11th July 2008 - Two and a Half Men (Season 5)

Completed the 'Complete Season of Two and a Half Men' last week but its only till Season 4. Bought Season 5 yesterday and that just arrived at the dvd shop. We wouldnt have known about Season 5 if we hadn't googled this sitcom.

We luv the theme song. Its catchy and comprises of only two words, 'men' and 'manly'. Was trying to find a music video for the theme song to attach to this blog but instead found out that we can actually catch this sitcom on YouTube. Told Sean abt this and he said he rather view from the plasma tv than laptop.

Found the MP3 music for this sitcom but can't download to the blog.

Hope that there will be more Seasons to come. Season 5 just ended few months ago in States. Cross our fingers.

8 July 2008 - Scallops

Sean smsed me today and said would like to have dinner by 8pm. Wah, 好大男人呀! 但我喜欢. hehehe...But just dun do it too often as I may feel like a 'maid' after a while. I think he wanted to surprise me cos he was home at 7pm!! That was very early for him.

Did a soup, veggie and seafood last night. Used the ready packed herbs for the chicken soup. Supposingly to be 润肺.

Was doing my marketing in Carrefour and saw scallops in the frozen section. Was comtemplating whether to get it cos the scallops was quite small. Anyway, in the end, decided to buy it to try my hands on steaming seafood with garlic and other seasonings.

Thankfully, I had a garlic press which saved me alot of chopping time. :)

I added garlic, pepper, chilli on all the scallops and used a little black bean paste on half of the qty to test how it would turn out. Both were fantastic!! When Sean opened the cover of the steamer, he commented it was very fragrant.

Surprised to hear him said that cos his sense of smell very bad. It must be the garlic,chilli and black bean paste. :)

7th June 2008 - Weather in Shanghai

Read from Shanghai Daily that the temperature was 38+deg for the past two days!! And there will be more days above 35deg this week.

Time to frequent the indoor airconditioned pool within our condo and get ready to wash our bath tub as well for frequent use in the next two/three months. Was in the pool last friday and the indoor temp was so cooling. :) Dun want to come out.

Looking out of my living room windows, I can see that the trees are stilled ie no wind. I need to get out and get into a shopping centre soon.

Am going to City Market to get stuff for dinner tonight and to the nearby Superbrand Mall to enjoy the aircon. And of cos, to visit H&M. :))

First, gotta go for a cold shower!! Sizzle.........

6th June 2008 - Meat Roll

Finally, I decided to do the meat roll after thinking about it for the past few weeks. I remembered when I was still in Singapore, I helped Mum with this before and can still remembered how to do it.

We couldn't find minced pork at Marche, so we settled for minced chicken. As usual, the preparation work is the most tedious. Dicing onion, mushrooms, chestnuts, carrots. That's alot of dicing cos my dicing is still very slow. Mum's recipe doesn't call for onions and mushrooms but I had these in my frig for sometime and dun want to waste them.

After all the dicing of onions, carrots and mushrooms and half way through the chestnuts, Sean came over and asked if I need any help. I was about to 'throw down the knife' after 5 chestnuts so I got him to help me with it.

HE MADE IT LOOK SO SIMPLE!!! ARGH!! HOW COME HE DIDN'T COME OVER SOONER??

First of all, he made 'skinning' (can't remember the word to use) the chestnut looked so easy by laying it flat on the chopping board and sliced the outer layer all around and then used the back of the knife to remove the top and bottom. Why didn't i think of it?

THEN, he picked up the apple slicer and started to chop the chestnuts. Within seconds, I had my chopped chestnuts. I was dumbfounded and both of us started to laugh about this afterwards. He is sooo good at improvising.

We both agreed that if i were to do this, I would take 5 times the effort/time to do so. And within these times, I would get frustrated.

Since there were still some mushrooms left, he helped me to dice them as well. No point throwing the small qty away.

Within seconds, they were finely chopped. We looked at each other and laughed.

This is the meat patty with diced onion, mushrooms, carrots, chestnuts and a few other seasonings. I forgot to add an egg and some flour. Wrapped them with beancurd skin and imagined myself savouring the crispy skin later. yum yum. Can't wait. Had to get the veggie and salmon dishes done first before I started to fry the meat roll.

Between the above meat patty and the finished product below, I scalded my left hand with splattering oil and woke Sean up in the process.

He had to help me clean up the stove area and floor.

In the end, we put everything into the oven. Not as crispy as I had wanted but good enough. Taste good considering its my first attempt on my own.

Next one to tackle would be Ngian Dou Fu.

We completed all four seasons of Two and a Half Men today. Our version does not come with Season 5. Gotta keep a look out for Season 5 in the DVD shop.

5th July 2008 - Lunch in Shanghai 'Orchard Road'

We were outside our apartment on the way to meet Celine for lunch and saw this illegal rickshaw which can bring us to the MRT for RMB5. Pestered Sean to try this cos I dun wan to walk under this scorching sun all the way to the mrt.

Here we were, in the wooden shelter pulled by a motorised bicycle all the way to Century Park MRT. Quite an adventure cos no seat belts but only the driver as our 'cushion', in case of an accident. It was also quite a bumpy ride and warm ride, with hot wind blowing at our faces.

I have seen some of the residents in our condo used this form of transport. Seems very common here. Anyway, dun think will use this form of transportation again. This was just for the experience. I'll take the bus anytime.

Went to the "Orchard Road" of SHA to this restuarant called 糖潮 or Sugar Dynasty. Pretty good Hongkong food though a tad on the salty side. That's us after our very delish, filling meal. Let's see what Celine blogged abt our meeting at http://missybebe.blogspot.com/

Had a good chat over lunch and headed to our place to get DVDs for Celine. We are going to finished Two and a Half Men soon. So sad. It's such a hilarious sitcom. Gotta watch out if there are other sitcoms around.

Sent her back to her hotel. Luv the comfy bed with white sheets. As long as it's made of sateen cotten, 100% cotton or with more than 400 thread counts, its like lying down on clouds and will put smiles on Sean's and my faces when we zzz..

Wanted to ask Celine to get Straits Times, Her World and Shape magazine for me from Changi Airport. Missed English papers/magazines since coming to Shanghai.

Anyway, thanks for your copy of Her World, Celine. :)

Sean was like: Wah..Good, finally an english read and brought this into the toilet....

30th June 2008 - Re-creation of Recipes

Was thinking what to cook for dinner and came across this recipe of Stew Ribs with Bitter Gourd. Think Sean would luv it. Would also want to try the fish slice recipe I did on Saturday's cooking class.

So did both. Couldn't find Kale in Marche so used broccoli instead. Saw some fresh prawns and since Sean hasn't had prawns for quite some time, decided to add this into the fish dish.

The stew was pretty good. Good thing I didn't add 1000ml of water as mentioned in the recipe cos it's watery enough. Added tomato for that extra vitamins :)

I was 'unknowingly' heavy on the salt content on this dish. It was way too salty and I had to rinse this dish four times. Sean said when he tasted the fish before I pour in the gravy, it was just nice. It must be the oyster sauce and come to think of it, I added way more than I remembered the instructor added. That must be the reason.

But overall, both dishes were good.

And we watched THAT sitcom over dinner again.

29th June 2008 - Watermelon Feta Cheese Salad, Guinness restuarant

Sean had to go for a seminar in the morning. Supposed to end at 5pm but actually it ended by 1pm. He called me at 11.30am to meet up for lunch and woke me up in the process. Was having body aches and a slight sore throat. Better drink more water.

Picked him up from S&T MRT station. Discovered a newly opened Irish Pub restuarant in Thumb Plaza. The unit used to be an antique shop. We had a very filling lunch on fish & chips, deep fried mushroom with salmon stuffing, chicken with bacon/mashed potata stuffing and more french fries. Luv the greenish dip for the fish but cant really tell what is it. Anyway, asked for extra dip for the fries.

And I had a sore throat that morning??!! Oops!

Pity din bring camera cos the presentation was quite good. Very professionally run, staff speaks good english, english papers...feels like Singapore!! And they have a pool table inside the restuarant. Next time can get Sean to teach me.

Oh, Subway just opened a joint here too. :)

Sean said he had too much meat for the day, so wanted only veggie for dinner. Thought of preparing watermelon feta cheese salad. There are so many different sizes of watermelon in Carrefour. We bought one that was the size of a small melon. Got some oranges and lettuce for the salad as well.

Had this together with some pastrami on toast. Feel so healthy. And we had many good laughs watching Two and a Half Men while having dinner. Again!!

28th June 2008 - Cooking Lessons

Went for cooking lessons yesterday from 10 - 12nn and 2 - 4pm. Very reluctant to wake up after all the rain on Friday. ;p

Did 6 dishes in total but took only photos of 3 dishes. Learned a few simple stir frying / deep frying techniques.

1) Fish slices with Kale. This was delish but a tad salty. Can try this at home if I can find some good white fish around. Now, know how to cook without the dish being too watery and how to prevent the fish slices from disintegrating.

2) Seafood medley. Similar cooking style to item 1.

3) Deep Fry Lychees in Strawberry Sauce. Finally, know how to do the batter. Saw a show last year where the chef did fried fig in batter and after than eat it with ice cream. Looked delish then. Tried the fried lychee hot off the cooking pan and quite liked it. Pity the lychee i tried wasn't very sweet.

The recipe called for strawberry puree sauce but saw the instructor using strawberry jam instead. Anyway, the sauce was good.

Since i wld be coming back in the afternoon for the 2nd session, I left the lychees in the frig. Surprisingly, it tasted even better when chilled.

4) Pan Fried Pork Chops in Tomato Sauce. The tomato sauce can doubled as pasta sauce as well. Next time, dun have to buy bottled pasta sauce. :) We just marinaded the pork with salt and pepper and fried it. It tasted very delish and juicy without any other seasoning.

5) Pan Fried Beef Steak Salad. This was easy to do with same marinade as pork chop.

6) Lime Cream Dessert. This was suppose to be dessert but it was whipped cream with lime juice,grated lime skin, sugar, corn starch! Can be a topping for fruits etc but not consume it alone.

These were our yummy dinner last night.

Anyway, signed up for another three sessions in July and Aug to learn choc cake, blueberry cheese tart and ham/seafood pizza. Can't wait. :))

27th June 2008 - Two And a Half Men

The weather has been as such since last night. Actually, its was quite cooling this past week. Maybe it's due to the typhoon in Hongkong, Shenzhen now.

We bought two fans last week in anticipation of the hot weather but only used it a couple of times.

Staying in countries with seasonal changes makes one feels that time flies. I dun keep track of dates now only except when I blog. But i can feel the weather changed since I came over in March and felt that the months just flew by.

Two and a Half Men.

Saw this sitcom on cable last mth and luv it. Charlie Sheen and the other two actors are hilarious. I dun remember which cable and timing of the sitcom, so had not been watching it on cable since.

While shopping for DVDs, i chanced upon the whole series of Two and a Half Men. Told Sean abt it and got him to buy it for me.

It has been a good buy cos we are hooked on it now. Almost every night, we will watch it during dinner. It's hilarious and sometimes we laughed til our tummies ache.

Thought of googling this sitcom to find out more about this show but Sean beat me to it. heheh..never thot he would do that.

26th June 2008 - Oven Baked Ribs & Beef Pastrami Salad

Was watching Tyra Banks show the other nite and they demonstrated this ribs recipe on the show. What's interesting was that cola is one of the ingredient. So for tonight, I decided to try this.

Since I wanted to buy cinnamon powder, might as well go to City Supermarket at LuJiaZui. This supermarket would have all the ingredients i need for this ribs recipe and cinnamon powder. I can't imagine why Walmart and Carrefour dun stock cinnamon powder.

Anyway, so happy to be there. But not before some shopping at the nearby Superbrand Mall. hehehe..;p The supermarket reminds me of Cold Storage or the Market Place back home, that's why it feels so comfy here. Got most of the ingredients i need and as I walked past the meat section, I dun see any ribs. Oh no! So I walked the whole length again. Asked the staff and was told that they were sold out. 'duh'

So had to go all the way to Carrefour at Thumb Plaza to get those long ribs which they definitely will have.

Here you go. This was the finger licking good dinner we had last nite.

Beef Pastrami Salad.

Ribs

It was yum yum and we finished everything. The ribs were quite salty though. Should hold back on the ??? Well, let's see next time what ingredients I want to hold back. Cos most of the ingredients have high salt content.

Better record this down so that I can try again in future.

a) Rub ribs with all purpose rub and let it rest.

b) Prepare the coating sauce by combining chilli sauce, worcestershire sauce, steak sauce and cola together. Original recipe calls for liquid smoke but I dun wan to buy it. And when i checked out Tyra Banks webpage, a secret sauce was mentioned. Of cos they wouldn't tell unless you buy the chef's book. Understandable.

c) Put ribs into oven for 30min-1hr. Original recipe calls for it to be under grill for 2-3 hours. I dun have so much time.

d) Take out ribs from oven and coat the ribs with the sauce thoroughly before putting into oven again.

e) Bast and turn the ribs a few times for the next hour or more. I din do so much of these cos was afraid the alum foil would tear. Can't remember how much time I spent on this but it looked ready to me. :)

I have been using aluminium foil to oven bake everything and its stated that its max temperature is 220 deg. So to play it safe, i will only have a max temp of 200 deg. I suppose the ribs shld be put in a higher temp in the beginning but i can't. That's also why my previous chicken dish not so crispy...sigh..Anyway, using foil is so convenient. Use and throw. But back in my mind, I am always thinking how long will the foil stays in the environment. Not so environmental friendly, i suppose.

21st June 2008 - Chicken Soup for our Soul

We used the ready packed spices for our chicken soup again! :) It's convenient and delicious. What more could we asked?

Anyway, bought a copy of the local soup recipes recently for reference. Cannot always cooked using the ready packed spices, rite? Gotta have some variety.

Read somewhere that black rice is healthier than white rice, so bought some to try. It's purple actually. Smell like the black glutineous dessert. :)

I'm getting to like spinach. They are so soft to eat. But so far, I'd only tried cooking with spinach, 'chicken feather', kailan. And it's always the same cooking style. I boiled the veg, set it aside, used a little of the boiled water to cook the gravy with oyster sauce & garlic and lastly, pour the gravy over the veg. Is this the only way to cook veg?? No rite? Hm..

Not sure how to handle the other veggies that i saw in the supermarket. Gotta do some research.

15th June 2008 - Emperor Chicken

I am so glad that ready-packed spices exist!! We have more than 20 packets of emperor baked chicken spices/ ginseng chicken spices etc in our kitchen. It's good to have ppl coming over for a visit so that they can help to bring some Singapore stuff over.

Sean & I were telling each other that in future, wherever we are in the world, we shld bring along large quantities of such ready-packed spices. It's so convenient. Anyway, we bought chicken pieces instead of the whole chicken cos I still dun really like/know to handle whole chicken. Oso smaller pieces are easier to handle and eat.

Got this packet of corn/carrots/peas and steamed them. It's good to have some variety in our diet. When we dug in for dinner, we had such happy faces. The emperor chicken just reminds us of home.

:)

I realised that after coming over to China and reading their books/articles, they are actually quite health conscious. I am starting to incorporate some of their health tips in my cooking oredy.

12th June 2008 - Pasta Dayz

Bought some pastas recently. Saw this interesting pasta called rigatoni..something like macaroni but bigger and straighter. Was thinking of what to do with it for dinner and was inspired by a TV programme to do 'macaroni & cheese' style. Since we have most of the ingredients in the refrig, why not?

Sean said that the meat taste something like the meat mum used for niang dou foo. So this dish is a keeper but can't do it often..very high in fat/calories etc

Hm...this sets me thinking to attempt to do the niang dou foo. Good thing I saw how mum do the NDF at home. I can still remember 60-70% of it. But must find the Tau Pok first.

Next day, I had the spag/rigatoni from yesterday's lunch/dinner leftover and cooked myself a milky pasta dish for lunch. Taste quite yummy with all the wheat/calcium/protein/pepper..very healthy.

5th June 2008 - Stewed pear for cough

Went BuXingJie today to buy Chuan Bei powder and almonds from the traditional chinese medical shop called Beijing Tong Ren Tang. So traditional. Another store at the 3rd level even has a TCM doctor and sells chinese herbs stored in multiple drawers occupying the whole wall.

Bought this cute little stew pot from the shop as well. Just nice for 1 person. Later, Sean jokingly commented that I am creating more work for myself by getting such a small stew pot. Anyway, it's cute and handy. The other pots were quite big. Maybe, I go buy another of this mini pot??!

This taste good. Going to cook another mini pot for myself. :)

8th June 2008 - Our 8th Anniversary & Duan Wu Jie (Dragonboat festival)

It's our 8th anniversary today!! It's been 8 years since Sean & I are together. That seems so long ago yet there is still so much more to know of each other. :)) We had so much fun together, going places, doing mundane stuff, doing silly stuff and getting to know each other in the process.

Did we know we will be here in Shanghai 8 years ago? Nope and we won't know where we will be 8 yrs down the road. But we know God has already prepared whatever places that we are supposed to go.

Its Duan Wu Jie today and Monday would be a public holiday. Went Xintiandi for a stroll. Very much like our Clark Quay. Alot of angmoh here, sitting alfresco and sipping coffee. Very laid back place but abit crowded. Maybe cos its a sunday and monday's a holiday. It's near HuangPiNan Road, something like our Orchard road. Did some shopping along this road. :))

That's us in XTD. Luv the architecture and the cleanliness of this place.

There is a musuem within XTD that marks the 1st meeting of the GongChanDang. Got to see the young Mao Zedong instead of the older picture we are used to see.

That's us in Coffee Bean within XTD. Only indoors cos dun wan to be under the UV rays. Next time, would luv to eat alfresco here but only at nite. Sean ordered Coconut Delight cake..hmmm..it's so light and yum.

We were at this lake opposite XTD. Nice place to sit and chit chat..

7th June 2008 - Xiao Long Bao again

What a rainy afternoon! Preparing to go for an interview at 5pm this afternoon and it started to rain very heavily.

On the way for the interview, we saw that at some stretch of the pedestrain way of Century Avenue was flooded! Should have brought a camera along to take this scene. So unexpected as Century Avenue was supposed to be an important road in Pudong.

Had quite long an interview and there will be another 2nd interview coming. Very good language school but need to settle on the working hours. See how it goes.

After the interview, we walked to ZhengDa for dinner. We tried XiaoLongBao at Din Tai Feng. I wanted to taste the difference between DTF and JiaJia (JJ). Well, after trying DTF's, i realised that sometimes, what they put up in the webpage are just personal preferences.

There are some webpages that recommeds JJ. Well, what I can say is that, its value for money whereas DTF's is more refined and has more broth. But it seems like they add more broth into the XLB separately in DTF before steaming cos its unlikely that little amount of meat can produced so much broth.

It depends on what one prefers. Gotta try NanXiang's at ChengHuang Temple one of these days to see which one I like best.

29th May 2008 - Jia Jia XiaoLongBao, FengXiang Clothing & Gift Plaza

At last, finally decided to go and try some XLB at some local eatery. This shop has quite good reviews from some webpages so this will be the first I try for today.

Din know that its so near to RenMin Square. I'd made a loop trying to get to this place. Reached there about lunch time and there was a long queue. So went for a short walk down this old street to see what else they have around there. By the time i turned back, practically no queue.

Ordered the XLB, seaweed/egg soup, ginger/vinegar and a soda for RMB12!! But have to wait for 15-20 min, cos they will only wrap the XLB whenever there is an order. I asked the counter staff where to wait for a seat. She just told me to sit wherever there is a vacant seat, even if it is to squeeze between two ppl.

While waiting, I counted the number of seats. There are only 3o seats. No wonder they asked ppl to take any seats available.

The XLB tasted quite ok actually. Its just that the soupy bits is too little. But for its price, its definitely worth it. Think I will try Din Tai Fung's this weekend to check out the diff.

Went to FengXiang after lunch. This shopping area is also rated quite well in the forum. But after going thro it, I still much preferred Science & Technology Musuem for its scale. Tmrw, will bring a Singapore fren there for shopping together with her grp of frens.

So tiring after 4-5 hrs of checking out places. Went JingAn area to buy something for Sean and there are so many shops selling shoes, clothings there etc. Just found out that RenMin Station also has a floor with shops as well.

I think i better steer clear of these places and start to visit some museums which I had wanted to go since last yr. Its quite daunting to see so many shops as its difficult to know where to start. And when you start, how to end!!!

I will start with the Science & Technology Museum. 5 floors of scientific stuff to ogle. Let's see if they need volunteers.

24th May 2008 - Cha Chan Ting at Jiu Guang City Plaza near JingAn Temple

Forgot to blog about this issue that happened last Saturday.

Last year, mum was telling Sean of cases in China where the service staff would deny receiving your payment for the meal and asked for another payment again. It happened to us in a HongKong Cha Chan Ting at the basement of Jiu Guang!!

The first staff came and we passed her RMB100 as well as asking her for the official receipt. One minute later, another staff came with the bill asking for payment again. We told her we have already paid and were waiting for the change/receipt. As a result, the first staff came over, looking very puzzled, saying that we did not gave her anything!

What an experience! We had to raise our voice a little and told her exactly what happened to recap her 'memory'. She kept saying no. We told her this only happen one minute ago, how can she forget? She walked off, presumingly to check. Later, any staff came with the change and apologized to us. When we walked past the first service staff on the way out, she looked so dejected, as though being accused.

Aiyah, I should have informed their manager about this matter and see how he handled it. I told Sean that in future, maybe we should take a pix of us handing the $ to the service staff so that they can't deny it. hahaha..

The only good thing about this restuarant is : the duck meat is nice. :)

27th May 2008 - Brownie, supermarkets, JingAn XiaoTing

Went Metro today. Had to show them my passport before they can issue me a one time entry. At least, until Sean applies for the Metro card thro his company. Quite a big place but small area for veggie and meat. Pricing is reasonable in Metro. At least, now I have one more supermarket to juggle around.

Its quite troublesome to shop in Metro cos I was "barricaded" at different aisles a few times cos they have to unpack goods with their forklifts. Maybe morning is not a good time cos they have to unpack their goods. Next time, go in the afternoon.

I like Carrefour for it's convenience, Walmart for the freshness of some meat/veggie/fruits , City Mart for baking stuff and other foreign products, Metro for slightly cheaper grocery. So that's why for different things, we go to different supermarkets. Very troublesome but good change of scenery. But overall, I still prefer City Mart cos it feels some much like Singapore. But have to go all the way to LJZ.

Went JingAn XiaoTing for the third time on Monday before it closes on 28th May for good. Finally, found the card holder i'd wanted. Bought two nice and cheap tops, two cheap & comfy shoes, a fab belt, two earrings and a expandable bag. There are alot of children's clothings too but the girl's clothings are so much nicer and sweeter. I would buy for Atticus if he is a "girl".

Thot my ayi changed the timing to 4pm. Yet she came at 2pm todaywithout informing. Asked her why. She said she stopped worked in the other assignment. Alamak, came as she wants. Good thing am at home. Anyway, we are thinking of this fri being her last day. Felt that our sweeping is much cleaner than her sweeping cum mopping. Have to DIY liao. If not, have to keep explaining to her how to do things and worry about the hygiene standard at the same time.

Did Brownie based on the Pierre Herme's recipe Li gave to me this afternoon after coming back from Metro.

Hmm..quite soft in the middle and lightly crisp on top. Much better than the 1st try last week. Let's see what Sean says tonight. :P Anyway, I dun remember that those brownie we tried outside has a crispy top layer. So am I doing it right? Well...

23th May 2008 - The Olympic Torch

The Olympic Torch went past our apt this afternoon at 1.49pm!! We missed it in Hangzhou last Sunday but still get to see it in China after all. So excited to be able to view it.

One can really feel the excitment of the locals as they cheered.

This is the view from our bedroom where the police are blocking the traffic towards Century Park. No wonder traffic jam at our apt entrance.

This is the view from our kitchen where the Olympic Torch would go pass later. The background is Century Park.

This is the direction where the torch would be arriving. I was standing on the road taking photos and this policeman was telling us to obey his orders and don't 'de cun jin che'. He already let us on the road yet we were moving closer and closer to the barricade. hehehe..He oso know we need to take pix lah.

This is the direction towards Science & Technology Museum.

This is the torch bearer for this leg of the run. You can hear alot of ppl shouting "Zhong Gua, Jia You'

The arrival of the flame. You know it is arriving by the loud cheers on that stretch of road.

The passing of the flame.

This flame will go past Sean's office, then to Oriental Pearl Tower before stopping at BinJiang DaDao which is next to HuangPu river.

This event at our apartment lasted for about 1 minute but alot of ppl actually waited since 12 noon for it. I actually didn't want to wait for it as it was stated in the webpage that the mrt exit will be closed between 12 - 3pm, meaning that it should be within these hours. 3hrs is a long time to wait under the sun. But saw the news this morning indicating the time it departs from the starting point at Puxi. So in the end, we waited only for about 1/2 hr. :)