Thanks Facebook!

That I managed to find so many long lost friends. Its really a gem to rekindle both primary and secondary school mates after 20 odd years!

Had a tea party at my place last Sunday with some of them and it was really really nice to meet all of them again. After all these years, there are still so many things that are similar (even looks, my god!) and so many funny stories to share about what we used to do in school,etc.


















December would be another busy time as I have at least 3 other friends returning from abroad. Cant wait for that to happen.

Perfect gift and right on time!

I'm so delighted! Its a small thing but means a lot! I was so pleasantly surprised this morning when I logged on to my Hotmail account and saw an email that had the word "Congratulations" in the header! Now, I was very careful to ensure it was not a spam or junk mail .. and I checked on the sender and ..... yeaaah! It was Sue Sue!

Sue Sue hosted a pasta pot giveaway and I decided to participate with the intention of learning. I dont know and never cooked pasta before and her post had lots of contributors with great pasta recipes for kids .. which is great for me cos Im moving to my new house next week and will have to start cooking on weekends .. and pasta is indeed a wholesome meal and totally easy to prepare. Perfect right?

Thanks dear for the perfect new gift for my new kitchen :-)

Note: Photo taken from Sue Sue's blog.

My visit to Q Jelly .. pretty!!!!

Last weekend, I also decided to check out Q-Jelly, the much talked-about bakery that specialises in jelly cakes. Oh my god! They are just so pretty! Especially those barbie doll cakes .. they all have such a lovely colourful jelly gown!!!!

From their display counter, I saw so many lovely jellies in such beautiful and cute designs. Hubby suggested we buy some to get a taste of their cakes. So we choose a pack of mini-animal themed jelly pieces that comes in both chocolate & strawberry flavours. Hmmm... yummy lah! But not cheap at all lah.

I went through their album to see if there is a Blue's Clues charactered jelly cake which I thought would be perfect for lil one's birthday next week. Unfortunately, they only have the rights to Disney's characters ..what a pity.

I went home thinking about jelly cakes and I was wondering how on earth people can sell such cakes for so much when the ingredients cost so little! I, therefore, tried, doing one on my own that same afternoon! With limited ingredients at home, I embarked on my jelly cake journey ... to some disappointment *sob sob*.

I must say I loved the texture of my own jelly cake attempt. Sweetness was just right and texture and "chewiness" was just right for me.

The only thing not right was it lacked the "vibrant" colors as I was too afraid they would turn out too "bright" and might look artificial if I added too much food coloring. I also did not have any milk or coconut milk to add to the "in-between" layers, so the colored layers looked as if they are all combined into one. And also, I dont have the proper moulds to mould them into cute little art pieces like the ones we bought lar. So many excuses eh?

Nevertheless, I was not demotivated. I vow to learn to make these lovely desserts to something more presentable someday! I promise!

But can someone show me a really good method to keep the remainder of the boiled jelly warm while the individual layering cools down? Should I maintain them over low heat in the pot? Waste gas wor ... Someone told me to place the boiled jelly pot into a larger pot of hot water and when the hot water cools, down replace with more hot water. But practically, I find it more troublesome since I need to boil more hot water every 10 mins or so to refill the pot right? How? How? Any easier fool proof method?

Nice evening with hubby

Last Friday, hubby was on leave as he had quite a bit of annual leave left for the year. Coincidentally, hubby received 2 complimentary tickets for 007! Premier class some more! I know we are a bit late in enjoying this movie cos I think by now, almost 99% of the movie-goers would have seen this already!

Nevertheless, we decided to ask mom for help to take care of lil one for an extra 2 hours while we hurriedly drove past town into The Gardens, Mid Valley where the cinema was located.

We arrived an hour early, so that gave us some time to have a nice, slow dinner. We decided to try out Fong Lye (which serves Taiwanese food) and boy, was it a good choice! I loved the chicken dish with rice that I ordered and hubby tried the seafood noodles which was pretty good too! It feels like ages we had a proper sit down dinner, just the 2 of us, and a decent conversation.










We had sometime to window shop and then headed to the cinema.

The movie was almost 2 hours .. and I was fidgeting in my seat, turning right and then turning left, and right again. Hubby asked if I felt bored, I told him - no. Just that it has been sooooo long that I had the luxury of time to myself and I felt a little weird not having to rush for something or raise my voice or run after the lil one *lol* I told hubby that I have indeed forgotten how to relax. Sad huh?