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..

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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.

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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!!!

PHOTOLOG #32: 20100224

After seeing photos of garlic butter shrimp in herhau's facebook, I was tempted to try it. So I went back home and took the 7 large shrimps I had frozen in my fridge, unfroze them. Threw generous amount of butter, minced garlic, parsley and salt at the shrimps on the aluminium foil, I had them baked in the oven for 20 minutes. Remembering the herb rice Fang Fang made for us 2 years ago, I tried to make one myself creating my own recipe. Haha. Weeliem came back home and told me that the food smelled so good. We had the combination of herb rice, baked shrimp, stir fry cauliflower and lotus root+groundnuts soup for yesterday dinner. All ready in 30 minutes minus the baking and cooking rice time. Okay, I heated the soup from previous meal. :P Yummy CNY!

Chinese New Year pictures

I took some pictures during Chinese New Year and here they are. I didn't have any pictures with my elder sister and her family because I was lazy to take out my camera to snap some the other day when went back home.

As usual on every year, my mom will persuade us to go to Dong Chan Shi in Jenjarom because it is on our way back home from our grandparents house. All of us hate this place because the weather is so damn hot during chinese new year and it is nothing really spectacular to us the young. Anyway it is lovely attraction for the older people because it is all lights and flowers.

Lantern decoration



Mom and I in my new cheong sam

On the 2rd day of CNY, we drove to Penang because my mom never visit Penang before in her whole life. It was a rush trip as we have to go back home on the next day as my dad has to start working on the 4th day. I wanted to bring my mom to Thai food so I picked Bt Genting Thai restaurant.

That's my sister playing with her phone while we walked around camwhoring.

With parents and sister

We also made a short trip to Kek Lok Si despite the heavy traffic jam and hot weather.

After some makan, my mom suggested that we visit snake temple. There are not many snakes left in the temple and it was so hot and sweaty day.

Anyway, when my elder sister and her family are here for the weekend this week I will remember to snap some photos with the babies... :D

PHOTOLOG #31: 20100209