31 May 08, Saturday.

It's another 2 weeks to "Duan Wu Jie"...."Dumpling Festival" in English..

Have been wanting to wrap ba zhang on my own...since donkey years ago.....concidentally every yr during this period, I am always having holiday camp in hospital......

Luckily last yr, I managed to avoid repeating the history....

Therefore, I mangaged to learn how to wrap dumpling from a ex-colleague cum gd friend "Sook Quin"..She was also one of my jiemei in my wedding.

Actually sad to say I didn't have a lot of photos with Sook Quin. This is one of the lastest photo I took with her...Guess which is Sook Quin?

Actually I used to have a lot of close colleagues during my working period in a end-user enviroment. Think is my humorous and outgoing nature...plus frank and not hypocrite nature has allow me to make many good friends during my working days....sadly friendship distanced when people start switching jobs...or when they start their own family.... or found their partner. Well personally I dont like it this way as I feel my life is not just centered around my parnter.I need to have friends from outside world as well.

Some guys are even weirder....after getting married like very scared to keep in contact with me...Who says "Woman and Man cannot be just good friends with no feelings involved?

Hehe...

Well lucky I still got a few good guy buddies..You know who you are=P

Hmm....It's 3 months since my wedding......honestly I do miss the wedding prep especially the actual day itself...It's such a short memory...

The highlight of the day is "my 2nd attempt making ba Zhang". The shape of the dumpling is getting nicer.....But is really hard work preparing the ingredient...

I have to soak the rice and leave the night before....cutting, chopping and marinating of the ingredients..took me 2 hrs....

wrapping 30 ba zhang took me 2.5 hrs...

boiling ba zhang took me another 2.5 hrs...

total = 7hrs for making 30 ba zhang....

gosh..no wonder people prefer to buy rather than to make...coz is really time consuming, tiring and lots of effort...I almost couldn't stand straight when I finish....Plus...still half hour of cleaning and washing out...

Luckyily KT was there to help me with some chopping and cleaning....

Thank you! I hope you will always be there for me when I need you!!