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I’m THIRTY, the BIG 3-0, and can officially say that I have lived life for three decades now!!!

Damn I never knew that day could come so quickly :D Where did all that time go to seriously? I feel like my 20s absolutely zoomed by me in a hurry to catch a train.  Now that number 30 kicked 29’s butt, I’d like to think I”ve embraced my new age gap, ahem, VERY well so far, at least for the past 4 days. Though I am going to miss filing up my age group as 25-29, but I do look forward to checking out 30-35 instead!

I suppose embracing turning 30 could partially be due to the fact that  I don’t feel 30 at all. I definitely don’t act like one (a subtle way to say that I”m not that wise afterall, hehe). Of course I”d like to also say I don’t look 30 either but that’s very subjective, :lol:  By all means do comment and tell me I don’t look 30, pls?!

I am still this same old person I’ve always been. MUCH fatter physically obviously, but the SAME person inside  which I think matters the most in life :D

This is the suprise cake that I got when the clock  hit 12 a.m.  A Chanel bag. Gorgeous isn’t it? I can only imagine how much effort and time Eunice sinked herself into creating this master piece.

If you think I got this bag as a b’day gift, you’re WRONG. Though I may love bags, I don’t think I would ever let my husband splurge an obscene amount of his hard earned cash for a bag. But if he did strike a few million dollars in lottery then perhaps I wouldn’t mind at all, heeh (Fickle as it sounds, I”m still a woman, helloo!)

YES I was actually pondering if I should really cut the cake up! Everyone around me said I should because the real Chanel bag was hiding inside the cake, lol, yes I am surrounded by a bunch of jokers.

Gosh, totally felt SO bad after slicing it up. I hope the bag Goddess forgives me for such a brutal act and showers me with more bags? Ahem. A girl can still wish okie. 30 bags for every year that I”ve lived if I had it my way.

Can you imagine if this really happened to someone’s Chanel bag? Instant heart-attack yo.

Again, must show off how gorgeous this is. Head to Eunice’s blog (yes I told her she’s my officially go-to person for cakes) and thanks Baby Sis for picking this up! It was totally a suprise!! Was told she gave us a pretty good discount for this cake (like BabySis always says ‘friend-friend price’, as opposed to customer price what else!)

Now to the hubby’s gift! YES I didn’t think he would get me a gift since he took me to Europe but what do you know – he can be quite generous sometimes though I really wish he didn’t coz now I have to get him something nice for his birthday next year!

I actually already knew what I was going to get because someone couldn’t decide which model to get and wanted me to ‘test’ it first , afterall it’s very important to him that I actually LOVE my gift Men take note, when in doubt, just ASK, it might ruin the suprise, but hey at least you know your woman will be HAPPY with her gift!

But for the sake of my birthday, he actually took the trouble to wrap the gift himself and for all that trouble he went through I actually acted suprised And mmm shy?!

Got a G12 yo! And the reason why I wanted this was so I can take better quality pictures of Sairah. It’s ALL about Sairah She makes a good excuse for awesome gifts.

The card.

I couldn’t carry out the task of butchering the bag cake so I got mom to do it. You can tell she’s not a fan of bags, LOL

Since I’ll never get to carry the real deal, here’s me ‘carrying’ my Chanel bag.

Which I later ATE coz it tasted so damn good. Let’s just say personally that bag is indeed better off in my tummy :D  It was THAT good! Now how many of you can say that eh?

I had the day off on Thursday and had plans of getting a massage, mani-pedi, you know the full works to pamper myself on my birthday when I was hit by the lazy bug (happens when you’re me, too lazy to get pampered, haha). So instead of that, I drove mom, BabySis and Sairah to the mall for a few hours. Couldn’t have gotten any better than that.

Baby girl just woke up from her slumber. She seems to LOVE breadsticks from Italiannies.

Her 30 year old mommy with an almost similiar color outfit like hers. And if you look closeeee enough, you’ll spot a strand or two of silver hair.

Signs of aging they say?

BAH, I’d like to say it’s a sign of being WISE! VERY WISE

I’m still very much in the holiday mode even though I’m back to work. That said the weekend is just a few hours away

The hubby and I have been contemplating on throwing a Hallowen party like forever! But we never got to that, perhaps we’ll wait for Sairah to be a little older so that she can join in the fun.

Meanwhile, no costume needed – the little one’s hair can be crazy sometimes, like so:

In conjunction with Hallowen, I wanna go as Edward Scissorhands mommie!

Ma, why you no comb my hair??! I’m scaring myself.

Who knew her hair was capable of doing that, lol

Am trying really hard to trim her hair, but it’s SO tough as she won’t sit still. Last night I manage to trim the left side and her ‘fringe’ as she slept. Couldn’t do the right coz as I turned her, she woke up so now she has unbalanced hair, lol. This weekend this mommie is on a mission to make her daugther’s hair sane again!

Totally unrelated but this is what happens when I take fashion advice from the hubby:

Was gonna roll down that socks when he said to leave it as it is, more punk-ish that man said and this was the result: 

Seriously can’t imagine Sairah in a punk outfit. She is meant to be sugar sweet and wrapped in all things girly!

I aptly call this the Harajuku look, sure did get alot of look from people in the mall. Hmm, are you digging this look? The hubby thinks he started a trend but I”m 50-50 with this one.

Please feel free to sing along to Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku song…..coz that damn song is going through my head now.

Moral of the story: Never take ‘fashion advice’ from a man who can’t even dress himself well:D

Dressing up a baby girl should solely be a mother’s job. Period. From now on he cleans her poop and I will decide what she wears

Once in a blue moon the itch to cook  cuisine reflecting my heritage would crop up. A year back when I was pregnant I attempted to make some, as they put it ‘ceylonese’ food, the outcome was pretty so so which explains why I didn’t blog it. Or have attempted to cook it again.

Then all of a sudden, the hubby and I were discussing how nice it would be to go to Chiang Mai again and I thought to myself, why not make something typically from Chiang Mai to reflect our trip and my grandma’s hometown/heritage.

It was then the search for Khao Sai came about. A curry based noodle dish that is derived from red curry paste and curry powder.  There are numerous versions online. It was tough deciding which one to follow. In the end, I chose a simple recipe and made some minor alterations to it.

Ingredients:

Chicken fillet, chopped. They typically use drumstick so you may opt for that for a more authentic feel

1 small box coconut milk

1 cup coconut cream

1 cup water; more if you’d like the soup to be thin. Mine was FAT, hah

Egg noodles

Small amount of ginger, sliced finely.

2 tablespoon Red Curry paste

2 tablespoon Curry Powder

Coriander for garnishing

Half onion chopped

2 table spoon fish sauce

1 tablespoon light soys auce

1 tablespoon s ugar

Pinch of salt

Optional: Taugeh, fried taufo and green and red capsicum.

Prepare the egg noodles by boiling for 2 minutes followed by a quick soak in cold water. There’s an option of frying half the noodles to give a crispy feel to it. I opted to skip this step.

In a pan, fry chopped onions, ginger with green and red capsicum until soft. Add in red curry paste and fry until fragrant. Add in coconut milk followed by water. Then add in chicken, coconut cream and curry powder. Add in light soya sauce, sugar, fish sauce, salt and don’t forget to your taugeh and fried taufo. Let it simmer. Once sauce thickens, add in noodles to coat with sauce.

You may serve with pickled mustard green, fried shallots or fried chilli flakes. Garnish with coriander and wala:

A taste of Chiang Mai without even being there. Though I really, REALLY wouldn’t mind going back there again. Just saying :D

Think my ancestors would be proud.

Not the ceylonese ones though, they’re probably pissed at me for not even attempting to cook yarl food. When I do find a decent website for it, I WILL!

That said Happy Diwali to all. This year we’re doing it differently

And YES, I turn the BIG 30 in a few days time, ahem, wouldn’t hurt to wish me in advance. Toodles!

Yes I know the title of this post sucks.

Now that my Sairah-bear is 13 months, leaving her at home for a short period of time is something I can afford. Well, at least that’s what I found out on Saturday Since Sairah’s daddy missed her so much, I let them to a bonding sesion at home while I went out for a much deserved pedicure session. Helped that my parent’s helper was around (we take her back on weekends and she’s quite good with Sairah) so leaving her with the hubby is something I wouldn’t mind doing, once in a blue moon that is.

I earlier bought 2 awesome spa pedicure deal on Everyday , paid peanuts for it and redeemed this baby on the VERY last day with BabySis.

It was truly a 90 minutes of bliss!

First time having a feet mask and sauna, crazy world we live in sometimes!

BabySis busy with her phone

LOVING my jade green pedicure. I quite love the Amante outlet in Solaris Mont Kiara -  I don’t know of any other nail parlour that has stocked up that amount of nail polishes in every possible colors! Truly a headache trying to decide on the color. Who am I kidding, it was SOOO exciting that I look forward to that again!!

Later, and as expected the ’sales’ person came over to sell us some packages and I don’t know how we did it but managed to squeeze in 2 mani and pedicure session each together with eyelash perming for only RM100!!! I”m not too keen about the eyelash perming now (coz I fear they might make me blind) so I’ll probably ‘try’ to convert it into another mani-pedi session

So I lied, though I enjoyed the session, I kept texting the hubby a few times to check on Sairah-bear. A mother will always be a mother, no matter what they’re doing I suppose :D  When I got home I was told that she behaved herself save for refusing to sleep at all. That kid sometimes REALLY suprises me on how she just hates to sleep.

In return for being away for 3 hours, I got a red velvet cupcake and of course shared with my precious girl. Check out the video here. That’s the exact face she gives me everytime she wants a bite from my food. She definitely has got a sweet tooth like her mother

And here she is on our outing on Sunday coz I promised we’ll take her out since we stayed at home all week when her daddy was away.

All set for Yemeni food and visiting relatives ma!

Sairah wore this gorgeous white halter dress that I got from Bali. LOVE it to the bits. As for her shoe-like sock, got it online.

Oh hai, see my tooth sprouting on top and bottom? Imma gonna have teeth soon @ 13 months!

Bringing sexy back……….

That’s right, I’m a vain baby girl, just like daddy.

Now go see this video of my naughty girl (yup that’s her naughty face right there) being bored in the car! She really can work those legs! I suppose this is what happens when you listen to alot of dance/techno music while pregnant

A dancer in the making?? Hmm….time will tell

Wohoo, I made French to commemorate the hubby’s return. LOL don’t ask me why French (he has no French blood whatsoever, except for a French aunt by virtue of marriage).

I stumbled upon this recipe and thought it looked easy peasy so why not? Credit to the blog owner (sorry can’t remember the link).

 Having to buy BASIC easy ingredients is something I love TOO much.

Although I have to say, I was a little skeptical coz the ingredients were fairly straight forward and easy. But what do you know, it was a pleasant surprise indeed. I was certainly most taken aback by the fact that a simple ingredient like crème fraiche could turn this dish into a creamy one. My understanding of ‘creamy’ usually comprises of whipping cream and tons of cheese!! But apparently there’s an alternative way (and slightlyyy less fattening too) way of making a creamy sauce. This sauce had a hint of slightttt salt-iness which was surprisingly GOOD!

Ingredients as follows:

2 pieces of chicken breast cut into strips (marinate with black pepper and paprika). You could serve the whole chicken breast too but I hate having to make sure if the chicken is really cooked inside hence the need to strip it :D 

A few florets of broccoli. Recipe called for asparagus, I bought that under the ‘reduce to clear’ section coz I was being cheap (plus am not a huge fan of asparagus) and what do you know, the next day when I was about to cook it, it bloody smelled so bad that I had to lump it!! Morale of the story: don’t be cheap – avoid ‘reduce to clear’ section. Screw asparagus, it smells.

200 g creme fraiche (expensive ingredient this one. I paid RM18 at Cold Storage, but it’s allll worth it)

200-250 ml water (recipe called for 500ml but I thought that was a bit too much)

A cube of chicken stock

Half red and green Capsicum in small pieces

Cherry tomatoes – cut into half.

3 cloves of garlic, diced

Half onion, diced

Olive oil / butter

Ze easy steps:

Add in butter with a bit of olive oil, fry chicken on a grill pan until brown. Put aside.

In a different pan, using more butter, add onions, garlic and capsicums and sauté until soft.

Add whole jar of crème fraiche, chicken stock and water. Throw in broccoli. Cook for at least 10-15 minutes or until sauce THICKENS.  Throw in chicken and cherry tomatoes to coat with sauce.

Arrange the chicken and vegs on plate, drench with the sauce and you’re done! Serve with side of potato. Eat in the balcony and imagine you’re dining in a cafe in Paris

Sorry, my camera does no justice to its taste. I need a new camera!

But I have to say I did pretty much panic after adding in the crème fraiche and water – it was SOO watery and had NO taste to it that I almost cried. I didn’t want to mess up this recipe coz we would have had nothing else to eat!! Then I remembered the recipe asking us to patiently wait for it to simmer and thicken. So wait I did and the next thing I knew, the sauce thickened and out came this wonderful French sauce that went well with the chicken :D I”m going to try it next with fish.

Hubby loved it to bits! And what can I say except I do too coz it’s minimum effort needed

Ah yes, and then there are the goodies he brought back after all that hard work, ahem, cooking for him

This one I don’t get at all. I told him to buy more TWO piece clothes for his baby girl and he ended up getting this!!

Honestly what the hell is up with the hoodie and long tracks obessesion?? After telling him off that his choice stinks…..

He finally went out and got these cute girly two piece items which I so so love

Super heart the shoes. Now just gotta wait for her feet grow bigger. And of course for madam to walk too.

And these are all the wifey’s stuff.  Bath items…..aah wouldn’t need to get em in the next 3 months

P.s: Come to think of it, now that he got Sairah some thick clothes, we have the perfect excuse to take her some place cold!! And that I shall use to my advantage

Now off to find more French recipes.