spring break is here!

well, it has begun. biasalah kan, weekend we are always away. last saturday, we were up in hiawatha again but this time, we got all the patients records..yeay! dah tak yah nak kena pergi sana almost every other week. it is all in the garage..mmg kalau nak ikutkan hati nak ajer mail all of those out..but due to various reasons, we have to keep it for 7 years lah. leceh sehhhhh!

my carrot cake . i just baked it in the form of cup cake. cooks faster :) and i have to say, i loved it. the different textures in it, like the chewy raisins, the crunchy nuts and the pineapple and not forgetting the carrots itself. topped with tangy cream cheese frosting..hehehe.

we also brought back tubs of my pinggan mangkuk that was left in storage. my desktop pulak, kena tukar the motherboard. called up tech support and they quoted this for repair. $199 for 12-15 days of repair, $239 for like 10 days of waiting period while $269 for about a week's worth of wait with 3 mths warranty. hah! what?!!!!....i checked online and the motherboard cost only $58... even if we had to buy the sound card and the video card it will not cost that much still...so sean decided that he is going to rebulit the system himself.

look at the moist cake.

we are in full swing of our hiking adventures. we went hiking on friday and yesterday. i like these new trails that we found. it is hilly and really provided with a bit of a workout. the one on friday was terok sehhh..even sarah wasn't up to it. i was a bit dehydrated at the end..bagus jugak lah i can recognise the symptoms. want to hear a ridiculous but funny story..it involves sean and sarah..sarina and i are just by standers. sean got a bit upset that sarah was hampering his workout. yerlah sarah has her own pace jugak kan. but then, sarah stopped at one point and simply refused to move. sean decided to just move ahead and said that sarah will follow.

dah lama i tak masak this dish. nengok sri nyer ukoy nyer dish kan , teringin pulak nak makan chicken adobo. basically it is this tangy dish made with vinegar and soy sauce, simmered with sliced onions, chillies ( ni i yang pepandai add lah nak kasi pedas sikit...hehe) , garlic and bay leaf. makin lama you simpan this lauk..makin sedap tau. made it two days in a row..this is a filipino national dish :)

i looked at him and said to myself..lantak lah. so after we have walked like 20 feet gitu..we still did not see sarah..i just looked at sean and said, ' this is sarah we are talking about. she is still standing where we left her.' and i started laughing.. so sent sarina to drag her our way..while waiting we can hear sarina trying to herd sarah..hahahaha. i heard sarina ' move! go!' and i heard sarah ' nooo!!!!...i don wanna!'..sean apa lagi..wahh muka dah merah...jalan laju seh..and then shortly i saw him dragging sarah along...lermerrkk...takper so long as everyone is moving okay aper. so sarah dah ter sot set sot set..crying...then she said that something was in her boots. so i stop again to check it out.

my kitchen now smells of hari raya..semalam tekak nak makan kueh ni..so buat lah..but i feel that something is missing gitu..like needs more umpph..need to find a better recipe i think..hahaha

by the time i got done putting her shoes and socks on, i heard sarina sking me if she should pick up his things..i said what things..she said daddy's things. and when i got up..what do i see..itu kiddy carrier and his hiking pole was tossed aside and there he was walking ahead...alamak..i told sarina to not pick it up to teach him a lesson kan...but then kelakar pun adalah..so i suruh sarina pick those things us... nearing him jer kan..i dah tak tahan seh..ketawa sekuat2 tidak...that was such a ridiculous behaviour...agaknyer kalau kiter lambat sikit jer kan...abis dia nyer coat and t-shirt dia dia bukak and lempar kat tepi sekali..hahahaha...when i dekat kat dia kan..apa lagi i start berleter lah..hahaha...


*happy sigh*..a typical day for the fay family hiking adventure..hahaha. told him asal buang kat semak..buang kat cliff kan lagi bagus..hahah..to which he said that he has no time to entertain my sassiness..hahahaha. tak tau pulak kenapa sarah buat hal...sunday nyer hike she was all for it. happy ..and she found a couple of dried mushrooms and declared herself a good 'mushroom founder'.

my first ever apam balik yang i try. since i tak tau how the consistency of the batter should be, i buat jer lah..tasted great but the batter is almost pancake like..well not so soft and gebu but not quite the way it should be..i don't know what i crave more actually...the apam itself of the taste of the sugar and peanuts between the layers..hahahah