i love to eat, here's what i do in Corey Kitchen

I love to eat!! and i find cooking and baking a good form of de-stressing (but the cleaning up does get my goat).  I have another blog which i set up a few years ago to "file" my recipes. I've now imported those, plus the few that i have in this blog into my Corey Kitchen Blog. Do have a look and yes, I do welcome comments and queries :)

How we take reading and writing for granted

i was trying to enroll my son into a international school, and there were assessment tests to go for, and my boy didn't do so well. reason being: he can hardly read and write. he will be turning 6 in a few months time.

i am not being biased here, my son is brillant, he has been tested and has an IQ of a genius, but he can barely read and write. my fault. he hated writing and reading when we enrolled him into pre-school the year he turned four years old, so i relented and didn't push him in his writing and spelling homework at all. in fact, i just didn't bother letting him do his homework. thus, my child cannot read and write, and he now have problems learning his lessons in school as he cannot read the instructions given in his lessons.

i am now going to apply the Dolch lists intensively and am hoping that his super power memory will help him out here. I have created a blog solely to monitor and track his progress on his learning to read and write with this method. please wish us Godspeed. many thanks :)

FB, off.

I've always been a Facebook addict. posting, liking, sharing, commenting, the works. with the on-coming elections, my fb timeline is filled with lots of negativity, and it's bringing me down. I have to admit that I did contribute to those in the week before, but now it has really put me off social media. not only fb, but social media platforms where there's a lot of local content in general. I do peek into Instagram once a day or so, but not with the intensity of before.

i now enjoy reading on the kindle app on my iDevices, researching on ways to help my son read and write better, as he is really weak in that area. and also to look for recipes to fuel one of my passion in life, culinary experiments and adventures, as I really love to eat!

so yeah, facebook, off.

KASI POTONG SAMA DIA!!

i was happily enjoying a zen moment making fridge magnet photos of my Sunshine Girl this morning

.... and when i was in the midst of cutting up the photos to size before laminating them i received a message, informing me that someone was trolling me very rudely on a social media platform.

funnily enough, i wasn't even angry at all. if this given incident happen sometime back, my first impulse should have been to castrate his puny kukuchiao with the cutter board..

but today, i actually wasn't even bothered at all. it's like a real "whatever" kinda situation                    .........  REALLY! i really think that he's really not worth my time at all. i had to really think real hard to come up with some choice words to give to the fella, when normally i would gleefully sound only without even having to think, like a second nature

anyways, because someone else was really really pissed off at this kuchi rat, i had to do something, right? so i went and sound the fella back, and a while later the kuchi rat apologised. case closed. water under the bridge and all that.

note: i didn't even have the mood to take those photos, but postings are always more interesting with photos, right? so i had to reluctantly take the cutting board photos

From a fish to a two-drinks-max

I am a cheap drunk, and i'm happy about that.

In my twenties, i used to be able to hold my alcohol real well, or as they say in my neck of the woods, "drinks like a fish". It was an occupational hazard, as i used to own and run a pub. a bottle of jack daniel's per night used to be the norm, on top of the beers and God knows what else i used to gulp down. oh, and the bottle of JD, i meant that the whole bottle for me, not one that i opened and then shared amongst the lot of us. hard liquor, beers, cocktails, shots, you name it, this Ah Moi could down it, and then some.

Nowadays, all it takes is 2 drinks, and i want to sleep after that. Nicely tipsy is how i like it. Happily nicely buzzed :) and it's way cheaper too, do you know how much a bottle of Strongbow costs??!!?

Now when i see "young" folks having photos and showing off all the alcohol they have lined up or consumed, only one phrase and then one word comes to my mind. the phrase, "are you driving?", and the word, "stupid".

yeah, yeah, yeah, so you and your lot can drink a lot. is being an alkie really something to brag about? been there, done that, wrote the book.

as i said, i'm a cheap drunk, and i'm happy about that.