Wake Up and Smell the Cake

I have been on and off work this past week because we were cleaning our home to make way for baby before fasting starts. We've managed to clear loads of stuff and made way for new wardrobes for the spare room (for Husband's long coats etc) and for the kids' room, and got brand new airconditioners for all the rooms! Ka-ching. Our home is all set now, minus the dining table which is still a hand-me-down. Oh and our bed could do with a change too but that can wait. Did some normal cooking and a little baking over the days, made bread pudding and this time round it turned great cos I soaked the bread in the custard for almost an hour. Soaking it prevents the crust from being too hard when baking. Oh and I attempted apple spring rolls too! I think I prefer banana chocolate spring rolls instead. Here's the recipe: Apple Spring Rolls , recipe from Crazy Mom Cook 6 small apples, peeled and diced 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/3 cup brown sugar 2 tbsp butter 2 tsp orang

Junior is a kitty cat fan. He'll get very excited if he sees a kittycat. I have now made new cat sounds, what I call crazycat, and he loves it a lot. Will get into fits of laughter when I start my crazycat meowing.   Here's Junior with yet another cat encounter, but sadly, cats ignore him :( Or they'll be in defensive mode cos this boy runs like he's going to attack them. Can't blame these cats.    Hello kitty cat! How are you!  Oh? What is that you're looking at?  Mama, kitty cat doesn't want to talk to me :(     Hahaha that's pretty much the situation every time he sees one. My poor boy, rejected by kitty cats.   Anyway! I tried making lemon curd muffins in my bid to use up the big jar of lemon curd. I think I should use a cupcake recipe next time, muffins are dense and not very good to keep for a few days. I filled the muffin liner with one tbsp. muffin batter, 1 heaped tsp lemon curd and another tbsp muffin batter, but

Yesterday was my brother's 26th birthday and he requested for a strawberry shortcake. Not strawberry cheesecake or some other cake, but strawberry shortcake. The Japanese one, to be precise. So I hunted for recipes and decided on this recipe by La Fuji Mama because it has pictures to follow. I was a bit skeptical and scared to try because it's a cake without artificial leavening agent and I haven't done any cake that uses whisked egg whites. What if the cake doesn't rise!! The cake did rise, but not enough cos the bottom fell flat. Maybe I should have baked in 2 tins instead of 1 cos the top was fluffy enough. I had another problem as well. The whipped cream frosting that totally failed. Maybe I didn't do the gelatin properly? It's my first time handling gelatin as well! Omg so many firsts! Here's the recipe: For Noriko’s sponge cake: 4 large eggs, white and yolks separated 4.2 ounces (120 grams, 9.5 tablespoons) granulated sugar, sifted once

Made these on Friday while Husband went Friday prayers. Well actually I wanted to make Nigella's instant chocolate mousse but lazy me didn't read instructions properly and I mixed ALL ingredients in the pot and happily waited till they melted and mixed and as a result, the mousse didn't set. Bummer. I had all my ingredients ready and my baby sleeping! HAHA. Specially bought marshmallows for this from Phoon Huat, though I think the marshmallows aren't that sweet. Oh wells. Can't be choosy for halal versions ahahhaha. Speaking of which, I love Phoon Huat for their halal logo! Like their vanilla essence is also halal, and these marshmallows too. Awesome! But sadly they're not easily found at NTUC, which means I'll have to stock up only when I go Phoon Huat. I wish there was an outlet near my house. Anyway, after I made the chocolate mousse, I transferred to 5 ramekins and the balance in my mug for me to savour. It was DELICIOUS. So sinful. Would have mad

Hello!! I'm on Medical Leave :D Husband's at work, and Junior's at my mum's house. I'm free to do just about everything! Heh. Morning I sent off Junior, and stuck around for a bit before going to my all time fave Chong Pang to get some stuff and most importantly, threading. I've been putting it off for the longest time! With that done, and toiletries bought, I spent $50. How did I spend that much on so few items! And I've yet to buy rice, kicap and eggs! Anyway. So I went home, fried my french beans to go with my daging masak kicap for lunch, and then washed and hung clothes to dry, and then baked a chocolate cake (recipe later), and vacuumed the house and now I'm taking a break before I start ironing. Did all that when I'm supposed to be resting and slacking around haha. Husband's gonna scold me for not resting hehe! Daging masak kicap was done yesterday, I prepared everything and cooked the meat and off to zzzland I went, while Husband

Today I left Junior at my mum's for about five hours, to bottle train but it was a total failure. Sigh. Why oh why won't my darling not drink from the bottle! How would he survive without milk when I'm back at work! :( Anyway. I decided to make No Bake Cookies. I have loads of Hershey's chocolate that Other Half brought back from his NY trip a couple of months ago. As much as I love chocolate, I was disappointed with the Hershey's pack he bought! Doesn't taste like good chocolate at all. Even the Kisses aren't good. While looking for recipes at random, I came across one which could make use of Reese's peanutbutter cups, the chocolate I dislike among the mix. It looks fast, simple and no baking required! It is the No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies . Ingredients that I use which I shouldn't have adjusted to: 125g butter 1/2 cup milk 2 cups sugar 1 and a half cup Reese's Peanutbutter Cups 3 cups quick oatmeal 1 teaspoon

If Junior mistakes a sealion for a seal, it's my fault haha. Only realised I got the animals mixed up after I wrote the letters.

I am stressed. Yes, I am. After a long long time. I am seldom stressed. It's Other Half's birthday very very soon and I don't know what to get for him. I gave him a suggestion which I thought he'd be okay with cos it's practical, but he wasn't excited about it. Bummer. I do have something planned for morning, but that's just about it. Morning only. I am hopeless!! I have to come up with ideas fast!!! :(

Broke the frame of my glasses yesterday. Damn. And like that's not enough, it fell in the toilet bowl. Tried hard to put scotchtape but it didn't stick well. Now surviving on UHU glue. I hope it can last me till I get my new pair on Wednesday (or Tuesday, if it's ready).  If not then it's either walk around blindly, or wear my sunglasses with degree. Either way I'm like a blind person. Haha!

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

I need to cut my hair. At least my fringe. I want to have annoying fringe that doesn't seem to stay behind the ear again hahahaha. Maybe I shall do a DIY haircut (including the back) like back in the JC days. I shall go buy scissors! :) My mum is getting sick way too often :( I do hope it's because of the weather and nothing else. But still, it's worrying :( I don't recall her having a low immune system. I love my mummy very very much dear God please take of her k. I am getting fatter. Damn. I am seriously considering that expensive programme my sister is selling. It is effective, might as well right. His exams will be over in two days! Yipee!! :) More time for me! Hahaha. Yesterday's lemak cili padi was a disaster. I never seem to get this right. This time, the coconut milk was tengik. Spoil only. Threw away the gravy, and used the instant mix instead. Kinda running out of ideas of what to cook. Haha! I shall buy boneless chicken and cook stir fry more ofte

Can his exams hurry come and go. Please please please. It's irritating me a lot :( My kek batik turned out weird. I shouldn't have included eggs. Or maybe use less. Wednesday I'm gonna bake banana cake! Whee! :) And. I'm bored. So bored that I'm bored of being bored. Bleah.

First sighted: 11.23pm on 22 April 2010. Caught in the act: Biting into the rice bag, and not bothering if it makes too much noise biting its way through. Me? Freaked out lah! A mouse! A rat! What if it's the big kind that's at my mum's void deck! Ewww gross! And how did it get in here! Yucks yucks yucks! Both of us stayed on the bed like elephants being scared of a teeny weeny mouse. Then, not like we could do anything about it, about half an hour later and after phoning both our mums, we decided to go back to bed. I didn't sleep as fast as Other Half, though. How to! The little rodent was still there! What if it crawled up the bed! And it was still trying hard to find its way through to the rice. The next morning, we didn't know where it went, and looks like it pooped at the scene of the crime. We threw away the bag of rice, even though I think it didn't get pass through the plastic bag. The rice bag has two layers, one is the gunny sack, and inside, a

The thumb is very important. You may not realise it until you can't use it. I just cut my thumb again! Haha! The other time was my right thumb which didn't stop bleeding for like an hour. This time it's the left thumb, I cut it while I was cutting bread. Not as deep, but it bled too. I'm such a selenger! It's like, the bread knife was cutting the french loaf with much force (the bread's quite hard) and bang! There goes the thumb. Sliced. Reaction's pretty slow. Haha! Other Half was so worried. But I was laughing. I know, it may not be funny, but nothing to fret about! I'm perfectly fine! :D And these things always happen to me. Hahaha. Sometimes I even forget I have a cut! I hope the wound doesn't open up again. Here's a list of things you can't do or find difficulty in doing when the thumb's hurt: wearing your pants hooking your bra (really!) cutting onions washing dishes drive (especially if your car has manual gear) finding stuff in yo

Ultimate bummer of the year: freakin' wedding clashes on FFL's wedding. Basket !^%^$#@^#! First, it was two weddings. Then I thought, okay fine, I'll go the nikah for the other one. BUT. BOTH have nikah at the same day around the same time. Doesn't help that the wedding will be held like wayyy east. And then, the most bummerful of them all if there's such a word, another wedding I can't escape. Seriously. I even dreamt that I would be able to skip, but as usual, dreams are opposite of reality :((((( This weekend we might be going Birmingham, and maybe somewhere else too. Wheee!! Hope the weather is nice enough like yesterday! Stop it with the cold winds and rain and grey clouds already! Spring is past due! Speaking of yesterday! After days of not being tourists, we went to the Westminster area for a stroll. Fotos yet to be uploaded. Maybe tomorrow. Lovely blue sky is back! At least for yesterday. And the temperature was bearable! Not the wintery chill! Yayn

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.

Argh damnit! Why! Why must he DIE!!! Haha. I'm reading this book about a few women and their lives. There's this one old couple whose been married for ages, but are still as romantic and in love as ever, but lately the husband was acting a little weird. Common suspicion would be an affair, but me being the impatient reader, I flipped to the back to see a glimpse of what the ending will be like, and the husband in this pair died. But! I didn't know he'd die in Chapter 6! That's too soon! I hate sad stories :( I love to read about couples, no matter how long they've been married, they're still having a healthy loving relationship, but don't kill the mood with death! Sian. Oh well. I hope the other stories are happy endings. But seems unlikely. I shall go find myself fairy tales instead. I love happily ever afters. Sad stories should be banned!

Good morning. Yesterday was the first buka at home with home cooked food. No instant food, no tapau-from-parents food. I was actually pretty nervous about cooking. Haha! I have minimal experience, always trying to avoid helping my mum in the kitchen hehehe. So I wrote down the things to buy, and I followed Shez's advice, visualise what I'll be doing. Lunchtime, went to get the ingredients that have not been bought, and after work we rushed home! Haha. Ayam masak lemak cili padi. Didn't turn out like what my mum cooks. Not spicy at all because *someone* didn't want too many cili padi. The gravy was kinda tasteless cos too little salt but I think the main culprit is too much water added. I would like to say in my defence, not me either. Haha! Okay okay, too much excuses. But! Practice makes perfect. This is only the start. Other Half being the sweet Other Half he is, he didn't complain :) He even asked for a second helping :) Oh yeah no vege yet! Even thou

After yesterday's morning meeting, I feel motivated to work! Motivation like that doesn't come often, you know. Haha. Hope it lasts! I went to the doctor - again. Sian. Wah this time har! The antibiotics sucks big time! The most bitter thing I've ever tasted! Really! I put it in my mouth, tried to drink quickly but I ended up spurting out the whole thing. Bleargh. I feel like my tastebuds DIED because of the medicine. No amount of gargling can get rid of it. I even used a tissue to wipe my tongue. Luckily there's lozenges. But the lozenges weren't that nice after some time too. Haha. I hate being sick.

Hello. I am in school. Supposed to be studying, but I just had lunch. Yah, you must be thinking, at this hour?! What to do, KFC was super inefficient today. Matt called at 1 plus to order, and they said they were overwhelmed by the numberous calls that were coming in and asked if they could call him back like half an hour later. What rubbish rite. Not enough phone operators, employ more lor. Not very expensive wat. But that's not all! There's much more. So they called back, we ordered. They said it'll be here in 45 minutes. 45 minutes. Never mind. I can wait. Then after 45 minutes, the delivery man didn't come! So Matt called asking why and whether the order went through. I can't remember what happened (goldfish memory, remember) next but there were quite a number of calls made between the two parties. Matt got angry. Wahahaha. A hungry man is an angry man. Who wouldn't be! They claimed a few times that the food will be sent soon, or is already on the way,