Thursday, August 4

His birthday

5am
I woke Abi up because we were going to have Singapore mee hoon for sahur. Talk about irony, huh? Just as he cleared everything on his plate, I went into the study, brought out his birthday gift from the drawer and sang birthday song (grin), surprise!


I loved the look on my husband's face: unsuspecting! So today he turned another year older (aaaww). Oh he is always a wiser man than any other I know my whole life, no doubt about that. Tee hee.


12pm
I was up, finally and began to scavenge the kitchen. Wait, is it even humanly, scavenge? Well whatever, I did that. Then, I started to disturb my drinking buddies in KL through online chat (tongue).


4.30pm
It took me less than five minutes walking to FairPrice. I planned to cook something different today (wink). FYI I go to the supermarket on daily basis. My girl once asked why I do not buy my grocery one shot like that. Well, I hate the thought of not moving my bottom from the house, you know. Therefore I make a point to be outside for fresh air, at least.

7.17pm
Happy iftar to all Muslims! We in Pasir Ris over here got to break our fasting earlier (yay). I hope KLites would be extra patient waiting for their turn. Anyway, bismillah.

I had prepared fusilli with beef and mushroom tomato sauce for Abi's birthday dinner. It is his favorite pasta so I tried hard not to screw this one up. With me fasting and all, I did not know what it tasted like until we actually ate it. What do you know, my husband approved it with flying colors (phew).

The truth is anything that I cook here has been given positive comments by him. Last Tuesday, my nasi lemak received a perfect (whoa, I know). However, I suspect that everything to do with Malaysian air tangan is good enough for Abi. Thank God.

8.45pm
After solat, I served us dessert! What else, right? It was my own creation proudly and I made it during the day using stuffs from the fridge only. I would like to call it MY fruit cake trifle.

Ingredients:
Chocolate chip cookie crumbs

Fruit cake

Chocolate-vanilla swirl ice-cream

Method:
1. Make cookie crumbs as base in a medium height container.

2. Slice fruit cake thinly and arrange the pieces on top of the crumbs. Compact the layer with a spoon.

3. Slice ice-cream thinly and arrange the pieces at the top before compacting it.

4. Freeze the now full container.

The result? When he finished his portion, my husband stole a bite of the trifle from my plate. Enough said.

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Monday, August 1

786

3.30am
This year, I had a funny way of entering Ramadan. I got up to prepare Abi's work attire. Then I cooked instant noodle for early breakfast as today we began fasting.

Yesterday, we ate quite generous chicken rice dish at lunch. For dinner my husband enjoyed nasi kandar and I rojak so we really could not stuff more food into our little tummies, hence the instant noodle. Hmm.

5am
We were driving Abi to the airport. Not long after I dropped him off, his mother called me wishing happy fasting. Aaaww nice, eh? She is one heck of a mom-in-law who I have no complaint of (grin).

10am
I woke up from my nap and bathed before going out to the mall. There was something special to look for but I could not make up my mind about it yet. Man, this was hard and I was running out if time.

1pm
This time it was my turn to catch a flight so I was going to the airport, again! I checked-in, waited and dozed off a couple of times on the bench! I was embarrassed myself but I really could not help it.

6pm
I touched down in Changi and went to the lane that said Singaporeans and residents: Welcome home. Aaaww nice, right? You know come to think of it, this is kind of home. Yeah, maybe our second home but it still feels like home.

I quickly took the train but on the way, Abi and I arranged over the phone to meet up at Pasir Ris Town Park.

7.17pm
We broke our fasting at a Chinese restaurant by the lake starting with dates and Begawan Solo amazing durian-infused nyonya kueh. Then came our main course: sambal fried rice with baby kailan (yummy). We walked off our meal through the park heading towards home. Suddenly, I was feeling nostalgic thus feeling the need to document this memory.

Therefore my so-called chores today involved going to the airport, twice. I slept in, slept at waiting area and slept throughout the flight due to fatigue from the running around. All three times! Tee hee.

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