Malacca

went to malacca on sunday with my dad, my nephew aus, hasbul & niece alya. └(^o^)┘

this time we got to ride the river cruise, went on menara taming sari revolving gyro tower, visited the ship museum & submarine ~^O^~★

arrived at bandar hilir at about 10 am so there were not much people yet and we left for tanjung bidara beach at about 2pm. left for home at about 6pm (*¯︶¯*)

*ps: finally found my fav the bottled coffee pokka at petronas seremban highway! ╮(╯3╰)╭♥

photos time! (no edits)

*this is a mobile upload y'all.

friday ends the week ~

its already 830pm and friday is almost over! but its okay cause today is a GREAT DAY and tomorrow is saturday! (*¯︶¯*)

ohh...why is today so great? well.. although i overslept and woke up real late today, i still managed to look decent to work..i had an awesome dream (why i woke late..teehee..) and then when i got to work, i got free breakfast from my friend and another from my senior! ヽ(^。^)ノ

i forgot to take photos of them (as usual.....) but here's two photos of nyummy noms i've had this week! and selcas of me at work too...hehe (sorry!) ╮(╯3╰)╭★

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its monday y'all!

hi there! how's your monday? mine just got crazy good! thanks to my yummy evening noms ♥

below is photos of my noms (dunkin donuts double choc & bavarian filling! ohhh nyummmy!), my new glitter balm (mentholatum water color no3), & a selca of me (brief break from the staring contest with my computer screen)...huuu ≧﹏≦

ps; i didnt know the water color balm has glitter on them before purchasing......i dont really like glittered balm/gloss cause they're sort of drying...but on a plus side..now i have an excuse to buy new balm! (￣ε(#￣)

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fish & co birthday lunch

hello again! how are y'all? hope y'all had great noms today. i had spicy fried kueteow for my evening noms so i'm pretty full.. ≧﹏≦

i'm blogging again from my phone (cause i'm too lazy to turn on my laptop)..hehee =￣ω￣=

anyway, this update is about another birthday...my bf's ╮(╯▽╰)╭ 

...his bday was feb 9 but since last time we were sort of in a hurry (only had time for a burger, though it was carl's jr/from previous post) this time we had proper sit-down lunch.

i went to his house to drop off Loki, his blind tom-cat..since Paradigm Mall is pratically 2minutes away we went there instead of our usually hang out at Sunway and had lunch at Fish & Co...

we had:

★italian fish&chip rm15.95

→juicy fish with mozzarela stuffing and potato chips

★afrika fish&chips rm15.95

→juicy fish with peri-peri salsa and potato chips

★insomnia rm6.95

→coffee-based drink with vanilla and cream

★lime cola rm6.95

→coke with lemon

+10% service charge.

verdict: the fish was fresh and juicy and delicious! afrika fish peri salsa was really good but the "herbs" in italian was somewhat  missing...

service was really fast and brownie points to staffs for being really nice and polite (*^▽^*)

overall it was a really good restaurant and is worth a second visit! ★★★★

 

Mom's Birthday!

Hi there!

Updating on the celebration of my mom's birthday on 16th Feb (last Saturday) Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

we had "satay jalan peel" which was AWESOME!

that's all! hehehe

FOUND!!!

alhamdulillah syukur! my baby bond has been found!!!

no words can express the joy my family is feeling... ╮(╯▽╰)╭

Grandma Paul's Red Velvet!

Sorry for the delay! I was quite busy at home to post this recipe...but since i'm free now (i'm at work!) i'll post this now! ｡◕‿◕｡

I have baked GRANDMA PAUL'S RED VELVET CAKE so many times i've lost count! And everytime, it is a winner both at home (my mom & dad love it so much that i've baked it for them most of the time) and at work (my friends and employees like them too).

I was asked many times why my cake is different from others, the answer is simple. PAULA DEEN. Honestly, i've had other red velvets and other people's recipes but the moment i saw Paula bake this on TV (Paula's Party on Food Network) i knew that i have to try it pronto! I love EVERYTHING PAULA DEEN. Her "Y'ALL", her SONS (oh gosh they are darn cute), her FOOD and most of all her crazy beautiful southern self!

OK. Enough about my schoolgirl fangirling obsession over Paula Deen (in which i myself think is very weird. haha) and on to the real topic, THE RECIPE! FYI:Recipe is altered from original to my average culinary knowledge.

Ingredients
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup buttermilk*
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cup cake flour
1 block of butter /250gm
1 bottle red food coloring (i use STAR BRAND)
2 tablespoons cocoa (i use Van Houten)
2 cups sugar
2 eggs (A grade or atleast B)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon vinegar**

*i found buttermilk in Tesco but if you can't find it you can add one TABLESPOON VINEGAR to ONE CUP of WHOLE MILK / FRESH MILK. Low fat is a no-no! Leave this mixture for atleast 15 minute. The milk will sort of curdle and look like it has gone bad...but it's not! The milk is now ready to be used as a substitute for buttermilk.

**i use variety of vinegar, from pomegranates to dates to plain white vinegar.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. First sift together flour and salt. Set aside.
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. 
In another bowl, mix cocoa and food coloring. 
Add eggs one by one to butter mixture; mix well. 
Add flour to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. 
Blend in vanilla. 
In a small bowl, combine soda and vinegar and add to mixture. 
Pour into three 8-inch round greased and floured pans. 
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until tests done.

FROSTING: PAULA DEEN used a rich cream cheese frosting with pecans and shredded coconuts for her Red Velvet, and because i'm a cheapo (i can't afford pecans..tsk.tsk), i used plain cream cheese frosting with either rainbow/choco sprinkles or mini chocochips on top. My version of plain cream cheese frosting can be found here. It's at the bottom of the post.

*picture updated! ヽ(*≧ω≦)ﾉ 16feb2013/12:09am

*the original recipe can be found here!

Red Velvets Cups & Collagen Face.

*supposed to post this yesterday but i'm posting this from home today cause the wi-fi from my office suxs...sorry!

hey there! i'm at work now but i need to update on my baking yesterday... red velvets cuppies that my friend asked cause she wants to bring back some tomorrow to her hometown segamat, johor.

usually i bake a whole cake but since she asked for cupcakes, i got 31 pieces from my usual batch! yummeh!

my red velvet cake recipe is from paula deen's and it is absolutely the best red velvet cake recipe EVER. honestly i have bought and tasted other people's RV cakes before and it's nothing close as how moist and rich and delectable as paula's. its that good!

but unfortunately i can't ice the cake the same way as paula's frosting used ingredients such as melted marshmallows, shredded coconut and chopped PECANS...and i think you know how expensive pecans are here in malaysia...tsk.tsk.. so i resulted in icing my cake with the usual plain cream cheese frosting...sigh.. but it's still perfect though..thanks for the cake itself ( ^ _ ^ )

i'll post the pictures of the ingredients and stuff down below 1st.. and maybe i'll update on the recipe soon too..(you can also searh for it at paula's website).

on another note; i'm pretty sure i haven't post anything regarding my try-out with collagen drinks before but, here it is.. i've been having nurbeautyline collagen drink for almost 4 months now and so far the most significant thing i notice is that i get sick less often..(i get runny nose and mouth ulcers quite often but since then i have been well and healthy!) and though i still get occasional small pimples (and i almost never get big bad red ones even before this), i notice slight brightening on my skin too..

i guess the "effects" on the skin takes time and different people, different outcome but i'm very happy that i'm alot more healthier on the inside too. i'm gonna keep drinking this until..i don't know..get the better one? cause i read the percentage of collagen on this one i'm taking is lower than another one i'm eyeing..but since i'm a cheapo and can't afford expensive stuff yet..i'll settle with this on for now.. ( ~_~ )

Birthdays!

today we're celebrating my nephew's birthday.
plus his mom's birthday (26th) too. 

had KFC and my homemade "huge-sandwich-cookie-like-choco-cake"...hahaha 

(cake recipe will be posted later!)

look at this monstrosity!

 this is my nephew! Ahmad Hasbullah Sait! He's 8 today ( ^_^ )

with his sister, Princess Alya Hasinah ( >___< )

 my big-bro with his family; his lil' one-Ahmad Haslin Daniyal, 

his second-Alya, his 1st-Bday Boy and wifey.

Bday boy with prezzie from me(half with my dad) 

& ofcourse a lil prezzie for Alya too.......

 prezzie unwrapped; mini skateboard (thundercats themed!)

& "princess" crown and jewellery.

why i got him a skateboard? 

cause eversince he was in kindergarten (age 5) he had been saying he wanted a papan luncur (which literally means skateboard in Bahasa Melayu)

i think he's old enough to take risk and learn this so,...why not right? （○＾ε＾○）

happybirthday!

late update on my colleague's birthday (18th jan)! sorry ;p

celebrated on the date, in my office room...

blueberry cake from COLDSTORAGE which was really sweet, moist and cheap! (rm18++)

guess which of us is the birthday girl... (hint: the one holding the cake,...duhhh!)

more photos on facebook (>___<") sorry again..hehe

Bento box and brownie!

Hi! its been weeks since i blogged. I have been busy with my part time job! Who knew one could actually be very tired and busy from a part time job........if you're curious, i'm working at Kinokuniya Stationary KLCC.

I have two days off, yesterday and today.

Today my bf and me went to KL. We went from Times Sq to Low Yat, to Sg Wang and then to Lot 10, to Fahrenheit 88 to Pavilion,...

and then circled all the way back to Times Sq again... ヾ(。￣□￣)ﾂ

We had Shabu Shabu at Times Sq for lunch....but as alwaysss I FORGOT TO TAKE DAMN PHOTOS!!! ...mainly cause they were showing KungFu Panda 2/and then Mr.Bean Holiday...so we were too busy eating and watching it and laughing like some idiots, ignoring all the other customer........

And then while we were at Low Yat, it rained..so we sat and had snacks at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf... and talk some more about pokemons and some other shitty stuff that i'm sure other couples don't really talk about and laughing again like morons.........

Caramel Coffee & Boston Brownie ლ(´ڡ`ლ)

the brownie is absolutely delicious and heavenly!

both is about rm25.

My bf bought me a cute pink pill earphone and a cutesy bear head bento box! I'm so happy!!! 

ヽ(*≧ω≦)ﾉ 

earphone (rm10) is bought at a shop at IT centre and bento box (rm5) is bought at Hyakuland, a new japanese store much like Daiso! (both at Times Sq)

random update!: two of my four kittehs (james bond/male and snowbell/female was safely neutered on September 5. they are recovering well and as active and naughty as always... my other two females, geegee and doe will be having their appointment next month! hehehe

ok.Bye!

A Week of Eid.

Ohmygosh. It's been over a week since my last post...i was honestly very very busy! It was so crazy and i was all over the place that i didn't even snap much photos even though i carried my camera everywhere!

see that tiny piece of red cake? that's my red velvet that got gobbled up in less than half an hour it was "presented" on the morning of eid...hehe. the green pandan layer one was bought by my cousin.

the food. kari daging, kuah lodeh, ayam masak merah, nasi jagung, nasi impit, acar mentah nanas and oranges.

the cookies and others. mostly are store bought...hehe..

homemade dadih.

the keropok.

the cookies. the white one is super duper crazy good, its 

bangkit cheese!

this is on the 3rd day of eid. at my aunt's. that's her huge kitteh! <3