Hmmm….still thinking of a suitable topic for this post :-)

Our house sounds like a hospital ward currently sebab both of The Little Misses have got a cough and a cold. Miss 6 rasanya dah 4 minggu kot batuk2 ni. She had a couple of days where she wasn’t coughing but since 3 days ago, her cough has worsened again. Ni dapat a new virus from Miss 11 lah ni agaknya sebab Miss 11 has been having a head cold with runny nose and coughing since Thursday last week kot. Pastu, sekarang ni berjangkit lah ke Miss 6, so full of mucus in her nose trickling down her throat which triggers her coughs (eeyuwww!!!!) :-D. Only a Mum won’t find that gross, hahahahaha…

Kesian Miss 6, she was asking me bila lah her cough nak baik ni. She said she’s got so used to coughing now dia dah tak heran, a bit like breathing, hehehe…. But at least this time, she’s still got her appetite and eating all the time and tak demam2 and muntah2 (nak make up for the last time she was really sick and losing so much weight kot).

Miss 11 yang jarang demam and batuk pun tengah batuk sekarang. Ini belum masuk Winter lagi tapi dah teruk batuk. Hopefully Winter time nanti tak lah teruk sangat kenanya…..

The inspection today went well, I think. No more scrubbing the walls and the blinds for 3 months now :-). Luckily my kids memang jenis yang tak conteng dinding even when they were small so we didn’t have to worry about that bit. Cuma all the finger and hand marks on the wall aje lah yang I had to scrub semalam. Ye lah, kita pun kadang2 tak sedar tangan kita kotor and terus peluk2 dinding kan, so tu yang melekat the mark on them. I know the best way is to wipe the marks off straight away tapi biasalah kan, orang malas ni, tunggu inspection baru kelam kabut nak buat, hehehehehe…

Since inspection dah habis, bolehlah I masak seperti biasa for dinner.

I made beef and feta rissoles and spicy couscous. Rissoles tu I ambik recipe from here. And couscous tu pulak I pakai godek2 sendiri aje, hehehe. Couscous ni as long as you cook it with stock and then letak rempah sikit2, selalunya cumin and coriander, dah sedap dah. But if you just cook it with air panas aje, memang tak rasa apa lah, macam makan nasi putih tak berlauk lah.

I like couscous ni, especially bila you dah put the veges and the spices. The Little Misses makan couscous but they won’t ask for seconds. The Other Half pun tadi habiskan the couscous on his plate and then went to get some more rissoles, not couscous, hehehe.

Psst… you nampak tak benda hitam kat atas my plate tu? Meh, I tunjuk kan gambar lagi dekat…

Muahahahahaha… kalau dah jawa tu, jawa jugak!

Mana ada orang makan couscous dengan sambal kicap weh! Sedap giler I rasa couscous tadi bila dah campur sambal kicap tu. Terus bersemangat I makan, wakakakakka.

Malam kutip awards

Since petang tadi pun masih busy lagi buat last minute cleaning, I cuma masak scrambled eggs and melted cheese on toast aje. And kalau I tayang scrambled eggs tu, sure nya akan ada orang yang kata, “makan scrambled eggs pun nak tunjuk kat blog!”. Might as well tayang the awards yang I pegi kutip tadi kan.

I feel so blessed dapat kawan2 blogger yang sangat lah baik hati mensedekahkan all these nice awards and friendship tokens to me. Terima kasih yang tak terhingga from me to you…

        

Ini I dapat dr Nanae                                     Ini pula dapat dari Jaja’Z

 

             

   A bunch of roses ni pulak dapat dr Azatie             Special crown ni pulak dapat dari Nenek

Medal ni pulak dapat dr Shiori (tapi I cengkelat ambik award aje tak ambik tag, hehehe)

Thank you once again for the lovely thoughts. Ramai jugak kawan I kat cyberworld ni ye :-D

It’s that time again..

It’s unbelievable how quickly 3 months flew by especially when you are not waiting for it. Our 3-monthly inspection is coming up this Thursday. Rasa macam baru aje we all bertungkus lumus kemas and membersihkan rumah, inside and out. And it’s unbelievable how much sawang can accumulate in that time too, hehehe. I kan cukup seriau nak membersihkan the sawang and the toys kat luar tu sebab takut aje terpegang a red back spider while cleaning up. The Little Misses pun tau kalau nampak cobwebs around their toys to check for spiders first before touching it.

Kat OZ ni kan, punyalah banyak binatang2 yang boleh membunuh ni and a lot of them are so tiny which makes it even more scary. We normally have to spray the outdoor insect spray every 3 months just to make sure takde red back spiders buat sarang kat luar tu. But occasionally you will still find a few lurking around. Kalau kat dalam rumah pulak, you’ll get the white-tail spiders which bites can put susceptible people in hospital tapi tak sampai membunuh lah. Ada sekali tu I tengah solat and the next thing I know, ada white-tail kat sejadah betul2 kat tempat nak sujud. Melompat I sekejap sebab terkezut. Terpaksalah I solat sekali lagi after throwing the spider down the drain.

Sape nak tau how these spiders look like, Google aje lah ye.

It’s so funny bila ada tetamu from Malaysia ketakutan nak tidur kat dalam bilik bila ternampak spiders sebab diaorang takut kot2 it’s the spider yang boleh membunuh tu kan, hehehe. Tak pasal2 masuk hospital sebab kena gigit spiders pulak nanti kan :-).

Anyway, the house now is not fully cleaned yet but getting there. Penat weh memanjat steps tadi nak bersihkan on top of the blinds and windows and on top of the doors. Pastu menyental the walls to get rid of all the oily finger marks took some time too.

So, bila dah konon2nya penat membersihkan rumah, I masak dinner yang teramatlah simple nya…

Pasta with pesto and sausages. Pesto tu I beli yang ready made aje so lagi lah senang nak masak, hehehe

I gunakan different types of pasta sebab nak menghabiskan stock.

supermarkets, pokok kesum and apartment complex

Our dinner tonite was roast chicken yang The Other Half masak on the BBQ on Saturday, seasoned chips, fried kumara and green salads with croutons. Orang lain buat fried kumara aka goreng keledek untuk minum petang, I made it untuk makan dengan dinner, hikhikhik…..

Don’t ask me how to make seasoned chips tu ye sebab I will only answer it with, “I tak tau, I beli kat kedai aje.” Hehehe… Fries or chips kat sini tersangatlah murahnya, kadang2 lagi murah dari harga kentang sekilo! Tu lah sebabnya I lagi suka beli chips yang dah siap potong, shaped and frozen in a bag than beli kentang yang still nak kena kupas kulit, basuh and potong :-D.

Supermarkets kat sini macam lah jugak the supermarkets kat M’sia. They have their weekly specials and sometimes they have specials on these kilo bags of fries, kadang2 tu less than $2/kg bag. Kalau nak beli kentang raw tu harga dia pun lebih kurang $2/kg jugak kan so might as well I (sebagai isteri and ibu mithali, hahahaha) beli yang dah siap tinggal masak dlm oven aje kan :-D.

And my favourite past time is to go online to the supermarket websites and check their weekly specials catalogue. Pastu I pun put the specials yang I berkenan on my grocery list so bila I pergi shopping, tak lah I terlupa, hehehe. And in one of their weekly specials ni lah I terjumpa the cupcake stand which I borong bila they go on sale (tapi yang sedihnya, memang jarang2 sangat they have these things in stock!). Kalau you all nak tengok their catalogues (ye lah, kot2 you have some free time kan :-)), you can go to Coles and Woolworths websites. Just type 6107 when they ask for postcode :-).

Oh ye, before I terlupa, nak tunjuk kat you all my pokok kesum yang The Other Half tanam. I think it must have been late 2008 kot when pokok kesum dalam pasu we all membiak bagai johan and I pun terpaksalah trim and buang loads of the roots and the leaves. And he went and took 1 ranting pokok kesum ni and cacak dalam tanah nak tengok whether dia akan hidup ke tak. And a year plus later, punyalah gemuk pokok ni…

Nampak tak segala daun2 mati on the ground kat belakang pokok kesum tu? Hah, inilah apartment complex yang The Other Half buatkan untuk Cik Ti dan sanak sedara nya itu! Manalah diaorang tak migrate kat kebun we all kan bila Tuan Rumah siap sedia kan apartment complex yang sikit nya besar ke! Hikhikhikhik…..

Bila we all trim pokok2 kat sekitar rumah ni, we normally just leave the branches and leaves underneath the lemon tree sebab konon2nya nak bagi the native gekkos or lizards datang our garden lah. Instead on the natives yang datang, the chili-eating mice pulak yang jadi squatters kat sini. Hampeh betul! I just hope takde lah ular kat bawah ni, seram I….

But The Other Half dah letak racun and traps near their apartment complex tu. The racun dah habis di makan so hopefully, selamatlah pokok chilli I lepas ni. The traps pulaknya, nak gelak I, sebab the mice main lompat2 aje and siap boleh curi the baits lagi without setting the trap off, hehehehe….

Our lone kesum flower stalk :-).

And gambar yg bawah ni pulak, The Other Half tanam dengan akar2 sekali at the same time as the above pokok. Alhamdulillah, gemuk jugak dia hidup :-).

Tengok wayang and afternoon tea….

Today is Anzac Day commemoration so esok is a Public Holiday in OZ but The Other Half still kena pergi kerja jugak sebab uni tak cuti, sian dia, hikhikhik…

And today we had a small birthday party for Miss 11. I suggested to her the other day to invite some friends to the movie to celebrate her birthday. But I told her she could only invite 4 people max sebab tak sanggup weh nak invite the whole class. So, she invited 2 boys and 2 girls who she’s really friendly with at school. But 1 of them couldn’t come so memang kecik betul lah her birthday celebration this year kan :-).

So, tadi The Other Half and Miss 6 became the chaperone for her and her friends at the movie. Let’s just say, sepanjang2 we all kat OZ ni, memang boleh kira lah berapa kali aje we all pergi tengok movie ni. Do you want to know why? Because it is so so expensive to go to the cinema nowadays. Tadi, 1 adult and 5 children tickets cost us $88!!!!! It is not a typo, let me tell you! Cuma untuk 6 orang and the kids pulaknya on kids’ price so murah lagi dari adult tapi dah $88. Memang mahal giler nak tengok wayang kat sini. The cheapest that we can get, if we buy the tickets thru this company online (but you have to wait for them to post the tickets to you first lah) is $10 a ticket. Itu kira dah sangat2 lah murahnya. Tu lah sebabnya we bought the projector and spend money buying dvds when they are on sale. Lagi best tengok movie sambil baring2 kat rumah kan :-). And we all tengah tak sabar nak tunggu Avatar keluar on dvd this Thursday so we cann watch it on Friday nite, yeay, hehehe….

(Nasib baik lah anak ada 2 aje kan, kalau anak ada 6 and everyone nak ajak kawan2 pegi tengok movie for their birthdays, mau kopak lah we all ni! hehehehehe).

So, lepas habis tengok wayang tadi, The Other Half brought everyone back home for afternoon tea. I tak pergi tengok wayang sama sebab I kan ibu mithali so kenalah duduk rumah siapkan the food for afternoon tea, hehehehe.

But since yang datang cuma 3 orang aje and then plus the 4 of us, so I tak lah masak macam nak buat kenduri :-). I cuma buat mini pizzas, sausage sandwich sushi, potato smileys and then lamington cupcakes again. Afternoon tea aje kan, bukannya dinner or lunch.

Nampak betul lah Mummy dia ni malas kan nak buat lebih2 :-). Asalkan diaorang kenyang and happy makan, cukuplah kan…

And some photos of Miss 11 with her friends at home.

Sambil makan sambil main Wii.

Psst… I ejek Miss 11 yang she’s got a crush on the boys (they are twins) and dia tak tau nak pilih mana satu since they both look the same so tu yang dia minat dua2, wakakakakkakaa….

Yang gelaknya, Mak boys ni pun ejek2 the boys yang they’ve got a crush on Miss 11, muahahahahaha…. Teruk betul kan I and the boys’ Mum ni :-D.

And Miss 6 pun mesti lah nak mencelah jugak kan :-)

And part afternoon tea yang I paling suka is when everyone is already so full from it and tak nak makan dinner.

Woohoo….merdeka… tak payah masak dinner!!!! Muahahahahaha….

Sampai hati you buat I macam ni….

I ni kan I rasa baik hati jugak lah orang nya, tapi kalau perangai dia dah teruk macam ni, memang I tak boleh tahan lagi!!!

I dah bagi dia tumpang tinggal kat rumah we all and dah bagi makan hari2 tapi masih lagi sakitkan hati I dalam diam.

Selama2 ni I tengok dia cute sangat2 sebab tak tau perangai dia yang sebenar2 nya macam mana kan.

But petang tadi, baru lah terbongkar rahsianya. I thought selama ni dia still single, rupa rupanya dah beristeri and dah beranak lagi tu. Sape lah yang tak geram kan!

Selama2 ni I blamed others for the wrongdoings sebab memang I tak sangka yang dia sanggup tikam I dari belakang…

But Allah maha adil, dia tunjuk kan jugak akhirnya siapa yang bersalah….

You tengok pokok chilli I ni. Selama2 ni kan, I blamed ulat bulu aka caterpillars for eating all my lovely chillies. Sedih betul I tengok all my juicy gemuk2 chillis got eaten. And The Other Half pun letaklah this organic poisons to deter the caterpillars. But my chillies still ended up being torn apart and eaten, sob sob….

Until petang tadi when The Little Misses were having their afternoon tea after school, when they suddenly excitedly called me….

“Mummy, Mummy…Come quickly! The mouse is climbing on you chilli plant.” Masa tu I just said, “That’s so cute!”

Then they said…….

“Mummy, I think it’s eating your chillies!”

Then I said, “What? No way! Mice don’t eat chillies!”

I pun kelam kabut lah pergi investigate their statement itu.

Wahhhhhhhhhhhh……. Memang betul seperti yang mereka katakan!!!!!! Cili cili ku robek ditebuk tikus!!!!!!!

And bukan setakat sekor aje, dia pergi bawak anak and bini dia sekali menjamu selera kat pokok chili I tu.

Memang tak tau beruntung betul lah mouse itu. Selama2 ni we all biarkan aje dia buat rumah dekat2 our compost bin sebab we thought since dia tak masuk rumah, we didn’t really care if he wanted to eat our scraps. And he’s so small and cute anyway darting around our garden….

Ini nampak blurry aje (ala2 gambar artist bila paparazzi ambik gambar dari jauh giler :-D)

Ini pun still a bit blurry but memang dah boleh bawak masuk courtroom as a proof lah sebab sudah terang dan nyata siapa culprit nya.

So…. after what we saw this afternoon (and we’ve got proofs as well so don’t you dare deny it!), you are certainly not welcomed in our garden anymore!

So, you can pack your bags (and make sure you take your whole family along with you) and nyah kau dari rumah ini!

Even The Little Misses don’t find you cute anymore and they want you to be gone too! So there!

Macam soap opera aje kan, muahahahhahahahahaha…

Lauk pun ada 1 Malaysia :-)

Hari ni konon2nya malas nak masak lagi but pukul 4 petang tadi, I tetiba jadi rajin nak masak pulaknya. Angin kus kus tiba2 bertukar arah, tu yang jadi rajin in an instant! hehehe. Terus lah I sinsing lengan baju kelentang kelentung kat dapur.

Lepas I habis masak, I said to The Other Half, “Hey, guess what? I cooked One Malaysian dinner tonite.” Apa, you all ingat, I tak duduk Malaysia, tak tau langsung pasal 1 Malaysia ni ke? Hikhikhik… Meh, I nak tunjuk my 1 Malaysian dinner…

Ayam tu I buat lemon honey style which I think is a bit chinese style kan. Pastu digandingkan pulak dengan sambal ikan bilis which is so Malay. Sayur nya pulak I masak bendi/okra goreng berkari which is a bit Indian style lah. Makan pulak dengan nasi which is makanan ruji kat Malaysia. So, memang gah sungguh kan our dinner tonite, siap 1Malaysia lagi, muahahahaha….

Masa I kecik2 sekolah rendah and sekolah menengah dulu, my good friends memang betul2 berbilang bangsa. My best friends at that time ada Sikh, Mixed Indian/Chinese, Indians, Chinese and Malays. Masa I sekolah rendah, sekolah tu ramai non Malays and kat kelas I pun ramai non Malays. Masa I masuk lower secondary school, pun macam tu jugak, tak ramai malays in my class so memang baik dengan semua orang. Kalau tiba Raya or Diwali or Chinese New Year, memang meriah lah sebab penat berjalan ke semua rumah, hehehe. My crushes masa kecik2 dulu pun tak pilih bulu, dengan semua bangsa I ada crush/cinta monyet, wekekekekekeke…. (Nampak sangat kan yang memang my citarasa ni lain dari yang lain ;-)). Lebih kurang macam Miss 11 sekarang lah, dia pun tak pilih bulu gak, asalkan sedap mata memandang (for her) and nice to her, she’ll have a crush on that boy, hikhikhikhik…. Bila dah besar nanti, I tak tau lah :-D….

Aaaanywaaayy, back to the lauk story…

Tapi tadi The Other Half makan nasi tu lain gaya sikit. First dia makan nasi dengan sambal ikan bilis and sayur bendi sahaja. I tanya lah dia kenapa tak makan the chicken sekali. Dia kata macam tak ngam pulak nak makan all the 3 dishes together so tu yang dia kena makan lain2. Dia kata, bendi tu ngam dengan sambal ikan bilis, sedap aje masuk tekak. Tapi honey lemon chicken tu macam special sikit, kena makan by itself dengan nasi saje. Lerr…. ada jugak macam ni, hehehehe….

Segmen geledah dapur

You all surenya dah kenal betul dengan mamat yang kat atas ni kan. Pergi mana2 blog, surenya ada muka dia ni, kira sama taraf kefemesan dia dengan Mawi lah! (Tapi kan Ben, Ben lagi hensem dari Mawi lah, hikhikhik…).

Actually, dia dah lama jemput I join segmen geledah dapur ni but dapur I tu sikit nya messy ke so tu yang ambik masa nak jemput Ben datang geledah. Ini pun masih messy lagi but I dah letak giant padlock kat the very messy pantry tu so memang hangpa tak boleh nak masuk area tu lah, hehehehe. You nak geledah tempat lain, no hal punya especially kalau you nak geledah my magic freezers tu ;-D.

But before you nak geledah my dapur, just nak warn you yang dapur I memang takde lauk pauk, kuih muih yang menarik langsung (tak macam Dapur Cik Mat, Kak Ummi and Dak Hana Jepun tu! hehehe). Kira betul2 dapur orang yang suka giler masak benda2 yang sempoi so tak banyak recipes kat dapur I ni.

Lerr, panjang betul pulak intro I. Ok lah, I letak syarat2 dia ye..

1. Header BEN ASHAARI perlu ada

-Dah letak tu (cukup besar tak Ben? Kalau you nak I besarkan lagi, boleh aje, hahahahaha)

2. Keterangan ringkas mengenai blog anda

- Blog I ni I started it in Jan 08 sebab geram tengok orang lain ada blog, so I pun nak jugak lah ber blog sama :-). Kiranya dah 2 tahun lebih lah usia blog I ni. Tapi the layout semua memang macam newbie lagi lah kan sebab I ni memang tak larat tau nak godek2 nak bagi my blog lagi happening. My intention buat blog at that time, untuk rakam the going ons in our lives but cerita about what we have for our daily dinners lah yang banyak nya. Pastu di selang selikan dengan cerita about our family, mostly our little misses and The Other Half. Kalau I cerita pasal The Other Half memang fofular sungguh that topic (heran betul I, hehehehe).

3. Apakah menu istimewa yang ada dalam blog anda .. Berikan sekali linknya ..

I ni kan selalu masak yang sempoi2 sangat so tu yang tak banyak recipe kat blog ni. And semua recipe I takde yang femes and popular seantero dunia (Pastu I pun selalunya malas giler nak menaip recipe until someone asked me for it, hikhikhik). So, tak boleh lah I nak bagi link….

4. Dari mana anda tahu mengenai segmen ini .. Linkkan sekali pada namanya.

Mana lagi kan, mesti lah straight dari tuan empunya blog yang hemsem itu sendiri. Ben ni kan, memang tabik lah, hari2 tu adalah agaknya 10 posts dia buat kat blog dia tu. Memang rajin tahan gaban betul! I buat 2 entries malam ni pun ambik masa berjam, lagi kalau I buat 10 entries. Mau kebas punggung I duduk depan PC agaknya, hahahaha. Kalau you all nak tau ;ebih lanjut tentang budak ni, pergi ke sini ye

So, you all sape2 yang nak suruh Ben gi geledah dapur rumah you all. Jangan segan silu, pergi lah ke rumah dia tu and jemput dia datang ke dapur you all. Kalau dia datang tengah malam, I tak jamin eh! :-D

I can’t think of a topic….

I baru perasan yang dah lama jugak I tak tunjuk gambar our dinners kan (seminggu tu lama lah jugak :-)). I guess sebab banyak cerita lain yang more happening and more interesting yang I nak cerita kat blog, tu yang gambar dinners took a back seat for a while. Lagi best tayang gambar cookies and gambar cupcakes yang I ambik siang hari than tayang gambar dinners yang ambik at night time when the lighting is hopeless. I think I have to figure something out to solve the lighting issues lah….

And then, instead of jadi makin rajin masak since The Other Half and Miss 6 balik from Adelaide, I jadi makin malas nak masak pulaknya! So, bila I malas nak masak, I malas lah nak ambil gambar kan. Even last night’s birthday dinner pun was so sempoi sebab Miss 11 only wanted wrap and chips. (Kalau Miss 6 punya birthday dinner, probably I kena bertungkus lumus kat dapur since morning sebab sure punya dia order macam2, hehehe).

Malam ni I still masih malas nak masak but since takde sapa yang rajin nak keluar pergi beli dinner, I pun gelodah lah my magic fridge and freezer, hehehe. Kuah bolognese I buat last week yang I simpan dalam freezer masih ‘fresh’ lagi so I pun tukar lah the kuah jadi pasta bake. I tinggal buat the white sauce and masak the pasta shells and bung the whole thing in the oven to heat up.

(tu yang best nya ada magic freezer and fridge ni you. Bila malas, tinggal say “Alakazam!” aje and bukak pintu freezer, terus dapat food, muahahahahaha ;-)).

But sebelum malas tu, kenalah ada masa rajin untuk isi freezer tu dengan macam2 leftovers kan. I ni jenis yang tak pernah pandai agak nak masak cukup2 aje untuk sekali makan. I kalau masak, mesti ada extra. (Hmmm… you rasa ada extra selalu ni sebab my food tak sedap ke ye and orang tak lalu makan? hikhikhik). So, bila ada extra tu, I akan pack some untuk our lunches the next day or pack them away in the freezers so boleh guna di saat kecemasan :-). Tu yang my freezers boleh ada magic!

Tapi kan…. apasal my pasta takde rupa pasta ye? I rasa macam rupa chicken pieces aje. Ish, padahal takde secebis ayam pun dalam pasta tu tadi tapi bila dah masak, miraculously tukar rupa jadi macam ayam, hehehe…

Ini mesti sebab freezer I terlebih kasi magic dia! Kahkahkahkahkah…..

She’s 11 today

Happy Birthday to you…..

Happy Birthday to you…..

Happy Birthday dearest Miss 11…..

Happy Birthday to you…..

May your life be surrounded by happiness and love always, may your dreams and hopes come true and may your life be always blessed by The Almighty.

Since hari ni a school day and a working day, we didn’t have a big celebration for her. Balik from school tadi, she said her classmates sang her birthday song in English and Italian (Italian sebab their LOTE is Italian at that school). So, she was pretty chuffed about that :-). And her classmates loved the cookies (Mummy’s chuffed about that, hehehe).

But I did give her a surprise with her birthday cake because she wasn’t expecting any, hehehe. But birthday cake kali ni I buat on a small scale aje sebab cuma kitaorang ber empat aje pun yang nak makan. And balik from school tadi, we all pun buatlah minum petang sambil makan kek :-). Nak tengok her birthday cake?

I buat Lamington cupcakes. It’s just vanilla cupcakes but the top tu I dipped in choc icing and then dipped in dessicated coconut.

Ni pandangan dari atas. I kena panjat the steps to show you what it’s supposed to ‘say’. The Other Half and The Little Misses didn’t realise it at first yang the cupcakes were arranged specifically. The Other Half said, “Hey, it said 11! I didn’t notice that at first.” The Little Misses sikit pun tak perasan until I told them. I guess when you are a bit short, memang lah susah nak nampak kan huruf 11 tu, hikhikhik…

Before anyone tanya what’s that orange thing tergantung out of the cupcake. Let me tell you. It’s supposed to be worm, konon2nya the worm’s digging out of dirt, kahkahkahkah….

 

Hah, ini gambar dekat sikit. The theme’s supposed to be garden and things related to it. Tu yang ada worms, bird’s nest with eggs in it, flowers, butterflies, strawberry, hikhikhikhik….. I tak tau lah apa kaitan Ferrero Rocher tu dengan garden ni ;-D.

(Actually, I just guna apa yang I could find in the pantry tu yang segala benda keluar, hehehe).

  

I ni kan memang tak pandai nak decorate bagai dengan buttercream. Fondant tu lagilah memang I tak pernah pegang. So, the easiest for me is to calit aje dengan  choc icing and then decorate dengan lollies. Cantik jugak for our eyes (and yummy too :-)).

asthma and frogs…..

Hari ni last day of The Little Misses’ holidays, esok baru her school starts. Minggu lepas I buat appoinment to see the doctor for all of us today. Ingat nak ambik flu jab for Miss 1-day-to-11 and The Other Half and I today and for Miss 6 to get her coughs checked. But punyalah tak best nya sebab boleh kan habis supply for the flu vaccine around Perth ni. Every pharmacy we all called, semua kata problem at the supplying and the transport sites so memang tak sampai lagi ke Perth ni. And tak tau lagi bila akan tiba, ciss….. Biasalah bila dah nak Winter ni, suddenly demand outstrip supply :-). Kenalah tunggu…..

And seperti yang we all suspected for a while now (but hoping it wasn’t the case), Miss 6 might have mild asthma. Now she has the trifecta of ecezema, allergy and asthma.. joy, NOT! But I guess when it runs in the family, nak buat macam mana kan. Adik beradik I, extended family, nieces ramai yang ada asthma so when another one is diagnosed with asthma, takde sape heran lagi dah, hehehehe. It started with just the normal cold which triggered her asthma. So now she’s on trial medication just to see if it has any positive effects on her and proper diagnosis can be made.

Anyway, balik from the doctor tadi I pun rolled up my sleeves to make fancy cookies for Miss 1-day-to-11 to take to school esok for her birthday ‘celebration’. Cookies tu I dah buat on Saturday nite and hari ni tinggal nak ice and decorate them aje. Selalunya I cuma bawak cupcakes to school tapi I malas pulak nak buat cupcakes and pack them nicely. Kalau cookies ni, tinggal letak aje dalam nice clear plastic bag and she can distribute it to her classmates easily kan. And since buruh kasar masih belum pergi school lagi, I asked them to decorate the cookies, senang kerja I kan :-).

Layan gambar The Little Misses in action and the end products.

I iced the cookies while they played with the lollies, m&ms, licorice..

Bestnya main2 dengan all the decorations kan. 1 letak kat cookie, 1 masuk mulut….. hehehehehe

The theme was ‘froggy in a pond’. Ada rupa tak frog on a lily pad/log in a light blue pond surrounded with colourful pebbles/rocks? :-D.

 

I know I know, mana ada frog kaler merah kan. The Other Half kata ini species deadly amazonian frog tu yang kaler merah tu, hehehe. And orang lain iced the cookies, smooth aje kan but I saje je buat tak smooth tu  sebenarnya (konon2nya waves lah kat dalam air pond tu, hikhikhikhikhik….)

And the winner is……

Hari ni I malas betul nak post entry kat blog. Biasalah kan, every 2-3 weeks memang I kadang2 rasa takde inspiration + malas betul nak update blog. Nak jenguk blog pun malas sungguh I rasa hari ni, hehehe.

But since I dah janji nak buat lucky draw semalam so kenalah I letak nama pemenang nya kan. I thought nak ambil gambar Miss 6 cabut nama pemenang but dah dia siap cabut, baru teringat nak ambik gambar so takdelah gambar nya :-(. Takkan nak suruh dia cabut again ye tak semata2 nak ambik gambar, tak aci lah macam tu kan :-).

But walaupun takde gambar, nama pemenang still ada and….

jeng….jeng…..jeng…….

(Oops, before that, untuk yang tak menang tu, minta maaf banyak2 nya sebab nama you tak tercabut. Kalau boleh, I nak bagi aje hadiah kat everyone yang dapat the magic numbers but bila fikirkan cost untuk postage tu rasa macam tak berbaloi pulaknya sebab postage lagi mahal dari hadiah :-(. Kalau you all duduk dekat2 dengan I kan senang, boleh I bagi by hand aje, hehehehe.)

Ok lah, tanpa membuang masa…… the winner of the lucky draw is…

ASIYAH SITI NUR who managed to capture 500004.

Congrats Asiyah. Please email me your address and your preference (whether you nak the cake stand or the cupcake stand. I rasa cupcake stand tu lagi best kot sebab susah nak dapat kat M’sia, hehehe- I’m assuming you kat M’sia? :-)).

Before and after….

They are back home safely, Alhamdulillah…..

Which was a bit scary sebab bila I bangun pagi tadi and read the news online, the first thing I saw was ‘Adelaide rocked by earth tremor’. And when I looked at my hp, I saw an sms from The Other Half to say that they are ok and at the airport already. Phew!….

I was so shocked to see Miss 6 sebab she has lost some more weight and muka dia so cengkung banding dengan 2 weeks ago. I guess if you only eat the equivalent of 3 pieces of toast aje hari2 and then occasionally muntahkan balik your food after you’ve been coughing non stop, memang lah akan kurus kan. I think it’s my fault sebab I really wanted her to lose some weight when she was really chubby dulu tu and now she’s lost the weight but through being sick :-(.

You bandingkan gambar dia ye, 2 weeks ago and this morning…

  

About 2 weeks ago                                                       Pagi tadi

To my eyes, memang banyak sangat beza nya especially under her eyes. Eyes dia nampak so sunken kan. But at least, her face nampak lagi ceria and dah tak pale sangat. If you’ve lost 15% of your body weight, memang lah akan nampak cengkung kan. Memang lah cikgu2 dia akan terkejut habis tengok dia nanti……..

Anyway, I’m happy that they they are back and bolehlah I makan kenyang, mandi basah, tidur lena sekarang ni, hikhikhik….

Oh ye, I ada cerita yang sangat lah geram but funny at the same time. But I kena citer dalam bahasa melayu lah sebab biasalah kan, tak nak bagi orang tertentu baca, wehehehehehe…..

Pagi tadi, lepas dua orang tu sampai rumah and ‘Yang Separuh Lagi’(The Other Half??? Wahahahaha, jahanam bahasa) tengah sibuk memunggah bag pakaian nya dan I pulak sibuk nak meng ‘upload’ gambar2 dari kamera yang mereka ambil masa di Adelaide. Tiba2 saya tengok macam ada benda yang tak betul aje dengan camera tu sebab dia tak boleh nak bercakap dengan komputer saya.

Mula2 dia kata batteri camera dah nak kong, pastu saya pun tukarlah batteri. Pastu bila saya cuba lagi nak meng’upload’ gambar, masih takde apa2 yang berlaku. Pastu ‘Yang Separuh Lagi’ pun godek2 lah kamera tu dan PC nak tau sebab apa. Tiba2 keluar kat screen kamera tu kata ‘takde memory card’. Dia pandang I dan I pun pandang dia lah sebab mana tiba2 hilang memory card tu.  Takkan lah selama2 ni dia ambil gambar tak perasan takde memori kad.

So, I pun suruh lah dia telepon mak pak dia tanya kot2 terjatuh kat rumah dia. Nak tau apa Mak dia cakap? Mak dia kata, “Oh ye, lupa nak bagitau yang Bapak kamu keluarkan memori kad tu dari kamera kamu sebab kitaorang nak pindahkan gambar2 kat memori kad tu ke komputer kitaorang. Hari isnin nanti kita orang pos kan memori kad tu ke kamu balik ye.”

Masa tu “Yang Separuh Lagi’ dah tak tahu nak cakap apa sebab dia heran…

1. Kalau kamu dah keluarkan memori kad tu dari kamera, kenapa lepas tu simpan kamera tu elok2 balik dalam bag kamera tanpa letak memori kad tu balik dalam situ?

2.Kenapa tak bagitau sape2 yang kamu nak ambik memori kad tu and kenapa tak bagitau sape2 yang kamu dah ambik memori kad tu?

3.Kenapa tak guna aje USB cable nak pindahkan gambar dari kamera ke komputer padahal Bapak dia sangat pandai berkomputer?

4.Uwahhhhh, macam mana kitaorang nak tengok gambar2 percutian Adelaide and tak boleh lah saya nak tayang kat blog!!!!!

Pastu ‘Yang Separuh Lagi’ pun kata sambil geleng kepala kat saya, “Saya rasa amat gembira yang kita duduk jauh dari mereka. Apasal lah Mak Bapak saya tu macam tu ye.…..” Kami cuma boleh tersengih aje lah dengan perangai mereka itu…..

So, kalau kamu semua nak tengok gambar percutian tu, tunggu lah ye sampai dapat balik memori kad itu, hikhikhikhik….

And to another cerita, I cuma dapat 7 emails aje yang hantar proofs nombor2 bertuah itu so petang ni I akan buat cabutan bertuah tu. Bigger chance of you guys winning lah kan sebab tak banyak nama yang masuk dalam lucky draw bowl tu kan, hehehehe…..

late night merepek….

It’s 11.30 on a Thursday night and I’m posting an entry! Selalunya masa ni memang lama dah I dibuai mimpi but since dah kena tinggal laki minggu ni, tiap2 malam tidur lambat, surfing the net and baca novel in bed sampai larut malam, hikhikhikhik…. And since the kids still on school holidays, tak payah lah I kena bangun pagi2 :-D.

So, bila dah takde kerja nak buat tengah2 malam ni, I pun selongkar lah balik our photo albums on the PC. Terjumpalah balik gambar2 kenangan silam masa kecik2 dulu. Pastu kan, terperasan lah sekejap yang comel gak I masa kecik2 dulu, muahahahaha…

Dulu2 masa Miss 6 masih baby and toddler and Miss nearly-11 was around 5-6 years old, semua orang kata yang rupa Miss 6 ikut Daddy dia and rupa Miss nearly-11 ada iras2 I. Ye lah, masa Miss 6 baby and toddler memang macam Mat Saleh habis, tu yang orang kata sebijik muka Daddy dia and Miss nearly-11 pulak dah menunjukkan ciri2 kecinaan dia so tu yang orang kata ada iras2 muka I :-).

But sejak kebelakangan ni, I’ve heard quite a few people yang first time jumpa The Little Misses terus cakap that Miss 6 rupa macam I and Miss nearly-11 rupa macam The Other Half. Miss 6 makin besar makin hilang her Mat Saleh so tu yang nampak dah ke asian an dia. Miss nearly-11 pulaknya I tak tau macam mana boleh macam rupa The Other Half, hehehe. But I think the most obvious would probably the raut wajah kot. Miss 6 and I dua2 ada muka bulat while Miss nearly-11 and The Other Half muka lonjong sikit rasanya (except The Other Half dah tak ketara sangat lonjongnya sebab dah dipadatkan dengan lemak2 tepu, hikhikhik).

So, tadi I saje je lah edit n cropped my photos masa kecik2 dulu and you tengok ye, ada persamaan tak dengan The Little Misses? :-D (cakaplah ada banyak persamaan ye, kalau tak nanti I sedih sebab anak2 I takde rupa I, hehehehe).

     

            

Sama kan gelak we all? Hahahahahaha……

Dah seminggu ni kan, I malas betul nak masak sebab takde orang yang nak makan. Miss nearly-11 jenis yang memang tak makan so kalau I bagi dia hari2 chips and chicken fingers n salad pun dia dah ok. She’ll eat whatever is put infront of her, sama ada makan dengan happy nya atau terkulat2 ajelah. So, I’ve been cooking her chips and schnitzel, chips and sausages, schnitzel and salad wrap sebab I malas masak, hehehehe. I pulak makan apa aje yang easy to cook :-).

Sebab malas sangat tadi, I cuma goreng telur aje for my dinner and reheated the frozen nasi I jumpa dalam freezer, sup ayam frozen I jumpa dalam freezer and sambal belacan yang berbaki from the other day, hehehehe.

And since I teringin nak makan ulam2 dengan sambal belacan but mana nak cari ulam at 6 o’clock at night, I pun makan ajelah sambal belacan dengan green salad. Sedap jugak you rasa ulam Mat Saleh cicah dengan sambal belacan ni rupa rupanya, hehehehe

My goodness, did you see it go????

First of, I nak ketawa terbahak2 ok, MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA……

Masa I posted an entry at 6.30 tadi, baru aje 499 xxx kat hit counter tu. Pastu bila I check again at 8 o’clock, dah 500+ clicks dia naik. Walaweh, tak pernah I tengok blog I sefofular itu. Glemer habis wa cakap lu! :-D. Paling banyak clicks in 24 hours pun cuma 2000 aje. But for the past 2 days, adalah 3000 clicks per day, hehehehe. Terasa macam nak pilihanraya aje meriahnya!

Pastu, in 10 minutes bila I checked again, dah naik 100+ the numbers. Gelak guling2 I dengan Miss very-soon-to-be 11 tadi tengok my hit counter zooming by so fast. Memang boleh saing roadrunner lah, hikhikhik. Pastu tak sampai pun 10 minit lagi, dah terlepas all the numbers :-D.

I’m just wondering, ramai ke yang sekarang ni tengah sakit jari sebab pulun menekan butang refresh tu? Berbaloi you sakit jari tu kalau dapat menang the cake stand kan……wakakakaka.

Anyhow, tahniah/ congrats to the lucky people with the lucky numbers. Jangan lupa email I the proof secepat yang mungkin (the latest is Friday night for you to email me the proof) so boleh lah I buat cabutan bertuah tu on Saturday (sebab masa ni Miss 6 and The Other Half dah balik from Adelaide, yipppeeeeee!!!!!)

P/S. Dah ada 7 orang yg email I with the proofs so far: miss byll, asiyah, blu4sky, aiman, azean, nazurah and hasni. Thanks ye sebab email I secepat mungkin :-). Wishing you guys all the luck!

Sticky Post- Cabutan Bertuah

I sebenarnya dah lama berhajat nak buat Cabutan Nombor Bertuah again untuk pengunjung yang ke 500 000. Tapi kan, tapi kan, I takut jadi macam dulu, sampai nak dekat 20 orang dapat nombor yang sama thanks to bl**ming unique visitor counter! Pening kepala I masa tu bila dapat emails from so many people with photos of the lucky number, hehehehe. Tapi, bila I guna hit counter yang biasa tu, asik jammed aje sebab punyalah ramai orang yang datang ke my blog at one go. Sampai the counter pun pening2 lalat and terus mogok.

For the past few days, I’ve been talking with The Other Half on what is the best way to make sure there’s only 1 winner or 1 lucky visitor ni without causing any grief. He said that probably setting down the rules first would be a great way to start. Betul jugak cakap dia tu kan so takde siapa yang akan query my decision kan.

(Ye lah, I dah pergi menjelajah a few blogs yang buat contests ni and instead of dapat kawan from the contests, the blog owners kena sumpah seranah and kena marah by the people yang tak menang or bila terlambat pos the gift. But bukan semua yang macam tu ye, Cuma segelintir kecil aje :-))

So, I tak nak lah benda2 macam ni berlaku sebab bukan niat I nak cari musuh bila buat cabutan pengunjung bertuah ni kan. Niat I untuk memeriahkan blog I ni and to say Thank You to all the readers yang saban hari masuk blog I ni.

So, here are the rules:

1. Previous winners are ineligible to enter the contest. Dalam Bahasa Melayu nya, yang dah pernah menang hadiah from me dulu, tak boleh lah menang lagi ye, hehehe. So, walaupun you ter happen dapat nombor2 bertuah ini, you won’t be put in the cabutan bertuah. (Bagi lah chance kat orang lain untuk dapat hadiah kan ;-))

2. Instead of having only 1 lucky number like previously, I akan bagi 10 lucky numbers so more people can have a go at winning the prize.

3. Out of these 10 people, only 1 will win the prize. Cuma seorang sahaja yang boleh menang ye. The winner will be drawn by The Little Misses (or most probably by Miss very-soon-to-be 11). And the judge’s draw will be muktamad. Kata2 rayuan tidak akan di layan ye :-).

4. You can only enter once! Dengan kata2 lainnya, you can only email me one of the lucky numbers. Kalau you terlebih rajin at that time and ter click banyak2 kali and nasib you baik dapat more than one numbers, you still cuma boleh enter dengan 1 entry aje ye. One entry per person ye.

4. Visitors yang dapat the lucky numbers will have to email me the screen showing the number. You can use the ‘Prt Scr’ button kat keyboard tu. Kalau sape yang tak tau guna the button, you can go to this link ye. Make sure you save it and then email me the saved photo of the screen.

5. Kalau hit counter I jammed during this contest, I have the right to set it to the last number I deemed correct. So, kalau you all baik hati, jangan lah bagi dia jammed ye, hehehe.

6. Emails/entries of the lucky numbers must be emailed to me within 2 days of the numbers being reached. Kalau lambat sangat you all email ke I, kesian lah kat orang lain yang email ke I awal. Tak dapat lah I nak buat cabutan bertuah dengan segera kan and sure diaorang tertunggu2.

7. Make sure you all baca the rules dengan teliti ye to avoid confusions later on. And also to avoid any disagreements.

(Dah habis baca all the rules? Macam nak masuk pertandingan Juara Lagu aje kan, hahahaha. I kena tinggal tulis disclaimer aje and then it will be just like one :-).)

And here are the lucky numbers:

499 996, 499 997, 499 998, 499 999, 500 000, 500 001, 500 002, 500 003, 500 004, 500 005

And my email add is: lemongrass@y7mail.com

(Untuk yang masih tak berapa faham the rules, it's like this. I akan buat lucky draw. Tapi cuma 10 orang aje yang boleh masuk dalam draw ni. Orang2 yang dapat masuk lucky draw ni because diaorang lucky visitor and dapat capture one of the above numbers.

Macam mana nak tau whether dapat the number or not? You pergi jenguk my hit/bean counter yang ada on the left hand side tu. Dia betul2 kat atas Clock bentuk Lime tu.

If you happen to capture any of the numbers yang kat atas ni, make sure you prt scrn and save and email me. Pastu cross your fingers and maybe you'll be the lucky winner :-). )

Happy clicking Dear Friends!!!!!

Meh jemput minum dulu

I heran betul lah, bila I letak kat blog yang I nak bagi hadiah, tetiba aje my hit counter tu laju gilers bergeraknya, muahahaha ;-). (Saje je bagi I perasan blog I ni femes sekejap, hikhikhik….). Memang nampak gayanya macam ramai betul yang mengidam cake stand/cupcake stand tu ye. Mentang2 lah sekarang ni tengah fofular dengan segala macam cakes and cupcakes yang kiut miut, hehehehe. I wonder if ada guys/men out there yang among the people yang mengidam cake stand tu? Hmmmmm…… Probably if were to bagi hadiah electrical/computer gadget, maybe kot baru nampak bayang guys yang pulun tekan refresh button tu kan.

I thought lambat lagi nak sampai ke nombor2 bertuah itu but tengok gaya macam esok aje dah akan dapat tau the 10 lucky visitors ni. Takpe lah, asalkan hit counter tu tak jammed, I tak kisah dia nak bergerak laju mana pun.

And since I tau tak ramai yang kat luar tu tengah pulun menekan the refresh button, meh lah I hidang kan dengan air teh sebagai penghilang haus dahaga and kek coklat Nigella buat menghilangkan lapar. Bila lagi kan I nak jadi tuan rumah yang baik hati ni :-D.

Jangan lah malu2 and segan2 ye, jemput lah minum and rasa kek and air teh O I ni……

Oh ye, siapa2 yang dapat nombor bertuah tu, jangan lupa email kan ke I within 2 days ye. Kalau you all lambat email kan ke I, tak boleh I nak terima sebab rules kata kena email within 2 days, so rugi aje lah kan dah dapat nombor tu, hehehehe…

Good luck ye!

from a troubled soul….

Now I know what it feels like when they say….

Makan tak lalu…..

Tidur tak lena……..

Mandi tak basah………

Bila hati gundah gulana, bila otak tak henti berfikir, bila perasaan resah memanjang….

Kenapa I jadi macam ni? Because……

Esok The Other Half will be going off to Sydney and Miss 6 will be left with Nana & Pop for 3 days. Yang buatkan I resah gelisah sebab she’s still not well, still has coughing bouts and still not eating. Kalau dia sihat and back to her old self, I tak lah risau nak bagi The Other Half tinggalkan dia dengan Nana n Pop aje sebab I know they’ll love spending time with her.

You know lah kan, every Mum thinks that they are the best person to look after their own kids. Same with me, I think she’ll fare better if either I or The Other Half is with her.

But there’s nothing I can do except pray to Allah that she’s going to be ok and protected under His care and no harm comes to her.

Kalau boleh, nak aje I terbang pergi Adelaide malam ni jugak so I can look after her……..

Lebih kurang macam ni lah rupa I hari ni, monyok aje……….. (Cuma rambut I tak semerah dia, bulu kat badan I tak selebat dia, lubang hidung I tak selebar dia, perut I tak segedempol dia, hehehe).

But I think perasaan I lebih kurang sama aje kot macam dia ni at that time…..

Jom tengok….

Psst… I nak tayang something on my blog tonite. Nak tengok tak? Hehehehe….

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Cantik tak you all rasa? (But mestinyalah ada orang akan kata, ‘eleh, benda macam ni pun nak tayang kat blog!’)

Sape yang rasa benda ni cantik, bolehlah cuba2 masuk contest lucky draw I tu ye, hehehehe. Sape2 yang tak berkenan dengan benda ni, tak payahlah tiap2 hari click the refresh button banyak2 kali :-D. Bagi chance lah kat orang yang betul2 minat dengan  hadiah ni kan, hikhikhik.

So, apakan benda ini? Alah, cuma a glass cake stand aje. Tapi the glass plate tu boleh pusing2 so kalau you letak kek atas tu, senang lah nak decorate bagai :-). Lepas decorate, boleh terus angkat letak kat meja berhias tu so orang yang datang rumah kita boleh kata “wow, cantiknya kek kamu!!!! Sape yang decorate ni? Uish, cantiknya cake stand ni jugak! Beli kat mana?” Muahahahahahahaha.

Tapi kalau you all tak berkenan kat yang atas tu, I boleh bagi yang kat bawah ini…

(Sama hadiah macam yang Cik Min dapat bila dia menang pengunjung bertuah yang ke 100 000, hehehe.)

Tapi sudah semestinya bukan yang Cik Min punyalah kan ;-D.

Yang ini pun, kalau you all letak kat atas meja makan masa tetamu datang, sure mereka akan terpegun jugak, especially kalau you all letak cupcakes or muffins yang menawan mata :-), hehehehe.

Fuiyoo, macam2 pilihan lagi tu, mau lah ada yang meroyan nanti and hari2 pagi petang siang malam tak berenti dok tekan refresh button tu aje, wakakakakaka…. Jangan sampai jammed my hit counter tu dah lah ye…

Sape yang tak minat benda2 barang dapur ni sure akan kata, “Alah…. kita tak minat benda2 macam ni.Takde hadiah lain ke?”

Unfortunately, so far, I belum lagi beli hadiah alternatif yang lain, sorry lah ye… :-)

Just the two of us….

Baru 4 jam without them, dah rasa sunyi rumah ni, hehehe. Miss very-soon-to-be 11 takde kawan nak ajak gaduh, main Lego sorang2 dalam bilik :-). Bila diaorang ada, sampai tak larat telinga I kadang2 dengar diaorang bising :-). Miss 6 and The Other Half left this morning for Adelaide and they’ve just landed safely baru aje tadi. But poor Miss 6 sebab masih belum baik batuknya and masih rupa orang sakit lagi. But since ticket dah beli, tak kan lah nak burn macam tu aje kan so lepaskan lah jugak dia naik flight tu. The Other Half kata batuk dia wasn’t that bad on the flight so takdelah orang yang jeling tajam kat diaorang tadi :-). Hopefully, she’ll enjoy her stay there.

Tengoklah muka budak yang masih lagi belum 100% well ni. We dosed her up last night dengan ubat batuk, baru lah dia dapat tidur a bit nyenyak and barulah we all pun dapat tidur a bit nyenyak too, hehehehe. And pagi tadi pun before the flight, bagi lagi ubat batuk so she wouldn’t trouble the other passengers with her constant coughing. Seminggu dia batuk and tak lalu makan, she lost more than 2 kgs! Tak perlulah I susah payah bagi dia diet lagi dah lepas ni, muahahahaha. Cikgu dia sure akan terperanjat bila she goes back to school next week sebab dah ‘kurus’, hikhikhik…

And after sending them off at the airport where we just ‘drop off, hug, kiss, wave’ and then drive off, we stopped by at the Sunday Market aka carboot market. I memang dah lama nak pergi sini sebab nak cari pokok kari but sikitnya malas ke nak drive pagi2 ke Sunday Market ni. But pagi tadi since memang kena drive to the airport, singgah lah sini sekejap. And I finally found my anak pokok kari, yeay!!!!! Terus beli 2 pokok sekali you, tamak nya pasal, hikhikhik… Bukan apa, takut mati 1 pokok, at least ada lah jugak another one kan. Masih lagi seedlings so I kena transfer it to a bigger pot. Tapi tukang kebun I pergi ber’cuti’ ke Adelaide pulaknya so I think I’ll leave the seedlings in their own pots for the time being sampai lah tukang kebun I balik this Saturday, hehehehe… Setakat nak siram tu, boleh lah I buat :-D.

Last night, I tanya The Other Half nak makan apa for dinner since he won’t be eating my cooking for the next 6 nights. He’ll be eating his Mom’s cooking for the next few nights, hehehe. He’s so looking forward to that, Not!, hahahaha. His Mum can cook definitely, but maybe tak kena dengan selera The Other Half kot. Ye lah, dah biasa makan fusion punya food kan bila kahwin dengan I, hehehehe. I told Miss 6 not to complain about Nana’s cooking because it might be very different dengan Mummy’s cooking, just telan aje with a smile :-D. Nasib baik lah appetite Miss 6 tengah merundum sekarang sebab tak sihat so she won’t be eating much and hopefully won’t be complaining much lah.

This was what I cooked last night, beef schnitzel with chips and salad.

Sunset is getting earlier now and so it’s getting quite difficult to take the dinner photos. Nak dapat lighting yang cantik indoors at night time without any lighting props is really difficult sometimes!!

Food, food and food….

I rasa happy sangat2 sebab ramai orang yang excited nak cuba nasib enter my lucky draw. I dah heret my hit/bean counter ke atas so senang lah you all nak tengok the number instead of having to wait for the whole page to download before the numbers pop up. I’m not sure lah kenapa some areas agak lambat sikit nak download my page tu sebab kat tempat I ni laju aje bila I bukak and refresh my blog :-). Maybe sebab our connection laju giler kot ye, tu yang I tak menyedari masaalah orang lain, hehehe. Probably I kena kurangkan letak gambar and kurangkan saiz my photos kan but nanti kalau I kecikkan saiz the photos, tak dapatlah I nak buat you all drool tengok our dinners kan ;-D.

I kan tak pernah ada ong when it comes to lucky draws ni. Nombor I memang tak pernah naik. Padahal banyak kali jugak I masuk lucky draw ni sepanjang2 I hidup ni. But The Other Half pernah menang TV besar from lucky draw masa annual dinner tempat kerja dia masa kat M’sia. I nak memang sebungkus coklat pun tak pernah and punyalah susah! Hehehehe. Tapi kan apasal lah my email address sentiasa lucky pulak nya menang all these lotteries on the net and monies that I’ve won entah dari mana2? Memang nampak sangat lah diaorang ni menipu kan, hikhikhikhik…

Hadiah lucky draw I ni nanti2 lah ye I tunjuk :-).

I just tunjuk our dinners aje lah ye, semalam punya and tonite’s. But before that I tunjuk dulu our breakfast semalam. Tetiba I rajin buat pancakes and jemput2 pisang. 2 jenis makanan for breakfast tu dah kira rajin gilers, hehehehe.

My jemput2 pisang ni tak manis so I cicah dengan maple syrup. Terus jadi sedap :-).

Ini dinner we all malam tadi, nasi tomato with lamb rogan josh, sauteed veges, telur and sambal belacan, hikhikhik…

Our dinner tadi. Sausages with bean salad and filled bread. (sikit lagi I nak letak belacan kat my plate, hahahaha)

Eh, you nak tau tak, I ni kan tak boleh tengok orang makan noodles, mesti terus teringin. Kalau tengah lepak2 kat foodcourt minum kopi and then nampak orang makan noodles, terus I telan air liur and terus my perut berkeroncong. Tak kisah lah noodles dalam bentuk apa pun, goreng or sup, hehehe.

Even tadi tengah tengok cerita Kungfu Panda and tengok all the animals tengah makan noodles kat kedai Bapak Panda pun terus I kecur air liur! Padahal I tengah makan dinner masa tu, muahahahahaha….. Kalau boleh ngences tengok kartun tu dah kira teruk lah kan, hehehehe. And sekarang ni my mind asik teringat kat noodles aje and asik terfikir bila I boleh makan noodles ni. What is it with noodles and me? Why do they have so much power over me? Hahahahahaha…