Life and Music

Tao Sar Piah 101

One day not too long ago when I was feeling hungry, I made tao sar piah with OF using a recipe I found online.  Chinatown sells the same thing at 12 piahs for $5 but I was trying to save money.  It is only 25 cents each in Singapore and you can buy one big box for $10 SGD?

Started with the dough

Cut the dough evenly and roll it into balls

Cooking the green bean filling

2 different sets of dough - oily and the not-so-oily

Did some fancy rolling to combine the dough before adding the filling

There!  One batch

Make it all shiny and pro-looking with egg yolk glaze

Towards the end... Out of shape piahs

DONE!!!  Yum!

The filling...

Purin likes it too!

Smells nice!

Happy Purin!  

Purin wants more!

We finally finished making the ~50 tao sar piahs at 7am in the morning.  We started at 10pm or so.  Looks much more difficult than it seems...  

Fantastic Contraption

I've been playing this physics game.  The advantages of being jobless.  One of the best games ever!! 

The objective is to get the red object/s in the red area.

A link to see my fantastic contraption.

Another link to see my fantastic contraption.

And the pros:

Here, here, and here.

Unemployed

Today is my first day without a job.  I'm not in school and jobless.  It is kind of depressing.  But I get to sleep late.  I've been rather tired of work.  It became tragically repetitive, boring and depressing after some time.  And I have been working at the same place, doing the same thing for approximately 11 months.

Yikes.  I'm glad to get out of my job.  I would have liked to stay a month longer... but things are the way things are.  Not within my control.  Typical.  But at least I do not have to drag myself out of bed each morning and go to a place I do not wish to go, meet people I do not wish to meet.  But I need the money.  Ah, life is full of contradictions.

I just feel unproductive.  I really don't like wasting time.  Work was a total waste of time but at least I got paid.  I applied for some craigslist jobs.  Lots of things seemed pretty dubious.  -_-..

Well, I have approximately 1.5 months to figure things out.  Maybe I can land something interesting.  The economy is tragically bad, lots of firms want unpaid interns to exploit.  Tragic.  Maybe I should go on a holiday.  I don't know.

Lots of reading to do.  But I just don't feel like reading.  

Strangely Disturbing

Read the previous blog post before seeing this.  It really changes your perception of things...

Cute Turtle

This is super funny.  I keep watching it over and over again.  What's wrong with me!!