I'm a full-time mummy

Was browsing through some old pictures in my computer and had an idea to post this up to share with you guys. This is what happened around Christmas time 1 year ago...

I remembered how I got panic initially at the thoughts of Ben turning into a chomping little monster and chomped off my nipples when breastfeeding the moment I saw the first tooth appearing on his gums. Thank God there's only been 2 episodes of this, both are accidents and unintentional (too hungry can't wait for slowpoke mummy) and he has since given mummy 0 problems while breastfeeding!

Time goes by so quickly!! It is over a year already since then and Ben has grown into such a cute, healthy and well behaved little boy!

Mummy and daddy will always always love you dear Ben and dearie, don't need to grow up so fast, let us enjoy a bit more of you!

This post is a bit overdue as I received the music album details over a month ago and have only got the time to take a listen to it recently. Anywho, Amanda of Lafamos PR and Branding contacted me (after I did Darius Lux's music album review) and gave me a couple more music album links of their artists for me to review. So without further ado, here goes my review:

Excerpts from Levi Kreis's official bio:

"Released on May 5, 2009, and welcomed worldwide, Where I Belong has brought international radio attention, television appearances, headlining performances, and enthusiastic reviews for what is Levi’s most congruent album to date.  Levi's first single "Nothing At All" debuted on FX's Sons of Anarchy and delivered a  #1 video for MTVMusic.com, #1 for 8 weeks on The Logo Channel, and aired on Vh1.com, HBO Zone, and Macy's department stores nationwide."

Levi Kreis released his debut album One of the Ones in 2005, following an appearance on NBC’s hit reality show The Apprentice with Donald Trump and an exclusive CD premiere on XM Radio.  Songs from his debut CD have been featured on The Apprentice, Days Of Our Lives, and The Young And The Restless.  His sophomore CD, The Gospel According To Levi, garnered more television and film placement and a video for the single “We’re Okay” which held the #1 position for nine weeks on The Logo Channel.  With nearly 400 appearances to date, Levi has shared the stage with Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Melissa Etheridge, Collective Soul, and opened for Cyndi Lauper at Wrigley Field. In fall of 2007, Levi took a break from touring to become the original cast member in the new rock and roll hit musical Million Dollar Quartet. 

These days, there is a lot going on at one time for one man: In addition to gearing up for his second single and video release for "Gonna Be Alright," Levi continues to work audiences into a frenzy with his Tony Award-winning portrayal of Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet, currently playing on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre.  "

* ALBUM COVER - Nice album cover, love the way he lies and had his right hand resting on his forehead. He is a good looking guy, here's a couple more pictures from his bio page for you to drool on:

Drool, drool?

Don't quite like the curls tho'

* SONGS - I love "Nothing At All" - it's a really awesome song he got here! It has a nice lyric and a catchy tune to it. You can click on the "Nothing At All" song title to take a listen to it on Youtube. And did I mentioned he wrote most of the songs himself? Talented huh?

I also like the "Stained Glass Window" which also has a nice dance-along tune to it as well.

* ABOUT THE ARTIST - The moment I heard Kreis's voice, the first thing that came on my mind is, his voice is a cross between Ronan Keating and Michael Buble, both are favorite artists of mine, only that Kreis's voice is a bit edgier in the sense that he had this rock throaty voice.

In summary, I'd recommend this album for those who wants to groove along to some upbeat and catchy rock tunes.

You can get the album from iTunes, CDBaby.com and so on.

You can find out more about Levi Kreis from his official site at http://www.levikreis.com/

I would like to give a note of thanks to Amanda (for the password and lyrics) for this wonderful opportunity to review this awesome album!

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the authorised password to download the 12-tracks album in MP3 format to assist my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

When my mum was still alive, she used to make this occassionally as one of the dishes for dinner. I used to love eating this as it contains 2 of my favorite food: fish and egg. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to get the recipe from her. And it was just a couple of days ago that I remembered this dish... oh, how I long to be able to taste my mum's cooking and the regret of not learning to cook all the yummy dishes from her when she was alive...

I remembered how my mum made the fish paste. She would go to the wet market in the morning, buy a certain type of fish (can't recall what name) and back home, will start scrapping out the fish meat and smash them in the mortar using the pestle until the fish paste mix nicely and sticky enough.

Anyway, I did some research around the Net and more or less got the idea of how to make this dish again. I don't have the luxury of time and energy in smashing fish meat in mortar and pestle, so I took a shortcut and bought the ready-made fish paste from the morning wet market.

There are other versions of this dish if you Googled it around, such as other ingredients which you can add in, like carrots slice, chilli, scallions, or even a seaweed sheet on top of the omelet. But this dish that my mum made is very simple and easy. Just fish paste and egg. So I'm sticking to that. And hence, this is my 1st attempt of making:

STEAMED FISH PASTE EGG ROLL.

PREPARATION TIME: ABOUT HALF AN HOUR

Ingredients / Tool Required:

What to Do?

THE RESULTS

CLOSE UP SHOT

UPDATES ON 8th Feb 2014: Added carrots onto the egg

REACTIONS FROM MY "GUINEA PIGS"

ME	"Yum-yums!!! Almost as close as to mum's cooking! Ahhhh... such nice memories and so good to be able to replicate this dish again!"
BEN	"Mmmm! Mmmm!" (I had to immediately cut a slice and let him try as he kept bugging me when he saw the fish paste egg roll! And Ben had about 4-5 slices of this for his dinner! Way to go Ben!)
HUBBY	"Delicious! Thank you for the wonderful fish paste dish!" (this is a very good compliment as my hubby is not the type who likes to eat fish balls, paste and stuff like this...)
MIL	"Hou sik ar!! (which means Delicious in Cantonese)"

So there you go.... my 1st STEAMED FISH PASTE EGG ROLL attempt!

Overall, I'm very happy with this attempt though I can only take credit for the egg roll and on the preparation/presentation side . After all, the fish paste was bought elsewhere and all I did was just slap on some onto the egg sheet and roll away! Though I'm happy to inform the dish is all eaten up with compliments on how delicious it is. What a good way to boost up my cooking morale! And I'm really happy cos it brings back memories I have when my mum made this dish.

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