…. and boy! This girl can really curse in hockkien. Wanna hear her curse?

An Alumni friend cum blogger came over to my house yesterday for a baking session with her hubby. Yes! Her hubby. She force (didn’t actually force la) her hubby to help out with the baking. But I tell ya, making cookies is like playing with play-doh.

Beforehand, I cook the pineapple with sugars and cinnamon stick for hours till dry and let them cool throughly. This is the ingredients for making the dough:

500gm butter
100gm icing sugar
4 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
700gm wheat flour

Look at her finger! Isn’t it such a waste to put this pic in a collage form? This is my first time making ini maciam punya (this type of) cookies. Shape them into a small ball. Use a clove as the… the… suddenly I’m out of words. But I know you know what I’m trying to say la.

Glaze with egg yolk and condense milk. The pic here is before baking. Bake them at 180C for 20minutes.

By the time we finished the first 1kg of pineapple jam, I can sense that my friend and her hubby a bit lazy liao. Haha! That was only 3 hours of baking. They left after a red wine mee suah lunch. Now I’m left with another 1kg of pineapple jam. My usual way of making is the common pineapple roll.

“Daddy, come help me la.”

“Lazy la.”

“Aiyah, my friend hubby so good. Can help out. Come la” (Ahem! must pressure him a bit)

A good way for bonding too. We discuss a bit on our 10th Anniversary trip 😉

Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough and another rolling pin with teeth mark to make the lines. Cut them 1 inch x 2 inches. Place the pineapple jam on the centre and roll them. Before baking, glaze them with egg yolk.

We continue baking for another 2 hours. Darn tired by then. This is my last baking too.

Pic 1 – Cream butter, icing sugar and egg.

Pic 2 – Mix in wheat flour and kneed to form a dough.  Place a piece of toasted almond in the dough.  Shape them a little longish.

Pic 3 – Bake them at 180C for approximately 15-20mins.  Let them cool throughly.
Pic 4 – Melt cooking chocolate in a double boiler.

Pic 5 – Place baked almond cookie in a mini paper cup.  Spoon melted chocolate over the cookies.  Garnish with almond nib or colourful sprinkles.  I prefer to pipe some melted chocolate on it. To speed up time, cool them in the freezer for 10mins.

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With the remaining melted chocolate, add cornflakes and mix them throughly.  Spoon mixture into mini paper cups and garnish with colourful sprinkles.

According to a survey revealed few days ago by Simon & Caroline from 104.5FM (Light & Easy) , two third of adults prefer to get married than staying single. As usual, it was then the subject of debate as what is your choice – single or married.

During your teenager years, you have this fantasy of wearing that bridal gown, walking down the aisle and saying ‘I-do’. Everybody dreams of that. Nobody wants to be a spinster or a bacholer their whole life. To me, married life is good. You have someone to share the joy, laughter or even a fight with. I would say marriage is also fated. You meet your other half, things went well, you get married.

One third of adults who choose to be single probably had gone thru at least one broken relationship. As time passes by, they became desperate and eventually lose hope. They are such a sore losers to the extent that they cry out loud “Being single is good! I don’t need commitment to tie me down. I have my buddy.”

Halo, you can’t have your buddy with you all your life. You might not want to get married but they do. And what happens after they got married? You are left drinking at the bar all by yourself. Now, quit saying single life is good. God created Adam and Eve and God wants the male and female to be a couple (you can leave gay aside as of now).

I’ve heard lots of lame excuses as why being single is good. That is all so lame. Why can’t they just admit that the right person is yet to be found? That is so simple to answer, right? When you tell someone that you choose to be single, their perception is “this fellow has no more hope”.

What about one day you decided to marry your piao mei at the age of 40 or 50? Hey, that is what we called a fate, ok.

So, do you prefer to get married or do you still stick to your stuborn mind to stay single?

*Reminder: (Please leave children out of this topic as you can choose to get married without having children. The plus point of getting married is “LICENSE TO SCREW” unless you love to have different partner. That is another different story liao. And this post is not targeted at any individual. What I wrote is based solely on my personal opinion.)

Ingredients:

Popiah Skin
Icing Sugar

Firstly,

You roll a piece of popiah skin and spread some corn starch to fasten the end.

Snip them using a pair of scissors about 1 inch length or less.

Dry them under the sun till harden and deep fried in hot oil till brown and crisp.

Removed from oil and sprinkle icing sugar on crisp.

Hmm…. maybe it does have a name.  Should I call them a crisp, something something?  Whatever!

Ingredients:

Chinese turnip (shreaded)
Carrot (shreaded)
Jiu Hu Ciu (Dry cuttle fish)
Chinese Mushroom
Cherry Blossom (kidding! Kidding!)
Minced Pork (marinate with pepper and soy sauce)
Garlic

PIE TEE

Ingredients:

100gm Rice Flour
30gm Wheat Flour
1 egg
230ml coconut milk
Oil for deep fried

I have an interview tomorrow morning at 8.40am. A bit nervous as there are so many question pondering in my mind like, what type of question are they going to ask, will they suspect me of being a terrorist or undercover or even a HIJACKER or will they just reject me cos they don’t like me or… or… I DUNNO!

Anyhow, I’m going to do my best and please wish me luck! Will update tomorrow if the interview is a success *mucks*

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February 2nd, 2007 – 3.00pm

Yay!

Happy Thaipusam and…

To all non-hindus, Happy Holiday 😀

Picture source.

Reminder – Please don’t try any of the above act without supervision from EXPERT if you don’t want your mather or father to faint right before your bloody body.

Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich *slurppppppppppp*

Had my passport extended for another 5 years 😆

Ya, ya, I know! I look so emo.

Ya, ya, I know! I’m short.

Hmm…. maybe I shouldn’t censored my birthdate. I love pressie 😀