CNY 2009!

CNY is here!!!

I meant to post some CNY-related post before today but due to some unforeseen circumstances (namely....baking 'x') i was not able to...

What does CNY means to me?

Primarily involves...wearing new clothes...

(nice or not my dress? this year i bought all those satin like dresses...wahaha)

new shoes...new underwear

and oranges...lots n lots of them...these are blessed oranges frm the CNY mass this morning...hehe so i hope there's no more worms inside

anyway...small talk aside...

I wish you a happy CNY 2009!....may the year of the OX bring for you prosperity,goodness and health!

Shiny Search

Are you bored of the same old page you see everytime you type google.com? Don't you wish you could customize the page to a color that you like?
Have you heard of Shiny Search? This is the first time i've heard of it and the first time i went to visit the page, i was pleasantly surprised!
You will be greeted with a page showing all types of themes you can use to customize your search page.
The themes are categorized by categories such as guys,girly,kids,christian,gothic and other! On top of that, you could even put in your own customized text to display as the main heading on the search page! How cool is that?

I really love it, cos they have a wide variety of very pink themes for me to choose! :D The search page will still behave as normal but it sure looks a lot better!
On top of the search page, you can see a few shortcut links such as Email,Friends,News and others. With just one click you can go to gmail or yahoomail. You don't have to click on favourites links to check your mail. If you are a facebook freak, with just one click you can go to the facebook page.

CNY Dilemma

Come Chinese New Year, i bet even the tiniest most secluded boutiques in Kuching would be packed with ladies ever so eager to spend their money on buying new clothes for the occassion. As for me, this year, realizing how difficult it is to look for nice clothes few weeks before cny...I made it a point to do my shopping last month =)

I bought 2 dresses on Christmas day and told the bf, this is it, i wont be buying anymore clothes for CNY 2009 (to which he replied...YEAH RITE! =_=) But few weeks after that, i saw a nice dress from another boutique...hmmm to buy or not to buy...its ok, just buy lah, since i like it. Then another week after that, i saw another nice dress in an online boutique...ok just buy!

This is it, i told myself...no more shopping! (except for some cny shoes 'x') But just now i went shopping with my sis and i came back with another dress =_="

Its a disease i tell you!! i have no self control over shopping....HELP!!! I m going to lock myself in the house for the last few days before cny...

p/s for those who still have not found the perfect cny dress...try the row of boutiques along Jalan Tun Jugah =) Fashion.news is having storewide 50% sales!!!

New Year Gathering

I had some sort of a potluck gathering with a few of my colleagues during the New Year hols...its a very interesting gathering where each person bring 2 dishes/baked products which MUST be homemade...

I made my sausage buns :)

This is the 3rd time im making em...and i must say this batch is the best among all 3...soft fluffy bread!!! yay...i m soooooo proud =)

made these with some left over dough...

but the whole tray went into the bin cos a whole colony of ants got to them before us :(

ta daaa...everyone's hardwork put together...

pretty impressive lunch spread from just 5 of us rite ;)

we had...

shepard's pie..

cinnamon rolls...

drunken prawns...

sinfully rich choco brownies =)

and some more which i do not have photos of...


it was fun...we should do bring-your-own-homemade-goodies gatherings more often!

Colorful Jelly Balls

After 2 weeks of silence...i am back!!!

My monitor kong-ed off 2 weeks ago and that should explain my lack of post...hehe...

Today, let me show you some really pretty colorful jelly balls

Nice or not???

Purple ones...

Its those small round pellets which absorbs water when you soak them and they grow n grow into big squishy jelly marbles! =)

i like to squish n play around with them...wahaha

look...can even use it to take pic...

On a different note...look at my colorful New Year nail..

Purposely did these for New year's eve 2008

I think the colors are really nice so i m posting it up!

Back to School

Today being the first day of the new school year... i bet there were many school children crying their heads off this morning after the 1.5 mth long school break

i dont blame them...in fact, i feel the same way...i will have to go back to work tomorrow after my long christmas and new year break :(((((((((((((((

i feel all the symptoms...sore throat...dizziness...i wonder if its the attack of laziness or i m really sick? hehe...

anyway, life still have to go on and money has to be earned! but i wouldnt mind sitting around at home and waking up at 9am for another few weeks 'x'

Hello 2009, Goodbye 2008!

Spent our holiday on the 29th of Dec watching movies at the Star Cineplex...2 movies in 1 afternoon...back to back...wahaha...

yeah crazy i know...the worst thing was, both movies were almost equally bad :(
The Day the earth stood still sucks...and so did The Spirit altho not as bad 'x'

By the time we finished, i was movie-sick...feeling dizzy and nauseous =s

In between movies, i managed to shoot a few shots of kuchign city from the balcony...

Really like how the colorful shophouses look on the cool afternoon

At times we really take our little city for granted...always complaining of how backwards it is...but that afternoon i realised how our city is beautiful with its a unique rustic charm

and this is going to be my customary new year post in my blog :P

Wishing you a happy new year 2009...hope 2008 has treated you well...
I have given up on new year's resolutions 2 yrs ago...so there's nothing of that sort here :D

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Winter Wonderland

If you have been wondering where i've been to after Christmas...

Winter wonderland!

yeah rite...

Me is a scatterbrain

Pssst...take a look at my driving license...

and i m still driving... 'x'

on Christmas eve while busy doing my shopping i met with a JPJ road block...guess whose face turned as green as the Christmas tree at home...

mental note to self...RENEW MY DRIVING LICENSE!!!

Another Christmas Post...

Ok here's another Christmas post from me...

ta daa....

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2008! =)

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Christmas 2008

Listening to Christmas songs as i type out this post...everything feels very very christmassy now that Christmas eve is tomorrow!

After all the hustle and bustle and the preparation it is finally here...this year i made it a point to take photos of all the nice Christmas deco i see :)

Every year i vow not to do the same thing ... but come this Christmas i still am doing last minute shopping...this year being very last minute as i have still not yet finished my shopping!!!

Just one more day left...i think i will squeeze in some shopping time for 2nite and 2moro

But then again...Christmas is not really about presents rite?

This Christmas, let's not forget the original meaning of Christmas...

I will not wish you happy holidays or season's greetings but a MERRY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO ALL!! =)

p/s sorry baby Jesus is missing from the nativity scene 'x' bcos its not yet Christmas mah!

Chilling out at Starbucks

Tried out Starbuck's christmas specials...the Toffee Nut Latte

Really love it! sweet and nutty flavor that explodes into a bitter aftertaste in your mouth...unique!

Chicken pie (RM7.50) with cheese on top (RM2)

And blueberry cheese cake (RM9.50)

The chicken pie tastes better than Secret Recipe's but the secret recipe cheese cake wins hands down anytime

My First Attempt in making Rolled Fondant

Another baking-related post :P

Just now i experimented with fondant making. If you dont know what is fondant, here's the definition : An icing made of sugar syrup and glucose, which is cooked to a specific temperature and then kneaded to a smooth, soft paste. This paste can then be colored or flavored and used as an icing for cakes and petit fours.


If you ever see smooth surfaced cakes like this ...

Or cupcakes like this one here :

Photo credit to www.cakejournal.com

These are all covered with fondant

You can actually color the fondant any color u like...it is originally white

hehe on a different note...lookie at my Christmas tree cookie cutter...

I m going to use it make come Christmas themed goodies...

Ok...so here's my fondant...not yet rolled flat...

and rolled fondant...

I like the surface...smooth and white =)
fondant uses lots n lots n lots of icing sugar...i used up almost half a pack

here's the recipe i used just in case anyone's interested:

Ingredients:
8 tablespoon unsalted butter
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 cup condensed milk
5 cups of sifted confectioner's sugar (icing sugar)

Method:

1. Beat butter,vanilla and salt till soft
2. Add milk slowly and beat till mixture is very light
3. Add sugar cup by cup
4. Dust work surface with extra cup of sugar (you can actually use cornflour if you dont want the fondant to be too sweet)
5.Turn fondant mixture out on the surface and work sugar in till it becomes pliable like PlayDoh

I am keeping my fondant in the fridge until future use...dont know how long it will last like that 'x' will keep u updated in my fondant adventure :P

Plan to use the fondant to cover some cupcakes...dont wanto be too adventurous on my first try with fondant...

MyPrivilegeBook 2009

Remember my little post on MyPrivilegeBook ? It was written in a bid to win the MyPrivilegeBook 2009 in a competition organized by kuchingbloggers.com and Ivoq Concept and guess who got the consolation prize?? :)

I was sooooo happy and pleasantly surprised cos i think my post was rather shabby compared to the others...but who cares...now i have my very own copy of MyPrivilegeBook 2009!!

Went to collect it last Friday at The Spring...they gave me...

Cool!...i love desserts ice cream...

And a pillow...

Now i have 3 of these pillows (one from MyPrivilegeBook 2008 giveaway, one i won from this competition and another one which i won from the lucky draw when i went to collect MPB 2009)

And of cos ... there's the MPB 2009!!!

More restaurants are participating and more of them are giving discounts if you present your MPB Card...i think this is better than tearing out the coupons whenever you need to go dine at participating outlets...more convenient!

And i m gonna use the coupons in the book to do my hair b4 cny 2009! woot!

*happy*

Elianto Gel Eyeliner and Blending Brush

yeah! another girly post on makeup and stuffs :)

I dont want to neglect my other shopping blog...so i m trying to direct traffic (or what's left of it) from this blog to THIS BLOG!

Guys, pls come back another day...or perhaps you could be interested in makeup too??? O_O

Gingerbread Man

I bought a gingerbread man cookie cutter last Saturday and so i proceeded on to practise baking some gingerbread. I have some plans for Christmas season :)

Just out of the oven...

Aiya...i think the cookie cutter abit not cun la...u see my gingerbread man doesn look rite :(

I decorated them with sprinkles ...

And another batch with sprinkles and choco chips as buttons :P

Actually i dont really like ginger bread but baking just for the sake of using my cookie cutter 'x' I wont bake another batch of ginger bread the nxt round...i think i will try some peanut butter cookies or something with my gingerbread man cookie cutter

I used this recipe from Agnes Chang's I Can Bake cookbook...i took a pic of the recipe with my handphone in the bookstore 'x'

But i really mean to buy the book....only not now....hahaha....honest!

and just in case you r interested .... my gingerbread man did not get up and run away when i baked them....hahaha "You can't catch me,I'm the gingerbread man"

Dear Santa...

I have been a very good girl all year long...i finish the vege on my dinner plate almost everyday

It would be very nice of you if you could get me one of these LeSportSac mini bag 'x'

If there's no LeSportSac outlet in the north pole...perhaps you could get me one of these 88 color palette instead

Thanks :D

Village Fast Food by Green Bento

The Green Bento company (the one of its kind office lunch delivery service) has just opened a Dine-in,Drive-in and Delivery concept outlet opposite the SUPP HQ.

We went on a Sunday afternoon and were greeted with empty tables...

Actually, we didnt expect to sit at this open-air, zinc roofed area

We thought the dine-in customers should be sitting at this air conditioned area which used to house the old Pitcher Plant drinking place...

U guys remember that place or not? it sort of held some 'memories' for us both ... hehehe =)

Ok lets not get out of topic...

He had Chicken Chop bento (RM6)

Came with 3 side dishes...

The chicken chop was actually chicken covered in bread crumbs and deep fried...much like what you would get from the office delivery menu

I on the other hand, ordered the Roast Chicken Sandwich (rm7.50) after my very pleasant experience with their roast chicken sandwich few months back when we ordered for lunch delivery

But this time, it disapointed me terribly :(

The chicken was very very tough and dry...i almost had tooth ache

Well, i just hope they would improve on their food soon if they are going to open a dine-in outlet. Being a lunch delivery service, customers won't be so critical on the food and price as you have to give them some credits for the free and punctual delivery service...but if they are planning to be successful in this dine-in thingy...they should really improve...