A week after

Having to go with the tittle Mrs for more than a week now, nothing much had changed since before hand. I am handling it just perfectly normal. Cooking dinner as usual and sitting at the same position lazying with my laptop every night on the coach is kind of my favourite in contrary to many other girls favourite, outing and shopping. At home I don't feel uncomfortable from people's wandering eyes except for the few occasions where neighbour passing by our door like to peep into our living hall. They are not aware I am a super girl where I can be watching the television or my sight is on my laptop screen, don't be surprise still I can sense if someone watching from the side.

I had a perfect dip yesterday because the temperature in the pool was just nice and the sky wasn't too dark at the right time of the day, after work. Proudly to say this, I can go for 10 laps non stop nowadays improving from 2-5-7-10. Trying to mantain this routine in an average of once a week, I feel less bulky now. It can be a great way to trim for the fittest condition for the big day four months from now. Fully utilize weekend to complete the wedding checklist makes my rest day a hectic one. Both of us were down sick, out of breath from coughing and sneezing few days back, still dosing the medicine until today. Sleep. Bye.

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.