His 26th

It is so terrible to blog about Darling's birthday now because it was already passed for few months. Yet, I still ain't wanna miss any precious memory of him in my life, so I decided to jot it down in my very own space of journal.

It was his 26th birthday, honestly I had no idea on how to celebrate his birthday, when two people be together for a long time, this may be quite a hard time when come to figure out the ideas of giving surprise or celebration. Luckily, Darling is someone who easily gratify for what I do for him, he didn't want for any big gift and big meal, instead he just want to spend his birthday quietly with me, in a delectable and most relaxable atmosphere. Therefore, I prepared him a good meal, I think this is something best and unique I can do for him, at least.

I prepared him the mixed herbs grilled chicken.  I always think when there comes a special event, western food should be served. I was quite headache when thinking  of what to cook, thanks for the web and the blog world, they inspired me for this yummilicious grilled chicken.

I am trying not to boast but sorry I have to say that this is really very yummy. I did marinate the chicken one night before, mixed a stalk of rosemary, chopped onion and garlic, chopped parsley leaves, BBQ sauce, and honey together with the chicken to make it juicy and flavorful.

On the next day, pan-fried the chicken until the outer skin is golden brown, then prepare the sauce. I did add in tomato sauce,  a little bit chili sauce, BBQ sauce, mushroom and tomato dices and the remaining of the marinated ingredients (remove all herbs in prior) to make a thicken sauce overlaid above the cooked chicken. I love this and luckily Darling loves this too!

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New experience with Starcruise - Day2

Despite I slept late in the day before as I accompanied mum in casino, I still forced myself to wake up in the early 6.30am to have a good sunrise view. I just simply love the vast ocean and the lovely sunrise floats in line with the sea. Oh, I was not only the romantic person in the ship, while there was quite a number of people lay on the deck chair lifted up their eyes for the great view from sea. Or maybe they were just out from casino to take a fresh breath instead?

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New experience with Starcruise - Day1

I was never into Star cruises journey and this is my first time. Thanks dad for giving me such a wonderful experience when I was back for holiday in the past May. Initially we had decided to go for Penang-Krabi-Phuket-Penang trip but it was fully booked due to the school holiday. No choice, we only had the second alternative to go, cruise within Penang region, not sure where it rode, I guess to the sea in the middle of Penang island and Butterworth? No idea because there was not even a landmark I could see in the wide and broad sea! It was just a short 2D1N journey, mainly for those who eager for gambling, but definitely not me, I was only there to have my first ever experience in big ship and enjoy for food, show and scenery! 

Yeah, we was ready for on-board registration~ Tata

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白萝卜汤。美奶滋鸡。肉碎羊角豆

上个周末由于冰箱堆积了太多材料，过后又去NSK扫了一点货，所以又促使我下厨了。中午煲了白萝卜汤，炒了美奶滋鸡肉，晚上再弄烧白萝卜汤，再炒了肉碎羊角豆，满足的一天又这样过了。那天煮的东西都是好吃合胃口的，Darling也赞美味，所以心情也非常的好~ 周末就这样不出门，好好在家休息，悠悠闲闲地不用跟人潮逼，感觉还挺不错的~

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Homemade Club Sandwich

After few weeks effort and I have completed a given task on my master topic review, while I am yet to start another challenging task on simulation, I decided to comfort myself with my favorite club sandwich before anything. Bread is always my priority over other carbohydrates, especially served savoury with sausage, ham, cheese, egg and etc. I don't quite like sweet bread, in fact I don't quite like sweet stuffs. Today I pampered myself with healthy yet yummy club sandwiches which satisfied and cheer me up for whole day. Yeah I admit a good meal does gladden me while bad meal can make me dejected.

My wonderful meal, simple but fit my taste to the max! I was too hungry until I prepared so much, gosh it took me 1hr++ to finish everything...

Isn't it healthy? Loads of veggies, and a big plate of orange I had! I just love veggies over meat nowadays, it makes me feel so refreshing and not satiated after the whole meal

What I had for the ingredients? 

Wholemeal Bread → Smashed boiled egg with mayonnaise (seasoned with salt, pepper, mustard sauce and dry herbs) → Lettuce → Mayo egg again → Cheddar cheese (which I cut in pieces) → Cucumber → Mayo egg again → Bread again → Spicy Tuna → Tomato slice → Spicy Tuna again → Bread as final layer

 

I love homemade, great quantity of ingredients but at cheaper price! Some more I can mix and match to fit my very own appetite. The cheddar pieces do make me feel guilty, but it is really too yummy to resist lar~ I just can't control myself from putting it in..

Oops, killing job is awaiting me tomorrow, no worries because I am fully pampered!  
*Energy Gained*
Okay, laziness, shoo shoo go away!

  

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炒包菜。茄汁干烧鸡

那天煮了超干的晚餐中Darling投诉后，好啦吸取教训，以后没煮汤的日子，我的菜肴就必须要湿塔塔，吃饭才容易下咽。不然，糙米饭已经够干了，菜肴也干干的话，肯定又要被讲了，哈哈~

我煮饭有个原则，就是一定要有蔬菜，因为健康嘛，而且Darling每次做工时，午餐都是荤食，因为他不会主动拿蔬菜的，如果有也是吃一些不健康的蔬菜像四川菜，梅菜，咸菜等；所以，如果我有自己下厨，就一定要煮蔬菜，才能平衡回。如果自家煮都不能煮得健康，那何必自己下厨呢? 所以我煮的饭是糙米，用的油是米糠油，下的盐是喜玛拉雅100%纯真盐，而且坚持不放味精~ 不过我还没有钱到煮有机菜，有机肉，有机鸡，有机etc~ 哈哈
  

这就是我用的米糠油，是妈咪介绍我用的~ 在高温之下，不容易变质，虽然比一般的食油贵，但是基于健康，无所谓啦~ 用它来炸鸡，油真的还不会变黑咧，绝世好油呀~

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A date with Marvel's

 
Captain America: The First Avenger is now the hit of the season, everybody is blathering on about it now. Being a big fan of Marvel's superheroes, of course I won't miss it. Although it was just on screen since 28 July 2011, we just simply can't wait anymore. The seats are almost full even we online purchase the movie ticket.

I am totally in love with Marvel's superheroes since my secondary school after Spider Man. The superheroes I love the most was Thor, and now, I am in love with Captain America (Steve Rogers), both of them are so men! I just simply can't withdraw my eyes from them. Thor is just too sexy and wild, while this Captain America is so cute, kind and look innocent!

Trust me, don't ever miss out this movie, it is incredibly great! Although it is a 2 hours movie, but you will never feel why time passes so slow in the theater. Much greater than Transformer 3 I can say, in fact I don't think Transformer 3 is nice,  the front part is kinda boring, keep talking about the history of NASA, while the Autobots and Decepticons are just fight for nothing, and Sam seemed like lost his importance in the movie, while the girl is just like vase, standing there to show off her good body figure. In my humble opinion, I think it is quite lack of story line compared to previous series.

I hope The Avengers of Marvel's superheroes can release as soon as possible, can't wait anymore to see all of them gather out together to fight for the world! I guess it will be an amazing scene ever after.

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五香鲜菇锅饼。鱼露羊角豆

 

又是另一个下厨的日子

从小，我喜欢的书籍就是食谱，虽然不会煮，

但，光看那些图片，就让我兴奋好久。

也对，从不喜欢文字的我，除了寓文故事和漫画，就只有食谱才有多多的图画。

现在还是那么喜欢翻看食谱，

不同的是，我会慢慢开始尝试下厨，

可能离乡背井吧，

得自己下厨，不然光吃外面的, 厌倦之余，对健康也不好吧；

另外，当然也是因为我有兴趣咯。

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Weird Combo @ Young Heart, Pulau Tikus

Why weird combo? This word is from Tze Im, and that is so true! Yeah, 4 of us are so rare hang out together like this. That night was a great night, we had so much things to chat about, from career, love, beauty to etc etc.. and I realized we are no longer wet behind the ears, we are all grew! They became so mature, except me I guess, because they are already a player in the realistic society, they know what they actually dream of; while I am so unprepared, and therefore I decided to further my study to stable myself down. Yeah, now I am the only student among them. 

This night was purely a spontaneous gathering, calling up people instinctively, not sure where to dine in, and finally we spontaneously suggest to this place: Young Heart, located at Pulau Tikus. It ought to be a terrace house but they change it to restaurant, just next to the Pulau Tikus market area.

The weird combo huh?! Should always meet up next time

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Date with old friends @ Food Gallery, Penang Times Square

This was a great gathering, erm, should be farewell instead, before our dear friend Siew Min goes to UK to pursue her study. Here is the place we chose -- Food gallery at Penang Times Square. No doubt there are so much choices of stall in the food court, until we need to spend almost half an hour to take decision. However, I am not sure whether we are weak in choosing nice food or whatsoever, we all don't think that the food there taste nice.

Credit to Xinyi, for all the nice photos below:

Although the food are just so-so, this doesn't really affect our mood because we are here to meet up and chit-chat!

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ABC汤。蟹柳萝卜煎蛋

最近买了许多下厨工具，有steamer, slow cooker, hot plate, 实在让我更添下厨乐趣，而且也省了许多下厨的功夫和时间。Thanks darling for all the lovely kitchen equipments! Your money will not be wasted as I have increased my interest in cooking, you will have enjoyed more home-cooked healthy meals! I dare not say delicious yet, because my skill is yet to be improved! 还有妈咪给的大型oven, 希望在不久的将来我会开始烘焙的旅程！可是烘焙不像煮菜呀，分量如果拿捏得稍微有点不对，或技术不到家的话，可是会完完全全的败掉咧，不止浪费材料，还浪费精神！还是先努力钻研好了，要多看食谱和烹饪节目才可以咯~

 

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有了slow cooker后，我还蛮喜欢煲汤的，因为方便又省时。全部材料丢下去煮，又可以去睡觉或出门，晚上又是一道菜了。而且汤清淡不油腻，最适合全年都在减肥的我啦~ 如果分量太多，当晚吃不完的话，第二天又可以再弄烧，加点冬粉，又是美味健康又简单的一餐啦~而且不用出去打包晒太阳，最适合蜡烛公主的我啦~

ABC汤

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My Honeymoon Dessert @ IOI Boulevard

I don't have a sweet tooth, therefore I rarely hang out to dessert house or barely cook any sweet dishes, unless there is a celebration awaiting me! But this time was quite different, because dessert had become our main dinner. Well, this happened entirely because of the online voucher matter again. I was so greedy until bought a total value of RM50 voucher (which only cost RM25, super worthy isn't it?), just for dessert! Initially I was planned to use the voucher in different days, but Darling said since we were here already why not finish all the voucher? OMG, this means each of us has to consume RM25 dessert on that particular night. Don't worry about our stomach space, because the desserts are not cheap anyway, clear off the voucher is not really that difficult! 

My Honeymoon Dessert is considered quite a good place to have delicate sweet course, nice environment but so SILENT, not even a single song is played and apparently we have to talk softly as well. This really annoyed me because I felt so tension while having my dainty dessert, what a contradiction!

My Honeymoon Dessert, a delicacy dessert house

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女人要学会花老公的钱

网络文章转载~~

那一年的情人节，他送给她一盒巧克力，于是他们相爱了。
每天下班的时候，她都认真地把自已收拾整洁，然后等他
来接她去逛街，到处找新开的饭馆去吃各种小吃。

第二年的情人节，他送她一套价格不菲的套裙，她搂着他当
众在他的脸上"叭唧"了一口，他的脸比她抹上去的口红还红。

第三年的情人节，他送她一颗戒指，于是她被他套住了，
终于嫁作了他妇。再一个情人节到来的时候，
他买回来一大束娇艳的红玫瑰，
她看了一眼说：「这要多少钱啊？情人节的玫瑰最贵了。」
他望着系着围裙，不再把自已收拾得整洁漂亮的她，
默默地找来花瓶，把玫瑰插上。

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Italian Cone Pizza @ IOI Boulevard

Pizza can be made in cone shape, sounds incredibly? Well, actually this restaurant had been introduced by Malaysia's food introductory program Hochak before, and it really impressed me, not only because I am truly a pizza lover, indeed I think that this kind of pizza form really looks special and convenient to be consumed (at least hand will not be dirty after all)~

Italian Cone Pizza serves not only entirely cone pizza, they have other Italian food such as pasta, baked rice and other side dishes. We didn't order much that night, as we had another round of dessert after this. It was quite regretful for not ordering more, because they really serve best cone pizza, the filling was mouthwatering, not stingy on cheese and ingredients even though the cone looks small if you compare and imagine the ordinary pizza folded in cone shape.

 

Here the cone pizza we ordered, Tropical Chicken, thin and a tad of crunchy dough, enclosing chicken ham, chicken sausage, pineapple, Italian tomato sauce and Mozzarella cheese, oh so yummy! The cheese not only served as topping, in fact all ingredients inside the cone are tightly bound with plenty of cheesessssssss!

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美食之家Maxim Dim Sum @ Farlim

港式点心一直都是我的心头好，只可惜，我在KL并不常吃，因为KL点心的价格真的不怎么便宜，而且我吃点心都会叫好多笼才吃得饱的叻~

回到槟城就不一样啦，每一次妈咪爸比送我去搭长途巴士时都会先带我去吃港式点心早餐，这种习惯已经慢慢变成我们的“传统”了~我很喜欢槟城的点心，家乡的食物就是特别不一样，总觉得虾较新鲜，食物更合我口味，最重要是价廉物美~

美食之家，是一家卖美味点心的餐馆，除了点心，他们也提供各类煮炒服务，除了各式大排档菜肴，还有许多面食和饭类供大家选择。以前我们都是去到Sg. Nibong那边吃的，每次都高朋满座，要找个位子还真的不简单啊~ 现在美食之家终于在我家附近开了一间分行，真是太好了，地点就在发林，和大草场的篮球场同一排~ Update: 美食之家在发林的分行已搬到Farlim Kuta Bali，Permata游泳池那里了

如果是假日的话，要早点到哦，不然很难找到位置~

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