just took the first step to climb Mt Fuji in 2012. Booked the return Airasia flight from KL to Tokyo for $303. Step 2 would be getting the return flight from SG to KL. Step 3 & 4 Learn Japanese conversation daily and start training for mountain climbing. 

Targeting the climb either on Thur 12 Jul 2012 to Friday 13 Jul 2012 or any day within Mon 16 Jul 2012 to Wed 18 Jul 2012. A rest day for Thur 19 Jul and prepare for the journey back at 11pm.

Likely to reach Tokyo Haneda Airport at 2230hrs. Instead of rushing to check in at a hotel / hostel, I would probably try to stay in a capsule hotel or a manga cafe near Tsukiji. Afterwhich, wake up early to visit the fish market at Tsukiji for sushi breakfast. Then check out and make my way to the hotel that I booked.

Would also like to visit Shibuya Station for the very first time. Hopefully I can locate Hachikō bronze statue. Perhaps I would visit the National Science Museum of Japan to see the real Hachikō .

 Last but not least, I would really like to visit the Sumo wrestling training and the Earthquake simulator in Tokyo. Didn't get to do that at the last trip in 2009 so hopefully, this time round, I would finally be able to accomplish that. 

Would love to mess someone up this way

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How to make Salted Egg Crabs Video

Just saw this video ...shared by Sarah who left a comment on my post on making Salted Egg Crabs ... Thank you So much! will go learn from this video

Zombie Totoro

Would you still like Totoro if Totoro looks like that?

I Just Had Sex

I thought got no hope for songs these days and what a pleasant surprise to find this song!

I want to call in the radio station to dedicate this song to folks who just had sex
...hahahahaha but then again our radiostation got no balls one

Sex should be celebrated like this... great video ... the song ain't the same without the music video

Victor's Kitchen @ Sunshine Plaza - Updates with New Dishes

Two new dishes from Victor's Kitchen that stole my heart.

< Panfried Waterchest Nut Cake. It's not exactly a new dish. It's been available since May but I haven't been updating my blog.

 Love the crispy exterior and the sweet taste of Waterchest nut inside. This is one dish that balance the sweetness well. Quite a refreshing change of taste when you have your fill of dim sim there.

from what I know, this dish is only available during the weekend, starting from Friday.  Might be available on other days like Monday but call to check.


Next dish that I tried today

                           Golden Egg Yolk Lava Bun>

a dish that I been looking for a long time. a bun that is filled with salted egg sauce in a bun. I tried it in a KL dim sum restaurant and their version is a deep fried bun with the savory salted egg yolk in it. Although Victor's Kitchen version comes in a steam bun format, the watery yolk in it was way better than the one I had in KL. Sweet & savory yolk that gush out when you take a bite. Beware, I dripped this salted egg sauce all over my phone when I took my first bite.

these two dishes are currently my favorites and can't wait to bring my frens over to try.

Address: 91 Bencoolen Street #01-21 Sunshine Plaza Singapore Tel: +65 9838 2851

Music for the Night

Rostropovich Bach Cello Suite No.1 Prelude


Bach, Air on the G string (Air on a G string, string orchestra)

Next Halloween, I would like to dress up as ...

Found this on Facebook

This is the Best Halloween Costume .. creative , disgusting and menacing ... all at the same time!

Cookie Man didn't survive Halloween

Since Cookie Man's bloody Red photo didn't win the recent Red contest, I decided to publish some old photos that I took while I was in Uni and the good o' baking days.

who killed Cookie Man? was it in the kitchen with a spoon?

Hope you have fun with these Pictures... I know I did when I took them

Let's do a CSI for the mystery death of the Cookie Man

Take a walk on the wild side with the Medicine Seller

Medicine Seller by Jenzee

Just in time for Halloween.

My good friend pointed out to me that one of the anime that I introduced to her is being shown on Animax. The Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales featuring the Medicine Seller, a occult detective that goes around solving and performing exorcism for strange mysterious cases.

I was introduced to this character via an article that presented Anime for Non Anime viewers (lost the url for that article). Among the list of 10 odd anime, The Medicine Seller series (a spin off from The Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales series, called Mononoke) stood out the most for the unorthodox animation style and multi-layered story telling of supernatural tales.

The visual aspect presents a paper puppet type of animation that infuse with plenty of funky editing. There's repetitive motifs used to tell the story but it's never boring and it brings a chilling aura to the story. The artworks is filled with beautiful art of traditional Japanese culture, scenery and folklore that mesmerizing to look at.

So far, the story format that I encountered for The Medicine Seller's series were basically a supernatural story told in two to three episodes. It often starts with a demon terrorizing a group of people and the Medicine Seller happened to wander right into the action. He has a bunch of weapons to detect the demon spirit but the main weapon would be his sword that could only be unsheathe if he learn the spirit's Form, Truth and Regret.

In the pursue for the Form, Truth and Regret of the demon spirit, the story often reveal plenty of twist from the initial premise. It often dig out the ugly side of human and often the folks that are being terrorized are the guilty with a much more terrible sin that the manifestation of the demon spirit.

 The Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales currently showing at Animax on Friday 8 to 9pm (repeat at 12 midnight) is up to Episodes 5 and 6. The story arc that they are done with was Bake Neko. The problem with Animax screening of Ayakashi was beside the obvious cropping / framing error, there's some form of censorship with the Anime. The problem is that the story telling is in a rather complex form and with the removal of certain scenes, it made it harder to understand what really went on. Personally, I feel that it's a good place to get acquainted with this series but Animax isn't really a good medium to fully appreciate this series. The story would tend to spill over the 2 episodes per week constrain and imagine waiting 1 week to compete the story. Plus the dense and complicated story would work best if all the relevant episodes are watch in one sitting.

Thankfully, the wonderful internet has the solution. So far I managed to find Bake Neko from The Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales,  Noppera-bō のっぺらぼう, Nue 鵺 & Bakeneko 化猫 from the Mononoke TV series. 

Highly recommended for folks who like weird twisty supernatural tales.

sun light

Was watching the extra segment on the Sunshine DVD (the Danny Boyle film) and came across this bit by Leonard Shlain... it's such a lovely way to describe Sunshine and how it link to the movie. A segment that I had to rewatch a few time to absorb the awe of what he was saying.

Fire is nothing more than sunlight stored.
So when you light a log in your fireplace... what you're witnessing is the release of the sunlight that was stored a long time ago in a primeval forest.
so there's something wonderful about starring at a fire and realiez that this is just another manifestation of sunlight ... coming out in another way

Leonard Shlain ~ Author ~

Just loving Sunshine more and more