Gingerbread house~

If I can blog about it means it dint turn our as a failure.. :P

What I found online:

Got light inside the house leh!! im going ask daddy to fix a light for me next year!!

Yes, its so fun imma gonna make it again next year! I really hope..

I also hope I get to BE AT HOME next year as well :(

It has been 3 years I dint celebrate Christmas ever since this job T__T

No, I dont have enough annual leave to spare for Christmas.. Unless I worked for another 10 years.. Cos I have 19th December every year o take for someone special~ its either Christmas or the someone... since im not celebrating Christmas religiously, I'll have to skip it. :(

Some shrubs I took in Atlanta deco... the hotel changed so much ever since I last visit a year ago~

OH OH I saw REAL mistletoe! Sadly it was in airport and I dint whip my camera up quick enough to snap it .. :[

So... Gingerbread house... need:

Most of the dry ingredients I've got them last year from gingerbread-man.. so yeah I saved a lot this year ^^

I found my recipe online by searching "Gingerbread house recipe" so Im not gonna list out what excactly I have...

Sifting the flour.. We have to use a pot instead cos my "mixing" bowl broke and the biggest bowl I can find is this... :[

Melting the butter...

Eggs... some how the light reflecting made a smile... LOL...

Brown sugar~

Mixing sugar and butter together...

Adding in some flour and mixing it till it become dough-y

Then have to use hand to mix...

For cleaniness or not making your nails dirty.., use a glove..

:P

me and my ugly home look~

So kinda have to fridge the dough for 2 hours or overnight, so I decided to make it the next day...

Meanwhile I went to prepare some tracing card for the house pattern..

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The harden dough...

Shape it flat, and take a card pattern and "trace" it onto the flatten dough...

Like this...

bake it in a preheated oven in 180C and 11-15 mins.. or till brownish...

See my oven mit!!! :D cute leh...

I made some "stained glass" with candies.. but dint really work out well...

A lil burnt here.. cos oven too hot and I baked it for 15 minutes.. :(

Totally BURNT and not edible... even the dog dint touch it T__T

Some extra dough so I took out some other biscuit mould and bake some other shapes.

Mixing icing..

Icing sugar 2 3/4 cups + 2 egs whites + 2 teaspoon of lemon juice (optional)

hehe... u can see some burnt pieces here also.. I actually made an extra piece cos I know I always have clumsy mistake like this... :]

Sticking it with icing...

Then I noticed...

WHERE THE F**K IS MY ROOF??!!

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

No wonder I have extra dough to make biscuit!! cos the recipe is meant for just enough!!

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Mummy convinced me to replace it with aluminium foil... and not baking another batch (I still left a lil flour and butter...)

SIGH~

My perfect gingerbread house (a lil burnt but still edible and its inside) became NOT PERFECT T__T

SIGH...

Still! Christmas spirit shall not be broken!!!

Mei mei did this.. She thinks its ugly..

So mummy added more smile to it.. -__-"

It was sooooo scary...

So it turned into a ninja... LOL

50%

Bro also wanna try decorating... since he's free from SPM ady! yay!

Mei...

"Nah u deco the colors"

I Keel You...

60%

80%

Cousin Joanne came to join the fun... tho she dint do anything.. except eating my cookies..

Aunty did this.. lol..

Decorating another house..

Hehe... done by mummy...

Taaadah!!!

I added the chimney and a lil santa I had from my last year's christmas cake (yes I kept the santa cos its so cute and you cant/hard to find in KL)

Finish... :D

Mummy's

Cousin Wen thinks its fun like art class and started deco also LOL

Not bad!!

Merry Christmas 2009 peoples..!!

From me, who's celebrating from Korea~~~

^_^

*shrugs*

Jan2010 update: Ok. I hate to serve australian also... cos... I guess so many asians migrated there and spread the kiasu "disease" to them... they also kiasu.. :( or are they also kiasu originally? *shrugs* worse, their behavior are worse... bad tempered too.. sigh~


I dont know... I rather serve a Korean, a China passenger than a Malaysian with a smile... *shrugs*

Although having language difficulties with Koreans, I give my best smile (when I remember, but most of the time its automatic) unless im annoyed.. or so busy...

When I serve a Chinese passenger and they cant speak English well, I willingly speak my broken Chinese to them.. although its broken.. you can see their faces very happy like "thank-god-you-are-a-life-saver" face. They will ask am I Chinese.. I said yes, but a Malaysian.. and tell them my mandrin isnt good enough and i cant read or write chinese bla bla bla.... but I can help them in filling up forms and in return they thank me and some even compliment I speak my chinese well ^_^ and do you know some majority of Chinese smells? Like they never bathe or wash their clothes for days? Yet... I serve them happily..

But.... when it comes to a whole bunch of Malaysians.. I just ... cant smile like Im supposed to.. I only speak to them English.. unless those older passenger who cant speak English at all, I break my "identity"

Why? I dont know!!

Maybe Malaysians has so much to ask?? Once they know we are "kaki-lang" the demands are MORE!!! When we smile more and show our friendly attitude, they request MORE.... Or, some, teases me....

For example, there's one flight where the whole group of Malaysians are from some direct selling trip.. once they know Im a Malaysian, 2 different person approched me and try to sell me their products.. -__-

The lastest: this guy travelling with his Girlfriend has been eyeing at me everytime I passes by. And I have to pass by a lot since its my duty zone. As usual, asking for lots for water to drink. Asking for souvenirs (playing card) Fine~

Once they know im a Malaysian, they ask if they can have more snacks, more water to drink, more snacks.. oh~ before that, asking which snack is tastier.. If they dint know im a Malaysian, they wouldnt I tell you!! Cos, language wise, they arent that good I guess.. *shrugs*

Hey, not only me have such attitude.. I believe most of us local crew does that! Why?

It's like when a Malaysian paid for something expensive, they expect a lot back or demand alot! (im not denying that I am included in the same category..)

See, that's why I rather serve a foreigner.. even though there are some who have the same kiasu-ness like us.. I serve with a smile..

Roadtrip JB-Melaka

If I keep on procrastinate but keep taking more pictures, my "ToBlog" file is gonna overload and... perhaps end up in - recycle bin.. -__-

So, road trip not long ago.. followed Boyfriend for his outstation trip... from Segamat-Kluang-JB-Muar-to Melaka and help to navigate...

Kinda dint take pictures in the early part of the trip.. forgotten that I have a blog perhaps?? *shrugs* Also I sat in the car or in coffeshops online most of the time while boyfriend went to look for his dealer.. so what pictures can I take?

This is pictures of our 2nd day in JB.. before leaving to Muar and Melaka.. with the help of a friendly GPS that boyriend borrowed, we found a "Famous Abalone Kueytiau Restaurant" for breakfast..

While waiting for our orders to arrive.. I whipped out my camera...

Trying to hide my acne face.. T__T

Caused by using commercial facial wash and ended up with clogged and oily pores T_T

Boyfriend's KonLou (dried/soup seperated) Kueytiau..

My soup kueytiau..

For the price of RM 10 for big bowl and RM5 for small, you get...

2 abalones.. -___-

and some other seafood like a piece of big prawn, clams, canned abalone, fish cakes.. and some other things I forgotten..

Some crispy otak-otak pohpia thingy.. hmm. dont bother ordering lah.. Muar got better otak otak..

Wait, was it me who ordered the dried kueytiau or boyfriend did? why am I having Konlou in this pic??

Gosh... I think I need more gingko supplements.. T__T

The name of this restaurant is Chuan Xin Abalone Kueytiau (Obviously I wrote up some notes here.. duh~)

MUAR

It started to rain later in the day.. so we tapau (take away?) Muar's famous otak otak and eat in the car.. :P

otak-otak: fish paste + chilli wrapped in coconut leaves and barbequed

[nowadays they even have squid paste, prawns.. ]

The otak otak was not selling inside a shop, but a temporary motor-cart with the otak-otaks ready/cooked inside a container. Boyfriend's dealer directed us to this stall, they actaully do distribution bussiness, the moter-cart is probably their side biz... So we just name the amount and flavor we want and they tapau it for us. Also available in raw packaing so we can bring home and cook it with our veges. ;)

MELAKA

Night: The queue for the famous satay celup in Melaka..

3rd generation already?

The last time I had satay celup in Melaka was when I was still a kiddo.. followed my Aunty to Melaka for a stayover(I do have relatives in Melaka from Mummy's side) I think I was still 6 or 7.. i dunno.. but I still remember I brought my smelly pillow along with me! :P

After bout 30mins of queue.. we finally got ourselves a seat..

raw food prepared in the chiller..

each sticks cost 70cents..

Peanuts being mixed into the sauce

Now what so special about this? We have to queue for 30 mins to get a table, and that big sign saying there's no other branch by Satay Capitol? I dont know! REally! But for 3 generations it has been famous with a lot of celebrities coming in to try... Lack of pictures here but the walls in the small shop are filled with pictures of celebrities and food expert from all over the world!

Satay, (food stuck into a bamboo stick and we celup(dip) them into a pot of thick sauce boiling in the middle of the table..

So yeah, their tables are special made, with a hole in the middle and our legs are pretty heated by the stove underneath the table.. -__-

After a while, the waitress maid (I kinda dont wanna call them waitress.. they are indon maid afterall~) put a few sticks of abalones onto our table.. lol.. if these abalones are placed in the chiller.. pretty much ALL of us will take only the abalones.. although yeah, these are the canned ones.. ;)

The prawn wasnt that bad.. hmm..

but really, i dont find it really delicious or so special... *shrugs*

If you wanna go, the shop is located in Jalan Cina and it opens from 5pm.. go earlier.. the later you go the longer the queue..

The next day, we decided to have our brunch first before boyfriend visit his last dealer in Melaka and we head home...

Duh... Chicken Rice Ball...

Just chicken rice, rolled into a ball... something different from our normal chicken rice. :)

When I came to Melaka as a kid and had this, I felt so special! I mean instead of normal plate of rice, I get a few rice balls to eat! :P

Then... we head on to a nearby jonker88 shop for cendol...

This shop is just so antique.. hmm.. :)

1 normal cendol and 1 durian cendol.. ^_^

:)

End of Melaka..

Oh, we even managed to catch 2012 in Dataran Pahlawan (Boyfriend's dealer is in Mahkota Parade, so after that we went opposite to walk around, since I never been there)

*Now, daddy said wanna go Melaka this trip home.. -__-*

Nah! I blogged!

Brother

Caught memorizing Moral Values for tomorrow's SPM's Moral paper... funny thing is he took a chair and sat in the porch to study.. -___-

Sis, hiding in the blankets while I snap this... online in the room...

I baked... Mocha Cake..

Dint wanna elaborate much.. same cake baking procedure.. just a different in taste and a bear mould.. Got this teddy bear mould from a shop in Tropicana Mall.. I think it was on sale.. :P

Funny thing is, I have plan to bake/cook something this trip home.. but dint go out to get any ingredients.. When I finally decided to carry my butt up and away from the laptop and Facebook, it was already 9.30pm.. I check all the stuff that I need to bake.. got everything I need, except egg... which left only 1 after mom used the rest for dinner..

I dint follow the recipe excactly I found(Mocha cake with starfruit topping)... cos after measuring 180grams of cake mix, I still left 60gms, so I poured all in and add an extra egg instead of 3.. and added 60grams of butter to instead of 45, 60ml of milk instead if 45ml... and at 9.30pm, I cant find starfruit, so I change it into orange..

The recipe wanted 150ml of vanilla whipped cream, but I only have 100gms from the last bake and so I open my other Chocolate cream to subsidise... lol.. I even changed the 60ml milk to chocolate milk cos there isnt any fresh milk at home.. only ducth lady choco drink mummy bought for brother... lol..

Lol, I even had kahlua for the syrup.. but in the end I dint use it cos dint wanna open my liquor yet.. :P

The cake was a little plain.. so I added some icing on top..

See... its like I HAVE EVERYTHING at home.. waiting for my dispense.. mummy had been nagging me I bought so much cake mix, icings and creams... there's no place to put HER stuff... lol.. so my aim now, ban myself from baking aisle in the supermarket, and try to make/cook something every trip im home... before everything I bought goes bad..

My Teddy-Tubbies... LOL

Couldn't be bothered ady...

Just feeling lazy to blog, or even post some pictures in FB...

I blame FB... so many games to play... addiction... once im done with games i kinda got tired.. and offline.. LOL

I have Bali trip pictures, still in the camera.. Random pictures from Sydney... Road trip pictures in JB-Melaka..

And some pictures I took for SouledSisters..

ALL.... Yet to be shrinked and upload... sigh...

Will try my best to do it asap *finger crossed*