Weekend tea treats

For a person whom did not succeed in making steam bao no matter how many times I tried, I will have to buy baos  from the shop and keep frozen ones in the fridge as snacks especially on weekends.

I like those little 小龙包。I just need to steam them over high heat for 5 minutes and it is done..

For tea break last Sunday, we had these little paos and homemade "wajid" from SIL we packed home from the previous Easter Sunday.

School Sports Day 2016

After 30 long years. besides joining the cross country run in Feb 2016, I also went back to my secondary school for their sports day last week.  I met a lot of my school mates on that day but haven't got the chance to chat much. 

It's the final day of the 3 days annual sports meet, everything is pretty much the same as yesteryears except they have much bigger and stronger cheer leading team for every houses.  The students have put a lot of efforts into this event which has turned out to be the highlight of the annual sports meet.

I only managed to upload the performance by yellow house cheer leading team so far, mascot is Simba of the Lion King :

the mascot for Red House is McQueen

The champion cheer leading team for 2016 is the Green House, Their mascot is Peter Pan of Neverland

Blue team, mascot is Rio

The school served refreshment to the VIPs

The kuih is filled with peanuts too sweet for me

Free 100 plus and Oishi drinks as well..

Change of Blog Title

I have decided to change my blog's title from Precious Moments..to a more personalised title which carries my own name : Agnes' Diary & More...

from this one 

to

this one after 9 years

I have got to know many friends through this blog of mine though I have not met any of you personally, I hope we will meet up someday.  

At 1M UTC

My better half lost his wallet 2 weeks ago, after making a police report, he has to redo his ID card and driving licence.  We went to 1Malaysia UTC to get these 2 things done within 2 hours.  The fine for first time lost of ID card is RM110 and driving licence is RM20.00.

While waiting for the cards to be done, our girl asked to go to the library situated at the next building, there is a 1M store too where I can find cheaper can food like sardine and condensed milk. The eatery is just outside the 1M store, initially we just wanted to have a drink but ended up ordering food as early lunch at 11am+. 

The eatery

my eldest ordered her favourite plain chicken rice

soto for my better half, I like it too

I ordered the Gado Gado.  My better half spent his childhood time in Tawau, he is pretty sure that only those from Tawau will serve Gado Gado, after chit chatting with the lady boss, we confirmed that they are indeed from Tawau, a place famous for its Gado Gado.

let's dig in to find out what's Gado Gado. It is served with lots of beansprouts, cucumber, boiled egg (halve), ketupat (rice cake), spread of peanut sauce and crackers, I feel full after eating this because of the rice cakes.   

A satisfying breakfast

Simple yet satisfying breakfast for me.  I had this yesterday after a month long of having oats for breakfast.  I like the bitterness of the bitter gourd, it is also a cooling food on hot weather like this. What is your favourite breakfast? 

Vegetarian Buffet

Have heard and passed by this shop every time we dine at McDonald in Komplek Karamunsing.  I chose to try it out after we have done the auction sales at Palace Hotel yesterday.  My better half has tried it before and he was not keen to have another round of meatless meal.  He patiently waited for me to enjoy my vegetarian buffet which cost RM9.90 per person.

There are signs and notices sticking on the food counter walls reminding the customers "do not waste food".  Even without this notices, I am a natural thrifty person whom do not like the idea of wasting anything . I took bits of everything just enough for my consumption.

taufu pok and long beans curry

solid taufu

I also had half a bowl of porridge and red bean soup each which I forgot to take photos of.  I had a cup of nice coffee to finish off with my vegetarian lunch.  

Crochet Sling Bag

Yay, I have finally finished my second piece of Crochet bag for my daughters.  This time I used 17 pieces of granny's squares to make this bag.  

I did most of my granny square during lunch time in the office

the pieces of granny squares are being arranged to the pattern I wanted after that

I crochet to join them up like this

measuring the lining for the bag

attaching the zipper to the lining.  I find it's more secure to have lining and zipper for the crochet bag because of the yarn materials, soft and stretchable.

the zipped lining is sewed to the main piece

front/back view

side view

the final task was to crochet the strap, a bit long for a sling bag. I did single crochet for the whole length so that it is firmer.

It is done...let's have a closer look, it can fit in a Tab 3, a right size book and some small stuff.

Youtube Slide version

Holy Saturday 2016

On Holy Saturday, the last day of Holy Week, the eve of Easter Sunday, we had steamed fish at home.  We bought a talapia for RM13.00 at the supermarket.  This dish alone is enough for the 4 of us.  Lots of tomatoes, black fungus and ginger..but we forgot one of my favourite ingredient, the lemon grass.  

Good Friday

We are blessed with early morning rain on Good Friday. The weather is not as hot after the rain. It's a state public holiday here allowing us to attend mass in church.

We practice no meat on Good Friday.  We even skipped lunch today.     

We had homecooked kolo mee in the late morning..cooked by my better half.

Ingredients for dinner..

Mushrooms macaroni at our girls' request and I added on boiled carrots.

Tomatoes sardine and mushrooms fried egg

Meatless meals except fish for the day

Holy Thursday Lunch

It is Holy Thursday today.  It is the day to commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus Christ. I had simple lunch in the office (like most of the days). To our own free wills, we refrain from taking heavy meals during this Holy Week.

A couple of my office mates has gone on leave getting ready to attend church masses tonite. 

Fined on a fine Sunday

We went to 1Borneo last Sunday.  We have got a nice parking a few steps away from the entrance.  Settled ourselves in an eatery on ground floor.  Our food came but left my better half's nasi lemak which has no sign of coming, upon checking, the kitchen said they had run out of chicken.  My hungry better half has turned angry, he was very unhappy for such a service, he paid for our food and went to other shop to find his comfort food..

my little girl's breakfast set

I chose fish meehoon soup, the taste is nice

normal fried mee, taste nice too

we also tried the cheapest beef noodle soup at one of the Vietnamese restaurant, RM2.10 (inc. GST)..the serving is very small, this bowl is just about a spoonful of a Chinese soup spoon..I will need to have 10 bowls of it to satisfy my eating capacity.

my girls spotted something different in the mall, the Korean ice cream.  The ice cream is filled at both ends of the cone.  RM10.00 per piece which is overpriced. 

By the time we leave the mall, we found our car has been locked, there's a summon on the car wind screen saying that a male driver has parked on a ladies parking bay, thus have to pay RM50.00 fine.

It has been captured on the CCTV, what is there to argue, it is the ignorant on our part to ignore the notice posted on the parking bays.  We also noticed several cars have been locked under this circumstance...I considered it as buang sial lah to pay the RM50.00 fine.