Mister-Mister "Si Lai" [2]

Here comes the long anticipated posts of Mister-Mister Si Lai!

Tired of eating 99% preservative-and-flavouring meals every day, one of the Mister Si Lai brightly suggested the idea of trying to be househusbands and enjoy the wonders of self cooking. So by the next weekend, the Hot Plate stove arrived and the Mister-Mister Si Lais walked gallantly to Giant in One Utama to buy the ingredients.

Guys may the Mister-Mister Si Lais be, but they are really housewives when it comes to choosing and picking vegetables, meat and fruit. However, novice househusbands still have a long way to learn in identifying what food is fresh amidst a plethora of unfresh stuff in the supermarket. We failed to differentiate Gao Choi and onion leaves. The worst was buying chicken. They learnt their lesson: Never buy chicken from the aforementioned hypermarket.

Anyway, back to cooking. Here are some interesting cooking adventures we had:

Trying to defrost a chicken with hot water from bathroom heater...

Arguing whether the half porridge rice is due to flooding of the rice cooker or the water have not evaporated.

Opening the Oyster Sauce glass with scissors. The mighty Mister Si Lai L did the arm breaking task of removing the cap. So we save ourselves from Joanne's method by using hammer...

Mr Si Lai Chan scrutinizing at the mushrooms, aka trying to find bones in a chicken egg in the Chinese saying...

Mr Si Lai Mighty L chopping his way into the defrosted-yet-unfrosted chicken

For first day, we cooked from 7.15pm to 8.30pm... It's amazing how housewives can cook single handedly in one hour while we five Mister Si Lais wiping sweat all the time.

Now we know how amazing is MUM!

And own hand cooked food is always eaten with wide earlobe-to-earlobe grins

The dishes served

Oyster Sauce Small Pak Choi

Drunken Weed (Gao Choi) with Egg

Mushroom with Chicken

Day 2:

Three Chefs-For-The-Day: Mr Si Lai Mighty L, Mr Si Lai JK and yours truly.

Now we tell you reason behind the lesson of never buy chicken from Gian*. The chicken is like some roadside kills packed neatly in plastic bags. When they started cutting it and cooking it, the decaying meat, blood and bones smell is unthinkable... It's so horrible that I decided not to photograph it and threw it away after letting the 5 Si Lais to smell... not economically wise, but physically wise...

The other Mister-Mister Si Lais decided to go vegetarian for the day with the most disgusting vegetable - FU GUA!!! That 'orrible bitter gourd!!! Anyway, Mr Daring-To-Try Calvin decided it couldn't be that bad.

It was bitter gourd soup with next door auntie's Sesame Oil. The auntie was generous but she commented: "You guys really know to enjoy eating!" What can I say, Mr Si Lai Chan surely knows what is nice to eat.

Yours truly after 17 years fried for the first time a newly created dish of shittake mushrooms with Gao Choi. Mr Yong's son cooked for the first time. LOL and it's FUN!!!

Ok the dishes:

Shittake Mushroom with Drunken Weed
(yours truly first successful dish, YEAH!!!)

The leftover like
Oyster Sauce with Small Pak Choi

Long Beans with Egg
(don't ask me if this dish can make you grow taller!)

The horrible-terrible-vegetable FU GUA!!!!

This is day ever I ate so much Fu Gua in one dish. It's not that bitter in soup, but it's that tastelessness bitter that I really can't take it.

And Mr Cook Rice till overflow (which is the tallest among the Si Lais) cooked a very bad dish of rice. Failed to follow Un Dex wife's instruction: the Half Thumb High Water Rule... that's punishment for ignoring wise advice...

So the extra rice was utilized for maximum satisfaction of Calvin's stomach. Three plates of rice and I'm still that thin! And as usual creative Calvin has ways to make his plain rice more tasty. He added Tiger Biskuat to the rice, which is acceptable to some but when he poured Chilli Sauce on it, most felt butterflies flying in stomach. Never see people put Chilli Sauce jam with Tiger Biskuat izzit???

So this was the adventure of the Mister-Mister Si Lais,
POTENTIAL FUTURE HOUSEHUSBANDS!!!

See how happy we are presenting our own dishes?

Watch out for more coming episodes!!!

Mister-Mister "Si Lai"s [1]

COMING SOON

[Another rendition of Joanne's Potential Future Housewives]

Meanwhile, for future potential husbands, this is an article for you!

A Loving Husband
For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. [Ephesians 5:25]

Gentlemen, it looks like we have it easy. After all, our wives have to “submit” (v. 22), whatever that means, but we just have to “love.” What could be simpler than that? Flowers from time to time. Chocolates on strategic occasions. Perhaps even a power tool or two she can claim as her own even though we use it most of the time. And if the situation is just right, we might manage a mumbled “I love you” just to make it clear. Submission sounds hard. It involves giving way to someone else. That someone would be us husbands. Does that mean what it seems like it means? We’re in charge? We call all the shots? We give the orders? Well, that would be something!

We’d better check our source again to make sure we’re not jumping to conclusions. Let’s see. If we go back to verse 21, uh-oh, something here about “submit to one another.” That could be a problem. But verse 22 does tell wives to submit. Verse 25 doesn’t tell us to submit; it tells us to love.

That little phrase “just as Christ loved the church” does show us several things. First, it tells us that our examples of loving above don’t really apply. Jesus never sent flowers to the church. He never picked up a box of chocolates on the way home from work as a peace offering. He never mumbled “I love you” through a mouthful of hamburger. Jesus loved by dying. He loved by suffering, hurting, and sacrificing. His kind of love sounds hard—almost as hard as submitting. Maybe even harder.

A dying kind of love that doesn’t leave us dead turns out to be quite a challenge. It might just take everything we’ve got. But here’s the deal. One of the primary reasons our wives struggle with submission is that they often have little real confidence in our love. Genuine love paves the way for submission (not the other way around). Jesus died for the church before the church was around to submit.

Real love (like dying) doesn’t come naturally for us. If you want to learn to love your wife as Christ loves the church, you are going to have to ask questions, observe reactions, and experiment persistently in the area of love. Ask Christ to make you like him so that your wife can experience the kind of love that brings life to her! Figure out how to love her, and you probably won’t have to bring up the issue of submission.

[Extracted from New Living Translation Men's Devotional, click here to subscribe for FREE the New Living Translation Devotionals delivered through email.]

Panjang's panjang-panjang Tag

Rules:
1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they got tagged and to ask them to play and read your blog.

Starting time: 9. 35 a.m.
Name: Calvin Yong Ze Hao
Sister(s): Lydia Yong
Brother(s): Caleb Yong aka Caleb bin Osama binti Laden
Shoe size: Dunno-lah
Height: 189 cm (This one I DEFINITELY know, haha;-)
Where do you live: At the ends of the earth, Kuantan, Pahang, but now in Bandar Utama
Favourite drink(s): Any kind of drink also can, except drinks that make me get drunk.
Favourite breakfast: Cornflakes, but I think the times I have it for breakfast is countable.

Have you ever been on a plane? Yes, to Nicholas Eu's most publicised place...
Swam in the ocean? Can't even float... walked in ocean and swimming pool got lar, an advantage of height finally.
Fallen asleep in school? Close to...Especially Sejarah and Economics...the eyes are wide open, but brain is in coma edi... good students are particularly good at this...haha
Broken someone's heart? Yes
Fell off your chair? Centre of gravity too high... of course lah!
Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call? Nope, I dislike sitting...chairs are too low...
Saved e-mails? I thought when mails enter your mailbox, it is automatically saved...???
What is your room like? Lazy to describe...
What's right beside you? My huge 900-page Economics book
What is the last thing you ate? Hmm, Tiger Biskuat...switching from bread to biscuits...
Ever had chicken pox? No, I AM VACCINATED!
Sore throat? Who nevers?
Stitches? Yup, operation...
Broken nose? You mean like the Sphinx?

Do you believe in love at first sight? A bit
Like picnics? YEAH, people faster organise one!
Who was the last person you danced with? Guess it's some SIB people who taught me Sumazau...lol
Last person made you smile? I guess a few simultaneously made me smile.
You last yelled at? Forgot...

Today did you...
Talk to someone you like? Yeah...
Kissed anyone? Nope, the only person I kissed before is my grandma and even that takes lots of courage.
Get sick? Nope...
Talked to an ex? Ex-apa?
Miss someone? Yeah...

Best feeling in the world? Happy and excited.
Do you sleep with stuffed animals? I wished I can. My teddy bear was thrown thanks to the Ghost Heads aka siblings...
Who do you really hate? ... Love your enemies
What time is it now? 9.55 a.m.

Randoms
Is there a person who is on your mind right now? Yeah...
Do you have any siblings? Yeah...
Do you want children? Probably...
Do you smile often? Yeah...
Do you like your hand-writing? Not really...except Chinese
Are your toenails painted? Calvin is a guy...
Whose bed other than yours would you rather sleep in? Those comfy beds with lots of fluffy pillows to start pillow war, don't really care whose one is it... Here comes the Bed Destroyer...
What colour shirt are you wearing? Orange
What were you doing at 7:00pm yesterday? Walking back home
I can't wait till? Astro: I've got time! I've got time!
When did you cry last? RBS
Are you a friendly person? I think so... coz I'm an intro-extro-vert
Do you have any pets? Nope...

Where is the person you have feelings for right now? No idea...
Did the last person you held hands with mean anything to you now? Shaking hands consider hold hands?
Do you sleep with the TV on? Now I can't even watch TV...T.T
What are you doing right now? Entertaining En Wei
Have you ever crawled through a window? Yeah and it's cool!
Can you handle the truth? Yes...
Are you closer to your mother or father? Both
Who was the last person you cried in front of? ...
How many people can you say you've really loved? Uncountable...
Do you eat healthy? Very healthy, can't you see based on my wideness?
Do you still have pictures of you and your ex? No ex, no pic...
Have you ever cried because of something someone said to you? Yes
If you're having a bad day, who are you most likely to go to? Friend...
Are you loud or quiet most of the time? Medium or probably loud due to paternal genes...
Are you confident? Quite...

5 things I was doing 10 years ago..(1998)
Moving to new house, studying and others I forgot.

5 things on my to-do list today:
Update blog, check emails, do Econs notes, read Bible, eat (need to eat right?)

5 snacks I enjoy:
Cloud 9, Mister Potato, the-dunno-call-what-Japanese-salted-ajinomoto-ed-rice-biscuit, let me think more later

5 things I would do if I were a billionaire:
Rewrite my Econs textbooks... throw away the terms scarcity, that mind boggling opportunity cost, ceteris paribus entah apa... elasticity...

5 places I have lived in:
Kuantan, Bandar Utama, Benta, Cameron Highlands (RBS considered living), Australia (haha, in the future)

5 jobs I’ve had:
Student (the longest ever without pay), Typist for father and mother, Evangel Helper, don't think I've any payed jobs before.

5 people I tag:
Joanne, James, Daniel, Jaevon and Jia Yen