Happy Birthday Master 1!

As i am typing this, my little master 1 has finally turned 3. Happy Birthday Master 1, you are growing up into a little cheeky boy. Sometime we dont realised how fast a kid can grow up, in a blind of an eye, your child has grown into an adult. hmm ... lucky master 2 is still a baby,... wait he's not a baby anymore, he's toddler too..ahh.. My babies are growing up so fast!!

Why is it that when the kids are awake, they drive you crazy, pulling your hair out and screaming all day long, but when they are fast asleep, you miss them like crazy??I guess its all the same for everyone.. Anyway back to master 1's birthday...

We ordered master 1 a delicious chocolate chiffon cake from BERRY, and wanted to decorate it with a picture of his favourite car. I thought they were going to draw the image in the middle of the chocolate cake, but instead they place fresh cream all over the cake and drew the picture of his car in the middle.. hmm i guess we shouldnt assume, knowing people cant read your mind. So all the chocolate decoration that came with the cake was replaced with fresh cream.. sigh...

We decided not to have any party for him, but instead invited his close 3rd cousin to join him in his celebration. Eventhough we celebrated his birthday a day before, he didnt seem to mind. He was so excited about his happy cake that he even tried singing happy birthday to himself.His 3rd cousin was too excited about this cake. She even took herself a plate getting ready to receive the cake.

So he blew his candle, one by one, and im sure that his saliva was nicely sprayed across the cake 3 times..He was really happy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MASTER 1

On the left of the photo, a plate can be seen carried by his 3rd cousin.. haha

New Life

" Go update your blog, nothing new to read". Ok, for the past few days i have been very busy doing my extra paid work and my beloved friend has decided to slow down on me. This beloved friend of mine is my only hope outside the world, so slowing down on me is not a good thing. On a faithful Sunday, we have decided to give our old friend a better life. We had to increase his memory so he could work faster, and think quicker. The decision of increasing his stomach was also made as his capacity can no longer digest, eventhough we have tried to take him to the trash to throw his unwanted junk. Unfortunately the doctor told us that the reason why he was slowing down is because we did not looked after him properly. He might be infected with viruses, since we have not updated his vaccination. The doctor also noticed that when we woke him up, he took a little longer than usual. It was a very hard decision, but we had to detox him, and erasing all his past history with us.

Our consultant, M, helped us detox our beloved friend. What a great job he has done.Thank you, without your help, i wouldnt know what to do....now my beloved friend is a little fast in his thinking and he has heaps of space. After doing all the major detoxing, M left and told me to finish updating his vaccinated and his education. All done. Well protected and up to date!!I shall take care of you my beloved friend, aspire. I shall maintain you with all the necessary education and get you check up regularly.. that mean keeping you on a strict diet!

School

Its Saturday afternoon and yet again piggy is busy working. I'm at home with the kids and i feel extremely hot.( no i dont think im hot haha just that the weather is ridiculously warm today ).

Today we have finally decided to enrol Master 1 to a playschool. After many years of torturing myself, i am finally going to leave him in safe hand. So the 3 precious hours at school is suppose to free me up some time to spend with master 2. Poor master 2, always getting bullied by his brother, at least he too can enjoy the precious 3 hours of play time!!

Choosing a play school was confusing for me. Is the playschool good?Location? There's just too many around my area. But i think most of them are on a babysitting more than a school. After hearing other comments about this particular school, i have finally decided to send him there. I hope he will learn new things and make new friends.. Master 1, you can finally go to school ...

So sleep in will be the past when the new year begins....bummer.. haha

Jelly Trifle

Last night i had an urge to eat trifle, and partially to finish up the can of whipped cream. After dinner, i made the strawberry and apple aeroplane jelly and custard with difficulty ( master 1 insist on eating the freshly made jelly, liquid form). So after telling him nicely that the jelly needs to be harden first before eating, he just couldn't resist the temptation. I did eventually caught him dipping his finger in the bowl of jelly!


Finally after lunch, thinking to myself that i would add the finishing touch to the desert after dinner, master 1 decided to bug me about the jelly. To keep his mouth zipped up, i decided to go ahead and finish it up.


Here it is ....



Look at the CREAM!!!!










Master 1 is giving it a try

Chinese Steam Egg and Pork

I love eating steam egg and pork at the economy mixed rice stall, but never seem to be able to recreate it until today. Usually i would place the minced pork on the bottom layer,add some seasoning and a little water.I would then add the beaten egg on top to steam. The result came out unsuccessful, pork was hard, but the egg was just right. That was the way i created my steam egg and pork.


So anyway, back to the story, i wanted to try out a different method. Instead of putting the minced pork on the bottom layer, i add it to the egg instead.



Recipe:



*Pre-heat pot of water with steamer rack.

1) Break 2 eggs ( break the top part of the egg so we can use it to fill it up with water)

2) Use the egg shell to measure 4 time of water

3) Beat eggs

4) In a separate bowl, take about 2 tablespoon of minced meat and add a little cornflour.Mix

5)Add some seasoning to the meat( soya sauce, pepper, seasame oil).

6) Mix together the eggs and meat and transfer to stainless steel plate

7)When the water is boiling, lower it to low flame, and add the plate to the pot. Cover and steam for about 10 minutes ( check to see if it wobble, else leave longer to cook)

8) done



Do let me know if you are going to try out this recipe. I may not be able to explain it properly here. :)

I was so digging into it that i've forgotten to take a photo.

Whats for dinner??

My love of Butter Curry Chicken has led me to try out a recipe from a good source. So the day begin when i had to put the kids down for their afternoon nap. When silent was heard, i quickly cut up the chicken and mixed my range of spices together. The recipe asked for me to marinate for at least 30 minutes, just in time when the kid decided to wake up.. gosh, what a quick mouse nap!

So here i go, its going to be in the oven for the next 40 minutes...nice aroma fills the house..

Result:

I thought i better interview the guinea pigs, ops i mean the diners about my butter chicken

So how do you find the butter curry chicken??

piggy:

"..hmm its nice, but the chicken is a little dry.. its tangy but yet nice... but i still prefer your other butter chicken ....."

master 1:

"wow!, hot mummy, yuck", and spits it out. Both his hands on his mouth. "No mummy, hot", and disappears before attempting to give him another try...

master 2:

chicken went in and out of his mouth in less than a quarter of a second.He takes it out and put the chicken back into his mouth, and out it came.He did this for the next 20 minutes, most of it are on the floor.

chef:

".. its was a little too salty, and tangy. It doesnt taste like Butter Chicken or tandoori, quite disappointing...."

Ahh too bad, we wont be trying Maggi no added MSG tandoori chicken mix again..

My Two Masters

Its past 11pm, and i managed to sneak in some time to do some blogging before i start my pathetic beauty sleep. What can i say, they are my two mischievous little monsters, ops i mean masters. People would say, "who's your favourites?","Are their characters similar?", "who does master 1 and master 2 look like?"..

Well, i must admit it, the day master 2 came to this chaotic world, i didnt really looked after him as much as master 1. I had a maid who looked after him like her own son.We never really took him out to the shops or restaurant, partially because i wanted to enjoy myself without worrying. Yes, i feel guilty for not looking after my own son, but when you have master 1, he tends to take up all of my energy. Thank you W for helping me raise master 2. So when master 2 started to grow out from his shell and becoming a little person, W was the one who first discover his milestone, and i was not there to witness. I was either on the computer or entertaining master 1. Sorry master 2, but i've now taken the opportunity to get to know you as a person, and gosh, you are quite a funny little fella.

So to answer the question,"Who is my favourites?", I love them equally, both are my favourites.Why?? Master 1, i can order him around, since i dont have any adult assistance( when piggy is off to work), so Master 1 tend to be handy at times,"Master 1, can you please put this in the sink", "master 1, can you please bring the rag and wipe it up", "master 1, please bring the towel", basically he's my mini servant, im bad, but he seem to like it.But i can guarantee that this is not the reason why he's my favourite..shh

As for master 2, he's cool. When he's hungry, he will cry, otherwise he will happily hang out in his play pen, provided that his brother doesnt disturb him. Another amazing thing is his business. Yes, what a topic to talk about, but this little boy, he is amazing. If we were to go out, he will poo before we leave the house. I think he can sense that mummy is not willing to clean his bum if he were to poo outside, so he better do it otherwise he'll have to stick with a yucky bum through out the day. Smart boy... Oh another thing is his milk.. when its milk time ( artificially given that is, not the real thing), he will stop at what he's doing and start smiling ecstatically, shrieking with joy. With his little hands sounding like a elephant coming towards me, and turns around and falls back in my lap waiting for the fake breast to feed him, ah he love his milk....

The next question, characters. Well they are both brothers, so some of their characters are similar.hmm let me think of a couple.. ahh the other day i was up in my room watching my ridiculous local channel ( astro died, in the fixing mode), both master 1 and master 2 were busy looking for treasure. Suddenly master 1 said " mummy, mummy, baby eating".Then to my horror, master 2 found a tub of sudocrem ( nappy cream) and started eating it. I was horrified, and being disappointed and yet amazed i grabbed a tissue to wipe away his fist full of nappy cream and took out my phone, not to call piggy, but to record his face. I laughed to myself, and told Master 1,"did you know that you did that last time??" now i call that brother in arms .Another same character is their love of dogs. I remember when master 1 was the same age as master 2, they ( as in the dog and baby dealer)would exchange toys. You could see master 1 secretly giving our beloved dog, Man, a ball in exchange of another ball. Seriously, both of them were in love with balls, both cant keep their eyes off it. But for master 2 case, its not quite the ball case, its more like whatever he can find on hand and pass it to our new dog, Pluto. Things like the clothes peg, and master 1's magna doddle magnet haha ... and in exchange, master 2's little hand reaches outside to grab whatever pluto has eaten up ( which is the case of a broken slippers).Im sure there are more, but cant think of any at the moment.Ah i remembered one, both are willing to play independently ( according to SF)


Master 1, cream on his face










master 2 with cream on his face

Ah their differences, I guess master 1 never really had an older sibling so he couldnt really throw tantrum at young age compared to master 2. But mind me, he did show his tantrum at a young age (15 months). I guess its normal for master 1 to show his selfishness or sadness toward his brother. When master 1's things are taken away by master 2, he would 1)slap his brother 2) push him 3)scream 4)walk away with his head down, hunching and started to make this really annoying fake crying noise, which he apparently learnt that from watching CJ7.

Now with master 2, when he wants something, he wants it. He, at such an early age, had to learn the art of defending himself from his beloved brother. When something is taken from him, he made sure he show his colour by slapping himself on the head ( god knows why he does that), and slapping his hand on the table/floor/thigh. Ohh he's a good screamer too.. he scream so loud that your ear buzz differently ( you know what i mean, when you're at the concert, and girls from behind are basically screaming in your ear, all you can hear is buzzzzz, that kind of scream)

Finally the last question before my eyes decided to close by themselves.Who do they look like? Well i think master 1 looks more like me, whereas master 2 reminds me more of my sister when she was younger, especially his ears haha ( sorry s), but i think he's more on piggy 's feature..You'll be the judge .....

But as a mother, i can see that both of them deep down love each other, especially when there's no one to entertain them, eg mummy. They would happily chase each other, laughing, shrieking, turning the house upside down or master 2 doing the attack by scretly opening master 1's shirt to blow on his tummy. But then again, out of the blue, master 1 turns around and smack his brother on the head... I guess you call this a love hate relationship....

Another important note to mention, they drive me up the wall, especially when things are not going their ways or when everything is upside down. I guess all mothers has the same problems...ahh but when they are sleeping, like right now, all i can hear is my typing ,the aircon's compressor, and yah the bloody gecko calling....




Master 1 and Master 2 helping each other


Master 2 at 3 months, brother love...