Monday, March 23, 2009

jeng, jeng, jeng…biscotti lagiks!

I have googled for biscotti recipe..ada banyak pilihan dan salah satunya as per below.
Tak susah sangat tapi tak tahu bila nak buat..Insyallah ada masa dan kelapangan boleh try.

Almond Biscotti Recipe

This is a traditional biscotti, as it does not contain butter or oil, that uses eggs to bind the ingredients together. If you like your almond biscotti to have the flavor of anise (jintan manis), just add up to a tablespoon of anise seeds or else 1 teaspoon of pure anise extract.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Toast almonds for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned and fragrant. Let cool and then chop coarsely. Set aside.


Reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a small bowl lightly beat the eggs and extracts together. Set aside.

In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer) combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Beat until blended (about 30 seconds). Gradually add the egg mixture and beat until a dough forms, adding almonds about halfway through.


With floured hands divide dough in half. On a lightly floured surface roll each half of dough into a log about 10 inches (25 cm) long and 2 inches (5 cm) wide.


Transfer logs to the prepared baking sheet, spacing the logs about 3 inches (7.5 cm) apart, and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until firm to the touch (logs will spread during baking). Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack for about 10 minutes.


Transfer logs to a cutting board and, using a serrated knife, cut log into slices 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) thick on the diagonal.


Arrange evenly on baking sheet. Bake 10 minutes, turn slices over, and bake another 10 minutes or until firm to the touch. Remove from oven and let cool. Store in an airtight container.

Got this from cold storage semalam.

♥ santai di subang parade...

Subang Parade is one of my fave place. Suka sebab kat sana not that crowd dan tempat makan pun banyak choice. Kalau nak shopping kat sana pun not bad…

Sunday morning bawak kiddos jalan2 kat sana.
For them lepaking kat McD tu pun dah cukup bagus, sebab dorang boleh main2 kat situ.
So we lepak je kat McD tu sampai dorang puas main. Me and hubby layan newspapers dan kentang goreng. ;-)

They were pointing to me the toys r’us shop but me buat dunno jer..huhu.
No more toys please.

Jom layan pictures!

have fun!!!

umair with happy meal's toy..suka dia sebab ada spiderman. Pagi tadi, bangun jer nak toys ni sebab nak bawak main kat rumah nanny. ishhhk..ishk..

makan dulu..lepas tu sambung main

Friday, March 20, 2009

papa john’s pizza

Semalam me and family went to ‘rasmikan’ new ioi mall (ioi new wing now open).

Terasa nak makan pizza, so we tried papa john’s pizza. OK, not bad (for me lah! lain orang lain citarasa)

Since benda baru so my hubs suggest to order dua pizza smallest size yang different flavour. But lupa lah apa nama pizza tu. You may check in their website, dlm tu ada menu & pics.

Back to ioi new extension, nampak banyak butik/kedai/restaurant akan dibuka but as at yesterday most of them still under renovation/touch up lagi. I think baru soft launching kot..
ermm..one of the different kat papa john’s ni ada its signature xtras. Peperoncini pepper (spelling ?) jeruk dan garlic sauce. Dorang takde serve chili sauce.


Ps: esok ke mana ya? Apa2 pun kena basuh baju yang berbakul tu dulu.. :- (
have a nice weekend to you guys.

Need to take one day off...

By hook or by crook! kena cuti next week either myself and hubby or hubby only. Sebab nak kena buat passport for the kiddos. Gambar passportnya udah ready .

Funny experience tau, nayli & umair pi buat gambar passport kat kedai..keras kaku jer..puas mommy dia suruh senyum. 2 kali snap sama jer pose.
Maklumlah 1st time for them huhuh..

Hasilnya..umair macam muka bangun tidur and nayli muka terkezut..

Expired driving license!!

Owh my Goodness..korang tau I baru notice my driving license expired since 9/3/2009.
Tak tahu tak pe lagi..Bila dah tahu tu mula la gelabah. Lucky me, sebab sekarang me jarang2 drive (since ada driver ambik hantar I tau..eheh jgn mare).

The best part is my husband pun sama sabab kitaorang selalu renew sekali.
Dia pun lupa nak check da..so korang punya bila expire?



gambar yang nampak sipi2 tu masa I belajar kat itm dulu..kalau tak silap tahun 1996 kot. zaman kanak2 riang lagi.
kenangan yang melucukan bila ingat time belajar kereta dulu kat arau, perlis (sebab study kat itm sana) ;)

Thursday, March 19, 2009

biscotti?



Me and the hubby suka bebenor ngunyah biscotti sambil layan tv.
Hari tu beli kat Starbucks tapi macam dah tak sesedap dulu. Packaging pun dah lain, agaknya tukar supplier kot..

Nak belajar lah camana nak buat ni. Ada ke sape2 nak share recipe? Kalau tak de nanti I google jer lah ;(
Yang best kalau ada strawberry dan segala mak nenek kacang ..tapi mahal sket la.

My hubby ada beli yang home-made kebetulan ada jual baru2 ni ..sedap, tak keras dan tak lembut sangat, eheh just nice…cheers gitu.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Good day aussie boy..

Ini one of my anak buah yang sekarang berada nun jauh di Gold Coast. Good day adam!! (jap..jap I dah lost count la berapa anak buah. O...dah 13, 12 from my side + 1 sebelah hubby. Hope more to come. So far tak de lagi ipar-duai yang pregnant. Kita tengok sape yang kena..huhu sape yang nak kick-start yer..*hiks*)




Ayah adam i.e. my bro, kata adam suka tengok gambar cousin2 dia yang I tempek kat my blog. Bagus tu adam…heheh (at least tak lupa ngan couzy kat sini)
Dah genap setahun pun depa kat sana. Another 2 years to go. Gambatte ne!

My sis-in-law sent me photo of her new pyrex set yang dia beli to reward herself sempena satu ‘kemenangan’ huhu congrats sis!. According to her it’s cheap. Ok nanti boleh pesan…



Ps: verangan nak gi sana…bila la agaknya…

♥ kasut baji..

Ini my latest pair of wedge-shoes (kasut baji - macam pelik je bunyi kan!) ^-^





Masih meninjau2 pump-shoes yang paling best dan selesa untuk pakai pi kerja.

♥ Fantasy Umair

Tak kira masa dan tempat, ini budak kicik hanya ingat playing & playing. Even nak tido pun still buat sound jet la, kapal terbang la (siap dgn gaya tangan yg itu adalah sebuah jet).
I think nayli time pun tak camni. Itu lah different boy and girl kot.

Dia suka sangat kerete kicik2 ni..(biasanya I beli kat carboot sale 5 for $10)


Dia tengah berfantasi..pot pet pot pet..




ps: janji nak bawak dia pi zoo sebab dia nak tengok alex the lion..(gara2 tengok Madagascar)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

♥ happy ♥

Last weekend went to visit my big bro.

See that Japanese little girl Alisya Nur Kyoko-Chan..dah makin besar dan pandai.





Nayli happy sangat jumpa her lil cousin. Umair pulak busy playing football with abang mik (sowwy no photo taken)

Ps: my big bro showed me his fingernails..dia baru lepas buat manicure. Amboi! Berkilat2 kuku dia. Adik dia yang pompuan ni pun tak pernah buat manicure bagai..*grin*

Saturday, March 14, 2009

salam sabtu...

salam sabtu to all,

Last nite after balik kerja keluar bawak kiddos makan. Tak tahu nak ke mana last2 pergi Alamanda. About 10-15 min drive from my house.

Sampai sana tak tahu nak makan apa pulak, perut tak lapar sangat. Then we decided makan kat Nandos je.


Lepas makan, pergi cari umair punya brief since dia dah okay, I mean tak pakai diaper lagi siang hari. Masuk mothercare, ada la tapi mahal sangat tak berbaloi pulak. Jalan2 lagi then terjumpa yang I rasa boleh la..umair suka yang spiderman tapi no size. Yang ado cuma Thomas & friends je..tak pe lah.


Sempat masuk Lovely Lace jap, beli hadiah untuk wedding my hubby's friend. Got a lovely photo frame. My hubby prefer this type of gift, katanya pinggan mangkuk, electric items dah ramai orang bagi. Apa2 aje la...

si petite nayli sempat snap photo mummynya yg kecapetan, balik kenduri kawin

P/S:
  • Happy birthday to sis jida also known as cik su by anak2 buah. Have a wonderful birthday adik!
  • Malam ni layan konsert AF...
  • Aiyahhh..mon & tue ada course da... (dun worry be happy ;) weekend ni tak yah pk kerja la..kan!)

Thursday, March 12, 2009

..owh..


Wet, wet, wet..evening semalam kan?!.
Around 7-ish (pm) I was waiting for hubby to fetch me at taxi stand in front of office building. Nyaman udara selepas hujan. Suddenly I spotted..owh my favorite shoe dah koyak skit. Serious tak perasan pun..ni mesti I terlanggar kat mana2 ni. Yeah..ada alasan to buy a new one! ihiks..


close-up skit..


tak de kerja kan sambil tunggu tu sempat snap photo ntah apa2 ni..



owh my hunny dah sampai..

u-tubing jap..layan lagu ni.
Teringat si comel Angelily. Her mom used to letak this song kat blognya yang cute macam Lily.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

4 days break..was a great break.

Last Friday I was on leave because of 2 reasons. Firstly, my son, umair was not feeling well-deman/batuk/selsema. Secondly, ada sedikit urusan that need me to settle urgently. Sambil2 tu ambil peluang hantar Nayli pergi kindy sebab ever since dia joint kindy baru seminggu lepas, I tak pernah hantar dan tak pernah tengok dia pakai uniform kindynya. Bagus punya mak kan...eheh bukan apa I tak berkesempatan nak cuti, lagi pun tahu dia macam cool aje, tak kisah babysitter hantarkan...


Nayli so happy because first time mummy hantar ke kindy..sempat lah I masuk tengok kawan2 dia dan sembang dgn teacher sekejap. Good girl..siap toncang rambut lagi..kalau tak ke sekolah jangan harap nak ikat rambut. Getah rambut tu silih berganti bukan sebab pakai tapi sebab hilang entah kemana.
Sementara Nayli ke kindy, Umair pulak dengan babysitter, he seemed okay after ambik ubat (rest). I rushed ke KL.

That was story on last Friday.

My Sat, Sun and Mon just spent at home. Keluar pun just nearby saja bawak kiddos jalan2.
During the 4 days break ..I berjaya jadi “surirumah sepenuh masa” selama 2 hari, I’ve done the laundry, vacuum-ing, mopping, cooking bla..bla.. yeah..

Mine was considered a great break. How about yours?

Friday, March 6, 2009

yuhoo...

salam to all,

I'm on leave today dan sekarang sedang berada di golden triangle yang very the busy ni...


selamat bekerja to u all okay dan selamat menyambut maulidur rasul this coming monday. Yey..weekend yang panjang...

da....

Thursday, March 5, 2009

-trendy bangles-

There are choices of bangles for your view. Like them so much!






the above images are from here

tired-->upset...

2 malam lepas I was very tired and went to bed quite early. We tend to be very upset bila letih lepas tu anak2 buat hal. Pernah terjadi tak you all?

That night nayli cried with no reason..I was mad, lost my cool but I try to control myself - really (I shall not go into details).
Actually I seldom marah2 tak tentu pasal, pukul2 tu jauh sekali. (my opinion, pukul anak tu boleh untuk mengajar mereka tp berpada2 la kan)

Esok, i.e. yesterday, I cakap baik2 kat dia kenapa & mengapa I was upset with her...I think she is big enough (going to be 5 years) to understand the reasons that I explained to her. She is getting older and wiser.
Me myself sometimes menyesal jugak kalau marah2 dia selalu tapi bila time marah, mulut I bising boleh tahan lah. So bad of me!

Bila dah ok, nayli sometimes tanya "mommy tak sayang kakak"? Owh..her question broke my heart. Of course, mommy sayang dua-dua anak mommy..

Ibu mana tak sayang anak. Kalau ada anak 5 orang pun kasih sayang seorang ibu tak akan berbelah bagi. Sekarang kita merasai bagaimana pengalaman membesarkan anak2 sendiri, sebagaimana mak kita bersusah payah membesarkan kita dulu.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

bright sight...

Setiap pagi selalunya bila sampai ofis I akan belek The Sun dulu (free newspaper) sambil tunggu pc warming up.

Hari ni ada Watson punya catalog pulak terselik kat dalam paper tu.
Sempat cuci mata..there is something steal me...

Revlon new complex 2 way foundation (value pack), untung kalau beli ni dapat jimat rm33.
I pakai bedak ni aje since 2 years back (prior to that Maybelline). Kalu beli satu refill tu normally circa RM49 dan tahan for 3-4 months.

Kalau dapat grab that value pack kira sampai next year la boleh tahan.
Kena beli ni, hopefully still available la sebab biasanya macam goreng pisang panas especially warna yang kita nak. Ok set petang ni kena singgah Watson jap.

Hmm alahai… kalau pompuan tu pompuan jugak kan, very true-blue shopaholic, pantang ada peluang heheh

Oppss wait wait.. let see from the bright sight, kalau tak beli rugi, lagipun benda tu sooner or later memang nak kena belikan so during promo macam gini lebih jimat kalau beli..dok gittu??? Bijak berbelanja mar..


ps; Birthday wishes sent to sis ah aka mrs. taj. Semoga happy sokmo.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

hate Tuesday? u r not alone...


Hi guys,

Just to show off my new rantai. (jangan marah wokey! sekali sekala I nak show off here ;p )

Anddd to share this which I read somewhere..for those who hate Tuesday, you‘re not alone.

Quote
I'm with the people who hate Tuesdays.
Mondays, you've still got a little bit of a glow from the weekend (assuming it was a good one).
Wednesday--hey, Wednesday is Hump Day! Get past that and it’ll be good until the weekend.
Thursday, you've got one more day until Friday!
Friday is self-explanatory.
What's special about Tuesday? Nothin'. The weekend's truly over and the next one is four days away.
People who hate Mondays read too much Garfield.

Unquote - Garfield is having a sleepy eyes yet cute, skooling time minat sangat kartun ni. Boyfriend bagi card pun gamba Garfield huhu…

Ps: kalau time rajin haaa..“backtoback” entries flow out in a day. Kalau malas..

Sad story...

I would like to dedicate this entry to my friend, Intan. (actually my hubby’s ex colleague but jadi my friend too).

Dear Intan,
Kami sekeluarga amat bersimpati dengan apa yang melanda Intan. Semoga Intan tabah dan sabar menghadapi dugaan ini. Kami doakan segala-galanya selamat. ameen.

Last nite, my hubby got a sms from a friend telling that Intan’s hubby baru disahkan kanser stage 4. Today kena buat major operation.
Terkedu seketika. I membayangkan keadaan Intan dan segaligus membayangkan sekiranya I kat tempat Intan. (so bad of me..tapi secara automatik terfikir & terlintas diminda, I know, I know..this is not so healthy)

My hubby terus call his friend and go visit intan’s hubby last nite. According to my hubby, yesterday intan’s hubby pergi buat check-up after rasa sakit2 badan dan bahagian pinggang for sometimes. From morning till petang buat thorough check-up then 6-ish petang dapat tahu result. Just imagine tahu2 jer dah stage 4. Owh Goodness.

rambut kerinting & new skool

Nayli selalu cakap dia nak rambut kerinting/wavy macam her cousin, sarah and jasmine. And also like her cousin sister, auntie qilah. I told her that sarah & jasmine memang originally rambut camtu bukan pergi buat kat saloon. I know she doesn’t satisfy with the answer.

Sooo…to make her happy I buat rambut dia macam ni…huhu. Tidur malam pun tak buka. But lupa to snap photo masa lepas dia buka..kembang and wavy. Even sekejap tapi orait la at least dia happy.



Yesterday she joined a new kindy as she refused to go to previous kindy. According to bbysitter & her teacher, all are under control for day 1. Hope it's smooth sailing until the weekend and so on.

Last nite, she has to do her first homeworks. She is a lefthanded girl like mommy & daddynya. But umair menulis tangan kanan.




While she is doing her homeworks, me kena paksa sit besides her but me proceed with my reading sambil tengok2 apa dia buat.

I read this..


Lepas buat homework bagi can lah tengok upin & ipin. Dua beradik layan cd tu sampai gelak2 besar..so funny..tp memang best pun tengok kartun ni.

Monday, March 2, 2009

random personal & wish list updates @02/03/2008

1) Read, read, read more materials that can motivate me (outside and inside) as I am an easy-forget-person.

2) Improve, improve and improve my English as mine not-so-good leh! How? By reading I suppose…

3) FYI, I carry a small note book in my handbag, if I terjumpa any new words/phrases I like it to be jotted down. Apa2 saja yang I would like to remember I tulis kat situ…eheh very conservative style kan.

4) I have many ideas and plans in my head but sometimes it remains as a plan..never materialized. But latest me and the hubby plan to start something..let see how that will work out.

5) Wonder why I tak ambik kelas renang / kelas menari 10 years ago. Padahal banyak masa and no commitments that time. Slight regret here :(

6) I wish to have a COZY corner (tiny corner will do because I know I don’t own a mansion to have a big study room) at home for me to do my works (it can be browsing mags/opis works/bertenet etc). That corner will be named as “mommy’s cozy corner”. Not necessary equipped by branded furniture tapi kalau red apple, h. norman or ikea nak sponsor boleh gak. (This note is special to my hubby)
Currently use meja makan. Situ lah tempat makan situ jugak tempat buat kerja (kesian saya)

7) I wish to have a sewing machine. (dah lama ni tapi masih ada dlm list sebab tak dapat2 lagi)

8) I eagerly want to explore, try and error on dig. book-scrapping. As I am not good in IT (memang meraba-raba macam orang buta) so I don’t care if my progress same as snail pace. Tapi this is really my new hobby that I want to learn and ready to get addicted! Anyone good in DBS and nak bagi special tutorial for me or to share the least complicated way in learning this thing? hhuhu..

That’s all my latest random personal & wish list for now…

I ada mentioned yang sekarang I addicted to read a blog (I sanggup print her entries so I can read at home)
Last Saturday, I met the owner of the blog, a very pretty lady dan sangat peramah…hope I can see her again in near future.


Ciao...
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