Blog Of The Month Award

Hahaha.... I got this award from Wen. Thank you so much and I am happy to receive this. Now I would like to pass this on to .........

1. CatCat

2. Wan

3. Sweetiepie

4. Singairishgirl

My Garden At Home

Today is another no objective Saturday for me. Woke up as early as 6.30 am just to open the gate for the part-time maid to get in and little Le-Ann woke up as early as 6 am to ask for milk. I think I only had 4 hours of sleep and now I am so darn tired and almost at the blur blur stage now. Why because yesterday night try to work out the PPP thing with Wen and I don't know what I have done wrong when copying the link. Thanks for her help to guide me and finally I get my 2nd PPP submitted. Even when the maid ask me how to operate the vacum cleaner and I don't even know how to open up.You see I blur or not. Walaueh, must drink BRANDS CHICKEN ESSENCE already.

Little Ee-Thern still asleep with Dearie Suki in the room and I am trying to get some fresh air outside the house and adoring my green plants in the garden with little Le-Ann and again my little KPC help me to water the plant and feed the guppy fishes with fish food. Another thing both of us found our one and only goldfish, about 3 years old living in the pond, mati liao. Don't know what happen maybe over eating or what, I don't know or maybe litte Ee-Thern play with it yesterday and today RIP. Afterwards going to get Dearie Suki to pick it up and buried it outside the garden.

Last month I went to the nursery outside Ah Mah's house to get some flowers together with sis. I think this run in the family, both me ,sis and dad have green fingers. We loves gardening. I remembered when I was a kid, Dad will bring us to Sg Buloh to buy flowers. The last time me and sis went there is somewhere in Jan'07 before CNY and I was telling sis why not we make a trip again next month and go there sapu the flowers back. But apparantly sis told me there is no more nursery there and all shifted out due to some development inside. So got to forget about it.

Here I would like to proudly present to you My Garden At Home. ( hihihi... all the plants are planted by me no help from any helper ya ). Also added a few new plants I bought from the nursery.

Japanese Roses

I have been planting this Fatt Choy plant for the past 5 years, see how big they have grown.

Another type of Fatt Choy plant, used to shift this into the house for display on top the piano during CNY.

The small mini water fountain. This done by my Dearie Suki. Now no more gold fish in it liao, sigh. Got to go to the aquarium shop to get some fishes back.

Guppy fishes in another water pot. There are so many small babies guppies in it. But I think going to die soon if little Ee-Thern keep playing with the fishes with his hand into the water.

The 2nd time blooming for this lotus plant. Not easy to plant this lotus got to put fertilizer every 2 weeks.

This is another of water plant. I curi this plant from one of the restaurant's water flower pond. Luckily the owner didnt see it. If not really pai seh leh.

Ah ha, my Mint Leaves. Sometimes it could be quite useful when you need to use it. Just go and pluck it and you can add into your Assam Fish dish. I even have a pot of Curry Leaves at home and now trying my luck to plant Daun Kesom.

My whole group of aunties, yee ma ku cheh, my sis and me are crazy over Orchids. Bought a few pots back from the nursery and the flower really can last. Its been there in my garden for about a month and still blooming beautifully. I think orchids plant worth to buy but you need to put a lot of 'sam kei' in it.

The Orange and Yellow Daisies

Orange Hibiscus only for RM10 per pot. Worth to buy.

This plant the 'taukeh soh' recommended to me. It is called the Dancing Gold Fish Plant, what a name cos look at the orange flowers it looks like a goldfish.

Outside my house I planted the Bunga Kantan and Daun Pandan plant and my whole front portion looks like a jungle now. The plants grow so well and fat. Going to take a day off to clear off the front portion if not afterwards my neighbour will start to complaint.

That's all about my garden. Going to cook lunch for the kids.Headache, headache, don't know what to eat for lunch.

I've Signed Up For PPP

I've found out from fellow blogger that you can actually get paid for every post that you blog about.

This blog is about a blog reviews that can earn money.... and I mean its EXTRA pocket money. Finally, I was introduced into PPP. Isn't this is an interesting way to earn money in just writing about something. Last week I've signed up for it , and to my surprised, this morning I have received an email from PPP saying that my blog had been approved. Yahoo...I didn't expect such a speedy approval from them and I am so excited now. Tonight I am going to start writing and earning the extra money from it. Cool, it is a SMART way to earn the extra money.

What am I going to do with the extra money? I loves to travel to beautiful and interesting places. I just hope one day, I can used the extra money that I earn from PPP to fulfill my dream to travel to all the beautiful places in this world with my loving hubby.

So to all of you which you have not come across PayPerPost, why not give it a try today. Signed up for it and I bet you will find it interesting to earn the extra pocket money. I have done that and I bet you will do so!

Fruit Enyzme

When I was clearing my table at my work station in the office, I came accross this Chinese cookbook called Oriental Cuisine given by the publisher. Flip through and something caught my eyes..... " Healthy Fruit Enyzme ". Get Polly to help me to translate the text into English and apparantly the Fruit Enyzme is a health drink and it helps to reduce fat, stress, cleanse our body digest system, beautifying our skin complexion, ease the problem of constipation and many more and it is also depends what type of fruits we used.

Few weeks back I make my own Fruit Enyzme and I make 2 jar of it using different fruits. Yesterday I had finished drinking the 2 jar of fruit enyzme and it really works for those that have constipation problem. Wah, everyday drink sure can 'pang sai liao'. ( So, Judy this one ngam you leh : ) )

Give it a try to this healthy drink.

Enyzme of Apple, Lemon & Orange and Enyzme of Grapes & Orange

Ingredients :
4 oranges
2 lemons
2 apples
A bunch of grapes
1 packet of Brown Sugar in pieces
30 gm of Shan Za
Honey

Method :
1. Clean the fruits and drain to dry. Then cut the apple, lemon and orange into slices. Cut the grapes into half.
2. Stack the fruits and Shan Za into a glass jar according to sequence. Apple, Orange, Lemon and Grapes, Orange.
3. Cut the brown sugar into small pieces and arrange on top of the fruits. Lastly pour in the honey.
4. Seal it and keep in a cool dry place for about 2 weeks.

Note: Shan Zha is actually used to make the Haw Flakes. You can get Shan Zha from any Chinese Medical Hall.As for Brown Sugar in pieces, you can get from any of the Chinese Provision Store.

According to the book :

Shan Za - help to ease cardiovascular conditions such as congestive heart failure, coronory circulation problems, and hypertension.

Apple - help to defend cancer, beautify skin and it is good for heart.

Orange and Lemon - help to prevent constipation, beautify skin, and slimming.

Grape - help t0 supplement the blood, improve appetite, also it is good for children and women who has a weak body.

Apart from these, you can use banana, pineapple, kiwi, starfruit, dragon fruit, red dates, etc....

These 4 shots, little KPC Le-Ann snap it while I was arranging the fruits into the jar. She is not too bad, ya got a bit of my character. Hahaha....

Close tightly and leave it in a cool place

After day 20, the fruit enyzme is ready to drink. Yummy, yummy... but I still prefer th egrapes and orange enyzme, it taste more like a grape wine. The next round I am going to make banana and pineapple enyzme because it is good for moisturize and rejuvenating the skin.

New Gadget In My Kitchen

The water hose in the garden 'kaput' and I have been reminding Dearie Suki to change a new one for me. For 3 months I have been telling him the same old thing and finally last month he get a flat water hose to installed in the garden. My MIL is a Cosway member and she got few hundred coupons at home and didn't utilized it. Dearie Suki brought back the redemption catalogue and flip through the booklet and saw this flat water hose with a USP stated " No More Tangled Hassle " . Since my MIL didn't utilized the coupons, better we used it for her.... hihihi....

There he goes to the outlet in Times Square, KL to redeem the water hose back home.

Apart from the above, he also came back with a 3 in 1, sandwich, waffle and grill maker. Yeah, Hooray..... he gave me a surprise again. I've been looking for a waffle maker for quite some time and can't even find it in any of the electrical shop here. What they have are mainly the sandwich maker. Finally I have another new gadget in the kitchen and he redeem it for FREE with the coupons my MIL gave it to him.

I can't wait to used it and the next morning, I make waffles for the kids and off course my Dearie Suki.

I used the Pilsbury Pancake Mix for the batter but I still find the waffles is a bit hard and thick unlike those I ate in Brussels ..... crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. My next attempt I will try to add more water to the batter and make it thinner.

Here they goes. Hot waffles with a knob of butter and honey on top for their breakfast.

My 2 kids are enjoying their waffles and the next round I will make them waffles with ice-cream on top. I am sure they will love it.

Ah Mah 91st Birthday Celebration

We just reached home from Ah Mah's house. It is almost 11 pm and both Le-Ann and Ee-Thern soundly asleep in their car seat. Little girl didn't sleep at all this afternoon and still can stand till just now. Where else little boy, slept for 3 hours in the afternoon and at Ah Mah's house is full with energetic playing with fellow cousins.

Today we celebrated Ah Mah's 91st Birthday and it is another big makan feast at home. Last year we get a caterer to do the catering at home. But this year we suggested the same arrangement again but again there are few aunties 'ah chi ah chor' complainting foods is not good, caterer is expensive, bla, bla, bla...... End up Dad suggested every family pool RM100 and he will make arrangement to prepare the foods. My Dad is a good cook and trying to be SUPERHERO hence he cook some and some he get my aunt to buy. Walaueh.... end up I think too much food. Few of my cousin sis, bring some food also end up 2 person bring the same food. (** shake head** )

Sis called me up yesterday and telling me no one is preparing dessert and she asked me to make some back. Searching around what to make and end up I make 'Seri Muka' after my 1st attempt to make 'Kuih Jagung' failed yesterday night. This morning woke up early and started making the 'Kuih Seri Muka' and get the recipe from the here.

Don't know why the top layer is not smooth. Can someone please tell me why? Those selling in pasar malam, why the top surface is so smooth and nice and so, so, so even.

Also makes some Butter Cupcakes yesterday night and did the frosting with buttercream icing this afternoon.

The frosting is still not perfect and I just hate buttercream icing cos it is so sweet. Get this design idea from Flickr photos. I only play around with 2 colours which is yellow and pink cos I don't want to wash so many bowls.

The wording on the cupcake is 'SAU' which means LONGEVITY.

Ee-Thern boy woke up at 4 pm and once he finished his milk, I started to pack all their cloths and other stuff into the car. Also took along his bicycle so that he can cycle around in Ah Mah's house. We left to Ah Mah's house at about 4.30 pm and to my surprised I am the first one to reach there. I was thinking want to help Dad with the cooking, aik .... no body yet. Sis called me up and apparantly there is a bad jam in KL and she is stuck for 3 hours from KL to Kajang.

Both of them once reached Ah Mah's house started to cycle at the back of the house with Anson and Eason.

I am too busy chit chatting with fellow cousin sis and haven't see them for a long time since CNY. So kepoh around here and there with them and totally forgot to snap the food shots. Dad cook fried chicken, fried wantan, fried prawns, yong tau foo, stewed mushroom, sambal sotong, and he ordered from his friend pork ribs curry, fried longevity noodles and also steamed glutinious rice. He get Aunty AC to order 4 roasted duck and also some siew yoke. Mom ordered currypuff from her Malay neighbour and Sis make jellies, me make Kuih Seri Muka and cousin sis, KC also bring a full plate of Malay kuih muih. So I think end up toooo muchhhhh foodddd.. and got to 'tar pau' after the party.

My Dad more 'keng'... can make Ais Kacang for all of us. The 4 maids at home helped him with the Ais Kacang.

Its cake cutting time and all the kids surrounded my their Tai Mah. This old lady, already 90 years old and in Chinese it is 91 years old and yet still so strong except that she can't walk anymore. My Ah Mah, is always my favourite grandma, who take care and brought me up since I am a baby till the day I get married.

Both Le-Ann and Ee-Thern only attack the icing on the cupcakes and throw away the cakes after they lick the icing. Ish.... geramnya! Look at both of them, play till the whole head is so wet and sweating all around.

Took bath for them and little girl eyes is almost half close but little boy still can play around with Ei Faye Ah Yi's NIKE Shoes. Hahaha.. he looks like Ronald McDonalds hor... with the big shoes!