2008 Jul Msia (KL-Miri)

This is from quite some time before so I may not be able to recall a lot.

But I do remember that I missed the international flight. All because of Air NZ domestic flight. They did reimbursed that flight but I didn't end up using it at all because first I had no intention to fly anywhere in NZ in the next twelve months and second I don't usually use the airline to fly internationally.

I flew with singapore airlines to KL the following day. I am lucky to have my cousins spread around in M'sia because she could come get me the night I arrived. I think I bought her some food from NZ to thank her. Hehe.. I had to inform my other cousin who was supposed to pick me up from Brunei airport that the plan changed. Nevertheless, I think I bought everyone something from NZ.

Basically the trip was spending time with my cousin who was in KL that time before she flew off to UK to study. We also flew back to Miri to meet up/catch up with the rest of the cousins. We spent a lot of time eating too, I think.

Wine and Dine

Hubby and I attended his long service awards dinner few nights ago in the La Mer, Doha. It is indeed a good experience to dine in such a secluded luxury private dinning room. The furniture in the room portrays Arabic elegance and also panoramic views of the city. You even can enjoy the city night view while sitting in the toilet bowl, lucky it is up on the 23rd floor, but I still hurried out after doing the ‘business’.

Of course the food is fabulous ! I chose salmon as main course, but I like the dessert best. I could have taken photos of those beautifully displayed dishes but sitting besides hubby’s boss made me head over heels, so the photos would not come out clear due to my trembling hands …hahaha …

Without a doubt, we had an enjoyable evening ended with those byes and kisses.

And not forgetting the bouquet of roses, pink roses ….

Food, glorious food

Saw this title somewhere but forgot where, never mind, if it is about food, it will surely be glorious ! This morning we somewhat talked about kimchi and Mary listed out the ingredients of kimchi, I had in mind all these ingredients in my fridge, okay, not all after some digging, but then I told Mary I wanted to make kimchi. So I followed Mary back to her house to collect her
big packet of chilli powder for my use.

This will be my second attempt and it will still be my own version of the making of kimchi. First I rubbed coarse salt generously onto the half Chinese cabbage, then soaked it in salt water, pressing down the cabbage with the handle of the mortar in order for the cabbage to immersely completely in the water.

After 5 hours in the afternoon, I prepared the red carrot, shredded into small strips, mixed the sauce, rubbed the sauce onto the cabbage, as the cabbage was not big, so the sauce was able to be mixed easily. Then I put everything in airtight container and left in room temperature until the next morning, After that I transferred it into the fridge, ready to eat after 3 days. Sound easy, right? and the kimchi will taste super, believe me.

Ingredients : Chinese cabbage, ginger & garlic (crushed), red carrot, Chinese chives and leeks (I did not add in because cannot find in my fridge)

The sauce : glutinous rice flour, chilli powder, salt , sugar, fish sauce, water

Best before

We were at the expo when darling wanted to have a cold drink. So he bought the white powerade and started drinking. My eyes caught the best before date and showed him. He didn't dare to drink after that. I said we could go tell the person that it has been few months after the best before date but he said it's best before not expiry date.

So anyone, do you think it's wise to drink or eat anything after the best before date?

Darling has been working hard since last week, working overtime paid and non-paid. I hope he didn't stress too much. Might have to get him fetal doppler if this continues. Well, it was just because he got switched to another team recently. At the moment, I am comfortable with where I am but of course, I do want to move on. It's just that it's hard to get a better one. So I am not in a rush. It's ongoing though.

You need to eat

Right, I have been putting off posting about my ice cream maker because I have been posting about other stuff and also, because I forgot. Oops.. I haven't got a photo of my ice cream though. I just google this photo. It is exactly the same ice cream maker that I have. It just stirs the cream inside. I do have to boil and mix up everything and cool it overnight before putting into this ice cream maker.



I am going to try other flavours. First time, I had to change to make oreo ice cream because I didn't realize the tea I had was not green tea. Second time was green tea gelato. Green tea ice cream for the third time wasn't too bad. I brought it over for potluck dinner with friends. There were a lot of food and we had to ask the rest of others not to bring any. Gosh, I had the awesome-est soup. It's something that mummy always cook. The vege one and I love it so much because I haven't had it for some time. Need to get Private Household Cook Jobs huh if I want a cook like mummy. Hahaha

Christmas baking competition

This post is a little overdue. These food photo was taken last month at work when we had Christmas baking competition in the department. We ate them for morning tea. It was awesome. I mean, they do look very nice but some of the insides are not very nice, that is my opinion because I am quite picky with cakes. I don't like some flavours.

Oh I do remember I posted one post with the gingerbread house. Yes, that was one of them. Seriously, some of us who bake so nice could be doing their own business. Of course, not everyone can handle it and not everyone has the capital or ideas on how to start it. Lol so I guess it becomes a hobby for them to bake. =) If they do want to do something like that, they probably want to do a big truck tracking of the ingredients and make loads to sell.

Actually, if someone is committed, you don't need to quit your day job, you can part time earn the money. Yes, it might not be much but it still means something. For those who are single and have nothing much to do at home in the evenings, this is one that you may do. Haha.. I feel like I am instructing people what to do with their life.

Christmas baking competition

I did it again. I didn't check to see if the post author is by me and just post it until I saw my list of posts by sis' name. Lousy me but anyway, I saw it and alter it already.



I took this photo off from work Christmas baking competition. It's incredible how one of them could make such a nice house. I love how it looks like.



This is also another one which is quite nice. I think mummy could easily make it too. Hehehe.. not that I am boasting but it's true.

Yes, I am flooding the blog with lots of posts because I have so much to put up since wedding month.

from the holiday baker

the result of sushi making.

it tasted great! :D but it was not as nice the next day.

he trick to it, i guess we should not refrigerate it!

this week i will attempt something strawberry based. and curry puffs :D hehe

last day of november

its so sunny out, yet im cooped up in my room, learning about fulminant sepsis caused by Capnocytophaga Carnimorsus.

you'll be asking, Why? It's holidays! Why am I learning this?

Well, I have been recommended the medscape website, and I'm learning a case each day. Seems useful for next year :) I must accumulate lots of cases by Jan!

I would be so awesome if I could have a pro learning environment in my room itself. if i had an LCD tv or even lcd projectors that i can project the cases or readings onto my wall facing my bed, I can pretend to carry out a presentation, wouldn't that be an easy and fun way of learning? Hehe

Besides that, I have been learning guitar diligently. If i had to learn by myself, I would probably have not gotten anywhere, but learning with a friend helps a lot!

I will be making sushi today, first time unsupervised by mummy hehe

I'll let you know how it goes.

xx

Day Five

This post was meant to be before the previous post. The fifth day since we arrived. We followed Benny to work. Well, not exactly sit in the office though. Just had breakfast and then went to his office for a little while. I wanted to borrow the bathroom before we took the LRT to start our shopping of the day.

So that is the photo of the day. It was taken at night. I shall continue the story first. Went to Sungai Wang and shop for dresses and also just looking around. Bought few dresses. Those that I like are more expensive than those that I don't like. Sigh.. anyway, by 3pm, we took the LRT back to where Benny's office. The heavy rain started again just after we got into one mamak store. So stayed there for a little while before he came to pick us up (even though it is just a 3-minute walk to his car). Hoho.. then went back to rest and change before he came to pick us up for pasar malam. Yum.. No we saw quite a lot of exercise equipments which Benny was interested to see. Not sure if he did ask about creatine powder or not because it is part of exercise plans.

This is food

These are the food that I had when we were over in M'sia. I don't know if I did take photos of all the food that darling and I had or not though.

Looks yummy right? Hehehe.. I don't know if I did put one kg or not but I sure did eat quite a bit though. Eating so much sure need to exercise la, aih.. when exercise and pills don't work, you gotta check  out other alternatives right? Like removalofstretchmarks.net, oh wait, what the heck am I saying? It has nothing to do with exercise and pills. It's more like when a fat person exercise and lost the fats, you can see the stretch marks on body. Yep, so that's when you need to check out on how to remove the stretch marks. Hoho.. I am not saying that only fatter person will have stretch marks. I am sure everyone has it. I do too. Yep, it's small though.

Birthday cakes are yum

Supposed to post about this a week ago but was busy. Anyway, sis-in-law and I celebrated with darling on the night of his birthday. Bought a cake for him to blow. Went out to eat before cake and had a blast dinner. Yum, and yup, used the wedding voucher to pay for dinner. Really worth it. Thank you to our friends who gave us the voucher. Really grateful =)



Two days later (the weekend), we went out dinner with friends at Burritos Brothers. Food was alright, something new to try. After that, went back to friend's house to watch tv. Something all of us have not done for a while, hanging out. I miss those days when we used to hang out together so much. =P

Teppan yaki

So it was darling and honey's anniversary. =) Went out for dinner at a Japanese restaurant. I wanted Teppan yaki so I got it. The teapot is so cute and small. Certainly not enough for both of us though.

Actually, drinking tea is good for since it cleanses our insides. But everyday tea drinking is not good. I can't remember what the disadvantages are though I heard it before. Last year I bought a slimming tea product from supermarket and tried few times. Yes, you do go to the bathroom often but I don't think I did lose any weight though. It works for some people, according to darling's friends. So maybe I should check out more on weight loss supplement reviews to see what works for me.





That was my dinner. It comes with a bowl of rice. I know it wasn't a lot but goodness, it was really yummy. I was satisfied with my meal. Darling wasn't really and wanted more. Headed to KFC and boy, the line was really long, both at the drive through and counter queue.

Not yummy

Had dinner with friends last night. I ordered tofu pot.

Not what I expected.

Not worth ordering.

I think I can cook something like that. Sigh.. next time I won't order that dish anymore.

Darling ordered steak pieces. At least it is better than mine. Very simple too. I think I should try to cook something like that.

I better not be lazy. Not lazy lah, just not enough time to do everything. Sometimes I underestimated myself and expect myself to complete a lot of tasks in one night.

Ok, so the news just announced that someone's photo was stolen by some random guy, put on facebook and apparently announced on facebook that the someone is having a party. Some 60,000 guests are attending and Jetstar is having cheap air fares for the guests to attend the someone's party.

So people out there, don't simply put your photos online.

Been feeling tired lately. I noticed I have big eye bags. I should put some eye creams on my eye bags. Maybe it will shrink? I don't know but I can give it a try.

Veg

The summer is ending soon and my vege garden will go into hibernation soon. As in, I cannot plant anything anymore until late winter. I shall have to do some research on what plants I can plant. My chinese cabbage didn't grow, I think because I cannot see the white head. The leaves has holes so that means worms have been eating them. Sigh.. By the way, the vege plant in the photo above was given by a friend and she helped me to plant them. Finally, can eat the beans. It is not a lot but just enough for one meal. Not forgetting my lettuce too. I do have it with my sandwich. Getting sick of the bread so I shall fry some other food for lunch. =P

Lately, I have been noticing my face oily. I think I am looking at a sleepy tired oily face in the morning in the mirror but a friend commented that I look stress-free. Maybe I should treat myself to a beauty treatment or get the best acne treatment. The weather turned gloomy today and according to the weather forecast, it will stay like that till Monday. Somehow, the weather mirrors my mood/feelings today.

Only one

That is the only CNY food photo I got. I love the curry that darling's uncle cooked. We played card game after that. Oh yea, I did mentioned that. Hehehe..

Work is getting better, I am faster and more focus too. Oh that is because I had the mp3 on. My team members and I are allowed to listen to our ipod since we are not on phones all the time. The music just blocks out the claim consultants who talks on the phone all day behind me. =P Weekend is here soon. I didn't mention that I had free drink last Friday with my managers and team members. Kim, my manager was commenting that we were quiet at social gatherings and even at work. Hehe..

When I was in the toilet this afternoon, I noticed some acne on my face. What girl will like to have acne on their face. I don't like it. I am really lucky enough to get smooth face most days though. Apparently nodular acne is the most common acne that most people experienced. I think most of the time, people pop their pimples. I did want to do that to mine but was told that there would be scars if I pop it. So I never tried. I didn't want to have scars on my smooth face. There are actually treatments to treat these pimples.

BBQ in cold weather

I think having BBQ in cold weather condition is good, afterall BBQ is hot. Anyway, we had the BBQ a few days after Christmas so this post was long overdue. =P Darling and I decided to make chicken kebabs. Didn't turn out to be nice because it was salty. Too much sauce I guess. Wasn't my fault. Darlings'. He said to put in 3/4 of the bottle sauce.

The next day, I got a cold and we were about to go for our West Coast trip. I kept darling company (in the car) until afternoon when I fall asleep. I wasn't better the next day but at least, I was drinking lots of water.

See my photos!! I smiled all the time. You probably heard about this. Humans move 42 muscles if you frown and about 13 muscles if you smile. If you want to lose more calories, then frown more. Hahaha but you will get more wrinkles though. Might need wrinkle filler if really want to lose calories. =P

New Year dinner

This was an interesting dinner. We actually use cabbage leaves as our plates. But of course, we had plates underneath in case any of us accidentally cut and spill sauce on the table. Out of 8 of us, only 2 have clean plate. The sauce manage to get on the plate even though there wasn't any cuts on the cabbage leaves. We had lamb hence the small cuts and sauce floating around. Looks yummy huh, makes me feel hungry now. It is almost lunch time. I always have the habit of eating lots and non stop till I am very full whenever I feel really hungry. I don't think it helps to watch my diet if I continue to be like that. I wonder if there is any best fat burning supplement for me. =P

My First

*Ahem* Look at the photo. I can make cheesecake too. Hahaha.. not bad for a first time ey? The top cream was quite soft though so I need to whip it longer the next time. I couldn't find the electric mixer so had to borrow from darling's aunt to make cheesecake. It was too sweet so I know not to put too much sugar for the next one. Eat so much, later have to go gym lah.. talking about calories, the sales aren't so appealing and there wasn't much of fitness equipment sales. =( Well, at least I didn't see anything that I wanted.

Food

I wanted to learn how to make laksa because it is one of my favourite food. She told me to look in her blog of the steps. Yup, I did and myan.. those photos in her blog made me so hungry and my saliva kept on dropping out of my mouth. I think the hardest one would be making the paste. Somemore, I don't know how to make the paste. Usually I get very excited trying to cook new things from 'new' recipe. It's new to me because I haven't cook before. Then, I lose the enthusiasm.

I tend to cook curry more often nowadays. I find it quite easy to cook since I don't have to check it often. I just put the chicken and potatoes in with some garlic and oil. Oh I just cook it like stew and I can go do my own work after that. Of course, I have to check and stir every 15 minutes. Beef stew too. I still have the beef stew powder that mum gave me last time. Hmm.. I am so hungry now.

I dreamt that I did not get the job which I went for interview last week and I think I was very disappointed in the dream. I don't know why I am thinking so much about it. I should just let God decide for me. If it's mine, it will be mine. If it's not, then it is not meant to be (most of the jobs I applied before this, I got rejected, so it is not meant to be). =( So sad..