I use them another way to be "rice mould" for kids.

Last two weeks, the kids had a sushi lunch at home. Carol normally  takes 1 tbsp of rice but with this cute sushi, she ate around 4-5!!

Cute thing does matter for picky eater! 

Why not try at home for your little one? 

Finally, my home-made wedding cake  is presented in front of 30 tables guests in Safira Club, Seberang Jaya. IT's a meaningful cake i  ever make~~ What a sweet moment of a pair of lovely couple for the cake cutting ceremony!

Thanks for giving me a chance to discover....... 

Mmcat made some paper crafting cards for the parents, in law n godparents. Here comes our handsome boy to write his wishing for the grannies....n also not forgetting that ddcat made some awesome balloons for the kids around.

We just made up our mind to go for hiking on every Wed. starting next week. :p

Here's the painting by Darius (from his Art Class) to share with all of you. 

As for my school, the scene of New Year is everywhere.

The pupils even have a "财神爷" to sing for them during the recess. It is fun!! 

Happy holiday n drive safety back home. 

Carol got her first experience on speedboat riding, island hopping, swimming for whole day...they had fun!!

Darius was a bit frightened. After standing by the seaside for hours, I carried him to the sea and played around. Singing and turn around as the rhymes went on.

On the second day, when we went Island hopping, they were more steady and enjoyed themselves swimming in Pulau Bunting Children Pool (lake).

Anyhow, my arms were sore and I was tired for 3 days after home.

My programme quite full in this holiday. Right after from Langkawi, I started swimming lessons with kids(5-9yrs old) in country club. I am now darker and somehow ugly.

For the following week, I will be busy baking and prepared for some CNY cookies. 

Some people might feel time flies when Carol turns 2.

I do hope she can be more independent and ready for kindy schooling.

This morning, she said she wanted to go shopping.

I asked, what do you want to buy?

She answered, I want to buy yogurt.

I asked, anymore?

She replied, I want to buy grapes.

Such a 2 yrs old, she already has her own shopping list!

28 Sept 2008

I didn't get to publish this blog due to some photos technical prob.

Tonight continue with more photos of my little prince and princess.

The one Carol standing  on the new Trampete that we bought in Tesco yesterday.

What is that ar? A jumping n bouncing trampoline. 

Not forgeting my Darius boy too, he is now playing on Warcraft liao lor....

uncle, watch out oh..... 

The photos of eating is the testimonial of eating my Portuguese Tart. :D Really yummy ler.....

view http://mycookingdiary.textmalaysia.com 

From a tiny brown worm, then turn to green caterpillar. After eating so much kari leaves and lemon leaves, finally it turned into a pupa. For about 10 days, a beautiful butterfly resting in our container.

Anyhow, the first experience was a good lesson. Without any support, the butterfly became handicap. the wings can't flip and the butterfly died after a day of 24 hours. Sad!

The second time, we rolled in some net material as support. This time, two butterflies were successfully grown. We support them with some flowers in the aquarium. They had been staying with us through out the weekends.

Just Monday, I gave them freedom to join their friends in the school butterfly farm.

I feel glad to support this tiny caterpillar and turn them into butterfly. It was amazing! Anyone wants to try out? I have many at home.

As for me, I am sick for a week! That is too long for me. For the whole week, I can't eat well and not even to taste the FOOD!! What is the smell of the coffee? Is the soup too salty?

Hope god at my side and angel sprinkles some magical will for me to cure. 

We brought Darius along. After that, he was sick for a week, just recovered from his high fever yesterday. I hope he is fine...and Carol too... she is having diarrhea badly.

Kids are fun?! No..... I really lose control every time I hear them yelling n crying. For me, school children already made me tired after a day of work. Come back home, I couldn't bare any noise.

Mothers, feel free to speak up!

Attached together Darius' karaoke session.  

How many red packets did ur children get?

Did you forget to give your own child?

Early in the morning for the first day, normally people will get up and dress up. At home, ddcat will get ready with camera to snap some family photos. After that, he ask the children to "line up" and greet him "Gong Xi Fatt Chai".

We headed to in law's house for lunch and relatives house too~

Steamboat is a very common meal during CNY, I think. We had it almost everyday for the last week. Anyhow, once a year and I really can't stop myself of having so much food. :p~

We departed about 11am and reached Kek Lok Si. Carol had a wonderful time walking around for the first time in her life. Of coz, we din't forget to have some Laksa there.

Then, heading to McDonald at Gurney Drive for lunch n break. Children enjoyed their meal with fries.... Parents enjoy to have a free vanilla cone/ extra fries as we joined the Kids Club!! :D

After that, we went to Botanical garden. A funny scene was..... a monkey was peeling off the tissue when it was licking and eating a cone of ice cream.  I think ddcat recorded it!

Time flies and it was 5pm. We drove off to Teluk Kumbar for seafood. It was a romantic beach with nice view of sunset.

This would be my first magazine launched lately in Nov. I am gonna to invest more in future to make sure readers will have more surprise~ cheer~ ; )

One night, my mom in law showed me her homemade edible play dough. Then, I started surfing some craft thing for my son. Of coz this play dough can not be used as cake decoration items even it's edible.

Anyhow, I had one in my mind on frosting my cupcakes by not using creamy frosting. Normally people don't like to eat the cream on top of the cake. Wasted my effort if they don't eat the frosting that I made purposely. Hmm....watch out mycookingdiary. Cuppies coming soon.....

Ooh...before I forget. For anyone here with children, may be u would like to try the homemade playdough. try this link : edible_play_dough

Hope your children will love them.

Tips for mama: If u want to add in colour, drop a little in the boiling water before u add in flour and tartar. Then, u can save energy to knead the dough with colour later on.

He is still not steady enough to go for dancing. In the middle of the dance, he was easily distracted by ddcat's camera or may be looking around the stage. Aiyaya....

Here's present u his "cowboy dance" and "yee pe yaya". 

ooh... forgot to mention that he got a reward so call "Good reader in the group of 3 yrs old". Last year, he won "the best student" in his group. This year, he is defeated by the other little girl at his age.

加油吧！孩子！

Recently we bought one to put in our children's bedroom. Finally they can stay in their own room. As parents, we feel uncomfortable pulak! We are afraid that we can't hear them when they cry at night. Shh....(Normally they will sleep through the whole night.)

Baby sister still refused to walk by her own in her 13 mths. But she is very active and she can even climb up her brother's bed then jump together. 

Carol started some bubble talk, unexpectedly one day when we taught her that the pooh is actually a bear, she pronounced "bear" very clear repeating.    

May be she learns to talk faster than she walks.

Tomolo is Monday, Monday is a school day. Anyhow, I still can persuade myself to work for these coming 4 weeks before the REAL HOLIDAYS till the next year!!! Hooray!!

Hmm.... reflexing what I did this holiday....I think really worthwhile. I occupied most of the time to beautify my house and clean up mess. If I could get bonus this end of year, I will renovate the bedrooms for my children.

Pls....somebody says something.....election is coming soon.....flour price is increasing...1 bun is at RM1.99 nowaday!!...  面包不再是穷人的食物。...

钱钱钱钱不够用！！。。。。pinjam from Singapore 梁智强.

Ddcat and I love cream puff but we rarely buy. : ) 

Few days ago, when I had lunch with collegue at a bakery cafe, I found out this small cream puff sold 60sen now a day.

Back home, I tried the 6th times, yesterday.....FAIL....

This morning, I tried to surf other recipe from the internet. BINGO!!

Here's the recipe to share:

1. beat 3 eggs with mixer till fluffy

2. 1 cup water + half cup butter(melt after measure) ---->bring to boil...got bubbles one...

3. Then quickly pour no. 2. into 1 cup high protein flour and stir with spatula...

4. After that, pour into the other 3 eggs that are ready beaten at the very beginning.

5. Switch on the mixer and mix all well for a minute.

6. Pipe small portion on the baking tray. For nice looking like these, I recommend u to use cupcake tray. They are cute!!

7. Bake at 180 C for 20 minutes. It is important to put ur tray in the middle partition of the oven. 

8. Lastly, prepare the corn filling as below:

   a. 1 tbsp corn flour

   b. 2 tbsp water

   c. 2 tbsp milk

   d. 1 tbsp sugar

   e. 1/3 tin corn in cream

9. Mix all in no. 8 and cook till it becomes creamy. Use small flame.

10. Set the corn filling to cold and pump in the puffs!!

 Enjoy ~~

 The area was quite big but for the exhibition of Tanglung, it's about half of the camp. Another half was a little funfair stuff for children like Merry Go Round, Ferris Wheel, Motor Ride, Train Ride..... Each ride RM3 for each play.

Ddcat and Darius went for the mini-motorbike ride. See the pix...:p

After all, we took 200 photos!!  My arms still feel a little pain of carrying "them". Our camera is not the best, yet the photos are mostly sound and bubbles.

Thanks to FatOrangeCat&TweetyBird who brought their kids to join us from BM, and also Chin Yin, I think my boy likes ur girl pretty much.... :p

From the party, I knew that people like more Original Kentucky. Luckily, left 4 to take away, not much.... yet couldn't finish eating them too.

Share some photos here.