It has been 6 month since I last went home to Penang. And it doesn't look like I'll be able to go back anytime soon. I need to clear almost 9 days of leave by end of this year, and I was so looking forward to getting my place up and ready by next year Chinese New Year too. But by the look of things now, it seems that I might miss my target by maybe half a year? Anyway, happy July 2020.
With nowhere else much to go, I did spend more time on Netflix, completing watching the 6 part Ju-On in one seating and loving it. I love the book too. So it was quite an achievement for me to watch the series, losing 2 nights of sleep along the way. Lol. But other than there, here are my top 3 highlights of July 2020.
These little bite size here are what is known as Pao De Queijo, or cheese buns. I love eating these when I was in Brazil as they search it in the hotel for breakfast. It's supposed to be fattening, but I eat at least two daily. I thought I'll never get to eat them again after I quit my previous job. But just before I left the company in Jurong, I saw a pack of the below mixed at Isetan. So of course I bought it.
Due to cooking at home so much during the Circuit Break, I had a pack of left over parmesan cheese in the fridge, which was perfect to be thrown together with this pre-mixed pack to make these little delightful snacks!
Although I can roughly made out the instruction at the back of the pack, I still used Google Translator to make sure I got it right. After all, I only get one go at this! Lucky for me, it was a success and super easy to make. I made enough to had them for breakfast, and also as little carbo snacks with my grilled steak dinner. Sadly, I can't find it any more.
The other highlight was just recently a few days back, when I treated my weird friend to a belated birthday meal. We went to a Izakaya at Robertson Quey for lunch cause I wanted to eat yakitori. Since I was treating, we just ordered anything we wanted. The yakitori was probably the best I had in Singapore, although still no where near those I had in Sapporo. The beef tongue was probably my favourite as it was so flavourful.
The other dish which I was surprised to enjoy and finished all was these grilled tao-pok skin, and you were supposed to filled it with natty, tuna and spring onions and wasabi. Surprisingly, the natty was really nutty with a hint of bitter. I was surprised I managed to finish it all and even managed to enjoy it. Don't mind trying again next time. Actually I'm thinking if I would dare to buy natto and eat them at home?
The 3rd highlight was a profit I made in these economy bad times. I sold off one of my counter when it hit it's benchmark price, and made a nice 4 digit profit, contributing to my annual passive income goal. It's already end of July, and I've only achieved maybe 40% of my passive income goal? To be honest I did double my target goal by a 100% as compared to last year. Lol. So in a way, I would probably exceed my previous year's achievement, even when the economy is going down the ditch. And since I splurged on toiletries last month, this month, apart of spending almost 200SGD on Japanese meal that one day, I also splurged on some Muji food products. These were on my to-do list anyway, and I got these on the day a friend of my treated me to lunch. So in a way, these were my lunch money. Of the 4 items, I've eaten three already, with only the rice kit left in my kitchen.
I think I should make it a goal to splurge once a month. At least my monthly post would be much more interesting! Until then.
