Sunday, January 31, 2010

CNY Greeting: Peanuts Cookies

got the recipe Hsling Kitchen

but modifying

by using home-grounded peanut

it is actually leftover from my man jian kueh

and we added bit of almond powder

maybe next time round

we shall experiment with

adding peanut butter too

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hers one baked 115

thought of cutting the serving size into half

but mom said it would be too little

this serving size will be just nice

for two baking trays

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wow she is just so right

we got two trays of 160 mini peanut cookies

it sounds quite a lot right

however for the hard work of 2+ hours

it is merely a medium size container

one thing about my peanut cookies

is that it weighs pretty heavy

real solid ingredients, no fool man

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the method of piercing the cookies

with a straw is just so brilliant

in her blog, it is described as

mushi-shaped peanut cookies

coincidently we have run out of roasted peanut

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it is all so fun

actually though of baking this cookies

because of my dad too

he is not a very cookies person

but over and over again

he keeps mentioning about

this peanut cookies that

a particular 80++ grandma

has made and shared with us

*

it all lies in her peanut frying skill

mom has asked the daughter for recipe

blah..selfish

she said “like this, like this loh”

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it is jolly sinful

when we bake our own cookies

then we shall realize

how much of oil

is actually added in

*

but there’s no choice

oil is the deciding factor

to create the smooth texture

pop one into your mouth

and let it melt

the peanut and almond aroma

will linger on

till you feel like

popping another one in again

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my dad’s comment was

the sugar is not fine enough

so the melting effect is

not achieved yet

*

but even my picky sis

said that it is not bad

happy happy

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flour, sugar, peanut, almond powder     pre-baking        oh my.. the oil     some chaotar one       better looking one         can't wait to taste one

3 hours = 1 can of lovely cookies

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Doraemon Zodiac Charm Set

the charm set

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the  controversy started

when the pig is removed

replaced with a cupid

holding a heart

due to halalness

since Malaysia is now boiling

with the *llah phrase issue

glad that McD doesn’t even launch the series there

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we been using this as our profile photo

Pigraemon

Teddraemon

Sueraemon

Bakraemon

Cheraemon

pigraemon

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today finally i got to grab these

one for Piggie

have to apologize to him

this is not his top choice

but the rest have already sold off 

Rat ratshocking expression

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one extra one,

erm.. cow cow

it is the charm of our family

my mum

moo… moo…

cow cow

so happy : ) 

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typo in the receipt...

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guilty guilty

700+ kcal

from the filet-o-fish and fries

but i guess it would be fine

since it is the only meal on the day

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Saturday, January 16, 2010

離開是為了回來

窗外的風景

漸漸變得陌生

離家的距離

又越來越遠了

i just can't get enough

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星期三去練習

當我知道星期日有彩排時

我整個心都沉掉了

還以為這個禮拜

可以毫無牽掛地回家

所以暗中有了打算

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拜四早上遲起 七點了

來不及搭八點的巴士回家啦

去上課吧

不要逃避

然后去做工

還可以賺錢

*

但是 無所謂

我不管

我還是要回家

*

趕上了九點的巴士

而且買到了新年回家的票了

*

十二點多

就能夠安心地跟阿公吃午餐了

今天煮得很多好料

*

有媽媽的蝦煎 (我們太愛蠔煎了)

鹵肉 炸云吞和豆支

全部都是自制的

因為今天是月尾

阿公拜“后面公“的日子

初一初一

還有一個月快過年了

our lunch

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忙著收拾東西

但是小比一直都不要我

叫我走開

親愛的阿比

我真的過一下就要走了

就讓我抱抱好嗎

*

我怕她怪我沒有帶東西給她

還特地在七十一商店

買了一些巧克力給她

但是她都不領情

*

看來我回來真的不是時候

爸講她是這樣

很就沒有看到就喜歡撒嬌

一直在偷瞄我

但是我最后也是沒有抱到她

*

可能現在她剛去上學

開始壓力了

阿比你要加油

*

下午茶

很好吃的太平香餅

還有我們的咖啡烏

多么希望時間就停在那一刻

*

現實是時間真的很快

我必須走了

媽為了不讓小比跟

偷偷摸摸走后門出去

*

忘了帶三樣相當重要的東西

開始有點怪媽

該帶的東西不帶

我不要帶的香餅和保溫瓶

就偷偷跟我放進去

但是她只是希望我

吃得飽 喝得燒

*

再會 馬六甲

希望不用多久

我又能回來了

用十小時的車程

換來在家的五小時

是值得的

我太想家了

Sentral Junction Giant signboard Kenangan Semalam.. nice name Control tower typical kampung house Durian Tunggal.. hope u r not missing it too much

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

I am Fat Again

went home after netball

totally confident that

i have lost weight

after two weeks

i was back in Sg again

*

last week after work

my colleague was heading to the gym

then…

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my boss:

hey, should ask people to go with you

more motivation

Stephy, u look a bit 發福

your face looks fatter

*

my colleague:

ya, then you should go gym with me

*

1st day back to NUS

Mak Cik was sweeping the floor

said hi to her

so happy to see someone so close again

*

Mak Cik:

yang, dah gemuk keh?

tengok bibir

dah naik

(darling, have u grown fat..look at your cheeks…...have grown)

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i am so so sad

so so depressed

oh my

two weeks home

and i received two reliable sources

that i have grown fat

*

no no

it must be my bangs

no no

CNY is just month ago

please go on strict diet

before it is too late

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yesterday   washroom.. OMG        back from work, actually   just ignored the arm     again.. ignore the extra flesh

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Monday, January 11, 2010

家後

知道豬哥亮重出江湖

我下載了他的豬哥會社

給爸爸媽媽看

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第一集

來了余天夫婦壓軸

他們合唱的那首『家後』

真的很好聽

*

夫唱婦隨的感覺

而且余天的一番話

讓豬哥亮感動落淚

*

黃小琥版本的『家後』

滄桑感十足的聲音

而且簡單吉他伴奏

很贊

*

巧合的是

她在最新專輯的那首『伴』

還被稱為國語的家後

不妨一聽

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蕭敬騰版本的『家後』

2007/7/27 最後一場駐唱

雖然聲音錄制不是很好

但是我相信老蕭一定演繹的很好

他之前那首在康熙來了『三冥三日』

記憶猶新

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那個最原本的蕭敬騰 

專心認真就很帥了

這首歌曲讓我想到了

另外一首我很喜歡的歌曲

最浪漫的事 / 趙詠華

兩首歌

有異曲同工之處哦

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

新學年之際

明天就要開學了

需要很多的勇氣

來繼續前面的路

還有很多的難題

等著我一一解答

有時真的把自己

折磨得快瘋掉了

*

原諒我就是這樣的女生 / 戴佩妮

明知道有些問題

沒有答案還是要問

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上個學期很不容易

地熬過去

挨了一年半

還有一年半

但是我還是無法說服自己

我應該保握當前的時間

好好地念下去

*

只是制造些恐嚇的效果

如果我不讀

親朋戚友會知道

會讓家人丟臉

而且我還會是朋友當中

唯一沒有大學文憑的人

*

新國政府會追債上門

還有我姐姐做了我的擔保人

會連累到她

可能我永遠都要偷偷摸摸做人

*

我的目標

還是一樣

我要快點畢業

賺錢然后回家

和素音談的那些出國機會

都是遙遠的夢想

*

我現在最想的

還是離開這個寂寞的城市

安心地回家去

*

唯有繼續逃避

繼續拖延時間

繼續麻醉自己

前方的路

還是一片茫然

*

昨天看回很多中學的照片

那個純真年代

我們都笑得多燦爛

我再把雙眼擠得咪咪的

讓嘴角使勁上揚

也再得不到那天的笑容

身邊的人與物

都不一樣了

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p.s.

給小殺牙同學

你走了一個星期

這么快就和我有同感了

恨不得快點畢業回家

但是至少要賺回本

*

美國

更加遙遠

更加寒冷

祝你一切順利

不會走入向我一樣的困境

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Mum’s Kitchen: Homemade Sambal

add in the tumeric paste stir it well     forming the thicker texture      keep stirring      6 and 1/2 containers        so good even to eat it on its own

*

we are chili-eating people

practically everything can be eaten with chili

the plate of cut chili in light soy sauce

on every single meal

green chili pickled with vinegar

and last but not least

the best chili ever, Sambal

*

the amount of chili my mom cooks

looks kinda scary

it can last for one month i think

*

chili, shallot, lemongrass, buah keras, turmeric

are the basic ingredients

*

how can we manage to finish so much of sambal

- while eating dried meehoon kuih,

sambal with fried anchovies is a must

- dried prawn chili, 蝦米香

- curry and rendang base

- it’s even good as spread for bread and plain crackers

*

last sem i brought a can of 蝦米香 here

sambal fried with dried prawn

and it lasted me for the whole sem

a superb dinner can be prepared within 10 minutes

mee with dried prawn sambal paste 

*

the good thing about chili

is the jolly good warm after-feeling

*

i miss chili a lot

after i came to Singapore

and  i realized people here

don’t cherish spicy food

as much as we do back there

Malaysian, truly Malaysian

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

紅綠燈

我從小就不會過馬路

就是很遲鈍那種

其實我做什么事

有哪里一次是不遲鈍的

*

到中學了

過馬路都躲在人家后面

等有人過了

我才隨他們后面越過馬路

*

又是我還會發夢

人家過了

我還傻傻愣著

又要等下一班人群來

混著他們過馬路了

*

到了新加坡

這邊過馬路比較安全

到處都有天橋和斑馬線

還有可以按燈

*

紅綠燈這首歌曲前奏的那個

滴答聲

來這里聽了很多遍

*

雖然設施很好

但是我還是有

亂亂過馬路

而給車鳴笛

就是在不該過馬路的地方

闖過去

不要命

*

很喜歡這首歌

唱出那種小女生的心情

鄭融除了這首歌

很像也沒有什么代表作了

*

而且 MV 拍的很好

不要講男主角余文樂是我的最愛

劇情有點傷感

當你很缺愛的時候

任何男生

都覺得他可能愛上你

什么都被看成是

示好的表現

*

天天來回

擁擠的巴士 地鐵

我真的很累

而且這只是一個開始

未來的日子還很長

*

有沒有一只手

可以拖我走過任何一條馬路

讓我不必再跟在陌生人群后面

發呆

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

For Someone, 待續

那天我們只差一點

緣慳一面

我真的后悔莫及

怎么自己這么貪睡

*

那天還有我的雪糕和曼煎糕

開來沒有口福吃到了

*

十面埋伏 / 陳奕迅

只差一點點 即可以 再會面

可惜 偏偏 剛剛 擦過 

*

然后你要飛的那天

電話都放在包包里

其實我有點在等電話的感覺

沖涼一半

我媽媽的電話響

跑出來看 不是你

就快點跑回去

怎么就沒想到要把自己的電話

帶在身旁

*

看來我們真的是有緣無分

走了以后

我就永遠錯過了你

*

然后你打給我媽媽的

電話頭三次

我沒有接

我在那邊愣著

有點忐忑

*

立即打了個信息給我的好朋友

內容大概如下

something is very wrong with me

felt rush of heat and anxiety

despite in air-con room

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我開始相信

幸福是:在對的時間,遇見對的人!

~by 吳若權 in 錯過你 遇見愛

原來timing是這么重要的東西

*

那天星期六下午收到你的信息

我很意外

過后發信息給你

也很快通過

原來一切還不是這么灰

*

很高興今天我們能像

以前那樣再度聊天

當 MSN 的藍色連接彈出來

還以為你的 MSN 中蟲了

恭喜你買了新的電腦

最后我們都沒有選擇Dell

*

一直想快點回家寫這篇文字

16 站的地鐵路程

突然變得很快

管它這個學期沒有科目讀

最多我不讀了

*

心情很好

原來這種感覺很微妙

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Saturday, January 2, 2010

1st Shopping of 2010

All floral prints

All for RM 75 only

*

this ELH shop in Tesco

been noticing it

but didn’t enter

first of all

trolleys are not allowed inside

then my mom commented that

the clothes are a bit ah-lian-ish

*

but nowadays who cares about

whether the shop is classy or not

as long as the clothes and the price is right

just grab it

just like Dees Simplicity

which we have learnt to appreciate

more and more

*

the rm 10 huge banner outside

and the crowd

attracted us to enter for the very first time

*

we were squeezing

in the shop

ended up with hands

full of clothes and hangers

*

this is one of my fav activity

during shopping

to ransack for clothes

among the maddening crowds

*

i think Carly you know the best

how i “luan” the Seed at MV

ransacked so long for the red blouse

for the right size

then ended up borrowing rm 30

*

and you will end up interacting with

fellow crazy shoppers

a girl asked me

where i got the blue dress from

another girl asked my mom

which of the two dresses

should she pick

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too bad i didn’t bring my mr Oly along

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so so glad

for my loots today

great start for 2010

Rm 10 Skirt     Mini dress          Mini dress       Mini dress     Top         More delicate floral printWait, isn't this similar to my Roxy tube        I like this print the best      The bow is so so cute

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Friday, January 1, 2010

New Pets for 2010

i had never been to any countdown party

during new year

usually spend the new year

quietly at home

*

this year is kind of different

mom went for a wedding dinner

me and dad went for

our fav wanton mee and fried oyster

at Bunga Raya

*

actually we had already planned

the journey ahead in the afternoon

we had targeted a pair of horses

at this exhibition at Ming Xin

but we had not officially walked in

we were discussing about the price

*

actually we are kind of sick

of all these exhibitions

the sellers always price the items at

ridiculous prices

and pretended to give discount

then they ask you back,

how much you are willing to pay

*

looking back at

a few of our loots at home

we discover that

we had paid far too much

than what the items worth for

*

so we just decide stop going anymore

see nothing

then we shall buy nothing

*

this time round,

we are smarter then

contacted an old friend

he is one of my dad’s gang

in stuffs like that

he already bought quite a lot

from here

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so let him get a price quotation

from the seller

then we went

it so happened that

he was there as well

last night

*

finally the price went down

to what we are willing to pay for

and there we got a pair of horses

*

i was sitting at the back seats

with them

protecting them all the way

then showered them outside

before bringing them

into the house

*

welcome home

today dad had preened them

with red ribbons

and name them

吉祥 n  如意

he even discovered

a way to differentiate them

*

with them

our gods at home

can travel to anywhere

whenever they want to

Welcome home         We are strong horses      We are such chatterboxes       Look, we got preened

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