Whole family of Sesame Street

6 November 2009 : Bert & Ernie

Google did it again!

5 November 2009 - Google makes me SMILE!

A picture paints a thousand words. It just make my day!

Homemade Vegetable Stock

Wondering what are those? Homemade vegetable stock for my prince! No salt & no MSG added! Healthy recipe just for him!

I got this recipe from Baby Center. I found it very rich in flavour and even my prince said "NICE".

Annabel Karmel's homemade vegetable stock.

It’s easy to make a homemade vegetable stock that will keep in the fridge for up to a week. Use this to form the basis of your purées, rather than relying on salt-filled, shop-bought stock cubes.

• Preparation: 10 minutes
• Cooking: 1 hour 10 minutes
• Makes 850ml (29fl oz)
• Provides beta-carotene, folate and potassium
• Suitable for freezing

Ingredients
1 onion, peeled
1 garlic clove, peeled and roughly chopped
2 large carrots, peeled
1 large leek, washed
1 stick celery
1 tbsp olive oil
850ml (29fl oz) water
1 sprig of parsley
1 sprig of thyme (optional)
1 bay leaf
4 peppercorns

Method
Roughly chop all the vegetables. Heat the olive oil in a large, thick-bottomed pan and add the vegetables and garlic. Sweat the vegetables in the oil without colouring for 5 minutes – cover with a lid if you like.

Add the cold water and bring to the boil. Add the herbs, bay leaf and peppercorns. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 1 hour.

Leave to cool for a couple of hours, then strain through a sieve. Squeeze remaining juices out of the vegetables by pushing them down in the sieve with a potato masher.

Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream

I got new recipe book from a book fair lately. These homemade ice creams are from the book.

Ingredients are strawberry + sugar. I always opt for organic sugar / brown sugar. Blend it still smooth before putting them into ice cube tray or ice cream mould.

Since I made these, my son keep on asking for ice-cream. Most important, it is healthy and top-up his fibre intake.

Moon Cake Festival

Moon cake festival is coming!!! It is 3rd October 2009 this year. I am looking forward to bring my son and his lantern for a walk. I am thinking buy a new lantern for him .... just planing OR he can re-cycle his old lantern since it is still new.La

Last year, they only have Tigger. I was hoping to get him POOH bear but was out of stock. Maybe this year better luck. Ooopsss, I guess not because moon cake festival is just around the corner and I have not make any purchase yet.

It does not matter, still can re-cycle his Tigger.

Art

Found it @ June Leeloo. Nice piece of art. Interesting. Beautiful. Mysterious.

Haagen-Dazs Moon Cake Ice Cream

Moon cake festival is just around the corner @ Malaysia. This year, it falls on 3rd October 2009.

Beautiful lanterns & candles all around. I do not really like traditional moon cakes but I LOVE this following moon cakes from Haagen-Dazs, my favourite.

LOL. and the most expensive moon cakes of all.

My favourite among all those ice-cream is this one.....STRAWBERRY. I just love it. Very much in love with it. LOL.

My Wedding Reception @ 2002

My wedding reception was at E & O Hotel in Penang. I had my garden wedding just right next to the beach as show in below picture.

I had a very memorable wedding.

Initial, I wanted to be at Lone Pine @ Penang. It would be a real beach side wedding but they do not cater for table dining for more than 15 tables. Below are the Lone Pine @ Penang pictures.

Really love them. LOL....

Priceless Story....

A father came home and found his three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.

The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house and there was no sign of the dog. Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall.

In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing.

In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, the fridge door was open wide, dog food was spilled on the floor,a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door.

He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she may be ill, or that something serious had happened. He was met with a small trickle of water as it made its way out the bathroom door. As he peered inside he found wet towels, scummy soap and more toys strewn over the floor.

Miles of toilet paper lay in a heap and toothpaste had been smeared over the mirror and walls. As he rushed to the bedroom, he found his wife still curled up in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel.

She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went.

He looked at her bewildered and asked, "What happened here today?"

She again smiled and answered, "You know every day when you come home from work and you ask me what in the world did I do today?"

"Yes," was his incredulous reply

She answered, "Well, today I didn't do it."

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This story is PRICELESS......

Manage a home is really NOT an easy task. Multi-tasking with numerous of housework. Dealing with children can be super exhausted, frustrated, tiring, testing on your IQ & EQ.... the end results is rewarding + wrinkle on your faces to prove it.

Dealing with career world & managing your subordinates (at least a bunch of people that know how to listen but whether they follow or not is a different case) are much easier dealing with toddlers. You can't give a toddler warning letter / termination letter / "you are fired!!!".

For me, if you can handle the noise pollution from a toddler without a single headache + without back-off + multi-task all the housework to make a house like home. I think you can handle any problem in the office. (Just my 2-cents)

LOL... Enjoy...

Reminder : How to Get Through Life

I received this email. I am a BIG FAN for babies. I really loves this. Hope you will love it too.

Sleep as much as you can....

Read books that you enjoy...

Play with simple things....

Count your blessing....

Remember your loves one....

Be serious when it needed...

Forget about diets once in a while.......

Show some affection .....

Be angry when it is necessary......

Get a new looks once a while....

Above all, BE HAPPY, regardless of what your challenges may be.....

May your troubles be less,
your blessings more,
and may nothing but happiness
come through your door.

I want

Finally, found my dream bed BUT yet to be mine.

My dream wardrobe...

I really love this sofa set... When can it be mine???

My Latest Addiction

Ghost Whisperer. I really really loves this TV series. In fact I love it very much. I can stared at TV and pray hard no one will disturb my favourite show. LOL. That is me... sort of taken. :p

In fact this series not only about trouble ghost, what I treasure the most is the unconditional love, trust, faith, hope & friendship in this series.

How Jim loves Melinda unconditionally and trust her 100% and without a doubt. It also talks about the bonds of friendship that she build and treasure.

How others view her as nut job cases but she is so determined in what she believe and continue to help others.

Overall, it is amazing and I really love it.

My very own calculation

I developed this long time ago about 10 years back and I continue to improve it when I came across something interesting. :P

One of my favorite in advancing my skill in Excel formula. LOL.

Anyway, this is actually used to pin-point when is my ovulation and to increase the conceive chances.

Then later on, when I knew about "Shettles Method" - I added when should start to have sex and when not-to to have a baby boy or girl.

Then, it went on and on for estimation baby date dues (40 weeks from the last period) because I want to be the first one to know instead hearing from the doctor.

Then later I wish to know, when the baby really born on the estimate date dues, what is the zodiac like and so on, so I develop this to entertain my curiosity. LOL :)

Anyway, this developed for my own use only.

P/S: Sorry, this is not for distribution. Use it at your own risk.

P/S: I taught a friend of mine about 4 years ago on how to calculate the safe period and I told her it is very important not to miss any day or else you will end up pregnant. She told me she will be very careful and you know what. She let Saturday & Sunday on leaves and she end-up pregnant. Well, she is blessed with 2 sons and one is on the way.

My Very First DIY Ring

My first twist on this ring and it turn out better than I expected. LOL... I really love it.

Mango Lassi

I tried another fruit lassi : Mango. Tasted nice but I still prefer dragon fruit. I love it rich - so I add more yogurt.

Geninne's Art Blog

I am super amazed by her art work. I really could not understand how can a person have such a fine hand to produce such a thing. She is very talented in her craft and it shows in her work. I really love them.




Visit her @ Geninne's Art Blog

Oooooh Mine......

What caught my attention the most is the purple color Kimono shoe... My goodness... it is so beautiful and so cute.