Word of the day - Stellenbosch

"Stellenbosch”, which means to relegate someone incompetent to a position of minimal responsibility.

Guess this word can be frequently used in the workplace than scolding someone moron or imbecile.

Derivatives: Self-Stellenbosch, UnStellenbosch, Un-instellenbosch, Non-Stellenboschable, Stellenboschalicious

Have fun with English !

Review of Oral Botanica

Oral Botanica is a product which aims to prevent bad breath, swollen gums, receding gums, and gingivitis. It is an anti bacterial oral care product.

As this is the first time I am doing a review on oral products. Excited cos first time I am doing a review that is not on food though it is a bit related to food cos I am using my gums and tongue to review.

I would say that as I am more concerned with bad breath when after eating garlic. Thus my first usage would be right after a meal of garlic fried rice which is something i love to eat .As Oral botanica is made of organic oils like almond ,clove, myrrh, tea tree, peppermint and spear mint, it literally kills the garlic smell. This would last about 2-3 hours. For kids, the taste might be a bit too spicy for them. However, I feel that it would be good if the packaging would be that the bottle cap was attached with the dropper. It would makes it easier for people who wants to use oral botanica as
breath freshner.

 

My next attempt on trying to use oral botanica as tooth paste does not really work well cos it was hard to get the drops of oral botanica right onto the tooth brush thus wasting a few drops of precious oral botanica.

Overall, my experience with oral botanica as a breath freshner was good. I would rate it 3 out of 5.
As I am always able to produce a smile like the following picture for photo taking with my friends.







For more info about oral botanica, please do not hesitate to visit the website http://www.botanicaculture.com.





**Disclaimer: The above review is solely on my own experience when I am trying out the product.

How to improve your body fat metabolism process?

 By having variety of protein , you can actually increase your body fat metabolism process by maintaining lean muscle mass and burning more body fats.

Here's the list of food that you can take to burn more body fats

1. 1 glass of soya milk
2. 1/2 cup of lentils
3. 1/2 cup of quinoa
4. 1 piece of tofu
5. 1 egg
6. 1 cbow of cup of plain yoghurt
7. 1 bowl of artichokes
8. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled broccoli
9. 1/2 cup of sweetcorn
10. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled aspargus
11. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled brussels sprouts
12. 1 bowl of water cress
13. 1 bowl of collard greens
14. 1/2 cup of sliced carrots
15. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled cabbage
16. 1 bowl of kales
17. 1 bowl of romaine lettuce
18. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled turnip
19. 1 bowl of alfafa
20. 1 bowl of cooked and boiled spinach
21. celery
22. cucumbers
23. green beans
24. garlic
25. onions
26. parsley
27. tomatoes

For those of you who are planning your diet for weight loss program, you may want to find receipes to make dishes which you are comfortable with to eat.  Happy weight loss cos I use the food list to make dishes that helps me to lose 2 notches of viseral fats. 

Recipe of Bak Kwa adapted from Cheekiemonkie.net

Bak Kwa is a delicacy which a lot of people cannot afford to miss when visiting relatives. It is my favourite snack when visiting the relatives. Sometimes in order to get to eat to good bak kwa like those from Lim Chee Guan as it is not so oily as compared to their competitors, one might have to queue more than 10 hours to get it.

As such, I went surfing for recipe for bak kwa and chanced it upon via Cheekiemonkie.net. Here's the recipe:

Ingredients

1. 2 tablespoons of fish sauce
2. 1/2 tablespoon of light soy sauce
3. 1/2 tablespoon of oyster sauce
4. 1/2 tablespoon of rice wine
5. 75g of sugar
6. 250g of minced pork
7. A drop of red colouring

Steps

1. Mix all of the sauces & sugar together in a large bowl until the sugar dissolves.

2.Then add in the minced pork and continue to mix with gusto!

3.Set aside the marinated meat for at least 2 hours. For best results, you can leave it overnight in the fridge.

4.Flatten the minced meat with a rolling pin on the parchment paper.

5. Put it into the baking tray and grill it at 150 degrees for an hour and turn it onto the next side  and bake again .

 

The current trend of the 52 weeks money challenge

Recently, there has been this posting of the current trend to keep savings for 52 weeks with the starting of each week with the amount from either $1 or from $52. Here's the table how it looks like:

52 Weeks Money Challenge
Week	Date to Deposit	Amt to Deposit	Cash Balance	Week	Date to Deposit	Deposit Amt	Cash Balance
1	6 Jan 2014	$1	$1	27	7 Jul 2014	$27	$378
2	13 Jan 2014	$2	$3	28	14 Jul 2014	$28	$406
3	20 Jan 2014	$3	$6	29	21 Jul 2014	$29	$435
4	27 Jan 2014	$4	$10	30	28 Jul 2014	$30	$465
5	3 Feb 2014	$5	$15	31	4 Aug 2014	$31	$496
6	10 Feb 2014	$6	$21	32	8 Aug 2014	$32	$528
7	17 Feb 2014	$7	$28	33	18 Aug 2014	$33	$561
8	24 Feb 2014	$8	$36	34	25 Aug 2014	$34	$595
9	3 Mar 2014	$9	$45	35	1 Sep 2014	$35	$630
10	10 Mar 2014	$10	$55	36	8 Sep 2014	$36	$666
11	17 Mar 2014	$11	$66	37	15 Sep 2014	$37	$703
12	24 Mar 2014	$12	$78	38	22 Sep 2014	$38	$741
13	31 Mar 2014	$13	$91	39	29 Sep 2014	$39	$780
14	7 Apr 2014	$14	$105	40	6 Oct 2014	$40	$820
15	14 Apr 2014	$15	$120	41	13 Oct 2014	$41	$861
16	21 Apr 2014	$16	$136	42	20 Oct 2014	$42	$903
17	28 Apr 2014	$17	$153	43	27 Oct 2014	$43	$946
18	20 May 2014	$18	$171	44	3 Nov 2014	$44	$990
19	12 May 2014	$19	$190	45	10 Nov 2014	$45	$1035
20	19 May 2014	$20	$210	46	17 Nov 2014	$46	$1081
21	26 May 2014	$21	$231	47	24 Nov 2014	$47	$1128
22	2 Jun 2014	$22	$253	48	1 Dec 2014	$48	$1176
23	9 Jun 2014	$23	$276	49	8 Dec 2014	$49	$1225
24	16 Jun 2014	$24	$300	50	15 Dec 2014	$50	$1275
25	23 Jun 2014	$25	$325	51	22 Dec 2014	$51	$1326
26	30 Jun 2014	$26	$351	52	29 Dec 2014	$52	$1378

I think it is a good way to save money too. However, I would save coins in the different denominations in different piggy banks and then go and change it with hawkers. Firstly, the hawkers reduce some transaction fee from changing coins. Secondly , you can see how much u can save. There was once i use at least $15 worth of coins to buy some stuff. It was in the denominations of $1 and 50 cents.

I would always look forward to thurs or fridays newspaper advertisement from Ntuc or Cold storage to determine how much my grocery money for the week is going to be. Like right, it is the best time to look for scallop offer or abalone.

Let's see how much I can save by end of this year!

Writing a good 2014

2013 was really a bitter note year for me. As for writing a good 2014, I decided keep myself sane by just reading, blogging and keeping away from as much human contacts as possible unless it is work related so as to prevent hurts. I do not want disappointments to come again and again where I just felt that I am useless. I just want to be happy in my own small world. Anyway , you guys have a good time writing 2014 as colourful as possible.