Poor Delivery Service!

It's been sooo long since my previous post, dated Nov 10 2010. However, it's not a good note I'm about to start for my first post in 2011. It's a pissed off post!

Yesterday, I went with my family to buy a new TV at the only MEGASTORE that starts with C, you know who, since the one at home is spoilt after like 14 years? We bought a 42inch LCD TV and paid for a weekend delivery charge of $39.90 to be delivered today dated 22 April 2011 between 3-7pm.

We waited and waited till around 6.30pm. My mum was pissed alr as we had a bad experience with this company previously, which was many years ago, a bed mattress wasn't delivered thus we cancelled the order.

And after many years, we decided to give this company another chance by purchasing from them thinking, alright times have changed and the market is more competitive now, perhaps their service has improved.

Well well well, when i called the Hotline, they claimed that there wasn't any appointment made to deliver the TV! Suppressing my anger, I decided to drive to the MEGASTORE and demand an explanation.

What I got from the customer service officer was THERE WAS A BUG IN THEIR COMPUTER SO DELIVERY WASN'T MADE! At that point of time, it was boiling point for me. I was thinking a company so massive has the IT professionals to set up a clinic to repair computers but a bug is able to interfere the delivery system. WTF man!

How to gain consumer trust this way? The officer claims his about to call us and said we are the fourth customer to experience delivery problems today dated Friday 22 april 11. If there's a problem by the 2nd customer, why didn't you call us and informed by then?!

This case may seems small but a small crack in a ship could actually sink it. Bloody waste of my time.

Resort World Sentosa

Once a dream, nows a reality... =)

Messy Kitchen 3

Hi everyone. After a long hiatus, messy kitchen is back for it's third installment. On the plate would be Vegetarian Fusilli w eggs. You may be wondering how is it possible to be vegetarian when there's eggs.

The fusilli is made from vegetables ingredient so the pasta is vegetarians but not the dish. Get it? Haha!

Ingredients needed

1. Fusilli

2. Broccoli

3. Celery

4. Eggs

5. Potato

6. Brown Sugar

7. Salt

8. Pasta Sauce Bolognese

First boil a bot of water and pour the fusilli in the boiling water. In the midst 2 tbs of brown sugar and 1 tbs of salt. However, it's up to your personal preference.

On the other hand, start on another pot for the sauce. I pour about half bottle of sauce into the pot and add half cup of water, followed by the vegetables and allow it to simmer for generally 45 mins.

Now back to the other pot, when you see the fusilli is bloated compared to the size you just poured it, its time to bring it out, else it will turn soggy.

After 45 mins, pour the fusilli into the sauce pot and stir with medium heat. If the water in the sauce pot is drying up, add accordingly.

Fry an egg and place on the cooked pasta! and done!

Vegetarian Fusilli w Eggs

Coffee (Caffeine)

Recently, I've been feeling extremely sleepy at some point of the day! I don't know what's the main reason but I think the culprit maybe coffee. As I've received another assignment of work, I needed the extra perks that a coffee can bring to make myself feel, more awake and energetic.

But because my leave is from wed-sun, I stopped drinking coffee for awhile, simply because I don't need it as I'm able to sleep a little more. However, at some point I felt so so sleepy but when I try to sleep, I just can't seem to fall asleep.

I decided to google the disadvantages of drinking coffee. And the results are shocking! actually not really, I'm just creating the hype. HAHA

http://www.natural-homeremedies.org/blog/pros-and-cons-of-drinking-coffee

It states that excessive coffee consumption can cause anxiety, RESTLESSNESS, insomnia etc.

It's kinda weird as I drink coffee once a day. I'm not convinced so I google about the "withdrawal symptons of not drinking coffee"

http://coffeetea.about.com/od/caffeine/a/symptoms.htm

According to this website, the symptoms I believed that I'm having is known as "Caffeine Symptoms" It states that the withdrawal effect can begin as soon 12 hours after stopping your intake. They are at their worst after 24-48 hours, and can last for up to a week. OMG! This is like if you stop taking Heroin

or Ecstasy

and become like this!

HAHA this is just for laugh! You won't get withdrawal symptoms when eating cereals!

But rather this!

For those who are facing the same problems with me, the site states that cutting back by half a cup of coffee is a recommended pace.

Going for my half a cup of coffee now!

Messy Kitchen 2

Welcome to MK 2. Today I will be cooking an American Breakfast. Not so much of the authentic one though but my version even though I love bacons! but I forgot to buy. Anyway, the dish will be called my American Breakfast!

The ingredients are

1. 2 Pancakes *ready made*

2. 2 Sausages

3. Brocoli

4. Carrots

5. 2 Eggs

The reason why I chose to make this breakfast is because firstly breakfast is very important as it marks the start of our entire day. It is important to have adequate energy and mind to do whatever needs to be done in the later part of the day such as work, school or other activities as one deem fits.

And calling mcdelivery for breakfast everyday isn't economical as well. SO why not make one 'BIG Breakfast' yourself. Personally I love the pancakes from mc so pancakes are definitely in the list of my breakfast.

Now, lets move on to purchasing the ingredients. Firstly, we have pancakes. Well, if you have the time and tools why not make a pancake by yourself. I wanted to try that but I don't really have the time. So I bought the ready made pancakes. It's around 12 pc for $8.90 so it's quite affordable.

For sausages, I always buy chicken frank coz I ate this hotdogs since young, so I'm kind of attached to this brand.

For brocoli, carrots and eggs, it's easily available at the vegetable section of Fairprice, the usual supermarket I patronized.

Now for the cooking part. I placed the 2 pancakes in my toaster for around 4 minutes and it will be soft to eat, of course mc is better but hey! this is cheaper! :)

Next, will be to cook the sausages on the pan, stir fry with olive oil. To let the sausage cooked faster, cut some parts of the sausage but not totally detached it. This will allow the inner sausage to be cook faster as well.

For brocoli and carrots, stir fry on the pan with olive oil, add 2 pinch of salt for flavor and 200ml of water to refrain the veggies from getting burnt.

And finally the scramble eggs. To make scramble eggs like those of mc, the secret is very simple and I'm gonna reveal it here! First the oil must cover the entire pan so that the bottom of the eggs will not get burnt easily. After you add the eggs, just add 100 - 200 ml of water to the pan.

Do not stir. Just let the eggs absorb the moisture and once the water are absorbed into the eggs, there you go mc lookalike scramble eggs.

To add on to the resemblance, sprinkle black pepper and salt on to the eggs and WALA! Scramble Eggs!

Finally my American Breakfast! Together with sidespread of Kaya & Peanut Butter.

Messy Kitchen 1

I hope the brand new look gives the blog a more classic look. Anyway, this is the first post on Messy Kitchen. Today I'm gonna be cooking.

1. Sauteed Vegetables (Carrots & Celeries)

2. Charboiled Chicken

3. Sweet Potatoes

Before cooking, what I usually

do is, I will surf the net and look up any feasible recipes online.

With the help of the internet, almost anything is possible to aid me in cooking.

I went to the supermarket and bought the ingredients which is the vegetables, chicken and sweet potatoes.

For the carrots, I usually choose the baby carrots because it has a sweeter taste compared to full grown carrots. Celeries wise, I would purchase the USA celery because it's crunchier.

For the chicken, I chose the chicken breast as they contain lesser amount of fats compared to thighs and wings.

And I just chance upon the sweet potatoes and decide to try something with it, out of curiosity.

Next, let's head back to the kitchen. So what I'm gonna do is to wash all the main ingredients that I've bought. This is very important to keep the hygiene of the food up to standard else you risk of food poisoning.

Afterwhich, I'll cut the carrots and celeries. The first time I try cutting it was pretty tedious. Then I found out that instead of the edge of the knife, it's easier to cut using the end of the knife, which is nearer to the handler.

It's better to sharpen the knife for easy handling when cutting. Always remember "Don't cut the knife towards yourself and you will never get cut alright"

To slice the vegetables better, I supposed you have to practice many many times to really master the skills of cutting. For the chicken breast, personally I find it hard to slice the chicken because the meat itself is soft, so it's hard to cut. I suggest to cook the chicken first then cut it, it will be much easier.

For the sweet potatoes, on the net it says to bake just like how we bake potatoes. Initially I thought I have an oven at home but it turn out to be a TOASTER as mentioned by Jun Hui. HAHA! I didn't know until today.

So this is the 'Oven' I used to bake the potatoes

Putting the sweet potatoes aside, I will cook the chicken.

Basically the oil I used is Olive oil as it has more benefits compared to normal cooking oil

as it cut the risk of cancer, reduces heart disease etc and its said to

help keep a lower body weight.

So practically it's a healthier choice.

I do not have pictures to show the frying because my hands are

busy cooking.

Basically what I do is

1) Add 2 pinch of salt to the chicken depending on the size and

if you want to eat healthily maybe you add less salt

2) Put around 1/4 tablespoon of soy sauce and marinate the chicken.

3) Add the chicken to the heated pan and stir-fry till roasted.

Roasted is you can see the chicken turning brown at some parts.

Or you can taste the chicken.

After the chicken is done, I will stir fry the vegetables.

1) Sprinkle some salt on the vegetables

2) Add the vegetables to the pan

3) Add 1/4 teaspoon of chicken stock

4) Add some water to prevent the vegetables from getting burnt.

And by the time, the sweet potatoes are done.

At the end of it just put everything nicely on a plate.

I prefer to decorate my food because I believe before your mouth taste the food,

the appearance needs to be tantalizing.

And there you go, Sweet potatoes with Charboiled chicken and Sauteed Vegetables!

ps: this post took me 4 hours to complete including editing photos. It's rather tedious.

Hope I can persevere to more upcoming post of MK.