It’s Le-Ann 5th birthday today. How time flies.  I managed to find a picture of her when she was only 5 months old and today she is already 5 years old. She told me she wanted to do  a birthday party at McDonald’s. I get Phatboy Joe to check it out for me whether the McDonald’s in Kajang can organize a birthday party for her. But too bad, they don’t organize birthday party anymore. Ended up I decided to do a small birthday celebration for her at Ah Mah’s house last Sunday.

I was away in Penang last weekend for the wasting time monthly meeting and only reached home late Saturday night. Few days before, I get few of my Ah Kors, to help me to cook for her birthday party. Get Aunty SK to cook her speciality nasi lemak and meehoon Siam, Aunty AC to cook vegeterian dish for Aunty SK ( she is on vegetarian but her nasi lemak with sambal ikan bilis is damn nice ). Mom help me to order currypuffs and also bought the fishballs for Satay Celup and not forgetting Dad help me to fried chicken wings with his secret recipe of marination. As for me, I made an ice-cream cake for Le-Ann and it turned out to be a disaster. Hahaha… wait till you see the picture of the ice-cream and you will know how bad is it. I am not in the mood to bake that night as I was too tired and the bakes turned out to be a failure.

Woke up very early on Sunday morning and started to boiled 20’s eggs and coloured it with red colouring.  Then stuffed the red and green chillies with fish paste and cook it with oyster sauce. Back in Ah Mah’s house I helped out at the kitchen with the 2 maids with all the preparation. And the party begin………………………

Crispy Siew Bak done by Uncle HH. Wonderful, crispy and delicious.Yummy!

The spread of foods. I am too busy and forgot to take a photo of  the nasi lemak and meehoon Siam.

Kids started to play with their party packs distributed out by Le-Ann.

Phatboy Joe with Ee-Thern.

Here come my ugly… Oreo Volcano Ice-Cream Cake. Ugly right? Don’t know what is wrong with the whipping cream as it is melting away for the side of the cake.

Make a wish and blow the candles.

The inner part of my ugly ice-cream cake. Sis was complaining that the cake doesn’t taste good. Hahaha… cos I am using the ready to use Betty Crocker Yellow Cake Mix. Hahaha… aiyor ….just eat the ice-cream and throw away the cake la. Wherelse Phatboy Joe and Vonne said… its ugly but its nice. Maybe because its Oreo ice-cream.  Anyway… the next round I will do a better ice - cream cake, I just need more time. Hahaha…

A last minute bake since the ice-cream cake is a disaster. Ended up the Walnut Choco Brownies also turned up to be a failure. All of them complaint it is too sweet though they eat it with vanilla ice-cream. Ya… can’t con the big kids at home. Once they had a bite of it, they knew it is the ready pre-brownies mix from Betty Crocker too. Don’t know what is wrong with me that day cos all my baking turned out to be a failure.

Le-Ann with cousins… Gladys and Nicholas.

Posing with her presents she get from the cousins, Yee Yee, Joe Kau Fu, Kor Poh.

Thank you for all the presents and ang pows from all the Kor Pohs, Chim Poh, Po Po,  Tai Yee, Gladys Cheh Cheh, Nicholas Kor Kor, Short Hair Yee Yee, Faye Ah Yee, Joe Kau Fu, Jean Jean Cheh Cheh, and fellow cousins… Anson, Eason and Edmund boy. She is so happy that day but too bad Dearie Suki didn’t joined us at the party that day as he is not feeling well. But the little girl came back home and tell her Daddy about her party celebration in Ah Mah’s house.

These are a batch of cupcakes I baked for her last night. It is for her to bring to school today to celebrate with her classmates. I leave my camera with her teacher and get her to snap some photos of her. Also told her principal to get Ee-Thern join in the fun during recess time. Here are some photos of her with her classmates.

When she came back from school, she asked Dearie Suki why there is no birthday present from Daddy. When Dearie Suki asked her what she want for her birthday present and she told him she wanted a PS3 players. Aiyor… I am gonna faint at such young age know how to request for an expensive birthday gift. Hahaha…

I knew it as my age is getting older, it is harder for me to burn off the extra fat in my body. I can’t shed off the extra fats in my body ever since I gave birth to Le-Ann. The worst thing is when you are working in the food industry, I tend to eat and try more new products at home. I think I must get some fat burner from the pharmacy to help me burning off the excess fats in my body.

Last Sunday I attended a blogger’s picnic cum birthday celebration for all June babies at the TTDI park. It was organized by Chinneeq. Well since Le-Ann is born in the month of June, so I decided to join in the fun. I told the kids that we are going to the park for a birthday party picnic and get them to sleep early on Saturday night.

Both were awake as early as 7.30 am on Sunday morning and we started our journey at 8 am. Both of them are getting excited about this picnic party and kept asking me in the car whether have we arrive at the destination.  I am not so familiar how to go to this place but we went to the wrong park. Finally after asking around, we found it and didn’t realize this park is so crowded on an early Sunday morning.

I was a bit lost when I was there because I can’t recognize any of them and are not aware where is the exact location.  Try to look for familiar faces and finally I spotted the twins. It’s Jaccs’s twins. Thank GOD me and the kids landed at the right place.

When more mommies and kids arrived, both Le-Ann and Ee-Thern are getting excited about it and started to play at the stream with other kids. Ee-Thern is a bit crancky that morning because he refused to share his sand toys with the other kids.  This small boy si peh kedekut. I hardly mingle around because have to look after the 2 kids but nevertheless, I did chat with a few mommies blogger like Jazzmint, Sue, Karen, Elizabeth, CK, Jacss and also a few more. So sorry lupa the name d. Here are some pictures taken during that outing. So lets have the pictures do the talking.

Kids playing by the side of the cold water stream.

Le-Ann and Ee-Thern, all wet.

A very beautifully baked and yummy … Choco Brownies as Birthday cake for the kids. Can you spot Le-Ann name?

Le-Ann a bit shy though.

Here come the June babies.  I think about 11 of them.

Can you spot the goodies bag? Prepared by me leh courtesy of …… XXX. Actually another form of free advertising la for the brands.

Another activities for the kids prepared by Elizabeth. Potted plant of mustard. Le-Ann is curious and has been asking me when is the plant going to grow. She has been very hard working … everyday she told me in the car that Aunty Elizabeth said must water the plant and must have sunlight for it to grow. I hope it can grow ler.

A view of the whole group of mommies bloggers at TTDI Park.

Small boy…. is happy and wanted to come again.

We left the park at about 11.30 am because the weather is getting hot and Ee-Thern started to complaint hot la, stomache la, want to pang sai la… Aiyorrrr …. better leave before he really wanted to pang sai.  It is a great picnic and the kids really enjoyed themselves. Thanks for organizing it and it is indeed a great picnic outing for the kids.

A simple bento for the kids this morning. I am sleepy. My brain couldn’t work and lazy to pack a nice bento for them. Just chuck everything in and get them to eat. Thats about it. Hahaha…. They have cut kiwi and it is super sour… a piece of Char Siew Sou bought from Jusco Non-Halal section and a bottle of vitagen. As usual the vitagen is the first to finish up followed by the rest. Both of them complaint the kiwi is very suan ( sour ). Ya, it is really sour and I am not putting any kiwi for them anymore because they don’t like it.

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I am back to blogging again after so many days of missing in action.My Gua Kong ( Mom’s  Dad ) and my kids called him Gua Tai Kong passed away peacefully on Sunday afternoon.  He was 100 years. Before this, the nursing home called Mom and told her about his condition. No so promising and be prepared to accept the bad news any time till last Sunday Mom got the phone call after we came back from 6th Kor’s durian orchard.

We attended the funeral yesterday and I just get  back to  work today. I am pretty tired after so many days of prayers at the funeral home in PJ. Both Le-Ann and Ee-Thern were send back to MIL house and we only picked them up at about midnite after the prayers. Yesterday afternoon after everything is over, both me and Dearie Suki slept the whole afternoon cos it is really tired.

The cabbage in the fridge is almost going to rot off. Today cooking is pretty simple. The kitchen is closed for so many days. Couldn’t think off what to cook today and just utilize whatever I can find and come out with a pot of Fish Curry With Cabbage.Uses the Maggi Fish Curry Fish Paste and a can of Ideal Evaporated Milk to cook the fish curry and the result is fabulous.  As for the kids, just a simple fried of SPAM luncheon meat and steamed silky egg.

Well I was browsing through my camera and found a family photo taken together with Gua Kong during this year Chinese New Year. This is the last photo all of us taken with him and he will always in our memory.

The word SAYONARA came across my mind lately and suddenly think of the song SAYONARA by Leslie Cheung. Hehehe

Aiyor he is my ngau chong at the age of 12 yrs old. Hahaha

… Dearie Suki and Dumb Baker.

Dearie Suki dear cousin Dumb-Baker wanted to learn the art of wrapping dumpling.  Anyway this is the back dated post. To be frank both me and Dearie Suki are not the expert of wrapping dumpling. We only know the basic and the outcome is damn ugly unlike those wrapped by my aunties.  Anyway as long as it can be eaten, we are happy about it.

We wrapped the dumplings one week before the Dumpling Festival on a Saturday morning.  I woke up as early as 6.30 am to prepare the stuffs and Dumb-Baker came as early as 7 am to my place. The fillings of the Bak Chang consists of glutionous rice, mung beans, dried oysters, 5 spice belly pork, lap cheong ( waxed sausages ), mushroom, chestnuts, and dried prawns. The 5 spice belly pork I prepared is really fattening. I must have the nuphedra pills on standby if I eat those fat pork belly. Hehehe….

I am surprised once Dumb-Baker was here, Dearie Suki woke up without me waking me up. First time in history that he can wake up so early because he will be the sifu to teach Dumb-Baker how to wrap the dumpling. Anyway he learn if from his late grandmother who teaches him how to wrap dumpling. Terror hor…

This pretty girl… I think she certainly enjoyed it.

Well for me, basically I am their Ah Sei for that day. Prepared everything for them to wrap the dumplings and clean up after they are done. I only managed to wrap one miserable dumpling as shown above on that day. Anyway, I am making it again on one of the Saturday once I am free.

Both of them took 2 hours to wrapped the 2 kgs of rice and in total we get about 5o Bak Chang.  I boiled it over the charcoal stove for almost 3 hours. Guess what, out of 50 dumplings, 8 of it loosen up in the boiling pot of water. Aduiii… so sayang. This one must be the masterpiece from Dumb-Baker. Anyway, never mind practice will makes perfect.

Ta… daa…. Can you spot some of the funny shapes? Hahaha…

This is the outcome. Give some to Dumb-Baker, some to MIL, some to Ah Mah, some to Dearie Suki’s friend. End up we tak cukup makan. Taste wise , OK la but still need to brush up cos  I still find those dumplings make by my 6th Kor taste nicer.

Thank GOD the kid’s sports day photos is still in the camera and thank GOD  I did not delete it. If not it will also gone in my laptop. The luggage of clothes and some so called unnecessary items  I bought back from Bangkok  still nicely sit in the luggage. Aiyer…. I am so damn lazy and tired after coming back from the trip. Furthermore the work load in office is terrible. Everything is coming near to deadlines… above-the-line, below-the-line, magazines adverts, tv production & shooting, food tasting and food photography shooting and etc. I was telling myself I need to get it done before I make my next decision. Everything have to move very, very, very fast from now onwards and I wouldn’t want to drag on anymore.

Back to my kids sports day. They had their Sports Day weeks back and I nearly forget to blog about it. The day before the event, their principal reminded me to send them to the indoor stadium at 10 am because the kids need to be there early. I remembered last year when I send both of them there, Le-Ann started to cry and refused to get into the indoor stadium where else my Ee-Thern boy a happy go lucky boy feel excited about it. Well for this year both are very happy about it and after  I send them there, both me and Dearie Suki went for breakfast at the nearest coffee shop since we have another 3o minutes of time to kill off.

I was a bit worried that Le-Ann will cry but then  I was wrong when we went back there both are happily playing with their friends. Let’s have a look of some of the pictures captured during their Sports Day.

Brother and Sister love.

 Le-Ann waiting. Patiently waiting for her turn.

 Ee-Thern boy in action. Steady only….

 After his game,waiting in line to get his medal.

 Wah , wah, wah… showing off his medal to Mommy.

 With Daddy and his GOLD Medal. Hahaha

 Ee-Thern boy too short. Can’t see his Cheh Cheh in action. Both Daddy and little brother giving support to Le-Ann.

Le-Ann in action and she got second place for her team. Hehehe… not too bad this year. Last year she cried all the way and she got last. Haizzz….

Both are proud of their medal and after the games, we head back straight to Ah Mah’s house and both naughty kids showing off their GOLD Medal to the whole bunch of people in Kajang house. Hehehe…