Wuching Makes Breakfast

In a busy and hectic life, how many of us have the luxury of time to have a proper breakfast let alone a healthy one. I used to have coffee with a cigarette many many years ago before I was married but I knew I couldn't live like that forever.

Let me show you what I have for breakfast almost every morning, it's easy and quick and I'm happy to let you have a peek into my morning routine. I like focaccia bread and a small portion is enough to fill me up for the morning till lunch.

Cut the cut portion horizontally so I'll end up with 2 slices. Focaccia is a flat bread topped with spices and other products, which is related to modern pizza. Focaccia doughs are similar in style and texture to pizza doughs consisting of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast. (source)

I like mine toasted also so a couple of minutes in the toaster on medium heat is a must. Sometimes I need to toast it a couple of minutes longer to get that golden brown colour.

This is what I aim for when I toast them, maybe a bit browner would be nicer but today I'm lazy so it will have to do. You can eat them like that or with fillings as sandwich but I just like some spreads on them.

Spread a generous amount of margarine or butter over the flat surface covering any 'holes' along the way. You can also use peanut butter, strawberry jam or vegemite it doesn't really matter as long as you like it!

Lastly I like to drizzle some honey over the buttered focaccia toasts, making it sweet plus honey is good for your health. Eat more honey, remember Wuching told you so!

Voilà! My quick and easy breakfast toasts to go with my cup of coffee. I'll have this while checking my morning emails. Damn! No traffic today...show me your breakfast.

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Letter from Google

I think I've said it before how my Google Adsense wasn't doing too good in my previous blog template so I decided to change the layouts and placements of the ads after I changed my template and somehow that made a significant difference in the ads revenue.

So imagine my surprise when I received a letter from Google last week! So money-citing I could die, have I reached the USD100 mark already and now they've sent me a cheque? Couldn't wait to open the letter.

The revenue from Google Adsense is pathetically slow so that's why many bloggers have turned to other advertising companies like Nuffnang and Text Link Ads. By the way Lilian, I did contact Nuffnang and they are willing to give me a go but I need an address to send the cheque to in Malaysia and a bank account to deposit the cheque in since it won't be a cash cheque. Should I tell them to make it payable to you so you can simpan in your account? Hehehehe...

Back to the letter, so I was so money-cited thinking maybe I'm getting paid by Google but then it turned out that it was just a letter with my PIN that I needed to enter in my account nia! Potong stim! What for they need me to do that? Just to confirm my address issit? *Sien*

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Bearded Iris

Right, some of you weren't too happy that I didn't post any picture of how the bearded iris looks like in my previous post so I went digging in my photo archives and lucky for you I found some I took years ago when it was in bloom!

Here's one I grew in pot a couple of years back. Notice the flower stem shoots straight up from the base of the plant and have a number of buds in bloom while the rest are waiting in line.

I bought a pot of this plant years ago in a nursery up in the Dandenong Ranges but since then it has multiplied ten folds. The plant blooms once only in its lifetime and dies off soon after but not until it reproduces more baby plants from it's rhizome.

I'm not really sure why they call it bearded iris but maybe its because of that yellowy pollen thing in the middle giving it that name. I only have it in this colour but there are many different type of colourful bearded iris out there.

Growing Bonsai

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Wuching going to watch girlie movie!

Aiya, no time to write a long post tonight because if you know me well enough it's my TV marathon night, all my favourite shows are on Thursday night. Damn! So busy watching TV tonight...How I Met Your Mother la, My Name Is Earl la, Law & Order la, Amazing Race la and then late late lagi got Stargate! Woohoo!

So quick quick I show you what I received in the mail today, a free invitation for 2 to watch a girlie girlie movie called Georgia Rule. The movie is for 6.30 pm on May 9 so next week I'll be very cham cham forced to go watch girlie girlie movie! Die la, I think I'll sleep in the theater and snore till I get kick out! OK, enough yapping...gotta go coz my shows are starting soon!

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Hard to make a buck

It's been just over a month since I've came over to the dark side of the blog i.e. write paid posts lah and I'm loving it so far. However seems like PPP is very strict on their rules on how and what we can post not mentioning confusing sometimes. But who am I to argue with them, never bite the hand that feeds you, my mama told me so I'll just do whatever they tell me to do so my posts won't get rejected and thus I get paid! I'm sure a lot of you who are with PPP have similar stories to tell but we'll leave that for our next blogger meet if there is one for me! Till then happy blogging!

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Wuching Buying Puffy

One fine day, Terese and I went to Box Hill a suburb east of Melbourne where lots and lots of chinese people live, eat and sleep. There's this place right outside Box Hill station where they sell these deeeeelicious yummilicious cream puffs!

But then the line was long coz business so good every slant eye buggers in town wanna buy also and when I have to wait long long time for my puffy I'm not happy. This is the look of an impatient and tulan ledi Wuching!

Oooooohh...look at those freshly baked puffy! Baked golden brown with cookie on top! I drool liao...*slurp slurp*

But then hor, a bit dear lah...$1.60 for one so I chose to get a six pack. There's vanilla or chocolate cream to choose from but I've always ate the vanilla, haven't tried the chocolate yet. Next time maybe.

Oh...the queue is getting shorter! I'm all smile now! Hehe...get money ready. Gimme gimme gimme some of those puffy!

Finally my turn. "I'll have 6 vanilla please" said Wuching to the grumpy old lady who told Terese not to take pictures but Terese clever, she said; "Oh I'm just taking picture of him only." So the grumpy old lady nodded OK but still tulan.

Who's a happy boy now? Huh? Huh? I got my puffy in a nice little carry box too, woohoo!

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Blogging, where to from here for me?

Its been 3 weeks since I've come over to the dark side and write posts for money. Since then I've been putting more advertisements on my blog mainly Google Adsense which by the way is painfully slow in generating any money for me and I would shamefully say that after all these time I've yet to receive any money from them! Possibly because I didn't care to utilise the ads strategically to my advantage. I've since revamped the whole template of my blog and I think they're placed in the right places now. I did see a significant difference in my adsense income after that but still the money is just trickling in. Some of you suggested I go with Nuffnang but they're only interested in bloggers residing in Malaysia so bad luck for me. Then I decided to give Advertlets a go because they didn't mention about where I reside. Still my blog's association with them is still in its infancy so its a bit early to say what might happen. I am also giving Text Link Ads a go but so far no one wants to advertise in my blog yet!

So I guess the best money spinner with my blog has to be writing paid posts. I've signed up with 3 companies namely PayPerPost, Smorty and BloggerWave. PayPerPost is by far the best paidpost site so far because they have the most opps available to us posties. Second will have to be Smorty which is relatively new to us but they will pay faster than PayPerPost which takes 30 days to get paid! Smorty pays every week so you get your money quicker and today I just got paid by them! Woohoo! This is the first time I've ever received any monetary reward from my blog and this just fuels my LOVE for money even more! Though it was just a small amount of money it means I can safely say to people that I'm not wasting my time blogging everyday now! In another week I should have a steady stream of income coming into my paypal account from PayPerPost for all those posts I've done for them so woohoo again! Lastly I don't know why but I've only received 2 opps from Bloggerwave and I don't even know when or if I'll ever get paid for them even though they have been approved. I have not received any more opps from them since!

A good friend of mine who used to read my blog said to me the other day that he's not going to read my blog anymore because I have too many ads on my blog and they slow down the download. True I have to agree with him on that so I might have to get rid of some of the non-productive ads but I will still continue to write paid posts since they are my main income from my blog. I have noticed a significant drop in my readers since coming over to the dark side but hey, fame doesn't pay the bills so a little ads and paid posts mixed in with my normal daily personal posts doesn't hurt anyone. Not like I'm trying to spam you or anything like that. Its just like watching TV with the commercials put it! You're still going to see my personal posts, they're always on the top of the page so don't give me the flick just because I need to make a few bucks. Don't run away ya!

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The Windy City

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Then take her to visit the Magnificent Mile which is a stretch of retail shops along the Michigan Avenue that extends from the Chicago River to Oak River. You and your fiancée are going to need some shopping done for the big day! Later take her to Navy Pier for some recreational fun after all that shopping. This is where you can find the 150-foot-high Ferris wheel, musical carousel and 18-hole miniature golf course. Make sure to go to Lincoln Park which is one of the oldest zoological gardens of the country. It is open all year round and is famous for its historical structure.

Finish the day off with a romantic dinner in one of Chicago’s many romantic eat out spots. The restaurants in Chicago serve the best foods ranging from fillet mignon to lobster and have excellent collection of wine to go with the meals. You’ll be glad you came to Chicago.

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Book Your Hotel Yet?

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