During a wedding hubby and I attended last Sunday, we were seated with strangers. We were unhappy about our sitting arrangement in the first place coz we were really hoping to be seated with our long time no see friends.
At the end of the wedding we were glad to have met such an interesting and fun family. There were 8 of them. Father, Mother, 3 sons, a daughter, a daughter in law and a grandson who is hardly 1mo! They are of mix parentage; look more Mat Salleh to us. The boys are so handsome! Thank God I am happily married. 
The one that has a baby got married at 19yo and he is the most handsome. 
This family is running a Homestay in Alor Gajah.
Anyway, all the boys can cook and the eldest son; the most Mat Salleh looking, will be cooking on TV3 starting this Sunday at 5.00pm, Jamie Oliver style. Be sure to watch him ya. I mean the show. kekekeke.
The Ramadhan month is here! To non Muslim like me, it is a month of Feasting on Malay goodies every evening. No need to wait till Pasar Malam day to enjoy good Malay delicacies. I started my Feasting Month by enjoying some Epok Sayur just now. Yum!
When I was at the stall just now, I was so tempted to plonk my butt on their contemporary furniture to savor each of their goodies. Unfortunately, my tummy reminded me that it does not have much space for everything. Be patience, there is 20 over days to go. One day, one kuih.
The Rambutan season is here and we have been eating red rambutans and yellow rambutans every single day; for breakfast, lunch and dinner! I dunno why our tropical seasonal fruits are mostly heaty fruits. Due to it, my 14mo baby is down with fever. My 4yo is also down with fever. My girls and I are sniffing away now. I am making us drink lots of water every day so that we won’t have sore throat. If we have NC short term health insurance here, I’ll might purchase it and admit ourselves into the hospital to get better care so that we can heal fast, fast.
Before I go out to pack dinner for my family, I told my eldest girl that if she is really hungry she is to ask the maid to cook instant noodle for her.
When I came home, I saw an empty plate with some grain of rice covered with dark soy sauce. I know there is no more eggs in the house so she can’t be eating fried egg with soy sauce (my children’s favorite - fried egg with dark and light soy sauce). I asked the maid what did she feed my daughter. She told me that my daughter insisted that she give her rice with soy sauce to the extend that my daughter scolded her for not giving in to her request.
Let’s hear what the other party has to say. Must be fair right?
My daughter told me that she asked the maid to cook instant noodle for her but she refused, telling her to wait till 8pm. If I did not come home by then, then only she will cook instant noodle for her. The maid knows that whenever possible, no instant noodle for my children. Cannot scold the maid for refusing to let my daughter eat instant noodle coz I did not instruct her before I left to cook instant noodle if they request for it.
But why did she let my daughter eat prison food??? Rice with dark soy sauce is much better than instant noodle? Why can’t she get her to wait till I come home? I came home 10mins before 8pm! I really pity my hungry girl. 
Instead of scolding the maid, I scolded my daughter for demanding prison food from the maid. Warned her to never ever eat rice with soy sauce only again.
I am feeling bad now. I should have scolded the maid.
Since the Singh family came back here, I have been eating more than 3 times a day! And double my normal portion each time. My tummy is so bloated and you might think that I am pregnant again! How I wish I have phentermine with me now to suppress my appetite. 
Till today, I had the famous Chicken Rice Ball, RM1 Nasi Lemak, Fried Banana, Fried Breadfruit, Kuih Chang Abu with Gula Melaka, Lempeng, RM1 Nasi Lemak again, Nyonya Chang, Pong Teh, Sek Ark, Itik Tim and abundance of junk food and fruits which I hardly take on normal days. I am so gonna stay away from the weighing scale!
The only durian that was saved from being savoured by the squirrels dropped a day before MIL returned home. What a perfect timing right? Unfortunately the flesh was hard and not riped; we call it “Mangkau”. Have you heard this term before? There goes our one and only durian.
Every 4 days I harvested watermelon from my farm in Farmville. Today, I see the real watermelon planted in my real farm being harvested. Take a look at God’s blessing.
This time around God really blessed the soil and the fruits. We have many huge watermelon in this harvest. Previously, when they planted the Sunmelon, the crops did not turn out as expected. These watermelons will be gone by tomorrow.
Here’s a photo of my 11mo baby enjoying the fresh picked red watermelon from the farm. 
To the in-laws that are coming back this coming weekend, I will save some for you to enjoy ok. But PLEASE don’t eat naked like my baby ok.
Like I mentioned in my previous post, I either cook something special on Saturday or I don’t cook at all.
Today, I cooked Nasi Lemak with Sambal Sotong. Mmmmmm…YUMMY!
And this is THE perfect dish for the whole day for lazy or shall I rephrase, BUSY mommy like me. We had Nasi Lemak for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Well, can’t have this every day though; unhealthy!
Here’s the close up of the Sambal Sotong.
Meleleh air liur tak?
This year a few of our nieces and nephews have been upgraded to the grown ups table. The nieces are excited because they are no longer the outcast. We have special table for the children, away from the adults table. But they get o eat first you know. The nephews are not so excited about this upgrading. I guess boys grow up slower and they want to quickly have their dinner and play rather than enjoy their dinner slowly with the adults and talk. I guess we have to wait till they are really grew up like when they started need the acne treatments, or when their voice “broke” then only we upgrade them to the grown ups table.
MIL already made Kuih Belanda/Kuih Kapit, Kuih Ros and Bangkit Sagu. That’s all from her this year. Next it will be my turn to contribute some cookies to our CNY spread. With a baby around, I chose the simplest cookies to bake. They are the Nestum Cookies and Chocolate Chips Cookies. I will bake them on Tuesday and Thursday. The day I do not have to send and fetch my eldest girl for extra class.
Ok lar…I better go shopping for the ingredients now. Toodles! (8.29am).
