Becoming Mrs

It was a bright morning, everything went smootly. The addition of nasi lemak with blood clam sambal was a great kick to start the day off with. People arriving in time, or I should say they were punctual + early :P. You guys were great. Thank for dad for rushing from work for me and the troop that travelled 3 hours to be there.



I really enjoyed the morning we had, tying up hair, make up in my own room, making hair for baby sis , saying yes you can wear this to sweet sis and other little stuff. The girl friends showing up in their cheerful smiles made up my day. WL's family arriving with happy faces brought my spirit up skipping in the sky.



We are very glad to have our family and friends together at Klang Hokkien Association to witness our registration of marriage.



Thank you all for the lovely presents I received and for being kind enough for being my photographers on the day. Credit goes to Bryan, Pei Li and my sweet sister. Also not forgetting wishes from Her Hau from hundreds miles away. Ya, I love the lacey basket and the lacey ring pillow. You girls are just too lacey.. Haha.




The sun was so bright after the ceremony but we took a little time posing around the building for some shots.







I know, I know. You are happy


Legally, the Mrs.

Moments in Life

One of the moments in life that I love:

Sitting on the couch, leaning againts each other while reading own magazine/book and sipping red wine in the cold air conditioned room under the dimmed light with music playing at the background. The feeling is wonderful.


Should do this more often, but absolutely not on busy day like today ;)

2010 Mid Year Trip - Singapore

The trip is about meeting up with old friends and have a short getaway from work.We did both. I think my life is ruled by internet. I cannot live without internet so I wified in the hotel whenever I am in the room.

That was us the girls loafing in the hotel lobby waiting for the complimentary cocktail session after a lot of walking in malls along Orchard.




Walking again in Clarke Quay in the evening. There were so many people around because it was the day to celebrate Argentina loss to German all down.



I super <3 the hotel's breakfast. We had breakfast in executive lounge on the 27th floor. The staff felt a bit strange for a young couple to sit in there with a lot of angmoh so one of them asked us, where are you guys from? WeeLiem answered proudly, Malaysia while I looked down all the times . lol




After visiting Kim at her new home, Ailene and Bryan brought us to the city for a little tour. This is the wealth fountain at Suntec




And a big clock.. haha. don't know what is that for..




We went to the Esplanade and saw many plastic made sculpture, creative but strange


Picture with the durian


City at background



Group photos with Marina Bay Sands at the background. Believe me, we walked from here to there!


Our loyal tour guide doing lovey dovey posing



We walked so much that it exceed Ailene's maximum perday. Anyway I think Hong Kong is a lot worse than this :D



He said he likes this picture a lot.



Last picture for the blog


We had simple dinner at one of the foodcourt inside Suntec tower, which the place is used for some expo too, left for hotel right after because our tour guide need to work the next day. Weeliem and I took a short stroll in Orchard again when we reached hotel... not to waste the beautiful night ;)

A day trip to Universal Studio Singapore

Weeliem and I had a short vacation to Singapore and we visited the country's own Universal Studio as everyone on earth is frantically talking about the place. I had been to the one in LA and this time I just want to be there with my love one.

The weather was surprisingly good on Monday. It was drizzling and sky were grey on both Saturday and Sunday. There were a crowd on weekday! in Universal Studio and tickets were sold out by 10.30am. Luckily we purchased the tickets online. We got SGD10 voucher for food and retail each person so it's a good deal. We waited 60 minutes for Mummy ride and imagine waiting for 45-90 minutes for all of the rides. That's the reason we did not manage to take the Jurassic Park ride that will drench you in water.

This is a must take photo of the place. You cannot miss out this spot as it will be at the entrace.


We didn't find Marilyn Monroe anywhere but we found Charlie Chaplin.


Silly photo of me


Weeliem wanted a photo with T-rex. He loves all dinasours.


This is the Madagascar pic :P

Winter melon and luo han guo dessert

Her Hau gave a slice of her giant winter melon that Tze Yee planted back at his home. There's problem with bluetooth on this laptop so I couldn't transfer the amazing picture to lappie. Anyway, I don't fancy soup made from winter melon so I am thinking of other things to cook from it. There I found a dessert cooked using winter melon so that's what I made in the photo above. The dessert has all the good things in enhancing, fixing or improving the respiratory system.

Recipe
http://cookingcrave.blogspot.com/2009/05/winter-melon-luo-han-guo-dessert.html

Sambal asparagus and steamed egg

We had simple yet appetizing lunch today.Steamed egg is one of my childhood favourite because my mom made the smoothest egg and sweetest broth I ever can taste.

Sambal asparagus

Preparation:
Clean and cut asparagus into 3cm length.
Grind 4 tbsp dried shrimps using food processor
4 tbsp cili boh
cut 3 shallots into small slices

Cook:
Heat oil and saute shallots
Add in dried shrimp and saute till fragrant
Add in aspragus and salt
Pour in cili boh and stir fry for 5minutes, add drops of water if too dry
Scoop up and serve hot

Steamed egg
Steps
1.Beat 2 medium-large eggs in a medium nice bowl that you will use for steaming later
2.In a wok, heat up 2 tbsp of oil.
3.Saute shallot slices and stir fry minced pork until brown and add 2 bowls (chinese bowl) of water.
4. Let the ingredients boil for a about 5 minutes to get a perfect broth for the steam egg later. Add adequate salt and pepper.
5. Remove wok from fire and pour in the broth slowly into the beaten eggs while whisking the mixture with the other hand.
6. Boil some water for steaming in a pot. Place the bowl of mixture into the pot and let the bowl sit in the water covering 3/4 of the height.
7. Let the mixture steam slowly for about 20 minutes.
8. Serve hot with rice

Bak zhang

I made my first bak zhang today. I owned the whole process, not an assistant to my mom anymore. Scream PROUD :D

Anyway, I did something stupid. I didn't know that I should only use the yolk of the salted egg. I throw the white egg in too. But I think it's still nice. Hehe.

As usual the first batch is not as good as later. The total bak zhang from the hard work is about 20+. Not a lot if to say.. Just nice for Sunday and treat for a few friends

There is no need to share any recipe here because everyone can just call home to ask their own mother, right?

gerbera daisies in the house!

The girly me purchased some gerbera daisies (apart than a lot of PORK) from morning market today. I feel so happy looking at the flowers blooming on my dining table.

Happy Saturday :) They shall accompany me to make some bak zhangs tomorrow.

Notes to jot over the weekend

A few notes to jot over the weekend

- Klang bah kut teh is still the best. Imagine the big piece of pork and tasty soup under the bridge. My love over Klang bkt will never subside.
- Birthday celebration for the big man of the house, a combination of celebration for parent's day.
- Asam to cure the headache over non stop travel
- Ipoh beansprout chicken rice deteroites in quaility. Beansprout size shrinks and chicken not as smooth due to less greasiness but table and utensils are still oily as always.
- I am unsure of everything

Today is the day to dress

Today I have a mission to be accomplished. :D Feeling excited.

Coffee date dress

At last I completed the sewing project, a coffee date dress. Pattern from http://www.burdastyle.com/patterns/coffee-date-dress-multisize-sample

It isn't a great success because I resew many of the parts many times due to my underskill pattern cutting. Anyway, I am proud of making my first dress.


Here it is:

welcoming ice cream

I don't have an ice cream maker machine so I made this by hand. Lemon ice cream chills the super hot day. Citrus sour and sweet creamy ice cream awaiting him at home.

I love ruffles

Sneak preview on my newest project. Polka dots.. tee hee.

PHOTOLOG #35: 20100513

Yesterday was usual day but an unusual dinner for me..

PHOTOLOG #34: 20100426

I agree the colour is not so appealing but it was yummy :) . Ask evon if you don't believe me.

roses are red, violets are blue

roses are red
violets are blue
i love u
and this is so true

roses are red
violets are blue
without the love
you are still you

roses are red
violets are blue
come and go
i have no clue

roses are red
violets are blue
i'm always
in love with you

roses are red
violets are blue
let's do this
together with you

roses are red
violets are blue
this is so big
don't know when will due

roses are red
violets are blue
it's forever
me and you

all smiles

Calm and all smiles time. I miss.

....

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loh bak

This is what I made tonight: loh bak (and stir fry vege which is too normal to be mentioned here :P)


My friends are so super fab! Her Hau made Kim Gary curry chicken, Sim made his mat tong tong salted egg /pumpkin rice, Cannas fried namyu chicken!, Alan's wife (Smin) cooked asam laksa!!!

hehe. TM and Xping brought fruits and Cath with her boy took the liberty to buy us drinks because they are from mainland and it is not convenient for them to go back just to cook as they had some activities in the morning which I didn't join.

We had a movie session afterward. I like the way they squeezed into my living room laying againts each other watching "The Day After Tomorrow". But not Smin because I think she didnt feel comfortable sitting on the floor. Anyway, I was happy and I hope they did too. I didn't have a photo of them in my house because my camera is with WL now which I hope he utilizes it to snap some tulip photos for me.

I forgot where I copied the recipe from so if anyone found it someone, please help to quote me. I don't want to be blame stealing other people recipe. hehe. I had hard time finding water chestnut in the market because I don't know what it is called in Chinese! Anyway lucky that I recalled it is called "ma-thi" later. Also, I almost bought the wrong bean curd because I thought bean curd is "tau-ki"

Ingredients:
400g pork
4 water chestnut
diced 1/2 bombay onion
diced 1 tbsp chopped spring onion
1 small egg
1 large piece bean curd sheet, cut into 14x7cm each piece
* Cut bean curd into smaller pieces


Seasoning:
1/4 tsp pepper
1 tsp five spice powder
1 tsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp oyster sauce
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp corn flour or sweet potato flour

* Marinate meat for several hours

Method:
1. Cut pork into thin strips
2. Combine meat, water chestnut, onion, seasoning and egg into a mixing bowl. Mix well. Add spring onion to mixture. Marinate meat for several hours in fridge.
3. Put 1-2 tbsp marinated mixture onto each bean curd skin piece. Form into a long roll. Roll up tightly and twist on both the ends.
* After steaming


4. Steam rolls for 8 minutes. Remove, cool and then deep fry in hot oil until golden and crispy.
5. Cut into slices and serve with dipping sauce.

Reminder: Do not wrap too big roll as it would be difficult to fry it.

Looking forward and expecting

I drove around bayan baru, sungai ara and bayan lepas area today trying to look for florist. I am in despair when I could not find any. Only I realised I don't know the existance of florist in this area except for that Kg Jawa which Leo and Xwei ordered their wedding flowers. I went over there but too frightened to enter because it looks like a house. It took me huge effort to drive in and and out because that's the end of road. I had to reverse and forward a number of time to get out from the place. Feeling hopeless that I could not realise my dream last night to have fresh flowers in the Ikea vase that Xwei gave to me as present on my dining table tonight, I totally blank myself and tried to concentrate on other stuff.


I have ugly recipe notes which I jotted down in an old diary but I treasure it very much :D

I flipped through my recipe notes last night and decided to make something special for the first time tonight and I really looking forward to it. I'll reveal the food and recipe after tonight :D (provided if I succeed). I am expecting some good friends in my home today. Everybody going to bring FOOD! I am basically skipping in my home from one end to another because of this excitment. Sweeping floor is as fun as eating tab tim grob in Bukit Genting. I woke up at 7am because I want to utilize my time efficiently today as I have beauty regime to work on today too other than the trip to market. Love. Today. And Friends.

2nd crochet project

I completed my second crochet project tonight. It's aim is to cover the arm chair because Weeliem insists to have something to cover it up as it will leave black colour stain on the wall if we push the chair towards the wall (accidently). I was pretty slow in the beginning but I made half of the whole thing this week. Overall I took about 3 weeks. The crochet pattern I used is self-invent. I am not sure what is the pattern being called. The first 10 rows are created from 3 different patterns and everything after 10th rows are constructed from the another pattern.



It is not really something to be proud of unless the previous cover looks like this. Not my idea.

This makes me better

You know why I love home made sandwich? BECAUSE I CAN HAVE THIS! See the egg? I love it so much especially when the yolk ozzing out on each bite. dropping here and there where I will use my finger and dab the juice and put into my mouth to savour the sweetness.



Crime in action = bacon + egg + tomatoe + mayonese + marjerine + toast bread.

PHOTOLOG #33: 20100403

I have been too long (or not) in the company that I had been assigned as a buddy to a few new hires. Upon the leaving of xwei for study, suet yin joined and eventually suck up xwei's cubicle :P. Now I have frequent flavoured tea to enjoy. I guess, it is not too bad at all.

xiao wei & leo big day

In January, Xiao Wei and Leonard tied the knot. She is not only my work buddy, she is my chatting friend who I can say anything to, she is also a close friend to me at work. I really feel sad that she left the company. Anyway, in the other hand, I am happy that she took the brave step and went back to study.

The lovely wedding was held in Flamingo hotel, Tanjung Bungah. The place looked wonderful that night, what can you say more, a pool side wedding. The bride is fabulous as ever.


This is the solemnization part that I missed because I was in charged of the receptionist that evening. Looking at the photo below, I saw her mom disbelief look that Leonard really kissed the bride so hard.


A nice photo of me taken with WL by the official photographer.

I didn't send this photo below to herhau because the actual photo is really blur. It looks good below because I resize it smaller.

With colleagues; current and ex.

Despite the humid and hot weather that night, we had fun. This is the last photo taken with the happy couple before we left.

Recipe : Sup sayur

If we go to the malay stall opposite Seagate for dinner, we will sure order sup sayur which in English is vegetable soup. We like the soup taste as it is sweet with a little hint of sourness. I googled everything I can find yesterday but from the ingredients these people list down, I don't find the sourness. Therefore before I went home, I told WL this : I will try to cook sup sayur today but there is no guarantee that I can make the same as the malay stall's one.


I gathered some vegetables I took from home last weekend and washed out the juice from tamarind and made this! He said this is the best food of year 2010 after the last stewed pork with salted fish. I think this is called a success.


Sup sayur ingredients
Small bak choy- small pieces
1/2 carrot - your fav shape
napa cabbage -small pieces
cauliflower - small pieces
1 tomato - wedged
button mushroom -sliced (This is my extra ingredients to add the kick to the soup)
fishball (This is my extra ingredients to add the kick to the soup ;))
2 cloves garlic -sliced
1 red onion - sliced
chicken boullion 1/2 cube
salt
grounded pepper corns
3 bowls water
Tamarind juice

Garnishing
fried onion

Saute red onion and garlic in 1 tablespoon of oil until fragrant
Throw in fish balls, button mushroom and all vege except small bak choy because we want to mantain the texture of the greenies. Crunchy greenies taste better
Add water, salt, chicken boullion and grounded pepper corns.
Wash out the juice from tamarind after you soak 2 tamarinds in water. Pour the juice in for the sourness.
Boil for 10-15 minutes until carrot soften
Throw in small bak choy, boil 2 minutes and serve hot.

Stewed pork belly with salted fish

I am glad to present you my favourite dish "ham yu fa lam pou". In English it shall be called something like stewed pork belly with salted fish. I made it on Monday all with my own recipe (scream proud) and I am so happy it won the best dish 2010 award by Weeliem.

Recipe below

Ingredients:

600 gram pork belly, cut into thin slices

salted fish. Erm, small piece?

garlic 2 cloves

2 shallots, wedged

ginger, the size of thumb, cut into pieces

2 teaspooon dark soy sauce

6 tblspn light soy sauce

1 tblspn osyter sauce

5 tblspn water

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tblspn corn flour

shao xing wine 3 tblspn

pepper

2 bird eyes chillies (if you like)

2 dried chillies (if you like. it adds fragrance)

Easy steps:

Marinate pork with, corn flour, 1 tbspn light soy sauce, shao xing wine

Throw everything into a stew pot. Stew for 20-30minutes. If the gravy dried up, add more water.

Big baby, small baby

My sister visited me over last weekend and it was a thrill to hear the babies calling ah-yi here and there. Home filled with cute baby voices, used baby napkins in rubbish bin, potty outside the bathroom, baby milk bottles, foot step sounds when they ran, I miss those already.

Big baby loves umbra with sour plum drink.

Small baby can't sit still all the times

Come again!!!