It's growing again...

It's growing very fast.

It's growing!!

Yea.. it's spring onion. Will it be the same as the one back home? From what I know is that the spring onion here is much fatter and bigger than what we have back home.

SwEeT tOoth

This bull is made of hundreds or even millions of jelly beans. Anyone interested to give it a munch?? ;)

Chicken soup, chicken soup and again chicken soup

I cooked some chicken soup these few days. It is because my fiance is going to sit for his exam. I added some ginseng into it too. And yesterday he told me that he didnt want to drink it anymore because he has consumed it for 3 days in a row. He couldn't stand the bitter taste of the ginseng. Haiz.. Got ginseng chicken soup to drink and yet still like to complain.. ;)

More scarves...

I'm kind of addicted to knit scarves nowadays. Knitting prevents me from bitting my fingernails. So that's one of the benefits. Attached here are some of my knitted scarves. The blue scarf is still in progress.


Cable scarf


My first lace scarf


still in progress - blue checkered scarf

A story of a box of instant cake mix

I went for groceries shopping at Everwin yesterday with my 3+ years old niece. As usual, I put her inside the trolley and push her around. When we passed by the baking and confectionary section, my niece saw a beautiful cake box and she put it inside the trolley.

Val: Gugu, I want this.

Me: This is not a ready made cake. We go and buy ready made one.

Val: Don’t want. I want this.

She put the box into the trolley. I pushed her to another section and showed her the ready made cakes like Apollo layer cake.

Me: Gugu buy this for val, ok? This is ready made one.

Val: Don’t want. This is nicer. (although she hasn’t try it before.. maybe because the picture of the cake attracted her)

At the end, we bought this instant cake mix. I couldn’t persuade her to change her mind.

At home, my mum asked me why I bought this instant cake mix.

Mum: Why do u buy this instant cake mix?

Me: Val wants it.

Mum: Maybe she thought it’s a ready made cake.

So, I opened the box and showed my niece that there was no cake inside the box except the flour and batter.

Me: U see, Val… There is no cake inside. Only got these (I showed her the flour and batter)

Val: (without hesitation) Gugu makes the cake lo.

Even small kid knows that it’s a instant cake mix. Never thought that small kids don’t know anything. Kids are smarter nowadays. So, last night I baked the cake for her. This is my first time trying out this instant cake mix. It turned out fine – soft and fluffy but a bit too sweet for me. I got add extra coffee + milo to make it look like a marble cake.






(altho it's called pandan cake but not greenish enough)

2nd attempt of making steamed bun

I've made some milk butter steam buns and mantou today. I used different brand of pau flour which is much cheaper than the first one. They turned out to be almost the same. Here are some of the photos to share...