A tiny sphere

The photo theme for this week is tiny.

So here's a tiny bead. I don't even remember where it came from...

Found ya!

Found a kitty snoozing under the twigs!

A sweaty experiment

Ever wondered how much sweat has soaked into your t-shirt after a workout? I’ve been having this thought a few times recently when changing out of an extremely soaked t-shirt after playing badminton.

Then I suddenly recalled that I had this mini spring scale. So an experiment was hatched.

Since I thought about this after badminton, I first weighed my two t-shirts (I usually use two for a two-hour session) together with the towel I was using. The red bag is the one that I always use to take my sweat-soaked clothes back home, and I knew I didn’t want to reuse it to weigh my cleaned clothes later, so I included a plastic bag (folded and tucked inside together with the clothes, so that it wouldn’t be floating around in the air) in the weighing. This plastic bag would later be used to weigh the same towel and two t-shirts after they get washed, together with the red bag, so that we would be weighing the exact same items each time. (This is a real scientific experiment, okay? ;) )

The reading is 500g with all the sweat in the clothes. I tried to predict the next result: Just thinking about how much lighter I would expect the bag to be with clean clothes… Maybe there were 200-300 grams of sweat? Could half of that really be sweat? Anyway the best way to find out was to complete the experiment!

So here is the second weighing after the clothes are clean and dry!

The green string is the red bag from the first weighing; it becomes a strawberry when not in use :P

Looks like my prediction wasn’t so far off, eh? The clean clothes weigh 300g, so there were 200 grams of sweat!

By the way, I really do feel lighter every time I change my t-shirt in the middle of the session…so now I can put a number to it and say that I would be approximately 100g lighter! (with the sweat in the towel being negligible...or offset by the sweat evaporated from the clothes before I managed to weigh them) I wonder how that translates to my speed on the court…but I’m not gonna calculate that :P (psst...most likely it's negligible compared to my own weight!)

Rice cooker KFC rice

Some time ago, I discovered that some people make chicken rice with leftover KFC chicken in a rice cooker.

A few days ago, we received a KFC lunch in the office. It was a set of three pieces of chicken, and one small whipped potato. (no coleslaw…most likely because they might spoil)

There were two pieces of Hot & Spicy and one Original Recipe in my box. Since the chicken rice is supposed to be made with Original Recipe chicken, I ate up the two other pieces and kept this piece.

The recipe is extremely simple: Cook your rice together with the chicken, some soy sauce, and some chicken stock in the rice cooker. When it is done, shred the chicken and mix it into the rice. That’s it!

I omitted the chicken stock but added a clove of garlic. (Some online recipes/reviews say that it would taste better with more personalized seasonings) I thought of even adding some ginger, but decided to try the more “original” taste before I tweak it further.

Here’s how it looked like when cooked:

I placed the chicken in a way that more of it touched the rice.

And after shredding the chicken:

I think that the chicken wasn’t as soft as it should be after cooking. Maybe because this chicken part cannot get submerged properly in the cooking liquid. If I make it again, I would probably shred the chicken first, so that the pieces (including skin) can properly flavour the rice while it is cooking.

In the end, my dish felt like it was just some flavoured rice mixed with reheated KFC chicken. Easier than cooking the rice and heating up the chicken separately, I suppose? :P

A sucking grass

Do you know what a drinking straw is called in Hokkien? Well, I think I just learned it today.

I was buying some sugarcane juice, and as the seller handed me the plastic bag, she asked me whether I wanted something. I had no idea what the “something” meant, but knowing that there are not that many things that can be given to me with sugarcane juice, I figured out that she meant a drinking straw and could respond to her question.

So what was the word that she used? It was “sok chao”. Knowing that “sok” means “suck”, and “chao” means “grass”, it did help with my interpretation of the question!

It is also actually rather similar to how “straw” in English also means the “hay” kind of straw, and in French it is the same with the word “paille”. They were essentially a type of grass to begin with! I remember that when we learned the word “paille”, our teacher told us that in the past, people used actual straw (not the plastic ones but the dried grass) to suck up drinks!

Words in a forest

Can you find the word amongst the words?

Because the theme for the week is words (in plural), here's a whole forest of it!

Indicator of power

When there's a light, you know there is power!

Especially on a computer mouse. :)

Haha suddenly this light makes me think of Ultraman...

A little taste of heaven

Last week's photo theme was heaven.

Doughnuts aren't exactly what I would call heaven, but I guess it's the closest I've been all week...

Krispy Kreme had just opened in Queensbay, and there was a promotion on Foodpanda (that Snorlax told me about) which led to me ordering a box of assorted premium doughnuts.

In general, they were pretty good. I liked the fluffiness of the doughnuts. It's a pity they gave me two of the same kind...they must have run out of some flavours.

As for why this pretty box of six is not my Photo Friday photo, it's because it was taken before I saw the photo theme! I take quite a lot of liberties with this photo challenge, but my basic rules are that I must take the photo specially for this theme (I can't go and pick an old photo that fits the theme perfectly), and within the week (at latest on the following Friday when the next theme arrives)

Snorlax said that the kit-kat doughnut did not have much filling, so I was surprised that mine had so much...and I snapped this photo to show him. He said his had less. Actually I would have preferred a little less filling; this was a bit too much!