Happy Mother's DAY!

1st Mother's day with my lil one...
The last yr... i am a mother to be
this year.. am really a mother now...
From a L plate mother to be Triangle Plate mother
Maybe one day i be a super mother... *fat hope*
Yes and tat be in years to be....

was sharing with my gfs my thoughts...

还没当妈妈前。。。
觉的死不是很可怕

当妈妈后
会变得很怕死。。

MIA

Haven't been posting often nowsday... coz usually i had no time no strenght to cook
OR worst AM lazy to take pic nowsaday
Coping with a lil missy @ home isn't as simple as many people are tinking..
U be surprised the amount of stuffs to do...

Nowsaday she is starting to take puree AND she hated cereal as much as her mummy & daddy does.. OPPS so that runs in the family
So i decided to let her try out congee n dat means i do not have to tink abt my lunch... i can juz eat wat she is eating.. and YES i do take her puree @ times.. lolz

Been tinking should i? should i NOT?
i decided to stick to just one blog for now
so put up a section on the lil missy's food journey here....Nom Nom for lil missy

Busy Busy Busy

MY LAPTOP die on me
AND best!!!! i didn't managed to do backup for MONTHSSSSSSSS
All my very precious pic are gone with the wind...
and there isn't any signal @ all that its gg to say BYE BYE!!!

coping everyday with my growing lil mafia
nothing much beside taking of her
when i opened my eyes.. its her.. when i closed my eyes... the last person i see is HER..
BORING yet exciting... to see her new tricks everyday...

Sneaking some time off to cook...
wat else...

Prayer warriors needed

››› citrella❤ ©: Prayer warriors needed:



My readers... if you are reading this...Pls give a lil prayer for this baby who is suffering now.. as a mother.. having a baby in ICU before... tat is the LAST thing a mother ever want to see own baby in hospital... with all the tests on going...

Pls sent your lil blessing to lil hazel for her well-being.... no matter where you are.. what religion you are in...

I am still surviving

I am still alive
Still surviving the challenge of being a mother cum mr sim's wife
My white flag is 1/4 rising... Sleepless night.. sleepless day...
I have a kungfu bunny and she have a panda mama...

while these days...
Breakfast became my lunch
Lunch became my dinner
Dinner became my supper...

Cooking became a not very interesting thing to do nowsaday...
The thought of washing, cutting, cooking, washing freaked me off...
worst is half way, i got to run to attend my lil princess... when i am dirty and smelly @ the same thing..

sometimes when the foods are piping hot but the lil one is juz fussing ard for attention
it became cold foods after awhile.... tat explains the lack of postings nowsaday...

I am only interested in simple one pot foods now
juz dumped everythings inside n tat's it...

Sunday we be celebrating our lil precious one "one month" party though she is born in Jul but my edd is sept... so unoffically she is only a 1mth old baby to be....
so we change the party to a welcome home party for her...
Praying hard she won't be cranky that day....

M.I.A

Missing In Action

Yes i haven't been posting recently coz i had a early delivery...
My lil princess was here to join us on 11th Jul 2011.

On the not so happy side, she is born premature on 31st week :(
A painful decision to bring her to join us so early ending up now she is to stay in NICU due to some complication that made this last min decision on the day itself.

There are so many concerns of

WHAT if
WHY like dat
Is it the only choice we are given!

THANK GOD ..... baby DESLYNN SIM our lil princess so far have been making good progress....

Happy side,
WE finally realised am having a princess on the delivery day itself
It indeed shown and prove what a daddy gal am having...

she is making progress everyday :)

I managed to carry her for the 1st time today after she made her 1st cries... it felt so differ from carrying ppl's baby and ur own..
she is just so tiny but so strong.. YES i have a Kung FU bunny who behave exactly like what she did to me when she is inside me..

Her kicks were so powerful till te nurses who are taking care of her mentioned she is so active...

Dear God

We are praying hard for your blessing to our pricess ...

Pls bless her to be a lovely gal
with
good health
good manner

WHAT camera are you using?

Strangers / frds always asked WHAT CAMERA are u using? How much is it worth??

My reply: DUMMY camera.. definately not a highend or DSLR

They always thought am joking TILL they saw it with their own eyes.

SO today am sharing with u all

THIS IS MY CAMERA

We bought this in 2005 so wat do u tink???

Its only 6.5 MP

ISO is only 3200

zoom is only 3x

Throughout the years, we have been toying the idea of upgrading to be higher quality one

BUT i really can't bear to say good bye to tis darling of mine

She been companying me for so many years.. parties, events, places... AND most important..

its the feeling.. i really hate to have the parting feeling.. Haha *so emo*

It served me really well... @ least for its basic's spec

It made my food pic turned out well

I HAVE TO ADMIT

yes this is only a basic cam.. SO i did some editing on the lighting & colouring for most of my pic
wit frame added in to make it look more pro..

Tat's it... no other plastic surgery on my pics... :p

Maybe its time to get another NEW one.. since we have a better reason to get one

i wanna something to capture my lil sim soon :)

Hehehe ANYONE wan to sponser???? I dun mind having a sponser one oh...

U doesn't need a professional one or a super ex one

all u need is time and love to explore and make sure of what u have

Practise make perfect :)

Have fun with ur own camera too.

第一次当妈妈

The 1st time i saw a faint line on the preggy kit... i nearly fainted... It was really a BIG surprise for us...

Mr Sim's birthday present from god and mine early birthday present.. blessed to us...

I have to say, we are really very blessed.. frds always asked when we are ready... to have a lil one...

Err seriously i dunno...

 As i had always said before if god know we are ready.. pls send us one baby into our family...

After all, we are still considered NEW in the marriage life...

 .. i still wanna enjoy doing my own business.. spending our 2 person time together..

i still wan to go travelling.. i wan to go concerts.. i wan to continue my studies...

I want to bring my business up to another level

BUT if it really happen... we will accept it with thankfulness...

Finally we are stepping into the 2nd trimester..

Haha i know alots of people are going to have the WHAT! u r preggy? How come we are not informed?

Oppz... am sorry but we doesn't want to have pressure and stress before the 1st trimester end.

Not that i am taking love for granted

BUT

Sometimes too much care and concern will stress one even more...

So now... we are offically letting our friends know..

WE ARE STEPPING INTO PARENTHOOD!

Happy new year

H a p p y

N e w

Y e a r

It been a blessing to be able to blog for a year. Though not daily but at least my blog is filled up with more then 3 post a week.

2010 had been a fruitful year though there are ups n downs too.

We got married n settled down officially. The preparation had alrdy taken up almost half of 2010. Leaving every beautiful moments in memories lane now.

Today is officially 2011 and tat is how time flies in a blink.

I hope I be able to blog more then usual with more recipes that I or my family can enjoy more.

Please let 2011 be another year of fruitful year with lots of endless joy . Laughter . happiness . Peace . With good health .

Lil X'mas gift

Bought myself a lil early X'mas gift..... hehe

really a small lil gift...

Anyone did Eyebrow Embroidery before?

Eyebrow Embroidery

had been running around my mind for month BUT but but i had no courage to do so... arghz..

i scared of P A I N

some said its not painful @ all.. some said its like ants bites... some said still bearable...

but i am so f r e a k e d off when i searched on youtube how they did it

and not once.. but most had to do it twice.. 2nd time for touched up and maybe 1 to 2yrs later for another touched up...

if only i am borned with darker eyebrow colour..

I had been doing eyebrow threading since i am 18yrs old... till now

Only things i hate is appointment in the early morning... IF i don't wake up early to draw my eyebrow...

I will look so restless due to the colour of my original brow colour :(

BUT serious 7 out 10 times i chosed to I N G O R E D it *lazy*

After wedding.. seeing how nice eyebrows really brighten up one's features

i been telling Mr sim.. I WANT TO IT

lol but end up chickened out...

I scared i end up like having 2 strokes on my face

I scared the person isn't skillful enough

i scared i will regert .. so many what if.. how ar.. appeared in my mind running ard...

I been looking and asking ard.. the price ranged from $150 onwards to a few hundreds to thousands.. -_-"

i wished i just had the courage to make appt and walked in and consult and DO IT!

come out with nice brows after that...

Anyone did it? Can share your expeience?

Sick

:( my nose ran aways for early celebration for x'mas
It didn't came back alone but brought back Mr Fever, Mr Cough & Mr sore Throat N Mr aching

Was joking with MR sim, WOW our downstair FINALLY got ppl taking over the shop space BUT its a clinic -_-" and they r looking for staffs...
a clinic out of no where... weird!!!

But of coz, we need to see our Fav doc.. Doc S
-_-" He asked, 2 of us.. who passed to who???!!!!
Den told Mr sim... u beta be careful.... if not, i will have to see u next week...
BECAUSE.. usually when Mr sim fall sick... after he recovered... it be my turn

:( won't be actively in the kitchen... patient need a break...

受伤了

:( 我们家的老爷。。。受伤了
心里真不好受。。

We were heading to buy some bread then back home after our usual saturday groceries shopping...
Someone pushing a NTUC Trolley with loaded stuffs on it.. was trying to avoid someone BUT end up bumping towards our direction...
The next monment... blood flow out.. endlessly and even the floor was stained by big drops of it..

The man kept apologising but what's the use? The blood just won't stop... and the wife got freak off as well
she offered to send us to the nearby clinic and hearing that a trolley ran over the toes... the doctor suggested to have x-ray to see if there's any fracture. The couple said they are in a rush and offered to pay the medi bills on monday when Hb's going back for report and changing of bandage as well as to clean up the wound.

From x-ray... luckily there's no fracture but doc said have to wait for the report to be out..
*Pray* hard there won't be any infection...

If Mr sim isn't walking infornt of me.. i will be the one with this BIG BIG "toe" wrapped or worst... :(

What do u tink?

My sis & friends have been asking me to sell what i had made here. Especially my homemade chilli... which is an ideal product to share with those who can't take dry shrimps due to skin condition and some homemade stuffs that they had tried. Honestly these are similar and easy to make stuffs BUT of coz, must be willing to take time to do it.

I believed outside confirmed have people selling but i always believed, if i want..  i will used the best quality i can afford since i am spending time to make it already and its meant for my love ones. So if i can afford, i must give them my best. Best of all, its preservative free. But can be stocked up for months if you know how to keep it well.

After discussing with Mr Sim. we were tinking no harm trying out since i am making it often. So why not, make some more effort to let others have a good share  out of it.

Now the thing is to tink of a name.... what blog name should we use??? Which one sound more appealing to u?

1) homemade (沈夫人的厨坊）

2) domestic-goodies

Food blogger who demands free meal sparks outrage online

Was surfing online then saw this news in YAHOO

WOW.. really wordless after reading the whole article... being a food blogger means you can just make an appt/walk into a rest to eat happily.. bring people along when you wasn't invited to there to do any review or food tasting...

really bring bad names to those who really enjoy foods and sharing their reviews...

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A young food blogger who demanded that he and his three companions be given free meals at an upscale restaurant in the Joo Chiat area has sparked a huge furore online.

The group of four had walked into Private Affairs, a small but exclusive eatery in Joo Chiat, for its Sunday champagne brunch promotion that costs S$68++ per person.

The blogger in question, Brad Lau, who runs a food blog called Ladyironchef, had informed the management on Friday that he would be coming down to review the Sunday Brunch promotion.

On the day itself, he and his partner came down at about 130pm, followed by his two other companions, each of whom came down half an hour apart.

The four of them had brunch until 430pm, even when the restaurant’s official brunch hours was from 1130 am to 330pm. Brad and his partner also enjoyed two glasses of champagne each.

When presented with the final bill of $435, the blogger initially refused to pay and repeatedly told the restaurant’s chef, “I never pay for food in any restaurant.”

The restaurant eventually offered to waive off the cost of the meal for him and his partner as well as the cost of the champagne out of goodwill, thus lowering the bill to $159.

Still upset but finally relenting to pay, the blogger then threw his credit card onto the bar counter in front of the cashier before storming out.

Read more here

hahaha Mr sim always said me... 又吃霸王餐
hahahaha Oppz.. that's cause HE will pay mah
mmmmm so i am not the only 霸王 ok... @ least my hubby is always there to settle my bills...

that someone then is... 霸王 who NEVER had to pay...

Lazy moment

After resting for almost a week... i am getting so lazy to tink of what to cook...
haha over relax...
There are so many things i wanna to try but no mood how to do so...
It will only end up inside the rubbish bin in the end...

Rainy weather just made me felt so sleepy especially when i didn't have enough sleep...

Childhood foods

Was thinking what to cook and while waiting for the bus. I overhead a mummy & son's conversation...

Mummy: So son, what do you want to eat?
Son: Macdonald
Mummy: ok then porridge for lunch ok?
Son: NO I WANT FRENCH FRIES
Mummy: We will have that for dinner ok....
Son: Then what are we having for dinner?
Mummy: Daddy said will bring us to Burger king...

Me: ROLLED EYES @_@

Prehaps when i was young, i am very fortunate...
Mum will cook dinner or lunch
And we only get to eat fastfood like once a month or when they are in a good mood. If not, it be home cooked foods.

Seriously alots of kids depends on fastfoods nowsaday, and we really questioned how much allowances are they given per day/week/month... Everyday, these fastfoods are full of kids after sch hours... or should i said.. its anytime of the day...

Ok stories apart... i am trying to recall what i used to eat @ home...

1. popular soup is 九记菜 kou kee cai, which i taken for granted cause dad will always buy this veg for mum to make soup... i used to hate it and i saw it in the supermarket today... good memories came back.. in order to make us drink it, dad always said ITS good for the EYES... i always had this *always "4 eyes" liao la.. got used mah... hahaha

2. Lup cheong.. just sliced sliced it... add some soya sauce... put it in the rice cooker.. wait for awhile... YUMMY!!!! just this with rice will do... hot piping rice with the dark sauce... with the lup cheong....

3. Tong Cai Rou... this one is Hubby's fav... he loves it with lots of tong cai which i doesn't fancy that much but i will still eat it...

so what's your childhood foods? Think i must cook more childhood foods now.. it really bring back all the memories...

Passion in foods

Welcome to foods-affairs...

Hopefully in 2010.. i am able to maintain this food blog. Gimme me the strenght to blog please.

Walking into the kitchen had always been a passion since young. Be it cooking or baking or even a eat out session.... it had always been a love and hate affair. Stay tune for more photos which i will put up. Prehaps not so much on the recipes as people who knew me well, i don't follow much on recipe as i can't give a exact amount of ingredients or steps by steps methods. I cook according to feeling, according to what i see, what i feel, what i tasted before.

Enjoy your stay here with me :)

Bye to 2009 and HELLO 2010...