Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

Tonight I made this one-pot-cook all rice, Yau Mei Fan.  I think translated to English is Savoury Rice.  I saw my sister and Pearly cooked it for her family, I thought I will make it, too.  I added Chinese sausages, Thai chilies, garlic, chicken breast, and dried shrimp.  Obviously, when I was cooking it, DB said it smelled really good.  When he ate it, it was fine, he will pick up all the sausages and spooned them to me till he chewed on something which he asked, “What did  you put in here differently from last time?”  I said, What did you taste? “Something fishy.”  Looks like I cannot get away with dried shrimp even though I drowned them with sesame oil and garlic.  Darn it! :-(

The countdown has sorta begun.  I bought my tickets for Minneapolis to Singapore segment last night.  Northwest Airlines has a Cash and Miles promotion for roundtrip fares within North America, to Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific.  I paid $781 plus 20,000 miles for this segment.

I had wanted to leave Msp on November 17 and return on December 8 but no such luck with this promotion.  Changed my dates and am leaving a day earlier (November 16) and arriving Singapore on November 18.  From Singapore, I will have to look for a ticket to Kuala Lumpur.  So far, I found flights leaving Singapore at 6:45 a.m. arriving KUL at 7:45 a.m.  That would leave me plenty of time to hunt down transportation to Ipoh.  I have not bought my KUL/SIN/KUL tickets yet.  I’m still trying to hunt down the cheapest fares but I think the cheapest I can find online is around $298+ through Expedia.com, or $278+ through Malaysia Airlines online.  The funny thing about MAS online is the fares are in Singapore dollars.  Before I converted to SGD, it’s $420+.  I might go with MAS online.

From KL, I will most probably take the shuttle bus to Ipoh.  Sounds like a super long day already!!

On my return flights, I will have to leave Ipoh in the afternoon on December 8 to KL.  Flight leaves KL to Singapore (December 8) at 10:45 p.m. arriving at 11:40 p.m.  The flight from Singapore to Minneapolis by Northwest leaves at 6:00 a.m. on December 9.  I wish there are other flights besides this one 6:00 a.m. flight.  Checked United Airlines, the same thing. 

So, you might asked what about DB??  DB is still working on the days he wants to be gone from work.  He is so complicated.  I told him to come on the 2nd week of my stay and if he can, stay for the rest of the 2 weeks, if not a week plus.  He still couldn’t decide!  Oh well, you snooze, you loose!