Wednesday whining….

It is true when people say that when you’ve gone on a diet or change your way of eating…

Your tummy ‘shrinks’ as well!

I love burger and cips and I used to be able to eat loads of chips (semasa zaman tak hengat berat badan dulu, hehehe).

Ini pinggan I tadi.

It’s not the biggest sized dinner plate in the world, size pinggal arcopal biasa tu aje. (Saje je nak selit bagi tau pinggan I ni arcopal! wahkahkahkahkah.. ).

And I cuma guna sekeping roti cut in half aje and a smallish homemade burger patty (but it’s a bit thick).

And I couldnt even finish this sebab perut dah kenyang sangat2 walaupun baru makan sikit!

I couldnt even finish the chips nor the burger!

Uwahhhhh!!!!! rugi rugi rugi!

hahahahaha….

 

I guess the salad helps to fill up my stomach so tu yang tak boleh nak habiskan the chips and burger.

So, I had to throw some of the chips and half of the bread in the compost bin and into the worm farm and gave half of my burger patty to The Other Half (nasib baik dia cycle hari2 kan so tu yang dia tak kisah makan my leftovers).

Tapi apasal peha I tak kecik2 jugak!!!!!!

Memang dasar peha jawa kan! Hikhikhikhikhik….

Takpe, hilangkan tension dengan view depan rumah I ni ye……

This is the street in front of our house. There’s about 8-9 houses on either side of the street so it’s not that long a street lah.

Kalau nak buat street party pun tak ramai lah yang datang, hahahaha….

And ini pulak gambar the front of our house.

See how brown the nature strip is bandingkan dengan our green lawn!

Sejak we put up the fences, memang The Other Half tak pernah water the nature strip, tu yang habis mati all the grass.

Dia kata jimat air mah!

I said to him, “But ugly mah!”

So, tadi dia pergi lah siram the nature strip, hehehehe……

It went well

This was what kept me occupied for the past week.

Since Monday, I have been busy preparing them bit by bit…

Ye lah, kita buat kerja sorang2 so kena lah buat pelan2 so tak stressed kan…

And this was what materialised today…

The dessert table.

 

I made chocolate-coated strawberries which was like by a lot of people.

Strawberries and chocolate kan!

Kek batik, fruit cake truffles (which are the balls I showed in a couple of entry ago), sticky date pudding.

Date shortbreads

And sagu gula melaka.

And for the main table pulak, I made vegetarian curry puffs, no-peanut satay sauce, instant nasi impit untuk dimakan bersama sate ayam and sate daging.

 

Seafood and chicken laksa with their accessories.

And also chicken and beef sate yang dalam bowl besar on the bench behind Miss 8 tu.

Berjam2 I duduk mencucuk sate. Cucuk sate ayam lepas ambik the girls from school until I had to stop to make dinner. Pastu, after dinner, sambung cucuk the beef sate pulak.

Sebab itu lah I kena buat pelan2 over a few days so I tak stressed….

And then The Other Half ditugaskan bakar sate everytime ada guests datang which he did a marvellous job at .

Lepas makan berat2, I jamu pulak dengan kuih muih raya….

Tahun ni, I made 8 jenis kuih raya yang kebanyakannya bulat2 and leper2 aje, haahaha…..

I made florentines, tart nenas gulung, biskut almond london seksi sebab tak cukup baju, biskut gajus daisy

Meringue cornflakes, maltesers cookies, choc cherry bliss bombs and kuih gunting.

Last year, I buat lauk pauk raya jawa.

This year I buat lauk pauk and kuih muih bukan raya sebab tuan rumah dah tak larat nak makan rendang rumah sendiri, hikhikhik….

Tahun depan kita buat jamuan raya yang totally Mat Saleh pulak eh .

Final photos of the inside…(tak larat you all nak tengok dah! :-))

After such a nice day yesterday, hari ni mendung and hujan rintik2. And pulaknya, I baru aje nak ambik gambar all the rooms hari ni for the blog, so disebabkan mendung, the photos all look a bit malap lah. Nak tunggu another bright day, it means kena kemas all the rooms again which when you are in a malas mood, ada sikit lembab lah nak buat, hehehe…

So, layan aje lah ye gambar yang ada malap and ada ok ni.

This is our lounge room which so far is used by The Other Half to play his pc games and by us when we have our movie night or tv night. Most of our day to day living is done in the kitchen, family room, the computer area and the bedrooms. The front door opens straight into the lounge room tapi dah 2 minggu we all tak bukak the front door itu, hikhikhik…..

We still haven’t put up any photos or pictures on the walls yet. Nak tunggu I rajin letak the hooks first and then nak letak a big photo of the 4 of us lah konon2 nya. But still haven’t go time to go to the shop to get a nice canvas print of a photo of us. Pastu, nak gi beli vases so I can put some roses on the coffee table pulak kan :-D.

And this is the master bedroom. Don’t ask, I memang jenis yang tak iron all our sheets and quilt covers. I cuma iron benda2 yang perlu aje, hehehe. And we don’t have a set colour for the bedrooms.

The window has tinted glass so even if we bukak the blind and the curtain open wide, no one outside can see anything inside unless dia letak muka dia betul2 kat the glass lah. But kalau ada yang letak muka dia kat the window, memang dah gilo apa! Memang dah kena panggil polis lah macam tu, hahaha. The old owner used to have this english style heavy curtains penuh dgn roses prints on the windows which we really don’t like. Cantik memang lah cantik but so not our taste. So, we all ganti dgn the lacy curtain and donated the english style curtains to Good Sammy.

This is Miss 11’s bedroom.

I tanya dia, what’s the point of me lipat kain baju if she’s going to just shove them and mess them all up again? Malas I nak re kemas her drawers. Baju dia, pandai2 lah kan dia keep them tidy.

And this is Miss 6’s bedroom.

Her clothes drawers and on top of it lagilah messy. Tu yang I tak ambik gambar with the drawers in it, hehehe.

Masa kat rumah sewa dulu, we weren’t allowes to stick anything on the walls so memang their room was devoid of any wall stickers/posters lah. So, bila dah masuk rumah sendiri ni, they went berserk with the glow-in-the-dark stickers. Penuh their walls and ceilings with the stuff.

All the bedrooms ada built in wardrobes but we use the ones in The Little Misses’ bedrooms for only hanging clothes and putting their boxes of toys in them. Tu yang memang still kena ada chest of drawers for our folded clothes. We all cuma letak the chest of drawers, a bedside bookshelf to put their radios and lights and another bookshelf for their books in the room. Memang tak muatlah kalau nak letak benda2 lain.

And this is the guest bedroom. Bila my parents and makcik n pakcik datang sini end of October, I have to kemas it a bit more :-).

And ini pulak our dinner last nite, pizza. I might set up my lighbox hari ni if I can find a place for it. I miss taking nice photos of my food!

The Other Half’s seafood pizza.

Still about the house

We managed to assemble the outdoor seating set yesterday and as soon as it was assembled, I pun jadi isteri/ibu mithali terus made peach iced tea for everyone. It was such a relaxing feeling to sit there talking bersama2 while sipping iced tea in the warm weather. Now I feel much better to be welcoming the hot Australian Summer, hehehe. The temperature is going to be in the high 20s esok so The Little Misses and I will definitely be having our lunch and afternoon tea outside :-D.

I had to ambik gambar the set aje, not the surrounding sebab the surrounding is still so very messy with all the empty boxes waiting to be thrown away :-). Luckily, the ‘hard rubbish’ collection day for our area will be next week so bolehlah we all buang all the boxes and all the unwanted stuff next week, phew! Dapatlah I bersihkan the outdoor area ni before Miss 6’s birthday party.

Told you we bought the cheap set but is still very comfy to sit on with the padded cushions, which hopefully will bertahan for a few years lah :-).

Miss 6 enjoying the afternoon warm weather reading Burke’s Backyard magazine. Mentang2 lah dah ada vege patch, gigih dia membaca that magazine, hahahaha……

Talking about vege patch, I bought some more seeds tadi since there’s still plenty of space in the vege patch for some more plants.

Hikhikhikhik…bestnya kan kalau semua sayur ni berbuah dengan jayanya. Boleh dapat gelaran peladang berjaya lah we all :-D.

Kat rumah sewa dulu, we all pernah tanam okra/bende ni tapi tanam 1 pokok dlm pot aje so bila dia berbuah, dapatlah sebiji2 sekali petik. I makan sorang pun tak kenyang sebijik tu! So, this time, maybe I’ll tanam a few pokok so bila dia berbuah, dapatlah petik banyak2 sekali gus. The eggplants, capsicum and cabbage tu pulak are quite good plants to tanam though we’ve never tried planting them before. Ini baru first time nak cuba lah. We all memang makan ketiga2 sayur ni selalu so berbaloi lah jugak nanti kalau berbuah kan :-).

And tak lupa juga one of my favourite flowers, the sunflowers. Masa kat Adelaide dulu, we planted so many sunflowers along our backfence and they were so pretty! But this time, I bought the dwarf version so it will only get up to 45cm aje tinggi nya.Tak sabar betul nak tunggu dia berbunga! :-). They’ve also got the giant sunflower variety yang boleh capai sampai 1.8-3 meters tingginya tu! Kalau I beli yg itu, mau sakit tengkuk I everytime nak tengok bunga nya, hahahaha.

Help!!!! Bilalah I nak start balik ambik gambar food ni ye?

The inside now instead of the outside

I dari dulu teringin nak ada outdoor seating area where we can lepak2 during warm days, having BBQ and lazying around. But masa kat Adelaide dulu, our outdoor covered area wasn’t that nice to do that. And bila sampai Perth, the rumah sewa didn’t have a covered backyard area to do that. Kalau nak sunbathing boleh lah sebab the backyard is wide open. But since I ni dah nicely tanned, what’s the point of doing that right ;-). kalau nak letak kerusi meja, alamat lah berhujan panas the kerusi meja and cepatlah rosaknya.

But now, since dah masuk rumah baru yang ada an outdoor covered area big enough for 1 set outdoor kerusi meja and a BBQ, hati I pun membuak2 lah balik. Sejak haritu I dah cakap dengan The Other Half yang it’s a necessity to buy the set kerusi meja so bolehlah I perasan macam duduk kat Mediterranean country aje, sipping drinks under the pergola while enjoying the breeze, hikhikhik….

And since The Other Half dah tak larat nak dengar I merayu2, dia pun pi lah beli the kerusi meja set tadi. We all beli yang murah aje sebab kena budget duit nak bayar mortgage, hehehe….. And bila beli yang murah, kenalah assemble them sendiri so kenalah tunggu mood baik datang baru lah boleh assemble the stuff. Alamat nya tahun depan lah kot baru pasang kalau nak tunggu mood, hehehe. But I want it to be assembledby next week, sebab we are having a birthday party for Miss 6 in 2 weeks time so nak lah ada set kerusi meja tu before the party kan. The kids can just have their party outside which is better for me sebab tak payah susah payah mengemas inside after the party :-).

Now ni nak merayu kat The Other Half suruh dia assemble the set pulak lepas puas merayu suruh dia beli the set, muahahaha…..Last nite I made him roast chicken with roast potato, sweet potato n turnip with corn for dinner, tu yang dia terus gi beli the set pagi ni. Malam ni I kena make him another nice dinner lah kalau I nak motivate him to assemble the set, hikhikhik…

Our roast dinner last nite. I had to use flash so tu yg gambar tak cantik. Dah lama betul I tak tayang gambar our dinners kan :-). The diced white vege on the plate is the turnip. We roasted it and the taste was ok lah, a slight sourish taste. I lagi suka roast potato and keledek, hehehe…

And since semalam I dah tayang gambar outside, I’ll tayang gambar the inside fo the house pulaknya ye. It’s still not exactly kemas yet but good enough for us, hehehe.

This is the view from our family room. It’s an open plan, so you can see the whole kitchen yang sungguh tiny itu, the dining area, the computer area from here. But we like it like this sebab if guests come, they can sit at the family area and borak2 dengan I yang will be in the kitchen preparing food, hehehe.

Sebab the kitchen is tiny, atas fridge and cupboard pun boleh jadi tempat store barang, hehehe…

This is the view of the computer area from the kitchen.

Walaupun the area is not that big, jenuh jugak I mengemop lantai ni tadi! Rumah sewa dulu was carpeted from wall-to-wall so takdelah jenuh I mengemop. Ka rumah ni, kena vacuum, pastu mop lagi, ramping lah I lepas ni, wehehehe.

Cis, mentang2 ada banyak bunga ros, mengada2 nak letak fresh flowers kat dining table, muahahaha. But they do make the room look more lively and homey.

Let the photos do the talking

After waiting for a week for iinet to connect our net, we are tired of it already. God only knows what they are doing because it’s still not connected. And they sent us an email saying that they can only ‘connect’ it on the 4th of October which is 2 weeks away! What a pain in the rear end they are! After promising us that it’ll only take days for them to get us connected. Probably they live in a different world where their days is equivalent to our weeks kot! So, tadi The Other Half had to buy a prepaid mobile broadband for us to us until we get our net connected. I guess, he’s sick and tired too of surfing using bluetooth and mobile handphone. And I’m having serious withdrawal symptoms from being away from the blog for so long :-D.

But in a way, it’s good to have this week to clean up and kemas rumah instead of melangut depan PC (not that I have finished cleaning and kemasing anyway!). It’s 80% done, cuma nak habis kemas the other 20% tu yang lambat sikit. Bini Drill Sargeant dah siap unpack all of her stuff and everything else but Drill Sargeant to yang lembap sikit nak unpack barang2 dia, hehehe. Ye lah, sehari suntuk dia at work kan, macam mana nak unpack :-). Luckily, school holiday has just started so hopefully we’ll have more time at home to get the house just right. At least, we did achieve our goal of eating at the dinner table by last Sunday afternoon, hehehe…

I better put up photos of the pindah rumah process as promised…

On the Friday of the move, pagi giler we all bangun sebab nak make sure all the last minute things got done, like packing the beddings, the food in the fridge and freezer sebab the movers said they were coming at 7.30.

 

The Little Misses kena kerah bangun pagi and siap sedia utk ke school before 7.30.

The Other Half checking the fridge and freezer to make sure that everything’s been taken out. We had to borrow our friends’ chiller bins and then bought so many chiller bags to stuff our frozen food and chilled food in them.

Boxes and boxes everywhere…

The empty truck….

The nearly full truck.

Kiranya 1 neighbourhood tu tau lah yang we all nak pindah, hehehe…..

The nearly empty house. Sedih aje rasa masa ni sebab we spent nearly 5 years of our lives here…

And then, all the stuff got transported to the new house. They finally finished the unloading of all our stuff around 8 o’clock at night kot.

My kitchen area and the family room and the formal dining room. Cantik aje tersusun all the boxes kan!

The living room pun cantik aje tersusun.

Until the next day when Ops unpacking bermula…

Macam tongkang pecah the whole house we all jadikan. Sampaikan nak jalan pun kena tolak2 all the boxes to make a path from 1 room to the next, hahaha…

Masa ni I tengah pening fikirkan macam mana I nak fit all my kitchen stuff in the tiny kitchen cabinets. Macam buat jigsaw puzzle aje. I had to make sure they all go to the right places to fully utilise the storage space:-D.

Can you see the door in the kitchen?

That’s our main entrance to the house. We haven’t opened our front door since Sunday kot, hehehe. Senang aje kalau baru balik dari bershopping, masuk carport, terus masuk kitchen and terus letak the groceries in the kitchen. Kalau ada guests nanti, they will have to come in through the side door not the front door :-).

But sekarang, the kitchen floor dah lapang lah, senang lah nak keluar masuk.

The Little Misses eating dinner at the dining table for the first time after moving to this house.

Sempat lagi tu I masak nasi malam tu which was eaten so heartily by everyone sebab semua kelaparan lepas sehari suntuk bekerja berat mengunpack. Nasib baik jumpa the rice cooker and the plates and pots :-D.

I’ll put up photos of the cleaner, kemaser house esok2 lah ye.

This long weekend, we are going to do some gardening (on top of doing the final clean up of the house), planting the chili, tomato, cucumber, coriander and lettuce seedlings I bought the other day. Hopefully, by Summer time, we’ll get to taste the crop. It will be so fun. Teringat masa we all kat Adelaide dulu, our backyard was full with veges sampai tak larat2 nak makan. Hopefully, we can do the same here.

Oh yeah, I am so sorry that I wasn’t able to answer all the comments kat chat box and kat comment box. I did read all of your comments but memang tak terlarat nak jawab satu2. I do appreciate all the thoughts and hopefully once everything is settled and the net is up, I can go back to answering each comment one by one, InsyaAllah….

I pun tak dapat nak blogwalking sangat2 at the moment which I really really miss doing :-(. Susah kan takde net ni, hehehe…

Psst…Susah lah macam ni kan for me nak naikkan my bean counter to 1 juta kalau I update seminggu sekali aje, hikhikhik….. Macam tu, lambat lah lagi I boleh buat  cabutan bertuah sempena visitor yang ke 1 juta ye tak! Wahkahkahkah…..