Comeback after CNY!!!!!

Hello, everyone... missing my blog so much. I have been very busy for past few months and only able to visit my own blog after Chinese New Year. This is also my first working day after Chinese New Year, 开工大吉!!!!

How's everyone doing? Still good? Still good after Chinese New Year??? hehe... How many of you have weigh yourself after the binge eating during CNY? Hehehe... For those who have been enjoying eating during CNY, please be careful and face the truth, especially when you notice your clothes is getting tighter after CNY. Please go and check your weight now!!!  :P

Before anyone admits, I would like to confess that I gain 1 kg within 2 weeks time. This is all because of the eating, EAting and EATING throughout my CNY holiday at hometown <crying>. Seriously need to bring it down to prevent further increment. LOL... 

I have my own plan for weight reduction. How about you? 

1. To reduce munching time. 

2. To start back some exercises after resting for so long. 

3. To cook myself so as to reduce my outside food intake.

These are my targets to be achieved, let's see how many of them can be achieved successfully.... LOL.... 

Have you started yours? Better start now before too late, before the 1 kg become 2 kg, before the 2 kg become 3 kg.... :)

Post ~ Great Grains (cranberry almond crunch)

Anyone tasted Post Great Grains? 

I had tried some flavours of the Great Grains but this is something very very nice, which is out of my expectation at all. I didn't know why I never buy this before. May be because I had the impression that cranberries are sour...  haha... don't know why I have that impression at the first place. 

This is it.... Great Grains - cranberry almond crunch... This is awesome!!!

This taste is so nice, the almonds and the multigrains inside are so crunchy... the dried cranberries didn't taste too sour, and the sweetness is just nice as I'm never fancy of sweet thing. I had tried the banana nut crunch and crunchy pecans before. But at this moment, I think this cranberry almond crunch will be the top of those that I tasted. 

Last but not least, cereals must come together with milk. Oopss... the milk is too shallow, cannot see from this photo. Guess what, this is my supper... LOL... No one say cereals cannot be taken for supper, right? Besides that, it is never a compulsory to take cereals as breakfast. You can mix and match on your own as long as you know your portion (or in another way, you know your limit)... hehe... 

Dinner & Lunch Box Preparation

My dinner and lunch box? Wondering why dinner and lunch box is prepared together? Let's see the explanation. 

I prepare both of my dinner and lunch box together. The dinner is took soon after everything is prepared while another portion of my dinner will be inserted into my lunch box for my lunch the next day. I believe for those who always cook at home, you will know that it is never easy to cook small meal for 1 or 2 person. Therefore, you need to prepare larger meal each time when you cook. Well, I definitely cannot finish 2 person's size meal for my dinner alone, that is why I prepare more and another extra portion will served as my lunch the next day. What a good idea, huh? hehe... 

Let's see what I prepared for myself...Luxurious huh? hehe... 

I prepared stir fried lady fingers, egg fried together with tomatoes and ABC soup. Everything is included in my meal. Carbohydrate, protein and fiber... the so-called dietitian's Healthy and balanced meal...hehe... 

The vegetable is easy to prepare especially when you use the non stick pan. Another name of lady fingers is okra. Lady fingers usually contain a lot of mucous thing when they come into contact with water. Try to minimize the usage of water in the dishes and try to use non stick pan, it really helps a lot. 

Next, the egg which fried together with tomatoes. This is my first time preparing that. I fried the chopped tomatoes with little oil, then put in the beaten egg. The aroma is so nice, the tomatoes become so sweet after cooking. A simple yet delicious dishes... 

ABC soup is another easy food to prepare. Cut all the vegetables (onion, carrot, potatoes, and tomatoes) and boiled with lots of water. I cut the vegetables into smaller pieces so that everything will be cooked well faster. 

I took half of the food here and packed another half portion for my lunch box the next day. Two meals prepared together, easy and time-saving as well. Good idea for everyone who works.... 

:)

Relaxing ward helps relaxing your mind...

Today saw patient in PSY ward... Let's check out what they actually having inside the ward to help keeping patients' mind calmed and relaxed.... hehe...

There are a few activities done in ward for that purpose. They have karaoke system for singing k, they have several art activities and games. There is also a ping pong table for recreation. Not bad, huh?

This is the key chain and accessories that the patients prepared from cotton and cloth. So colourful, isn't it?

The ward also prepares congkak , allowed the patients to play game with it. I learnt to play this from a therapist, that was my first try for this traditional game, it is very interesting!

Here's another activity that they do in ward, preparing the floor cloth by recycling the old cloth... See the photo below, not bad, huh?

That was a patient's hand making the floor cloth. This patient can do it very fast, it was so speedy until I don't even able to see how it was done. Haha.. Practice really makes perfect!

Let's look at the final piece of hard work that the patient did before. It is so colorful, isn't it?

Here goes my a-few-hours-trip in the ward... Hehe... :)

PS: Relaxing activities in relaxing ward to relax the mind... 

Party Noodle at Bulgogi Brother...

Hihi... I'm back with food... hehe...

This time I visited Bulgogi Brother. This is my second time there and still, I would like to say the menu choices are so limited, unless you are going there for the BBQ. Each ala carte will be served with refillable Korean side dishes. And often, you tends to stuff yourself with the delicious side dishes before moving on with your main dishes, just like me.. hehe... Opps, forgot to take the photo of the side dishes.

One thing that I notice after I visited so many Korean restaurant, they serve a lot of carbohydrate when you order the rice and noodle menu. The carbohydrate amount is so huge, while the protein content is far lesser. The situation will be different if you order BBQ, that will be a lot of protein, but lack of carbohydrate and vegetables. 

This time, I ordered Party Noodle. Here is the photo of my food. 

One big bowl of glass noodle with salty clear soup. Nothing much protein inside, only the tofu pok is available, and of course, some small little vegetables inside. As you can see from the photo, the carbohydrate content is so huge, that most of the food itself is the noodle. It filled up the whole big bowl after mixing up everything. 

What a large portion of carbohydrate they served! For those diabetics out there, beware of what you are eating!

But there is one thing that I like the most -- the corn tea... I like tea and corn tea definitely give you another unique aroma which is different from Chinese tea and Japanese green tea. Hard to describe here, but as I know, not everyone will like the taste of it. Hehe...