My Fluffy Life~

During my recent trip to

Bali, we only booked two nights of hotel through the free and easy tour. As we have 4 days and 3 nights, we went scouring for another night of hotel there. I think it would be better and cheaper to book hotel on spot rather than pre-booking them. They have many unique hotels and it is much cheaper than booking through travel agency.  I would now better for my next trip, if I am going there again. Could hardly stand the freaking hot weather!

I found a fabulous and yet to easy to make recipe on stuffed avocado (with shrimps). I just watched the video on how to make it and it’s really easy. I have an avocado in my fridge, shall I try it? Here’s how to make it :For this recipe, you will need:

·   3 avocados·   1/2 green onion

·   2 tsp. mayonnaise

·   1 lemon

·   1/4 lb. cooked bay shrimp

·   salt and pepper

Open the Avocados
Cut the avocado lengthwise all the way around. Twist the halves and using your knife, strike and remove the pit. With a spoon remove the avocado from the peel and place it in a large mixing bowl. Do this with all the avocados.

Mash the Avocado Pulp

Use a potato masher to slightly mash the avocados so they still have chunks in it. Save the shells for later.

Prepare the Avocado Filling

Then, cut the green onion into thin strips. Add this to the mixture. Season the avocado with some salt and pepper. Squeeze half the lemon into the bowl. Next add the mayonnaise and combine this all together.

You can add the shrimp whole, or first give them a rough chop. Put the shrimp into the bowl, then mix it all together.

Serve the Stuffed Avocados

With a spoon, scoop the mixture back into the shells of the avocados. Chill for a few hours and then serve. Enjoy!

The other day, I helped my father to clear up his store room as he wanted to repaint it. There are just so many junks accumulated throughout the 16 years we have been living in the house.

The hardest part is to go through all his old documents and decide what was to go into the dustbin and what was to keep. He even had his old car insurance quotes with him for so many years! And it was good to see all the old pictures again, the good old memories..

My cough syrup is running out and I am wondering if I should go back to the clinic to get more prescriptions. I haven’t been coughing much lately except for yesterday night due to consumption of cold drinks.

But the cough syrup does help me sleeps better! Or else I would have turned and tossed for quite some time before able to fall asleep. 
Well, someday, I guess I’ll have to invest in the sleep number bed or else it would be worse when I am sharing a bed with someone else!

Every month I try to calculate my monthly expenses to see if I have overspent. With the bad economy, one couldn’t be too careful to watch their spending. 

But since early of this year, I find that my monthly expenses has been quite high, way above my budget. It is due to the unavoidable expenses like wedding gifts, elliptical, medical check up and others. 

Why aren’t they many unavoidable income that comes my way?

I think it has been over 3 years since I last met my insurance agent! It must have been cruel of me to keep refusing to meet her when she is in town. However she called again yesterday night and insisted to meet me as she wants to send me the new insurance quote. 

Well, can’t she send them to me through email instead? I am a little reluctant to meet up in case she is shoving more policy to my way. Do you have same concern like me when your agent calls? Or am I just being paranoid?

When the majority are girls, the topic usually would be about shopping, cooking, family and household stuff. But when the majority are guys, I was almost dying of boredom with the topic like guns, shooting, Ferrari parts, gadgets and cars! Now I am thankful that most of the time, there are more girls than guys that join our lunch sessions at work!

Yesterday night, YC turned out unexpectedly at our house about 9.30pm. He gave me a shock when he made some funny sound at my window; my room is at the front of the house. I couldn’t see him as it was dark outside and for a while, I was scared! 

But turned out, it was just old friend, looking for someone to have late dinner with him. Or my case, supper time on weekday! It was good to catch up with him and talked craps; about our lives, works, mobile phones, steel buildings, dreams and the usual topic, girls.

I just realised that PC fair is just another 2 weekend away (10th -12th April) and I was planning to go back to hometown that weekend! Apart from the crowd, I always love jostling the fair to grab some stuff at exceptional prices! This time round, I am thinking of getting some compact flash cards and stock up my blank DVDs as well as checking out the camera prices for Vivian. But I guess unless I find someone to go, I would have to postpone my trip back to hometown. 

This week the time passes very fast that without realising, it is already Thursday! I always have to count my days before weekend approaching but I hardly felt the time passing by. It is probably that I am involved in project now and it really fully occupies my time in the office. I haven’t felt so productive for a long time and it sure feels good! I don’t even have time to check out the rv camping that my friend has been mentioning to me.

Let’s hope I can stay at this level of productiveness (and workload) in the future! =)