Welcoming New year with family and Fish&chips

For the new years eve.. everyone that i know went somewhere to celebrate. Be it with family , friends, or  carnival. All anticipating the beautiful and colourful fireworks. But for me , the best things about this new year is being with hubby, just being together and thankful for everything that we had gone through for the past year of marriage and a total of 8 years of being in a relationship. I am truly ever so thankful that i still have my brother and my husband in my life, literally without them my life would be without meaning.

Safe to say 2012 really test our family ties and patients dealing with people who are just a nuisance in our lives. I have had enough and im happy the way everything is resolved. My brother, hubs and myself finally have a peace in mind and we can finally call our house a HOME. Warmth , light and happiness is slowly filling our home the way when our mother was still with us. May her soul rest in peace ...=). I know she's looking down on us and smiling and hopefully proud with us all, although she may not approve on how we achieve it... lolz... 

For the past one year we have cooked, baked and grilled all sorts of delectables.. hahaha .. So, since we had dory fish and prawns in our freezer, we decided to make fish and chips .. Lolz, but to make it healthier minus the chips.. lolz.. I bought some cabbages and we made coleslaw and mixed up a bottle of tartar sauce (mixed store bought with wholegrain mustard seeds. mayo and other things )...

Lolz, because i love buying bargain things , we used all imported crust and tempura batter!!
Alhamdulillah , at least my shopping ability helped us enjoying the best at a fraction of the price. 

We munch on the cooked fried prawns ...
 yummeh!!!

Yummy yummy coleslaw.... 

We even enjoyed some lemonade, jasmine green tea and a bottle of gassy drink.

Since , it was the new year and its been a while since we last meet up with Gary and G-Jar (GG), we invited them for brunch and they also brought the little bundle of joy baby Ariean Indra Putra..!!! He was sooo gorgeous ..!!!! *more on that on our next entry*..=). I just couldnt get enought of him!!!! hahaha ... anyways, after a good hearty brunch we all went out and walk around Subang Parade ..!! 

Our delicious brunch for the day..!!!! hahaha Yummeh !!!

Well, thats all for this post  and entry ..=). 

Hopefully its not too late...to wish everyone, Happy New Year !! 

May everyone be blessed and all their resolutions and dreams come true!! 

Cheers !!

Family Cookout... And one that will be dearly missed!!

Its been a while since we last had a good family gathering ... I mean while my mom was sick and the months after her passing i wasn't in the mood to do anything much . Life was much better because i had family, Hubs and my brother around. Well, truthfully this gathering happened in October ..=).. Sorry for the late upload... Lolz, Anyway this gathering was coincidently was the same day as what would have been my late mothers 52nd birthday ..

That morning we all gathered at Uncle Whye's house. Atok Cha made her famous nasi lemak , sambal sotong, pancake and one of her other well known dishes kuah durian. hahaha...Im not a fan of Durian, so i ate mine with butter and honey .. hhahah lolz

One of my uncle had a briliant idea of grilling bananas , covered with brown sugar.. OOOO, its soo delicious..!!!! everyone decided they want one their own, even i made one for myself .. hehehe ... 

After breakfast , we explore the house a bit .. 

My cousin Katie also joined us for this awesome BBQ and family time. 

After Exploring the whole house we all really needed to cool down in the pool. It was hot and the house was huuuggeeee!!! hahaha ..So the funny part was ... even my grandma wanted to swim with  us. Lolz.. she even changed clothes and wanted to be piggy ride around the pool... Hahaha .. funny enough she even  had her "sexy"hair flipping moments ... =)... Boy did she have fun!!=)

Look how happy she was.. hahaha !!!

Althought its only our first time here that time.. we are all like fish missing water .. hahaha ... everyone changed and jumped, splashed, dived and lazing around in the cool pool on this hot hot day ... wah... i think we all spent about 3-4 hours lazing by the pool.. Wow, even all of us cant help but to enjoy. I think this was the first time in a loonngg time that we had this many cousins hanging out and go for a laze and swim.. In the late afternoon even my brother's girlfriend Nadirah even joined us for a dip.Even she didnt wanna leave the pool lolz...

  After the few hours in the pool,we were all were hungry by the time we came out.Since we all had friend rice and pancakes in the morning we didn't wanna repeat the same menu. So luckily our uncle had some beef in his fridge and i brought over sausages, we did an adhoc BBQ tea/early dinner meal. Lolz, the meal was freshly marinated and grilled on the charcoal BBQ pit. It was superb!!!!!

My hubby loves working at the pit, so i guess he was the pit master of the day accompanied by my brother Dani too... =). Nadirah and me also helped here and there.. hehehe . Not to forget another round of grilled banana's was served lolz.. the only thing that was missing was ice cream. But everything was perfectly delicious..!!!! 

After the BBQ dinner, we all again as a family laze around watching tv, chit-chat, and pretty soon hubs and me were on the way to send Katie back home, Dani sending Nadirah and basically everyone was getting ready to go home. It was such a beautiful ending for a beautiful day . Family day and my belated mothers 52nd bday . 

May Allah bless her soul and may she rest in peace. 

We all luv u Mama!! Amin!!

Till Next time... =)

BBQ Potluck & A Surprise!!

Hubby and I really wanna have a moment with our besties, so we decided what better way then to have a fun BBQ party at our place. Since my dad wasnt around, it was the perfect weekend time to plan this party. Since it was my first time planning this sort of party, we decided to just try out with just a few of our close besties, and since it really did well we will next time hopefully get a chance to make a HUGE one..!!=)

Luckily, we have all coordinated the dishes everyone will be bringing.

So, everyone wont be stress out about making everything and no duplicate of food..=).

See what everyone brought,

Me & Hubby = Grilled Chicken, Beef Skewers and fried Spagetti.

Melissa & Steven = Mash Potato and Fruit Salad.

Gary & G-jaar = Beef Cake and Cheddar Cheesecake.

Amly = Beef and Lamb burger patty .

Eddie & Eika = Dominoes Pizza

 Gary, G-Jaar, Hubby and me Grilling the chicken and beef.. 

What was suppose to start about 5.30-6pm, but except for Gary and G-Jaar others called to say they were arriving about 630pm. So the four of us decided that we will start grilling the meats, so that when the others arrive its ready for everyone to start eating.  And soon everyone came and the potluck begins..=)..

My fried spagetti..
Slightly overcook but tasteful.. I hope!!

G-jaar's Beef cake..
I think its a meatloaf kind a dish..=)

G-Jaar's yummilicious Cheddar Cheese Cake..!!

This was what i took on my plate....
oooo , its soo fulfilling!!

The foods that were served..

 It was sooo nice when i looked around the table and see that everyone truly enjoy all the food that everyone brought to the dinner. Although it would've been awesome if we had some green vegetables to balance the all the meats that we had. I think it was satisfying to hear all the "Um...", "Yum...", "Ngam" ... And the priceless faces of content and with a full tummy ..! 

 Wanna know whats the surprise?? Well, since Amly birthday was coming up in a few days time.. I kinda asked permissin from G-jaar if i could take one cut of her cake to kinda surprise Amly with a Birthday song.

Ok..ok.. why i didnt make or buy her a cake ?? Well, i actually wanted too, but with cleaning the house for guest and also preparing all the beef and chicken, i was too tired. So i took the easy way out... Oopsy, but it did make her smile.. That counts the most!! ..=)

Surprise Amly…!!!!

Thankfully i had some writing icing and also a birthday

sign and extra candle from previous cake purchases.

Actually after dinner, we brought out the cards and started playing Monopoly Deal and also "ChoTaiTee" or "Big2".. The games has many names , but it was fun cause everyone had their Pokerface on and  trying their best to win without anyone suspecting that they were. But it was painful when me and G-jaar taught Amly, Melissa and Steven to play monopoly deal.. and they won again and again.. and again... *covering face* ... Lolz... it was embarrassing..

Pretty soon, it was time for everyone to go home. Since the potluck bbq was done on Monday (Public Holiday), everyone wants to go home early so they could get an early start the next day.  But i was truly happy that everyone came and enjoyed themselves. Since it was a Potluck, there wasn't much things to clear up... *looking up and thanks god*... hehehe .... 

Im happy that there werent much leftover either.. 

Just a few pieces of pizza, some cheesecake, some grilled chicken.. 

Just to name a few..But it was Gratifying that most of the food finished..!! 

Cant wait to plan for the next meetup

Yippee..!! Till next time... Toodles~!!