Thursday, May 2, 2013

Nothing beat it



Home alone most of the day yesterday as the kids were having a day in their maternal grandparents' house.  Hubby was busy in his office, clearing and arranging his files and personal stuff.  So I have the whole house to myself till late evening.  Managed to catch a movie "Dark Skies".  A supernatural film about a family home been visited by aliens.  Not a nice movie to be watched by a light-hearted person but who cares!  I always enjoy some thrillers so it was quite fun watching it by myself although I wished hubby would accompany me.  *wink*
 
 

And I also enjoyed 3 episodes of this Hong Kong drama series, starring one of my favourite actor, Alex Fong.  Long long time did not watch him acting in drama series.   
 
Since no one was at home in the afternoon, I was so lazy to think of what for lunch till around 2pm when my tummy started to growl.  Telling me, it is time to fit my tummy!!!  Lol!
 
Since I have some leftover rice from last night, I decided the fastest meal would be fried rice!  So, looking through the fridge and shelves, I managed to whip a simple fried rice!!
 
 
Used 1/3 of this luncheon meat for my lunch.  I like this brand from Denmark because the meat is less oily and it tastes nicer than those from China!!
 
 
Ingredients for my fried rice

 
And voila!  My plate of fried rice with luncheon meat.  Bon Appetit!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Morning sunshine!

Good morning everyone!  It is a Public Holiday today in Malaysia.  Happy Workers' Day! 

We woke up after 7am this morning and who else but our kids that wake us up.  Our reliable alarm clock on weekends and holidays. Lol!

Lazy morning for me as usually I do not cook breakfast on weekends and holidays.  Just feel like sleeping more and wish the kids would not bother us but alas, kids are energetic beings and could not be ignored.  So I made them some peanut butter sandwiches and milk for breakfast.     


I love the morning sunlight shining in from the little glass panels on top of the staircase.  Natural sunlight.   
 
 
The sun is shining bright this morning so expecting another warm day today.  Alright got to log off for now.  My kids are shouting at the door waiting for me and hubby to go out for brunch.  Now we are waiting for my dad, mum and sis to pick us and have fish ball kolok mee in Batu Kawa Old Town.


Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Sweet + Sour

That is how I feel now.

I know that "sweet" and "sour" are generally used to describe taste but it is how my heart feels.  Sweet, because I feel happy and delighted.  Sour, as in bitter like a sour lemon.  Let me explain here then you would understand my state of feeling.

Sweet
 
  • Hubby is been offered a new post in Sibu.  He may be transfering to Sibu in June.  And it means if the position is confirmed, the whole family will be relocating to Sibu for a year or two the least. I am happy that hubby finally able to get this promotion and it would be a great opportunity and breakthrough for his advancement in the future.
  • The kids are excited because it is in Sibu and they can have more times with their favourite aunt.  And grandparents can visit more as Kapit is just a river away.
  • A new place and a new adventure.  It means more places and food for me to explore in Sibu.

Sour
 
  • Although the kids are excited about moving to Sibu, my daughter is anxious about moving to a new school. She told me that she would like to stay in Sibu but would not want to go to school there.  I am as anxious as her about her fitting into new school. However after much coaxing from the grandma and aunt over the weekend, she has finally agreed to relocate to new school.  So my SIL will help to register both kids in new schools over there since we would only be going there in June. 
  • There would be a lot of things that I would be missing about Kuching. My parents.  My home. Kuching's good food.  Kuching's weather.  The comfort of staying in Kuching all my life!!   I know I would be homesick.  I honestly want to stay back in Kuching and do not want to disrupt the kids' schooling, but a part of me would like to be there for hubby as this position he is taking is a big one.
  • My baby would be born in Sibu and have my confinement there.  Luckily I have my SIL to help me, as in finding confinement lady and get around here and there. 
  • Not many people I known stayed in Sibu as mostly move out from the town. But I do have a female cousin which I have lost contact many years since she was married and stayed in Sibu. So it is a good opportunity to get in touch with her again after all those years.
 A big step for the family.  But if we stick together, everything will be okay I know.  Because God is always there for us, I know.  :) 


Philippians 4:6-7

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs, and don't forget to thank Him for His answers. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Advice needed

I have a problem here.  I told you on hubby's stained shirt on my Thursday rant , and I could not remove the pen stain from the pocket.  After all those bleaching, it does not help at all.  Anyone encountered such problems before??  How to remove the stain??  Still can save the shirt or not??? 
 
Advices needed.  Thanks in advance.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Weekend Menu # 47: Another dish testing

Weekend is here.  And it means noisy moment, with both kids are home and messing around with books, stationery, games etc.  But the house couldn't be merrier without their voices.  *wink*

It is raining rather heavy outside while I am writing this post. Hope it will stop soon as I need to collect my girl's birthday cake around 5pm from the bakery. We spent our day at home today. Lazy to go out as the younger one is still down with flu and my laundry was piling up. *Sigh*

I made a dessert for the family.  Sweet corn sago dessert in coconut milk.   Yummy!! Like the chewy sago in the sweet dessert. 


And not only dessert I am making.  I used my Chefel flip pan to cook lemongrass chicken for lunch. I would like to clarify here that I am not using any HCP like most food bloggers are.  I know that most Singaporeans used HCP and is very popular there.  Mine is Chefel brand from Korea which I bought from Cosway last week.  Basically they are the same, I do not find any difference between them.

Alright, back to my lemongrass chicken.  I used to have a pot of lemongrass but it does not grow so well, so hubby used them all up during a BBQ early this year.  So when ever I need lemongrass, I would get few stalks from my mum.  Last week I used 2 stalks for my chicken rice and I left with 2 stalks in the fridge.  Seeing them are still fresh, I used them for this recipe.  It has been a while since I cooked this dish.  I have marinated the chicken pieces overnight, so they are very aromatic with lemongrass scent.  Nice appetizer if you ask me!


Less oil with Chefel pan (I did not add any oil at all; the oil is from the chicken itself) and the meats are still tender after 30 minutes cooking time (flip once after first 15 minutes into cooking time).  For recipe, go here


Friday, April 26, 2013

Go purple for the weekend!

What do you think of my pastel-theme nail art? 

Weekend is here and we will definitely be busy this weekend.  My girl's 7th birthday is this Sunday and my MIL and SIL will be flying over to celebrate with her.  And since purple is one of my girl's favourite colours, I have chosen a purplish flower theme for my nails.  *wink*

Thursday, April 25, 2013

My Thursday rants

It started off on a wrong note. Did not have good sleep last night because of hubby's snore and middle of the night I moved to my girl's room for a night. Only fell asleep very early in the morning. 

This morning after sent my kids to school, I washed my car and car porch and made some ngoh hiang for tonight dinner. Almost back to my normal mood but when bring out the laundry from the washing machine my solemn mood is back again. Hubby forgot to take out his ink pen from his white shirt pocket and it stained his shirt. Not only that I also got some ink stain on my hands and nails. Sigh!  The pen is still in good condition but the shirt I am not so sure.  It was tailored-made and hubby likes this shirt very much.  Now it was still soak in bleach, so finger cross. **Double sigh**

When I was washing my porch this morning I cleaned up so many dried leaves and dead bugs.  As it is warm season over here, the problem is not so serious.  But when we moved in and coincided with the monsoon season last year, almost every days, I have to clean after bugs in and outside the house.   Any type of bugs you can name, can be found in my house.  Sometimes one or few cicadas creeping into the house too. 

I guess my house's feng shui is pretty good.  In the front, we are facing a little river about 500 metres away, while at the back, we have the Matang hill standing majestically as the backdrop.  On a nice day, the hill is a nice sight to be seen. 

As we are surrounded with much greens, I guess having bugs as our visitors are pretty common here.  Mostly creeping from the bathroom window and the little window on the high wall on the family hall on 1st floor.  Glad that less bugs now, but now I have a different insect problem.  Ants!  Really annoying insect.  A little bit of crumb on the floor or table, in few minutes an army of little yellow ants will come.  Sigh!

Okay on a good note, I fried fish for lunch today.  Pomfret again.  We have black pomfrets almost twice a week, till my daugther complained about my menu.  Lol!  But eating fishes is better.  I am always a fish eater, till I earned my nickname of "Cat" when I was small.  *wink* And in my old company I got the nickname "Miss Fish" from my colleagues.

Fishes now are pretty expensive now.  Thanks to my mum I always have some supplies of fresh fishes from the markets.  Last week I have 3 black pomfrets from her. 

I usually just fry my black pomfret after rub some peppers and salts over the fish, but today I add a bit of twist to my fish. I got a big sized pomfret from my mum and I have been thinking of making sweet sour fish.  But last minute I decided to make cameralised onion instead.  Because easy to make and using less ingredients.  Some other day, I will make my sweet sour fish.   




Ingredients:

1 medium black pomfret
Salt for rubbing on the pomfret
3 slices of ginger, julienned
1 big onion, sliced
1 tbsp black soy sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil
1/2 tbsp sugar
Oil for frying

Methods:

1. Deep fry the pomfret in a pan.  Drain and put aside.
2. Pour the oil away and leave about 2 tbsp oil in the pan.  Add in ginger, onion and 1 tbsp sesame oil into the pan.  Stir and fry for few minute till onion turned brown.
3.  Off the heat.  Add in sugar, and black soy sauce and stir well till the onion is cameralised.
4. Pour the cameralised onion onto the fried pomfret and serve!