happy father's day!!

we had wanted to keep it as a secret but it was too difficult, esp when food had to be prepared earlier. and he was, of all sundays, NOT playing golf in the morning.

so, we had to tell oz on sat night that the three of us were going to cook him a father's day dinner.

a 4-course dinner.

xru cooked this pumpkin and sweet potato soup, creamy and delish :-)

accompanied by home-made baguette

wei has mastered grilled portobello mushrooms, yum yum :-)

the entre was wagyu ribeye, my contribution.

and this dessert, pavlova, was put together by the three of us.

of course, there was red wine and laughter in healthy doses.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

time-out

strawberry frozen margarita and a chilean white. lovely after dinner drinks on a lovely balmy sat evening at the beach.

and a much needed break from back to back online mahjong.

it's esp bad when you have two soul mates with their own laptops on the bed, cursing and swearing when the game doesn't go their way...

for me, i also needed to be torn away from my Macbook which was assuaging my never-ending obsession with korean dramas.

on sat night, when our search for the elusive KL black noodles proved unsatisfactory, we decided to not go home to our laptops as yet. instead, oz suggested driving out to east coast park for drinks.

his instincts were good. he was spot-on in locating a beach hut which served drinks right by the sea,  a place he had seen on his walks in the mornings.

it turned out to be a most relaxing evening. it was the place to chill, to people-watch and to sing along to the loud 80's music they were churning out.

sunset bay, it's called. not quite aptly named considering it's located on the east side of singapore but that's not impt.

what's impt is i have found my own slice of heaven without having to leave this island state.

it's like having your mojito and drinking it too :-) 

roaring good times

this time,  the roaring comes not from my ear but from my laughter, MUAHAHAHA...

i can hear now, i can hear now!

no, i don't have a sick eardrum, just a very congested one.

so congested no ordinary ear drop will work. instead, a vacuum thingamajig was called for.

yes, now i can laugh. but it wasn't so funny when you are seated in the hot seat, squirming in embarrassment as the ENT doc seemed to take great delight in showing you the chunks of gunk he had fished from the depths of your ear canal.

lesson learnt: NEVER, NEVER clean your ears.

                         not with your finger, not with your towel, and esp not with cotton buds.

this lesson cost me two hundred bucks.

roaring bad times

as i stood by the sea this morning,  i knew i have to see an ENT specialist fast. 

though i can hear the beautiful sounds of the lapping of the waves and the chirping of the birds, the roaring in my right ear tells me something is not right.

what was thought to be a simple case of hardened wax is not to be; another doc has told me that my eardrum looks 'not very healthy'. i had to seek a doc in penang where i was for the past few days with wei after pain set in and the ear was no less clear. 

and he advised me to seek specialist help or i could turn deaf.

just saw my family doc and he's setting up an appt for me. ASAP, he said.

it's no fun when your hearing's half gone. i am irritable. and hot under the collar though tanks are all i wear in this sweltering heat.

:-(