Baking cupcakes on a Sunday night

I bake some cupcakes on Sunday night. It's vanilla flavour with
cranberry and sunflower seeds toppings.

Do you like cupcakes?

What is your favourite toppings?

Our Black Molly

After spending so much lovely time feeding the 3 fishes we have, black
fish died today, 15 Mar 2013.

Around 6.30pm, I still see it swimming around, then it lays low below
the water tank. Suddenly I see it dashing up and down the fish tank just
like trying to kill itself. I do not know if it had gone into "fish-stress".
I am hoping that it will be fine.

"Something is wrong, why is black fish swimming like that? Probably he
is dying." I thought in my heart.

Then I feed them.

Around 6.45pm, KL and CW came back from school. When KL look at his
fishes, he came and told me that black fish is dead. My heart sunken. It
was very sad for me because I was the last one who saw it when it was
still alive. I am once again reminded of Buddha's Teaching on Impermanence.

Thank you black fish for the happiness that you had brought us,
celebrating CNY with us.

May you be Blessed and be reborn in Pureland.

Paper fruits for sales

Kids selling these paper fruits!
Cute isn't it? Haha..

They were actually writing pad, wedding favour from my ex-co's wedding.

HCP dishes - home cook dinner on 3/3/2013

Our dinner on 3 March 2013.

Dishes cooked using HCP once again, after I actually "store-room" it for
quite some time.
I have been using my HC Diamond wok recently, but I decided to take out
my HCP once again :)

2 of my "signature" dishes.

Do you like it?

Chicken claypot rice in HCP

Cooking Chicken claypot rice using HCP.
That was 2 weeks ago.
We are cooking it again tommorrow. Bringing it out for picnic.

It's a pity that we do not have salted-fish at home!
It still tastes nice though.

Care to have a bowl?

Growth cycle of a Bean

Check out the growth of our plant from the white bean.
Please tell me what is this bean call?

Wheel of the Meritorious Elephant Generating Power

Like this Elephant?
I love it on first sight, it's so beautiful!

Please follow below link to read more!

http://shop.fpmt.org/Wheel-of-the-Meritorious-Elephant-Generating-Power--Card-_p_1613.html

Extract from above website:
This card display The Wheel of the Meritorious Elephant Generating Power, and was arranged by several tertöns (realized masters who reveal hidden teachings) and is a response to a request from King Trisong Detsen by Guru Padmasambhava.

The benefits accorded to this Wheel include accomplishment of all activities as well as the increase and multiplication of life, merit, wealth, power of influence, fame and all positive and good qualities. Likewise, all desired things of the external world and its inhabitants, both animate and inanimate, come under one's control according to one's wishes.

This Wheel of the Meritorious Elephant Generating Power is compiled as instructed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, based on an image distributed Mandala, a shop in Taiwan. This has been newly produced, put together and digitized by Vens. Thubten Khedub Sherpa and Lhundub Gyältsen Sherpa.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche has made it clear that this is not for one's altar (i.e., not something you take refuge in) but it is for one's office or place of business to bring about success.
Size:
Wallet: 2.5 x 3.5 Inches.
Card: 8 x 10 Inches.

On the back of the card is the Legend of the Wheel of the Meritorious Elephant Generating Power, click here to read.
The Wheel is also available in downloadable PDF format suitable for making posters. Click here

My Gynae is Dr Han

This article was published comes a decade ago.

My Gynae is Dr Han How Chuan.

I chanced upon this article when my husband bought TNP on the day of my
birthday, because we were heading to a restaurant for my birthday
celebration, and he has a habit of reading newspaper over dining table.

It all begins when I starts sharing this article with mummies who are
also with Dr Han during their pregnancy. Some mummies keep this article
well. Thanks alot!

I hope readers will enjoy reading this article too.

CNY 2013

It's the snake year, 2013.

We went over to Chinatown in order to get the feel of CNY.
We met Fann Wong and Christopher Lee in the crowd.

It's always fun to be around the crowd when the festive is around  the corner.

How do you feel?

1st CNY pastry 2013

This is the first CNY pastry of year 2013.

Daji pineapple tarts.

My kids did it together this year and they really enjoy it. 

I made the dough. Then we rolled the pineapple jam into balls. After chilling the pastry for about 30 mins, we took out and starts making the Daji tarts. 

KL put his dough play skill into practise when he started making the leaves. As it was too much to made, we finally gave up shaping, so just press them on, haha.

What would be our next project?  

Check it out soon.

Last day of 2012 at Botanic Garden

We had picnic at Botanic Garden to "celebrate" last day of 2012.

It was a rainny evening and we had our picnic under a shelter.
It was fun, though a bit humid.

I like the ambience at the Singapore Botanic Garden.