Night fever

No... Not that song...

It was Renee... Before she slept, her body and forehead felt warmer than usual. We measured her temperature and it was shown as normal, 36.5•c.

After she fell asleep in sarong, she couldn't sleep for long but kept waking up for pacifier... I thought her body felt even warmer than earlier... So I pat her with cold wet towel on the forehead and measured her temperature again...

At midnight, she was at 37.9•c, I continued to pat her with wet towel on the forehead... And measured again after 15mins... She was at 38.4•c! Just 0.1•c to be sent for doctor... I immediately woke Dear up for some help... Fed her with kid's panadol and she instantly threw up the milk she had during last fed...

We changed her into a thinner piece of pyjamas, pat her forehead and body with wet towel... 12:30am, her temperature came down a little... 38.2•c...

At 1am, 37.4•c... We fed her with some water and put her back to sarong to continue with her sleep... She's sleeping soundly now... The sound of the rocking sarong...

Back to normal and we will continue to monitor her temperature...

Weather was cold and hazy... Pple pls take care...

吃自己

最近流行亲手做食品。。。

我也不落人后！

自己做了豆花，还有芒果布丁！

结论是，要吃就到外面买吧！省时省力又好吃。。。

MBS-ed

It's grandpa Peter's 60th Birthday, so off we went for a lunch treat on Bro, followed by a 'surprise' checked-in to MBS premier room (with City view)!

It's a pity that just the day before this surprise MBS stay, the annual haze started to haunt SG... SMOKE pple, hope you can save on your cigarette during this hazy period!

We headed to Au Chocolate de MBS for dinner, love their sweet potato fries... yumyum~*

Renee had a happening day and her very first checked-in to a hotel... Though she didn't not get to stay overnight in the premier room, at least she got to nap on the seally bed! Hee~*

Toooooo bad Renee didn't get to dip in the infinity pool (as she hadn't cleared her bowel for 2 days).... but that gave us a good reason (or excuse?) for a second visit someday.... Muahahha!!

Love their City View gym.... love their Infinity pool.... love their bathtub.... love their Seally beds.... ohhh! I'm so going back, someday!!!

My first attempt of Chocolate Meringue Tart

I was looking for Chocolate cake...

Then I saw chocolate pound cake....

And I came across Chocolate Meringue..

Thinking that it seemed extremely easy to prepare and bake... And the good review comments (Seriously, I was wondering how those folks swallowed those sweet treats down their throats)... Anyway... I decided to give it a try!

Turns out? Successfully..... wayyyyy too sweet for human consumption!! Nevertheless, I finished one of them and started to think how to dispose of the rest... Sadly... I shall leave out the recipe because this is probably the last time I'm going to bake this sinfully sweet thing...

 If you think that Renee didn't really like it... and she would crawl to any food placed in front of her.. well... then see the next few pics... those are good durians, which are way better than my Meringue...

My First Pandan Cake

This is the first time I ever attempted to bake a pandan chiffon cake... Verdict? It is chiffon but not truly light enough.. and it didn't exactly taste like pandan cake... Oops! Reflection Reflection... I didn't follow the recipe strictly (again!?) because I broke one of the yolk... and didn't want to crack too many eggs... :p

Nevertheless, all the sandwich stick animals are happily out poking at my cakes again! Yipeez~*

Before I lost the recipe which I had researched for so long.... it was adopted from kitchentigress, and I'm pasting the recipe here for own reference.

PANDAN CHIFFON CAKE

Source: As stated above (kitchentigress)
(Recipe for one 21-cm cake)

60 g egg yolks
50 g sugar (beat with yolk till ribbon stage)



Add following to yolk mixture slowly, mix until blend

100 g pandan leaves, use only soft and moist young leaves
70 g fresh coconut milk (make 97ml of pandan juice with chopped leaves above + coconut milk)
60 g vegetable oil


100 g cake flour
1 tsp baking powder (sift all above together)
¼ tsp salt (add all into yolk batter)



fold in following into mixture above

180 g egg whites
½ tsp cream of tartar
50 g sugar (add into whites after tartar, by batches of 3)

Bang mixing bowl against worktop a few times to remove air bubbles in batter

180°C - Bake for 35-40 mins (with my current conventional microwave oven)

The Gift of Hermes - The Pouch

My dad, mom, bro and even sis went to the Gift of Time exhibition at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, by Hermes Paris...

All, except dad, received a lovely pouch with Hermes logo, as a door gift to the exhibition... (If you wanted to know why dad didn't get any, well... he rejected)

Thinking that I hadn't been to the Tanjong Pagar railway station (even it had been ceased from operation), I asked Hubby to bring us there! hee...

(So I sacrificed the plan to bake Pandan Chiffon cake this Sunday and we headed to the exhibition! (Glad that we went, today was the last day actually!) And the main purpose was really to get the pouch with Hermes logo... Muahahha!

Proof that we had been there... done that... (why was I showing my hand? Because dear almost got knocked down by a car when taking this shot, I was shouting at him to move away from the road...)

We thought there's not much car parking there... so there's not too many visitors... turned out? We got to queue to get into the small partitions of exhibition hall room...

So while waiting in the queue, we snapped for evidence, again!

You could Google for much better pics of the display exhibited at the hall... so I would just humbly share a few to proof that we had indeed been into the exhibition... BTW, just to mention... This guy was distributing the pouch (which brought us there)... but he DID NOT give any to Renee... Very bad, right!? And Renee was so sad...

Well, since this is my first visit to the T.P.R.S... I guess the stalls somewhere more inwards of the station caught my attention more than the main exhibition :p There was heavily over-priced red bean soup... quite special ice-cream... a very ATAS cafe with extremely overpriced sandwich... and last but not least... an interesting "ma-ma shop" that brought back so much fond childhood memories...

All the old times goodies just appeared right before me... Hubby and I were showing Renee what the stuffs we used to munched on... played with... so so so interesting!

"Wierd-uncle" requested for a box of Doraemon and Tora, so Dear bought... and Renee licked, the box... Haa!

Just a short 40 mins dropped by at this retro railway station... the day was unbearably hot for us (specially for hotie Renee) to stay outdoor, so we headed to VivoCity to chill out... Hubby treated me Brownie Sundae of B&J... Renee could only watch us eat... poor thing! So hubby fed Renee to make sure she's satisfied, too! Hee!

Really glad that we made our trip more worthwhile by visiting Vivo... I managed to find the magnetic whiteboard of the right size which I had been wanting to get... YipEe!!!

Last but not least, I want to thank Hubby for entertaining my request to spin around on a Sunday... He must be super exhausted from this eventful weekend! Haa  ^,^

Big 3!!!

Happy 30th Birthday, Hubby... You can finally amend the incorrect Hanyupinyin name reflected in your NRIC! WuhOo~*

I didn't really plan for a special celebration... (Sorry about that, Dear!) but I looked forward to this day when we could spend time with each other... and eat some good food!

The inital no-plan to go to ECP for breakfast and beach walk was flcikered to a visit to the National Museum (since it would be FOC!) And I was glad that we went, although the parking fee wasn't FOC... I managed to refresh my knowledge on Singapore history by reading up the notes in the exhibition... Hee!

It was part of the no-plan to laze around at our beautiful home for some rechargement before another long evening... While Renee was catching up with her afternoon nap, I quickly whipped up and baked the easiest bakable batter, which turned out to be a pound-cake-brownie! (Well, I intented to bake Dear a black forest cake but I couldn't find the recipe... Oops!) BTW, this brownie is heavenly nice and you must agree! This is because Renee had drooled over it all the time! hEe~*

We headed for Changi Airport T1 for dining at Saboten where I was sabotaged by Renee when she pooped (LS-ed) the freakingly 3rd time in a day.... So I missed 1/2 scoop of Green tea ice-cream and the refilled cup of green tea... :( Nevermind... As long as Renee felt better after clearing her bowel)

We showed Renee the "big" aeroplanes from the viewing gallery... I couldn't remember if we explained to her what a plane does... HohohO! And some artistic structure in T1...

Dear thought he could be lucky on his Birthday so he played the lucky dip at T3... and Guess what? The machine thanked him for trying.... MUahahhaha!!!

BTW, since I'm blogging this entry on 9th Aug, I appended some Nationall Day pics to this post, too... Not the performance on floating platform or fireworks... just Renee's very first National Day with Singapore! So we wore RED and white!!! Muahhahha!!

Happy Birthday, Singapore... Happy Birthday, Zheng Wenxing! Bye bye Zheng Wenxiang(?)!