beb, let's sit and meet. i need to chat.

with the boy on a boys' night out with his fave lad who's probably spilling his jittery guts out now as we speak.. i decided!!



the usual lineup



chillin' in the fridge. takes a herd of cows to stop me from slicing gingerly and stashing said slice in freezer to fasten the cooling process!



mmmmm i couldnt resist. this was 5 mins ago when i decided, enough is enough! i cant wait no more! :)

thank heavens D is knocked out early today. must be something in her salmon porridge ;) *scoots off to watch all 4 remaining episodes of Samantha Who with my perfect chocolate companion*

Oreo Chocolate Cheesecake
1½ cup Oreo cookies - crushed
⅓ cup butter - melted
3 packs of cream cheese - soften to room temperature
4 eggs - room temperature
1 cup sour cream
¾ cup sugar
3 tbsps of unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
8 Oreo cookies - quartered
6 Oreo cookies - crushed

- preheat oven to 160degC
- in bowl, mix 1½ cup crushed Oreos with melted butter. Mix evenly and pat down on 9" springform pan and set aside
- in a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla essense and sour cream with electric mixer at top speed for 2 mins and medium speed for 2 mins
- sift in cocoa powder to prevent lumps
- add in all 4 eggs and mix on medium speed for 3 mins
- pour smooth batter over crust in springform pan
- drop Oreo quarters in batter and bake for 40mins
- once done, run a clean knife along rim of springform pan and then sprinkle remaining 6 crushed Oreo cookies
- refridgerate for at least 6hrs before you devour and be sent to chocolate heaven :)

ps: yaccs is down. will give it another 2-3 days before i work out another commenting system.

japanese cotton

project hari raya run-away.. heh!

friday 5ive

we started off with breakfast and super last minute kain-searching with theboy. and crossing our fingers (eyes and toes) that the seamstress will still accept, yikes!


and then we met ianian!

lunch @ McD, stopped by the takababyfair for a bit, retreated to the nursery on level 3 and then omgwthbrb thegirl slept while i pushed her around in the stroller! may i add this rarely happens as she'd always need me to dodoi her to sleep.. and usually when i dodoi her to sleep and attempt to put her slowly in the stroller, she'll wake up screaming?!

so anyway, we trooped to paragon after that where ianian was lulled to sleep at the nursery heh, and the mommies had breeze windowshopping. mandatory stop at vitakids to stock up on the organix munchies and then to starbucks. and then i got hungry so fish&co it is.. where i satisfied my monthlong craving for swordfish collllaaaaaah!


wondering where's her food


wondering if nice auntiebilla will get her food


ahhh.. there's her cornsnack..


ooomphhh.. chompchomp


starting to pout coz my lovely swordfishcollar is here and i'm not paying attention to her


screaaaaaaming for attention, urgh!!!

dahlia sayang, can dont be so garang anot? girl cannot be so garang tau! nanti ibu susah.. nanti ibu will have heartattack like your nyai a few yrs ago, when your nyai asked me when i will settle down.. ibu said "when i turn 35, ma!" :)


mandatory selfshot before we happily fold our own strollers into our own cabs and head home. i always, always love hearing other ppl go "wah so good she can carry baby in one hand and fold/keep stroller in the trunk with the other.. hen li hai wor!"

get it off, get it off!!!

*pant* i just had a good 45 minute workout..








figuring out how to dismantle the bloody cloth cover of our maxicosi priori carseat!!!! should have done this BEFORE i showered???

when i epppp at her, she eppppps me back!

she's really been a handful, my little girl. and i'm actually glad i get to see it everyday now. i never know when it's too early/late to start discipling (theboy always says that i'll be the bad parent) but he's had his fair share of NO DAHLIAAAA CANNOT!!

but she tames down quite immediately at night when i switch off the main light, switch on the nightlight and lay down with her on our bed. that's the trick to put her to sleep.. she'd need to roll around on ours before going to deep sleep. and last night when i was rubbing her back, something she absolutely loves (and me too!) telling her not to be so notti in the day.. she gave me the sweetest smile with a slight giggle! how to be angry at her all the time tell me? -_-

anyway, i cant resist getting her a barney bagpack from my takababyfair spree last week.


dahlia doing the barney roundabout from shotbyfau on Vimeo.


d finds barney again from shotbyfau on Vimeo.

i know.. my bad. but it was really lolworthy! anyway she was back to being a happy baby after her barney trauma in no time!

everybody loves m&ms..

from this...


to this!!



from thecrepesofwrath

M&M Cookies
adapted from Bucky’s Barbecue and Bread

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter, melted
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups M&Ms (or peanut M&Ms)

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt and set aside.
2. Beat together the melted butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the egg, then beat in the egg yolk. Beat in the vanilla.
3. Gradually add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture until just moistened. Mix in the M&Ms by hand. (i had some left over semisweets so i dumped those in too)
4. Roll into balls, place on a greased baking sheet, and press down on it with your palm a bit to flatten (not too much!).
5. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the edges look golden brown. Remember that they need to cool on the baking sheet, so even if they don’t look quite set, it’s okay because they continue to cook after you remove them from the oven.

ps: ignore the crispy bar. tersalah cekut ;)

in other news, mari iftar bersama kanye west? urgh!

picspam :)

today we took a little trip down memory lane, to where we first heard her little meek cries. where she pooped sweet smelling poop all over the weighing scale which guarantees and confirms that she's ayah's little baby. where i almost KO-ed in the toilet after delivering her coz i action gung-ho only hehe.

it's been exactly 11 mths! her little meek cries are now attention seeking screams. her sweet smelling poop can lawan her ayah's and i'm not KO-ing just yet.. in fact i'm enjoying life at home! :)


she can't keep still!


so ayah keeps her occupied..


while i ravaged the freshest bun out of the oven, Muhammad Rayyan!

feels nice to wake up on a Monday morning and find an sms from a new mommie AND THEN being able to visit newbaby and newmommie straight away.. no monday blues! :) congrats to BFF maisarah and asid for the little bundle of joy! like finally, one of the geng with a baby! now i simply cant wait for raya coz we'll be zipping around with the babies hehe.

speaking of zipping around.. dahlia and ibu's been doing just that lately. and even managed to be patriotic singaporeans and escape to malacca for a weekend!


oh hello!


lunchdate with sarah and siti @ united square


teatime dates with zac/bena, jordan/gywen & sarah/siti


grocery shopping with ayah!

so yeah, i've been nicely occupying myself at home. and hopefully i'd still be able to spend as much time with her when tues/thurs starts :)

you give me fever

got a call from ma who said pa surprised her with a last minute trip to see ailing tok bulang in err, bulang. hope he's fine and getting better.

woke up with a heavy heart, almost asthmatic like and after zuhur i konked out for 2 hours, waking up to a screaming hungry baby. just took my temp and it's at 38.7!

*tap,tap*

time to go

i think i'm the kind of person who keeps giving others chances. and sometimes i get wrapped around their puny little fingers without even realising it.

which sucks big time coz only when i get a bloody rude smack (albeit invisible) across my face do i realise like "eh, why am i wasting my fucken time hoping?!"

the future move is probably for the best. because everything is just *shrugs* too monotone. a lil bit of grateful feeling towards i, me, aku would be super duper nice.

syaaban 15

it's probably the best time to restart doing something i haven't been diligently doing for a while..