Wake Up and Smell the Cake

I am STUFFED! Had Tandoori Chicken Croissant sandwich from Coffee Bean . Wanted to get something healthy. But healthy is usually more expensive. Okay I realise croissant isn't as healthy as normal bread haha... I'll switch to the non-oily breads in future. The chicken portion was very generous and chunky! And the vege too! I like! It was like almost a whole tomato in the sandwich, with a long slice of cucumber, and salad. On top of that, there's side salad too! I love how they include raisins and almonds in it. Hungry monster finished it like she hasn't eaten for days. Yes! Every bit of vege and almond and raisin. And now my stomach's bursting. Dropped by NTUC to get pears and China Kong Pears (those yellow ones I know as buah lai). They shall be my snacks when I'm terribly hungry like this morning. Shall not resort to cookies anymore! Cookie Monster in rehab Today I shall start eating healthy seriously! No more hot hot chicken shit (literal translation o

I baked yesterday! And I think I shall start making this blog into a foodie blog. Hahaha. I had time to kill at my mum's house, and I wanted to give a surprise (which wasn't a surprise anymore since I couldn't buy ingredients discretely -_-") to Other Half cos he's been so tired lately and could do with some cookie-love :) Found this chocolate chip cookie recipe from eatandbehappy . I wanted to try some other cookie recipes but they called for Dutch processed cocoa which I couldn't find at the shops I went and didn't want to go all the way to Sun Lik at Seah Street so I resorted to this simple recipe. First time trying Redman's chocolate chips. Tried the white and the dark chocolate coverture chips and they're awesome! Wayyy better than Hershey's. Doesn't taste like cheap chocolate at all, and it melts after baking! And they're huge too :) Baked two batches, the second batch of cookies were more rounded. Could be because I whipped t

This looks too good! Die die must try! Looks awesomely delicious doesn't it!! It's called Huevos Habañeros (Eggs Havana Style). Stumbled upon it from The Little Teo Chew . I have to try it some day!! Sunday morning breakfast in bed for my ♥ very deserving ♥ Other Half :)

Watching football alone is boring, even if it's exciting Latin American countries against each other. I was sleepy during the second half of the Brazil-Chile match. And 15 minutes before game ends, I fell asleep. Woke up to find advertisements already playing. I burnt a hole in my white tudung today!! Actually, it's TWO holes! But I only left the iron for a few seconds only!! How can! I've left the iron for like a minute on t-shirts and other cotton clothes and nothing happened. Darn. Haha so that's my first iron burn hole. Luckily it's just a tudung and not clothes. Finally! We have the fan up and running! It wasn't spoilt! We thought it was, well it really didn't work when we tried it! So we went back to the store to exchange, but when we were there, we saw that there's no more of the same fan, or the other model similar to it. What's left are small table fans and a bloody expensive standing air-con unit. The air-con unit would be perfect for t

A list of things I wanna eat back in Singapore: masala thosai McSpicy Swensens ice cream towers kentang ball bee hoon goreng mama I'll add to the list later.

Haha! After many many days contemplating, I've finally tried Chinese style chicken stir fry. Inspired by the TV show here, Chinese Food In Minutes. They make stir fry look so simple! So this is my first attempt at Chinese cooking! Sweet and sour not counted. Haha. Not as easy as it looks since I'm not used to soy sauce. Cannot anyhow throw in ingredients here and there. Tried Kung Pao Chicken since there's chili and I can omit whatever Worcestershire Sauce and Shaoxing wine. Took the recipe from Rasa Malaysia with some tweaks. Looks nice? No? At first the soy sauce was kinda overpowering (don't be fooled by the colour!), so I added more chili. I was prepared to wash off the sauce and recook the chicken if Other Half didn't like it, but amazingly he says it's nice. Okay then! :)

I don't understand. Why do some people think that women wearing high heels to work is a sign of oppression. Apparently, women need to make themselves suffer by wearing uncomfortable heels so that they can look good and be noticed. They won't be noticed solely for their talent and work capabilities. I don't quite agree. I wear heels cos it's pretty! Doesn't everyone like pretty things? Why make yourself look ugly rite. It is in our nature to want to look good. And secondly, heels, with the added height, gives you more confidence. Compare that to wearing flats. There's the relaxed, slack feeling. Not good. Thirdly, it is part of formal wear, just like how suits and ties are part of a man's formal wear too. Stupid people. You know what. Besides the fact that I'm with Other Half, being in London sucks. First, my VPN cannot be accessed. Bloody hell. Now. My laptop has been attacked by a stupid virus that doesn't allow me to even enter Internet. Wahlau eh.

Overdue fotos! Of food. Hahahaha. Kuih tarts ready to be baked!! Pardon the messy jam. Aesthetics was intentionally compromised. And then they were all baked! This was made using a heart shaped cookie cutter. Haha. Variety mah. And as of today. Kuih tart finished. Gone. Habis. Today's meal: briyani!! :))) What I felt was a gargantuan task, yay! I did it! My mum's briyani is still better, though. But not bad for my first time. Haha! So happy!! :)))

I feel useless. One. I can't work. Fine. My fault for not backing up the entire T drive. Even if I did so, I can't back up my emails. Apparently the IP address clashes or something. And I can't change the current one cos it's a shared port. Maybe the new apartment I'll be able to. Hopefully. I get too hungry too often. Like every two hours? Speaking of eating. And food. Brings me to point number two. I can't cook. Yesterday's bee hoon goreng was a disaster :( Simple thing like that also cannot cook. I have a long way to go before I reach my mother's level :( Sucks sucks sucks.

I ate a lot today! And the day's not over yet! 6am: 1 banana, and a bowl of cereal. Normal morning stuff. 10am: a little leftover porridge. Hungry mah. And I needed to clean the pot. Haha. 12noon: one whole oversized portion of 2 piece chicken and fries from the local mama shop version of KFC. LOVE it. Actually I ordered 1 chicken piece and 3 spicy drumlets, for 2 pounds. but he gave me 2 pieces of chicken meal which costs 2.50. So I 'earned' 50p. Haha! At first I kinda hesitated buying it, walked into another shop before this thinking of getting fries only, then I changed my mind. And anyway if I change my mind AGAIN, there's 2 other similar shops I'd pass by. If so happen I missed it cos I was at the other end of the shopping area, then so be it. I'd go home and eat whatever I am going to cook. But. I was just fooling myself. Haha! Went in, got my sinful indulgence hehehe. 3pm: a little bowl of seafood tomyam. Hot from the pot! And I wonder why I am getting fa

Yes. It's only the first day. No chocolates or cookies. It was bearable in office, but when I got home and opened the fridge, it feels automatic to stretch out my hand and grab those cookies! I looked away, and chocolates caught my eye. Argh! The horror! I have resisted temptation and I shall continue to. I can't wait for Tuesday's dinner date with FFL! I am freaking hungry. My sister says I can eat cookies in 10 minutes' time when the clock strikes midnight. Haha! That is true eh. Technically the day IS over. Hmmmmm.... VERY tempting! :D

I am damn terrible. I ate breakfast at 7.30am and at almost 9 I am hungry. Trying to cut down on snacks too. So far my attempt to start cold turkey on chocolates and cookies has failed. I shall start today then. Loads of chocolates and cookies at home! VERY tempting. But. I have to keep my weight in check. Fats are showing at my face! Chubby chubby me :( I smell french fries. Grrrrr. Now I wanna eat french fries :( Small meals and fruits only from now on.

The sweetest thing person is cooking this evening. *melts* chickenrice! :))) Coincidentally, there's cake -- pecanbutterscotch + chocolatebanana -- for tonight's little special dinner too. Happy one month :)

Wah. I am stuffed! With sushi. And tempura :) I like tempura! Hahahaha. I've come to realise that I can't really take sashimi. The previous i.e. first, time I ate at Hei Sushi, my friends were asking me to eat this and that, including quite a bit of sashimi, and I was kinda sick of it. But Shez loves it, so okay I gave it a try again. Only ate one sashimi sushi. Hahaha! Cannot lah. Difficult to swallow. Hehe. The best dish we tried was the tempura ice cream! Sedap lah! And quite cheap too! I wanna bring *someone* there! Can hor? Can can can? Hehehe :) I bought QWERTY materials. Finally . Some progress! :) I shall start on it REAL soon! I'm happy! :) Listed down the things to bring/do/buy for the new home. I wanna call it Bahay! HAHAHAHA. Not really sure how it's supposed to sound. I just googled for a translation of the word "home". Bahay, Filipino for home. So there's two projects now, QWERTY and preps for Bahay. Not much time left! I wanna watch Public E

Blk 4 Toa Payoh masala thosai is THE comfort food of the moment! Move away, chocolate! Haha Now I'm stuffed! :)

Fruits have mutated. Here's one: Whoa!! Damn big leh! This is by far the biggest grape I've ever seen! Twice the size of a 50 cent coin! Note: No foto enlargements have been made. Betul punya gambar!

Ya lor I did!! Amazing rite! Haha! To be specific, beef rendang, fried cabbage and rice. Pretty simple hor. Haha. Guess how long I took!! Two and a half hours. Preparation, cooking, cleaning. Muahahaha. Ya man that long! Did the whole thing while my mum went to the market. No supervision and no one to ask guidance from. So naturally, I made a few mistakes. Hehe. I forgot which one is ketumbar which one is jintan. So what did I do? I googled both to see what it looks like. Haha! I love google. I used corningware to cook the rempah + meat, then I realised it's too freaking small for me to stir the whole thing, so I had to quickly wash the larger wok which was partially filled with oil so that I can use it instead. Haha. I was cooking the meat halfway then I stopped the fire wahahhaha. I hope it didn't affect the meat. LOL. Hee hee if my mum saw this, confirm get scolding one :p I didn't time when I started to cook the meat. I forgot to cook rice. AHHAHAHA. My mum re

Pineapple tarts again! Hehe. But only one batch, makes six trays plus 3 big gingerbreadmen :) For exclusive people only. HAHA. These are the beauties! Awaiting turn to be baked! The 3 gingerbreadman shaped cookies! Wahaha. My sister loves them. Cos she likes to eat crust. Haha. One each for us kids! Decor's by me and my brother. "Ooh I can't wait for the pineapple tarts!", says Chip. Yeahhh. All done :)

And yes I got it! Woohoo! Bandung and sugarcane juice. Heehee. Thank u!! :D I is happy girl! Actually it kinda looked scary lah, me waiting to attack one bowl of soto ayam, plus two tall drinks. HAHA! And what's worse is that I finished my soto (but not all the gravy) and the drinks!! Wahaha! Was very the bloated with water. But good mah, then I won't eat a lot. Hehe. And so, cos of this craving of mine and being able to finish both drinks at a meal, I got labelled a camel. "Why?? I cannot drink a lot of water is it??"

Wah sehhh!!! I cannot tahan! My stomach is going to EXPLODE! I ate so much, I can't bear to think of food anymore. My mum asked what I'd like to eat for sahur tomorrow morning, and I sooo don't feel like eating anything. Why my poor stomach is in this sorry state is cos I had buffet dinner at Straits Kitchen courtesy of the management themselves (woohoo!!). And part of food tasting as well. See, I was actually eating for a purpose. HAHA yeah rite! Anyway. That was my second time there, the first was also free, courtesy of my company. Haha! Paying more than 50 bucks per person for their buffet is not worth my money lah. I can buy clothes and shoes with that money. I couldn't wait to attack the indian food!! Heehee. Malay food, nothing special lah cos outside also can get, and my mum also can cook. Chinese food, not a fan. Indian food, especially north indian cuisine, wah!! I liiiikkkkeeee. Muahahahaha. So for my first plate, I took 2 pieces of tandoori chicken (trust me