HAIR DIY, crochet tissue box cover, bake cheesy prawn

With the current economy downturn, everybody is talking about cutting cost and saving to tie over this economy suitation.



Here come my thoughts:



BEAUTIFYING YOUR HAIR

Before recession - real rich "tai tai" way - have the top celebrative hairstylist chauffeured to her house to get all your hair treatment, hair cut and hair styling done in the comfort of her own home.

When recession set in - real rich "tai tai" will still get hair done by top hairstylist but this time at the stylist saloon in the top shopping mall.

Before recession - HDB "tai tai" will get hair treatment done in HDB style saloon by top hairstylist.

When recession set in - HDB "tai tai" will still get hair done in hair saloon but this time by budget stylist.


MY STYLE OF BEAUTIFYING MY HAIR - recession or no recession still the same.



Armed with all these gadgets,





Shampoo myself, style myself, DIY hair dyeing with over the counter hair dye (the cheapest and reasonably priced, available when i walk into the store), sometimes lucky enough to get help from family members, cut fringe myself which save me quite a bit otherwise may have to visit hair saloon every month and subject myself to being persuaded into doing other treatment due to my poor will power. Probably get a major hair cut only once a year. Oops! Bosses of hair saloon is going to protest if they happened to read this.



Then i might as well give some more tips - can DIY hair treatment with egg yolk, just remember not to wash with hot water otherwise you may get "蛋花”(egg flower) on your hair, just cold water will do (cold water also keeps away the static of your hair) - this would actually keeps your hair soft and shinning


Hair treatment with treatment wax available from personal care stores or from the counter of HDB style saloon. This is considered luxury already.



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Done this during my school days. May consider picking up the needle again.

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Make this using 厨房笔记 recipe. Very easy - just clean prawn and slit back of prawn, sprinkle with black pepper and chilli powder, saute garlic in butter, pour over, cover with cheese strips and bake. Viola! Yummy cheesy prawn.

Happy Valentine's Day

i got this some years back, since i have nothing to share about valentine's day, i might as well share this :

To My Friends Who Are...........SINGLE

Love is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you just let it fly, it will come to you when you least expect it. Love can make you happy but often it hurts, but love's only special when you give it to someone who is really worth it. So take your time and choose the best.

To My Friends Who Are............NOT SO SINGLE

Love isn't about becoming somebody else's 'perfect person.' It's about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.

To My Friends Who Are............PLAYBOY/GIRL TYPE

Never say 'I love you' if you don't care. Never talk about feelings if they aren't there. Never touch a life if you mean to break a heart. Never look in the eye when all you do is lie. The cruelest thing a guy can do to a girl is to let her fall in love when he doesn't intend to catch her fall and it works both ways...

To My Friends Who Are............MARRIED

Love is not about 'it's your fault', but 'I'm sorry.' Not 'where are you', but 'I'm right here.' Not 'how could you', but 'I understand.' Not 'I wish you were', but 'I'm thankful you are.'

To My Friends Who Are............ENGAGED

The true measure of compatibility is not the years spent together but how good you are for each other.
To My Friends Who Are............HEARTBROKEN

Heart breaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go. The challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from them.

To My Friends Who Are............NAIVE

How to be in love: Fall but don't stumble, be consistent but not too persistent, share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand, and get hurt but never keep the pain.

To My Friends Who Are............POSSESSIVE

It breaks your heart to see the one you love happy with someone else but
it's more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you

To My Friends Who Are............AFRAID TO CONFESS

Love hurts when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you. But love hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how you feel.

To My Friends Who Are............STILL HOLDING ON

A sad thing about life is when you meet someone and fall in love, only to
find out in the end that it was never meant to be and that you have wasted years on someone who wasn't worth it. If he isn't worth it now he's not 'going to be worth it a year or 10 years from now Let go.....

TO ALL MY FRIENDS.......

My wish for you is a man/women whose love is honest, strong, mature,
never-changing, uplifting, protective, encouraging, rewarding and unselfish.

ANG POW PACKETS COLLECTION

Have not been making any dishes or cakes, i.e have not been doing any baking or cooking. Actually my hands are itching to try something, however because of all the cookies that i have make for CNY, i can't do anything else till i finish all these CNY goodies. With all the festive feasting, i tried to restraint myself from making anything else, otherwise, how to keep to my resolution to lost some weight.

So how to keep my time occupy if i'm not making stuff. Well, i'm still very addicted to the viwawa growords game. In case you may also be interested to play or to find out why am i so addicted to this game, here's the website:

http://www.viwawa.com/

other than that, i have been trying to tidy up my stuffs a little. A few days ago, i rearrange all the paper bags that i got from buying things - there's so many of them. To throw it away is such a pity. But i can't possibably use them all up in no time as most of them are quite durable. What to do, i just have to keep them tidy in a carton.

Beside this, there's also my ang pow packets that have been lying in the cabinet for the longest time. I'm not really a ang pow packets collector, however, there's always so many given to me in the office (empty one only thou *wink wink*), as such i have so many collections of them over the years (20 years to be exact). Look at these:

This is just a portion of it only

Probably the oldest ang pow packet that i have got.

Does oldest ang pow packet consider an antique too?

Can i fetch some cash from it?

The little baby who have grown up a little this year to this:

The most complete collection, 12 zodiac altogether.

I didn't feature the zodiac here, too lazy to turn over to snap that.
These actually are DJ from FM 95.8 whom i don't know all who is who

except probably 1 or 2 of them, I didn't call in to get this,

it was given to me free in one of the shopping mall.

This is the one that i called in to get. From FM 100.3 and FM 91.3.
Many years back, i was a fan of this channel. However, this ang pow
don't look fantastic at all. Infact quite disappointed when i got it.




The GREEN PACKET - for Hari Raya Puasa, very unique and rare.

This one doesn't tear - because it's make of plastic foil.

Heehee.......... waterproof some more.

The daddy and son ang pow packet.

My favourite, cannot remember how i got it.

I did not feature everything here, please refer to my slide show on the left for my collections, not all thou, becos there are some which i did not take any picture of it. Well subsequently if i got more, i can just add on to the slide show.


It's a pity that i could not convert these to money. One full box of it - the box for putting 5 ream of A4 paper. Oops! possibably can if i sell it to the kara guni man - would they take it???

Now can some body tell me what can i do with all these ang pow packets. Any suggestion?

HAPPY "NIU" YEAR!

I had been busy with work as well as baking CNY cookies. This year, i make Peanuts Dainties (Recipe from my bon appetite blog), Cashew nuts cookies, Kueh bangkits, Kueh Mamur, Cornflakes cookies (Recipe all available at 厨房笔记).

I have make a slide show to show my bakes, very convenient, just upload the pictures, select theme, layout, style, etc.

Viola! You will have a beautiful slide show.

Heehee..... normally i don't do much of house visiting during CNY, especially not last year as well as this year. So, it's quite boring to stay at home doing nothing during the public holiday, so normally, i will spend my time baking again. Haha.....crazy right? But beside this, i really don't know what else i can do. Mmmmm..... perhaps i can play viwawa again. Well, i haven't decided, just will depend on my mood these 2 days.

So friend, perhaps you may come back to check if i have more bakes from the slide show...........

Good News/Bad News

Good new - I'll soon be having another nephew/niece. So delighted, after years of nagging from me, my brother-in-law and sister finally decided to add a new family member to the household. I'm really really happy. When i noticed the little "hump" of my sister's tummy yesterday just before our early reunion dinner. I thought, "Goodness, not another weight gaining again". To my surprise, my sister told me she's expecting. Originally she only wanted to break the news during CNY angpow giving session by saying, "Next year, I'll be collecting back already huh". Hehehe..... but i discovered first. Yippee!


The bad news - with the economy downturn, my 2nd brother may lost his job anytime. His situation now is like 三天打鱼，四天晒网。Yet, he can't look for another job at the moment as he's still hoping to get some compensation should he really be retrench. Sigh......


Nowsaday, it's so lucky to be still holding a job. Maybe, that what people said must "感恩“. Just read some where:


I'm so glad............


for all little gestures done which is not a big deal in the past, however, when you thought of it positively, when you know how to 感恩，then you would be happier.


Maybe i'm really so glad that i'm still able to blog here.........

CNY Mandarin Orange Deco DIY

Hi, i'm back. Least some people might thought that i'm back to working overtime again, sorry to disappoint you, i haven't, lolz.

Actually i'm busy doing some stuff -

1) I fried some tapioca flour for making kueh bangkits, sorry, no finished product yet because i haven't make. The recipe asked for the flour to be pre-fried before hand - preferably 3 days to 1 week in advance, so therefore, haven't do yet as i only fried yesterday.

2) I make a pandan butter cake today. Mmm.... the finished product didn't look presentable, however, the cake is pretty soft - so soft like chiffon cake yet you can get the fullness after eating it, unlike chiffon cake as if you are eating air, never seems to get full.

Straight from the oven

Removed from the mould

Sliced up

3) Ta da...... here's my biggest project. I attempted to do a self filming video of me making the CNY deco - mandarin orange DIY.

Well, as you can see, the video is horrible. (Uploading this video is already taking me "dino years" to complete it) Therefore, i make a slide show instead.

All these needs time to do it. I'm not so good in taking pictures, therefore, this is the best i could produce for now. At least you can more or less know how to DIY CNY mandarin orange deco. Hopefully, i would be able to do a proper video in future or at least be able to take better pictures for doing my slide show. For now, please bear with it hah, lolz.

Yeah! i did it

Today, i managed to leave the office punctually again. Took my dinner at a food court near my house, went to the supermarket to buy some stuff and i also bought sweet potato. (of course, i must credit my partner, otherwise i wouldn't be able to do all this). Came back and make this dessert. Dada.......... here comes my sweet potato soup dessert - simple and easy but my partner loves.




Not bad huh, i did it again - no OT. Haha...... that's how AH Q i am. :)

And now i'm going to watch my TV program which i don't usually does previously. ;P