My First Steamed Egg Cake

The traditional steamed egg cake is a common childhood cake which we get to eat mainly during festive seasons. My grandma would make a gigantic size steamed cake for prayers and it looked just so yummy! After prayers, it would be tore and shared among the kids... Come to think of it, life was so much simpler back then, when definition of happiness was also so simple!

Thanks to having a mixer, I didn't have to beat the eggs and sugar like there was no tomorrow. Salute to grandma who could beat the battle to that level of fluffiness! Too bad I wasn't good at folding despite having the efficient kitchen gadgets...  ;'(

And here's some pics of turning my elder daughter into a 'mad girl' with such Ah Huey hair style.. and some candid shots of my younger daughter while she was trying to be talkative in her baby cot... Hee! (So fun to bring out my old time convention Canon Point-and-Shoot camera... Cheers!)

After 45 mins of steaming over high heat, it's finally ready! The smiling egg cake ^^

有一点被骗的感觉

新达城曾今是我和先生在拍拖时期时的长去处。

几年前起，我们就渐渐少到新达城去了。最近听说那儿大型装修后从新开幕；我们一家4口+1帮手便兴致勃勃地到那儿凑热闹。

一踏进商场就觉得没什么改变嘛。大多数商店依旧在相同的店铺营业呀！

装修个屁啊？

当时真的有一些失望，还在想要不要到别处去。后来还是跟着人流乱晃，结果终于来到了新开辟的空间。有Uniqlo还有H&M打着对台。

很遗憾的是，不知道哪一为聪明的设计师，怎么搞的把商场变成迷宫，同个楼层却互不通！从一点到另一点还得上上下下的，不禁让我想起Jurong point。。。

最近的 Weekend Family Outing 越来越 High 了。小的不睡觉；大的要抱抱！没有三头六臂还真的别想带着两个 mini drunk adult 出街！

今晚，我抱着小的，哄着大的睡觉。结果一个吵一个！Oh Noooo。最后，我只好把小的带回婴儿房，让大的冷静一番后才回房安抚。还真有用叻！早知道就早一点出招了！

听见大的在房里敲着门叫妈妈，我一开门她就把手机还来，还说Orh-orh并自己躺到床上去盖被。乖！妈妈陪你睡，晚安！

我也该睡了，Lights out 后还在 blog 要打屁屁了！

最有印象的 First Words

偶然的一天，忽然想起了两个朋友。。。特别之处在于我们的第一次接触。

Super 老友们，别放在心上！因为我们的结识是很自然的。再加上年纪小，所以我真的没印象了。哈哈！

13岁中学一年级开学第一天，我坐在位子上望了望四周。大多数的同学不是低头对着桌子发愣；就是已经聊起来了。坐在左边的女同学正在读着一本书。于是我便主动于她交谈。

“Hello，你在读书啊？”

很烂的开场白；但是我们成为了死党。

20-21岁上大学参加了入舍营，在宿舍里第一次于室友见面时，我们打了招呼自我介绍。当我还在苦恼我们接下来该聊什么的时候，这位小我两岁的可爱室友突然拿出了飞机棋。yes的！那种纸盒style的玩意儿！

“有时间吗？我们来下棋吧！”

哈哈大笑之间，我们很愉快地相处了一年！还有保持联系，不错！

我相信接下来的人生，还会有其他的首次对话。希望也能印象深刻吧！

大女要下楼

中午打包午餐，大女要（gai gai），于是我看天气还不错，便大胆地带着她。

是谢天谢地。。。天气真的很不错！没太阳也没下雨，还有凉风。要不然，我就真的死快一点了。。。

也多亏带着她，我才没有闲工夫逛太久。买了该买的就赶紧回家去。

与其说是带着她，不如说是抱着她！Can you imagine? ~.~ 

要在平价排队还钱，还有到口福买两份午餐。。。我扛着everything plus Renee... 过完所有的马路后，我就快散了！幸运的是大女终于愿意自己走。就这样，我们牵着手回到家。哈哈哈！

虽然有一点难度；但还是很高兴！嘻嘻！

Belated Full month gift from cousin

Thank you, cousin Eugene and family for sending the belated gift despite being busy with some family matters.

What a lovely dress! Can be worn by Phoebe in next March... Muahahaha!

Wish BB Javier a speedy recovery! Jiayou! ^^

我太贪睡了

不知为什么，怎么都起不了身。

11pm - 5am 一整夜都没有pump。。。一共 miss 了3 次。我快完蛋了吧！

平日也没真的每3个小时 pump， 都是这里托，那里托的。我在做什么？

郁闷死了！

这种天气。。。

要如何取中呢？

待在客厅，尽管风扇刮再大的风，风也是热的。

进到房间，就算将空调设定在28°c，还是很冷。

站在客厅和房门间，就又冷又热。

去哪里找一个不冷也不热，适中的温度呀？都快生病了吧？

Multitasking

I always think that I can multitask... Until I have 2 kids, crying for milk at the same time...

Shui shui shui, fei fei shui

Yes, it's not making sense...

But when this came from Renee, in the study room... It refers to BH's spectacle box...

Shui shui shui refers to the flora specs cloth, while shui shui fei refers to the blue one... If not,it's the other way round...

Hmmm... Not sure why she likes to play with our stuffs... ~,~

Itch...

My hands had been itching since last night... It's so disturbing that I had to DOM myself to sleep...

Why did Renee ask for milk at 4:30am? It'a been a while since she woke up at wee hours... T__T

Why couldn't I see Phoebe from the CCTV monitor? Because she could only fell asleep on the mattress?

I wouldn't take a chance. I headed over to check on my girl. She's sleeping soundly on Seahorse (once again) so I shifted her back to the cot ^^

I'm back to my bed but with the itch that returned to haunt my hands for the rest of the morning... Arghhh! (And did I smell s*** again? Was it Renee doing her 'work' in the sleep?... Should I...?)

Zzz...  #_#

Oh No...

Renee had been saying "Oh No" loud and clear... Better than "Oh S***"...

Hahahahaha... And I have started to say that, too... Join me... OHHHhhh NOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOoo!!!

几乎每一次煮饭前，都得花上一些时间来「讨论」材料的份量和烹饪方式。

我真的没有时间哈拉！

与其说是需要我的意见；不如说只是要我的同意。问了我又拿出自己的意见，根本没有在听吧？

最惨的是，每次都要坚持食物的份量过多。天啊！老人爱吃就煮吧，别再坚持了。。。

就算我为了避免浪费时间而特别把这星期的menu例了下来。还是免不了一轮又一轮的「讨论」。有这么麻烦吗？

我快不能呼吸了。有点像韩剧里头被气到落枕那样。哈哈哈！

不见了

每天晚上，我们都会启动监视器，好收到宝宝在隔壁房的哭声。

今晚也不例外。唯一不同的事。。。我翻遍了抽屉也找不着影像播放器。

今晚看不见睿琦的睡姿了！

睿锦到底把它藏到哪里了？不会是那给「一发」看了吧？

想到这儿我就头大。。。

Random...

Have I mentioned this?

During my 3 days stay at Kent Ridge (for labor), I heard a high frequency of ambulance siren for the entire day and asked my husband, "Don't you think that this place has so many ambulance sirens, scary..." 

Then, I realized that I was in the hospital... (=,=")

I'm an old... Hag...

During Phoebe's full month celebration, I was 'reminded' by BH cousins that I was an old hag...

They addressed BH as 'gor' which referred to brother since they were from the same generation...

But they called me 'Auntie'... DotZ!

一发不可收拾?

It hasn't crossed my mind until my long-old friend (Oops! Kris) mentioned this...

「一发不可收拾」

Our helper's name is Ifa (一发）

And based on this common Chinese saying... It simply implies that she couldn't tidy up my place... Wahahahaha!

Interesting... ~,~

似是而非

中文版的「Same Same But Different」

这次说的是感觉。

这天我乘搭地铁到医院复诊。在车厢内无所事事，便竖起耳朵参停他人对话，也亮了双眸观摩他人的一举一动。

也没什么，就是遇到每一班车都会碰上的哪几类人。。。

1、异性朋友 - 没话找话讲，有位不敢坐，站得远远，并且面向同一个方向。

2、犀利怪人 - 穿着邋遢，头发堆里像是住了怪物，不修边幅还提带着大小包袱。不知道是不是炸弹。。。

3、外籍年轻人 - 不用怀疑。车门还没开就插队到你前面来。上了车，头也不抬就一屁股坐在 Reserved Seat 上。

4、小情侣 - 男生背着女生的包包，女生撅着嘴在撒娇。男生时不时像在抚摸猫狗般地整理着女生的头发。以前或许觉得会有 Sweet 的感觉；但现在只觉得他们还很嫩，不久的啦！

5、低头族 - 我也是其中之一吧。就是完全不想跟任何人看对眼。装睡或玩手机的那种。就算有人放一煤毫无伪装的炸弹都不会有人发现。。。

不知不觉，我就到站了。也没好好看一看四周，便凭着习惯／印象往诊所走去。结果吃了闭门羹。诊所在一周前刚搬迁到新盖好的建筑了！

好大的改变，很多惊喜。哈哈！

从13楼往出窗外的景色。没那么闷了。。。

My first NY cheesecake

Sunday, a pleasant weather for doing anything today.

While husband was out for a wedding lunch, I invited my long-old pal over to my place.

As the blocks of cheese cream were expiring soon, I was determined to bake cheesecake today. 

So we did it together, using my sis's scrap book recipe. Thanks to sis for baby-sitting Renee so that we could catch up and bake cake tgt!

I forgot to snap a few pics of the making but here's the end product... It kinda 'burst' on the crust because the tray was too small for this recipe... I filled the batter to the brim which was so wrong...

Looks fluffy, bubbly and soft... I hope it's properly cooked thoroughly... Wait till its chilled long enough for tasting... WuhOO! ^^

Oh BTW, Kriz, I wasn't aware that you r not a fan of cheesecake until today.. Oops! We can do something that u actually like the next time... So much fun baking tgt. LOL!!!

(Updated: After chilling this cake overnight, it was finally really to be served... Awfully delicious!!)

My small investment on R&P

After brainstorming on where to bring our little cuties to during this weekend, we landed ourselves at White Sands Mall, thanks to the Manhattan Fish Market discount coupons!

We headed to the library as our first stop with a little hesitation as no one could guarantee our cuties would remain quiet throughout... If you got what I meant...

BH entered the NLB with Phoebe asleep in the pram. While I prepared Renee by telling her that we had to keep our volume down ("shhh...") in the library or we would be asked to leave... She placed her little finger on her lips and kept really quiet.

Instead of exclaiming when something caught her attention, she pointed to the display in the library excitedly, without a single noise! WuhOO!

Although it was some sort of a successful visit to the library, we did not stay around for long as the Pre-schooler books were really old, torn and dirtied...

The next stop was The Popular, to get our girls some bedtime story books and colouring books... So here's my $40 investment on our girls... Wahahahaha!

Followed by dinner, as planned, at MFM. Phoebe had her milk, while Renee had porridge and fries (as always)...

Lastly, it was our weekly family grocery shopping... However, this Fairprice was freaking cold! Phoebe started 'singing' pretty soon after we got in. Conclusion, min. of 3 adults is a MUST when bringing 2 babies out... A = K + 1...

These girls had behaved really well during today's family trip... So looking forward to next weekend. Lovely! ^^

Retirement of sterilizer

Last evening, when my helper was overwhelmed with work and lost track of priorities, I decided to step in to help.

So I checked the sterilizer and spot some black dirt in it and wanted to bring it to the kitchen for a proper rinse.

The moment I splashed water into the sterilizer, hoping to flush out the black residue, it cracked...

This was a preloved sterilizer passed down from the cousin who stayed just next estate away. Believe or not, it had served 2 families, 4.5 babies for 11 years!

I turned to the tentative traditional boiling method but helper was still overwhelmed with work... So I used the travel sterilizer which took 30mins for max of 2 bottles at a time.

We couldn't do this for the next 1-2 years. We thought, so Dear and I made a trip to Compass Point to get a replacement, which was an Avent 3-in-1 express sterilizer that cost $99!

Just 2 hours later, another cousin text to inform that he could pass me his preloved sterilizer... Too late! =,=

Our First Family Outing

We've made it! WuhoO!!

In fact, it was much more pleasant than the one when we took Renee to Ikea on a Sat, before Phoebe was born.

We made a trip to Vivo, with 2 babies and a helper ^^ Not being ambitious, we only plan to make it a super quick starter trip, to step into H&M, Uniqlo (ok, we missed this), followed by dining at Poulet and marketing at Giant.

Everyone had a part to play. During the journey, BH drove, I carried Phoebe and Ifa carried Renee on her lap... During the shopping, We took turns to push pram for Phoebe, carried Renee and held the baby bag... During dinner, helper fed Renee, while we swallowed the meal...

Renee helped to push Mei-Mei... Kawaii ^^

I must complement my big baby, Renee, for being a really sweet and good girl during this outing. Phoebe, as well, had been very cooperative by sleeping during most of the time, with a couple of gentle eh-eh when she was hungry or wanted to be carried...

A couple of memories packed from our first family trip to a big shopping mall. ^^

This was the original outfit which I had picked for Phoebe before she pooped and soiled it... (With a bit of facial for her milk rash on the cheeks)

Renee loves the kawaii hat sold at H&M... She came to pose beside me and her Mei-Mei when daddy tried to take a pic of her in the cap...

Many thanks to Dear's treat for my 'break fast' from outside food since confinement... Presenting to you, Poulet's onion soup (and a sleeping beauty)

Followed by this super xi-lang pricy salad... (But its really olivily nice). Besides the soup, I didn't manage to take pics of the original food that was served as we were famished... So here's the bits and pieces of them...

The signature xi-Lang pricy chicken!!

And finally, the 3 women... Entertaining ourselves while waiting for Dear to pick us up from the lobby.

Really glad that we've made it! We probably need more rest before taking up the next challenge... ~,~ zzz