Eat, drink and be married!

My first set of blueberry lemon yogurt pops. An overly ambitious one because

1) Blueberries curdle with yogurt when blended
2) The blend after is a horrifically dense and thickened mixture that I froze anyway
3) Beyond the sweetness is an almost gag worthy gritty and unpleasant popsicle.

Lesson learnt, fresh blueberries do not react well with yogurt.



Honey lemon lime popsicles paired with a honey jello, the contrast was nice with sour and sweet.

THAT heartbreaking moment when one of popsicle sticks went missing. :( Now my set is incomplete. SIGH.

I made a resolution somewhere in between January and February to master 52 recipes by the end of the year and thankfully for CNY, I managed to nail some recipes!



Cornflake cups, possibly the most idiot proof alive with just butter, honey and store bought cornflakes.

In this day and age of ultra convenience, we seek the easiest way out in most things and there could really come an age that robots could over take us - if artificial intelligence could rule the world. As with many new home owners, the draw of such intelligent products to make my life tons easier was too alluring to resist.

Imagine not having to physically drag a vacuum through the house? The house gets cleaned on its own, quite nearly and everyone is kept happy? Plus, I need not pay the maid levy and deal with domestic help issues.

The question then is, which brand? #firstworldproblems

The IRobot Roomba surely tops the list in most households but price was a deal - at close to 1000 buckeroos. It had all the intelligence required to clean up the place as well as a human could, or even better with the scanning of area to make sure it could avoid obstacles and even make its way back to the charging port.



How does ATTAS measure up then at a fraction of the price?

The battery life is short, for 2 full hours of charging I probably get it cleaning a room for 45 minutes before it beeps low battery.

It cannot return to the charging port and while the sales guy was quick to point out most of the robots do not make it back anyway because of unforeseen obstacles (the machine is tuned to calculate its energy based on straight routes), it can be annoying having to poke it out of under the bed with a stick or hunt for it around the house.

It bounces off the edges and I hope it cleans every inch carefully, I am not so sure if it really does. 

The fact of the matter is, this works best in a flat and definitely not in places with different stories.

Let's face it, the machines are for day to day maintenance and does not completely replace physical cleaning at the dusty nooks and corners.

Well for startup families like ours, it is a handy device to have. So far my only grouse is its short battery life, otherwise, we are happy campers.

I could not have expected the first attempt at using the washing machine to be a resounding success and go without a hitch. Murphy's law much maybe but I certainly was not expecting a nightmare come through - I could have very well dreamt this so many times over, handling a car that would not stop until it crashes, float and fly out of the window and now, in reality, my washing machine foamed and could not stop.

The first wash without laundry and the manual clearly stated to pour in 1/2 a cup of detergent with 2 litres of water. And trouble started. Too much detergent everyone else conceded.

The second wash - officially the first with laundry - occured without a hitch. Then there was a power trip (which I shall not mention now) that caused the machine to reset its washing settings and restarted a full washing cycle on its own. By the time the cycle ended, it was 12 midnight.

I caved into getting this handy smoothie maker at a make shift stall at a Pasar Malam. At $39.90, it was a steal considering its compact size and supposed fussfree maintenance. And then of course there were a ton of Groupon promotions going at $27.90. There can never be a rock bottom for prices really.