back from a cold winter.

after a week of frustration on the modem, i finally called the support line on our ISP.

where they said to go to the technical service at my area...

now my modem is working and i'll post the settings soon on oncoming posts..

A simple treadfin salmon recipe...

Well me and kandy bought some "cut fish" from tekka market the other day which turned out to be a "treadfin salmon" a good fish like the "barra"

a while before i went cooking i looked at things i got to cook the fish, bare in mind i am fond of "fusion" cooking, i utilise the materials i can find to cook.

what you need:

serving 1

a cut of the fish (diamond shaped) with the bone in the middle,

baby carrots or sweet potatoes cut long.

garlic,

shallots,

lemon grass,

black pepper,

vegetable oil.

pan.

steps

heat pan. in medium fire.. then put in the oil (3tablespoon),

put in 1 stalk of lemongrass cut into 2,

put in garlic smashed, cut or diced.

put in shallots also smashed, cut or diced,

wait for the Aroma of the garlic, lemongrass and shallots in the air,

put in the baby carrots or sweet potatoes in.

wait till the garlic turns brown.

put all the carrots and stuff at the sides of the pan,

then put in 2 tablespoons of oil..and then black pepper,

slowly put in the fish in the middle,

put to slow and minimum fire, close the pan with a lid.

let steam do it's work.

check for the fish to turn white colour not translucent.

serve and enjoy...

feel free to comment

A national anthem for my country...in another land.

Assalamualaikum,

i try to remember what we did on that day. i actually missed my school when the national anthem was sung. really missed my kids at homeland. The other day heard they were on their 1st asessment. i hope they go well amiin.

we were lucky to to join the national day celebration on the 25th february 2011 in singapore in hyatt hotel. it was an opportunity to see the bruneians there, even my long lost friends who studies here in singapore. good luck to them all.

a display in conjunction to the national day celebrated in singapore by our High commissioner, we were lucky to experience the exclusive event.

a picture of me with the High commisioner of Brunei Darussalam in singapore.

a picture of me and kandy on the national day celebration in singapore.

i asked kandy to stand near this advert, although her face was blur i liked the exclusive colour of the background and foreground.. great contrast of elegance.

me and kandy on a rickshaw, this was before jr was here. @ the explanade and marina square areas.

from marina square to city hall interchange, this dunkin donut shop was situated underground before we reached city hall mrt interchange station.

before we came to singapore i missed the "bavarian cream" donuts.. well we came there again thrice btw LOL

another picture held by me and kandy on the rickshaw.

i guess thats all for now its getting late and kandy is admitted in NUH for 2 days now cya soon

Wasalam.

our journey... in another land for the destiny.. part 1

assalamualaikum,

yet today after 2 weeks ++ i havent updated my blog, i will comment everything i have done here in singapore.

week 1

2 days in royal plaza on scotts road.. good thing the hotel provides free internet connection but the painful thing is you have to login again and again on the web based login screen.

kandy's first dialysis which was on Monday 14th of february 2011,

like what i would also react to new things, kandy had an anxiety attack where she had just 5 mins of dialysis then went fail!.

they stopped the dialysis then sent her to the main hospital which is the main building of NUH that night with me. ONLY there was this big problem where we left the embassy papers and after a long struggle of convincing the emergency nurses and doctors... that the paper was accidently left at the dialysis centre @SLF building thomson road, sg. she finally "retreated" at like 3 am in the morning and went to the normal wards.

it was also this monday she and her doner had the introduction to procedures and reviews towards the "transplantation".

i still remember how lucky i am to be a Bruneian, having such good incentives and government paid medical services is one of it.. thanks to His majesty the Sultan of Brunei for having a great view and care towards his people. Long live the sultan Amin!

then i sometimes think how spoilt we are... having cars for our own. It is here that i realised that taxis, buses and trains play an important role in "moving around" for singaporeans and even toursists.

food in singapore.. especially @ orchard road and scotts road areas are expensive.. you just need to find the right place to buy or even to cook food.

oh yah! after 2 or 3 days @ royal plaza on scotts we then transferred to "Far East Service Apartments" which is eventually opposite to the place we once lived.

A picture of us going to "geylang serai"

a picture i took beside of Tekka Market at indian street.

week 2

kandy's mum came from Aussie, just to pay a visit to her 2 daughters.. yes it was a good week for all of us as she is lively and caring towards her daughters... always proud of em both.

yep i forgot to mention kandy's first dialysis was done at NUH main building when she was admitted.

then the following other days it was done at the SLF building but her days of dialysis is now changed to day 2,4 and 6 in a week.

more appointments ahead, but at weekends we have time to go and free our minds after days and days of appointments, waiting, and etc.

kandy was always worried and missed our son JR. we plan to get him here this second week, when finally he was here on the 27th of february. Both of us was grateful for him to come as we always mention about him here and i think kandy is getting homesick soon if she doesnt see her baby boy.

LOL the first thing he told us was he went into an aeroplane... then when they came at 11 am in the morning we brought him to the mrt train station and we went window shopping around singapore.

talking about things i like near our appartments is i can have cheap sushi, from isetan or ramen ten level 1 Far east plaza.

i always hear singaporeans working 2 to 3 jobs just to earn money.

elders here still work till the morning. its impossible to survive here without earning enough. the standard of lving is kinda hard.

here where i live, i seldom hear the "azan" .. maybe near this place there is no masjids around as i did my homework and founded the nearest masjid is at Bencoolen street which is blocks away.

1 thing i like about singapore is that the youths are all admitted to the army or "service time" when they get to 18 yrs old its good as this can definitely get positive disciplinary shaping of youth with army based principles.

cigarettes and cars are expensive here. even though in Brunei a pack of 25s will cost around $7.60 for a pall mall. here for a 20s pall mall will cost you like 11.60. and as the taxi drivers stated buying a car is cheap here, its just the paper for COE or certificate of entitlement is really expensive. which costs like 70k++ (which i heard).

i guess this is all for tonight, might continue soon so BBS!

wassalam.

paving the way to our destiny...

assalamualaikum,

ok after packing and washing some backup clothes, i decided to update my bloggie a bit,

clicked on my tabs of my browser everything seems to be freezing, unlike 2 years ago still going fine with youtube, downloading and facebook... but now i just opened facebook and i always ping my connection and this is what i found even on my imac...

epic aint it? well used to be a powerful internet connection for my country but now it seems so vague...

ok back to the blogging thing,

after 2 hours of packing and now having a break for things to bring along for the upcoming 2 months in singapore....

i dont know what else to bring now as i'm exhausted off preparation for kandy's destiny.. yet i only praise Allah, as he is the one who will know what will happen and what will not to us..

funny but kandy packed...

Nintendo wii?

her scarves?

hairdryer?

others thing which looks usual.

i packed my...

macbook...

a friend's lappy?which will take me days to get the spare or even never... depends on how the budget is and i'm actually NOT on holiday.

my alienware mx-15 which will be a painful hand carry,

my canon 450d which i wanted to be serviced due to focussing problems.

i double checked kandy's documents..

A MUST!

passports...

tickets!

our leet 60 BND phone..

my wallet :)

hoepfully i'll post some updates soon when we reach there, wish us goodluck and a safe flight!

gonna miss our son... HW mom and dad loves you always.. and HD.. daddy wish he can call you. but it seems pointless as i havent seen you for 2 years... i wish you grow 18 ASAP!