Souveniers from Taiwan

One of the colleague went to Taiwan. Below are some of the souveniers he bought.... kind of funny but yet creative.
棉花糖 - mashmallow

Plaster - Different kind of chocolate in the box

Strawberry Chocolate

Chocolate

Orange Honey Bread (鮮橙蜂蜜麵包) | Nov 21, 2010

Try to make at least a kind of bread during the weekend. This orange taste like bread is my first attempt.
Recipe Source (鮮橙蜂蜜麵包)
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/carol-jay/article?mid=18075&prev=19254&next=17687&l=f&fid=38

Wholemeal Bread | Nov 20, 2010

This is not the first time we make wholemeal bread. But still have rooms for improvement. Will keep trying until it is perfect.

Souvenier from Colleague

One of my colleagues just came back from US. He bought me a baby cloth. I was so happy. Then I told him, now I know the feeling of being a mother (or mother-to-be). I felt happier to receive a gift for my baby than receiving a gift for myself. My colleague said this could be due my hormone changes…. Funny him.
From my guess, may be this is something in need at the moment. Anyhow, I am so happy.

Lorraine's visit from Nov 8 - 13, 2010

I am glad to have the chance to meet up with Lorraine again. This time is her business trip to KL and she has stayed in KL for a week. There are no any outdoor activities this time since it is her business trip and i cant really engage in any outdoor activities too.... Hence we meet up for dinners and have some really good chat and update.

Weekend Activity (Part V) - Char Siew (Nov 14, 2010)

I did not think of making any char siew this weekend. But Mr Kuan saw some nice pork belly. He said he wanted to make Siew Yuk. When i look at the pork belly, and think, must well i make my own char siew since i like it so much....

Consider first attempt using our new oven. Not bad, but still got a lot of room for improvement.

Weekend Activity (Part IV) - Fried Chicken (Nov 14, 2010)

Mr Kuan always wanted to experiment to make crispy and delicious fried chicken fillet, just like those selling in Taiwan night market. We bought books from Taiwan and watched few youtubes on how to make it.
This is our second attempt. Taste not bad but is still not crispy enough.

Weekend Activity (Part III) - Steamed Chocolate Brownies (Nov 14, 2010)

WIP

Steamed Chocolate Brownies.
I think this cake taste really delicious, it goes perfect with a scope of Vanila ice cream. The moisture of the cake is just perfect since i steamed it instead of baked it. I brought some for my colleagues. Vanessa said it taste like TGIF Chocolate Brownies.... hehehe....

Weekend Activity (Part II) - Crochet (Nov 14, 2010)

I normally can finish this small little thing in few hours. But this time i take almost a day to finish it. Due to my pregnancy, i can't sit still a place for too long, i will tend to have back pain. Hence, i have to stop and walk, or find a better sitting position to ease my back pain.

I have made this over this weekend. A small one....

Weekend Activity (Part I) - White Bread (Nov 13, 2010)

It has been sometime since the last time we baked our own bread. Ever since we shifted house, we seems to have difficulties to locate our baking materials. Hence, this week we have decided to gather all the materials and ingredient and resume our baking experiment. Here is the first experiment - Milky White Bread.

Start Mixing the Dough

After waited for few hours, the dough has raised enough and is ready to be shaped

Adding some raisin to the dough

Waiting the bread to raise again

End product.... tasty and yummy..

Faint Encounter II

Today is the second time I felt the dizziness when I visit the wet market. I can’t really spend more than 15 minutes in the wet market. Today I got the same feeling as the last time I visited the wet market. My heart start pumping faster, felt like vomit and cold sweat starts running on me. Mr. Kuan was nearby me, before I fall to the ground, I quickly walk to him in a zig-zag walking mode, get a chair in one of the store, sit and rest for a while. I have told my Dr. about this, he advised me not to go to crowded places, as ventilation is poor in those places. Guess, I can only go to supermarket.

My Baby Gal yawning inside me

I went for baby check up few days ago. As routine, i have to submit my urine sample, weigh myself, check my blood pressure, ultra sound scanning....and consultation.

When the Dr. scanning me, during the last part of the scan, i saw my baby girl yawning. It is just unbelieveable and amazing that she is yawning inside me... Good that we are able to capture this with the phone :)

Take a look.... probably you have to see it few times before you notice that since most of us not familiar with this black and white ultrasound image.

Shopping for Baby Stuffs

I felt a bit upset and heartbroken today. I have to shop for baby stuffs all by myself. Mr. Kuan rather asked his friends to come along, company him and they sit at the coffee shop and wait for me to buy my stuffs. WTF!!!! I have to carry all the things I bought (rather heavy for a pregnant lady) from one end of the shopping mall to other end. Drop the stuffs, then go and buy again, because I can’t carry all the things at one go. His friends think this is good for me because I need to exercise more. But they don’t understand it is rather difficult when i need to carry the extra kgs in my body, carrying all those heavy stuffs, shop and walk for almost 2 hours. I have always complaint about my serious back pain. How come Mr Kuan doesn’t listen and understand the fact.

After today, I have decided to set up all the baby stuffs by myself, including baby cot. If he thinks he wants to involve, he can. But I am not going to force him to company me to shop any of the things if he doesn’t volunteer. I don’t want to leave things last minute. My body is getting heavier everyday and it will inconvenient for me to walk for long hours. I know I will feel better if I set up this kind of mindset so that I will not feel disappointed again if he doesn’t company me.

WTF!!!!

Nice dinner

Ah Keong highly recommend this restaurant especially its Tong Po Yuk. I like tong po yuk too but i just eat the lean meat....名不虚传, it taste really nice :)

Mantis Shrimp with Yam

This is normal, 上汤dont know what vege.

Minced pork with Tofu... not bad.

Tong Po Yuk... this is really nice. Highly recommended by Calven Wong (Ah Keong)

The restaurant called it deep fried mermaind. Crunchy and delicious.

Faint Encounter

I went to the market last Sunday with Mr. Kuan. We left the market after we finished marketing. Then i realised i forgot to buy onions and vege. So he turn his car back heading to the market again. Since i just need to buy onions and vege. I asked him to stay in the car and wait for me, no need to find a parking lot.

Once i reached the vege stall, i cough and feel like vomit with no reason. Starting to feel a little uneasy. Then i begin to choose the nice vege. Few minutes later i started to feel blur, my body start runnig with cold sweat. I still stay on, pass the vege to the uncle. Then i started to feel a little bit of black out and i cant really hear at that moment... quickly i take my phone out and call Mr Kuan. May be my vision was bit blur at that moment, i have a hard time to search his phone number. Eventually i got to call him. He rushed to take me back to the car. Feel really uncomfortable, if i stay on there for few more minutes, i will drop down to floor.

I guess could be the ventilation was not good there.... i am not sure... but that morning was a cooling morning since it rain.

Remember the last time i fainted was the time i just finished my operation few years ago. The nurses wanted me to go to the toilet and force me to pee. It was just less than 10 steps from my bed to the toilet, but i m really having a difficult time to get there. I fainted half way, total black out. There were 2 nurses holding me. But they still want me to make my first pee after the operation. My scars were causing me pain and my stomach was extremely pain too (gastric). Not a good experience.... scary...

Dinner at Kinnaree Thai Restaurant| Jaya One

Dinner at Kinnaree Thai Restaurant
Authentic Thai Cuisine. Food is rather delicious and worth a try.

Ming Khiem. I learn to eat this dish from Rebecca. Since then i like it. It is like thai salad. You need to wrap all the vege (Cut Chili Padi, Fried coconuts, Peanuts, Dice shallots, dice ginger, dice lime and fried dried shrimp) in a kind of leave then put the prepare source.... It just delicious.

Fried Kai Lan

Green Curry

Pad Thai... my favorite dish

Tom Yum

Joo Seng & Rebecca

Grace & King Keong

Dinner at Gyuichi Japanese BBQ Restaurant

I am so happy to eventually found a Japanese BBQ restaurant in KL. Not a common one in KL. The last time i had Jap BBQ was the time in Beijing.
Food is rather pricy in this restaurant but things are fresh and delicious.

The restaurant @ Hartamas

Me

Assorted Mix Vege (RM15)

Pork Belly (RM20) - few pieces only

Waygu Beef (RM45), you can count how pieces there are

Gyoza (RM8) - This is delicious, taste like the one i had it in Tokyo.

WIP

发记牛腩粉

A very fruitful day. Wake up early in the morning and drive all the way down to Seremban Market to eat the famous "Beef Stripe Noodle" (牛腩粉). I got a bit of craving since last week.　I find of like to eat beef since i got pregnant.
Hence today no matter what, i have to make it happen. We meet up Pek Kee and Dennis in the market. (Seremban is their hometown). Sit in the market place, eat and chat till 2pm. By time we reached KL, is already 3pm.

Later of the day, we went to shop for carpets to decorate our house.
My mother in law and in law niece come to visit us and stay overnight.... dinner, cooking, cleaning. At night, mother in law's friends who stay nearby, come and visit us too. By time i got to rest, is already 11.30pm. Tiring day...

This is the famous stall, 发记牛腩粉．



牛腩粉

First lady

Just watched the midnight news. US first lady (Obama’s wife) just did a well speech and earned a lot of respect from the audience. I start thinking and keep asking Mr Kuan. All the first lady can do great speech and has contributed a lot to the society too. What if I married to US president, can I don’t do any speech (as I am not a good speaker and I have stage fear), can I don’t do any welfare, can I don’t expose to media, can I don’t....so many questions…. And also questions like, can I just stay at home and do things I like, can i just….

Mr. Kuan did not say anything, he just ignore me by pretending he fall asleep at the sofa with his hand still sticking on his laptop. But he woke up after I stop asking questions….. so bad...

Baby movement feeling

I am trying to find a word to describe the feeling when you can feel the movement of the baby. From the web, it normally describes it as butterfly fluttering, gold fish swimming around… when I read about those feeling initially, I can’t really imagine and understand how it feels. After since I felt this little jerks and jolts, I think the best way to describe it is as if when you can feel your own pulse. Sometimes we do feel our own pulse in any part of our body for no reasons. The pulse pumping feel could be in your hand, leg, or even eye. When you felt the eye pulse, Chinese will always said, “left eye pulse is a bad sign, and vise versa for right side”. And I think this initial baby jerks and jolts is almost exactly this feeling with a bigger surface area and with a strength that is stronger than pulse. Not sure how it feels when the baby grow bigger and stronger. Will update accordingly.

Can you all imagine the feeling too?