This milo jug may look as innocent as it seems:

But at a closer look, I nearly got a shock of my life!

what the...*rub eyes*


I could bet that my heart skipped a beat! It's definitely not for the faint-hearted.

Mind having milo+cicak's pee+maybe a little tahi (ew...)...No way! I rather have milo kosong!

What's is thie fella doing inside the milo jug? The last time was when a cicak fell into pot of soup which was left overnight. Dad said it's a mini crocodile swimming inside the soup.

My heart can't take anymore if there's anymore sudden 'appearances' of these little friends. Last Saturday night, I got another shock when something jumped on my leg in the car. Imagine sitting in the car comfortably when suddenly out-of-nowhere something black and slimey jumped on your thigh. What would you do? Shriek.

But my parents said that I'm overeacting. I didn't know what was it at that time as the car was dark. But I knew it was something that could jump. I told Jon it was a frog. Jon didn't believe. Not until the next day after church we saw a frog body at the back seat of the car. Dead.

So it was really a frog.

Lol. Dunno why I'm so unlucky. Nearly pecked to death by chickens (birds), then nearly scared to death by frog(amphibian) and cicak (reptile). What next? Fish and Mammals??

But anyway, life would be so boring without these little animals adding a little spice on it :)

forgot to post this last time:

can you see it?

I'm 'forced' to post this blog since Steph asked why I never update my blog (what?! I just updated yesterday!! Hmm...I wonder what's her definition of 'update' to her)

First, let me begin with some oh-so-interesting happenings in my monotonous day today.

The hens have broken the record by laying 9 eggs today!


Hooray!

I nearly risked myself being pecked to death while taking this photo as the ever-hungry chickens were surrounding me thinking that I was carrying food.

A small 'army' of chickens following behind me:


These chickens are damn agressive. As what Jon said, 'instead of you chasing them, it's them chasing you.'

Later, I went to eat dinner at Dynasty with my family. Had to miss my Hong Kong and Taiwan series which were shown at 6 and 7pm respectively :( . Overeating again. Looks like I've to swim extra rounds to shed off those fats.

Weird egg

Today Jon showed me a really weird egg:

Dad said it's a soft-shell egg:



Weird.



daddy said that he hasn't been buying eggs for months. All thanks to them :):


Thanks chickens! haha

One day I should take photo of the chickens mating. Lynda and Yen Bee said they haven't seen them doing it before. *naughty grin*

Oh yea...today I ate banana fritters cooked by daddy. Too bad when I finally decided to take photo of it, only half of the banana fritter was left, all eaten by greedy Janice. Anyway, it's still better than nothing *chuckle*

Yummy:

recipe

Vienna cake

I copied this recipe about urm...6 years ago and the paper which this recipe was written on has turned yellow. So I'd better post it here before one day when I find this paper it had become a crumble of dust. (Beside is my edited version for double portion, I didn't use the plain chocolate coz too tedious)

225/80oz butter/margarine (450g)
225/80oz sugar (450g)
3 eggs, separated (6)
3 tbsps milk (7)
90g cocoa powder (150g)
225g plain flour (450g)
175g plain chocolate

1. Place the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and cream together until light and fluffy.

2. Add the egg yolks and beat well. Mix in the milk.

3. Combine the cocoa powder and fold into the creamed mixture, which will be very stiff at this point.

4. Beat the egg whites until they are stiff and fold gently into the mixture.

5. Spoon into a lined 18cm/7-inch cake tin and bake in an oven preheated to 150 celcius/ 300F. Gas Mark 2 for 1.5 hours until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

6. Turn out into a wire rack to cool.

7. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water.

8. Cover the cake with the melted chocolate, smoothing it over a knife dipped in boiling water.

Cotton cheesecake

I got this recipe when I was reading thestar one day. It's quite easy to make and the ingredients are affordable.

(A)
70g UHT milk
185g cream cheese
35g butter

(B)
5 egg yolks
1 tbsp lemon juice

(C)
35g superfine flour
35g corn flour

5 egg whites
115g castor sugar
1/4 tsp salt

Grease well a 24cm spring-form cake pan. Beat butter and cream cheese with an electric blender until well combined. Drip in milk until well combined. Drip in milk gradually and beat until mixture is smooth. Leave aside.

Add in egg yolk and lemon juice, and beat until light and fluffy. Fold in sifted flour and corn flour to mix until evenly blended.

In a clean bowl, whisk egg whites with salt and sugar until thick. Gradually fold into the cream cheese mixture. Pour mixture into the prepared pan and bake in preheated oven at 160c for 1-1 1/4 hours or until slightly golden.

Switch off the oven and leave cake inside the oven for 12-15 minutes with oven door ajar.

Remove cake and invert the cake for 5-6 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Home sweet home?

Life at home is so monotonous.

If I'm not sleeping, then it's cooking, not cooking, then it's playing piano or going online.

24 hours just gone like that.

Sigh.

I'm a bit not used to staying at home actually. Last time when I was in KL, I swim at least 3 times each week to..hehe...cut off fat *whisper* (to say the truth, I actually gained 4 kilos when I was in KL). But now that I'm back in Miri, I feel as if every scoop of rice I eat, I'll gain some more weight coz I don't exercise anymore to burn off fat. *Oh no, when did I become so weight-conscious?*

Sometimes I wonder why do I have to go home actually? I asked one of my friends before what's good about home. Then he said, 'can eat home-cooked food ah'. Haha. (No offense to that friend ya, if you are reading this). Eat home-cooked food...rite *sarcastic*. But the problem is that it's me doing all the cooking now! I've to cook lunch and dinner - all alone. For the whole family. Well, my friend's statement is correct in some way actually...I get to eat food cooked at home! LOL

I know I shouldn't be complaining actually. Dad is busy working, I know. I can't leave my brothers starve for the whole afternoon and night when dad and mum are in office busy working. Now I fully comprehend my dad's feelings for cooking for us all this while. No wonder last time he got quite 'geram' when he saw us watching tv and he busy cooking. I would have lost my head too if I see my brothers playing online games and me busy cooking. But I told myself, 'another 1 month and it's over', hehe...Poor dad. He has to cook alone after I've gone. Nobody to help him. Hope Timothy or Joshua would be thoughtful enough to help daddy lo.