Bedtime Story

Fluffy pillows. Check.
Daisy the bear. Check.
Lights off. Check.
Torchlight. Check.

Slip under the blanket and get comfortable. Because I'm gonna tell you a bedtime story. A scary one.

Are you ready?



I'm so gonna make my child learn French!

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What Size Do You Think Beyonce Is?

US8? Or maybe UK10?

Hahaha...berangan la korang perasan petite duduk sebelah Beyonce. She is actually a size....read here.

I know camera puts on 10 pound on your actual weight. But she really looks like she has wide hips and sexy real full ass which I think suits her well.

You believe this? Like the writer of the blog, I find it hard to. Or maybe I'm just in denial. I can't freaking fit in size UK6. The thought of Beyonce might be smaller than me?

YOU SUCK, BEYONCE! I HATE YOU! NO. ONE. GETS. ME!*teen angst mode*

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Thosai Making Attempt #1

My mom was away for the whole week and I took the opportunity to try out a new recipe that I got: Paper Thosai.
Paper thosai is a more crisp, thinner and bigger version of the normal thosai. It is made of lightly-fermented rice flour and should not be confused with roti tisu as roti tisu is usually sweet. This is how paper thosai looks like.



And this...this...this is the ugly crepe lookalike that I managed to achieve on my first attempt to make my own paper thosai. Whoever gives me the funniest answer as to what this reminds you of, will be rewarded with 3 pieces of blueberry cheese tarts. Seriously.




Since no one wanted to jeopardize their lives by eating something so rotten looking (why wouldn't they try it first? Coz I thought it tasted quite nice) so I decided to make porridge with several of its condiments which is a looooooot healthier. Yeah baby, who needs thosai.

Ta-da!



OK la, maybe I shouldn't be so damn bangga coz everyone can make porridge.



Photo credits: http://forums.egullet.org/uploads/1125528434/gallery_12248_1697_2410.jpg

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Home But Away?

A house like no other. Well, at least in Tampin. Didn't take many photos because I only had my BB camera to depend on.

This house belongs to my mother's friend who works in London and only comes back twice a year, the most.

Hmmm...Odd. Owh, the sewing machines have been removed.

I asks my mother's friend why didn't she put any grill on her windows and doors.

"Ah, it's OK la. Easy access to the garden and I can breathe in the fresh air when I wake up. Plus my house in London looks exactly like this", she says.

So airy is her house that she has plants inside the house which get direct sunlight because part of the roof has been taken out on purpose. Wow.



In my head: I think you've lived in London too long la, Auntie.

One day, my mother receives a phone call from her.

"Aiyoh, you know what happened? They took everything la. Even my curtain rods!!!".

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It's 20 Min From JB

We arrived at the restaurant in a group of 6. A waiter greeted us with a polite smile, mentally scanned our faces in a quick glance and asked how many of us there.

"Six", one of us answered. He nodded. His eyes lingered on something or someone behind me before he smiled again and left quickly and efficiently, searching empty tables for us.

Or so I thought.

The same waiter appeared this time with another waitress behind. They both looked so excited and that's when we realized. I mean of course we knew this but we were so hungry that we forgot.

"Lisa! Kak Lisa! Cantiknya...!"

Banyak kali dah makan sini, tapi ni baru first time tengok waiter kat sini sendukkan nasi.

The stall owner was so happy to see her that she gave Lisa a free bag. In LV plastic bag. Bukan calang-calang ok.

I was busy experimenting with the snap and shake technique with my camera.

We developed this theory: if you wanna know whether a guy is pondan (not gays because gays can sometimes be very manly) or straight, see how they smile. Pondans like to smile with their mouth open. Haha. I have nothing against them ok. I love my gay friends. FML.

Great company and great food! Btw, this was taken around 10.30pm and Lisa ate like 3 servings of rice ok! And she's so thin! Don't be hating now, girls.

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Bestnya Kalau Ada Nenek Macam Ni

At 88, Iris Apfel is still chic and not ready to trade all that with boring, old woman getup! She still makes effort to dress up! All her clothes (you wanna talk about classic? vintage?) by now, should be stored in some museum and I mean that in a good way!

Owh, I wish! I wish!


Photo credits: http://fashionista.com/2009/11/iris_apfel_french_vogue.php?img=2

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For Those Who Asked...

...for the recipe of my mom's Blueberry Cheese Tart.

A bit messy. Apology.

First you need to do the sweet pastry.

Ingredients:

250 gm butter
130 gm icing sugar
2 egg yolks
500 gm Red Rose flour (Medium Protein flour)
2 tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp lemon yellow color (optional)

Method:

1. Cream butter, sugar, vanill essence and yellow color but don't let it be too creamy.
2. Add in egg yolks and water. Continue creaming for 1-2 min.
3. Fold in flour.
4. Press pastry in the tart moulds. Prick the pastry shells with fork.
   
5. Bake for 20 min at 180C.

For the filling you need:

250 gm cream cheese
20 gm butter
60gm castor sugar
1 egg
15 gm corn flour

Method:

1. Cream cheese, butter and sugar together till fluffy.
2. Add in egg and beat together till they blend well.
3. Pipe mixture onto baked tart shells.
4. Pipe blueberry fruit filling into the cheese mixture and swirl it into a marbling effect.
5. Bake at 180C for 10 min (top fire).

Sorry that it took so long! I totally forgot about this until a couple weeks ago when we had a potluck Raya Gathering at the office.

Interesting but useless fact: I have a colleague who never, I mean NEVER eat in front of other people. He's very shy, you see. So I brought this to work, just because these were just so easy to make and... surprise, surprise! He ate about 6 or 7 of these! In front of us!

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