Our NTUC is certainly getting more up market nowadays. They now have 2 Supermarket (called Fairprice Finest)that stocks gourmet food, one at Bukit Timah Plaza and the other Thomson Plaza. Culina branches are also located inside these 2 supermarket too.
Bought a small piece of Aussie Kurobuta ((Black Berkshire Pig) to sample, cost about $4.50 which was pretty affordable for me. I first tasted Kurobuta when I was traveling around Kyushu, the taste & aroma was simply divine.
Season with only black pepper and Himalayan pink salt
Taste good though still not quite as good as those I had in Kyushu which are more tender which melt-in-your-mouth kind of fats. Hmm ... I wonder how they done that, perhaps I should slow cook at lower temperature? Whatever, going to buy more to indulge soon ;)
= THE END =
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Kurobuta
Notebook conked out!
What bad luck, my personal notebook decides not to bootup. The PC Tech confirm harddisk had crashed and was reformatted with Window Vista reinstalled. And finally I have to reinstall all my personal applications which, fortunately, aren't a-lot.
Coincidentally, 2 of my friends have had similar issues with their notebook/desktop, would you called that "fate"? LOLz
grrrrrrrrr ... I need to vent my anger on a baddie!
= THE END +
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
No Glitters, Only Shivers
Unfortunately GOLD didn't rebound, broke the support. Weaken Oil and sudden bullish dollars drove it down - oh well, they are all inter-related. Expensive Oil drove inflation, coupled with already weaken dollar, one would have thought traditionally precious metals will be in vogue.
Dollar turnaround was really surprising! This happen after FED, BOE, ECB decides to hold Interest Rates. Initially, I suspect their strengthening of dollar were due to massive carry trade unwind.
However, after reading an insightful article, I'm beginning to believe it was due to FED intervention. While they have temporary halt the weaking of dollars, unfortunately, the underlying fundamentals issues remains unresolved.
Dollar Index - Mystery Solved
Of late, I reading about mishaps in some oil fields (explosion) which may leads to supply issues. Oh dear, does that means high oil prices is coming back once again? :(
= THE END =
Thursday, August 7, 2008
GOLD Go go go!
We seem GOLD falling down along with Oil lately, and Dollar has been strengthening against EURO. But today, we see an inverted bullish hammer, which indicates a trend reversal is on the way. (i.e GOLD to rebound).
We will probably know the outcome after BOE & ECB rate decision today.
Seriously, I hope it will rebound since I'm vested in Precious Metal Fund LOLz. If it breach this support level, I believe the down trend will have been validated.
Source: stockcharts.com
= THE END =
