We were given some frozen feng (the "e" is pronounced "eh") (or curry feng) about a month ago. Last week, we finally decided to heat it up for dinner.
Feng is a traditional (southern? i.e. Melaka or Singapore) Eurasian dry curry popularly eaten during Christmas. It is made up of finely diced pork, liver, and other innards . The curry has a distinct taste of ginger and coriander (I think)... reminds me of curry puff filling :o).
[CUrry feng: Simply feng-tastic!]
After the Chinese New Year holidays, a colleague from China gave us a bag of roasted pine nuts. These delicious nuts are available from the northern region of China. The smell from the bag of pine nuts reminds me of the smell of leather :o)... exotic...
[Roasted pine nuts: whole nuts, shells, and the insides]
At our apartment, we have open-air common car parking lots that are available on a first-come-first-served basis for residents who have more than one car, or for visitors.We know of a particular resident at a neighbouring block who owns a motorcycle and (presumably) at least one car. He usually parks his motorcycle just at the entrance to his apartment block, while he parks his car at this *particular* common parking lot.On numerous occasions, when he wishes to drive his car out, we have seen him riding his motorcycle to this *particular* common car parking lot, drive his car just out of the parking lot, and then park his motorcycle in the just-vacated parking lot, i.e. to reserve the lot for his car.It is understandable if he had swapped cars if he has more than one car (afterall, car parks are meant for cars). In fact, logically he should have another parked at his designated owner's covered car park. But using a motorcycle to reserve a common parking lot?Hmmph!
[Priority parking?]
We are happy to announce that we're expecting our second baby! Angie is now 20 weeks along and baby is due early August 2009. Some of you picked up our hint when we blogged about Julian being 20 months old :o).Things are pretty much the same as when we were expecting Julian - no morning sickness, no cravings, etc. Angie has felt baby moving since 3 March 2009 at 18+ weeks (Julian made his presence felt when he was 20 weeks).Again, we had warned our gynaecologist not to spill the beans on baby's gender.The feeling this time around is noticeably different compared to when we were expecting Julian. Obviously this is due to the fact that we are preoccupied with Julian. But we try our level best to remind ourselves that we have another little one on the way and we try to show as much affection as we can :o).
Julian turned 21 months old on 28 February 2009.Since we started weaning Julian about a month ago, he's developed an addiction for his pacifier ('tot-tot' in his language). Previously he would only take it when he wanted to sleep (when mummy's not around). But now he would ask for it even when he's not sleepy. We try to discourage it as much as possible by distracting him with other things. But we also realise this is probably his 'replacement' attachment, so sometimes we give in.Another improvement is Julian now travels in his car seat willingly and without any fuss. Right up to Chinese New Year, he was still relunctant to sit in his car seat when the three of us were travelling together. On several occasions, we forced him in. Then mummy would sit in front and leave him alone at the back. We found that he would only fuss and insist on being taken out when Mummy sat at the back with him. Since 5 February 2009 we noticed that he no longer objects to being put in his seat and is in fact very cooperative :-)He's still practising his jumps. There's improvement. In fact he jumps on the bed, lifting both feet off the surface. But he's not confident nor steady enough to do the same on hard surfaces just yet. (He practised walking the same way - on the bed!)
[Making a mess]
[Julian having a go with his jumbo-sized colour pencils]
We presented our tenth Engaged Encounter Weekend. The 72nd Catholic Engaged Encounter Weekend was held from 20-22 February 2009 at the College General, Penang. 24 couples attended the weekend. We were on the presenting team with Fr. Francis Andrew, and Terence & Christine Dragon from the Singapore Engaged Encounter Community.This was the first time we were away from Julian for an extended period (3 days, 2 nights).
[Participants of EE72]
