Happy Mothers day 2011 !!

Every year in the month of May , the whole world would gather and celebrate their birth by celebrating Mother's all over the Universe...=). I know we should celebrate and be grateful for our mothers everyday. However, having a special day to celebrate Mother's day besides their birthday is also awesome. So we can shower them extra love twice a year..=)

Every year my brother and I, will find ways to find gifts to surprise my mom . She is everything to us . But one things is that customary is the Mothers Day dinner...=).. For the past 2 years, she has been repeatedly hinting that she wanna try Victoria Station steak ... And this year.. *tadaaa!!!!* Alhamdulillah, my dad treat all of us to....VICTORIA STATION!!!=)..

We have always heard of the restaurant, however we all have never really been there nor eaten there before. So its was an amazing treat for all of us to have a chance to dine at the place. The first thing that i kinda like of the place was the fact that it was inspired by UK subway station by the same name 'Victoria Station'. So the insides was divided into three sections, at both corners was a train carriage inspired with dining layout.

Because i had made reservations earlier, we were able to cut the cue and proceed to the available table inside one of this compartments. This was when i notice that the place was kinda cramp but comfortable enough to enjoy the meal. I notice that the pricelist of the food was ok-ok, some were affordable but mostly it was on the pricey side. And when we placed our orders, it took them about 10 mins to arrive.I know.. i know.. if it arrives late we complain... too early we still complain. lolz..

However, for it to come about 10 mins after we just ordered, it kinda showed that it was precooked and was just heated up before putting it out to be sent to us. And with the price compared to the portion, it was kinda disappointing. However, luckily it was my fathers treat, and with that i dont think i will ever go back there again. =)... With that pricelist i think i could find other places that has better steak which is more satisfying and yummilicious..!!

After dinner, my bother decided to treat all of us to Baskin Robbin ice-cream at Taipan.  Wow, The flavour of the month is sooo yummy..!!! I forgot the name of the flavour , however its sooooo yummilicous, it has coconut and caramel coated nuts...!! Me and my mum both enjoyed it very much . Guess the girls has the sweet caramel tooth and the boys all enjoyed double chocolate and coffee something..!! lolz.. That just made the day end sooo awesome...=)

We siblings even slipped i some cam-whoring session. Heheheh... 

Thats how the family celebration ended for the night..

I absolutely ♥ ♥ ♥ all of them sooo much.!!

Lending a helping hand

Making a difference in the world not matter how insignificant it may seem to you, could make a family out there happy . Well, this year a few of my friends decided to Make a difference in the only way they could. They and a few of their families organise this charity collection of clothes, toys, groceries and any things that is still reusable and donate them to families around Kuala Selangor and Kapar (Klang).






















How they plan it was very organized. They made a list of groceries for ppl to donate. They can either donate loose item and whatever it is that they feel like it . But they made a list of groceries to give to each families.


The list goes like this ,
1) 5kg rice
2)Powdered Milk
3)Condensed Milk
4)Sardines
5)Sugar
6)Salt
7)Atta Flour
8)1 Liter Oil
9)Curry Powder
10) Pappadum
11) Milo
12)Maggi /Meehoon
13)Dhal

They made a list so that each family has equal amount of things . So it was easier that for everyone who wants to donate can donate according to family. For me, I couldn't really afford to sponsor a family so me and my friend Fara shared and sponsored a family. Im shocked that at home, my mom would spend hundreds for the whole month family groceries. And even then we still take things for granted and demand some new type of food stuff /brand and/or products that just came into the market .

























However, for some family a donation of RM100 worth  Groceries of the basic food stuff was enough for them to survive and feed their entire family . It makes me appreciative of all the things my mom ever did to keep a roof under my head,to feed my entire family  and to care for all of us when we needed her the most. So me and Fara sponsored one family while our other friend Parames sponsored 4 families. How awesome is that ??










Total for that weekend itself they have collected and sponsored about 60 families. In quantity thats a lot... Thats like huge. They organised everything even giving the kids each a party packs thats filled with jellies, chocolates, sweets, snacks and even pre-loved toys ... However, because they were sooo many kids and not enough toys. They didnt have the hearts to distribute the toys and asked that the leader of place to make the distribution later on. At the venue , some of the volunteers was overwhelmed by the situation and was deeply moved and vow to return and visit again.

Sometimes helping others, makes you learn ,

 realise and appreciative of all we ever had. 

May God bless them all, who have ever made a difference in someone's life.

And may God bless you, if you have ever made a difference.

 I know and i feel Blessed to have this life that i have.

Baking Day (7-5-2011)....

As any granddaughter would say and admit... My grandmother is the best cook around.. And in my case.. i would say she is ... And since i absolutely love love love kek lapis sarawak(Sarawak layered cake) , she decided to give a try to make it . Although she didnt really know the ingredient, recipe and all, but from someone she randomly met at the hospital..=), she roughly got the recipe!!
                   

Since mothers day fall on a sunday , and i was kinda free on saturday. She decided to call on me and my cousin Natasha to help and try to make it. Like i said although she didnt really know what or how it was done, we decided to just go with the flow and use whatever intuitive we all had.. haha .. and so the baking began..!!

After shopping at carefour the day before to get some of the basic ingredients, we made the basic batter of beating the eggs with more egg yoke than the white till its a white fluffy cloud of egg stiff. Then we beat sugar, horlicks, *secret ingredient*, melted butter and  flour . Later on we mixed the two mixture together and separate it into 3 different containers. 1 container was mixed with green food colouring, 1 with red colouring and the other is the batter colour itself (we call it yellow) . Then we pre-heated the oven at 180c*.

 

With that we started to layer it out. First will be the yellow,then the green, yellow, red, yellow.. and then we make a stripe pattern diagonally alternating between the colour red and green, and etc. While we are baking the first SQUARE layered cake, since there was extra coloured batter left, i decided to use my creativity and make a ROUND fun cake with the extra red/green batter.
            


Everything well so well, however we forgot the most crucial part. AGGHHH!!!! hahaha .. Supposedly we had to open the Bottom&Top fire for the first 2 layers and then change it to only Top fire only. I admit I also forgot with all the excitement of the baking to change that, well, my grandma, my aunt and my cousin also forgot. Resulted to the black and burned ROUND layered cake. But cause the batter was yummilicious!! Even the burned part tasted awesome! And lucky for my the round cake made it through
with little burning at the bottom. So, sorry for the look of the cake . I forgot to beautify the cake before taking a photo.. haha .. Well, no matter how it looks like . Its sooo deliciously yummy..!! I will definitely try to make it again and make it better..!!!=)

While all this was going on, i coax my cousin Tasha to teach me how she did her awesomely and delicious Chocolate rolls. Its a Cinnamon Roll that has no cinnamon but a lots and lots of Chocolate chips...!!! It was sooo sinful...!!!! Heheheh, it took some time for the preparation as it takes a while to wait for the wet ingredients to cool down and later to wait for the yeast to rise... But the making of the rolls was relatively simple.. Hehehehe ... I think i might wanna try to make it with maybe cream cheese, jam or even peanut butter flavoured ones...That will definitely be for next time..!!

Yippee !!!!

Alhamdulillah ,

Lolz....!!! I am so happy and proud to say that my blog has reach its first ever 1000 views...!!! Aaaaaaa!! hahaha ..*screaming with glee*... and happiness and overwhelming-ness. I NEVER.. seriously NEVER thought that people would give a hoots to what i have to say or the stories that i wanna share . But this approves that people do care.. and that a 'nothing news/activity' for someone is an interesting and awesome stories for others..!!! 


Yippee!! hehee ... Im even more shock to see that i have people from Germany, US, UK, Singapore, Albania and other countries reading my blog..!! Hopefully, You guys around the world enjoy the things i do and share as much as i do . And If there are anything u guys wanna share with me about your activities and countries.. Do drop me a message ..!! 


My journey is far from over.. I will continue to update and share my joys, sorrows, happiness, memories, activities and stories for everyone to read ..!!=).. And if u have any journey you would like to share with me.. do comment or leave me a message ...=)...


Till my next entry...!! May god bless all of you who have given the time to read and even more for those who share the memories with me..!!

♥ all of you...!! Muahss Muahss.. Muahss..

~ ...Sweet toothy Smile...~

Like any other person, i absolutely love love love sweet things... or 'Sweet Thangs'... with a southern accent.. hahaha .. lolz... And i am always scouring places and browsing the web to get the best at an affordable price..=).. Yummy..!! Food nowadays are painstickingly expensive. And for a person like me who live to eat.. Thats a big problem..=).. But being a budgeted person, I strive myself in finding bargains in everything that i want and need..=)..

Most of my bestie's , friends and families love love love sweet indulgence .. One of my bestie (Iqa@Angelica) has the absolute sweet tooth ever... And her main weakness is anything chocolaty, sweet, delicious, gooey and yummilicous sweet treats she could find. And even i cant compete with her on the sweet tooth category.. haha ...And she's as sweet as the sweet things she indulges in..=)..Me ♥ ya !!

Anyways, just thought of sharing a few of my findings.. and although some was bought by other ppl and i dunno where it was bought... i just thought of sharing the pictures and the happiness it brought me and my friends..Sharing good times and good dessert ...=)...

Macarons are one of craze thats been hitting malaysia these past year...Its a French pastry that is crunchy on the outside, chewy and sweet in  the inside that is also filled with flavoured cream... um... Sounds tooth achingly sweet ?? It definitely is... hehehe ..... One macaron is enough to cover two days of your average sugar intake.. hahaha ... but is it worth it...?? Um.... kinda..!!!!=) .... Definitely not healthy.., but still blissful..!!=). Normally Macarons are damn expensive nowadays.. It can cost ya around Rm 3-6 for each Macaron. I recently found someone thats has an online business doing

 macarons, hers is not too bad.. just not as soft as id like it to be, not too chewy.. and exceptionally sweet.. but not bad , nice and definitely affordable  and its bigger than most of the macarons have seen in the market these days... (Wanna check her out ?? Find her on her facebook at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000644702878&sk=wall )

 A few friends and I , we were in need of some sweet delights to top off our hot & Spicy lunch on one of the days..=).. And since we all had a spicy lunch we decided to treat ourself to some sugary sweet cuppies..!! And when you are around or in Uptown Damansara, its kinda hard not to stop by Wondermilk. They serve some of the best cuppies around. It's a bit too pricey for my taste...
 But its not bad,,!! =)..
Since lunch-hour was only about 1 Hour, We decided to share it all at the office..  We bought a box of six average cuppies and cut it all up and share .. the best part is the sharing.. We get to try all the flavours and compare the favourites.. Excellent.!!!=). (Interested in trying ? No41 Jalan SS 21/1A Damansara Utama ,47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia / www.ilovewondermilk.com)


We recently have a new office mate, her name is Sharin Ong .. and more or less a month  after she joined, she turned a year older and her friends bought for her an awesome box of cuppies. With custom chocolate fondant that spelled out her name. and the cake underneath was an aweosome chocolate moist cake with chocolate ganache topping topped with hard chocolate fondant,,!! How awesome is
that ??. The fondant is of course tastelessly sweet as its made form sugar.. but other than it was pretty to look at and nice to eat .Well, i dunno where her friends bought it from.. but it was Yummy... and cute design,,!! me likey..!!=)


The first time i heard of Red velvet was on a reality tv show a few years back.. and they went on and on how its the hottest flavour that is everyone's favourite. I have always wonder how it taste like. However, i have taste my
share of red velvet and not one taste the same as the other.With soo many
 interpretation , well it has been  a journey that had its pro's and con's.. hahaha ... lolz...sound were moist but not enough cream cheese topping, or too much topping and bad tasting red 'goo' cake underneath. But i am
proud to say, i have finally found one that i absolutely just love, love.. LOVE!!!..=)... Its not too sweet, soft, crumbly, and beautifully layered of cream cheese topping and red chocolate cake. The place also sells this other cake, and i soo forgot what the name of it.. hahaha .. but its still awesome... and light fluffy and nutty flavour.  But, what makes it even more awesome was that i was sharing it with my lovely bestie Iqa@angelica and Kamal@Tito my fiance. And i seriously love it...!! For those of you who wanna try it.. Do Pm me , cause this is ont of the gems i rather keep to myself ,.!!=).. Cause i seriously LOVE IT!!.. Its so Yummilicous..!!

The last one that i will share for today is the frozen yogurt from a place that is famous for their drinks... "Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf"...So far whenever i visit any of their outlet, the most favourite thing for me to order is All-day breakfast set that has their yummilicious bagel with cream cheese and a refillable tea..=)... But the dessert frozen yogurt is also to die for... I have tried better but its unique as it combines the best of their drinks with their frozen yogurt ...If u have a citibank credit card its even cooler as you can enjoy Buy 1 free1 when you pay with ur citibank credit card...(Visit the coffee bean near you to enjoy this froyo dessert)

Sweet things are a must for us to indulge once in a while and its even more nice when it is shared with the people who bring you such happiness and with the people who you love and who love you..!! Till next time..!! If you know of any place offers great dessert , do share with with me and leave a comment... Hugs and sweet kisses...!!xoxoxox