Rediscovering blogging?

Recently read a few blogs, mainly due to my research on taiwan food as I'm gg to taiwan in Apr 14. Suddenly reminded of this blog that I have.

I should start again. It allows me take time to reflect and pen down thoughts and memories.

Bali day 1 - our villa!

Arrived in Bali yesterday with Meiming & Jingyi! Took a cab fr Denpasar airport to Semiyak. Cost us 70,000 rph which we felt is reasonable.

It felt like paradise when we entered our villa - Heliconia!!

The entrance to our villa.

Welcome in! :)

Our favourite private pool! ;) woots! Have visited the pool yesterday and tonight. hehe. Really very shiok to have a pool in the villa!

This is where we have the breakfast which is served to us every morning. We get to choose from a menu of breakfast set. A good variety of around 15 sets for you to choose from :)

MM on the bench. I love this outdoor bench. I'm lying on it enjoying the wind and peaceful night while blogging now :) (Heliconia has free wifi. Yea!)

Ours is a two storey villa with one room above and one room below. I'm sharing the bed with Jingyi and it's so spacious! :)

Toilet with a pond view. Haha.

See what I mean by pond view. There're real fishes in there!

Peek-a-boo design. Haha.

Fishes. Not sure what kind of fish though. Hehe.

I'll post the other photos n blog when I get them from Meiming And Jingyi. I only have My phone. Haha.


- Posted by Traveller Peanutos

Hand of Love

Yesterday Pastor Dennis said something in the sermon that made my think. He said that when he look back in his life he sees the hand of love in his life. How God has been guiding him and helping him even when he did not know God God was helping him.
I thought about myself. I seem to grumble too much about my life and is not actively looking for the hand of love which I'm very sure is in my life.

God forgive me for my greediness and discontentment. I repent Lord. I'm am blessed yet I dun see it and crave for more. Help me Lord to have a thankful heart.

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Lobster Porridge

Bao, Coco, Donut and myself went for lobster porridge at Long Xia Zhou Shi Jia at Orchard Central. I actually bought this coupon on beeconomic.com for half price lobster porridge but when i went there we realised that there was this 1-for-1 promotion for lobster porridge. (-____-lll) Kind of sianz diao. meaning I didn't have to buy the coupon since there's this promotion mah. boo...

Anyways.. we had a good time trying this lobster porridge and their signature chicken dish with this veggie drink which has a strong sour plum taste.

The porridge when it arrived. Doesn't look very impressive but I assure you, its really delicious! It's kind of like the Teochew porridge kind. Not the cantonese porridge. The soup is sweet and before you know it you would have finished the rice inside. Hehe.

Donut totally oblivious to our photo taking of the porridge and totally focused on her porridge. haha.

Coco and her porridge. Nice smile! :)

Bao glaring at me.. cos i'm secretly taking photos of her taking photos of her porridge. Hahaha.

Pineapple tarts - 2011

This year I tried two different recipes for pineapple tarts. It's the first time i attempt to make pineapple tarts in the traditional flower shape way. I bought a roller and a mould from phoon huat for this purpose. The first recipe was from Little Teochew's website.

The tarts after glazing, before entering the oven. ;)

The completed tarts!

The second recipe is from my friend Pei xian. For those who loves butter and wants a crumbly, melts in the mouth kind of pineapple tart, this is the recipe to try.

Ingredients:

700g plain flour

500g butter

100g sugar

100g milk powder

3 egg yolks (beaten)

1 egg for glazing

Pre-rolled pineapple balls (I always use the ready made pineapple filling from redman, its slightly on the sweet side but I'll okay with it being sweet. haha.)

Steps:

1. Sift the flour

2. Using fingertips swiftly but gently rub the butter into the flour until it looks like fine bread crumbs. You may also use fork (as per the instructions in the 1st recipe) It basically requires you to scrape / flake the butter with your forks. You essentially want to coat the butter crumbs in flour. Using forks prevents the cold butter from melting since there is no contact with heat.

3. Add the beaten 3 egg yolks into the butter-flour mixture and gently coax all the crumbs to form one large dough ball.

4. Grab a little dough and wrap a pre-rolled pineapple ball with it. Continue to form enough tarts for your baking tray.

5. Bake at 160 degrees celsius for 15 minutes and glaze the pineapple tarts with the beaten egg and bake for another 5 minutes.

Butter cake - 2nd attempt

The butter cake that look well-baked. The emphasis is on LOOK.


The bottom was burnt. But it's an improvement from the first time ba. :)

- Posted by Baker Peanutos

Newtoys!

Say hello to......

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First day of work in 2011

Yosh! It's a brand new year and a brand new day at work for the year!

Dear Lord, i pray that u will be with me as I strive to give my best in my work. Give me wisdom and the skills i need to do a good job in all the projects that I will handle this year. I pray that I'll be salt and light for u in this place that u have placed me in. I'm grateful to u for giving me this job and I pray that u will bless me in my days in this company. Holy Spirit, please be with me throughout and guide me. Thank you, in Jesus name. Amen!

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Last CG of the year!

Had our last CG for 2010 at Marina Barrage today! My first time there and first time flying a kite!! It was super fun! I didn't manage to fly any high up in the sky but Jingwei and Yong Chao got theirs high high up! :D super cool that i was able to get a chance to tug the strings for one of the kites that flew high up :)

Why fly kite? cos we wanted to our goals/reso for 2011 to set flight! :)

That's the kite with all our goals!

Pray that all our goals will come to pass by the grace of God! :)

Spongebob or Megamind?!?

Saw something really interesting in J8 today! hahaha!

Blessed 2010 Birthday

Had a series of birthday celebrations with different groups of frenz. Felt very blessed :) Thank you all!!!! Muacks!

1) Surprise from Lee Mei and Jestee. Right after gym and dinner haha. accompanied with KOI :) had a good time chatting with them and i really hope that by next year my wish for the 3 of us will come true! :)

2) on 22 Dec celebrated Cuifen and My birthday together with Lydia and Beatrix :)

Happy Birthday Cuifen!

I look too astonished in this picture lah. haha.

3) Birthday treat for Cuifen and me at Big O! I love the food there! :D Thanks to Guoqiang, Jincheng and Jian Ming! :)

"Batman returns" ice cream & "The Dark Side" Mudpie! We were so eager to start!!! It's yummy!

Really had a great evening luffing and eating. Thank you guys~

Looking forward to the good news from jingui.com ;)

There are some others celebration, for which i would like to thank my precious friends who celebrated for me. Though no photos to post yet. hehe.