Chocolate mud cupcake

Remembering that the one condition of giving me the previous cupcake recipe book, he (Heevoon) requested to taste the cupcake illustrated on the cover page. And as promise…he had one when he came back last week…and this time the cake turned out perfectly.

 

This cupcake is slightly crunchy on the top and has soft texture, with luscious melted chocolate sauce at the heart of the cake. It’s best when eaten fresh from the oven, serve with vanilla ice-cream. It’s just so nice that you want a second helping! Okaylar…brag too much eh…but then it was one great success…k enuff enuff…I’ve tried the same thing, with all sorts of different recipes with all sorts of names like chocolate fondant, self-saucing choc cake but this is indeed a fail-safe recipe!!! Including that apple cinnamon muffin, two recipes done and 498 more to go…=P

Henna Art

Remember that I said I’ll cover a post on my henna art…it’s been quite some time since the last time I did henna…erm…just let me think…oh ya…during my internship I hennaed a butterfly design on my lil’ cousin’s hand.

 

For those who has never come across the word “henna”, it’s actually a kind of leaves that produces a brown-orangey dye known as lawsone, having a property in which able to color the pigment of the skin layer. It may sound risky but it somehow would not penetrate deep down into your flesh. The colour tainted on your skin will last for 4 days to 2 weeks depending on the quality of the henna paste. So, it’s considerably safe to use. However, people with skin allergy and have G6PD deficiency are not advisable to apply henna. If you would like to know more, feel free to Google it or make a visit to the wikipedia webbie.

 

I had first discovered my interest in henna since I really don’t know when. I did make an effort in opening a little stall during the 2007 convocation fair in my uni. I had loads of fun and am really glad I took up the opportunity. But then this year I took part in the Famine 30 camp so I couldn’t make it for this year’s convofair then. Some of my pictures at work:

 

 

Some of my favourite designs… 

 

 

 

 

 

In conjuction of the Deepavali celebration, my sister suddenly asked me to paint on her both hands…of course I did. I did hers first then I had one on my own hand too. but this time I don’t quite know why the colour didn’t turn out nicely, maybe it was the henna paste that I mixed too much solvent in it.

 

Capture a couple of pictures before I peel them off!

 

 

 

If there’s anyone who’s interested and i’m nearby and available…let me know in advance, i may be able to take some time to do some henna for you! fyi, charges applied!

Just Out of The Blue

Apple Cinnamon Muffin

It’s already 4am now…before this I was lying in bed reading some EIS notes n just simple dozed off unconsciously. Awaken by nature’s call and realize pc still on. Now that I am practically awake, should have continued to study for EIS tomorrow. But I just couldn’t!!! Err looking at those EIS notes is just oh so sleepy. So I decided to brag a lil’ bit on my new experiment on cupcakes and muffin! Huhu…

My pressie from my sis and the other half, LaiKuan and HeeVoon…ya…the lovely newly wedded couple…was so overjoyed when I got this and had been trying to make every recipe in it work!

By the way, that very one thing in this book that truly inspired me is that…ahem…it is clearly stated in the foreword: “…500 fail safe recipes”…phew…that gives me the utmost confidence then…wakakakaka….

Yesterday back at home again and this time I made some Apple Cinnamon Muffins…and the recipe…of course from that precious precious book…

The recipes are clear easy to follow…I think if you want the recipe you can just enlarge the picture and read it for yourself. Just hope I wouldn’t get sued for copyright matters again =P.

Apple and Cinnamon Muffins

I followed the recipe 100% and added in some chopped almonds. The muffins were nice to eat but I decided to ice it a lil’ with some cream cheese topping. Thought that would make the muffins more presentable but then again, the icing I made was not really enough for two batches of muffins so errrr…the muffins are a lil’ undercoat…hehe…anyways…hope you guys like these too!

oh….thanx to WoanChin…offering her lappie for me to blog…aih at this time the intenet can be this bad…somemore my pc talak wireless adapter wan….paiseh..thanx ya..gotta get back to study for EIS!!

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I know you are miserable right now and wish I could help in anyway I could. But it is so difficult when you yourself did not realize what the problem really is. Or maybe you just didn’t feel like telling. “I hate myself” is something I heard over and over again. You even told me that you might get crazy someday or commit suicide, not once but numerous times. Is that a solution then? You have done many great things and yet you say you are a loser. You have reached out to so many and yet you say you are a failure. If you hated yourself how could others love you? If you have no confidence in yourself how could others believe in you?

You might be thinking, who am I to advise when I am no God or saint. But it’s really driving me crazy that I might really have to wait till the day you end your life and worse, I still didn’t know what’s happening.

I have always thought for being there for you make a difference. Maybe I’m too naïve for even believing that I could. Maybe I am just adding another tonne of pressure to your already miserable life. Maybe I should just back off a little. I am a lil’ tired too, maybe I should take a break.

I AM SICK~~~

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Food and More Food!

My sis is now back at UK already…kinda miss her actually…with her presence means loads fun, noise, hanging around, shopping, food, talks, an so much more. Errr…actually more on food lar..hahahaha…some dinners we had during the Raya break:

Daddy’s Bday Dinner (28 Sept):

Although this dinner is made in advance but still we had a great time!!!

We started off the dinner with the traditional Chinese birthday bun (Sau Tou). Pink n rosy buns just simple sweet!

Some happy faces eating buns…=)

Mummy daddy and lil’ niece

Back to the scrumptious meal:

Scallop with fish filling

Stuffed crabbie and ‘Kwai Fa Chi’ (Shark’s fin with egg)

‘Sau Mein’ – err…how should I translate this…let’s see…Long-aged-mee?

Last but not least…our grand dessert…

Guess what…

Close up:

Huhu…that was like once in life time…I actually wanted to ask the waitress for a glass of warm water…guess what…I was thinking to wash out the remaining bits of bird’s nest that’s probably sticking onto the walls of that mini ceramic pot…opssy…*pai seh*

Family picture at last…

Dinner with my sis’s Family-in-law (4 Sept):

Just simply….loads of foodie!!!

Appetizer:

Butter-salted egg prawns

Mango chicken

Vege with pine nuts

Glutinous ball in water chestnut sweet soup

Another family picture… =P

Erm…too much on food. Just lemme get home an upload some of my sis’s wedding pictures ya!

Kedah

26 Sept 08

Kedah trip at the very first day of Raya break. First of all…thanx to Ah Teng for his great hospitality and being so nice bringing us to so many places and yet again…FOOD!!!

Another successful semester break trip…joining this trip were Ricky, Kharyau, Szewei and me myself..oh not forgetting our extremely ‘wei dai’ tour guide…Ah Teng~

Our first dinner at Kedah:

Name of the place we had dinner – Rung Reang, serving a variety of local and Thai gourmet/seafood.

The infamous coconut jelly

Deep fried ‘tong sat’ fish

Seafood otak-otak…this is not the direct translation from Malay word otak = brain…it’s actually a variety of seafood stuffed with fish paste and usually wrapped in banana leaves.

And here comes the highlight of the night…the superlicous “kek soung” fish (that’s not the correct spelling though)…this fish made us keep begging for more during our stay in Kedah but then aih~ our our guide Mr Teng say “Nice to eat ge food cannot always eat wan…” like that wor….sad case nee!

After dinner we stroll around Kedah…

The Kedah tower…this is just the miniature the real thing was too difficult to capture.

Then we head to Bali-Bali Hai yumcha…that place is simply nice and cosy.

27 Sept 08

The next morning we went to Lye Huat Garden…had a great walk of nature (although this is man made one).

Salute!!!

After the tiring walk in the hot sun

Food again – lunch

Steam fish with pickles

Fried sotong with sambal (chilli paste)

Then Teng drove us all to Padang Besar, Thai border. The guys grab a couple of shirts and I got myself a couple of tote bags. Not forgetting we bought some 7 BOXES of instant noodles!!! What to do that’s what we, uni students, survived on days and nights..hey no joke man!!!

A walk after dinner…

Look at this guys..memang tak malu…hahaha. But then looking at them playing with the see-saw really darn funny lar..ish ish…

Supper…Hainan fried noodles

28 Sept 08

Our last day in Kedah. Our first stop of the day is the National Rice Museum/Paddy Museum. Main purpose was to view the great 360 degree painting that looks oh so real. This wall mural was painted by 60 artists from North Korea describing the paddy cultivation in Malaysia. Something you should never miss!

Ops…forgot to take picture of our lunch that day. Nevermind lar, wait for my next trip ya~

latest news~

latest news = no news …

wakakaka…

yups…haven’t been updating this blog for quite some time..err…since the raya break…my pc ‘nau kai’ again lor…need a break wor…so i gotta send it to his suite and stay for a few days…i permitted at most 2 days but then Raya break wor…asking for extra break…aih~~~

fully enjoying my break…haven’t touch a bit of my reports and projects and guess starting from wednesday my “schedule’ would be really really tight…just imagine reports and literature reviews plus tests on their way with a few presentations and well not forgetting my new game ‘hell’s kitchen’ and some fav anime…oh ya ya…and home during weekends which means ZERO workload!!! aih~~~ tell me how am i gonna fit all of them in my schedule????? sheesh…

well then hope to find time and upload some pictures when I can spare a lil’ time on this ya…

and thanx all for the birthday wishes and cakes!!! lurve u all~ ** hugs **