My Computer is Sick !

Arghhh.... how do feel when one day, you turned on your pc & you see a blank screen ? Frustated right ?? Especially when you know you have lotsa things stored in there. And you have planned a day b4 to migrate your files on that unlucky day. Yeahh.. that's what happened to me last week. I'm so frustated, tensed and a lot more for the entire week. Lucky I'm still able to retrieve my emails & do some bloghopping using my hp, although a bit restricted.

This week, my pc a bit ok though not fully recovered. And it getting slower than b4. Forgot to ask DH whether he did some backup b4 he reformat my pc. I hope he did. Otherwise, I have no photos of my late Princess Mocha anymore. Lesson learnt : DO NOT STORED YOUR FILES IN YOUR C:// DRIVE.

But what worst now, I've lost my 1GB old thumbdrive where I have stored most of my files especially my cross stitch charts. Like pepatah Melayu said : Sudah jatuh ditimpa tangga.. Ouchhh !!!

Thanks to Via, Niena, Kak Zawiah & Tini for dropping by my blog & leaving your comments on my previous post.

lotsa love from me,

Signed My Postings...

I've been working on my 'Blog Makeup' for quite some time. I think it already been months or almost a year *sigh*. Have to admit I'm a bit slow in this, thou I've done my own 'blog make over' when I start blogging in 2005. Lucky nowadays, there's so many tutorials given on the net. But somehow I still need a quiet time & full concentration when reading these tutorials.

And from now on, all my posting will be signed *hurray*.

lotsa love from

Maya Giveaways...

One of the blogs that I visited daily nowadays is Maya's. She kept her blog updated almost everyday with postings about her working on fabby especially. I think she can't sit still (sorry Maya), coz almost every day there will be a new needlework or craft that she created. I always envy her, despite being a working wife & mom, she can produce lotsa of crafty work. How I wish I could be that crafty too.. Heyyy, I'm a fulltime homemaker now, yet I've done nothing except blog hopping every day !*sigh*

For her 491th posting, she's announcing her giveaways - 5 giveaways to grab. These all 5, are sooo sweet to resist, that I hope I could be the owner of any one of these. I hope Melly & Elman will pick my name when they draw the winners. Remember yaa, Melly & Elman pick Auntie Azie's name, hik hik..

The rules pretty simple :

First, you juz need to post comment to her blog. Every comment will be counted as 1 entry, the more comments you write, the more entries you entitled. And don't forget to leave you email as well.Secondly, write about Maya's blog in you blog, and that will bring you for another entry. But don't forget to let Maya otherwise she might not know you are writing about her blog in yours.

lotsa love from

Jajakraf Giveaway

http://www.jajakraf.com/

• In conjuction of her 'GOLDEN JUBILEE' post, Jaja is giving away a shirt shape box with 14 goodies to the lucky ones who participate in this competition. You may check her blog for further details.
• So why waiting.. you have about 2 weeks to participate, before she announce the winner on 4th March 2009. Who knows you might be lucky !

Let's Scrapping @ CropMom.Com

Another online scrapping project.

Model : Princess Mocha - Lil' Momma in Making..

(Psstt.. psstt.. I guess she's carrying babies now)

To Alin, you can try online scraping at www.cropmom.com. You have to register first (free) and upload your own photos before start your online projects. Enjoy...

Thanks for Kathryn for dropping by. CropMom is a nice place to hanging around..

To Pah, apa kabar orang kampung....

Scrapping..???

Holaaa... this is my 1st time ever doing scrapbooking. Never tried at all b4. And the model is Fina, my 7 years old youngest daughter. Actually this is not the actual scrapbooking, it's online scrapbooking. I saw Maya has created one, and she is so generous by giving the link as well.

Well, I rate my 1st scrapbooking project as so-so. Everthing is there, you just need add your favourite photos, and re-arranged to your liking but yet, mine ... urgghhh. See, it shows how uncreative I am !! It's ok, first-timer maa...

Anyway, I'm sure Fina will be smiling ear to ear once she saw my scrapbook. And I bet the other 4 kids will keep asking me to create one for each of them.. Ho ho.. mommy got more toys to play now !!

Let's Play With Marble...

I played around with some butter, sugar & flour and eggs of course yesterday afternoon. Had wanted to bake the cake in the morning so that my kids can bring for their afternoon school. But as usual, I always delaying my work until I start at 4 pm.

I remember Chetam gave me this recipe 6 years ago, when I first bought my oven and I have tried few times before. The ingredients are quite basic and the instructions are pretty easy. And the cake baked well except the brown part looks a bit pale due to shortage of cocoa powder. I guess I have to make my way to the shop to get more cocoa powder after this.

I was smiling the moment the kids entered the house after their afternoon school and make comments that they smelled something that make them hungry. And this is how it look 15 minutes later - only a piece left for me & hubby to share a bite. Nope they didn't finished the whole tray, half a tray actually as the other half goes to my neighbours.

And this was our dinner last nite : long beans, sambal udang, oyster burger & chicken soup. Later when DH came back, he brought same crabs and asked me to fry some. Quite heavy dinner it was, with 5 dishes served on the table. I think I'm in the mood of cooking & baking yesterday. Surprisingly, we didn't managed to finish them all probably the kids are quite full after taking the marble cake. Sorry kids, you gonna eat these for your lunch today as mommy a bit lazy to cook.

Thanks Jurra & CT for dropping by... CT, I know U stay somewhere SB kan..

Fresh From Oven

Yeah... this brownie really fresh came from the oven !!

I juz baked it half an hour ago with the assistance of Nafiz, my youngest boy. He volunteer to help out and even wait until it bake.

I got the recipe from Zalita aka Cheez, who eventually got it from Aniza. Zalita has tried this recipe few times and keep on encouraging me to try it out. And I have to agree with her that the recipe pretty easy and the brownie is sooo yummy.. And of course Nafiz love it !

The recipe suggesting to add some creame cheese on top of brownie, but I opt for almond flakes as suggested by Zalita. The reason for doing so : I didn't buy the creame cheese yet

On the other hand, today I found out the bakery shop nearby my house is selling the creame cheese. In that case, I do not need to travel all the way to Shah Alam juz to get myself a creame cheese. For info, it takes me half an hour or almost 30 km to reach Shah Alam from my house !!

Happy New Year & My Carrot Cake

In another few minutes, we gonna say good bye 2008 and welcoming 2009. I hope in 2009, I will be spending more time stitching, tatting, baking cakes & few hours a week on gardening. Not to forget, I hope I will turn as a Quilter in 2009.

So as a starter, I made this carrot cake today. This is my 2nd attempt baking this cake after I FAILED yesterday. I follow Anna Olson's Pineapple Carrot Cake Recipe from Sugar but somehow my cake turned soggy. Ha ha.... I have to admit, I dunno how to bake a cake !

For today's carrot cake, I follow Hanieliza's recipe.. Well, this time round my carrot cake baked well except it a little bit hard as my itchy hand add more flour to the recipe ! Lesson to learn, just follow the recipe accordingly and bake often, so that I will get the perfect baking skill.

I also never tried to do my own icing b4. The actual recipes (both Anna's & Hanieliza's) says to use cheese creame as part of the ingredients for the frosting. But I don't have any stock of this cheese creame therefore I opt to do a normal icing using some butter, icing sugar & milk.

Again, I have to admit that my cake decorating also poor, hik hik... Well, I should go for cake decorating classes I guess... ;-)

Thank you Elisabeth & Sheila for giving advice to overcome my blog problem. I did think of creating new blog at Wordpress but may be I still stick to Blogspot. I also tried tips like what Shiela suggested, but to no success. May be I need more time to keep trying.

Blog Under Construction ... *Sigh*

I always wanted to change my 2 column blog template to 3 column template but for nearly more than a year, I didnt found any template that suit me. I was toying with few templates last week but I guess blogger is acting now. Each time I try to change the template, I get an error message like this : bx-error messages.

So for the time being, I have to declare that my blog is UNDER CONSTRUCTION until blogger can solve this problem so that I can add more features to my blogs.