Japanese French fries

Trust the Japanese to come up with such snacks. This potato’s quite nice. Again a tad salty. Texture is good, light and crunchy.

CNY hamper – First pic

My hamper, in progress. Will post up once completed. I used a birdcage, placed the flowers fastened with thin wires.

Japanese titbit – pistachios

These japanese pistachios coated with dunno-what-coating taste rather nice. I finished a bag in two nights. My only grousse, a tad too salty. Whats with japanese titbits that they are so liberal with the salt?

Weird dreams again

Dreamt of people from my past long gone. Sigh.
I’d prefer a new future, new slate clean.

My day at the mechanic’s, or rather, two workshops

Took a one day leave from work to service the car.
Sent the car in at 8am to the service center. Came out almost 1k poorer. Now at the second workshop replacing the absorbers. The car should run like new now. I had an uninteresting lunch… Not what I’d usually go for. In fact, in my current sleepy state, I fancy having a Machiato and fried carrot cakes.

I have this theory about caring for cars – early detection of problems and early replacement of parts will spare you longterm headaches. This is why even though the car is approaching its 8th birthday, its condition is comparable to a car that’s 2years of age. I’m proud of the fact that I take very good care of my car. It looks rather decent inside and out for a car its age and it has served me very well. Parents been asking me to change cars but I’m a bit reluctant. My car still runs well.

Tags: car, car maintenance

Nightcap @ CoffeeBean

Dyslexia comic strip

Tags: comic, dyslexia

Meatball with ratatouille

Took the photo before I covered the meatballs with more sauce. Did two plate of these so it was about 50 meatballs. All finished. Very good responds.

New readings

Losing my parking tickets

Its become a rather inconvenient “bad habit”. I pay, take my change and walk off without my parking ticket. There were a good few times I found my ticket on top of the machine left behind by some kind soul. Other times dropped long the way to my car. One other time it was underneath the car.
Last week, I did it again. Kept searching and searching but couldn’t find it anywhere so feeling defeated, I went to the parking attendant’s office to declare the ticket lost – and to pay the ‘lost of ticket’ fine of $25. The parking guy made my day when he said he had found my ticket! Yay!

I wasn’t so lucky today.
Same modus operadi. Paid, took change and walked off. Ticket really missing. Couldn’t find it anywhere. So in the end I paid $25 for the fine.