Trip to Sabah

After working so hard for a year....we decided to make a trip to Sabah for holiday.  This is the first trip for my 2 kids and hubby.  I been to Sabah once when I was at 10 years and stay in Papar for 1 months during school holiday before we moved Sibu.  However, I also forgetten about Sabah.

We went on 4d3n trip and fly by AirAsia.  We also rent a car and it is easier to go around.  On day 1, we went straight to Kundasang and stay a night there.  Let see the picture

Rumah terbalik in Sabah.  No photo inside the house.  Everything is terbalik.

See, the christmas tree and snowman also upside down.

This is the place we stay in Kundasang. Mile 36 and it is so cool here.

Mile 36

Mee Tuaran

Entrance to Desa Dairy Farm

Fresh milk for the farm

Feeding the goat

Nice flower in Memorial War 

Kinabalu Park

Nice seafood in town and every where is seafood

Philiphine market with all type of seafood

A very good experience for the kids and my eldest one who love seafood cannot resist it.  The seafood there are also cheap.  They also sell sea cucumber, abalone, scallop, salted fish and all types of seafood.

Back dated post

I was very busy in the office and also at home.  As I mentioned earlier in my previous post, it was my birthday and also my hubby birthday in November.

A simple celebration for us because we have more important think to handle last month.  My mother feel down and her back bone fractured.  Sent her to medical centre and did CT Scan and MRI, doctor said she got silent stroke but her MRI show good result so admission for her.  But she can't walk on her own and she need some one to hold her.  So, I get my friend's daugther who is a physiotherapy to come to my house and teach her how to walk and we also send her for acupuncture.  Now she is better but she still complaint on her back.

Luckily it is school holiday and my little Cyn is at home to help around and she is really helping me. Once a while I will still go back during lunch to see them.

Hopefully mum will get better soon.

Age is just a number

It is my birthday again tomorrow. Getting older now and but age is just a number.  We must know how to enjoy ourselves....

Birthday celebration....as usually my hubby will bring me for dinner but this time we will bring our kids.  Let us see where are we going to tomorrow night and hope to show the photo here.

Happy birthday in advance to me

Simple Dinner

Usually I don't cook on weekday because I leave the kitchen to my mum.  I will be late when I reached home.  But I will give a menu to her so that she don't have to think what to cook.  She followed my menu and do the cooking.

But for weekend, I prefer to cooking something special for them.  I usually will try to cook spicy food for my hubby and my mum will decide not cooking spicy food as she can't take hot food.  I will also cook something no spicy for my little Maine.

Sambal terung ikan bilis, taufu pok, chicken feet and fishball soup

Sambal terung ikan bilis for my hubby

Recipe for Sambal Terung Ikan Bilis

Ingredient :

5 Brinjal (i prefer the small brinjai, can just cut into 2 and fry it)
Sambal (I use prefer and leave it in fridge, will use when necessary)
100gm ikan bilis, clean the heat
1 big onion

Method

1) Cut the brinjal into 2 and fry it till in turn brownish, make sure the brinjal is also cook
2) Remove the brinjal and arrange on the plate
3) Fry the ikan bilis till it is crispy
4) Add on the big onion and fry and lastly add in the sambal
5) Before dish out, add in a bit of asam jawa juice

Out with Friends

Out with friends....of course not me...it is my eldest girl.  Now she know how to request to go out with her friend.  When she go out, I will give her RM50 for the spending.  I think it is a lot of money for a teenager for her but when she tell me she is going for movie, lunch, karaoke....I think it is not enough.  She finishes her RM50.

Since daddy & mummy has to send her to shopping centre, we have cup of Starbuck before we go for shopping.

Maine posing at Starbuck.

Health Walk and Yoga

We went for Health Walk on 12 Oct 2014 at Bandar Botanic, Klang.

It is in conjunction with World Mental Health Day and the distance around 4km.  The whole family went and my eldest daughter is very excited to join.  She said we should joined this type of event frequently.  No prize giving for walk but everyone receive a goody bag and breakfast.

I also joining yoga now for heath reason.  I went for one class weekly and my office also have yoga class for the staff also on one week once.  So, they are total 2 class for me in a week.

Can't open their eye as they wake up 6.00am on Sunday morning.

Kay Hong - a traditional dish

My hubby is from Terengganu and he loves to eat Kay Hong - a traditional dish cooked by his mum. So, to make him happy, I found this recipi here and learn how to cook.  My hubby said still long ways to go to learn my MIL cooking but I thinks he is happy with the outcome.

Kay hong - packed in tiffin carrier for lunch at office

I cook the recipe from http://phonghongbakes.blogspot.com/

Ingredients :

- 2 chicken legs (cut into bite sized pieces) (I used 4 chicken legs)

- 1 pork belly (cut into 1 inch slices)

- 6 hardboiled eggs (I used 8 egg because my children love egg)

- 15 shallots 

- 3 cloves garlic

- 2 tbsp preserved bean paste (taucheow)

- 2 tbsp kayciap (or ABC sauce/sweet soya sauce) (I used normal soya sauce)

- 2 tbsp dark soya sauce

- Palm sugar (gula Melaka) to taste

- 700 ml water (adjust for consistency, use less for thicker gravy)

Method :

- Blend shallots, garlic and taucheow. Saute the blended paste until fragrant.

- Add pork belly and fry for about 10 minutes.

- Add water, kayciap/sweet soya sauce, dark soya sauce, gula Melaka and hard boiled eggs.

- Bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes before adding chicken.

- Simmer until chicken is cooked and tender.

My hubby finishes his plate of rice and ask me whether the balance will keep for tomorrow dinner....LOL....(mayb he thinks it is goods)

Yangon, Myanmar

I was assigned to Yangon, Myanmar recently for business trip.  I went there with our agent for 4 days to interview workers.  The trip was enjoyable as we also went for a short trip after we finished our interview session.

It is an interesting place to visit as I remind me of the 80s in Malaysia.  We went to Shwedogan Pagoda or Great Dagon Pagoda.  

Made of gold

Yangon at 6.30am....so bright

 Then we went to Bogyake Aung San Market on the next day.  I bought some souvenir for family and friends.

Let see the food available in Yangon

The food are not bad also but some of the food are a bit sour like the soup on the top.  They like to eat the food that are barbaquee.

Durian Ice Cream and Chicken Pie

We make durian ice cream and chicken pie recently.  For chicken pie, I use roti paratha as the skin.

For ice cream, I got the recipe from nasilemaklover.blogspot and it is very easy to follow

Durian Ice-cream

Durian flesh 350g
Sugar 4tbsp ** adjust accordingly !!
Fresh Milk 100ml
Fresh whipped cream 70g

1. Blend durian flesh, sugar and milk in a blender till smooth.
2. Add in fresh whipped cream and mix well.
3. Pour into a container and freeze overnight or until set.

Yummy ice cream

Chicken Pie

Pulau Ketam

We organize a trip to Pulau Ketam on National day holiday with the children.  It is very hot so we were there for about few hours.

Selamat Hari Raya and long weekend

I would like to wish all of you Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri and for those how are not celebrating, happy holiday as we have 4 days long weekend.

We plan to visit Melaka again after our visit in 2011.  But this time we only visit for 2d1n as I have another plan on Monday.

Best coconut shake that I ever had.  I was regret to only order 1 glass.

Durian cendol.

Viewing from Taming sari 

Satay Celup.  This is not from Capitol Satay.  This from Ban Lee Siang in Jalan Ong Kim Wee.  We had this for our supper at around 10pm and the shop is still full of people.

U Mobile

Our family have been using U Mobile since we changed our phone to smartphone as the data usage is more reasonable.  I used to top up from Maybank2u or RHB bank but now I just notice that they have free Revive or Mamee if we top up in 7-eleven.  Let's go and top up 7-Eleven.

Picture for U Mobile

Performance

Remember I mentioned about our annual dinner performance .....our performance is here...we were requested by the staff to do it again during our company event recently.  It is to welcome our Germany CEO and Asia SBU Head who visited us recently.

Our Team again....we change the clothing and the music this time...We are the champion 

Sports Day

This year is Maine's last year in kindy and she will be going to Standard 1 next year.  So this year is her last year to attend her kindy sports day.  She is very excited.

Getting ready to match in

Maine with her class teacher

Maine with her medal

Happy Father's Day

Happy father's day to my beloved daddy who has past away since I was 15 years old but I will remember how he will take care of us when we are young.  Happy father's day too to my 2 daugthers' daddy and this is the present they learnt from their art class.  They also cook their American breakfast for their dad.

This is Cyn's drawing for daddy and the 2 hands is made by Maine.  Daddy is so happy.

Kueh Teow Kia, Johor Bahru

I was recommended by friends to visit kueh teow kia in JB.  When I reached JB, I can see a lot of shop was selling kueh teow kia.  But we only manage to taste it on our last day in JB.

Kueh teow kia is mainly make of internal organ of pork

Kueh teow kia

Restaurant name: Restoran Ka Hoe
Address: Jalan Maju, Taman Maju Jaya (near Plaza Pelangi)
Hours: 6:30am to 12:30pm

Non Halal

Wonderful time with family for school holiday

We had wonderful time together last week at Legoland and Hello Kitty Town & Little Big Club.  My 2 girls had enjoyed themselve to their maximum.

At Little Big Club

Hugging Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty & Dear Daniel show

Thomas & Friends 

2nd day to Legoland

Legoland 

KL mininature 

Tugu Negara