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Mastering Your Finances: A Beginner’s Guide to Crafting the Perfect Budget

Creating a budget is the cornerstone of personal finance management. Whether you’re looking to save for a big purchase, cut down on unnecessary expenses, or simply get your finances in order, crafting a budget is your first step towards financial freedom. For many, the idea of budgeting can seem daunting or restrictive. However, with the …

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Delonghi Oven

Criteria for an Oven

Penning down my criteria for an oven for my own records as well as for sharing. These can be some factors to consider when buying your own oven. Price As I do not bake often now, I do not want to waste my money and spend a lot on a high-end oven. Hence, my budget …

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Raising Baby C

Have not been updating the website after giving birth because the tiredness is SO real! Many people have warned me about the tiredness after a baby is born but I was still unprepared for the scale of “shag-ness” until I experienced it myself. Omg. Before giving birth, I was physically tired from carrying Baby C …

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Joining Eth2 Medalla Testnet with Geth and Prysm

For this “tutorial”, I have used these instructions in a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 Server virtual machine. You may need to add “sudo” in front for some of the commands. I have used the instructions at Prysm docs (https://docs.prylabs.network/docs/testnet/medalla) as an initial reference point. Initial Setup Update your packages and install required packages Make a Prysm …

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Delonghi Oven

Criteria for an Oven

Penning down my criteria for an oven for my own records as well as for sharing. These can be some factors to consider when buying your own oven. Price As I do not bake often now, I do not want to waste my money and spend a lot on a high-end oven. Hence, my budget …

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Cream of pumpkin Final product

Cream of Pumpkin Soup

I had my yearly End-of-Year gathering with my family in Dec 2019 and wanted to cook a hearty soup as one of the dishes. I was deciding between cooking a well-received cream of mushroom soup which I had prepared the year before or to try another soup. In the end, I decided on cooking cream …

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Cream of Mushroom final product

Cream of Mushroom Soup

Recipe with Pictures 1 pot of mushroom soup for about 6-8 pax Ingredient list: 4 tablespoons butter 1 tsp oil 1 onion, diced 4 cloves garlic, minced 600g fresh white mushrooms, sliced (recipe calls for brown mushroom but white mushrooms were on offer =p) 200g baby Portobello mushrooms 2 tbsp plain flour (recipe calls for 6 tbsp of plain flour but I did not dare to add more …

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Stained Glass Final product

Stained Glass Cookies

Merry Christmas! I saw Bakers’ Brew Snowflake Stained Glass Cookies (see picture below) on sale and I thought of baking some stained glass cookies to give to my colleagues as well. Hence, I googled for a recipe and tried baking these beauties. Recipe with Pictures Makes about 40 stained glass cookies and 40 small sugar cookies …

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Raising Baby C

Have not been updating the website after giving birth because the tiredness is SO real! Many people have warned me about the tiredness after a baby is born but I was still unprepared for the scale of “shag-ness” until I experienced it myself. Omg. Before giving birth, I was physically tired from carrying Baby C …

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Mummy Autumnz

Shopping for Mummy!

These days, with a combination of maternity leave and the circuit breaker (CB) measures, Sunshine, myself and Baby C can only stay home most of the time. However, with a new baby, there seemed to be endless things to buy, from essential items such as diapers and wet wipes to other less important items such …

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A Note to Baby C…

Dear Baby C At the doctor’s appointment today, I was hoping that she would tell me that you are finally ready to see the world and ask me to get ready to welcome you into my arms. You would have been the best birthday gift I could ever ask for! However, you are probably still …

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Happy CNY 2020

Happy Chinese New Year 2020! 😀

Happy Chinese New Year! Here’s wishing all a very happy, prosperous and most importantly, healthy Rat year! I am also taking the opportunity to thank our heroes working selflessly throughout this period. THANK YOU!