Yummy,Candy Floss

I was back at home yesterday at almost 10.30 pm and still so lazy to upload the photos I have taken during my business trip in Penang. This morning got to wake up so early to open the door for the part-time maid to come in and now I am just staring at the wall with nothing to do. ( Sigh )

3 of them still soundly asleep and I quickly take this time to do a post before both Le-Ann & Ee-Thern wake up. Dearie Suki taken a few photos of both of them while I was away in Penang. Guess what Daddy buy for little Le-Ann when he brought her to the night market in Sri Serdang? ...... A packet of yummy Candy Floss.

I remembered when I was a kid, I always followed Dad to the wet market in Kajang every Sunday and there is this old man with a motorbike selling Candy Floss. Dad will get me a packet without miss and I always looking forward Dad to come back on every Sunday.

Both my kids, haven't tasted Candy Floss before cos we never buy for them even when we saw it in the shopping mall or night market. Reason being I think it is quite bad for their teeth cos it is so sweet. But with Daddy, everything is OK and he will get it for her whenever both of them go out together. This is what happened last Friday. Little girl was pestering Dearie Suki that she wants the Candy Floss. Dearie Suki always give in, cos this small girl is always his 'pau pei'. Even when she wants a moon, I think he will take it down for her.

Looking at the pictures, I think she enjoyed it so much.

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy

Little boy, don't even want to eat after he tried a small bite of it. Maybe it could be the soft cottony feel makes him very 'geli' when he tried it. End up whole night with a 'black face' cos Daddy forget to get something for him.

Poor boy, end up got to sit down in the kitchen and see his 'cheh cheh' eating it only.

Yesterday night, little girl was telling me "Mommy, I want to eat ABC. Cold cold one" . I was like scratching head, and asked her who bring you to eat and she answered me "Daddy bring la". I could imagine now if I am away again, I think Dearie Suki will bring her to eat all those food that are not allowed by me.

A Gift For Him

Christmas is round the corner and I am planning what to get for Dearie Suki for this coming Christmas. It is hard to decide what to get for him and with my busy schedule at work, I always tend to forget to get a Christmas present for him and we will end up just having dinner at home during Christmas Eve.

For this Christmas I planned to order a gift for him from online retailers and I come across Coupon Chief is offering some good deals promotion and given a few promo codes for certain products if you purchase online.

Browse through and search for stuff that might suitable for him and finally I decided to get him a few working shirts from the Banana Republic deals provided online. Further to that if you sign up for the Banana Republic Credit Card you will get a furhter 10% discount for the second purchase. I think this is a good buy.

Since few months back he bought me a new Canon Ixus camera, this round I am going to get him a SONY PS2 player with the SONY coupon provided. They also on offer for all PC games under $10 and shipping fee is free. I have ordered a few for him and I will get them to send the gifts directed to him at his office. Hopefully these surprises will make him happy and there will be no more boring dinner this year.

Blog For Money

I was talking to my sis and cousin's Phat Boy Joe last week, that there is such thing we can actually blog for money. I have heard this long time ago from few fellow blogger friends that they did this part time job just to get some extra income apart from their basic income they get from their full time job. Sounds interesting to me and I am keen to find out more how it actually works and benefited bloggers.

Last weekend, I am kind of free at home and the kids are taking their afternoon nap, I browse through the web to find out more about this. Visited my blogger friends' blog and found a Smorty referral badge at the side of their blog. Out of curiosity, I click into this website and I give myself a try by signing up for it.

I love blogging and my passion for blogging getting stronger each day and why not I grab this apportunity to advertise on blogs about advertisers' products.This is interesting and I will not waste my weekend by doing nothing and now I can utilize my time to blog for money. I am getting more excited now and I hope with the extra income, I can save it up for my next trip to Australia with the kids to attend Leen's graduation day.

Spinach Fettuccine With White Cream Sauce

I cooked this Spinach Fettuccine with White Cream Sauce some time back for my dinner with the kids when Dearie Suki is not back home for dinner. He is kind of weird, never ever like pasta even if I fried it the Chinese way. He is a bit 'meng gong' so healthy product also don't know how to appreciate.

I tried to finished up the whipping cream I used for cake decorating and not to waste it and it is just nice for a plate of pasta with white cream sauce. The recipe for this is my 'agak-agak' version. So what you need is :

Ingredients :
Pasta ( any kind of your choice ) - boiled till al-dente
Olive oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tomato, chopped into small pieces
2 sausages, cut into small pieces
Salt and pepper to taste
Some parsley

Method :
1. Sautee garlic in olive oil.
2. Add in tomato and sausages. Cook for a minute.
3. Pour in the cooked pasta into the pan and mix in the whipping cream.
4. Cook until cream thickens and add salt and pepper to taste.
5. Add some parsley on top of the pasta or you can add in some parmesan cheese.


I enjoy it so much and even my 2 little kids like this cream sauce pasta.

What A Bad Combination

Last Saturday, while I was busy in the kitchen preparing lunch for the kids, Dearie Suki shouted from top floor.....

Dearie Suki : Dear ah...... Ah Boy 'wee wee' on our bed.
Me : Aiyor... u change for him la.
Deaire Suki : How about the bed? Kena his 'wee wee' liao.
Me : Aiyor... I busy cooking la. You kau tim la. Go and take the bed sheet and change la.
Dearie Suki : Where oh?
Me : On top of the cupboard. ( He is getting up my nerve liao. Ask another time I am going to taruk him )
Dearie Suki :Take which design ?
Me : Aiyor ... cincai la. Don't ask me anymore ah. I busy here.

Dearie Suki : OK la, OK la.

After the kids had their lunch, its time to take an afternoon nap. At that time Dearie Suki went out to service his car after he had his lunch. 3 of us went up to the room to take our afternoon nap.

Once open the door, I nearly fainted. I think he got a bad sense of matching a colour. Look at the bedsheet design and the quilt cover set he used. ALAMAK, really cheh kai leh. For so many donkey years he has been sleeping on the bed and he still couldn't remember which bed sheet goes with which quilt cover set.

He is supposed to use a plain colour bed sheet to go with the floral quilt cover or the other way round. I am SPEECHLESS and 'beh tahan' feel like take out a new one and change it.

But on my second thought, I better don't do that if not next time he won't help me to change the bed sheet and I got to do all by myself. Better don't complaint too much, close one eye lor!

What a bad combination

My little Ee-Thern, I am going to wack him if he 'wee wee' again on the bed. This is how he always react to me after the get the scolding... he will suck his thumb, lying down on the bed and pretend he is not listening.

Shopping At IKEA

Yesterday afternoon, both Le-Ann and Ee-Thern slept from 2 pm till 6 pm. Once woke up little girl told Dearie Suki that she want to go ' Kai Kai ' and Daddy asked here where she want to go and she answered him, 'KL lah' . Wah, so young already know want to go KL 'Kai Kai'.

Since both of them have more than enough sleep for the day, we went to IKEA and planning get a new set of Christmas ornaments. Reach IKEA, my little boy really created a HAVOC. Run here and there and don't even want us to hold his hand. Atleast Le-Ann will listen to me, asked her not to run she will not run. Asked her to hold my hand, she will hold my hand tightly. So 'kuai'.

Both of them relaxing on a sofa in one of the show unit in IKEA.

Both of them playing with the slide at the kids area. Both of us planning to convert the back room to their room and try to get some ideas how to decorate the room for them. Dearie Suki asked little girl whether she like one of the show unit and she answered 'YES' but after a while, she told Dearie Suki she likes all of it.

Little girl try to hug the huge Christmas tree in IKEA. We had our dinner at the IKEA's cafe and the que is so long and both me and Le-Ann waited for almost 1/2 an hour to order our food while Ee-Thern and Dearie Suki look for place to sit.

Wanted to order the meatballs but it is not in their menu anymore and they have their hotdog back to their menu. Ordered a set of it and a roast chicken with lemon herb sauce topped with loads of baked potato. Le-Ann enjoyed her dinner so much and shared half the chicken with me and she even ate Daddy's share.

More shopping after dinner and each of them had a kids trolley to play with. Looking at this picture makes me want to laugh out loud cos they are just like adults going shopping and pick whatever they want and put in their trolley.

Little Ee-Thern was pestering Daddy to get the blue colour stool for him cos currently now we only have one pink colour at home and that is Le-Ann's one. We get another one for him so that both of them won't fight for it at home. We also get a new set of Christmas ornaments for our tree. Last year we had a red colour deco up on the tree and this year Dearie Suki wanted only silver colour. For me I still prefer a mixture of gold and silver.

2 busy fellows.

After paying money, we went to the IKEA shop opposite the cashier counter to get some Ginger Bread biscuits and DAIM chocolates. Look at both of them keep eating the potota chips on samples at the counter. Aiyor ... pai seh only this 2 little fellows keep asking the Kakak at the counter to give them.

We head back home after our window shopping at IKEA and reached home almost 11.30 pm and little Ee-Thern was half asleep in the car. Little girl once reach home, start telling me that tomorrow she want to go 'Tai Mah' house to play with Faye Ah Yi.

Are You Protected?

Not long ago I was talking to one of my colleague about insurance. Apparantly she have not purchased any life insurance to protect herself and I am quite surprised with her that she have not done that.

I think getting yourself and your family protected with either life insurance or medical insurance is very important because you won't know what will happen to you and your family the next day. In case if there is anything happen to them, there are insurance to cover your medical expenses and we won't have to worry about it.

2 years back, our house was robbed when were out for dinner with the family. Total damaged to it is about RM10K and we have lost our laptop, some jewelleries, and some cash in the house. Thank god, at that time we have purchased the Home insurance for our house and the total loss is covered by the insurance company.

Apart from this, both of our cars also insured by the Car insurance every year. Recently we bought a cheap car insurance proposed by an insurance company and looking at their total coverage they provided, my Dearie Suki is quite happy with it.

So for those who have yet to buy an insurance for yourself or for your family, please get one today. Protect yourself and protect your loved one.

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1st Attempt On Bread Making

Today I tried out my 1st attempt in bread making. I never wanted to learn how to bake a bread cos I hate eating bread. In the morning, I can't even force myself eating a slice of bread unless there is no other things to eat.

Dearie Suki has been bugging me for quite some time and asked me to learn how to bake a bread cos he is a bread lover and both the kids loves bread too. He even mentioned that he will get a breadmaker for me but I told him not to cos there is no space in the kitchen for the breadmaker. Anyway, how often will I use the breadmaker and I bet it will be end up, used once and chuck it at the side.

This morning started making the Hokkaido Milkly Loaf as early as 6.30 am while waiting for the part time maid to come. I followed the recipe from Happy Home Baker. Kneading the dough is a good exercise and I think I knead for 1/2 an hour using both my hands and now my hand sakit already. Really need 'Kung Fu' for the kneading part.

After kneading, the bread dough is leave to proof for 1 hour until the size of the dough doubled up. But for mine, it takes 2 hours. I don't know why mine need so long or maybe the weather in the morning is a bit cloudy and cold and not hot, therefore it needs a long time for proofing.

I divide the dough into 4 portions and rolled it up and arrange on a square baking tin cos I don't have a loaf tin. Brush the top with some milk and bake it in the oven for almost 50 minutes at 170 DC.

While baking, you can smell the nice bread aroma. Once done I can't wait to see how it looks like. To my surpise, the Hokkaido Milky Loaf turned out so nice. The top part is golden brown and shinning. The inside part is soft and fluffy and with a bit of sweetness ( I think this could be the whipping cream and the sugar in the recipe )

Dearie Suki woke up at about 11.30 am, came to the kitchen and asked me what I baked today. Obviously I am telling him, I am baking his favourite BREAD. After having his lunch, he can't wait to try a slice and after trying he is quite impressed with my 1st attempt. He was telling me a moment ago, he is going out to the 'Kopitiam' to buy a can of Kaya back to spread on the bread.

His next request to me is to make him a Hotdog Bun. Wah, I think from today onwards I fall in love making bread and going to search for recipes from the web. But , I still hate eating bread!

Looking For A New Furniture

Dearie Suki and me are planning to convert the room at the back to kids room as both of us think its time for the kids to sleep alone. We are planning to go to the furniture store to have a look at what they have but we have yet to find the time to go.

We make a list out of what sort of Furniture we need to get for the kids room. Since the kids are asleep now, both of us browse through the web to look for ideas how to decorate the kids room and and we came across Furniture Online. Hmmm... quite a good one as you can select the Bedroom Sets they have and you can even order online. Both of us quite like the ' Classic White Youth Furniture Bunk Bed Set' which consist one bunk bed, one dresser, one chest and one night stand. Price wise, it is quite reasonable.

I was telling Dearie Suki, since Christmas is round the corner and Chinese New Year is approaching soon, why not change our living room sofa to a leather couch . Furthermore, it is on 30% discount. He agreed and we ordered online! Both of us can't wait for the furniture to come and we just can't wait to decorate the kids room. I am getting so excited now!

2 Awards In A Week

Wow, I get 2 awards in a week. This is really fantastic and it really make up my day although this week is not a so lucky week for me. These 2 awards are given by my 2 new blogger friend whom I just got to know them about 2 weeks back.

The first award I get is from Sweetiepie. She awarded me with the TRUE BLUE AWARD.

There is a poem to go along with this award :

Dolphins are blue, so true blue, calm in the storm,they never sleep, so ever-present, they're friendly, so amicable, accountable, dependable, and protective.This award is presented for bloggers who always stand by you!

I would like to pass this award to : Judy, JO-N, Wen, CatCat

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The 2nd award I get from JO-N, The World's Best Friend Week.

"Do you know the relationship between your 2 eyes? They blink together, move together, cry together, see things together and sleep together. Even though they never see each other, friendship should be just like that! Life is like Hell without FRIENDS. Its ‘World Best Friend Week’. Send this to your best friends to let them know you appreciate them. "

Your Love is Ur Heart,
Your heart is Ur Spouse,
Your spouse is Ur Future,
Your future is Ur Destiny,
Your destiny is Ur Ambition,
Your ambition is Ur Aspiration,
Your aspiration is Ur Motivation,
Your motivation is Ur Belief,
Your belief is Ur Peace,
Your peace is Ur Target,
Your target is Heaven,
Heaven is no fun without FRIENDS.

I would like to pass on this to all my new blogger friends whom I met in in the cyberworld recently.

The Singapore Housewife, Dora, Sweetiepie