Tea Time Delights

SY and me did some more cooking and baking this weekend.....parents are in Indonesia, RH in Sydney. There was just no one to share the food.

Anyways, this is what we made:

SY made mini doughnuts. Anything made half its size never fails to make it look more appetizing.

I made failed A1 curry puff. Hahaha!

In my defense though, it really is not easy to make the A1 curry puffs. You see A1 employees demonstrating the making of curry puffs in Takashimaya? Well, all I can say is that they had loads of practise and dat is what I am gonna do, practise!

I think I might have to tweak the recipe a little, try to roll out better circular dough and all. hahaha! If you do not succeed at first, try again!

I am so happy to have completed my recipe file. Yeah, thanks to Mod Podge that has arrived from US. I think I will add some embellishments cos it does look kinda bald at the moment. Maybe, will also take some pictures of the contents of the recipe book. I love the idea of keeping my recipes in DVD files:

1. It is small enough to carry around and for the magnet to hold it if you wanna put it on the fridge
2. It is big enough to read and contain recipes
3. Recipes can be placed in plastic DVD sleeves so u dun have to worry about egg and flour getting onto your recipes
4. It is cheap
5. You can add, re-arrange and take out recipes easily because of the ring binder.
   

I suggest that you try to make your own recipe file.

Happy Birthday, Ms Ko!

Uh uh, it is not me! People call me Mrs. Lim now. Happy Birthday to my younger sister, SY. I bought her a tiny cake from Bakerzinn yesterday cos she likes the cakes there.

When the waitress asked me how many candles I need, my mind went momentarily blank. Not that I forgot her age cos I know that she is 2 years younger than me. I forgot my own age. Can you believe it?

Yup, I remember people's age as references to mine. I do not remember how old my elder sis is or how old my cousin's age is or how old RH's age is even. Cos after you start memorizing their age, it is the next year and they are a year older now. How can you keep up with that? So I memorize how many years older or younger than me they are. So for example, RH is 5 years older than me, SY is 2 years younger and my cousin 5 years older than me.

WHO WOULD EXPECT ME TO FORGET MY OWN AGE? ?????

And then, later in the evening during dinner when we celebrated SY's birthday, I discovered the truth. Yeah, apparently everyone will forget their age as they grow older. Whether it is that their memory is not as good or whether they do not treat birthdays as special events anymore or whether they just do not wish to remind themselves that they are old. Whatever it is, people forget their own birthdays as they grow older. I need a new system for memorizing birthdays.

Seems like my cousin's method is pretty good! Memorize their birth year, this way, you will not forget their age. It does not change from year to year either. Thanks, FS, you saved my life.

HAPPY **TH BIRTHDAY, SY!

I delibrately put ** in case she does not want anyone to know her age. :-)

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We celebrated SY's birthday at the new restaurant, Wild Rocket. Reason we chose the place despite the really uluh (deserted) place was because it had received so many good reviews. Unfortunately, the food was not that great. Yep! I was really disappointed.

Besides the minimum menu, the Laksa Linguine that I ordered did not for one bite tasted like Laksa......oh well, dat might just be the last time I eat there. By the way, you can't get a seat in the restaurant without reservations, so long to that too.

Slashed to Pieces....

Ok, the title is quite exaggerated but really, I sent my car in for servicing this morning and The service guy told me that my front right tyre is slashed. Actually, his actual words were "a little cut" but it is enough to pose a risk to the driver and so I have to get a new tyre for $200+++ :(

Dad's best friend is still in hospital recovering from a by pass surgery. Keep praying!

My Life is sooo .................

*Sigh! My life is soooo bland..........

I am having too many problems and not enough money or time to pursue my hobbies. Maybe it is just cause I have too many hobbies! Since young, I have been attracted to cute and pretty things even if they are cute and pretty useless things. Hahaha!

But I have been quite good at curbing my urge to buy souveniers when I travel! I suspect it is partly due to the fact that my money pouch ain't that big plus I have RH beside me. Believe me, I would rather not buy than have to listen to the guy nag!!!!

Anyways, speaking of my hobbies, I have made a list:

1. Cross Stitch
2. Cook
3. Scrapbook
4. Jigsaw
5. Doll Making
6. Jewellery Making
7. Dance

Obviously, some of them were short-lived hobbies but still, I like them and would probably re-visit them if I had time and $$$$. The latter being more important, obviously plus I really need a huge space to store all the junk and equipment for these hobbies.

No pictures now, still compiling my recipe "file". Hope it will be in resonable order soon. :-) I hope that RH gets to postpone his trip to Sydney, else its bye bye hubby in 4 days. Oh, Dad's best friend is in the hospital for by pass surgery. Please pray for him.

Micellaneous

I know I promised pictures from Jiu Zhai Gou trip. Its amazing how we manage to take more than 600 pictures, mostly thanks to RH who took really meaningless pictures! We are happey that there are some really nice pictures in there because we need some posters to decorate our house and those scenery pictures will be perfect.

Anyways, here they are!

What have I been busy with? Getting back to the usual rhythm of life in Singapore, sorting out pictures and sorting out my recipe book. Yep, after years of collecting recipes, I decided to compile them into a nice looking Recipe book or rather file. I am using the DVD File and putting my recipes in those plastic DVD cover thingies. This way, my recipes are protected from liquids and also I can take themn out and put them back in easily, since it is small, it saves paper, saves space and is easy to bring around.

Also, I completed my DIY Calendar. It does not look as spectacular as I expected but I know what is wrong with it so I will do better next year.

I can't believe Chinese New Year is coming once again. I am spending Chinese New Year with RH alone this year. It is going to be the loneliest CNY ever for me. All thanks to RH who is being sent to Sydney for work. He is going to be gone for at most 3 months (he says) but I expect it will be at LEAST 3 months. Can you imagine your other half being separated from you for so long. I can't imagine those people who has to be away for 6 months and all.

Anyways, this means that I have to prepare the reunion dinner myself. Have to make smaller portions of everything. I wonder if it is possible. I am in the midst of preparing the menu though. Also, I suddenly have a craving to bake Pineapple Tarts. Bought the ingredients already. Gonna start tonight!

Singapore: My Home

It is sure good to be back to Singapore after my 10 day trip to Sichuan, China! Its funny how I have made Singapore my home and more amazing is that my husband has also since regarded Singapore as home even though he has only been here for 5 years.

I was born in Indonesia and my parents migrated to Singapore when I was a mere 6 months old baby. Although my siblings and I attended school in Singapore, holidays were spent in Indonesia. Language spoken at home is a mixture of Indo, English and Chinese. Passport is Indonesian, IC is Singaporean. Speaks all three languages with a Singaporean accent! Married an Indonesian husband but has a Singaporean father. Had no Indonesian friends till I was in University where the majority of my friends were Indonesian......actually improved my Indonesian language instead of English when I was in USA.

Hahaha, confusing, ain't it! We (my siblings and I) are indeed a race of our own. Unlike our parents who most definitely think of themselves foremost as Indonesians, my siblings and I just do not belong to either nationality. Yes, technically speaking, because our passports are green in colour, we always write Indonesian in the nationality box when we fill out forms but identity wise, we are on our own. When placed among Indonesians, we definitely look Singaporean. And yet when you place us beside a bunch of Singaporeans, we have that defining Indonesian touch.

Perhaps, we would never find others like us but knowing that there are 5 others out there like me, I find comfort that I will never be lonely or not find someone who understands!!!!!

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I am in the process of arranging my China Trip Photos.......promise to post some later on.

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Meanwhile, this is a snack that we bought from Korea and only opened it up recently. There was a wonderful surprise inside!!!!!! These Koreans are really really creative. I could not stop feeling amazed when I saw what they included inside.