Bee Tai Mak in soup

This one-meal dish is normally what I like to make on weekends when Adrian and I likes to eat something soupy and healthy.

Ingredients:

Bee Tai Mak

Minced Pork (marinated with some soya sauce, pepper and cornflour)

Green leafy vegetables

Carrot (Sliced)

Fish Cake (sliced)

Soup stock:

Ikan Bilis

2 slices of ginger

Directions:

1) Add 1teaspoon of oil into a pot

2) Fry the ikan bilis and ginger in the oil till fragrant. Add in water for boiling till ikan bilis turned pale colour. Take out the ikan bilis and the ginger.

3) Put hot boiling water onto the bee tai mak a few times to get rid of the oil and as well as to soften it.

4) Make the minced pork into a ball using a spoon and put in the boiling soup

5) Throw in the slices of carrot, followed by veggies and fish cake last.

6) When all things are cooked, pour out the ingredients and soup onto the bowl of cooked bee tai mak. Add some pepper and served.

Saw this photo by chance...

... and I want to laugh.... hahahaha.....

Belly Dancing Night @ Bukit Merah Central

Brought Giselle to Bukit Merah Central to watch the belly dance performance by my good friend, Adria. Giselle was memerised by the dancers on the stage that she was so focused staring at them.. haha. Jennifer and I were busying chasing our idol (Adria, of course) that night to take pictures with her... :)

Building Confidence....

We find Giselle has always been lacking of confidence, be it in school or outside when with strangers since young. It is not that we didn't bring her out enough or my hubby and I are shy people. Initially we thought she was just being shy when young, but as she grows older, this aspect didn't improve much though she did try to open up abit at times in front of others when she is in happy mood.

Hence, we thought of bringing her for outdoor spots with swimming and cycling as a start. After a few rounds of being in water, she doesn't cry anymore whenever her head is under the water or has drank some pool water accidentally.

I would be bring her around to try some enrichment classes to improve herself academically and socially. Though she is fine with her usual classmates, we find it is time we bring her out of her comfort zone. Hopefully she would be more confident of herself outside.

We brought her another round of water play at Mount Faber Safra where she met a sweet 4year old girl named Anna. Giselle had some fun playing water gun with Anna. She also opened up abit by answering Anna's Daddy questions like what is her name etc. However, could see she was still abit fearful and kept looking at us.

Nevertheless, Adrian and I were happy that she did try to be friendlier this time :)

Carrot Bread

One of my good friend Stephanie has helped me bought this Bluesky breadmaker from Carrefour. Finally had the courage to bake my first bread today after having gathering all the ingredients.

It took a total of 3hours from doughing to baking by the machine and the carrot bread was ready to eat at 10.30pm. The appearance wasn't too bad and the taste was nice too, but the texture was too moist as I may have added too much butter in it.

Wanted to do homemade for Giselle and her Daddy and they were excited about it too. However, Giselle only likes to admire and not eat it. She took a few mouths of the bread and refused to eat more... hahaha....

Will continue to perfect my skills to as not to add this item to my collection of white elephant in the storeroom..... :)

A Sweet Children Day Gift....

One of the teachers in Giselle has personally hand-painted this T-shirt for Giselle. Me and her Daddy were so impressed with it. Giselle was excitedly pointing at the little girl on the t-shirt and asked me if the girl is her..... :)

Her English teacher has also designed a photo frame with her picture in it and her chinese teacher has wrote a tang shi for Giselle on a few ice-cream sticks that she has nicely handicraft with some butterflies....

The fortunate thing about Giselle's school is that she has quite a few teachers who loved and care for her very much. That's why I have no thoughts about changing childcare centre for her even though the fees are very steep.

Her New Princess Carseat...

Yeah... that what we would call her carseat to motivate her to seat tight on the carseat... Since she is about 3.5year old now, we thought it is time to "upgrade" her car seat to a high-back booster seat. Saw this Britax car seat on sales at Mother@work shop at Great World City for $89, it is a real steal for a made-in-USA-Britax brand. Seeing the colour suits her and it's nice, we bought it without hesitation.

She was so excited about it, including the bottle holder at the sides of her princess seat.

Finally!!!

Had been trying to cover 1 slide with all her photos about her growing up...From Birth to about 3 years old... Finally able to post it here now !!! :)

Miss those days when she was a Baby.... :)

Suddenly found this collage in my PC again and decided to post it again..... :)

A typical Chinese Learning Session at Home...

Most of the time after she came home form Delcare, we would spend time with her doing some chinese flashcards. This would allow her to learn some chinese characters in a fun way. So far she could recognise about 20 characters and we would incorporate new character(s) every 3 or 4 days as well as to revise on the previous characters that she has learnt... she seems to enjoy every session.... :)

A Fun Day @ Downtown East

My family and me had organised a bbq cum fun day the Downtown East at Pasir Ris since I got the chalet.

I had check into the chalet where my grandma and uncle stay on the friday night. Adrian and I brought Giselle there to have some fun at Wild Wild Wet. Her favourite Gong-Gong joined us and all 4 of us were playing happily.

During the evening, we had bbq just outside our Chalet unit, eating all the unhealthy stuff. Even though I still have my cough, I just ate and ate the chicken wings non-stop. It has been a long time since we had bbq, so I just ignore 'being healthy'. hahaha




We took her out during the BBQ and went to take the Ferris Wheel indoor at Ehub! since they were having a promotion price of $11.50 for 3 pax.

As usual, Giselle had a whole day of fun and missed her afternoon nap. She slept on the way home and we have a hardtime waking her up. She was so cranky that nothing could calm her down....











More photos could be found at:



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Amara Sanctuary Resort 29 Sep - 1 Oct 08

We decided to call for a relaxing resort stay in Singapore and hence chosen this resort since it is new and price is reasonable.

It cost us $580 for 2 nights inclusive of breakfast. We were given a free upgrade to Premier Room and it was big room with free broadband. The toilet was big too and Giselle enjoyed every corner of the room.

The king size bed was big and comfy but Giselle fell from the high bed on the 2nd day of our stay. She cried for a long time due to the pain on her left hand. I thought she twisted her joints or what but luckily did not.

For dinner on the first night, we went to Beaufort Hotel to treat ourselves to a sumpteous international BBQ buffet. The prawns were very fresh and desserts were yummy.

After breakfast the next day, we brought Giselle to have a dip at the water play area near the Koufu food court at Palawan beach. We met a family with 4 kids from kelantan and Giselle enjoyed the company of the children. They played sand castle and "attacked" each other with water gun and water splashing. Her gong-gong suddenly appeared to join us for lunch there while the sky was drizzling with rain.

The resort has a 4 swimming pools situated at different part of the resort. The had sky pool meant for adults and dream pool meant for kids.

We checked out on wed which was a public holiday. Giselle was really tired as she has enjoyed every minute of the stay at sentosa without taking her afternoon nap.