It is difficult to find Nasi Ulam in Singapore and I am so happy that I manage to get a slot at Straits Curry Company tonight. 🎉 I have been looking forward to this dinner for many days, they are so popular that I booked at least 3 weeks in advance.

Conclusion? Very very good! The ingredients were painstakingly chopped into small shreds so you got a bite of everything in one mouthful. It is so fresh and fragrant, served together with Ayam Percik and Assam Prawns.

Raw greens such as kacang botol and cucumber were added for extra crunch and freshness. They even have a few slices of finger root today which makes a nice palate refresher.

This absolute labour of love is complete when paired with their fiery homemade sambal belacan. It popped powerfully on the palette. I thoroughly enjoyed my meal tonight. ❤️

Order from @straitscurryco on Instagram if you love this rice salad.

(3-step Lobster Risotto recipe)
TOW KAY NEO SG by Miss Tam Chiak and @chefcaoyong has launched 3 premium, rich and flavourful broths that are painstakingly boiled over long hours. Available on their own in 1L packs, or in bundle kits and hotpot essentials, the signature broths are void of preservatives and msg. I tried the Sichuan Poached Fish Bundle Kit($42.90) first. I was really impressed by the deep natural flavours of the broth, and the pristine freshness of the giant grouper slices. I used 500ml of the broth and half a packet of the preserved mustard and half of the grouper slices to whip up a fuss-free and absolutely delicious fish soup that went perfectly with just a bowl of steaming white rice. I’ve been recommending this to all my friends!! I really love it! The next day, I used the remaining broth and grouper slices to cook up an easy meal by throwing udon into the mix. Simple as ABC, but incredibly delish!!

I have the Lobster Pao Fan Bundle Kit ($45.90) too but I thought I would get creative and churn out a Lobster Risotto instead! The tasty broth was a godsend and this was the easiest risotto I’ve ever made (a good stock is really tedious to make so I’m glad that the lobster broth made my endeavour super easy!)
Serving for 1 pax :
1) Heat up some olive oil. Add 80g of Arborio rice to hot oil. Heat up about 400ml of lobster broth and 100ml water in another pot
2) Once rice is slightly brown, turn down the heat, add a ladle of lobster broth to the rice and let it simmer, stirring occasionally. Add another ladle of broth once the rice has absorbed most of it, till broth is used up.
3) Once rice is cooked to your desired texture, place 1/2 or whole Boston lobster on rice, and cover pan to heat up the already cooked lobster

I have yet to try the pork collagen broth but I’ll be using it for a steamboat party next weekend! I really highly recommend the bundle kits! Especially the grouper one, super good eh really. Delivery is free for orders above $90! 🥳 Get your party needs sorted at towkayneo.sg today! #towkayneosg

Woohoo! We are featured in The Sunday Times today!

The topic is on how to have cosy, creative celebrations amidst the pandemic and how staying home presents an opportunity for families to bond and get closer.

If you follow my stories, you will know that Ariel designed an "Animal Experience Studio" for the family to get together and enjoy. She came up with a series of games, including a classification game using our animal figurines, a tossing game where you try to throw the animals into containers of different sizes, an animal 'hunt' where she hid them around the house, a drawing game where she categorised the animals based on easy/medium/hard level, and a Bingo game where she surprised me by painstakingly drawing every card by hand for each of us.

We played this during the Father's Day weekend recently and it was so much fun for the whole family. She even prepared small prizes from her own stationery and a lovely "Thank You" speech to thank us for participating. Awww. So I think she is very thrilled to see it being mentioned in the papers today and to see a huge photo of all of us playing her game. Yup, even her self-designed poster is featured too. You totally deserve it, my dear!

She said she was inspired by my DIY Halloween party last year and the name was derived from our visit to Changi Experience Studio earlier this year. And you know what? The success of this initiative has propelled her to want to create even more party games and celebrations for us in the future. Yippee!

Big thanks also goes to the hubby and the siblings for joining in wholeheartedly and to the big sister for ensuring that the games flowed smoothly too. It is indeed true that celebrating indoors does not have to be mundane but instead, it can be intimate, creative and fun. I am just so happy and relieved that the kids share my sentiments too.

Thanks to Kamal from The Straits Times for interviewing us and even including my blog link in the article too! What a great way to end off the school holidays, which I wish could last longer so we could have more fun as a family.

Have a happy Sunday, everybody! ❤

#ahappymum #familytime #Creativity521 #stayhomecanbefun

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不要只說「小心陌生人」DON'T JUST SAY "BEWARE OF STRANGERS"
(English writing below)

保護孩子、培力兒童是大人的責任，不是嗎？可是很多父母都失職了。

兩年前，我寫過這篇文章《防狼之心不可無》：https://www.facebook.com/l.jiqian/posts/10155915660644614

我一貫的影片離不開風水命理，改命補運的題目。去年，因搬進風水更好的新家，我見的客人多了，收入也增長了一倍。當時，就在想：取之社會，用之社會，因此，就已策劃要拍些社會課題的影片。

為了這支影片，去年特別拉隊回到我童年的居住地區拍攝。第一次這樣的拍攝，收音方面沒做好，請您多多包涵。

中了武漢肺炎病毒，還有機會可以痊癒，可孩子被熟人性侵，會造成孩子一輩子的陰影，其殺傷力更深、更痛。

蔑倫越理的邪淫，會種下未來無窮盡的禍根, 死後墮入畜牲道，百千劫難得人身，但依然有加害者執迷不悟，以為能一手遮天。

因此，身為父母和教育者，我們都有責任教導孩子正確的身體自主權，及如何拒絕和向可信任的大人求助。

三十多年前，我母親苦口婆心教導我多年，今天，我做這影片，適合大人小孩一同觀看。除了希望小孩子能學到自我保護的能力，我也期盼他們未來不會成為性暴力的加害者。

說不定，將來他們還能幫助其他的孩子脫離被加害的困境。 ❤️

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Empowering and protecting children are the responsibilities of adults, right? Yet, there are many parents who have failed in this aspect.

Two years ago, I wrote an article "What my mum taught me about wolves": https://www.facebook.com/l.jiqian/posts/10155915660644614

My usual videos revolve around the topics of Chinese Metaphysics, Buddhism, destiny transformation and luck improvement. 

Last year, after moving into a new house of better Feng Shui, the number of clients I seen increased and my income doubled. At that time, I had this thought: what is taken from the people should be used in the interests of the people. Hence, I made plans to do videos on societal issues. 

For this video, I went back to my childhood neighbourhood with the filming crew. This is my first time producing such a video, and I seek your tolerance for the lacklustre audio. 

One has a higher chance of recovering from Wuhan virus, than a child who suffered sexual abuse from a known person. 

Immoral sexual misdeeds will sow the seeds for endless misfortunes in one's future. Upon death, one will be hurled into the animal realm and be denied of the human form for hundreds and thousands of kalpas. Yet, sexual predators are persisting in their acts, thinking that they can get away with it. 

As parents and educators, we have the responsibility to teach our children body safety skills, and how to reject sexual advances and seek help from trusted adults.  

30 over years ago, my mum had taught me this painstakingly over many years. Today, I am paying forward by producing this video that is suitable for both the adults and children to watch. 

I hope for more children to learn self-protection abilities, and that they will not become the sexual predators that we abhor. Who knows? Perhaps in the future, they may even help free other children from being sexual preys.  ❤️

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阿彌陀佛，你好！我是李季謙，來自新加坡的風水命理師。我將我的一生貢獻於弘揚佛法和中華玄學。這過程曲折離奇，卻也充滿了許多人生的領悟。

通過我的影音與寫作，我希望能與你分享，盼你也能夠突破自己命運的束縛，真正活得精彩：我命在我，不在天。

人生長短無所謂，最重要的是活得有價值，有貢獻。

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Hi, I am Lee Ji Qian, a Chinese Metaphysics practitioner from Singapore. This journey in propagating Buddhism and Chinese Metaphysics has been full of hard knocks and exciting discoveries.

Through my videos and online writing, I hope to share my journey with you. So that you too can break free from the limits of your destiny and truly live a life you can call fulfilling. My destiny is in my own hands, not Heaven. So is yours.

It does not matter whether we can live a long or short life.
What matters most is living a life of value and contribution.

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"Where’s My Hero?” on Spotify NOW!
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When writing this song, Jon and I thought about Jo Malone London’s best-of-the-best and how scent is such a personal journey. We each have our own hero Cologne. Of all their winning fragrances, Jon champions “Pomegranate Noir”, while my hero is the iconic “Lime Basil & Mandarin.”
This inspired us to write a song that interprets the journey of finding something we love and adore.

“Where’s My Hero?” tells the tale of a simple love story of a boy and a girl eventually finding their hero.

To mirror the playful and whimsy nature of the song, we needed the music video to be a stop-motion piece. So, we collaborated with Love Limzy Co. who designed and painstakingly handmade each set and prop that you see in the video.

To create the video, we collaborated with our trusted partner again, Cinemakers Studios who we have worked with on “How We First Met” and “On The Way.”

This is our first time doing anything like this, to this scale. The 34-hour shoot was physically and mentally taxing for all of us but the result... ?????. We are very proud of this and hope that you enjoy it as much as we do!

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Jon Liddell (https://www.instagram.com/jonliddellmusic/)

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?LYRICS

She’s walking down the street
She’s treading lightly with the world beneath her feet
In search of something more so she sends out a tweet,
that says,
“ I’m looking for my hero… I wanna know… where should I go?”

Gone to save the world
With his brooding looks he walks to every girl
With his guitar he sings the melody of love, (that goes),
“You’re looking at your hero… I’m more than a bro… What’s your numb-…?”

Chorus
Oh… oh… oh… Where’s my hero?
Hello, hello
Where did you go?

Oh… oh… oh… Where’s my hero?
Oh don’t you know I’m your hero

Roti, one for me
She orders with a smile but deep inside she sees
A world so pretty yet she doesn’t have the key that leads her to her

Hero … oh… oh…
Im your hero
Hello, hello
Where's my hero?
Oh… oh… oh… you’re my hero.
Oh don’t you know you’re my hero…