Tzatziki And Fish Crackers

Who would have thought that tzatziki and fish crackers will make a wonderful dinner match? 

To make tzatziki:

2 fresh young cucumber (grated, add some salt and leave for 10 minutes.  Squeezed the water from the cucumber and keep it in a bowl)

3 cloves of garlic (crushed and add together to the cucumber)

A cup of yogurt

1.5 teaspoon of dried mint

3 tablespoon of lemon juice

1 teaspoon of freshly grounded black pepper

Mix everything together and leave to chill in the fridge for 30 minutes before serving.  Note, I did not add any salt as the salt from the cucumber is enough.

This sauce is nice with bake fish too.

Sausages My Way

Good Morning, today it was sausages my way, and it is a family favorite

 Fry the sliced sausages without oil in a non stick pan for 5 minutes or slightly more over high heat

 Add chopped onion and continue frying till the onion change color

 Add chopped mushroom and fry for 5 minutes

 Finally, add in whipped eggs together with some light cheese, and freshly ground black pepper.  No salt is required to cook this dish

Boots Hunting

I went boots hunting with the angels today.  It was a good day outing, we had loads of fun, and laughter in the cold wind.  Guess which boot comes home with me? Scroll down for the answer……………………

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing, muahaha, ha ha ha, I am still loyal to my old UGG from down under.

Does That Bother You?

LIFE is divine chaos BUT I am soooooooooo HAPPY, does that bother you?

 

 

Me, Alone = Blissful

I like to be alone, in fact it is one of the best moments for me is to be alone. Some people think that I am just faking it when I tell them that I enjoy being alone more than being among people. Being alone is like ……………. Ahhhhhhh………….. heaven, no noise, no distractions, no stupid chats, no trying hard to be wannabe, no pretending, no, no, no and so many nos. I don’t need reasons to be alone, I love being alone.

I can’t remember how many times I made excuses by saying that I am busy or that I have prior appointment, so that I can be alone, in my own corner, in my home, just doing everything that I want. There were times too that when hubby or my kids asked me to go out with them, I will just tell them to go ahead and leave me alone, they think that I have lost it all but, honestly, I love me and I just prefer to be by myself much better. It is so blissful and peaceful and comfortable and simply wonderful.

I can be in my sweats and knickers and no one has to know, I can be without shower for a whole day or two and no one has to know, I can play chef as and when I like and no one has to know, or I can just eat directly from the mackerel can and yes, no one has to know. See, I hope you get now why I so love to be alone.

Call me lame, or whatever, but I am at my happiest when you people just let me be me, and that is to be by myself…………………….. ALONE!

My Little Angel Is 16th Today

You will forever be my little angel and no matter how many years pass, you will always be my sweet little angel.  I wish you faith, courage and determination to succeed in all walks of your life Sayang.  I want you to know that I will always be here to support you.

You have turned out to be a very pretty young thing, very thoughtful, very caring, and everything that I could wish for, you have your moments of stubbornness too, but who didn’t?  Remember that as you grow from your 16^th to many more happy years ahead, maturity has more to do with what type of experiences you have had, and how much you would have learned from that.

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."  -  John Mason

Happy 16^th Birthday Darling

 

  

Convince Me Please!

My left eye is twitching again and it is so annoying especially when I have to pay extra attention to try and fight the power of the twitch. In fact it is so distracting, and each time the twitching happens, I began to analyze the superstitious annotation behind it. Hell, yes, I can be that superstitious.

I have been brought up to believe that black cats are bad omen, so if there’s anything that was written about eye twitching will be over ruled by what had been preached to me from my very early age on superstitious. News had it that left eye twitching presage bad news.

However, there are several factors that could also trigger the twitching of the eyes; among them are stress and lack of sleep, and it has nothing to do with an omen of bad things. At the moment lack of sleep and stress are very much the dominant factors in my life. I often wonder how little things can have such an impact on me; I am easily bothered by matters that should just be forgotten and dusted. I can lose sleep thinking of the leaves changing colors, or what day will it be tomorrow.

There you go, so the twitching of my left eye was from my own doing and nothing more than that.

Oops! Convince me, please!

Out Of The Caves

I love having my angels with me; we can pretty do anything out of nothing.

One common thing that got me teasing them always was about their body hair, while I am not a hairy person, my angels are. Poor babies, I used to take them for hair threading days. It was easy when we were living in boleh land, but here these people are very rare, and if you do find them, they are hopeless.

Chef Diva does not believe in shaving so she is into the hair removal cream, while the little angel is the shaving type. There were moments or days that they will get mighty lazy and let the hair on their legs to be longer than I could have anticipated, and I will be open to teasing them more, and this will go on till they remove the over grown hair.

However, they will counter tease me (hubby will take their side) about my nose hair (he he he). For some stupid reason that I am still trying to figure out, mine always managed to creep out of the caves. It’s embarrassing, especially when we are waiting for the tram, suddenly they went “mama, eewww, your nose hair is out of the caves, and hubby will go, “honey, honey, stand still, stand still, I will pull it out for you”, and all this in a public area. There you go that’s my angels and hubby bundled together.

But, now I have a new weapon to remind them to have their hair removed methodically as a matter of fact. I told them, “you know if you die, and before I call the people to come and take your body, I will bawl my eyes out and shaving you at the same time”, he he he, I hope this works.

Alia, we are waiting to tease you, please come soon, and we know your sore hair tease…………………… he he he………………. Evil, can’t wait.

Since You've Been Gone

Weird, I am counting every day of the days, first it was days, then it goes down to hours, and I tried manipulating time different, and still I don’t understand the frustration that is overcoming my senses. It’s unbelievable, I get up at odd hours in the night to discover that the counting is a continuous thing, and it’s lagging more than my own shadow.

Since you’ve been gone, I have turned into lump blubber, honestly, just rolling around in my favorite corner of the room, on the couch, and like a real queen I have angels to run around me, feeding me, entertaining me, laughing and doing silly things with me. Have I told you that I also have to fight for space with them, as they are become more rolling matters on my couch.

Having said that, can it be possible to be missing you this much?

All Saints' Eve

Honey, I wrote, I am seeing entity again.  It is weird how this thing comes around you unexpectedly.  I told my two angels too that I am seeing some shadowy figures around the house, and alert them not to be afraid.  They are just like us only in a different world, I told them.

Having said that I took the angels out for some fun time and decided to get some décor for my door in welcoming the All Saints’ Eve or the All Hallows’ Eve or commonly known as Halloween on October 31, 2011.  Most of the time we were just laughing and figuring how the décor on the door should look like, and we end up buying nothing.

Enjoy the pictures of us fooling around as much as enjoyed doing it.

Let's Do This

1. What is more difficult for you; looking into someone’s eyes when you are telling someone how you feel, or looking into someone’s eyes when they are telling you how they feel?

Looking into someone’s eyes when they are telling me how they feel, because eyes don’t lie and I can see one immediately. Therefore, that will always have a sad “don’t let me miss you” ending.

2. Think of the last time you were REALLY angry.

I don’t really get angry but I get mad and most of all frustrated and sad. Hemmm…………. There will be no last time for this as long as I am the mother to my kids and the wife to my husband. I am over protective and I will give my life to fight for them, so people who are nasty to them make me mad, frustrated and sad = ANGRY.

3. You are on a flight from Honolulu to Chicago non-stop. There is a fire in the back of the plane. You get enough time to make ONE phone call. Who would you call?

My husband of course because he is the ONLY one who will almost answer my phone call immediately and my kids will think that I am just telling them a joke, and I know my husband can handle stress better.

4. You are at the doctor’s office and she has just informed you that you have approximately one month to live. a) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die? b) What do you do with your remaining days? c) Would you be afraid?

a) No, no one needs to know, no one cares except my husband and my kids. And death is no longer fashionable, it is eminent, so, therefore.


b) Most probably sorting out my clothes, looking through my papers, cooking the best meal for my kids and husband, and yes lots of praying


c) Well, I use to be afraid, but not anymore now, as why be afraid of something that you cannot run away from? Anyays, they said heaven is better than here. I am pretty sure I want to go to heaven.

5. You can have one of the following two things: trust/love.

Trust of course, because love is superficial and money buys it all.

6. You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late one more time you get fired. What do you do?

I am not a good swimmer, and my job is more important (I was the BOSS by the way), so bye bye dog, see you in heaven and enjoy the water!

7. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

Wherever my kids and husband will be

8. Think of the last person who you really knew that died. You have the chance to give them 1 hour of life back, but you have to give one year of your life. Will you?

Of course…………… haven’t you heard that sharing is caring?

9. Are you the kind of friend that you would want to have as a friend?

Can I answer this next time please………………. Hah, WTF I like me, so yes of course.

10. Does love = sex?

Are you kidding? Take a cuppa and wake up!!!!!!

11. Your best friend dies what would you do?

Say a prayer for her. Cry a bucket and help her kids during this hard time. And, yes girlfriend, see you in heaven.

12. When and how was the last time you told someone HONESTLY how you felt?

Always, I am not afraid of telling the honest truth, especially if that someone is FATTTTTTT.

13. What would be harder for you, to tell someone you love them or that you do not love them back?

Most probably to tell some that I love them, wow how does it feels to be dejected?

14. What do you think would be the hardest thing for you to give up on?

Being obsessed with my kids.

15. Excluding romantic love, when was the last time you told someone you loved them?

Too often, it is my dedication to my kids and husband that encourages me to say that words freely.

16. If you had to go back in time and change one thing, if you HAD to, even if you had “no regrets” what would it be?

Nothing, you cannot swim against fate.

17. Imagine. It is a dark night, you are alone, it is raining outside, and you hear someone walking around outside your window. Who do you call?

Why should I call anyone, it is most probably one of my kids or husband trying to look for the spare keys, I have the habit of changing location always. By the way we live in the upper most floor in an apartment, so for someone to be walking outside my window in a dark raining night……… that someone has to be plastic man.

18. Would you give a homeless person CPR if they were dying?

Are you kidding me? eewwww NO………….. I will call 113.

19. Are you old fashioned?

May be, maybe not, Who cares?

20. If you could do anything OR wish for anything that would come true, what would you wish for?

I don’t know, ok, ok, wait, I know………………….. for a world without winter, so that the bullshit about Santa will stop (We should stop lying to the poor kids…… honestly!!!!).

Burned Out

I am so glad and so so happy that my kids are not into the euphoria of Facebook. It is super sickening to read remarks and wall posts that shows stupidity to the nine. There are too many desperados in this world, when millions of kids are dying of hunger, wars are everywhere, and Wall Street is a joke, the desperados are still seeking cheap publicity on Facebook.

I felt burned out by these people, their babbling and all that bullshit.

Distance

It is amazing how time and distance could really make me pine for you. I thought we would be over this cycle of our lives, I thought that we are more settled even though this is not really the place of our dream, but for more than a week since you’ve been gone, I am simply missing you.

Counting the days to have you home again, even the girls are missing you. I pray for the Lord to keep you safe at all time.

Doctor, Doctor…….. Are You NUTS????

I completed my physiotherapy on October 14, 2011, hubby accompanied me on this day, it was nice of him to take time to be with me. This is because he will also be leaving on the same afternoon for mission deployment, and will not be around for a long time.

I was happy too to have the last therapy, but when the doctor examined me and noticed how much more pain that I was enduring, she became annoyed, not just annoyed but really annoyed. She went, “Oh my God, they have done the wrong treatment on you, this is impossible, I will have to put you to more physiotherapy to treat your situation”, I was just too shocked to say anything NASTY. I chose to keep quite.

The doctor was so angry that she wrote some remarks on my copy of the therapy paper, but the front desk nurse was quick enough to white the remarks off, I guess this is so that I will not be able to take any action against them.

I am now open for more therapy, good luck to me and I cannot help but wonder what will it be after the end of this therapy. The Lord is great; I will not mourn the pain that I am going through, but I am mourning the stupidity of the medical system. I guess this stupidity is contagious and everywhere in the world.

Should I start going back to the shaman or the jungle doctors?

Ayam Pongteh

 Ready to serve

 Saute pounded garlic in a table spoon of cooking oil

 Add two tablespoon of preserved soya bean paste 

 Add in the chicken pieces, if you noticed I have discarded most of the chicken skin 

 Add approximately two cups of water, and four tablespoon of dark soya sauce, two inches of 'gula melaka' and let boil for 20 minutes or slightly more, depending on the type of chicken that you are using

 Add in a cup of dried mushrooms

 

 Add in the potatoes (two medium size potatoes will be enough)

 

 Let simmer until chicken is really tended and the potatoes are soft (not mushy) and the sauce thickens

Nasi Padang.................. Yumms

 

 

Thank you honey for sharing these pictures of Nasi Padang with me, wish I am with you and you know how much I love this food. You have fun and remember me whenever you are at this restaurant. One can never go wrong in a Nasi Padang restaurant, every dish that were put on display is a pleasure to the eyes and the palate too. I believe Nasi Padang is the authentic cuisine of Minangkabau origin.

This is one of my to eat list soon.