Poor Baby....

My baby girl is not well... poor baby. The night before she was happily playing at home with her new thing - book scratching crayons. Happy, happy and happy.... It started at 11.30pm she suddenly vomits all the food she had during dinner. Once i just thought maybe she played too much and the tummy became bloated. But after an hour again she vomits! And she continue to vomits every hour... Then i realized it was not a normal thing! Her bed was a mess, I had to bathe her in the middle of the night few times and she still vomits. Poor girl... So finally its morning and I brought her to the hospital to see her paed and they had to admit her due to her being too weak. Doctor worries if the dehydration would effect her kidney, of coz I would just agree as long as my baby gets better.

That night I learnt the hard way of being a parent. To be a good and strong mom is not easy. Myself couldn't stop crying when doctor had to put her on drip and to listen her crying mie... mie...mie...(she calls me mie-short from mumy) and worst is not able to do anything. She just had to bear the pain and myself just had to learn to be strong for her. At night while she sleeps i just watch and think where were my wrongs. What did i do to make her become so sick. Of coz i blame myself, I'm the one who takes care of her, I'm the one who feeds her. I COOK everything for her! But again, I'm not to be blame for everything, things happened...

I hope she gets well soon coz i really miss her so much.

Vanilla Choco Chips

It's vanilla flavour with shiny chocolate chips!

I personally made this yummy cuppacake especially for my cousin's wedding recently as door gift for VIPs. Well... all of my cakes are personally made by myself heheheh.

I used my simple vanilla cupcake recipe(with less sugar) and top with almond flavour icing(I made slightly sweeter). They taste superb! how i know? Coz I can see most of the VIPs guests eating it on the spot and keep nodding their head hahahahahha....

I believe for weddings the cake should be simple ones but with a nice decoration; a bit more sweet on the icing but not too much on the cake. As we all know on weddings the food are more likely to be heavy especially Malay weddings and the deserts are quite sweet so the cake if too sweet too it wont be nice la ha?

I used 150g butter, 150g selfrising flour and 150g castor sugar. 3 eggs, a table spoon of vanilla essence and lots of chocolate chips! Just beat butter, sugar, the essence and eggs till creamy and slowly add the flour. if the batter is too hard just add couple of table spoon fresh milk until you get the desired consistency lastly add the shiny chocolate chips. Very easy isn't it? who says baking is difficult heheheh...

Scoop the batter into cupcake cups 3/4 full and bake on 180 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. Do check on the cake from time to time you wouldn't want burnt cakes.

Tips: use imported chocolate chips as they don't easily melt as you bake and still can munch every time you bite the yummy cake!

Good Morning pumpkin!

Good Morning...

This is my daughter's favourite breakfast which i make for her on most of the days heheheh... its the magic 'vanilla pancake' served with maple syrup!

Very simple to make and FUN too. I always show Diya while i make the batter and its no mess at all! she will soon make the 'mmmmm' sound like cant wait to have it heheheh...

Ingredients: a cup of multipurpose flour, a teaspoon of baking powder, 2 small eggs(or 1 big egg), half cup of fresh milk(i always use low fat), a tablespoon of sugar, 2 knobs of butter(about 50g) and definitely vanilla essence(a teaspoon).

Method: just melt butter with milk on a small sauce pan; not to boil them just till the butter is melted. Remove from heat and stir in sugar, vanilla essence and eggs. Make sure the liquid is not hot or else the eggs will become scrambled heheheh... then add in all the flour and baking powder bit by bit so that you wont get any lumps and wallah; the batter is ready! Just get a non stick pan, drip few drops of olive oil or butter as for me nothing at all and pour bout table spoon of the batter and wait till you can see bubbles then lift to the other side for another 30 seconds and its ready to served.

Ps: sometimes I use strawberry milk just to have a more FUN pancake heheheh...

Believe me its super easy to make. I always make ready made batter for my sister heheheheh, it will last for few days in the fridge. If you need more just double up the measurements, as only me and Diya I always make small portion and cute bite sizes.

do try it and let me know heheheh...

Little bit of myself...

Hello people.... I'm Sue. Here is a little bit of my background;

I'm a very happy person and i like to make new friends. I'm a Malaysian and staying in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. the reason for me to have this blog is that since I became a full time mommy i always have things to share with my friends and i end up text messaging them tho they hardly reply on time. I tend to forget that most of them are working and can't reply me all the time. So I decided to have my own blog so i can always write what ever i have in my mind or something interesting happened during the day and maybe other people that have the same lifestyle as mine can share their experience here.

I have a bachelor degree in accounting from one of the best University in Malaysia (University of Malaya) but my passion has always been BAKING hehehe... I love to bake and since now I'm no longer working i bake cute cup cakes during my spare time and most of my friends will order from me for their weekends activity or parties... Sometimes i do envy my friends with their glamorous jobs and promising career. every time i see their pictures or hear from them especially bout their off thingy, i will think am i doing the right thing? will i regret myself for not working? i still do have this questions on my head. maybe if i get to know other full time mommies i wont get stress out so much bout me making the biggest mistake by not working. sometimes i think that i struggled so much to get my Degree and now I'm like wasting it. but to think again i know somebody that has a PhD but she is still a full time mother n focus on her only daughter. but than again she go herself a rich husband heheheh..

I now have a beautiful baby girl Diya Zafeerah aged 1 year and 3 months and she is now walking, walking and more walking. All she does the whole day beside sleep that is; walking. She has a favourite habit of biting the ears of her toy cat. its a soft pillow i got for her on the day I knew I'm having a baby girl. She is so attached to it as all of you can see in the picture hehehe... She is very generous with it too, share the toy cat with me all the time and sometimes she tried to give it to my Persian cats in the cage every time they make noise maybe trying to tell them her toy cat can make them feel better hahahahaha... At first its super difficult for me to take care of her alone but i realize now that the time pass by so fast and she is so grown up already. I took care of her by myself since she is 2 weeks old. Everything i do myself; the house, cooking, groceries, my lovely baby etc.... Well... I don't think a maid is good for me tho sometimes i am short in hand. I do need the exercise as i need to loose another 9kg daaaaa...

So, everyday my routine is wake up in the morning prepare breakfast but most of the time i have breakfast at the mall because I'm staying like 5 Min's away from shopping malls. Its just me and baby so what's with the trouble to cook early in the morning. I will entertain my baby; Diya (that's what we call her at home) let her play at the play land or sometimes just let her walk in the mall till she gets tired. The mall is very mother and baby friendly, baby rooms are kept clean at all times, they have family parking space and long flat escalator for people to push their strollers so i have no problem in handling Diya there as long its not hot and she gets her milk anytime she wants everything will be ok. On the way back home she will fall asleep in the car and will last for few hours. that is the time for me to start my house chores, cook lunch and also check my emails, oh and now write in my blog heheheh.. By the time she wakes up its just nice for me to feed her lunch and play with her again while i hang to dry the laundry or prepare things for me to cook dinner. But one thing for sure i NEVER leave Diya alone. If i need to be outside I'll let her play her mini tricycle near me. If i need to be in the kitchen i will let her play in her ball pool near me or let her play colourful magnets on the fridge. I always bring Diya with me everywhere i go. I remember last time when i really need to go bathroom i have to carry her with me hahahaahaa...

I don't really understand why people need to have a maid especially whom lets the maid do EVERYTHING with their baby. Every time I'm at the mall i always see young mothers walking with their hubby but the maid handling the baby and carry things all the time. Its very different with the matsalleh where they carry their babies(i mean few children they have) with them all the time and still sit by the coffee shop having nice conversations with friends and family while their older kids play nearby and babies in their arms or strollers.

Yeah, i understand that now I'm a mother i cant always look nice all the time and handle everything but that's the sacrifice we mothers have to make la so we can raise a child isn't it? I hardly wear glamorous clothes now, only comfortable tops and jeans so i can be active with Diya as well. no more nice hair all the time but still i clip my hair up and look nice. I bring Diya to the movies, have lunch and sometimes dinner, join her at the play land or just about everything i do with her. Maybe different person think differently bout things la eh?

Neways, now that i already have a new thing to do which is write in here, i hope it will make me happier and able to meet new people with same interests to share things. i plan to write all the recipes on my daily cookings, tips how i manage being a housewife especially in taking care my lovely baby Diya and also any stories i find interesting to share with.