C.A.K.E.

I grew up smelling freshly baked cake when ever mum was buzzing around in the kitchen because my room window opened up facing the kitchen...I also used to hear the whizzing sound of the bass toned cake mixer..fond memories! I am nothing close to what mum can bake,but I try...


Apple Cinamon

Bread Pudding


Triple Choc

Lemon Cake

The challenge!

Well THIS IS IT! I think I have mentioned this a few times before in the blog, and now my weight gain is bugging me! 12kg's is a LOT...and I am running out of clothes to wear! my jeans are cutting into my skin...I have only a choice of two bottoms, and not many tops...sitting too long makes it hard to breathe because my stomach is just in the way! so yeah THIS IS IT! no no not the new Micheal Jackson movie, BUT I need to do something!

thus, I am taking on a week of a controlled diet and 3 times a week of exercise and NO snacking!

I cooked up a HUMONGOUS batch of porridge full of cabbage,carrots and fat-less,skinless breast meat chicken..
that is all I am going to eat for lunch and dinner. Breakfast will be cereal OR apple and milk or something along those lines..NO MORE BREAD! NO MORE SUGAR!

If I need a snack, it will be fruit or a sugarless malt drink.

I really need to stick to this diet because my current state is absolutely unacceptable! I can blame the medications..I can blame it on a disorder(binge eating, emotional eating) BUT I am surely not going to sit around and let it work its course...I have to at least do something about it... I only have a month and a bit till I go home...clock is ticking!

DAY 1 - FAIL
Everything went smoothly, up until I couldn't resist and had a piece of lemon cake well after dinner time!

DAY 2- FAIL
Today my uncle and aunt had to entertain some friends, who had their birthdays..so we went out for Japanese food..that is not all......I had cake again!! Birthday cake this time...they insisted I take some..and I caved IN!

DAY 3- FAIL

Meltdown today :(

DAY 4- Success

Day filled with the good stuff..veggies,fruits & meat!

although was reminded today I have to be very careful that I get enough food and nutrients because no.1 not enough food and medication I am talking = nausea and no.2 not enough nutrients ie Iron, and I will be facing my anemia problems again!

DAY 5- Half & Half

Rough start and rough finish...

DAY 6 - Success

Today I Said NO to a Macdonalds supper...so happy wheeee!! on track...

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I know I have some material somewhere for a new post..but I am just toooooooo lazy/busy to update just yet...lol :) finals in 3 weeks...and I haven't gotten into full motivated mode yet..but starting Monday need to get going..eye on the prize! eye on the prize! eye on the prize!..the prize? HOME....3 months of hols..ahhhhh....

What's been cooking?

Well again I have left this blog un-updated for way too long....

Anyways, lately I have gotten the cooking bug, and usually it's comfort food that I naturally miss.

First up I made pork soup with red dates and lotus root, then it was Red bean porridge, Sushi and lastly Sour L Elixir (what R and I call it because we cool!!! lol :) ) it's basically lime with sour plum!

Now the soup came about because poor K was feeling a little down in the dumps after Fed's shocking loss over Del potro at US Open. I was sad too..so our little sad souls needed some soup!

End Product! Hope it did you some good like it did for me K!

Next up my cousin and I made sushi, he just put whatever he could find into it! While I opted for the more traditional stuffing...The one below has garlic prawn! Simple, just sauteed prawns in butter and added garlic,but end result Yum!!

We couldn't be bother cutting it ..we just made, it rolled it up and ate it there and then! quick,simple easy, yummie lunch!

And we washed it all down with chocolate milk! We are crazy like that :)


Ahhhhhh! and below we have the leggo's beef casserole that Nuffnang sent in it's gift box! nice sauce, very flexible too...had it with rice one day and pasta the next!


Last but not least the SOUR L ELIXIR!

Last week I got a kid's meal from Hungry Jacks..actually I am a Mcdonalds person, but I had to get the kid's meal from HJ because......................

The FREE toys that came along were SPONGEBOB characters!!!

P.S. A dust storm swept by on Wednesday



P.P.S. Dreams do come true! Believe it or not The Pink Ribbon Foundation is now selling SPONGEBOB PINK PANTS merchandise!! I sooooooo want to get a top..and a size smaller so that it becomes my motivation to loose weight shirt! yay!

This is the lovely Pink Bob dear lin 'daddy' made for me.

We LOVE nuffnang

I signed up with Nuffnang to run their ads on my blog and they sent me a starter pack filled with goddies from their sponsers!

Inside the box was:

1. Coles Myer $10 gift card

2.Spring valley blackcurrent & vanilla tea

3.John West tuna

4.Leggo's Beef Caserrole sauce

5. Redken Male & Female hair products

THANK YOU NUFFNANG!

Food escapades

I have put on a lot of weight in the last 2 months or so, the bulk of it in the last two months at least. A total of 10 kg's. And I feel ever so uncomfortable!!! Can't bend to tie my laces, can't sit in lecture for too long wihtout having to change my position every few seconds, can't fit into a lot of clothes and unable to breathe properly at times! Its plain annoying. The reason for the weight gain mainly is, number 1 the side effects of the meds I have to take and thus, 2nd Overeating! sadly I was back in good ol Penang when the overeating started...cheap,yummy 24/7 food...NOT GOOD!
So I decided to start healthy eating about 2 weeks ago VERDICT:FAIL!

It all started out well...big healthy breakfast...moderate lunch ( so no snacking inbetween)...fruits and veggies for dinner,cut out heaps of carbs,switched to brown bread

Home made big breakfast

Salmon and sprouts sandwich for lunch

Good portion of meat high in iron,heaps of veggies (brunch, so no lunch or snacks after this meal till dinner)

Then I began to slip! it all started with a lunch party...a small slither not even slice of chocolate cake and sticky date pudding and GOODBYE healthy food. My tastebuds did a little dance of joy and from then on refused to settle for anything less!

The problem causers!

And the horror continued

And didn't seem to stop

Well OK sushi might not look bad..but it is when overdone! too much carbs from the sticky rice! the 1st dish on top was soft shell crab with omellete on rice...and there was so much rice! and I finished every bit! Not proud of myself!

Really hope this coming week I go back to my proper eating. loosing weight healthily is not easy,well I was told not at first for sure, but once it becomes routine,or even a lifestyle it becomes easy! so for now my snacks are going to be celery and peanut better,breakfast bars and fruits..NUTELLA,CREAM CHEESE,MACCAS,RICE, WHITE BREAD all you horrible stuff better stay clear!

Just keep swimming..swimming...swimming!!!

Well let's see we have come up to the part where I went home eh......NO I didn't bum around and have an extra holiday,believe it or not I got a job, the very week I reached penang I started applying and one week later I landed a job at The Northam All Suites Penang! (by the grace of God )

Post: Management Trainee

Department: Sales& marketing

Job: Sales Coordinator

the pay was awesome,the colleagues awesome, and thats about all that is awesome about the Job! EVERYTHING else was definately NOT easy! 6 DAYS a week....almost 9-10 hours a day!

Stressfull,performance based job it was! you had guests on one end and management on the other end to deal with..not a pretty combination. There were days I wanted to just give up but there were more days where I loved the challenge, and it wa so gratifying going through hell to get things done!

As you may know with a job in the hotel industry you don't get much of a social life because of the unsane hours! however I still managed to squeeze in hang out time at night...it was definately the highlight of every week becasue I could just unwind,relax and finally act my age..and be amongst people of my ranks!

I also had 2 weeks of free time once I stopped working before my flight back, so that was a good dose of hang out time and 'enjoy penang while you still can time'!

Work

Office pet

office wear...I had to go shop for office clothes...needed work shirts,black skirt,coat,black covered shoes..and number 24 stockings! hahhahahaha! oh and the worst part..I had to spend so much on make up!! so not my thing!


Welcome lunch with boss at the hotel chinese restraunt!..famous for it's food...people have weddings at our hotel only because of the food!

My desk




bosses birthday: 1st pic-group photo of The Northam and our sister hotel Gurney Hotel's sales & marketing team

2nd pic: The cupcake birthday cake

Last day- Lunch with the gang!

And of course no trip back home is complete without food..these pictures do no justice at all!! i had so much more to eat....and went to way more places... but each time I would gobble up the food therefore no pictures! was too into the food!

International buffet dinner at E&O....ruthy and I must have had about 5 plates of seafood pasta cooked to our preference,heaps of duck...sushi, and moreton bay bugs (the fellow) etc. Not forgetting dessert...stuffed myself silly...


Coffee Island was like a usual hang out spot...anytime we just wanted to chit chat and chill we went there...

Steamboat!

Behold everyone!! this is RM9 Char koay teow!!! trust me we finish every morcel of it...left nothing behind!

And as if we hadn't eaten enough..we had waffle day!

This trip was a trip filled with up's and down's. But I am not complaining as it was a real adventure...a time where I had to learn to grow up fast, I learnt more about myself as well! but MOST IMPORTANTLY I got closer to my mum and dad! now that is PRICELESS!

Just for kicks!!! nothing wrong with him SERIOUS!

It is so true that God sends angels in the form of friends especially when you really need them!

My Angel number 1

Angel number 2

I have many more angels.....just that they were not around at that time...but they were there for me still..throught fb,msn,sms, and although I was cut off from many(my own doing) I knew they were there....you guys know who you are hey!! And no matter what...eventhough we don't speak for months and months...when we all meet up at the end of the year ...it's like the time away never existed! now that's what FRIENDS are!

That's all folks....thats what I was up to the entire time I was M.I.A. A quick summary just to get going again....so from this post on will be new happenings!