Teaser Tosai On A Monday

My Monday meal started with something BIG!

I went out for an Indian meal with two of my male colleagues and they recommended this shop they usually frequent... It is called Salim Restaurant along Jalan Yang Kalsom.  All I did was to order my drink...and then they ordered the rest of the meal in their own language which I didn't bother to ask...

I love drinking coconut water... 

It has lots of nutrients and it isn't surprising this one cost RM3.50

I did not know what my colleagues ordered for me until .....

.... this Long Thingy arrived!

Oh my Goodness...

Both of them ordered the normal Tosai.. 

But mine is the Abnormal one....

They really wanna make fun of me!

But actually one can finish this Paper Tosai as it is called..

Very crispy and thin... 

I folded it in the middle and crushed it down...

hahahhaa... very messy and sadistic....

But I like it !!

Short Trip To Taiping

Nothing much to do on a weekend, we made a short trip to Taiping, a 45 minutes drive from Ipoh. Reached Taiping around 10am and we wanted to try the dim sum along the main road. Unfortunately, there was no more "pau" (dumplings) left, even the waitress was sweeping away already. We ended up taking a few plates of dim sum and left the shop.

Along the main road in Taiping... 

Drove the town area cos we wanted to locate the Kakak shop for noodles....

Took some time cos I cannot recall where.... 

But finally got it after some turning here and there...

The lady in charge... very presentable at the front.... 

Not much crowd already.. breakfast was nearly over....

The portion is very big... I couldn't finished them all....

Too much chicken meat too... 

I think I won't order this again the next time... 

With full stomach, we loitered around Taiping town...

And looked for some durians....

Found a stall that sells Balik Pulau durians...

But the prices were a bit too steep..

Ended up buying one...

I think I will go Penang next week... 

Shall we organize a meet up? :)

Didn't manage to take much pictures...

Not a "food-ful" trip this time...

Perhaps next week...... 

Pianist In The Making

My neighbour is going to complain soon, his afternoon nap is rudely interrupted by my fingers dong-ing... C E G .. dong dong... D F A...on my piano on and off...

Well, my ex-colleague introduced me to join in this intensive course in becoming a pianist in just 1 1/2 years!  Sounds great... but can I be able to do it?  On one hand, I wanted to and on the other hand, once I sign up, I must be really committed otherwise I will be wasting my hard earned money.

I am really "big heart, small heart"... a number of factors.... I have a super poor memory and stiff fingers though I am playing with the computer keyword for more than 8 hours per day. *guilty*

How... how?? Should I join?  Fees are around 4-5K, I think....

Maybe I will go and attend the preview first, it is held in the Tower Regency Hotel on the 12th July, 2014 at 7.30pm...

My friend really made an effort to draw out some notes for me to practise at home...

That is why the dong dong dong in my house.... 

hmmmm... now... where is the C chord... Which finger... which finger.....

Make Mimosas Every Day With Champagne Online

Purchasing champagne online is a great way to have something in the house that makes the most amazing early morning drink in the world. There is nothing wrong with having mimosas in the morning, and the family should always have a steady supply of champagne that they can use for these drinks. The family can purchase orange juice from the store, but they must work to save money on the bottles of champagne they need to have in the house.

Consistent Orders
The family can set up an order that is going to send out a new bottle of champagne every few weeks. The family can set up the specific amount of time that is needed between orders, and the orders will be processed with saved account information for the customer. When the customer needs to have a steady supply of champagne they can count on, they can set these orders.

The Right Kind Of Champagne
There are many kinds of champagne on the market for the family to choose from. It is best to choose a champagne that has a low alcohol content for making early morning drinks. These drinks are something that help to start off the day the right way, and that is why using something with little alcohol is the best thing for the family.

The Right Price
There are many champagnes that the family can purchase for a fair price. The fair prices that the family pays will help them to save money on their grocery budget every month. Most families do not have hundreds of dollars to spend on champagne, but they will have enough money to buy the champagne that has already been discounted online.

Keeping champagne in the house at all times is a great way for the family to have mimosas every morning, but it is also a way for the family to be prepared for celebrations. Champagne is the most exquisite of all the wines, and it is a bubbly drink that helps people get in the partying mood. Purchasing it online changes the way the family drinks every day.

Cheap And Nice In Bali Assam House, Ipoh

The first time I went to BaliAssam House, I did not manage to get a table, the place was already crowded even though it was before 7pm.. Not wanting to give up, my friends and I went there again last night and to our delight, there was a table for the three of us.... The place was quite crowded again, only one shop lot and we made a count on the table, only 11 actually... if the 12th group comes, they will have to wait for their turn...

So what are their signature dishes?

The first thing I saw is the Assam Cod Fish Head....

Prices are very reasonable...

Small RM19.90

Medium RM29.90

Large RM39.90

We ordered the small portion... around 250gm of cod fish...

Not bad.. each of us can gave 2 to 3 small pieces... LOL...

Curry comes with brinjals, okra and pineapple slices..

So this is Bali style curry!

Not sure what this is called but written on menu is long beans...

To me, they are french beans' babies...

Paku Pakis Thai Styled...

Sweet sauce... I like it...

Minced Steamed Fish Beancurd... 

Love the gravy...

As for the bill, just look at that!

So super cheap... no service or GST charged..

Well, anything cheap and nice in Ipoh, the crowd will be there!

Sharing:

Bali Assam House Restaurant

16 Medan Ipoh 1E, 

Medan Ipoh Bistari

30000 Ipoh

016-5110789

My Red Christmas Fruit Tree

I was "invited" for a homecooked dinner again... oh yes, yellowish pictures as in my previous post, so this time I will not post them up again... our eyes might turn yellowish looking at the odd colour pictures... hahahaa...

This time I present something more soothing to our eyes and throat...

After dinner, my cell leader took out a big water melon and started to cut them in the kitchen.  I was washing up the dishes and I didn't really see how she cut... When I was through with the dishes, I saw these on the plate...

 

Well, many might have seen these cut like that before...

So easy to hold and yet they look cute, right?

This is called Watermelon Tree... 

It quenches our thirst... 

So I guess we better take more of these cooling fruits...

It is really burning hot in Ipoh...

The haze is back!!

ahhhhhhhh..... 

Bring Nature to Home with Tree Wall Decals

Who does not want to decorate the house beautifully, it is the house where you gather with your friends, guests and relatives, and naturally the urge of decorating a home is a necessity among everyone. There will be moments that you will want to cherish in your house. Transforming a house into the home will simply need your ideas of decoration, your loving touch that will make every part of your house useful and beautiful lovable to all. However, when you start decorating your house the home decors that you will be using will reflect your inner self. But in this present time of house decoration try for those decors that will say more about you and your family, rather than reflecting your inner thoughts. Collect those pieces of home decors that will make your home inviting and relaxing to other, the same feeling that you will have towards your home. 

Decorate with simplicity

However, when it comes to decorating it house, simplicity is the component that will make your house soothing, calm and relaxing. Nature is simple, hence go for those wall decors that are naturalistic or represents nature n some form or other. The most evident form of nature, the green forests, or trees are bound to give your home a naturalistic and refreshing feeling.  Though no one will never want to spend a life in the jungle but still the beauty of trees and forests has its own attraction and mystery. You can bring the similar effect to your home with a large tree wall decal, and create a terrific impression on the visual senses for those you will visit you house and a refreshing effect for oneself. A day spent in the lap of nature will refresh you from the stress you have accumulated for months. In fact, the green color is known to have a very soothing effect on the senses as is said by many eminent interior decorators. Imagine the effect when your own house will have the similar naturalistic impression. 

Utilizing space cleverly

Good decoration of the home also involves proper utilization of the space in your home, but still maintaining its simplicity. It is n this aspect that the large tree wall decals scores over any other form of interior decoration or artifacts for decorating your home. Wall hangings, framed photos or the paintings though can be used in home decoration, but they will cover a smaller space than trees décor on the wall. Even traditional handicrafts will not be able to utilize the space of a full wall, however if you try too many things on the wall, it might not be as simple and soothing as a wall tree décor. Say you have brought a big rectangle shaped painting for the wall of your living room, but even after hanging that painting you will be left with ample space on your wall for covering, which can easily cover if you can use a tree décor on the wall instead. 

Countless options

This modern piece of wall decors is available in a large variety of design, and is sure to provide you with more option in comparison to any other form of interior decoration. Not only that these large tree wall decals are very east y to be used. You can use them on any wall of your home without much fuss, and you need not be an expert in the art to put these decals on your desired wall. It will completely depend on your need and taste of how you utilize these decals to decorate your home. You can go for unconventional arrangements, like instead of pasting the forest or tree decal to the wall you can fix them to your roof upside down, giving the effect that you are residing inside a tree. Image the adventure that you will have every time you switch off the lights and lie on your bed watch the trees above your head.  

Easy to use

It would be very wrong if you are holding a notion that it would need high expertise and effort to fix these was decals in your home. However, in reality these large tree wall decals can be fixed on any part of the house as you wish as simply as stickers. The functioning of these stickers is similar to a simple sticker. First of all, you will need is to decide the place where you wish to place the tree decal. Once you have chosen the desired area, see to it that the surface is clean and moss free concrete surface. These wall decals are made, in a way, that they form minimum limbs and are very easy to fix. If you are a parent, you can also go for these wall decals for your kid’s rooms as well, as these are the latest trend in the market, and your children will surely like it. 

Re-using the unused space

It will not be a problem even if your house is fully decorated. Every house even though it is fully decorated will surely have some un-utilized spaces of walls.  If you feel so you can even set these wall decors on the walls intelligently, or you can even utilize the corners of your home for placing these large tree wall decals to create the effect of the trees looming from the corners of your home. You will always want a feeling of peace and serenity prevail in your home, and in this effort of yours the tree decals will surely be an important help, as forest and greenery always have notable soothing effect on human senses. Use your imagination, in reutilizing the empty or the unused places of your home with these wall decals and transform the bored look of your home. You can research on the internet for more creative ideas.  

The Tongue Is Sharper Than A Sword

As I grow older, I realize I am changed... my character changed...

Patience...
I am no more a patient woman....I could feel my heart pumping fast and blood shoots up in my brain when I am impatient... especially when I am waiting for someone who takes her/his own sweet time not to bother... once he/she goes into my car, I would burst out..."Hey, don't play with my time, OK?"  And once the words came out from my mouth, I could feel myself cooling down BUT in a matter of minutes, I would regret what I have said....

Misunderstanding...
during my younger days, I didn't care... I never othered to explain myself.... I kept my cool cos I was a very patient lady... *younger days means 20s, 30s and 40s*

Now?  If anyone misunderstands my intentions, I "explode" and "burst" into pieces... literally....

I will rant out in terms of emails or whatsapp... or whatever that connects... I cannot keep to myself...
BUT in a matter of minutes too, I will regret again...."What have I done?"  Too late... my outburst has done the damage...

In situations like these, I realize that I really need to keep my cool... quick temper is not good... I must learn how to breathe....

Deep breath.... then release...

Deep breath and then release... 

Deep breath... and release...

This helps....
Don't be impatient like me...

Laughter is still the Best Medicine....

As in Neil Sedaka's song..

Laughter in the rain, walking hand in hand..

But in this case..
Laughter in the sunshine...

A Non-Oomph Feel Tonight

Nothing special to write about... the"oomph" is not here tonight.... lots of things on my mind... but I try to "divert" myself from those issues... Ranting out in my own blog sounds like a good idea, however.... some are too personal to disclose... To overcome this problem, I must open up a new blog with a new identity and then whatever XXXX can be blast out.... one fine day I might do that... 

Meanwhile bear with me... being a Food-holic, these were taken today, Tuesday 24th June.....

 

Chee Cheong Fun in Thean Chun Old Town... 

RM3.20 for the above.... 

Some fish balls must go with the CCF then only "shiok"

Another RM2.80 for the 4 pieces...

And as if they are not enough, I ordered my dessert to make the meal complete...

RM2.50 or so... cannot remember the price for this.. haiyah...

*  yan loe chor... *

 

Now... adding them up, my meal cost around RM8-9...

If I just order a plate of CCF and a glass of plain water, it would be less than RM4...

And for tonight's dinner, I just whooped up a simple meal like this...

Penang white curry noodles without the creamer.... about RM1.50

And a packet of organic spinach... RM3.50

Oh gosh... I seem to be very calculative tonight...

Something is very wrong here... hhmmmmm...

Invitation To A Homecooked Meal

I called up my cell leader around 6pm, wanted to invite her out for a simple dinner.... and to my sheer delight, she told me to go over to her house for dinner instead!  I was more than happy.... hahaha... love homecooked food anytime! 

I was told to go at 7pm and I arrived exactly on time!  Food was already on the table.... and she told me that the dinner was all vegetables and no meat.... Well, that was really FINE with me!  Nowadays I prefer more vegetables to meat....

Due to the yellow lighting in her dining hall, all my pictures turn out this colour.... anyone can help me to edit this to white?  hahahaa... Don't think that is possible, right?

Ok, what's this?

She told me this tastes like Ikan Perut but without the main ingredient...

(Pickled Fish Stomach Curry)

This dish consist of all vegetables only.. including pineapple...

Really appetizing... I love it!

Another vegetable dish... 

Yellow Pepper with green vege (choy sum), enoki and cucumber!

Very sweet and tasty!

 

My picture is not doing any credit... 

And this is Otak-Otak... very lemak (rich in santan)

She got it from somewhere.... 

Lastly and not least... a bowl of soup that consists of basil, mint, anchovies and egg....

Yummy!!  So full of nutrients, right?

It is not a simple dinner after all.... 

I wouldn't mind coming by now and then, I told her.....

Just give me a tinkle and

 I'LL BE THERE!!

hahahaaa....

Sweet Temptations On A Weekend

My weekend pocket money is spent on the King... of the Fruits aka Durian. A tropical fruit which cannot be "smuggled" or hidden anywhere, its strong fragrant will give it away.  Durian lovers like me love the smell and the taste of it anytime...with one exception.... please stay away far-far when the burping comes!  Don't say I never warn ye... hahahahaa....

 

King of the Fruits... 

Until today I still don't know how to choose nice ones... 

Have to depend on the vendor... he will do the choosing and opening....

There it goes.... the "baby" is born...

  

This type of seeds at the corner is the best!

 

But some look "lumpy" like this... 

Reminded me of some "brainy" stuff..... hahahaa...

 

If crinkled like this, its ok!

Vendor told me the whitish kind of durian is Bitterish....

And normally the yellow ones are sweet!

After all being opened and paid, I carried my "treasures" home...

I will keep them in the freezer... 

And whenever I take my dinner, I will take out a few as a "Sidedish..
Something like this old picture here...  :)

 

Durians are heaty for our bodies...

So it is advisable to take lots of cooling drink to "neutralize" it...

I took two bowls of "herbal jelly"

My kind of desserts... 

Durian with Herbal Jelly

List of 4 Fun Filled and Learning Games & Activities For Young Kids

This is a digital era where there is an information overload. We are always swamped with flux of information, our kids and young ones are of no exception. The initial teaching of kids starts from their homes when they are babies or little infants, intelligent mothers try to raise their kids in best possible manner, they want their kids to be healthy, active, hardworking, and respectful , in order to instil all these qualities into our babies we forget to give them incentives and involve them into some entertainment activities so that they don’t feel like they have a moral police on them all the time. 

 

 In this article we have listed some of the fun activities and games for kids. 

         1.   Engage Your Kids with Some Online Games

After a hectic day at school or doing house chores, give an incentive to your kids and allow them to play some of the online flash games. You can carefully select few games or websites for them where they not only entertain themselves, but also learn something new, e.g these baby hazel games for kids are designed in a way that kids can learn manners, they can learn on how to navigate around vehicles, how to take care of their pets, what to do when you get an injured, how to have safe fun. Like aforementioned baby hazel gaming portal, there are many other sites where you can find amazing fun games for your kids.

 

         2.  Watch Favourite Movies for Kids

This is another indoor activity which kids love, this will help you bond with your kids even stronger and since these days there has been a lot of advancement in technology that movies which are specifically made for kids, can also be enjoyed by adults and that means you won’t likely be bored watching some favourite movies or cartoons with them. Home alone is one of my all time favourite child hood movie, beside that some of the cartoon movies and comics are also of great interest to kids, such as if you have a young babies, they are likely to have fun watching baby hazel cartoon videos, beside that if they are bit older, you can buy them movies related to Disney land princesses or action figures like Ninja turtles etc.

     3.  Indoor Interactive Activities and Games

While it’s good that you allow your kids to play online games, but in order to make sure they don’t get addicted to them, you should design and engage them in some indoor and interactive games and activities as well, activities where they can have fun as well as learn some social manners. Following are some of the very interactive and fun living games.

• Indoor Sandbox, this is one of the favourite indoor game for both babies and kids.
• Beanbag Race, this is where all kids grab one their favourite color beanbag and race.
• Tell a Story, this shall engage kids for a while, it shall teach them on how to be elaborative, engaging , entertaining and shall also help them be more compassionate.
• Indoor Tent, you can play that by putting a blanket on floor and poking it up with a stick, give flash light to your kid and allow them to play with toys inside.

       4.  Some Skill Building Activities

Skill building games and activities can help kids in their practical lives as well, these will help evolve their brains and make good use of their time when they are free. You should help pick them some of the activities or give them ideas of what they can do and at times they will mesmerize as well as surprise you. Following could be some of the skill building activities.

• How to prepare or bake their favourite snacks.
• Teach them some science activities they can ponder around in the back yard with their friends e.g they can inhale a bit of helium from balloons and speak in very thin voice, explain them why it’s like that.
• Encourage them to save some of their pocket money so that they can buy some of their favourite stuff or buy daddy a father’s day gift and mother’s day gift for mommy. This shall teach them important money saving skill as well as build compassion for parents.

At the end I would say, do not limit yourself with these activities, run your imagination and come up with series of games and activities where your kids can have a lot of fun as well as learn something new.