Sharing: Leap year – propose him or not?!?

Learnt something new today..unique yet cute tradition (OMG…I felt like I’m so out-dated LOL)

Today, 29 Feb 2012, is a one of the leap day which is an extra day added during a leap year. It makes our days in a year become 366 instead of 365 ( indirectly we need to work another one day this year –_-“).

Here are some superstitious and belief for leap years:

• According to Irish traditions, girl has a special privileges on this leap day (only happen once in every four years, so use it wisely lady :)). They can propose to their boyfriend (well nowadays there’s no diff whether who is going to propose first- but for myself, I still stick to old tradition). And the most interesting part is that if the man rejects the girl, they need to pay a PENALTY, such as:
• In European countries (Denmark) : the man has to buy the girl 12 pairs of gloves so that the girl can wear the gloves to hide the embarrassment of not having an engagement ring
• In Finland, the man has to buy the girl fabrics for a skirt
• In  Greece, marriage in a leap year is considered unlucky so they always try to avoid to get married on that year

Personally myself would wait for a guy to do the proposal hahaha…and girl, let’s the guy do their part and we do our parts ♥♥♥

MyDay: Friday's Inspiration

1. When is the most important time? Now

2. Who is the most important person? The person you are with

3. What is the most important thing to do? To care

- Ajahn Brahmn-

Recipe: Parmesan Chicken with Homemade Garlic Croutons

As you know…I’m a big fan of foodwishes.com and again I tried his Parmesan Chicken plus homemade garlic croutons… He love it and so do my colleagues who have tried it ( I brought the leftover for my office lunch hehe…)

You must give it a try… so easy..simple yet yummy…

1. Homemade garlic croutons ( prepare it one day before)

 

• 5 slices of plain bread or half loaf French baguette (cut them into pieces)
• olive oil ( to cover all the bread)
• 4 or 5 gloves minced fresh garlic
• salt and pepper
• pinch of paprika
• dried oregano herbs
• finely grated parmesan cheese

 

1. Mixed the olive oil + garlic + salt + pepper + paprika, leave it for about 3 hours or more
2. Pre heat oven 150C
3. Use a small strainer to strain the olive oil while pour it inside the bowl of bread ( as we are not going to mix the garlic together with the bread, you can use the garlic for the parmesan cheese)
4. Stir it well and add the oregano herbs + parmesan cheese inside ( make sure they all blend together) 
5. Spread the well-blended-breads into the pan and now ready to bake
6. First bake it for 15 mins…stir it and then bake another 15 mins or more or until golden brown and of course crispy

2. Parmesan Chicken

 

• garlic (leftover from making the homemade garlic croutons)
• 2 boneless skinless chicken breast (served for 3 or 4 persons)
• olive oil
• marinara sauce (spaghetti sauces)
• chesseeess ( shredded mozzarella, grated parmesan, grated cheddar)
• homemade garlic croutons
• dried herbs (oregano, parsley, basil)

 

1. Pan fried the boneless chicken breast with olive oil (half cooked)
2. Preheat the oven to 177C
3. Prepare deep square baking pan, pour and spread the olive oil and garlic inside
4. Lay the half cooked chicken inside (including the chicken juices from the pan) + mixed herbs
5. pour the marina sauce (until it all cover the chicken)
6. spread the garlic croutons on the top of the sauce + sprinkle some of the mixed cheese
7. (again) spread the garlic croutons again until it cover all the top of the pan + sprinkle the mixed cheese as per your request
8. ready to bakeeeee…. bake it for 35 mins or more

Happy experiment ♥♥♥

My Day: Never Ending Fairytale???

Do you believe in fairytale??? Yes…I used to… but now I realized that as I’ve grown up that life is far more complicated than I think it is when I’m a kid. It isn’t just a straightforward fairytale and also discovered that there’s no such thing as never ending fairytale in this world…

My Day : Our second Valentine ♥

Happy Valentine Everyone♥♥♥

Hope all of you have a blissful Valentine Day either with your another half, family, friends or maybe by your own… Sit back, relax and enjoy the day :D

Here’s my 2012 Valentine…and it was our second Valentine and I’m looking forward more on it…*cross finger*

Supposedly to have a lovely yet romantic valentine dinner…but turned out a lovely yet romantic  valentine SUPPERRRRR >.<

Start eating at 10 plusss, and one of the waiter told us that they were experiencing a traffic jam in the kitchen at that time… Fortunately, I bought “Pocky” (as my valentine’s gift to him hahahahha…what a stingy yet mean girlfriend lol), and we ate it there… and of course it make other couples jealous of us hahaha….they kept staring at us, wondering is that a complimentary from the restaurant.

And here comes the food (finallyyy)….

   

The food is quite nice but actually I expect more Moroccan dishes…

My Day: Welcoming Big Bear Bear

Hi, His name is Big Bear Bear…and he is being adopted by my bf for me :D

Name                                : Big Bear Bear (BB)

Date of Adopted             : 05 February 2012

Height                              : 1.8 m

Weight                             : Unknown (assume 80 kg :P)

Country of Origin           : Hong Kong

Ooppss…let me introduce that little bird…that’s Reddy angry bird, he is being adopted as my bday present from him. I think just because I love to scold, angry and throw unreason tantrum to him…so that’s why he gave me that…( Is it because whenever I get angry, my face will become that red and have a super nasty face like that little Reddy angry bird?haizzz…)

To see how big he is…here’s the comparison with him hahahaha….