i've been MIA

Hellew all... yes i have been missing in action for quite some time =D So a whole lot of things have been happening and i mean a lot!!! Please bear with me as i have a lot to get off and this will be one hell of a long post =)

Firstly, it's puasa which means i'm busy making orders of chocolate cornflakes... This year, is by far the most i have to make... My most beautiful kaka angkat decided to order 1000pcs from me!!! Plus i have orders to entertain from the office as well. I foresee that till puasa ends, i will be sleeping at least 5 hrs a day. Plus, my beautiful kaka told me that some people want to buy my "tester" cookies... The chocolate chips are hard to find now but i will put effort into finding them. The other day i went to that big electronic store in gadong where hua ho used to be. I was looking for a really big oven. My plan next year is to start a baking business where i would be selling cookies, cupcakes and chocolate cornflakes. A lot of credit goes to Dirah who gave me the recipe for these wonderful chocolate cornflakes... thank you so much because the recipe is helping me in a lot of ways. Back to the oven... i fell in love with one of them, it was so big and it had 5 stove on top of it and it cost $1499!!!! i am so buying that oven because it would be so convenient for me and i find it quite cheap too and it's electric too... I have so many big plans for next year so i just hope things will be better next year and hopefully everything will run smoothly =D

On another note, my bmobile jet phone is giving me so much problems... i think the battery is busted... without the battery, i can't switch the phone on and i can't go online... That is why i am so gonna buy a usb modem in kb this friday because it seems cheaper there... that way i can just plug in and go online hassle free. Bmobile does not sell extra batteries for their phones nor do they sell their usb modems to their existing subscribers without a prepaid line attached to them. And oh friday i'm taking the day off and i will be going to miri to spend that rm$200 voucher on a handbag =D... so yeah friday is just 2 days away... yay yay!!!

Next on the agenda is my bestie, Amie... She went off to Singapore for an interview and the other day she told me that she got a job there and is starting work on this friday. I'm so happy for her... and hopefully if all goes well i shall visit her some time next year =D

Then there is Zek with his apology video to his girlfriend Emma... My thoughts on it was that it is hilarious and embarrassing. In the video, i thought he was going to cry but he did not, so it did not seem that sincere to me. And if he did shed a few tears, i think people would feel sorry for him and help him find his "Princess of the Earth" Emma.... hahahahah The part i hated was when he kissed the camera, it made me pull back from my screen and scream hell no!!! hahahaha... But honestly, he is brave to do such things but seriously boy there are other better methods of apology that will not haunt you in the future.

Next up...Date.Dating. So what is your definition of a date or dating? This is an interesting subject as there was one day where my older sister was supposed to go out with "the guy she is dating", not boyfriend ya, let's be clear here "the guy she is dating". Personally, i have met this man and i think he is a nice and sincere person... why it's not official yet, well only God, her and "the guy she is dating" knows. So back to what is your definition of a date with a guy or person that you have been seeing for quite some time? For me, my definition of a date or dating is when a guy and a girl or same sex couples (just in case you swing the other way) go out together, to eat or watch a movie or just go out and enjoy each others company. It does not matter what you wear or do just as long as you are spending time with each other getting to know each other better or if you have been together a long time, get on each others nerves or something =D heheheh... So my sister's definition of going on a date or dating with "the guy she is dating" is that she has to be dressed up. She has to be wearing something nice then it qualifies as a date... i find that quite silly because don't tell me when she is not dressed up and when they go out, spend time or go on road trips it does not qualify as a date or dating...sowhat the hell is that?!?!? Now that is just BULLCRAP!!!! I pity this man... and i have no idea what is wrong with my sister... SERIOUSLY!!!! The things people think nowadays ya...

Lastly to end my very long post of random nothings =) is that i went to Tarindak Polo Club for sungkai with kak mai and kathleen, it's $20 per person just now =D)) the food was great, there was a lot of dishes for the main course, satay, kebab, roasted lamb, an assortment of flavored drinks and desserts, murtabak, mee soup, popcorn, cotton candy a a whole lot more. We saw the chefs fro the beach cafe and they recognized us... hahahaha... we are such regular patrons that they can remember us. When the chinese looking chef saw us, he seemed quite happy and surprised to see us... it was as if he missed us... hahahahahah... and i also saw the hot waiter, i think he also recognized us too... all i can say is HOMAIGAWD!!!! HOMAIGAWD!!!! I SO WANT THAT!!! To me he is so hot and i want to jump on that but i'm too shy. I think he knew i was gawking at him just now plus he looks different in the white uniform, he also kept looking at our table too... *sigh* I will just have to wait till puasa and raya is over till i can go back to the beach cafe and enjoy the ceaser salad and the sight... hahahahah

So i guess that is it, i'll try to update soon =D... Good night and happy puasa peeps! Muahz <3

When i'm bored, i bake

Hellew all, i know it's been a while since i've updated. Anyways, as the title says it i bake when i am bored... and yes it's quite true. well this morning i had cravings for chocolate chip cookies... i actually baked some last week using the recipe amie gave me, the famous amos chocolate chip cookies recipe... i did not take any pictures of that batch because i was very tired, it was a really big batch and i want to make some of those soon but i think i would half the recipe so i dun have to make so much and take too much time... my oven is very small plus everybody loved that batch that i made. So this morning i searched high and low on the internet to find an easy one... it does not taste like the famous amos ones but they are ok lah if u just wanna eat em for fun =D


The first 12 cookies out of the oven, yes my oven can only fit 12 cookies at one go


Here is a picture of 3 birdies who were hatched in that very nest a few week ago... they have left the nest already


My first attempt at brownie cupcakes... it had a different texture but overall it was not too bad

And oh i went to the consumer fair last week and i won RM$200 Parkson Shopping vouchers. I picked up amie and we went to the consumer fair. Tourism Malaysia had their booth there and the told us, hey come sign up for free, just give us your name, email add and your facebook id and then spin the wheel... I was actually quite reluctant then amie said why not coz it's free. Then we got to spin their wheel and had a chance to wine one of the prizes there. So amie was up first and she won RM$50 Pavillion shopping vouchers. I did not have a good look at the wheel and i did not expected to win. And then when i spun i won the RM$200 Parkson Vouchers, i was so blur because both the ladies were so excited and they were so happy for me. One lady looked at me and said "Gempak sikit lah Dek" hahahahah... that was how blur i was. And kathleen told me that that was the highest prize on the wheel... so yeah i was very lucky =D

I guess this is it for now, am too lazy to listen to my mum nagging in the back ground. I think i'll be baking more tomorrow if i dun have anything to do and i'll probably go out for a while to find some of the things i need to bake those famous amos cookies again. Oh amie has gone to singapore yesterday because she has an interview this afternoon. she says she will be there for a bit to look for a job but i think she wud be back around september to send her lil sis off to uk.

Oreo Cupcakes and playing b*tchy...

So a lot has happened, so before i go to the delicious oreo cupcakes i made, i had a very bad encounter at work. Ok so, my colleague who i am currently relieving is now on her core leave and is in china for holiday. The thing is she sends monthly statistics to HK every month and it so happens she sent out the mail for june but did not update the figures in it. So HK sent it back to us asking the figures. The thing is everytime she goes on leave, i do update her statistics but she has never showed me or told me about this one. So after really trying to study the excel file and the spreadsheets in it, i manage to figure how to get the figures for half of it and i tried trying to figure out the other half. When i could not figure it out, i smsed her asking her where do i get the figure and that i managed to find half of it and i told her, she can either sms me back or email me on facebook. She then replied insisting that she already sent out the figure and asked me to recheck whether the mail was sent out. I then replied to her and said yes, u did send out the mail but u did not update the figures. And i asked her, where can i find these figures. She then smsed me back asking me to figure it out, and said i should learn because who knows she might leave soon so i have to know all these things. and the she said, if you want my reply, send her some credit because she was running low.

When i read that reply, i was boiling MAD!! i mean seriously, u did not tell me about these figure nor have i ever seen it in my life and u asked me to learn by myself and then have the nerve to ask me for credit?HELL TO THE NO!!! GO TO HELL GIRL!!!! And oh, i'm using a prima so i can't send u no credit nor am i going to waste my money on such crappy replies!!
So in the end i figured it out, and i replied to her and i quote "It's ok i figured it out already. U leave? Seriously? I hope i leave before you do.... hahahaha" And you know, i have been in the department for 1 year and there are things that i am still learning and you know everytime i ask her questions about work which i seriously don't know answers to, she always say to me "U THINK LA".... Seriously... WTF!!!! I usually brush it off but this was the last straw!!! I asked u a question because i really don't know the answers to them because if i knew, i would not ask you and i don't want to do anything until i'm doing the right thing... because i dun want a small mistake to become a huge hoo-ha... I was so pissed. so u know, if she wants bitchy, i'll give her bitch... because she seriously don't know who she's messing with.... I maybe quiet an all but girl it's SO ON!!! U ain't getting any mercy from me anymore!!!

Enough of the angry parts... So on a brighter note, i made Oreo Cupcakes... i googled the recipe and i combined it with one of my vanilla cupcake recipes and it turned out great!!! My sister says it not too sweet and it's just nice =D


cupcakes waiting to be baked.


The oreo with the cream side up goes at the bottom before u fill it in with the batter.

The final product the oreo cupcake!!! I was just curious on how it would taste like so there it is =D

Since i'm typing and all, i might as well give u the recipe to try... you can also substitute the oreo for nutella, just add a small scoop on nutella on top of the batter and using a toothpick, swirl it around... the nutella cupcakes are a hit with everyone... i have made them a lot of times =D u know what i will put a picture as well =)

OREO CUPCAKES
*Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
- 10 tablespoons of softened butter
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
-12 oreo biscuits

Method
- Preheat oven to 160 degrees celcius
- Gently twist off one side of the oreo biscuit so that the cream is on one side.
- The side of the oreo biscuit with no cream are to be crushed roughly.
- Cream butter and sugar until light. Add in eggs one at a time until fully incorporated.
- Add in vanilla, stir in flour, salt, baking powder and crushed oreos until combined.
- In a muffin liner, place the other half of the oreo cookie, cream side up.
- Fill in each muffin liner till 3/4 full
- Bake for 25-30mins.


So here is how the nutella ones look like, just substitute the recipe above with nutella and u put the nutella on top of the batter and swirl it around

Nutella cuppies ready for baking


The nutella before it is swirled into the batter


The end product!

These nutella ones are so sinful i tell u!!!! It keeps you wanting for more =D
I guess this is it for today, i have a big day ahead of me tomorrow... am going to KB for a wedding at LLRC and the we are headed to Miri for shopping and some other stuff... so this it for now... Bubyez =D

Last weekend was CRAZY!!!

Hey all! hope all of you are doing good! Well as the title says, last weekend was crazy for me because i went to Miri, with them bankers to play paintball. It was fun!!! each player gets to play 4 games!!! Fun fun!!! i nearly fainted because i did not eat and i was lucky, one of my fren's younger sister saved me with her lollipop... hahahahah.... yes, one small lollipop makes a difference. if you are interested, you can visit their website here, but it has not been updated for quite a while, so it's best to contact Mr Liew via email or sms to get the rates. i got shot twice, yes only twice because i kept hiding behind the bunkers and only started shooting when no one was shooting at me.... i knew some of the ppl i was up against were quite frustrated with me because they could never get a good shot at me... hahahahaah... strategize ppl!!! hehehehe.... overall, it was fun! and the gun was very heavy but it was worth it =D here are some pictures i managed to snap before i played. and oh if you were were wondering where i got shot, it was on a sensitive part of my chest and yes, there is a mark even though the person who shot me was so far away... i did feel the pain when i was shot and after... i was just very unlucky not to have lovely and colourful paintball bruises to show off... hahahah

people who were already inside collecting their guns and testing them before they started playing.

the bunkers which can protect you... good hiding places =D



people getting geared up before the game.

That was last weekend, an oh yesterday was a public holiday because it was HM Sultan of Brunei 64th Birthday so i had the day off, i did not do much except catch up on sleep and to recuperate after the tiring weekend. I did however went out to Tarindak D'Polo Jerudong Beach cafe for their ceasar salad and cucur... my older sister, karen went there with they guy she was dating and then myself, kathleen and kak mai followed up after that... i should bring my camera there next time to take pictures of the beach... i really love the scenery there and the food and also that hot waiter. My older sister, karen decided to ask the cute waiter's friend his name and now i know his name and also the waiter that we questioned... hahahaha.... it was so embarrassing and yet so funny... so yeah, i know know both his name and his friend's... will i do anything to action on it? i don't think so... i'm a shy person so i won't do that until i've really lost my mind!!! hahahahahah =D

And oh just tonight i went to the Brunei Speaker's Group 11th Installation Dinner at Ilotus! it was fun and zana was good at singing the mandy moore's only hope... it was an interesting and fun night, i really did enjoy myself =) so yeah, i guess that is is for now, i'll try to blog soon =) muahz!

my water proof camera

The pictures below are not from my team building, it's from the cool people from the 1st floor. I lent my water proof camera to 2 of my friends and they had fun using it underwater. They unleashed the full potential of my water proof camera... i can't swim to save my life so i never thought of playing with it in the pool either... but the pictures my friends took turned out great! they looked amazing and these are the 3 i like the best =D Maybe i should take my camera for a spin when i decide to go swimming or something =D as for my team building, well it's nothing to boast about or worth mentioning. we went to work and then went for lunch and that is it.

A group picture with some of them. Amazing how some of them managed to pose =)

I personally like this shot, wina (the one in green) looks like she's a mermaid, while efah (the one in brown) looks so like she's not even in the water and mizzie (the one in blue) looks like she trying to get some of the spotlight from them... overall, great picture!

Them, trying to pose again under water.

Oh if you're wondering what camera was used in this process, well its the Olympus 1030sw, click here to see a review written on it. That is exactly how my camera looks like and i bought it 2 years ago... so yeah, it works perfectly well under water =D

Also, the colleagues and i are having a small celebration at work on Monday... A celebration for what you ask, its a celebration for "The noisy bunch has finally left the building" celebration... hahahaha... this time round i won't be making dessert, i'll be making nutella swirl cupcakes! yay! To be honest, i think i need to learn how to make new simple desserts, my simple tiramisu and peaches and cream are getting too over rated i think ... and yeah, if you did not know, i like to bake and stuff =D, i guess this is it for now, will try to blog more. muahz and bubyez =))

Seriously, i have World Cup FEVER!!!

Hey all.... Well plenty has happened since i lasted posted =D As the title says, i do have World Cup Fever... hehehe.... so far i have 3 jerseys, Japan, Italy and Brazil. I think i should get the Germany White and Black jersey too... and oh, i watched the Germany vs England game last night... My oh my... england did not do too well... I thought that if they had persisted more and did not give up easily, they could have gone down with pride. Germany was fantastic, great defence but i felt at the end where they could have attempted to score, they did not. Actually they had several opportunities but they hesitated. I see it 2 ways, either they were not confident to shoot or they were trying to tire out the Brits... Overall, well played for Germany!

Enough of World Cup on to other things =D I went down to Miri on Saturday with my sis, kak mai and amoi at 4pm. We then went to KB just to eat at Buccaneer around 9++pm. I like eating there, the food is fantastic and cheap! Good place to eat also if you want to go dating *wink wink* Also another great place to eat is D'Tarindak Polo Beach Cafe. You know that beach cafe down the hill from D'Tarindak in Jerudong.... I LOVE going there, i love their Ceasar Salad and their cucurs.... Mind you, they do not open on Mondays and operating hours daily are from 2pm till 10pm and cucurs are only available before 6pm. Not much choices of food but i find it a good place to eat with a great view. and oh, i saw a HOT waiter there too... heheheheeh... i like looking at guys, i'm sorry, what's a girl to do. But the hot waiter has a ring on the ring finger so he's off limits. So girlies, when a man wears a ring, he's off limits and must be avoided. Plus, i ain't no home wrecker, MAN + RING = OFF LIMTS AND DANGEROUS. hehehehe =D So we bankers are now fast approaching the half yearly mark... don't know what my department will be doing... to be honest, i don't really want to do much. I'm lazy. and oh silly random fact, i have not washed my car for at least 3months... so yeah, it's very filthy...heheheh

Wait now i remembered why i wanted to post... i was re-reading my previous post and OMG!!!! My english has gone down hill... hahahaha =D))) i guess this is it for today and hopefully more posts to come. xoxo KeL

Drunk people, great makeup, World Cup and HOTTIES!!!

Hey all! so i have been missing for over month! I've been lazy to blog and occupied with some stuff. Anywhoos, i'm gonna do a bit of flashback to see what has happened for that 1 month =D For may the biggest highlight was 28May2010, it was the 1 year anniversary of my Dad's passing. May his soul rest in peace. I do think about him every now and then but i don't feel his presence as much as i did a few months ago, so my guess is he's really gone to watch us from above. I've been through a whole ups and downs lately but i'm not too bothered because somehow i know either way everything will be ok and back to how it is.

May also started the functional man craze...hahahaha... okie, this is how it goes. There is this one functional engineering man who once in a blue moon comes to the office. He looks like he's eurasian and i find him hot! i wanna jump on him but i don't know if i have the guts to do so. After the Oscar night, i actually asked my friend, the clairvoyant if i would even meet a guy this year and she just said that i will meet one but i have to approach them first. so yeah, if you see someone who looks just like me, jumping on some dude, oh yeah, you got that right, it is me! hahahaha... so yeah functional man has caught my attention now =D

Now on to June, the first weekend, i attended a colleague's wedding and it was not too bad, i like the food and i had good fun. Then the weekend after that we had a bank event, Oscar Night. My friends and the clairvoyant happen to be in the event committee so i did help them out a bit with the script and the re packing of door gifts the day after. I had fun dancing at the after party and i had a good laugh watch people get drunk at the after "after party". The things people do when they get drunk.

To be honest, i never get drunk or high at these events because i don't know what i will do and i don't want to be the laughing stock the next day. So RULE #1 for big events is DO NOT GET DRUNK! you don't need to get drunk to have a good time, i've watched so many people in the past get drunk for these events that i seriously have a good laugh at them... mean but yeah they seriously don't know what they are doing and they need someone to tell them the next day.

RULE #2, DON'T SLEEP UNTIL EVERYONE LEAVES. with loud music and drunk people, there is no telling what will happen so i did not catch any sleep till 3++am. And also one colleague got so drunk that i had to pull him and made sure he had some sleep before he left with another colleague at 4.30am, which of course i woke up and made sure he was ok to drive. This drunk colleague, so so silly that he logged on to facebook and wrote some things he should not have said on his facebook status. His girlfriend wanted a breakup on his status and blamed us for him being drunk. So boys and girls, if you have a possessive partner, RULE #3, WHEN DRUNK, DO NOT LOG ON TO FACEBOOK. WAIT TILL YOU'RE SOBER. The boy deleted that status and apologized to his girlfriend. Dunno whether he patched things up with his girl tho =D

Anyways, i got Heidi to do my make up and it was AMAZING!!! i did not take much pictures myself, because everything looked yellow in my camera. But i made sure i posed at every chance there was a photog snapping near by. Several people did ask me about my make up and of i course i did advertise. They loved it! so do check out her blog here if you want to see her works =D. You want to know why the make up was amazing, i'll list them out for you =D

1. She made me look HOT!!!! I'm so using her for Annual Dinner next year =D
2. The material that she uses are good quality stuff and it feels light on your face.
   
3. I did plenty of dancing and i sweat a lot too... so when i pat my face with a tissue, my makeup did not run nor did it looked patchy afterwards.
   
4. The makeup lasted till 2++am, i think it could have lasted till the next morning if i did not have to remove my makeup when i needed to sleep.
5. Heidi's cool and funny =D
   
   
   These are the pics i got from her blog, i'm still waiting for the pictures from the dinner to appear so i can grab and see how i great i looked that night =D

Oh, tomorrow i also have another bank event, i'm a volunteer for Cycle for SMARTER... So hopefully that will turn out ok. And also World Cup!!!! I have World Cup fever!!!! Hahahahah... and it seams like i'm the only person in my department who is semangatz for the world cup.... hahahaah... And i bought Japan's Home jersey for $18!!! i want to find Argentina's and USA's jerseys next. I watched the Argentina team played against Korea and i can only say HOT HOT HOT!!! The Argentina men were HOT!!! Especially #9 and #16 HOTNESS i tell you!!! You see because of this argentina match, i wanna jump on men now.... hahahahaaha.... i know i'm crazy but who cares!!! So yeah enough of that... i'll update soon... Muahz!!! xoxo