Happy Birthday Goh

Aunty SS had very kindly invited the whole gang to her house to celebrate Alex's 23rd birthday, with a ice-cream cake no less! Look at how happy the birthday boy is!

Kenny Poh's birthday

A very belated post, thought I blogged about it but I guess my brain is turning into mush. I made a pandan cake and Kenny spent 30 mins trying to pipe "Happy Birthday Kenny" But we gave up at Happy Birthday, we wasted so much chocolate cream, it is everywhere, our hands, the table...

Check out what they did to his car, made with love. Wow.

Happy Birthday Kenny!

NBA Playoff 2009 Round 1 @ New Orleans

We watched our first NBA playoff in USA, luckily we have a team who qualify for the playoff and is within driving distance.
Denver Nuggest vs New Orleans Hornets

It turned out to be the only game they won for this playoff so we were indeed lucky to catch a winning game at its homeground! For a $20 ticket, we get a free Tshirt, a voodoo doll which NO is famous for and lots of fun, well worth the money! Woohoo... I sent my Playoff Tshirt to my cousin who is in faraway Australia who is a big big basketball fan so I know he will appreciate my gesture, good luck for your exam kido!

Feasting again!

I was just lucky to be the only one invited to Aunty's house, there is a school in Pensacola whereby the undergraduate female students are not allowed to go out with boys. It is a very strict school, there are other rules such as the female students must wear skirts etc. Anyway this is a party for the graduating class, it had been so long since I hung out with so many girls hah
The ice-cream had 4 layers- pineapple, peppermint, chocolate chip and vanilla. SINFUL, shall not remind myself.

The highlight is ROJAK!! Yummmmm

Crawfish festival @ Pensacola

I seldom eat crawfish because the frozen ones taste like prawns which had been left out for too long. But the first time I tried live crawfish broil, I am addicted! I tried to wiki "crawfish" but the term "crayfish" comes up, compared to the crayfish we have in Singapore, the crawfishs are really tiny. Some locals taught us a slogan to enjoy the crawfish, twist the tails and suck its heads! I still prefer the crayfish back in Singapore especially fried with chili sauce or pepper.

Happy Birthday NKW!

My brother and I never show sister-brotherly love in words, I never never told him in person before, I am truly very proud of him. At the age of 24, he already owned 2 tutition centers and 1 swordcase company and embarrassing to say, earning more money than me (haha~). I am very grateful to have him around to take care of the house, with me as a military spouse, relocation is highly possible in the future, but I am very confident my parents are well taken care of his hands.
Happy birthday kido, here's wishing in making your first million bucks asap! He is so going to scream at me when he sees this haha~

Feast at Aunty's house again!

This time round, I contributed 3 dishes, curry chicken, sticky gooey cake and tapioca cake~

Sooo glad the tapioca cake turned out well for my first attempt, phew! As usual, the recipe is from Lily's blog.

The start of BBQ season~

We celebrated the start of Spring with a BBQ at Jennifer's apartment with a whole bunch of other friends. All in all, awesome food and company, and many more BBQs to come as the weather is turning warm in this sunshine state.

Gulf Coast Renaissance Fair

Gulf Coast Renaissance Fair

It was more like a "rojak" fair than a specifc era, it was a pretty small scale fair, nothing really fancy. Its more like a catch-up with Jenn meeting ;)

I still have time to make some buns for my hubby's lunch for this coming week, save me the effort of cooking the night before.

I hate Farewell

Last week, Y had invited us over for Kyla's birthday as well as sorta their farewell party.
I am going to miss them tons! I always pop by her house which is 2 streets away, she is always so happy-go-lucky and so are her 2 adorable daughters.

Yet, another friend gone, oh well, she is only 6 hours drive away, hopefully if Kenny is free, we can pop over to say Hi~

A wonderful dinner with new found friends

2 weeks ago while TY and I were at the asian mart, we bumped into a couple who were looking at us, wondering where we were from, we speak Chinese, English and Malay! Hah we didnt even realise we were speaking in all 3 languages! The Tan family had invited us to their house last night for a feast! Happy we were!! There was pisang goreng (I think I ate 10 of them, yum), asam prawns, lo ba and eggs, and sambal kangkong. A special treat -durian ice cream for the boys and mango ice cream for me woohooo. It is indeed a meal made with love! Our compliments and appreciation goes to Aunty! I hope to learn cooking from Aunty haha I must go visit her more often ;) We also made many new friends from Indonesia, the first group of SE Asians we had met in Pensacola actually. Isnt it awesome! Their house is fully furnished, with most of the game consoles, the boys were fighting over the guitar hero, they also have a pool table, 2 huge flat screens...you name it, they have it!

Mardi Gras @ New Orleans

Wikipedia has deemed Mardi Gras in New Orleans as one of the most important carnival celebration in the world. The parades in New Orleans are organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common throws are strings, usually made of plastic colorful beads, doubloons (aluminium or wooden dollar-sized coins usually impressed with a krewe logo), decorated plastic throw cups, and small inexpensive toys (I got a giraffe soft toy!!).
Commercial videotapes catering to voyeurs had helped to encourage a tradition of baring breasts in exchange for beads and trinkets. While standards of what is considered "indecent exposure" might be relaxed during Mardi Gras, and women showing their breasts is documented since 1889, when the Times-Democrat decried the “degree of immodesty exhibited by nearly all female masqueraders seen on the streets,” the practice was mostly limited to tourists in the upper Bourbon Street area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Mardi_Gras

We also visited Acme Oyster House after watching Man vs Food in which he has to eat 180 oysters in 1 hour. No, none of us have the guts to do that! But we did enjoy their food very much! The raw oysters were fresh and succulent, the char-grilled oysters were drizzled with cheese, their cajun food were also the best we had eaten so far!
We managed to catch 2 parades and spent the night partying in Bourbon street! A crazy weekend~
There will be more entries following, next week is Pensacola's Mardi Gras Parade. Cant wait!

The CNY is officially over...

3 new boys had just joined us and guess what they brought from Singapore?

Yeah!! 2 Yee Sang sets, we made a huge yee sang with 1 lb of fresh tuna from Joe Pattie to celebrate the 15th day of CNY.

It is also JS's birthday, I ran out of muffin cups hence I made the carrot cake in a tin, phew I am glad it turned out great.

Wishing all a happy and healthy Ox Year from all of us!

Happy Ox Yr!

Haha just being silly, we decided to make the effort to wear red for the reunion dinner!

The "yee sang" set which Kong brought back from Singapore had really made our CNY, we bought tuna and lobster to go with it, so yummy! Compliments to sous chef Tan who shredded the raddish and carrot with love and care.

What is CNY without the shouting and groaning over money? *grinz* Check out the pot of USD while playing in-between, no you are not looking at the winner, I think the Khoo family had contributed quite abit to the pool.

Happy Ox Yr to all, we wish all good health and all good things!

Happy Bertday to my darling hubby

My first solo attempt at making Suyin's famous carrot cuppies with cream cheese frosting, another recipe from my world greatest's recipe book. When making the cupcakes, I had the sudden urge to call Suyin (haha, sound like some desperate lover =p), I was like "guess what cake I decided to make?" And she got it right immediately! Woohoo~~ I am glad it turned out great haha the last time we made these was during W's wedding where we had to do 100 small cuppies but that was such a fun experience.


Check out his birthday presents
Tada! Beer, more beer...


To demostrate how small the kitchen is, TY had to create a make-shift stall to deep-fry the nuggets haha it was such a funny sight. Now he know how roadside hawkers sell their food. Many thanks to him who came to help me cut meat, squid, kimchi etc. We had our first kimchi steamboat, it was sooo good especially on a cold day.


Also Happy Birthday to Jo and Cecila, have a great one ladies!

Happy Birthday to Ayumi!

Today is Ayumi's birthday, she is entering the terrible 2 but she is so gorgeous and she can just melt you with her eyes. I did a little page for her (more for her mom actually haha).

Isnt she the sweetest?

A look at Kiana will tell you how yummy the Hello-Kitty cake was.


Is my hubby ready to be a daddy already? Looks like it heh.

I want a girl!

Our 1st Thanksgiving~~whooohooo aka Shopping Madness

It was Thanksgiving for most of us with the exception of Ryan. Initially I wanted to try roasting a turkey but all the turkeys are bigger than my toaster oven (haha, why is that hardly surprising).
The itinerary for Thanksgiving is as followed:
4-6pm: Drive down to Destin
6-8pm: Thanksgiving Buffet @ Marina Cafe, Destin
Hang around....chill, rest before shopping
The whole cafe has a nice waterfront view, we got
to try both fried and roasted turkeys. I much prefer the
fried turkey. Hah

10pm: Ralph Lauren outlet store opens
12-3am: Own time own target at Silversands Outlet Mall
I believed Coach has the biggest crowd, literally have to snatch for what you want.
Our boot is fully stocked!

3-5am: NEX opens
Yeah I grabbed my knife set for 19.99. Yippee, going to bring it home (as in Singapore) with me.

The other item I was really drooling upon is the classic white KitchenAid Mixer for 149.99. We did not buy for several reason, firstly there is no tabletop space for the mixer, which means it has to be put on the floor, secondly, we cant use it in Singapore due to voltage difference, we need to buy a transformer which might be very expensive for all we know, thirdly, it will be hell trying to bring it back because of its weight. Oh well, the rational side won.

Oh ya the other big ticket item we bought is a new Sony Vaio so that we can each have our own laptop, for him to play game and for her to bug her friends while they are working. But sadly it seem like the old computer is at its brink of death...why like that!!!! Argh

Ps, I am wearing a scarf sent by Irene all the way from Singapore~*Grin*