MERDEKA!!!!

yeah, MERDEKA!!!!.....Malaysia is celebrating its 50th independance day today....! i'm so proud to be a Malaysian....i have a year+ experience in Manchester in 1992 when i was a kid...an exciting experience but i really missed Malaysia at that time...especially the food...nothing is better than home...

my dear daughter , who is currently 2 year+, is very excited upon seeing Malaysian flag....she calls the flag as "merdeka"....and when she sees any advertisement with Malaysian flag and people saying out loud "merdeka", she will join the excitement as well...she will ask for her flag and starts dancing with it....she might be too small to understand the meaning of Merdeka, but it's good that she has instill the value inside her...

as Malaysians, we should treasure the meaning of Merdeka in many ways....it can be implied in our daily life as well....what we had achieved today is due to the achievements in the past....work hard today to harvest a good quality of grains in the future....

MERDEKA!!!

another cupcakes project....

i made some cupcakes for Dr GG and my aunt, MakTam, and as usual Jihan loves being at our lovely home in Bukit Mahkota as she can run around at the big house....

Jihan loves to disturb me when i iced the cake...she loves looking at the various colours and at the end she will pretend blowing the candles on the cupcakes....

more pictures on Cameron Highlands trip...

drinking strawberry tea
eating strawberry
strawberry celup chocolate
bestnyer
tea
at the tea plantations

vege/flower farm

somehow, the fotopages is having problems...i was unable to upload the photos...so, i'll upload them here...

another hectic weekend...

yeah, this time we were off to Cameron Highlands...i had to attend a Managing Cardiovasular Risk Workshop there...i brought my dear hubby and Jihan along as this workshop is fully sponsored by Astra Zeneca, so we can have a "free" holiday at The Equatorial ...please believe me that this is my FIRST time to Cameron Highlands...(please don't laugh at me....)

we took the Simpang Pulai route instead of the usual Tapah way...people said that this route is less winding...for me, it was ok...no motion sickness...(which was good!) we stopped by at a strawberry/vegetables/flower farm and had an afternoon tea at the Cameron Valley Tea Shop...

after check-in, i started attending the workshop while my 2 loved ones enjoying the cozy room...(but iwe don't like the bathroom, it wasn't Muslim friendly - no water hose to wash after you pee)

anyway, the atmosphere was good...it was still cold up there...some people said that Cameron is not that cold anymore...we went down to Brinchang town and it was very busy indeed as there was a pasar malam there....

before going back the next day (after i finished my conference in the afternoon), we strolled along the weekend market at Kea Farm and bought vegetables and strawberries...i was so thrilled shopping for the fresh veggies...16 packets for RM 10...3 medium packets of strawberries for RM 10...1 bunch of corns (about 10 sticks) for RM 10...wahhhhh!!!! and we bought some tea as well including the strawberry tea...

we went back the Simpang Pulai way as well...it was quite hectic travelling but was worth it....i baked some fresh strawberry tartlets and it came out nice...

Jihan enjoyed herself so much...she loves eating the strawberry....she behaved quite well but sometimes would just throw her tantrum especially when we were trying to have our meals...

i think Jihan had a slight motion sickness when we went up there...she was sitting in her carseat quietly, then suddenly she cried....i took her out of the carseat and cuddle her comfortly...then she became calm again...



more picts at our fotopages (ooppss....slight problems with fotopages...unable to upload the photos...will do it later ya...)

a very busy weekend...

my dad invited a few of his friends and our close relatives for a lunch yesterday....my dear Jihan really enjoyed herself as many kids were there, especially kak Sofea, abang Ikmal and baby Adam....the day before that, i baked quite a number of cupcakes to entertain the guests...

Jihan also loved eating all sort of food including roti jala, rice with chicken curry and watermelon, not forgetting air sirap limau...

she was running around playing with the other kids until she was exhausted....

later in the evening, she had a tantrum and suddenly vomitted...she felt better after she vomitted out....and continued playing around...

she had another 2 episodes of vomiting later that night, probably it was due to a lot of phlegm...early in the morning today, she had a temperature and i did a sponging on her, but as usual she really hates it..!!!

then i gave her syrup PCM, at first, she refused but after i was done with it, she has happily sitting in front of the TV watching her favorite shows...

even though she has quite a temperature today, she is still an active kid...

Blue.....

i was baking a chocolate cake today...as usual, my little helper would stay in the kitchen to "help" me out.... i was busy baking the cake, suddenly i heard a crash.... !

oooh ooooooo..... my little helper just dropped a small bottle of food colouring on the floor....!! the floor was covered with blue liquid and Jihan's feet were also blue....Jihan was shocked and scared and cried....

papa washed her feet but the colour won't come out completely...she pretended become limping as if her feet were injured....

P/S: the cake that i baked on that day...

splash..splash..i'm absolutely tanned...

we had a good time at Tanjung Bidara...Jihan and hubby had a solid 3-hours splashing in the not-so-clean swimming pool...

it was hot...but our little girl just refused to come out of the pool earlier...she loved making friends aith the other children..

after 3 hours, Jihan voluntarily opted to go out of the pool after seeing her fingers all crumpled and shrunk...

she slept for an hour after that, feeling exhausted...and just look at her body...it was very tanned and flushed...

i bought her a vitamin E cream to apply onto her body to prevent peeling off the skin...so far, so good...

she kept telling people about her wonderful experience in the pool...more picts at our fotopages..

break....

we are going to Malacca (Tanjung Bidara) for my department family day...managed to make lovely vanilla custard cupcakes and chocolate chocolate chips cupcakes...

see you really soon...

a healthy start (part 2)

this is a progress from the part 1...i've begin to sweat out today together with my mum...we did a 40 minutes workout and it was hard enough to make us sweat...and now i started feeling the aching here and there...i bought a Kathy Smith's CD few days ago to get started and it was worth buying it...

i was inspired by hliza...and we have the same goal which is to tone our body and to reduce our weight!!! at the same time to remain healthy....nowadays, i also reduce my food intake especially at night...



so, i hope i can maintain the current lifestyle and achieve my goal...Yeah!!!