CNY Cookies

Chinese New Year is coming soon and I was busy doing the spring cleaning,buying all those CNY goodies, and also bake some CNY cookies.
I baked 2 type of cookies : peanut butter cookies and Nestum cookies.
As for the pineapple cookies and Bangkit susu cookies, my dearest sister helped me bake them while I was in Medan last month.
I managed to finish all my baking session before school started.Thanks GOD...!!
This year will be my first year have to prepare CNY goodies for my guests,all the while all this things were prepared by my MIL(no choice la..now I stay on my own).

Here are the 2 cookies that I baked.

NESTUM COOKIES


PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

So how is your preparation for this coming CNY?Have you done with your spring cleaning,baking cake and cookies?
To all my blogger's friends ,Feel free to visit me during CNY......

What I bring Home

Continue from my previous post, here are some goodies that I brought back all the way from Medan (my hometown)...If possible, I would like to bring more things back home from Medan.

Now, let's the pictures do the work....

C & F swissroll..yummy
It is a MUST food to bring back to Sibu because I love eating these swissroll. Actually I brought home 4 boxes,left 1 box in the fridge now.

This is "Kue Bawang" that I mentioned on my previous post, it taste spicy and will be one of the snack for coming CNY.


Not to forget, Ryan also received small present from his uncle (Thomas & Friends train set) and from grandma (3 Hot wheels cars).


I also bought 4 wall stickers + 2 mini wall racks from INFORMA.
Lastnight, my hubby managed to complete a set of wall sticker for the living room area...how does it look? Nice?..

Back to Sibu

I was back to Medan for about 3 weeks.I really enjoy my holiday in Medan.
Eating is the best thing to do in Medan. For sure, I do put on weight everytime I went back to Medan. I could have more than 3 meals in a day....I was keep eating n eating during my 3 weeks holiday in Medan.Don't ask about my weight,but for sure I do put on weight for at least 1kgs ****

We took morning flight from Medan at 8am and arrived at KL around 10.30am. Our connection flight to Sibu is 2.10pm and we arrived in Sibu around 4.30pm. It was quite tiring sitting and waiting in the airport.
Lucky my kind MIL helped me clean out my house and cooked for us a simple dinner.After having our dinner at MIL's place, we went back home and I started to unpack all my stuffs brought back from Medan till almost midnight.
Since CNY is coming soon, I did brought yummy Kue Bawang" from Medan. It will be one of the snack for my guests on this coming CNY.If you wanna try "Kue Bawang"...dropby my house on CNY next month,ok?.....I waiting for you guys...

I also bought curry,rendang and gulai ayam paste, C&F swissroll all the way from Medan. As for my husband, he brought 2 mini racks to display his Coke Cans from ACE HARDWARE (One of the biggest furniture & hardware store in Indonesia.
And for Ryan, he received a set of Thomas & Friends playset from my brother.

The 3 of us really enjoyed out holiday alot and Ryan kept telling me...he want to study in Medan. Of course, I do wish to stay back in Medan,but it is impossible:(

Missing Medan and my family alot.....hope to go back Medan again SooN *-*

Nivea Photo Contest

I need my dearest blogger friends to do me a favour, for those who are having a Facebook Account, please spare a minute of your time to give me a vote for the Nivea Photo Contest through your FB account.

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Look for my name : Merywaty sia, then VOTE for me.

This contest ends on 7 Dec 2011.Hurry up......give me a vote now.

Thanks in advance.

New Game & New Toy

Lately Ryan is getting addicted playing PS game. The PS player is belong to hubby,but since Ryan has grown up, he is allowed to play once a while.Now is school holiday and sometimes, he will keep begging to let him play longer.
Ryan likes to play those "racing car" game...I guess, that is boy's favo game.Now, he can control the car better on the racing track.Sometimes, he will ask either me or his daddy to play with him.


Last few days while doing our shopping at GIANT,hubby wanted to buy Ryan a super big lorry,but Ryan seem not interested on it. Instead he chose for a set of Mini Ultraman.

He is a fan of Ultraman.....from Max, Nexus,Mebius,Tiga,Cosmos,etc....
Hubby even downloaded some Ultraman movie for Ryan to watch on weekend.

Our simple lunch : Noodle Soup

Yesterday afternoon, I decided to cook something simple for our lunch. Since only left me and Ryan at home, I decided to cook "noodle soup" (our favo dish) for today lunch.
See what I have in the fridge : carrot, vege + sausages.These are the 3 ingredients I used for the noodle soup. Ryan does not like to eat fishball,so I hardly have any fishball in my fridge,but for sausages...Yes, I always standby at least a pack.
To add more aromatic to the soup, I added in some fried ikan bilis with sliced ginger + minced garlic.

Noodle soup is ready to be served.

While cooking halfway, Ryan kept asking me...is my noodle ready?...is my noodle ready? He is just too hungry and can't wait for his lunch.

Ryan was enjoying his Noodle soup...slurpppppp...

For your info, Ryan was having slight fever out of sudden two days ago,so his appetite was a bit down.
Today Ryan is doing good,of course, after taking "fever + antibiotic". Nowadays I always standby a bottle of antibiotic medicine at home for Ryan.At least, I do not need to rush him down to the paed when tonsilitis + fever is attacking him. Ryan is prone to tonsilitis, be it, I have control his food intake,but on and off, tonsilitis will come to visit him too. I planned to bring him to ENT for a check-up next year.

Giveaway : 12 Chateau Blanc Macarons

While doing the blog-hopping this afternoon, I spotted an interesting blog named Inspired Momx1.
The blog owner is having a giveaway contest of a box of 12 Chateau Blanc Macarons.
Sound great,right? The top commenter will win this prize.

So how to join this contest :
1. Follow her blog (only if you wish) by clicking "Follow" on her blog's top right sidebar.

2. Leave as many comments as you wish in her "Skin Food 12 Days Challenge" postings (click on the links right below her blog's header and it shall take you there). There'll be 12 postings in total as she is to keep a daily online journal to jot down my reviews and thoughts.

3. You are allowed to leave multiple comments on each of the postings, preferably something relevant to the postings.

4. Spread the words about this giveaway in your blog automatically entitles you to an additional 10 comments. Just leave a comment with your blog links in her comment box when you are done.

5. The contest starts NOW and ends on 23.11.11

It is so easy to join this giveaway contest...so spend some time reading her post on "Skin Food 12 days challenge" and you may have chance to win the prize. Good Luck !!

Sponge Cake

Today is my second attempt making sponge cake. I always wanted to bake a cake,but no oven at home. So my lovely hubby redeemed his credit card points with ELBA electric oven for me to do my baking project. I received the oven less than a week time.
Since Ryan is having his long school holiday, I have more free time at home to do my baking project. I started look for simple cake recipe to try out.

While doing my grocery shopping last week, I spotted "sponge cake mix" at the supermarket rack. Looks easy and simple to make, grabbed one pack and tried it out last week. The sponge cake taste great and spongy. Definitely a good try !!
Since I have a Giant blackcurrent jam in the fridge, I cut half the sponge cake and applied the jam in between,it taste good. Three of us walloped the whole cake in a day.

While writing this post, I am baking the 2nd sponge cake. I need to bake 3x to finish up the batter.


Baking in process....

The sponge cake is ready......hot from the oven.


Here is the "sponge cake" recipe for sharing:

500g sponge mix/optima
500g eggs
120g water/milk (I used water)
120g oil/butter/margarine (I used butter-melted)

1. Melted the butter and leave it to cool.
2. Mix the sponge mix with egg,beat with slow speed for 1 min. Change to high speed whip till the mixture is fluffy, slowly add in the milk/water and beat for another 4 mins.
3. Fold in the melted butter slowly with slow speed to complete the mixing.
4. Preheat the oven for about 10 mins.
5. Bake with medium heat for 45 mins.

Year End exam's result

Yesterday was Ryan's last day at school and he received his final year report book.
I was so happy that Ryan got 1st rank in his class. Feel proud of him...I knew he is doing his best in the final year exam.
The top 3 in his class received a pressie from school and also some titbits.
Apart from it, Ryan also received his very first trophy from Dancing Competition that he joined about a month ago.




*No smile face on both pics......not in a good mood to snap pics*

The good news.....Yes, we are going back to Medan soon...another 2 more weeks to go. We are looking forward to it.Ryan is getting excited to see grandma,grandpa,aunt,uncle and his cousins all in Medan. Of course, we miss the food there too. Gonna write down a list of food we want to eat while holidaying in Medan.

K2 Graduation Ceremony

Tonight, Ryan and his friends are chosen to perform a dance for K2 Graduation Ceremony. Last Friday, Ryan has went for the rehearsal and I was there to watch the whole rehearsal....Nice performance by all the K2 students.
The ceremony will start at 6pm and I was told by the teacher to sent Ryan there at 6pm later. I can't wait to see Ryan and his friends dance on stage again. It was the third performance on stage for Ryan.
Happy Sunday !!!

Exam Result

Yesterday Ryan got his exam results and I am quite happy with his effort. He has done pretty well for this final year exam. He obtained full mark for Maths,English,Mandarin,Bahasa Melayu except for Moral subject he got 99.
For this 2 weeks, Ryan still need to go to school and school holiday will resume on 18 Nov 2011 till next year Jan 2012. Of course, there will be an orientation on 27 Dec 2011.
This coming Sunday, Ryan and his friends will have a dance performance for K2 graduation ceremony.So for this week basically do nothing at school except the rehearsal for this Sunday performance.
Stay tuned for my next post..

Sunday Outing

Today is Sunday and we don't have much programme to spend our family day. As usual, wake up around 7+am,then prepare simple breakfast for 3 of us. We have chicken charsiew pau for breakfast.
Lately my immune system is weak and easily get flu. Lucky I have the right medicine Clarinase to cure my illness.
As for lunch, I make a quick simple lunch ( noodle soup ) and we walloped everything clean. Even Ryan can eat 1 big bowl of noodle soup. Of course, I added some sausages,vegetables balls,etc (bought from Giant). After that, I have a nap for awhile and lucky as of now, it seems my flu is getting better. No more sneeze and runny nose.
Tonight, we will have a birthday party to attend. It is my husband's uncle birthday. For Foochow tradition, when a man reached 69 years old, he will be celebrating his birthday grandly (hope I get this info right)...correct me if I am wrong.

Another good news to share....Ryan just have another little "uncle" born last Friday.Although Ryan is older than the baby,but Ryan has to call him "Uncle".

So how do you enjoy your Sunday?.....

Ryan @ 4 years 9 mths

Another 3 more months Ryan will reach 5 years old. He is getting more independent and asking more Question (why ..why...why), I guessed it happened to all kids at his stage of age.Sometimes, I really don't know how to asnwer to his questions.
As for school, Ryan will be in K1 next year. At this moment, Ryan has finished his final year exam and now is waiting for his exam result. Hope Ryan can pass with flying color.
The happiest news is WE are going back to Medan next month (Yes...another 30 more days we will be in Medan for 3 weeks). I can't wait for that day as I miss my family & food alot. Yeah **** Medan, we are coming soon....

So happy....received Maggi Hamper

After been waiting for more than 3 months, at last I received the Maggi Hamper worth Rm100 today. This has been the fourth time I joined Maggi Gawai contest.It was held every year (only for Sarawak area). Although it is just a small prize (consolation),but I feel happy with it. I can save my $$$ since most of the time my family are consuming Maggi products.
For those my friends who are consuming Maggi products, do keep the packaging/label for this GAWAI contest. If you don't mind,help me collect those label/packagings for the next year Gawai contest.

Prize & gift

After been waiting for 3 months,at last I received the Johnson & Johnson prize. I used my hubby's name to join this contest as they need a Msian IC. Get the votes everyday and at last I won the prize. Feel happy with my effort....although not a big prize,but it is worhty for my hardworks as both me and Ryan love using J & J product. The gift set comes with Top-Toe wash, baby lotion, baby oil,skincare wipes,baby powder & diaper rash cream.


Few days ago, I rec'd a parcel from SCA..I was wondering what is that....It is a gift from SCA. I was lucky to be among 1000 members to sign up to Drypers Happy Family club.
So what I received from SCA : Drypers baby wipes and drypers baby head to toe. Both products are yet been launched in the market.
If you wanna join the Drypers Happy Family club....give a call to 1800 889988 for. more details