another cookies day~

This is another cookies day! Today i have made cornflakes cookies, which is easy & fast~ =)

here are the recipe:
ingredients:
1. kellogg's cornflakes 1 box (325g)
2, icing sugar 3oz (or 80g)
3. honey 2 1/2 tablespoons
4. salted butter 125g
5. paper cups

steps:
1. melt the sugar, honey and butter
2. add cornflakes and mix well
3. place the mixed cornflakes into paper cups
4. bake in oven for 10mins (180degree)
5. ready to serve
This is an "easy-to-make" cookies which taste yummy~ So, please do a try because never try, you will never know~ =) happy baking ^^v

a cookies day

woohoo~ chinese new year is just two weeks from now.. it's about the time for me to learn baking again.. wahaha, i have not bake for almost one year since this year cny for my butter cakes.. :p

today, my "assignment" is to bake two cookies, pineapple cookies & kuih momoo (both mum & sister favorite)..

pineapple roll cookies' recipe:

ingredients:

1. 250g butter

2. 60g icing sugar (or 2oz)

3. 270g flour (or 9oz)

4. 100g corn flour (or 3oz)

5. 2 tablespoons of milk powder

6. abit salt

7. 1 egg

8. ready made pineapple jam

steps:

1. beat butter & sugar till fluffy

2. put in egg, stir well

3. add in flours (no. 3 to no. 6), mix well by hand till it becomes firm and non-stick dough (p/s: may add some flour or corn flour if it's too watery) - do not mix too long and too hard...

4. put mixture into the mould, press out into strips, put in jam and roll it softly

5. bake in preheated oven at 180c, for 10 mins, take out and put some egg yolk on its topping, and bake for another 10-15mins (estimated) or till it turns to golden brown

6. here the yummy pineapple cookies are ready to serve... =)

for kuih momoo, the ingredients and methods are the same, just the shape is round, without jam and mix with icing sugar after it's baked~

i feel great and fun~ because i learned new things and it tastes yummy~ a big thank you to my dearest aunties for everything... =)

* 30 january 2010 *

pineapple cookies ~

kuih momoo~

waterfront cafe buffet dinner

the oysters, pouched crabs, prawns and mussels...
the appetiters...

the chocolate fondue...
ice-cream of the day~ berry vanilla =)
yummy desserts =)
here we are, aimee, carol, kav & shuan =)


A great buffet dinner with aimee, carol & kavitha at waterfront cafe, hilton with the theme of beef and reef~ Thank you to aimee for bringing us!
* 27 january 2010 *

a dinner at 海天楼

hmm.. is this our first time (yih & shuan) to bring mum to eat in "restaurant"?? i can't remember i did bring her before this, i mean not chinese food, because i always want her to try new stuff, like western food, japanese food, but i guess this is first time to " chinese restaurant"... we ordered three dishes, thai style bidin, homemade tofu and pork leg with man tou (mum's favor ^^)... though it's just three dishes, but really make us so full... and i am happy to bring mum.. mum, i promise to bring you to try more nicer foods next time.. opps, talk about food make me hungry again.. wahaha.. i miss peking duck at li garden, should bring them to try =) and it's would be so much funs if lian lian is here too.. =)
* 23 january 2010 * 海天楼 *

www.chaishuan.com

22 01 10 is the date i register my chaishuan.com
yuppie, i own one now! i will use this to share my life, travel diary, eat and play stuff.. (◕‿◕✿)
so, now what i have to do is to learn how to design a nice website. yea, new thing to learn! i will publish when it's done and everyone must come and support oh!٩(◕‿◕)۶
*love, is the beginning of everything...(^‿^✿)*

我要新的生活模式

这几天心情很糟糕， 感觉很迷惘..
我开始在想 我做对了吗，我在做我喜欢的吗， 我想是时候改变了， 改变我的生活模式， 那， 到底我要的生活模式是什么？第一样要做的是 相信自己， 相信 我可以看到， 相信我要的都会发生。 接着，要改变的就是自己， 往自己要的，喜欢的生活模式前进， 从每天的小习惯做起， 慢慢地成为喜欢的自己，快乐的自己... 好好加油吧！
相信， 所以看到！

a night with great foods

a special, crazy, full & fun night with variety of typical local great foods..
kolo mee at sin bao bao, ban hock road
sarawak laksa and sio bee at bintawa
satay at satay house, hui sing hawker stalls
ice mentahon tang at hui sing hawker stalls
and durian at yen's house.. i guess i will crave for kuching foods very much if i am not in kuching one day.. just like ah-yen =)
*a message to ah-yen, thank you so much for these few days great times and we will waiting for you to come back and clear our long to-eat list and we will miss you.. =)
* 17 january 2010 *

a night at yen's house

well, yen is filly, filly is yen.. the reason why we call her filly is because.. haha, of cause i won't write it here, because it's our gals' secret~
this is third night filly's night in kuching, i really feel so grateful because i got chinese food on thursday night, korean food on friday night, and what is the food for satursday night? here they go...
a red wine call BIN 8, cabernet which is brought over the sea to kuching by filly...
delicious lamb chop cook by aunty and filly, really yummy~ *thumbs up*
we got bintawa kueh chap.. wow, miss this so much, thanks to ah-hoon =)
and we also got rambutan and langsat which plucked by aunty and filly from fruit farm.. and durian (can't take cos have to choose between red wine & durian =))*filly, i want to go vege & fruit farm next time, bring me!! :p*
hahaha, see how enjoy we are on this wonderful saturday night~ cheers~
* 16 january 2010 *

i change a new looks~

i have a hair cut today, mum keeps laughing i got mushroom head.. haha, so happy to see she laugh.. *funny~*
what i think about my new looks.. hmm.. i think i look different, new, fresh and more "cutie".. wahaha!! a new shuan!!
* 16 january 2010 *

a night at seoul garden

yuppie! welcome our filly back to town!!
and after much discussions and we finally decided to have korean food at seoul garden as our dinner. this is my first time here, though it is not a new korean restaurant in kuching... we ordered a bbq set meal (it's a big portion, we got chicken, duck, lamb and pork and also plates of korean dishes!), kimchi spicy soup (i like this, and it would be more better if more spicy, taste more thicker), korean style fried squids (taste like fried squids lo, but nice also.. )... and for the drink, i tried korea barley tea (hmm, taste exactly like tea!) and also tried abit of korea wine (taste like white wine, the balance filly brings back for aunty to cook kacangma.. :p) and at last the tauke gave us few mini mandarin orange as our dessert.. this is really a "full" night and we all enjoy it very much.. and of cos thanks to filly for bringing us there.. love you.. muacks~

* 15 january 2010 * seoul garden *

i love my name, 沈采萱

today, i keep changing my msn display name, and at last i change it to my chinese name 沈采萱, and my aunty who don't understand chinese come to message me that she can't find me. haha.. ^^ And she asks what is 萱 means, as what i have understand, it's a plant name, but never know what does it looks like and what is the meaning.. so, i go google and found these:

姓名学字义：学识渊博，一生多才，清雅荣贵官运旺，福寿出国之字。
英文字义：只开一天的百合花 （a day lily; Hemerocallis flava）因为单朵萱草，常是凌晨开放，日暮闭合，午夜萎谢，只有一天的美丽；别名谖草、忘忧、宜男等。花色淡黄、橘红等，六至十二朵，六、七月开，呈喇叭状，极富自然美。
萱草，传说是一种能使人忘忧的草,《诗经》有云“焉得谖草，言树之背”,意思是说那能找到谖草，种在北堂上，以解忧思。古时传言，妇人佩之能生男子，故又谓宜男，后又以象征母亲，表示敬重。
- source: http://www.uname.cn/html/dic/8/1_19898.shtml

woohoo, i have a good name given by my grandpa and i love my name, 沈采萱 sim chai shuan. (✿◕‿◕)

i am back to yoga

I am now back to yoga after break for 2 months and surprisingly i still can bend myself, cos my bone is a "hard" type.. haha.. Come on, let's exercise for a better health! =)
* 10 january 2010 * jade's yoga *

Kacangma

Kacangma is my another favor's dish, which is simple & easy to cook!
Ingredients:
chicken, kacangma leaves, ginger, white wine, sesame oil, cooking oil
Steps:
1. dry fried the kacangma leaves
2. blend the ginger and get the ginger juices
3. heat the wok, put sesame oil and cooking oil, add in dried blended ginger, stir well with chicken then add in kacangma leaves, ginger juice and white wine (and abits of red wine if want), cook till the chicken is cooked, then this yummy dish is ready to be served.. enjoy~
p/s: salt not needed!
* 10 january 2010 *

x-fab gala nite - casino royale 007

Date: 8 january 2010
Mission: x-fab gala dinner
Theme: casino royale 007
Dress code: black, red & gold
Venue: borneo convention centre kuching (bcck)
Actions: Eat+Drink+Play+Dance+Photos+Talks+Laugh...
Result: Great+Grand+Funny+Happy+Precious memories~ ^^

my new toy!

woohoo~ a good starting for the year! finally i got my own new laptop! & writing 1st blog using my new laptop! *happy*
now i can use my own pc to .... haha.. alots of things to do! jia you shuan!! =)

* 7 jan 2010 *

a night at M&Y revision class

这个晚上，点醒了一些简单， 却不容易做到的生活态度：

要负责任，不可要的“否认，责骂人，找借口”

真的，要重复地提醒自己，要把好的变成习惯，慢慢地，就会成为正面的生活态度， 加油吧！

* 3 january 2010 * mbks hall *

a sunday at kampung lanchang

This is a new, fun, interesting, hot and tired experience to collect fruits in the jungle~ it's so great to see lots of trees of my favor fruit – rambutan (local grape :p), we can just pick and eat the superb fresh rambutan from the trees.. and it’s so cool that we can just play in the stream behind the house and even have a barbeque there..

Great appreciate to uncle's family for the arrangement, lunch, barbeque and rambutans, i like the bbq chicken wing the most because it tasted like pizza hut’s deli wing :D

I wish we will have more family gatherings to gather together and catch up with each other again, not just an annual visiting on chinese new year.. haha.. What is the next?? Jason and Gerald, please organise!! cheers~
* 3 january * kampung lanchang *

a night at dessert paradise

a great night spent with a-hoon & siao bao, and with yummy summer mango ice-cream at tang sui yuen =)

* 2 january 2009 * dessert paradise, jalan song * siao bao, a-hoon & shuan *

a teabreak at life kopitiam

a saturday afternoon teabreak at life kopitiam, titanium, green height, after tired shopping =)
*2 january 2010 * life kopitiam * siew fang & shuan *

yam kuih

this is my first cooking of the year, YAM KUIH~ because i have not make this kuih for almost 2 to 3 years, so this time, i really use 'agak agak', like the portion of the ingredients, the time taken to steam... =)
ingredients:
yam, rice flour, garlic, red onion, cai-po, onion leaves, chilli, salt, pepper, water, hei-bee (dried shrimp).
steps:
1. fried the garlic, red onion and yam, put salt and pepper
2. topping: fried the garlic, red onion, chilli, cai-po, hei-bee, and add bits of salt and pepper
3. mix the rice flour with water, add in yam, then steam...
4. put the topping when it almost cooked!
here the yummy yam kuih is ready to be served~

happy brand new year 2010 =)

Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!
- William Arthur Ward -

countdown and welcome great 2010

my countdown and welcoming great brand new year 2010 at hills shopping mall with my girl friend, yik hui~ we meet up again after 365 days, since last year count down at spring.. :)
Now, 2010 begins and what good things are going to happen to me? i want a great, happy, fun, healthy, wealthy & success 2010 stay with me, my family & all my dearest friends~ cheers~(◕‿◕✿)