For months ago, I'd been trying hard to train the pupils for "Action Song" competition. We are the champion in our area (among 8 schools) then yesterday there was the semi-final to the state.

We won in our district (S.P.Tengah) yesterday and we will represent our district for the state competition. There will be 10 top schools (2 for each distrist, for the whole Penang) for the next round. I am excited yet worried for the next challenge. It will be on next Tuesday!! (just a week away.)

So bad was....my video camera met with some "DEW" technical problem. Yet, I haven't got a chance to watch the performance yesterday. Anyone nearby willing to lend urs? I just need to transfer the video out from the tape.....

Here share my happiness with u...

BTW, our theme for the competition is "Malaysia in harmony".

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.

Most of the decoration was created by ddcat. ( his first time....should give some big hands!! :D) I only helped him to make the ribbon and mix the colour for him.

From our first experience, having a white base is not a good idea. The main theme of the cake is lovely bear. All the love and ribbon were in PINK! People who knows ddcat would be surprise!! wow!PINK!!

Anyhow, I just started this fondant decoration. So, my colouring and tools ain't enuff. I bought pink and brown colouring liquid. My aim is to make some roses, flowers and some animal figurine (still in learning process thru youtube :p)

Hope I can do better than this for my second try.      : )

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！

Has anyone argue about this on paper? I am dissapointed with our community that gives too much priority to the "Majority"... That's the answer I got actually. Just becoz we are minority and everything can be put aside.

We lose our right and fairness to be treated equally in the society. Hey, non-muslim, do u awake about this?

Actually, to keep everybody happy, that's easy, announce la... holiday on friday and replace on other day... give one day extra people will be happy. Why are those people so ..stingy...?!?

Is this the democratic society? I thought democratic means the people themselves control their own community. After 50 years, we'd lost our way and right and yet we keep quiet. When we think of our family planning, we don't want more children, more is for burden. That's why we become minority.

Could u just imagine what happend to our children and our generation?

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.

Mooncake festival is around the corner, have these piggy mooncake with durian paste inside. Yummy~~

Also Shanghai Mini Mooncake....  more coming soon......

中秋节快乐~！

Cheers..... share with u.

The photo that we had near the Zoo Taiping board (ddcat, carol and me) was taken by Darius, 3 yrs old.... hehe... blur but he managed to put all of us in the frame and BINGO.... we are in the picture. That time we were waiting for the rain to stop.

How careless are we not to bring umbrella..... after visiting some wild lifes, we just ran back without saying hi to elephant, lion and tiger...