Enjoy Cooking

 Cooking is an enjoyable pastime.  Experimenting is fun when the end product is enjoyed by the people who consumed it.  With life normal, it is back to eating out and looking for different food at different places or hawker centers.  

I missed cooking.  I love to barbeque for my boys when they were growing up.  Then, my wife make me go cooking class with her.  I now can do baking and also cooking from internet and recipe book is so easy once I took the cooking lessons.

I missed cooking and thinking of inviting some friends over to taste my cooking.

B3 Gets Upset

 Last Sunday, we had a family dinner with our 3 boys.  I asked B3 to help in cleaning some of the dishes.  He got upset and reminds me of him clearing the garbage every night.  Now he is sulking and refuses to clear the garbage.  I had been reminding him to set up the new garbage bag properly but he refuses.  He just put in a fresh garbage bag into the container without pulling the edges over.

I feel unappreciated when I pick him up or send him to the train stations everyday.  Make his meals or buy for him.  These little things are taken for granted.  Small little chores are a gigantic deal for him.  Sigh!

What I ate in Tokyo

 

Blueberries, Peaches and Grapes

 

Hakuba Ski Resort in Summer

 

Rainy Day in the Park

 

Nagano, A Beautiful Place

 Back for our Japan Trip for a week.  Time to collect my experience.  This is the first time I drove in a vacation.  The rental car was Alphard as we had 5 adults and a baby with loads of luggage.  We landed in Narita and then took a ride from the rental company to pickup our car.  We were given a tiny van.  So my wife decides to upgrade.  It was a good decision to drive the Alphard.  Plenty of room especially with a baby.

B3 planned the trip to Nagano.  We went to parks, Kamikochi, Peach farm, Blueberries farm and taste the best Tonkatsu in Japan.  I really enjoyed this trip and wonder why I did not drive whenever I went for vacations with the family.  I love Nagano!!  This air is clean, the stores are like in Canada big boxes and resturants are individual buildings with carparks lots.  It is exactly like living in Canada/US.  I am feeling like back home in Canada.  The produces in the supermarkets are fresh and price is low compared to Singapore.  The meats are very fresh and processed for ease of use.  Best of all prices are extremely low!  I am very excited  if I can live here for long long time!

Tokyo is the same, lucky my family book the hotel in the same neighbourhood as where I usually stay for work i.e. Akasaka.  So I am quite happy to visit all the resturants I used to go.

Yes, this trip was fabulous.