How to Save all your Instagram Photos

I just saved all my Instagram Photos in Instaport.me using PC.  The Instaport is the best way to go if you want to save a bulk images.  I changed my settings on Instagram and disabled the "save original photos" from the very beginning.  Now, I needed a backup just in case I want to delete my account and what not.  

All you need to do is sign in with Instagram.

Then choose from this options, I chose "All my photos" then click "New Export"

It will take a few minutes to export your photos depending on the size of the download...

then after a while, this box will appear.  Just click the "donate & download" or "download only"

For donate and download, you will be redirected to Paypal.  

I saved mine in a .zip file.  The file-name is by date, the exact date you uploaded photos on Instagram. Please note that the maximum resolution is 612 x 612.   

Til next time, laters! 

French Baguette Pizza

Another family fave, easy french baguette pizza with only two main ingredients needed.  This is the simplest french pizza I make often cos my kids only wants cheese and the bread :-P  Aside from the main, it is best if you add pizza sauce and other preferred toppings.  Easy to play around recipe.  

Well, I already tried the homemade pizza dough, great but time consuming.  We even tried the frozen pizza pie sold in grocery store.  But this is the one we best-loved!! Our bomb-diggity!!

Preheat oven to 400F / 200C. 

Sliced short baguette in half, lengthwise.  

Place in large baking tray lined with baking paper.  

Brush with melted butter on each bread, (optional: spread with pizza sauce). 

Top with preferred shredded cheese and other desired toppings.  

Season with salt and pepper. 

Bake for at least 10 minutes or until cheese is melted and bread is heated through.  

I've also used the leftover beef taco and sliced cherry tomato, 

yeah, beef taco pizza...nom nom!! ;-) 

Serve and enjoy ;-)

Beef Taco and Romaine

Our fave family snack.  We usually have it with real taco but this time, I go for more healthy yet budget friendly snack.  

All you need:  olive oil, 1x med red onions - minced, minced beef (I used 300g), taco spice mix,  3/4 cup water, fresh romaine, honey cherry tomato, shredded cheese, and taco sauce (I used on hand, chunky salsa) 

Wash and dry romaine, set aside.  Cut honey cherry tomato, preferred size, set aside.  In a pan, heat olive oil.  Saute minced onions until soft.  Add beef, stir occasionally.  Simmer for a few minutes.  Add 3/4 cup of water and taco spice mix, stir.  Simmer until the sauce thickens. 

Serve with veggies, shredded cheese and taco sauce. 

Enjoy!! ;-)

The Girl on the Train

What kept me busy over the weekend... is this book, The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.

A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. 

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?A compulsively readable, emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller that draws comparisons to Gone Girl, The Silent Wife, or Before I Go to Sleep, this is an electrifying debut embraced by readers across markets and categories. 

I bought the book before the weekend. I needed a paperback cos of the format of the book.  Had difficulty of tracing back if there's anything I want to recall from previous chapters.  It has the same format as Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, the chapters go by dates / timeline, like a journal / diary.  The Gone Girl has two narrators.  Whilst The Girl on the Train has three narrators with different viewpoints.

The beginning was a bit dull, I find.   I had a hunch from the start and got impatient on some part and want to know the ending right away.   And surprised that my theory was right all along.  

To quote the book which I find very interesting and true....

You can feel it: it's like the hum of electric lights, the change in atmosphere as the train pulls up to the red signal.
I am not the only one who looks now.  I don't suppose I ever was.
I suppose that everyone does it - 
looks out at the houses they pass - 
only we all see them differently.
All saw them differently. 

That would be all.  Laters!  

Going through a rough patch at the moment

image source: wikihow.com

I got ejected...just like that because I let that person endures pain, left hanging and made the person small.  I caused pain to that person without me knowing it.  I hurt that person without me knowing it??  I never thought I was that insensitive!!  For the past months, I was tied up of keeping my promise but on the other hand that person has in mind to boot me out anyways.  You should have told me. You should have told me straight about the problem!! You should have told me you have terms.  You should have told me I should do the same thing like what you did to me before.  You did not give me a chance.  You did not give me chance to explain before you boot me out.  But I am sorry, I do not close doors!! And I am truly sorry I caused you pain.  I am sorry I left you hanging.  I am so sorry that I ignored your feelings.  I am truly sorry if I didn't ask you first if it's okay.  I am so sorry!! 

image credit: boardofwisdom.com