Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Y
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Y
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Forming a new homeWe got hold of our new home in july 2009 and got it on 30 July 2009. Owner, Shauna, her hubby, Mike and brother and sister-in-law drove all the way from Canada, her home with the furniture to Arizona.. they reached Pyramids on 14 Sep 2009... On the same day, they move the stuff and decorated the house for us. And....we got the key on 18 Sep 2009. We have started moving stuff over from 19 Sep 2009. so tired and aching.. but is good to see our home building bits and pieces!! Daddyboy and i move the stuff around to best suit us.. New home is totally spacious and has lots of cupboard to put the right stuff.. Living room and Kitchen is 1.5 times bigger than my currrent unit 39..
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Monday, August 24, 2009 Y
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One summer morning when the sun was rising 24 Jun 2009, 5am
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Y
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Y
It is Singapore's Birthday... Base organised a celebration.. Some wifes are requested to present a dish for sell for the orphans which the RSAF sponsored.
I was requested to make egg tarts.. it was 200pcs at first.. I was like huh???? I need octopus hands!! Than it was reduced to 50pc.
Acutally i can handle 58 egg tarts (been doing it countless time at pot luck and sharing)
So no problem.
than daddy say he may be off on that day so he can help me, he mould i just finalised moulding..
than cos Jeslyn has asked me twice to teach her make eg tarts, and Wayne, her hubby is off that day, so i thought four of us can handle 100 pcs of egg tarts.
So i prepared the dough for 100pcs of tarts on 06 Aug the day before. than that night was informed the guys are required to work, Daddyboy morning shift, Wayne afternoon shift. Daddyboy need to drive so no car for me.
So I cant pick Jeslyn. Xinwei offer to help. but she need to leave at 12pm as her hubby is noon shift and her neighbour is car-pooling.
Both Jeslyn and Xinwei are later sleepers, so they wake late, Xinwei has a two year old girl.
So i thought, i can handle 58pc, i can easily make 100pcs.
So i told Xinwei that she need not help me cos i can handle.
As for jesyln, i promissed to show her to make tarts so i told her she can come over when Wayne go to work.
I made 5o something pcs at 11am, so proceed doing the 2nd half, and Jeslyn came with In and out burger.. though food smell came, i continued making till i got 100pcs done.
In the end i make 110pc of egg tarts and Jeslyn made 30pcs.
So i have exceed my goal, 140pcs, 40pcs more!!!!!!
We work so hard so we are keeping 40pcs to enjoy and 100pcs to sell.
3/4 Egg tarts were gone when Daddyboy went to help the booth and before the celebration is over, my fruit are gone!!!
I got a Appreciation Certificate from the hand of SRO (Senior .... Officer)-someone of high rank from the stage for my contribution..
Chloe, who Mr Su and I addresses her as Lay Yi Ling (she is a taiwaness who married to Sin's hubby) commentted that most of the food lost they original flavour given the large amount of quantity. But my egg tarts are still the same standard as she taste previously..
Wow.. I am so happy to hear that.. Its great to know someone appreciates my efforts..
And i am proud of my achievement :) 14 Aug 2009 (Fri) Arizona Time There was no crowd outside the restaurant compared to others.. but once we go in it was like wow most of the table are occupied.... its quite a classy restaurance, good ambience..
We spent USD5o plus tips. order two sets meals (Daddyboy ate Tonkatsu and I ate Cha Siew Lamian) and a kid meal (Terriyaki Chicken with Califonia roll, Salad and fruits) plus a Hanabi Roll (wow yum, recommended by the beautiful waitress (they call themselves Server)...erm... didnt take pic cos didnt bring camera.. didnt expect to spend so much...
tis is the restaurant web http://www.kabukirestaurants.com/home.aspDon no got the pic anot..
Here in Arizona, don have Kopi tiam.. mostly are restaurants or food courts in the mall.. so either u dine in these or fast food...
Basically, if u see any place which we go and you are interested to know more, u can just type the store, restaurant name in search engine like yahoo, u will be able to see it. Cos all the stores here has their own website..
Maybe because USA is big (Arizona itself have so many cities) u wouldnt want to drive so far to get a stuff so an alternative is to shop online.
15 Aug 2009 (Sat) Arizona TimeDaddyboy went fishing in the morning with Zhixuan and his wife, Jiamin.. and he got a Brass.. i feel that whenever Shirwin and I didnt go, he will always get a fish.. whenever we go he get none... See his catch.. though not as much and as big as in Sin, this is very good le.. consider the water here is dan sui (plain water)... 
Lukey also want to take pic.... No lah, he was forced by Shirwin, look at its face, so shocked...
It is Daddyboy's routine to open up the fish's stomach to see what it ate.. And see, it
has just eaten a small crab.. yet it is still greedy to eat his lure...
16 Aug 2009 (Sun) Arizona Time
My first bread making was shared with Jeslyn and Wayne, cos like about 2 weeks ago, we all went to Lee Lee Oriental Market and saw the Dou Sha Buns. A pack is like USD3-4, we were like wow so expensive. We can easily get it a S$1-2 at Singapore bakery.
So Daddyboy asked me to make him buns... i drag drag drag till 14 Aug (Fri) than we got the ingredients.. And made them today. Actually, we had a Baby Shower (Full Month Celebration) to attend. But i was too lazy to get ready and get out of the house. And we are not very close assosiate with the couple. So i say just give hong bao ba..
And today was a long standing day for me.. I made lunch (Dry Mee Goreng) erm instant noodle.. Cos we couldnt decide to go Baby Showe anot. Until 12pm than i decide we are staying home.
Than after lunching and washing, clearing my counters, i started making the dough..
I made my first bread dough to make Pork Floss Buns... And my mixer rested in peace... Proven that bread dough is stiff, it required a heavy duty mixer. A hand mixer cannot do the work of kneading!!!!
I made transparent mayonniase too!!
Outcome: 10 buns with transparent mayonniase with pork floss = Pork Floss Buns
The buns are hard on the outside, the inside is slightly soft, but not what i expected. Didnt bother to take pic... Cos no standard... but it does have the taste of Floss buns... bread need more time to make because of proving..
I also prepared Pork belly to braised for dinner.. it was marinating while i doing the bun dough. Than will waiting for the dough to prove (expand), i cook the Pork Belly.
When i was going to cook rice for dinner, Wayne called from Commissary (Base suoermarket) to ask if we want to eat King Crab.. Than ok lo, i have enough food for dinner.. So i cooked 5cups of rice. Thinking for the guys to ta bao for lunch tomorrow. It is Monday.. working for the guys..
As I have only got braised pork, so i made some instant Seaweed soup add vegetable, tou fu, tomatos (yum Daddyboy says taste like seafood soup).. this soup was recommended by Xinwei.. so we have two dishes plus Wayne and Jeslyn's King Crab. Enough le ba...
Than Wayne and Jeslyn went home to put their stuff. Earlier on they went for the Baby Shower. When they got home, they msn to ask what time to come. Than i told Jeslyn to bring Wayne lunch box. She told me they had dinner le...
Huh!!! I cooked 5 cups of rice le!!! they plan to give hong bao and go but in the end the newly parents asked them to stay and eat so their dinner is settled.
Than Jeslyn say erm than i take some rice ba than i no need cook.
So at around 6plus, I start to bake the bun and hurry Daddyboy to go Safeway (a nearby supermarket) nearby still means driving... to get me cooling rack... bread need to be cool on rack...
So he went and when he back, the buns are in the oven almost ready. So i said u take a look-out on the buns, i go bathe...
Just nice, buns out, i bathe out it was 7.30pm plus le. Wayne and Jeslyn came.. They told us to go ahead for dinner than i say i got soup u wanna try? Jeslyn is a soup lover so she and Wayne joined us. They like the soup..
We eat dinner, plus pork floss bun... than wait for the king crab to be cooked in the oven. Just nice when we done dinner, King Crab was ready.. and we had a King Crab Feast!!!
After dinner it was 9plus le...
There is little activities here in Arizona especially after 7pm, most of the stores are closed. So we develop a new past-time, mahjong!!!
Wayne and Jeslyn has a portable Mahjong table set. Recently they will bring over or we requested whenever they come to our house...
So we proceed to Mahjong... Both of them are our Shifu... keke.. really learn alot from them.. Hey!!! we don gamble. No real money involved, just chips... occasionally we will say loser treat drinks or something..
and this is wat my Daddyboy got.. look at his tiles... even Wayne and Jeslyn 1st time see this kind of tiles.. it is impossible lor..
Daddyboy got all the animals(got 2chips=20cents each from 3 players), got his own flower (got 2chips=20cents each from 3 players), his own feng, got two set of power cards and remaining tiles are all the millions...I am the one who threw out the dong feng eariler in this round... than W & J warned he bao da (means he got big cards le), be careful, don throw big tiles, whoever throw out card for him to win will pay for the remaining players... than daddyboy say no more le, no more big tiles... than i didnt think more le... later in the round i threw Red Zhong.. And he said Hu(win) le... oh my god!!! faint... i lost my Da bing (green chip) which cost $5, I need to pay for all players... oh my god.. i broke le..But the whole rounds.. Daddyboy didnt win cos he either got a missing tile or an extra tile... so cant win...After this round i kept winning small small like few cents.. In the end i lost $5... of cos we only count chips no money involved...
Look at Daddyboy's smiling face...
At 4:04 PM,
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ENJOYING OUR MEMORIAL HOLIDAY AT LAS VEGASWe set off yesterday, 24 May 2009 at 7am by Caravan to Las Vegas.. Its again the 7 of us for this trip... Zhi Xuan, Jiamin, Andrew, Arlene and the 3 of us.. Wo.. we reached Nellis Inn (At Nellis Air Force Base) at 3.30pm, its 30mins past check in.. to update when i have time... we are preparing to go out... kekekeOur Exlim Camera failed us in e night shots... so u see ghostly pics..We gave up after few bad shoots and got all our photos taken by our professional photographer, Ms. Arlene with her pro cam. Not yet get the pic from her yet (today is 24 Aug 2009 le) hee
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ITS SHIRWIN'S BIRTHDAY!!!
Happy 9th Birthday Shirwin!!!!
Made a Chocolate Cake with Catherine... its a last minute decision...
We celebrated on Thursday evening.. its an early birthday....
At 1st the cake was runny in the centre when reached baked time.. we took out from oven and thought it might get cook in room temperature... but hours gone... still no improvement..
And i had not enough time cos Shirwin need to go for Chinese class and i need to prepare for dinner...
So after sending Shirwin to class, i on the over on impulse to try baking it again... true enough, the recipe did not provide the correct bake time..... sad
But at least the kids, Mr. Su and Mr Lee says its good...
So its not a waste and worth the hardwork..
Our family photo....
This little party has three guests... Rianna, Catherine and Ryan
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57 EGG TARTS & WHITE FUNGUS DESSERT FOR POTLUCK25 April 2009 (Sat) - This potluck was a event organised at The Pyramid (the community which we stay). The people attended are all staying at The Pyramid plus some other people living elsewhere (organiser invited his trade people). All of us are Singaporeans who came to work at Luke Air Force Base with families...When Mr. Su told that there's a potluck, the immediately put down on the list that we are doing barbacue pork and egg tarts.. than he came home and told me he did that than i say... Erm the 1st potluck already made barbacue pork le... We do Pig Stomach Soup?Erm actually the week before i made the soup... And the weather had became very very hot... burning hot lor... than i had sore throat and no voice...Than we thought weather already so hot, and we are having barbacue at the pool side, than everyone is going to be heaty lor..than we change to make egg tarts and Bai Mu Er (white fungus soup)..Only when i was sleeping through Thursday night and potluck is all over my mind... kind of pressure and stress. on Friday morning... than i thought on my god i got only two trays and there are so many people, how to bake so many egg tarts???So i thought to borrow from Jiamin.. than after Shirwin go school, i log in msn pray Jianmin is online... Wow thank god she is available.. but she got only one... than i said, if Lily is still in USA than i can borrow another from here....Than Jiamin mention Arlene also has one but she is not online and her hubby Andrew work night shift. So Jiamin gave me Arlene hp no and i sms her..But no reply, so i went to Jiamin house at 10am to borrow her tray....Than in the noon, Arlene reply than she will lent me but Mr Su has gone to work le and Andrew has also just gone to work.. No car... than i say never mind, cos tomorrow is the guys IPPT so the night shift will be home 8plus or 9plus so wait for Daddyboy to be back than go take bah...than cos is Friday ma, so i didnt cook, met Jeslyn and Wayne and Deli for dinner and in the end Ah Lum and Joanna and their two kids also join... Cos Wayne and Deli are morning shift and unexpectedly they are off work late so Me, Shirwin and Jeslyn are fainting with hunger... Somemore i see Food Network, Ina is making Pot Roast... wo wo yum yum...Waited till i go bathe bring Lukey go walk than Jeslyn say the guys off work le, her hubby will pick her and Deli will pick me and Shirwin to cut down further waiting... everytime i got on others car, i will knock my head... diao.. i knock my head when i got in Deli's car...Deli, me and Shirwin are the first to reach... than just after we finish dinner, Daddyboy called he off work le, he will come pick us up so the whole clan waited with us till Daddyboy is here... and all said thank you to him when he came cos disturb him that he is treating us... hahaha...Than we went to Adiamo to collect the tray from Arlene.. And i got 4 trays... kekeke
White Fungus Dessert (Bai Mu Er)
Let the tarts cool in the mould, and i took a nap...
After loading into the aluminium tray with two layers, there are a few more pieces left, than i bake a 2nd round of 9 Egg Tarts out at 3pm so that i can return the trays to Jiamin and Arlene in return with Egg Tarts..kekeek
And so a total of 57 Egg Tarts!!!!
All nice nice one... everyone likes it and layer by layer is gone... Catherine and i were chatting the whole event and went to her house to sit and chat cos night le, weather turning cold..
Than Catherine's hubby, Micheal came home with 5 tarts.. than he saw me and say so paisai, he steal the tarts..kekek... he say someone say they play marjon so took some Egg Tarts home, than he also pretend his house also got people play margon and he took the tarts too....kkeke so funny..
But i am glad that this time round the tarts are of the same size cos we measure each of the dough before moulding...
As i bake 4 trays all at e same time, two on top rack and two on bottom rack
the bottom two trays were slightly burnt..
Fortunately, no one complained and some said that burnt taste better!!
And someone even said, burnt one will taste similar to Hong Kong style Egg Tarts!!!
The 2nd round of 9 Egg Tarts are on the top layer..
57 Egg Tarts
12 X 4 trays = 48 Egg Tartsout at 11.30am
Getting ready to unload from tray to this colourful paper cups
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PANDAN CHIFFON CAKE & AGAR AGARPandan Chiffon Cake
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Y
After eating a slice, we set off to share the cake... Chance upon Lee Kar Hwa and his wife, Polly on our way to the Pyramids' gate, so share with them the cake and in exchange we got three Zhong Zi made by Polly's mum..
Than we head to Crystal Springs to share it with our mentee, Jeslyn and Wayne,
than we head to Adiamo to share with Jiamin and Chee Suen.. Jiamin is frying pineapple since 5pm till we came at 8plus, she was still frying.. she say need to fry till the pineapple are dry...
after that we went to Renaisannce Villa to share with Wendy and Jerry.. and played awhile with their precious, Amelia..
Than we went to Christine and Alex's house to share the last four pieces with them... Wow, they have a play room full of toys for example, cooking stuff (apron included)...
And we are left with none... again i only get two bites from Daddyboy's...
But no worries, i can make more....kekeke Most importantly, everyone is happy!!!
And the delivering of cake took us about 2~3hours... We got home at 10plus...
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Orange Chiffon Cake requested by DaddyboyIt was 19Mar09 at 11pm plus shortly after Daddyboy return home, he asked if we could make the Orange Chiffon Cake...And so, preparation starts.... He did help here and there and was stiring the batter... the whipping of egg whites and folding was done by me..He helped washing the dishes while i was folding the egg whites to the batter...As the first time, the batter was more than the mould can take, so after pouring the batter into the cone shaped mould, poured the remaining batter into the round pan which we bought on last sat..As after cooling, the Orange Chiffon Cake need to be kept in an air-tight container and we did not have one... i have been searching for one since tue...Daddyboy bought Deli's birthday cake in a plastic bag on wed with the base of my favourite disposable container which we got apple pie many months ago...So when the cone shaped mould is out from oven at 1.50am, we went to Walmart... yeah its was like 2.15am when we start the engine... its so convienent to have a car, can go anywhere at any time... the round pan one has long been out from oven!! and we cut and ate it... it taste like pancakes...Have been comparing prices at BX (a small shopping mall in base) it was selling at USD7plus but with out handle and the opening of this container will ruin the cake lor!!The push cart outside BX was selling the tupperware brand, is selling at USD36plus... Siao ar, so expensive... and the opening will still ruin the cake!!!At Walmart, i found the most prefect one with handle and opening is by clicking both sides... guess what, it cost only USD5.44 after tax.... so cheap and good!!Headed home, sliced and transfer to the new container, kekeke.. Of course, we ate the first slice...kekke... Daddyboy say MmmMmm.... taste like the 1st one i made..... very good!!!Phew!!! its a success!!! Finally, i could see and taste... i only bake Deli's birthday cake, didnt eat lor... can see cannot eat... and cannot see the inside...
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The Most Latest Dinner Made..19Mar09
Was tired today and feel feverish... actually don wan to cook... just cook fried rice in the cooker.....Than after Daddyboy go work at 4plus, i still sitting around.. than i wash up last night dishes.. than i thought if i don cook, what is Daddyboy going to eat at work.... than yesterday, i was too tired after baking the Orange Chiffon Cake and frying the Mee Hoon, i didnt mop the floor... feel so kuo wey...So i started to prepare the ingredients.. it was like 8pm something after i finish preparations...Feel so pressured... than finish cooking at 9pm something.. than after i wash up, mopping, bathe, was finally having dinner at 10.30pm... But i am satisfied with my cooking today... kekekeWe ate half way... surprising we feel vibration and the garage door was opening... so strange, only our garage door is working, our two neighbours' need manually open...But not right lei, Daddyboy wont come back so fast one...But the highest probability is still him. so ran down the stairs and sure enough was Daddyboy... Everyone was released!!! so happy...kekeke
At 9:06 AM,
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Y
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Orange Chiffon CakeLast night slept after 1plus am, after the Banana Crum-Pie was baked...than woke up when Daddyboy came back for some tasting... Felt so jelly...This am woke up when my alarm rang... i though i set it to 10am but it woke me up like at 9 something am...Because I was planning a surprise birthday cake, so i set off washing some dishes and started preparation for baking...Its a Orange Chiffon Cake... After i pour the batter into the mould, i than notice it almost going to reach the top of the cone...
Than i pray the cake will go well and please don overflow... Indeed, actually it should expand 9inches but it expand like 10inches and slightly more, so the cone disappeared...
It turned out to be a very tall cake and its spongy.... Feedback from Daddyboy: Wow!!! its so tall... Tastes soft and fluffy and its smell nice. The whole cake is gone...And feedback from Birthday guy.. Mr. Deli is, he likes it very much and it tastes very good..
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Banana Crum-PieThe time now is 12.10am. Banana Crum-Pie has just freshly out from the oven... It is now cooling on my stove...And I am waiting for Daddyboy to return from work.I am obsessed in baking now.. So these few days i am browsing through the blogs and links the other wives provided me... And even for grocery shopping, i could be found at the baking section!Compared to apple pie, i would strongly preferred banana pie... hee... before we move to USA, every week we patronised the bakery near home to get the pie.. Unfortuately, the owner do not sell banana pie because banana does not have an attractive appearance due to its brownish color after peeling and cutting..
So we requested him to bake us a whole banana pie... And we paid S$20 plus for the craving.. And right now i estimated that the banana pie i made cost less than USD10 given that i have most of the ingredients. A bunch of banana costs USD1.60...
The ingredients and method are the same as the Apple Crum-pie just that i replaced apples with bananas.. Actually, I couldn't find the receipe for Banana Pie. So i thought i would just try and error.. I think the banana filling is successful... it tastes just like the old Macdonald's Banana pie's filling i ate many years ago... when i was like in primary school..Today, i am able to bake it freshly out from my oven!
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 Y
than i went to bathe... when i came out beef stew almost ready... than i poured in the peas.... and off the stove...and my Beef Stew was done... so i am free now.. haha so happy.. kekeke
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Y
Coach'es from Daddyboy
Daddyboy got three Coach for me when he went TDY at Florida from Feb 2009 to mar 2009...
1 0f 1
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3 of 3 And this sling is the 1st gift Daddyboy got for me in USA and it's a birthday gift for year 2008..
Coach collections so far....And this is my 2008 birthday cake from Daddyboy...
This watch is a gift for my birthday in year 2006... thought to take a picture for memorial although so many years le.. kekeke
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Apple Crum-Pie, made all by myself........This Apple Crum-Pie is a success. I need to thanks the other wife, Jiamin for the receipe and my neighbour, Megan for lending me her mom's pie pan... Without them this pie wouldnt be possible....
Actually wanted to make on last fri, bought the apples, cinnamon powder. Hai, but of all forgot my butter used up for my egg tarts already...
So i got the butter on sun, but no mood to make and its kinda late in e evening le..
Today, i made "Lian O" soup, so got time to make Apple Crum-pie...kekke
Started preparation at 4pm plus and completed at 6pm...
And the pie was all gone by 9.30. As its fresh, so gave to my three neighbours, Megan, Catherine and Xiao Zhu for sampling... Megan and mom says is nice and text me to say I'm an amazing cook... So happy to hear that...
Waiting for 45mins more to hear the other wives' feedback...
But all in all, Mr Su says nice can le....kekekke
As we share the pie, we are left with two slices for the three of us... than Daddyboy, me and shirwin scoop and eat each. Than shirwin walked away and when she came back: "who eat one!! Why lesser le!!"... hahhaha..
i feel that if we have the whole pie, it wouldnt be as nice as we share....... its good to share.....
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this was found by me on the internet...
This is one of the mall... But we didnt buy much here.... Just bought a hair clip that broke the next day i wore for like few hours from The claire.... didnt came back here to refurn cos is a waste to travel all e way here for a hair clip which cos USD10.
Our family photo....
Take a nice pic Lukey, don turn around!!
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