Where are ears..

I have always been a listener.

And i like being one too.

But sometimes, once in a bluemoon.. i need a listener too.

Butter!

I almost got a heart attack when i saw the butter's price last week.

Instead of $3.05, it's now $4.50 at least per block for President and Lurpark. It's a 50% increase at least!

Because i use butter quite a bit, i hurried down to a shop downtown when i had chance and got myself a ....



BOX!

at $4 a block.

For 20 blocks, i'll save $10.

Worth it?

Nope.

Because just 2 days ago, i saw Lurpark selling at $10.50 (roughly) for 3 at NTUC, a packaging which i thought had ceased for good since i didn't see it on the shelves for almost a year already.

Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thankfully i didn't purposely go to town just to get the butter. It so happened that i was nearby when i got it. But still.... ggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Yeah, go ahead and laugh at me!! Especially you! since that very second when i smacked my forehead.

Lesson of the day : no more help-the-husband-save-money attempts!

It's not a criticism, it's mocking.

I already knew i have it and even wrote it down.

And it was 9.30AM on a SUNDAY!

+ that wasn't what i tried to send out of it. What happened to most of the stuff in it?

It's rather funny how people like to scrutinise the little ugly details and ignore the big beautiful part.

Sigh.
It hurts badly.

It's raw lor..

Where art thou..

.. oh good desserts...

Last Saturday, i decided to wear the pants instead.

I brought hb to Canele at Robertson Quay wanting to try some of the country's best made desserts. Been wanting to do that for the longest time but unfortunately, their operating hours are till 11pm only. By the time the boys sleep, it'll be too late to go usually.

However, last Saturday was a lucky or rather unlucky day for us. The boys slept at 8pm sharp! So hb and i quickly made our way there after that and guess what? It was FULL house! Gggrrrr...

What's more is that the customers don't look like they were gonna budge at all, not within the next 20 minutes at least. We left disappointedly. And then, a light bulb came to the head! Mine to be exact :P

If there wasn't gonna be Canele that night, the chocolate factory will do too!

So off we hopped to the chocolate factory which was few blocks away. And guess what?
Grin. No need to guess right? It was FULL house again! *slap forehead*

Sobs. So much for the boys sleeping at 8pm. In the end, we went home with dessert-free-stomachs. Sigh. Oh well..

But seriously, it's sooo hard to find good desserts these days.

Coffee joints desserts really cannot make it anymore. We've been trying and most of the time, we didn't even eat half! Then just now, hb actually bought my fav moist chocolate cake from Secret Recipe. We didn't have that for the longest time, at least for more than a year. I only ate 1-2 mouthfuls. I then asked the husband if he would ever buy it again the future and as expected, he shook his head.

Probably now, the only place we can go is hotels? I've yet to try Hilton!

I think this is really bad. As much as i like baking, i loveeeee going out for desserts and coffee too. So if we're gonna stay being this fussy, we will have no other places to go anymore :(

p.s: don't ever try the Coffee Bean's mudcake or something like that. it's a choc cake which looks like it's to die for. After my first spoonful, i was pretty sure they use a very lousy chocolate. I don't think it was even chocolate to begin with. It was probably some lousy cocoa powder mix with liquid and voila, chocolate cake! And as for the colour, think they use lots of choco emulco to make it look as though it's really chocolate-y. I can hardly taste any real chocolate taste in it. As for the chocolate ganache, *roll eyes* ok, i better stop flaming already!

Anyway, for your own good, don't eat it okay? U really do not know what they put in there, to make the cake look so chocolate-y rich but taste like er er.. *toot*.

Oh, the cheesecake too actually. I think they shouldn't call them cheesecake anymore actually. I mean, cheese mana oi?!?!?!

Oppss.. i so bad hor? :P But really! C'mon.. we're paying $5/6++ for a slice of it. Don't shortcut until so bad lah...

Not so nice Sunday

Yeah, there is nice Sunday and not so nice Sunday too. Afterall, life can never be perfect aye?

I think mil is abit insensitive lately :(

First, it was this. Then yesterday and on Saturday, more of the same issue. Issue on my weight, arrowed indirectly.

Initially, i could still laugh it off, finding it amusing. Then second remark came, i was like oh, ok. The last straw was the third comment. That sparked the fuse off. 3 insensitive remarks all within a week's span? Not so funny anymore.

I think no woman will ever be happy if she were to be subjected for her weight issue, be it skinny or fat. Mil herself doesn't, so why say those tactless, insensitive remarks to me? >.<

Perhaps she will only be happy if i'm left with nothing but just skin and bones. Or when i am 45-46 kg like her daughters and herself? And what's laughable is that i don't think i'm fat. Fleshy yes but not fat. So what is her problem exactly? Ugh. Maybe she likes her daughter in law to be real skinny. Oh well...

Kitchen disaster, again

I'm so gonna cry..

'It' happened again today! Ugh...

I was gonna bake bestie her surprise birthday cake today. But everything went so so wrong.. everything, totally.

1. sponge cake

It didn't rise. It wasn't normal. Because i listened to the maid and let her mixed the alot-not-melted butter part with the little-melted ones = butter became thick. It made my batter curdled and resulted a heavy, thin sponge cake :(

I re-baked this.

2. the egg yolk mixture

After whisking the egg yolk mixture like a madman into a creamy and thick mixture + gelatin paste, i poured the prepared syrup into it!! The syrup was meant for brushing the sponge cake :(

4 eggs wasted, not to mentioned, an extra of 4 egg whites on top of the already-there 4 whites for me to brainstorm how to use them all.

I re-do the egg yolk mixture, along with the gelatin paste and the syrup with rum.

3. egg whites

When i was re-doing the gelatin paste, the hot water accidentally got into my 5 egg whites bowl. Egg whites cannot be contaminated especially if you wanna whisk it to its peak form and i actually wanted to attempt macarons with it! :(((

4. 7" cake ring

The recipe did state that it was for a 7" cake ring but i stubbornly think that 8" cake ring (coz i only have 8" round cake ring) will do as well. After i've made my cream cheese mixture, i realised that it is not enough afterall for an 8" cake ring. Sigh.

I ended up using the normal 7" cake tin lined with Glad Wrap, praying and hoping i can just pull the cake out beautifully without anymore problems. *crossing my fingers now*

What's worst is that the cake tin isn't tall enough for my final layer of cream cheese! *sobs*

5. syrup

After i covered the sponge cake with the cream cheese mixture, i realised i forgot to brush the syrup onto the sponge cake before slapping the cream cheese on!

6. syrup again

After everything was done, just when i thought nothing can ever go wrong again, i accidentally tipped the syrup container over which meant for the fruits tomorrow!


So much for a surprise. I'm so frustrated and upset that i'm pretty sure if i were to scream out loud, even the friends in KL could hear me!

To add on to my misery, i realised i did have a 7" cake ring afterall (but in square shape) when everything was done and i was taking my shower.

Today isn't my day, really :(

And i think i cannot bake at night, especially when it's almost my sleeping time. Poor bestie... sigh.

All i can do now is pray that the cake can be pulled up tomorrow and the Glad Wrap will not break in the midst of it!

I really h.a.t.e kitchen disasters. Period.

p.s : but then, who doesn't right? :P

pps : really looking forward to some pampering tomorrow - facial, yay! But not the extraction part though - ouch!

ppps: thank god my unlucky day has got nothing to do with the car!!! *phew* I read (my star sign) that this month, accidents will happen when i'm rushing off to somewhere. But the thing is, i'm always rushing from one point to another!

Oh no!!!

Bad luck

Yesterday was a terrible day.

Everything turned out wrong even the shopping! (i was overcharged and will only be refunded this coming Saturday when i go down personally for it)

Firstly, i was pretty groggy to begin with due to lack of sleep on Saturday night. Then, it was the baby's bawling. Hence i lost concentration and had a minor accident at the car park. Side mirror was re-positioned by forced and moving the mirror to the left and right isn't working anymore even though it is now back to the norm position.

What kind of bawling that made me lost it all?

If you are a mother, you would know.. the worst stage of crying. Worst of the whole lot.

To me, there are 4 stages of crying.

1- the 'yang or' / manja stage which you can ignore

2- slightly stronger stage that demands abit of your attention. Need you to talk and smile but still in the no need to carry stage

3- medium stage where carrying is needed. This is also the hungry need milk stage or cranky need sleep stage

4- the worst stage. Carrying doesn't work anymore. Nothing works actually. The crying and screaming can go on and on. This is also the panic stage for the mothers. Babies who cry this way, they usually either have a very bad fall or in a very severe pain

My beep beep's (baby) crying was at stage 4 yesterday.

Reason?

Overly tired. Not enough of sleep coz we were out the whole day. His sleep was only 15mins max each time. So i think it was his way of protesting, "ENOUGH"!. Heh.

So yeah, the baby was crying and i was groggy. So the accident happened during my reverse parking next to the pillar on my left.

Hb wasn't in the car. I dropped him off earlier at Funan for his own shopping. As you might have guessed it, we were driving my 1 month old car which isn't our usual practise. Hb's car is in the workshop waiting for a new coat of paint you see..

From the moment the accident happened, i planned to keep mum about it. No way i was gonna tell hb! Scared kena scolding.. lol. [already got scratches in the 1st week actually. Dunno why but all these 5/6 years that i'd been driving, i've never scratched other cars before at all, not even a line. But with this car, *shake head* simply terrible. Think the car no liking me :( ]

Anyway, i've already planned to get the car fix early this morning so hb won't even see 'it'. I managed to go undetected for the whole night. Insisted on driving for 2 more trips after that.

But for some very weird reasons, i can never hide anything from the husband. Really dunno what kind of spell he used on me, but really.. i can n.e.v.e.r hide anything. Hb will always find out.. accidentally.

This morning, i was supposed to send hb to work but in the end, he decided against it coz he wanna ride his bike. But as he walks towards the car park, the dark clouds came which prompted hb to cancel his bike ride. So hb called and told me his changed of plan. It was back to me sending him but he'd be getting the car first from the car park and will wait for me at the void deck.

You cannot imagine my 'panic' face as i heard the phone rang early in the morning at 6.35am.. for i knew what was coming! I bolted right up from the bed. Hahaha..

In the lift, i was so restless and felt i needed to tell someone about it. No one knew except Davis, my gf.. and i text her this.

My sms : Omg. Hb driving my car. Die. Sure know liao.

You w.i.l.l not believe what i did.

I actually sent it to the husband!!!!!!!

Lol.

And i gasped so loud in the lift after i realised what i did that the other mother actually laughed out loud at me. Clown right me? *roll eyes*

I guess everyone can figure what happened next. No need for further story telling aye? Heh.

Aihhss..

But no scolding lah..

All i got from hb was just a sigh.

Total wallet damage : $520, just to replace the side mirror that got a little dent. You wont even notice it unless you stare hard at it. If not for the 'not able to move left and right mirror adjustment', i won't even wanna change it since hb found out already.

Total mental damage : indefinable.

Waraku no more!

We're boycotting Waraku~

Because :

. their standard has dropped ;
- for soft shell crab, the batter is now more than the crab meat itself!
. they took hb's no.1 reason to dine at Waraku off the menu

So from now on, we'll be heading to Raku-zen or Kotobuki for our Japanese fix.

But but, i still love their cold soba and udon though. My (or our) only reason to go to Waraku now, if we do go at all.

$97 prrreassee

That is exactly how much we paid for this!


Supposed to be the best durians you've ever tasted - mao shan wang from the famous 77 Geylang stall.

Unfortunately it wasn't. Even the D24 which i bought few backs tasted better! We were utterly disappointed.

Sure, the colour definitely looks so much tastier but it wasn't. In this case, it's really "can't judge the durians by its colour" :P

My mom will so gonna kill me if she knows that i actually spent RM230 for just 2 miserable durians. Heh.

Exhausted

Been so very tired lately. Running up and down, down and up, almost non stop. So busy that sometimes i forget to take breakfast!

I hardly have time to chill out at home anymore :(

I miss my slow pace lifestyle l.o.t.s.

Playing 3 roles at 1 go doesn't help either. I'm now a mother, wife and father as well. Not to mention, daughter in law too!

I AM SO SO TIRED.

I need a break. A getaway. Or better, disappear!

.What did i do?

.Did i deserve that?

These were the questions that i've been asking myself since last night, all the way to 5am in the morning but unfortunately, i didn't manage to get an answer.

You see, lately the husband has been having weird mood swing, twice in a short 1 week span. Something similiar which happened to a person's husband who is extremely close to me. Perhaps i should have heeded the old folk's advise. Never divulge other husbands' bad habits/acts/attitude to your own husband. Without realising it, they might 'follow' as well. My bad..

Don't get me wrong though.

Most of the time, we are a very loving couple. We've been through lots of ups and downs but we survived them all. We still do the normal thang that couples do despite having 3 children already.

We date almost every Saturday night. We still love to tease each other mercilessly. We wrestle (is that normal? :P) and i'm still trying my very best to flip the husband over but always, get pushed to the bed instead before trying again. We love spending time together, just the both of us whenever and wherever we can. In another word, we are still very much in love and the flame is definitely still burning.

Anyway, what happened was the husband went into a cold and quiet mode during the mood swing. I got ignored. He didn't hold even my hands when we were crossing the road in town last night albeit he wasn't angry with me. Of course i got angry lah. Err wait, do i sound very small gas?? :P

After a while, on the ride back home, hubby tried talking to me normally and even teased me by pinching my nose playfully etc but i barked back. Then it was back to the starting point again.

EH? o . O

After writting this out, sounds like i'm the small gas one, no? It wasn't supposed to turn out this way! Lol.

But you know what? I don't even get mood swings! How come hubby does?? *roll eyes*

Maybe because hubby can be considered my first love, hence, i have no idea what to expect of them [men]. Hmm.. maybe it's time to read up Men from Mars, Women from Venus? Okay okay, i'm really blowing this up. Grin. Before you know it, we'll be ok again ah :D

Somehow, by writting out, i can see a clearer picture? A picture which indicates that i'm indeed a small gas wife instead of the husband is the bad man who needs whacking with my rotan.

Useless

computer!!

Died for the past 5 days and after being 'fixed up' today, it's dying again, everytime when i am in the midst of typing my entry for this blog/email!

What else can be more frustrating than that???

Someone please pass me the hammer!