Kuantan & More Stones!

So frustrating, no connection for almost a week already. I could not check my emails, update my blogs, chatting, voice conferencing and so much more…ish~~~

Just glad to be able to finally update my blog!

Over the past few weeks I manage to paint another few stones to add in my collection. Some of the designs are pretty easy to paint but then this cherry blossom flowers took me 3 hours!!! But then I’m really glad with the outcome.

More Stones

I have my first ‘customer’ who requested for a special customized, in fact VERY customized stone for his friend’s birthday. Wow, customized stone is really not an easy task after all. I have to consider his ‘customization’ and at the same time have to follow my own creativity. Phew…however he’s happy with the end product and to tell you frankly…arrgghhh..i’m so sad having to give that precious stone to him!!! T_T so sad!!! Since it’s a gift to somebody I think it’s not so appropriate to post a pic of it here lar…hahaha…

Behold, there shall be more creative stones soon!

KUANTAN

I went to Kuantan over the weekends. Main aim was to visit my aunty and uncle and cousins. Hey peps, my cousin bro, (biao ge) very lengchai wan ar! kakakakaka…

The first day we just spend the day catching up with each others. It brought back so much memories. I still remember I was only 4 the first time I visited Kuantan. I was so young and carefree. Holding a lil’ spade and pail to make sand castles on the beach, digging sands looking for lil’ crabbies, flying kites in the warm breeze (err, a polystyrene plane to be exact).

The last trips were in 1994 and 2001. And now 2008!

The Teluk Chempedak beach is a must-go. (Nick, see I get to go too…blerk =P)Just look at the nice (crowded) and ‘colourful’ beach (with cigarette butts and paper wrappers!) . Nevermind, I’ll just snip those off and let you see this:

And this:

Meet my cousin brother: Front View

Back View : HIE!

Although I did not bring spades and pail and other props, I still manage to make my lil’ sand art…see this!!!

Creative eh? hahaha

Then at night we went clubbing…erm…it’s interesting to see what ‘clubbing’ is in Kuantan. Errr, you know lar I’m a kampong girl mar, so naïve and innocent. =P.

Anyways, I did have fun hanging out with my cousins and relatives!

Now I just can’t wait to go home this weekend!!!

YogurBerry, Pineapple Cheesecake, Bread&Butter Pudding, Souffle, Stone Art

Well well well, this is extreme late updates for my blog. Sorry all ya~

Last weekend back to Ipoh again. 3 days in a row (thanx to Wesak Day!)…hehe…and manage to do more testing on food. Er…before that, last week I went Sunway Pyramid with a friend and we passed by this shop, YogurBerry, cute name isn’t it? Guess wat…it’s an ice cream shop. I started drooling just by looking at the flyers. We just simply walked in and started ordering!

We had this:

and this:

The icecream are made of yogurt, origin from korea it seems…sweet and sourish, with so many types fruits, jelly, sprinklings to add on!

Enough of ice cream…

What I made over the weekend? Let’s see…Saturday morning I made pancakes for mummy and myself for breakfast. She loved them especially this time I have golden syrup, chocolate chips and bananas! =P. Later that afternoon she said she misses my pineapple cheesecake. Then we went to Tesco and shopped for cheese! After lunch, I made her these pineapple cheesecake squares! I’m more than happy to be able to made food that mummy likes!

Sunday, came back from church service, mum, aunty Fun and myself went out hunting for ipoh famous “tong shui”, couldn’t think of the English name for it…should I just call it “sweet dessert”? “sweet soup”? “bubur manis”…maybe? Hahaha…then went to search for my props for my err…new hobby?

I bought this:

And these:

Yups…stone painting…show you my ‘masterpieces’ after my food stuff ya~

After the long journey my tummy starts growling…yet another new recipe, an extremely easy recipe…bread and butter pudding!!! But I used stale croissant instead.

Recipe:

Ingredients: (for 2 servings)

1 stale croissant

½ T butter (softened)

½ cup milk

½ cup cream

3 T sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla essence

Steps:

1. Preheat oven at 220°C
2. Lightly grease 2 medium ramekins with softened butter
3. Break croissant into small pieces and place into the ramekins
4. Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl and lightly whisk
5. Pour milk mixture into the ramekins
6. Bake puddings for about 20 minutes
7. Serve hot!

Yummy yummy~

Monday…my last day at home for this trip! Anyhow I tried to make soufflé. I happily mixed n whisked the ingredients, poured them in buttered and sugared ramekins and pop them into the oven. When I saw them in the oven, after some good 15 mins, I am so happy and said to myself, “these have to be real good!”. The soufflés ‘puffed’ up so nicely in the oven. When I took them out from the oven…the puffy soufflés just gone flat before I could dust icing sugar on them! T_T…after taking some pictures of them…I dig into the soufflé with a teaspoon and the bottom of the soufflé is so uncooked! Erm…Must be the ingredients measurement..too much milk? Too much eggs? Gotta try that out again!!!

Anyhow, my lime-lemon soufflé still looked yummy isn’t it? Kakaka

Erm…my masterpiece…

Sketching: (before)

Tadaa…done: (after)

Erm…simple designs for my first round of testing…more to come in the future!

The weekend was indeed very meaningful eh…able to do so much in these 3days~ Happy!