8 course meal is the basic for a wedding dinner. The price of each table is very much depends on the type of food that are included in the dishes. Dishes with shark fins, abalone, prawn will definitely more expensive.
At my cousin's son wedding, it is the first time that I have and tasted abalone in fried rice. My cousin, Mr & Mrs Yong Chee Loong's youngest son wedding was on 12 November 2009. Here's the snapshots of us at the wedding dinner and the delicious 8 course meal.
Mum and aunties meet. chit chatting before the dinner.
I am not just off from blogging for many weeks due to heavy workloads, both at work and at home , I am also haven't got the chance to check on my PayPal account for a while. Today, I logged on to my PayPal account with the intention to find out how to withdraw some funds to my credit card which I have accumulated since I started blogging.
I am pleased to find out the we, in Malaysia are allowed to withdraw funds to the local Malaysian banks now, this is what many of us have been waiting for.
There will be no charges if withdrawal is more than RM400.00, otherwise, we will be charged RM3.00 for the transaction. It will only take 2-3 working days to receive the funds into our bank account. Withdrawal to a credit card will take 5-7 days, with a charge of RM20.00.
I am a vegetable lover but not a vegan. Times and times again, I read about the health benefits of certain fruits and vegetable but never noticed some of the vegetable I usually eat actually resemble our body organs and have direct benefits to that organ too. Do you know that?
It was brought to my attention when I received an email enclosing a slide entitled "God's Pharmacy" from my colleague today. It is amazingly true, that,
1. Carrots, when it is cut into halve, the round middle part resembles the eye, thus eating carrot enhances blood flow to and functions of our eyes.
2. Tomato, has four chambers is very similar to the heart which has four chambers too. Tomatoes loaded with lycopine, a form of carotene, good for the heart and blood.
3. Grapes, a cluster of grapes hanging on the tree resemble the human heart thus also profound heart and blood vitalising food.
4. Walnut, look like the brain. Consuming walnuts help develop more than 3 dozens neuron, the transmitter for brain functions.
5. Kidney bean, look exactly like kidney, it actually heals and helps maintain the kidney functions.
6. Celery, its stems look like bones. it contains sodium which is what our bones need. Eat celery to replenish our bones strength and skeletal needs.
7. Avocados, eggplants, pears, provides the health and functions of the womb, cervix of female. It says that by taking one avocado a day helps balances the hormone, prevents cervical cancer. Do you know that it takes 9 months to grow an avocado?
8. Fig, the fruit is full of seeds, hang in 2 on the tree. It has the function of increase the mobility of male sperms and increase the sperms numbers.
9. Sweet potatoes, looks like pancreas, thus has the function of balancing the glycemic index of diabetes.
10. Olives, assist the health and function of ovaries.
11. Oranges, grape fruits like the mammary glands of female, assist the health of the breast and the movement of lymph in and out of the breast.
I have been submitting some writings to Triond.com for quite a while now, the earnings from Triond is very minimal I must say. Recently, they have intergreted Google adsense with Triond. By doing so, adsense advertisment will now be shown in the articles that are published by Triond, which allows us to earn extra adsense income, the sharing is 50/50 with Triond, unlike our own blogs, we earn 100% of the income from adsense.
Articles submitted to Triond have to be approved by them before it is published. If you are interested to publish in Triond, bear in mind that they do not allow duplication, meaning to say if an article has been published in our blog, submission to Triond will be rejected.
Though the income is minimal, it does provides us an additional source of on line income.
There were a few varieties of cakes displayed in the chiller at the Yen Ai eatery shop last night. We chose to try the chocolate cake and the carrot cake because we were told that these are the ones just arrived today. Each piece of the cake cost RM6.00, very expensive, more expensive than a chicken rice or a plate of fried mee.
Chocolate cake, rich and the sponge cake layer is moist, yummy, no complaint
a very disappointing piece of carrot cake, dry and hard, not up to our expectation.
I am already looking forward to Christmas though there are still over two months to Christmas Day. Leading to celebration I bought two of the same door carpets featuring Christmas wreaths to replace the front door carpet and the other one for my father.
This Christmas I was thinking of baking the easiest fruit cake that I learned last year from my cousin. It is called the Boiled Fruit Cake. You could try this recipe too I am sure you will love it.
I woke up earlier than usual this morning, that's at 5.30 am, to do some house chaos. I have been so much slacking on the house work ever since I started baking. There are piles of unfolded laundry and floor needed to be swept and mopped among other things.
This morning, I only managed to sweep and mop the floor, do some ironing and laundry, fold and put away the laundry.
The sunrise very fast. It's time to wake the girls up for school. I kept yawning in the office for not used to wake up so early. Should I continue rising at 5am again tomorrow?
Today is my younger brother, Alfred's birthday. I baked a cake for him this morning. With the encouragement from Clet and the recipe from SIL, I finally managed to bake a cake for my family single handedly. For sure there will be more cakes to come in the coming days.
A simple cake to wish Alfred a very happy birthday.
Do you know what is the best way to enjoy eating durians? The kampung/village style, everyone gather around on the floor and open the durians one by one, it's fun to experience the different texture form each of the durians, I like the thick creamy with slight bitterly taste durian, and the smallest seed possible.
From an outstation trip to Sipitang yesterday, my brother bought several bundles of durians on his way home, each bundle consist of 3 - 4 durians, besides 2 of them have been conquered by the insects, we still have got more than enough to share. We ate until we could not take in any more durians into our stomach. My sister took some home and I frozen some for making cakes. So far I have got 3 containers of durian in my fridge. Hopefully I can make some durian cake tomorrow since it is weekend.
Are you happy with your job? Glad that you do but I am not. The company that I work for has taken over 4 other food and bakery outlets in just 3 months, hoping that the outlets will turn around and make money with the change of management with the same owners.
Our workloads have since doubled. They have taken things for granted that it is perfectly ok with the additional workloads assigned to us without properly planning on the human resourcing and financing, with only 1 clerical added to the workforce , with a ratio of 1:1. We realise that they did not even put any consideration now that with all these added responsibilities, they still push us for deadlines and expect us to perform like before, don't they realise that the quality of work will drop when one is overloaded with work?
The worst thing is the boss could just call in speak very harshly if she did not get what she wanted, the working environment has becoming so tense and with very low morale. Like a number of times which I came home with very disturbing and disappointing evening after harsh words that I received from the other side of the phone, I can not stand anymore but ease out my frustrations in words.
They should be gladful that they are able to push over the workloads of 4 food and bakery outlets to us with no additional allowances given. I pray things will change to the better soon.
We experienced a very strong wind yesterday evening in Kota Kinabalu, with a lesser strength as compared to the recent tropical storm Ketsana that hit the Philippines last weekend.
The warning of the Typhoon Parma only reached us this afternoon via sms. Without any knowledge of the Typhoon Parma has already over, I reminded Clet to come home early just before he went off for his appointment. He came back at 9pm and told me that the visit of Typhoon Parma was yesterday, after checking on the internet, sure enough it's over and gone. Thank GOD, it did not do much harm to the people of Philippines and the countries nearby. Let's pray for better weather ahead.
Guess what I have been busy baking since last week. The idea started with wanting to bake a birthday cake for Pearl, but did not get the result that I wanted. Due to lack of confidence and time, my SIL was so kind to help me out to bake a birthday cake for Pearl to bring to the school, that really saved my day.
I have yet to try her recipe because I am lacking of the flour needed, however, I tried other sponge cake recipe, one was the premix recipe which I bought meant for Pearl's birthday, it turned out to be dry and not as spongy. I also tried the Japanese Cotton sponge cake recipe which turned out to be really good, probably because there are milk and butter in the ingredients.
I was also dare enough to try the cream puff and eclair recipe on monday and that I have a little problem with the baking time. It took much longer time that indicated in the recipe because I made the piped the dough too big thus needed long baking time.
Just the night before I baked a chiffon cake by using the chiffon cake premix which made the preparation process so much easier. Unfortunately, I fixed the chiffon baking pan wrongly that have allowed the batter to lick out from the bottom of the pan, and I accidentally touched the oven door and got a burn on my arm as well, silly me. Good thing was that the chiffon cake turned out to be fine but can be better. Next time I will try to mix the egg white separately rather than mixing everything together.
And today no cake baking, but puffing time. Chicken sausage puffs and cream of mushroom and chicken puffs by using the ready made puff pastry. So we had puffs for tea time this afternoon. I have posted the pictures and the recipe here.
This year we celebrated Pearl's birthday in a small way, in such a small way that only involved her small little friends in school. With the help of my SIL, a nice purple cake was baked the night before, saved me the worries of baking it myself.
We did not send any invitation out to inform the students' parents for the celebration. We thought since the kids will be in school on that day, we will just send in a birthday cake and goodies bags to have a small party during their morning tea break.
By the time we arrived the school, the teachers have already got the table set up and put a little birthday hat on for our little Pearl, all ready for the party. We brought in Crystal to join in the party too...she has to excuse herself from her class for a little while, obviously Pearl is very happy to have us around for her birthday in the school.
Besides receiving birthday presents from her form teachers, we were very surprise to see Pearl received presents from her classmates, not just one but two presents. We did not expect it so since no invitations were sent out to the parents. Since we don't normally have the chance to meet the parents, sending thank you notes to them would be the best way to appreciate their thoughtfulness.
I would prefer to have personalized thank you cards and thank you notes to express how thankful we are to receive those gifts which have given a much brighter smile on Pearl's face on her birthday. Kids and adults alike love to receive gifts, don't we?
Nowadays it is very convenient to get a personalized thank you card through the web. There a many different types of cards to choose from. Just type in the thank you notes in the card you have chosen and print it out. We could make it more personalized by uploading a photo from our computer too, having our photo on the cards would cost us dearly if it is to be printed by the shop. We could get it at a very reasonable price from the net nowadays.
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It has more than 150,000 members now and it is the largest Paid To Read Email Program in Asia. Point will be credited into your account each time you read an email they send to your email. The points will then be converted into Singapore dollar and we can either withdraw our earnings via Paypal or cheque. It is a very good news to Malaysian as we will be earning double because of the exchange rate.
I have started to earn only after 3 days of joining the program. Check it out at emailcashpro.com. You will like what you see!!
We were in darkness when the power cut at around 4pm on Tuesday. Couldn't stand the stuffiness and darkness in the office anymore, we thought of a place to go, that's the nearby buka puasa stalls. The sun was so bright and very smokey. After a walk around the stalls, bought what we wanted, we couldn't stand that heat any longer.
the stalls, very smokey, I find myself smell of babeque chicken wings when I got back to the office. gosh...
A big tong of Nasi Briyani. RM2.90 nasi briyani is considered quite cheap. But I did not buy...not into it that day.
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Mum and aunties meet. chit chatting before the dinner.
Sister and son, Jasper
Me and my only sister
Crystal, Pearl and Daddy
