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Kung Po Cuttle Fish

2009-09-29T23:34:00.001+08:00

I made a mistake during scoring the cuttlefish. I scored the inner part instead of the outer part which resulted the cuttle fish won't curl up. Hehe..paiseh... Anyway here are the ingredients:

Brown sotong (cuttlefish) 2 nos (small)

Onion 1 nos

Dried Chilies 20 pcs, soak with hot water, cut into 3 pcs

Garlic paste 1 tbsp

Chili sauce 5 tbsp

Black vinegar 3 tbsp

Oyster sauce 2 tbsp

Light soya sauce 3 tbsp

Sugar 3 tbsp

Salt 1 tsp

Sesame oil 1 tsp

Chinese wine (Fa Tiu) 1 tbsp

Water

Oil

Method:

1) Use oil to fry the dried chilies and garlic paste, add in the cuttlefish and onions and stir fry.

2) Add in the remaining ingredients and pour in some water. Simmer until the cuttlefish is cooked.

Philips Juice Extractor

2009-09-25T23:03:00.001+08:00

Bought a Philips Juice Extractor yesterday. It cost me RM250.00, while Tesco is making promotion of stock clearance and yet it still came costly at RM349.00. I chose this unit because of the large in feed it have. Plus it got 2 speed and a large juice collector. I was forced to buy it because lately, my daughter just won't eat her fruits like apple, pear or other fruits which are quite hard to chew. But she likes grapes very much. And because her doctor said she needs at least one whole fruit each day, I got no choice but to think of a way to make her have her fruits. My colleague suggested make fruit juice for her, so here it is.

Today I made juices from an apple plus some celery. The taste is good and I'm glad that my kids like it too.

Sweet & Spicy Dipping Sauce

2009-09-18T23:31:00.000+08:00

This dipping sauce can be used with seafood, meat, tofu or even vegetables. Quite suitable for steamboat too.

Here are the ingredients:

2 lemongrass

50gm red chilies (add some chili padi if you like extra spicy)

50gm shallots

50gm garlic

2cm ginger

100gm chili sauce

100gm tomato sauce

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tbsp sugar

3 tbsp oil

Method:

1) Chop / pound / blend lemongrass, red chilies, shallots and garlic.

2) Heat up oil, stir fry shallots and garlic, add in lemongrass and red chilies and mix well.

3) Lastly, add in all the remining ingredients and cook for a while.

4) Add some water to thinner the sauce according to preferance.

Banana Chocolate Chips Muffins

2009-09-17T22:27:00.000+08:00

I actually forgot to bring back the recipe from my office. At last, I made the muffins using strawberry muffins recipe. The result is as good as the strawberry's. Worth to try.

Ingredients:

125gm butter at room temperature

100gm brown sugar

80gm castor sugar

2 eggs at room temperature

300gm plain flour or cake flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 cup of fresh milk

1 cup of mashed ripe banana

3/4 cup of semi sweet chocolate chips

Method:

1) Preheat oven to 180 C. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

2) Cream butter and sugar until creamy. Add in eggs on at a time. Add in vanilla essence.

3) Beat until well mixed. Add in mashed banana and mix well. Add in flour and mix well.

4) Add in milk and mix well. Add in chocolate chips and mix well.

5) Spoon mixture into muffin cups and bake for 25 to 30 minutes until golden brown.

Lemon Roasted Chicken

2009-09-16T22:47:00.001+08:00

This recipe is adapted from Jamie Oliver. The ingredients as follows:

zest and juice of 1 lemon

1 clove of garlic, peeled

a small pinch of mixed dried herbs (I used Italian herbs)

35ml olive oil

sea salt and grounded black pepper, to taste

5 whole chicken leg (I used one whole chicken, cut into 4 parts)

Method:

1) Zest the lemon by gently grating the yellow skin with a fine grater, peel the garlic and grate it as well

2) Mix lemon zest and juice, garlic, mixed herbs and olive oil until well blended.

3) Add a small pinch of sea salt and a grind of pepper.

4) Pour the marinade over the chicken, rubbing it into every nook and cranny. Cover and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours, or preferably overnight.

5) Preheat the oven to 200 C.. Spoon the marinade over the chicken and cook in the preheated oven for 45 minutes to an hour, or until golden, crisp and tender.

The taste is great. You gotta try it!

Garbage Enzyme ~ Third Batch

2009-09-15T23:07:00.000+08:00

This round I'm using a 20 liter pail for my garbage enzyme. And the dregs are mainly from the leftover from pineapple enzyme, oranges peels, other fruits peels and some lemons. So, this is a fruity garbage enzyme. The ingredients for the enzyme:

10 liter water

3kg fruit dregs

1kg brown sugar

Harvesting Pineapple Enzyme

2009-09-14T23:05:00.001+08:00

It's time to harvest my pineapple enzyme though it's 4 days past the 2 weeks duration. No time to harvest them until last sunday. It tasted like pineapple wine lol because it got a strong alcohol flavor in it. Maybe it's due to I harvested them too late. But overall it is okay and quite refreshing. Not too sweet and not sour too. The residue I save for my third batch of garbage enzyme. Hmm... what fruits should I choose for the next batch ya?

Before pouring out.

The final product.

Strawberry Muffins

2009-09-11T23:39:00.000+08:00

This is the best of my bakeries so far. It tasted just nice. With these ingredients I can make 17 cups of muffins.

Ingredients:
125gm butter (room temperature)
100gm brown sugar
80gm castor sugar
2 eggs (room temperature)
300gm plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
3/4 to 1 cup fresh milk
1 cup of strawberry yogurt (140gm)
Fresh strawberries cut into desired small pieces

Method:
1) Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
2) Cream butter and sugar until creamy. Add in eggs one at a time. Add in vanilla essence. Beat until well mixed. Add in yogurt and mix well.
3) Add in flour and mix well.Add in milk and fresh strawberries and mix well.
4) Spoon mixture into muffin cups and bake for 25 to 27 minutes until golden brown.

Fried Chicken Wings

2009-09-08T23:49:00.000+08:00

Made this dish last week, but only manage to post today. It was really full of flavour and crunchy too. I followed exactly as the recipe but maybe you can try it with only rice flour and see how it goes.

Ingredients:
8 sets of chicken wings (or you can use which ever chicken part that you like)
6 cloves of garlic
2 tbsp cilantro roots (chinese parsley) only use the bottom part, without the leaves
1/2 tbsp ground black pepper
1 tsp sea salt
2 tbsp oyster sauce
3 tbsp fish sauce
enough oil for deep frying

Flour mixture:
3 tbsp flour
3 tbsp corn flour
3 tbsp rice flour

Method:
1) Clean the chicken and pat dry with paper towel.
2) Blend the garlic, cilantro roots and sea salt until fine.
3) Add the blended paste, fish sauce and oyster sauce to the chicken and mix well. Put in the fridge to marinate for at least 4 hours or overnight.
4) Take out the chicken from fridge 1/2 hour before cooking time.
5) Heat up the cooking oil for deep fry. While waiting, mix the 3 types of flour in a plate. Coat the chicken lightly with the flour and shake off excess flour.
6) Drop the chicken gently into the oil and deep fry until the chicken become crispy and golden brown.

Marinated chicken wings.

Crispy chicken wings.

Pineapple Enzyme

2009-08-28T22:45:00.000+08:00

For this enzyme, I used:

2 pineapples
2 lemons
200gm honey

Discard the skin of pineapples and lemons. Put one layer of fruit in the glass container, followed by some honey and lastly the lemons. Repeat the steps until you have filled 80% of the container. Open the lid of the container on 3rd day to release the gasses. Closed back the lid and continue to let it fermented for 2-3 weeks. Noticed that the colour of the pineapple is rather pale? This is because I've used Ingki (don't know the exact spelling) pineapple which was much tastier and sweeter than local pineapple. And it is more costly too, RM6.50 per pc. You can find a lot of these pineapple planted along the Banting Road.

Egg Tart ~ Second Trial

2009-08-27T23:53:00.000+08:00

Quite successful with this trial. But there are still some imperfect. First of all, I have made the pastry too thin, so it's easy to break. Secondly, the butter that I used this time did not taste as nice as the first trial. Another reminder, egg tart best eaten fresh. When left overnight, the pastry will become soft instead of crunchy. The ingredients for this time, I have modified a bit.

For dough:
300gm flour
200gm butter
2 tbsp milk powder
1 tbsp castor sugar
2 tbsp custard powder
1 egg

For egg mixture:
200gm castor sugar boiled in 350ml water with pandan leaves
5 eggs
100ml fresh milk

The steps is the same like First Trial.

Ready to go into the oven.

Mari mari.... Egg tart, egg tart.... very fresh lor.... wahahaha....

Failed Lemon Chiffon Cake

2009-08-25T22:52:00.000+08:00

I must admit that I'm not good in baking. Look at the recipe, I thought it would be simple. But it turns out to be not so easy at all. The cake was not fluffy and was dense, although the taste is okay. Maybe I need to substitute the flour to self raising flour next time. So, wait for the second trial of chiffon cake ya! Anyhow, here are the ingredients and method to do this cake.

Ingredients

1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

3 egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup oil
1/3 cup water
1 tsp vanilla essence
grated zest of 2 lemons

3 eggs white
1/4 tsp cream of tartar

Method:
Preheat oven to 175 degree Celsius. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the water, egg yolks, oils, lemon zest and vanilla essence. Whisk the dry ingredients into the yolk mixture until it is blended and smooth. Set aside.

Beat egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy. Continue to beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold 1/3 of the beaten egg whites into the batter until blended. Then, pour in the remaining egg whites and fold gently to combine both mixture. Pour the batter into an ungreased 8" round cake pan.

Bake for about 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Harvesting Dragon Fruit Enzyme

2009-08-24T23:02:00.000+08:00

My dragon fruit enzyme is 2 weeks old and is ready to harvest. This is what I get from 2 fruits. Use a strainer to filter the juices. As for the balance fruits I buried them in the soil at my garden. Not really juicy huh? Friends said if I use honey then I will get more juices. So my next enzyme will be pineapple with honey and lemon. Still waiting for my pineapple to be more ripe before I cut them. Probably tomorrow or the day after. The taste of this dragon fruit enzyme is very refreshing, with a very little bit of alcohol traces in its sweetness. Store the enzyme in the fridge and dilute a few tablespoon with water whenever desired.

Before being poured out.

Use a strainer to filter the juices and this is the result.

Just For You

2009-08-21T22:42:00.001+08:00

Reached home from work and there was Jay Tze holding a card in his hand. He handed it to me. It was a blue colour card with some birds and flowers pasted and written Just For You. Then I flipped the card and there were even more writings. I love u.... mummy & daddy..... from Jay Tze.

妈咪：是泽熙做的吗？
泽熙：(点头)
妈咪：哪这些小鸟和花是谁做的呢？
泽熙：.....Teacher Mary.

hahaha.... honest kid huh?

Garbage Enzyme ~ Second Batch

2009-08-20T13:14:00.000+08:00

For this batch I'm using both vege and fruit dregs. Basically, every other ingredients are the same as First Batch except for the mixed dregs for this time. One thing that I noticed about the differences between the two is that the second batch released more gasses that the first. So, right now we can only wait and see how it turn out three months later.

Lemon Muffins

2009-08-17T22:25:00.001+08:00

Intended to make vanilla flavored muffins, but thought it was too plain, so make lemon flavored instead. The verdict, not really satisfied with the result. I think it was too dry, need to add more milk.The recipe also I copy a little bit of here and there because I don't want to make too many at first attempt. Afraid it won't turn alright. But at the end, it is still edible lah..
So, here is my ingredients:

3 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

1 cup sugar (should add 1/2 cup more next time)
8 tbsp butter
2 eggs
1 cup milk (should add 1/2 cup more next time)
1 tsp vanilla essence
grated zest of 2 lemons

The method:

Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Put aside.
In another bowl, mix in melted butter, sugar and milk. Add in eggs, vanilla essence and lemon zest. Mix well. Then add in the flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk until well blended. (mixture should be slightly lumpy)

Then line muffin pan with muffin cups. Spoon the mixture into the muffin cups about 3/4 full. If there is any empty cups, fill it with water until half full. Bake them about 25 minutes.

Hua la la....

Yummy.....

Dragon Fruit Enzyme

2009-08-14T22:51:00.001+08:00

Not enough with garbage enzyme, I going further with fruit enzyme. The first trial I decided to use dragon fruit. Getting comments that it will taste like wine, so I'm really anticipated :p

Ingredients that I need:
3 dragon fruits
approximately 200gm of brown rock sugar. You can also use organic sugar or honey.
a glass container.
Unlike garbage enzyme, fruit enzyme can only use glass container.

The steps:
1) Rinse/wash the glass container, cutting board and knife and/or peeler and let them air dried.
2) Do cover them if necessary.
3) After they are all completely dry, cut the fruit and place one layer in the glass container.
4) Then followed by rock sugar, then back to one layer of fruit again.
5) Repeat until finish off the fruit and put the last layer of rock sugar.
6) Then close the lid of the container. Store it at room temperature, do not expose to sunlight and heat.
7) Open the lid of the jar on the 3rd day to release the gasses. Then close the lid back and continue to let it fermented for 2 weeks. Then it is ready to consume.

The ingredients.

Ready to be stored.

Homemade Kaya

2009-08-10T22:42:00.000+08:00

Getting bored with jam and peanut butter, I decided to make kaya of my own. After doing some searching, I found out it was quite easy. You just need 4 ingredients. But it is the process that time consuming. So, here are the steps.

Ingredients
10 eggs
420ml of thick coconut milk, extracted from 2 coconut.
500gm sugar (I used brown sugar 500gm and later on add 3 tbsp of castor sugar because not sweet enough)
some pandan leaves, knotted

1) Beat eggs and sugar well with a hand whisk. Make sure that all the sugar has completely dissolve.
2) Then pour in the coconut milk and mix well. After that, filter the mixture to get a smooth texture.
3) Transfer the mixture into a double boiler. Cook over rapidly boiling water. Use a long wooden spoon or spatula to stir the mixture. It is very important to keep on stirring the mixture to prevent it from getting rough.
4) Top up the boiling water in the lower pot when necessary.
5) Keep on stirring the mixture until it is thicken enough. For me it took me 2 hours. When the kaya is ready, discard the pandan leaves.
6) Wait until the kaya is fully cooled down before transfer it into container.

Remark: Some recipe ask you to steam the mixture after it has thicken for about 2 to 3 hours until it become curd-like texture. Do not stir during this time. Then put the kaya into food processor or blender and blend or process until smooth. I find it is enough to cook for 2 hours and the kaya was already very thicken.

Mixed well mixture put over rapidly boiling water.

The mixture after cooked for 1 hour. Already started to thicken up.

Maybank2u.com Phishing Website

2009-08-04T23:06:00.000+08:00

Received an email regarding my Maybank2u.com account had been block due to inactivity or too many failed login attempt. Then I proceed to click on the link https://www.maybank2u.com.my (it really read like this). And the page go to page that is similar with the real website of maybank. But then I remembered that I have read about this at littlehaohao so I noticed about the website address. It is not http://maybank2u.com.my but http://222-154-247-131.adsl.xtra.co.nz. Then I just let the page sit idle. After around 10 minutes, it automatically switched to original website of maybank (saw the changed of address). Of course I did not login as well. So beware!

Changed Theme In Living Room

2009-08-03T22:43:00.001+08:00

Changed the sofa cover and the curtains. Does it look alright? Initially, I wanted the curtain to be in something like apple green. But cannot find it despite extensive search. Err.... not really very 'extensive' though, just tried Shah Alam Nagoya Textile and Jalan Taiping in Klang. This is what I can find to temporarily hang to the window coz I need to change my sofa cover. This theme really made my living room look 'expensive' because of it's 'yellowness', hahaha. The previous theme? I would say it got a little bit of romantic touch because the major color is purple. Picture? Well maybe next time ya.

Garbage Enzyme ~ First Batch

2009-07-29T22:13:00.000+08:00

I have been collecting the garbage for the past one week. For the first trial, I'm using a 5 kg cooking coil container. The garbage that I saved is mainly fruit skins such as orange, apple, banana and mango peel. I also put in one whole lemon. There are only 4 ingredients to make this enzyme that is an air tight plastic container, fruit or vege dregs, water and brown sugar. The ratio for these are:

1) 10 part of water (depends on your container, only fill 60% of the container)
2) 1 part of brown sugar
3) 3 part of vege or fruit dregs (fill up to 80% full of the container)

Example: 10 litres of water : 1 kg of brown sugar : 3 kg of fruit dregs

In my case, I need 3.5 kg of water, 1 kg of fruit dregs and 350gm of brown sugar.

Step 1: Fill water into the container
Step 2: Add in the brown sugar
Step 3: Follow by the fruit or vege dregs
step 4: Close tight. Open daily to release gases for the first month.

Note:
Do not use glass or metal containers that cannot expand.
Push the floating garbage downward every once in a while.
Place at cool, dry and well ventilated area. Avoid direct sunlight.
Let ferment for at least 3 months before use.

Whole process completed.

See the gases that started to release just one day after.

P.S. will share the usage later on. So keep visiting ya...

Egg Tart ~ First Trial

2009-07-20T22:03:00.001+08:00

Got this recipe at http://vkeong.com and looks like quite easy to try (for amateur like me). Ever since I bought the oven last year, I hardly used it. Maybe below 5 times. So got to utilize it a bit more often.

We have 2 categories for the ingredients, one is for the dough and the other for the tart mixture. The ingredients to make the dough:

300gm flour
200gm butter
1 1/2 tablespoon milk powder ( I used my son's) :p
1 1/2 tablespoon castor sugar
1/2 tablespoon custard powder
1 egg

For the mixture:

250gm sugar boiled in 250ml water. Add some pandan leaf for fragrant. Then left it to cool and this will make the syrup. ( I found it too sweet, will reduce to 200gm on next trial)
5 eggs - beat until mix around but not until bubbles appears
200ml evaporated milk

Put all the ingredients into a big bowl and mixing them. After that, refrigerate the dough. Then, we can proceed to make the mixture.

After the syrup had cooled, add in the beaten eggs. Then, keep them refrigerated too. ( Later on, I feel that the mixture need to be filtered to make the texture more smooth and will not have bubbles when it baked.)

After some time, take out the dough and make a small ball and press it over the moulds. The dough must fill the moulds not too thin and not too thick. My first trial was a little bit too thick.
After that, fill the moulds with the eggs mixture, approximately 3 tablespoon per mould.
Then, bake the tarts in oven for 25-30 minutes at 180 C.

Tada! Here comes the freshly baked egg tarts by syy. Although it does not look pretty, but the taste is fantastic. My children loves it very much.

P.S. When I weigh the flour and the sugar, I thought of having fun and weigh every other things else. Then I found something quite shocking. The butter was written 227gm but it did not reach 200gm. Then the custard powder written 300gm but only reached 250gm. Only the sugar weight is accurate i.e. 1kg. What can we do about this?

Help! My Garden Is Invaded

2009-07-01T14:20:00.001+08:00

I must admit that I really do not have green fingers. Normally, whatever that I planted will not grow healthily. Recently, I have planted a few okras and chilly padi. And I faced these problems:
~ the leaves of the okras plant seems to be eaten by something.
~ the same goes for the chilly padi plant. As you can see from the pictures, the leaves from the sprigs are almost gone.
~ the chilly padi newly grown leaves are wrinkled. No idea how it happen.
~ after the flowers of chilly padi had dropped, the bud of the fruit will become yellowish and dropped soon after.
~ this morning I noticed that are a lot of transparent little eggs under the okras plant leaves. I think that must be the grasshopper's eggs because I saw some little green grasshoppers underneath the leaves.
I did not see any caterpillars, so the culprit must be the grasshopper. But previously, there were a lot of ants eating my chilly padi plant. Then I sprayed water mixed with some pepper to get rid of them. I think it works cause I don't see any ants now.
Can anyone tell me how to deal with this eggs and grasshoppers? I really do not want to use pesticide for the vege.

This bud will soon become yellowish and will drop on itself

The upper leaves are smaller and wrinkled

The leaves of the sprig was eaten off

The leaves of okras also been eaten off

Trip To Pulau Pinang

2009-06-26T22:18:00.000+08:00

We went to Pulau Pinang on 1st of May. This is the first trip for my children ever since they were born, pity huh? Well, at least they were more fortunate than me. We stayed at Holiday Inn for 3 days and 2 nights. The traffic was really congested during those days. We started our journey @ 8.00am. Guess what time we reached at the resort? 2.00pm! Yes 6 hours to reach Penang from Klang. OMG, it's killing me. And it didn't get any better because it's jammed everywhere in Penang. We went to Butterfly Farm, Kek Lok Si and Gurney Drive. Here are some of the photos.

JayTze is too afraid to touch the butterflies...

JayTze and JenThung were afraid of the ocean. They were not even wanted to go near it. But, they were happy with the swimming pool.

Q-Dees Sport Day

2009-06-25T23:16:00.000+08:00

JayTze had his first sport day with Q-Dees on 26 April 2009, just four months after he joins in. And he was just 2 years 4 months old. It had been a great achievement for him.

Lining up for the opening ceremony.

JayTze with his principle, Madam April Lee

JayTze demonstrating rolling on the floor

JayTze needs to pick up the beanie bags and put in the container and walk in zig-zag manner. After half round, he needs to put down all the beanie bags onto the floor and walks back to finish line. Noticed that he was such slow and steady?

A Touching Story

2009-06-24T13:37:00.000+08:00

I received this by email from my friend. To some of you, maybe you have read this story before. And yet, I still couln't help myself but to post it in by blog.

I was walking around in a Target store, when I saw a cashier hand this little boy some money back. The boy couldn’t have been more than 5 or 6 years old. The Cashier said, 'I' m sorry, but you don't have enough money to buy this doll.' Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him: 'Granny, are you sure I don't have enough money?' The old lady replied: 'You know that you don't have enough money to buy this doll, my dear.' Then she asked him to stay there for just 5 minutes while she went to look around. She left quickly. The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand. Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to. 'It's the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for Christmas. She was sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her.' I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus would bring it to her after all, and not to worry. But he replied to me sadly. 'No, Santa Claus can't bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there.' His eyes were so sad while saying this. 'My Sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister.'
My heart nearly stopped. The little boy looked up at me and said: 'I told daddy to tell mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the mall.' Then he showed me a very nice photo of himself. He was laughing. He then told me 'I want mommy to take my picture with her so she won't forget me. I love my mommy and I wish she didn’t have to leave me, but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister.' Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly.
I quickly reached for my wallet and said to the boy. 'Suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll!' 'OK ' he said, 'I hope I do have enough.' I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and even some spare money. The little boy said: 'Thank you God for giving me enough money!' Then he looked at me and added, 'I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that mommy could give it to my sister. He heard me! I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mommy, but I didn't dare to ask God for too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose. My mommy loves white roses.' A few minutes later, the old lady returned and I left with my basket. I finished my shopping in a totally different state of mind from when I started. I couldn't get the little boy out of my mind.
Then I remembered a local news paper article two days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck, who hit a car occupied by a young woman and a little girl. The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the life-sustaining machine, because the young woman would not be able to recover from the coma.Was this the family of the little boy? Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the news paper that the young woman had passed away. I couldn't stop myself as I bought a bunch of white roses and I went to the funeral home where the body of the young woman was for people to see and make last wishes before her burial. She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest. I left the place, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed forever. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister is still, to this day, hard to imagine.
And in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.

I actually cried after I've read it and I still do. I guess maybe it's nature of a mother huh? I have no idea whether this is just merely a composed story or it is a true story. But one thing I'm sure, It Touched My Heart.

The Journey of JenThung

2009-06-23T12:56:00.001+08:00

JenThung at two weeks old

Getting bigger....

Ahh.. little girl in dress. Not so much hair though...

Playtime....

JenThung and bro.

First birthday

The Journey of JayTze

2009-06-23T12:43:00.001+08:00

JayTze during almost full moon

Cute little guy huh?

JayTze and papa

First birthday

November 2008 - JayTze with JenThung and Khai Ern

Noticed that JayTze is getting slimmer?

Fun Meal For My Son - Part 1

2009-06-20T12:16:00.000+08:00

Lately, my son becomes quite fussy with his meals. It seems like he had loss his appetite or the foods no longer attracts him. Not like his early days of weaning where he enjoys his every meals very much. Now, he would played with foods or toss it around. Actually, he can feed himself now but after this behavior, his nanny began to feed him again. and of course he did not like the idea. So, I'm planning to modify a bit of his daily meals, to make them look more interesting. Previously, he would have rice for his main meals. Now, I plan to replace it with other type of carbohydrate such as mashed potatoes or italian pastas. Will try to find other type too. But my son is very particular about the texture of foods. He doesn't like them to be soft, thus I hope he can accept the mashed potatoes. I will be back in part 2 with the meals and the pictures of his fun meal soon, I hope. Bye.

Tulips - One of the elegant flowers

2009-06-16T23:14:00.001+08:00

Personally, I always thought tulips is one of the elegant flowers other than lily my favourites.
But sadly, my husband or should I say my boyfriend then only send me roses. Err..... that is also almost a decade ago, sigh....
Below are the pictures of tulips I received from an email of my colleague. Would like to share with you. I wish I could plant it myself but that is another mission of impossible huh? Unless I migrate to Holland ( ^_^ ) ha ha.

Sound of Music | Central Station Antwerp (Belgium)

2009-06-15T23:04:00.000+08:00

Got this amazing video from my buddy Maisie Tan.
More than 200 dancers were performing their version of "Do Re Mi", in the Central Station of Antwerp. with just 2 rehearsals they created this amazing stunt! Those 4 fantastic minutes started the 23 of march 2009, 08:00 AM. It is a promotion stunt for a Belgian television program, where they are looking for someone to play the leading role, in the musical of "The Sound of Music".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k&annotation_id=annotation_72265&feature=iv

It is very entertaining. Trust me.

Dinner at Dragon-i

2009-06-15T22:37:00.000+08:00

Went to Dragon-i at Aeon Bukit Tinggi, Klang on 14 June 2009. We consist of 7 adults and my two kids. Actually it was my idea to go there, to celebrate Father's Day in advance. I have heard of this place long time ago, but didn't have the opportunity until now. But it was a big turn down. In my opinion, the food portion was very small not to mention the price. Not really worth it. We tried the 'siau long pao', braised pork belly, fried rice, fried ramen in black pepper, king prawn in sweet sauce, beancurd, shanghai smoked fish, stir fried four season bean, 7 bowls of white rice, 6 glasses of chinese tea, all in a sum of RM204.30 included 15% tax. How was that?
Definately would not return.

note: very sorry, no photos. Too busy serving my two little monsters.

Federal Highway - Fed Up!

2009-06-12T23:32:00.000+08:00

Grrr...... I'm so pissed off. A journey of 36km would take me 50 minutes to reach home. Imagine that. Today I'm late for home because of the training I have to attend and by the time we can go back, it's already 5.45pm. Supposedly, I can use the NKVE but don't know why I drive towards federal highway instead. OMG, the traffic is slow and heavy. I hardly reach 100 kmph thoughout the journey. Finally, I managed to 'crawl' back home and arrive safely @ 6.40pm.
By the way, there is no coffee served at the training, too bad.

Why coffee and me?

2009-06-12T01:12:00.000+08:00

Why? Simply because I just love coffee. With a little bit bitter would just be nice. Tomorrow is going to course. Hope they serve nice coffee there. Will be back soon.....

Cheers!!

2009-06-11T23:28:00.000+08:00

Hello my world. Decided to start blogging just now. Don't know how long I can keep on writing. Well you know, I am working and have 2 toddlers to take care. Did I mention how old are they? 2 1/2 and 1 1/2. A boy and a girl. After a hard day work, it seem to have little time left for me since I would take care of them after work. After tucking them to sleep then only it is my time to do other things such as this. Furthermore, I have 2 online businesses to follow. You can find them in my E-Shop link.