Guarantee delivery

Why Amazon US got guarantee delivery but UK don't??

Guaranteed Release-Date Delivery (Saturday, July 21) of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"!

We will deliver Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on its Saturday, July 21 release date to eligible customers who pre-ordered from Amazon.com and chose standard, Two-Day, or One-Day shipping when placing their order. (Amazon Prime customers will receive it on the day of release at no additional charge. Learn more about joining Amazon Prime.) If you qualified for guaranteed Release-Date Delivery, in the unlikely event that you don't receive it on Saturday, July 21, we'll refund the cost of the book.

Most deliveries will be made by UPS or the U.S. Postal Service, either with your regular mail delivery or in a special, later delivery. All copies that qualified for Release-Date Delivery should be delivered by 7:00 p.m. in your time zone. If you have not yet received your copy, please wait until 7:00 p.m. on July 21 before contacting Customer Service.

I had ordered the book and stupidly put delivery address as Sam's office. The book will be released on 21 Jul (Sat), Sam not working on Sat!!!! Should I cancel my order and buy from shops on 21 Jul??? Or can I wait till 23 Jul (Mon) to read the book (where half the world already know what happen in the end)..... Errrr I don't think I can wait!!!

Blueberry Cupcakes
Bought this Pre a Manger recipe book and tested out the blueberry muffins early this morning. I don't have muffins tray so made blueberry cupcakes instead. The recipe is great, the texture of the cake is just right and the recipe for the toppings makes it sooo much like those muffins you buy in sandwich shops (crispy on the top). Hmmmmm......delicious....

Going back to Singapore

Booked our air tickets yesterday, we are flying back to Singapore to sort out the visa!! Will arrive in Singapore on 5 Aug (Sun) and depart on 25 Aug (Sat).

Looking forward to see everyone again!

Tomato Garlic Prawns

Stir fry prawns with Tomato Garlic sauce this evening, smells and looks good, but abit too salty, prehaps it's because I used 2 packets.

Britain's Got Talent

Managed to catch the show on Tuesday when Conny was singing. She was absolutely brillant! She brought tears to my eyes.....

Oslo = Sunburn
Our weekend trip to Oslo from 8 June (Fri) to 10 June (Sun)

Day 1
Woke up at about 3++am cos the flight was 6++am from Stansted airport. We managed to check in and have about an hour before the flight depart. However the check in lady inform us to run as the gate is closing!! The departure board also states 'Final call'!! Doesn't help that the security is tight now and takes ages to go pass. We ran and ran and when we reach the gate, it wasn't open yet!! Not cool Ryanair, not cool... I could have shop at Duty free. :(

Being bargain airline, you don't get food, etc but the condition of the loo is just appalling! (I even warned Sam not to go unless he's terribly urgent!). The loo STINKS, the floor sticky and dirty, condition even worst then some kopitam toilet in SG! That's the price to pay for buying a 99 pences (exclude taxes and charges) air ticket. :(

Reach Oslo and got onto the bus that takes us to the City (approx 2 hours journey).


Taken on the bus ride, I love yellow houses!!

Can't believe that the weather in Oslo is abt 30 deg cel (warmer than England), very hot and humid. The weather forecast I saw the day before seems to suggest that it's about the same as England so we were caught unprepared with no shorts and slippers (Sam blame it on me!).

Check in hotel and we bought the travel card which is valid for 24 hours and you can take the metro, tram, bus & ferry) all for the price of NOK60 per ticket. Great, cos it was just too hot to walk around (plus I forgot to bring sun block :P)

First stop - to supermarket to buy water to dehydrate ourselves. everything is Oslo is expensive that why it's the most expensive city in Europe (more expensive than UK).

Our 10 litres of water which still wasn't enough for both of us.

Off to Munch Museum next. Our main purpose was just to see The Scream painting.

Sam being very ya ya, don't want to look at the camera, want to look at painting (as if you know how to appreciate it)

After a bit of shopping/ wandering around, we reach the harbour and bought some food.

Mixed plate. Sam loved the fish, very fresh


Dish of whale meat. Taste like beef but don't like the way it was cooked.

After dinner at Hardrock Cafe, we head back to the hotel (Best Western West) to find the room boiling hot! NO AIRCON!!! We spoke to the front desk person and the best they can do was to provide a fan! This is truely a 'summer' holiday.

Nevertheless, we were too tired and have no trouble going to sleep in the heat.

Day 2
After stuffing ourselves with the breakfast buffet, we head to Holmenkollen Ski Museum & Tower. While waiting for the metro, we saw this superclean (from the outside) train.


Labelled as 'SIEMENS Designed by Porsche Design Studio'. Too bad it was the train we were waiting for.


Almost reaching the Ski Museum, just a bit more walking upslope.


Ski tower, a view from below. Ski tower used for Winter Olympics before.


Ski tower, a view from on top of the tower. Very high up and thus can see the City.

Next, we were off to Vigeland Scupture Park.

Scupture not that big according to Sam!


Love this crying child.

Last stop, we decide to go to one of the island using the public ferry covered by the travel card we bought. Queue for more than half an hour and got onto the ferry, apparately it's an hourly ferry for the island we wanted to go. Nice to feel the sea breeze..... and love the scenery.

Taken on the ferry. Can see the Ski tower from here!

Got to our stop but we didn't get off the ferry cos we can't face another queue plus that will mean we miss our dinner reservation.


The queue on the island.

On the way to the restaurant for dinner, we pass this store giving our free cooked salmon.

Salmon for free, cooked at store. Don't know what they were trying to promote here, cos the leaflets were not in English.


Nevertheless, we did queue to get the free salmon each. Look and taste good. :)


Off to our romantic dinner for two at the seaside. Most expensive dinner we ever had but very enjoyable. By this time, we were sunburnt.

Day 3
Check out and managed to grab some breakfast by 8.10am so that we can catch the tram to the bus terminal for the coach to the airport.

Reach home at about 3++pm. Home sweet home, love my cold bed.... and have been praying for miserable weather in UK ever since so that I can enjoy the cold weather.

MOBTV international trial
Signed up to MOBTV.sg and received the email as below :

Dear Sir/Madam,

Congratulations! You have been selected to be part of MOBTV International Service Trial which will begin for you as soon as you activate your account.

We would like to take this opportunity to apologise sincerely if you have experienced a delay in getting this invite to our complimentary trial service. This is due to the overwhelming response to this service, and with our aim of not denying anyone of the chance to experience what MOBTV has to offer, we had to take some time to increase our capacity to cater to everyone who requested, over and above the 2000 accounts as originally committed!

You will be able to enjoy 2 weeks of complimentary viewing pleasure. If you would like to sign up as a subscriber of MOBTV International once your trial period is over, we are pleased to offer you a limited *1-for-1 subscription package but please note that this is only valid if you have registered and activated your account out of Singapore, i.e. overseas.

Please refer to the bottom of this mail for more information regarding this exclusive offer, specially tailored for you, our last batch of valued trial users!

So far, we seems to be downloading only the Channel 8 news to watch in order to feel more at home. Plus the download speed toooooo slow, thus don't think we will pay £10 every month to watch Chinese news after the trial ends.

Heroes

Finally watched the last of the season one of Heroes yesterday.

If you can chooes your hero power, what do you want?

Me..... I want a power that I can spread my happiness to whoever I meet...
To let them see the light at the end of the tunnel
To brighten up a groomy day
To let them know 如果天塌下来当被蓋

Kaya cake
I was so eager trying to bake the pandan cake recipe I found online, however, I must had done something wrong as my pandan cake turn out to be kaya cake!! It so moist and deflat, but Sam absolutely loves it!! He even asked me to bake the same tomorrow, so never mind if I can't perfect my pandan cake.

Baking day
In a very good mood to bake something, so first try out a new recipe for Pandan cake. It's spongy but Sam said that it got a plasticky taste. Not sucessful then! Will try another recipe next time.




Baked one of my favorite - Chocolate chip muffins.... yummy!! The oven is see-through..... can see how the muffins raise... and how brown they are... GREAT!







With a cup of tea and my afternoon snack is sorted.