Last sunday Mr Ahmad Zaiyan was in Singapore for a job related visit and I was to meet him at the hotel to collect some ole2 dari Vietnam unfortunately I am a bit shy *wink*... so bro in law Saat went to collect them on my behalf.I did speak to Zaiyan and he sounded very nice and a man of few words too.
Here are the munchies that dear Mulan send for me through her hubby:)Mulan thank you I like the ginger pieces a bit hot but good for the gas.....haha

This is a beautiful sequins bag which Mulan gave me...again thank you.
And in the bag I found this ..... a bracelet ... very nice indeed something different from my own collections of beads and crystals.

Mulan from the bottom of my heart terima kasih banyak-banyak di atas pemberian hadiah2 ini....suka dgn bag and bracelet.Your gifts are too much compared to what I gave you and the children.

From not knowing who is on the other end we managed to become friends through the blogland by visiting their cyber homes.I am glad I have so many friends now and hope our friendship will live as long as it can be.So far I have met maklang,kaklady,Sya,Norabella and our novelist Noraisah A Bakar.

Maklang chat with me everynight thru'YM and her children too chat with me and from maklang I have 4 new nephew and nieces added to my own big circle.....hehe...infact we are like a big happy family...betul tak maklang?

Not forgetting kak lady who also YM and sms me whenever she can...kak lady I ni macam kak long pulak kan?

On the 2nd of May another friend of the blogland will get to meet my nephew and with him I have packed a few items for this wonderful bubbly lady and her children too.....will get the story when my nephew get back to sg.

Moral of the story we should cherish our friendship where ever and whenever we can:)

To give and to receive doesn't mean it has to be big and expensive most important its the thought that counts.No matter how small or cheap never compare be thankful always!!

till my next entry.......

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posted by Kak Elle at 9:18 PM 23 comments

Musliha and soto memang takde kena mengena cuma di-jadikan satu title untuk hari sabtu ni .... hari yang indah pasal tak hujan sebab saya ada banyak cucian di jemuran....alhamdulillah cuaca ok so far.
When you come to my blog the song you hear is Musliha and thats her above(mus sorry aunty curi your pic from your blog).This song is written my cousin Hussaini Ajmain - her dad when she was a baby of 6th months I think - correct me if I am wrong.This song was sang by Othman Hamzah along with Gadis Melayu and it was a hit in the 70's.Lately Othman Hamzah make a come back and did a second recording and here I am at last manage to download it.To Mus here's your song.


This is Imran Ajmain her baby....oops.. brother:)Imran has written songs too like Perpisahan sang by Anwar Zain(if I'm not wrong) he also wrote for Taufik Batisha and Hady Mirza and now he has his own break and his songs are a hit too been on the top chart for weeks.He has been nominated for 7 awards this coming APM to be held in June and unfortunately I will be away in Europe.I wish you all the best Imran if you can't win all 7 at least 1...make your parents proud of you and us too tok gemuk(thats what these 2 kiddos call my father) and family.Mus can you fwd my blog to him I don't think he knows my blog exist....haha .. I've added 2 of his songs in this playlist too.


For tonite I cook mee soto after seeing maklang's last week lunch mengidam pulak.....hehe
As usual after work saturday will do bit of groceries shopping at the supermart and this week offer of chicken is only $2.95 for a 1.4kg chicken.I bought one and the easiest is just to boil the whole chicken .... too lazy to cut it up!!so decide to do mee soto for saturday's dinner.

Maklang ni my pot holders beli kat perth 2 yrs ago....spiderman!!


Soup ayam sedang mendidih.
Mee kuning ,taugeh,bergedil,ayam,daud sop/daun bawang and cili kicap.



This is mine ready to eat mee soto ..... its so yummylicious!!

ok lots of billing to do as homework again :(



Sunday 29th April @ 1pm

Yesterday's dinner become today's lunch.......

There were only father and me for dinner last nite so lots of leftovers so for today decide to have it for lunch too.

Went to the market to get the lontong,taugeh,bergedil and spring onions and chinese parsley.

I defrost another whole chicken and put to boil for more chicken broth and meat for the soto.

I use this soto mixed for the soup just add to the chicken broth and smashed some lemon grass.

Lontong @ $1.60 per log.

Frozen bergedil for lazy ppl like me....hehe

Lontong and taugeh.
Taraaaaaaaaaa soto for lunch and its so yummy.

till my next entry............

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posted by Kak Elle at 6:31 PM 19 comments

On wednesday evening I was chatting with maklang on YM and she told me abt her vision 3L then I told her I think I have vision in the store cupboard bought prob 8-10 yrs ago.I went to see but couldn't find them ... mungkin dah bagi to someone as housewarming presents but instead I find these things sitting in the cupboard.If you ask me I am pretty sure I got things as old as this apartment since I moved in and thats coming to 11 yrs old.

It just slip my mind that I have these still and also found some tupperwares intact in plastic unopened.....hehehe....banyak nya barang tersorok!!Wait lah when I have the time:) will really clean up the store cupboard...when??? ntah bila.




2 sets of 1L vison with palstic cover for freezer and glass cover bought during sales at Tangs @$12.50.


one 2L peach floral that was given to me by the lab staff about maybe 12 yrs ago for what occassion I can't remember.

These are 3L I won in the wheele of fortune at Tangs....for every $100 u win a turn and 2 turns result in these ..... lucky me infact I also win a set of corelle glasses of 12.

And also these sunflower thermos at $1.00 only with every $100 purchase and that was 10 yrs ago....masih dlm box ....I remember I bought 4 pcs and gave to my sisters 2 of them.I use one and now 1 left....Ni kalau si Norabella nampak mesti jelesssssssssss kan kan kan?...hahaha

time to go to work.

till my next entry.....

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posted by Kak Elle at 7:59 AM 17 comments

Here are some of the the Jellanie's 3rd generation...






till my next entry

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posted by Kak Elle at 7:37 AM 17 comments

Yesterday 21st April Norabella and I get to meet the writer for the novel of HATI SEORANG WANITA non other Ms Noraisah A Bakar aka nor ash burn:)
Appt was fixed for 12.30pm at Lot 1 for lunch after work and as I was off duty earlier I took a cab(as usual) there and I was indeed very early so I start to browse around at the small mall but couldn't find anything nice except managed to buy something for Mulan's 2 kiddos since I will be meeting her hubby today who is in S'pore for work I think or issit shopping ah mulan?Mulan has something for me from Vietnam so thats why I have to find my way to meet him(mulan I think I get my bro in law Saat to represent me lah)....haha...I ni pemalu sikit tau!!...
Anyway mulan I hope Zarif and Marsha will like what I have for them and for you that pack of Shan Bryani Bombay....buat jangan tak buat-biar satu HCMC can smell that aromaaaaaaaaaaa.

This is our celeb Nor Ash Burn scribbling on the books for Nora and me.
Thanx Nor for making time to meet us and hope our meeting won't be first and last and also hoping to read more of your novels in times to come.All the best to you:)
For your info Noraisah will be in KL this weekend for the book fair at PWTC do give your support if you have the time ok?

Sorry I can't show you her face until the book fair in KL and thats the proper introduction of Noraisah A Bakar.

To maklang and loveujordan......taraaaaaaaaaaaaaa my breakfast today non other my favourite fruit cheese on toast with a cup of 3 in 1 nescafe.......oh no! there goes my waist lineeeeeeeeee.

For today I had the apricot and almond cheese and its so yummylicioussss.......oh oh I can see you drooling .... ish ish here take this tissue and wipe it ..... hehe....

For today I will be cooking ayam lemak cili padi.............

to be continued...

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posted by Kak Elle at 8:16 AM 21 comments

Good friends are hard to come by now a days friend who laugh and cry with us in good and bad times.
I have known Kay for over 25 yrs and we are more than a friend infact we are like sisters.She migrated to Perth and has been there since.Her 2 boys Ziv is 20yrs old and Zel is 16yrs old because of mixed parentage the boys are like kopi susu Her hubby Victor is from Goa and Kay herself a chinese.

Both her siblings and mine knows each other and when she is home visiting my siblings will come to meet her too and we will go for makan-makan as usual ontop of my own cooking.When my siblings visit Perth she and family will always invite them over to her place for makan2.

I've been to her place 3 times over the years and I will cook for them and one good thing this family of hers don't eat pork at all from her day one born to this world pelik tapi betul.

Her 4 sisters gathers in singapore this week for her mom's 79 birthday,all 4 sisters staying overseas 2 in Perth,one in Auckland and the eldest now inbetween Brisbane and Hong Kong where her hubby is attached to.One sister Esther is in singapore after years in China where her hubby was posted.

Last night she came over and we chatted till almost 11pm and to maklang and kaklady sorry eh I wasn't online so tak dapat nak balas your msgs.
She brought buah tangan as usual lah for me and here are the stuff.

Time to go to work now and today Norabella and myself will be meeting our novelist Norisah A Bakar for lunch at Lot 1.....berdebar ni nak jumpa celebrity.Norisah will be in KL next weekend to launch her latest novel HATI SEORANG WANITA but not sure which place nanti I tanya dia so kalau nak novel dia berserta autograph jumpa dia lah ok?

till my next entry...............

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posted by Kak Elle at 7:33 AM 10 comments

Do we have free time?I don't think I have that much of a free time at all.
Every morning waking up at 5.30am is like fighting for our life,there are so much to be done.Endless of things waiting to be touched and do.....don't you agree?
Then we are off to work and by the time we get home its already 7pm and maybe later to some.So where have all the time gone to?
I find that there's not enough time to do all the things.

I wanted so much to do these but just have no time at all.....ingat nak masuk class above(bolih juga kuruskan badan) but its always too far and you have to spend at least few hours to get there and back and by time the class is over its 10pm.


The cross stitch has been in my mind just like to be like maklang and kaklady doing handwork but when dusk comes the eyes also play tricks.I did that once and in the end to the dustbin.


Don't you think its nice to do a complete cross stitch like that?

So instead here I am for 2-3 hours on line checking and replying emails blogs hop and putting entry to own blog. During the weeekend bring work home to do too cause don't have enough time during working hours.

Sometimes I wonder how Norabella has the time to read:) Ni buku nor ash burn pun belum di pegang lagi dah tu nak jumpa Nor pulak kang bila di tanya how you find the novel?What am I to say?malu nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.Once I start I won't sleep till the wee hours.

So anyone out there can you share with me what you do when you have the free time...maybe I can learn a trick or two.On sundays more housework to do again all the time spend cleaning,cooking,ironing and the time just go by...tup..tup...dah senja....and the time rotates again all over.

Masa berjalan terlalu cepat ..... kita tak sempat mengejar nya.



till my next entry.............

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posted by Kak Elle at 8:40 PM 17 comments

I like to thank everyone who supported me with entries on food.One way or another my menu and recipes inspire some to try cooking again:)
To tell you the truth I use to hate cooking before until arwah mak left us suddenly in 1989 and I was given the task to take over the kitchen.The fear was that.. bolih kah aku buat ni semua masak untuk family?Insya'allah dgn berkat doa rupa nya di kurniakan dua tangan yang pandai mencoba and reka masakan.Masa arwah mak masih ada kalau bulan ramadhan I will be the one doing all the cookies and kek lapis rempah.Mak cuma buat tarts nenas which she is good at and kuih makmur .... yummylicious betul.During CNY beribu tarts dapat order and all sisters will help yg isi nenas,menyepet,buat pattern atas nenas and bakar and arrrange dlm bottles.Now my sister Lina has taken over that task and her tarts and makmur are just like maks.
For me I am good with my kuah2 and goreng2 and the first raya without mak was a test for me.How to cook for so many people?I was all alone planning what to cook and prepare and being first raya without mak my aunt Ju who lives in Australia came to spend it with us so that we won't feel lonely.I did all the cooking and then a mistake with the sambal goreng...eh why so pale looking?aiyo lupa letak cili masa menumis....lekas tumiskan cili and masukkan the pale sambal goreng and gaul betul at last cantik nya kemerah2han.After that raya cooking for the rayas to come was nothing dah jadi expert pulak.....hahaha

Now if they want recipe they will look for me until bro in law Saat told me to compile them into a book and distribute to siblings:)Actually cooking is a matter of practicing you will learn from trial and errors.Some are gifted in whatever they try sedap ....... even now I like to invent something and always want to make it easy and simple.Tried doing lots of microwave cooking and glad to say frying ikan bilis,keropok without oil was a success...yippee!I also did kuih talam lauk using microwave and it turns out good until my aunt ask how to do it but ofcourse when she tried tak menjadi.Cooking rice and pulut in microwave oven is norm for me no mess at all and steaming fish just in 2 minutes too.

Today boss gave us a treat at Swensen and its for 2006 lunch ..... hahaha....somehow we managed to clear the crowd by 1pm .... at first we thought oh no looks like we have to cancel the lunch again.We left earlier leaving Dr.Adah to see her last 2 patients and join us later,all of us had fish and myself chicken and doc boss pasta.My boss is the chairman for the group and at least he thinks for the staff and when we were having lunch he discussed with us about we having to move to new location as they are going to demolish level 4-6.He says we are offered a new location in basement 2 .... huh a place where you don't see sunlight at all so whether it rains or shine we can't tell but nearer to supermarts and Banquet food court.We are expected to move before middle of next year and from now we have to discard unwanted stuff.Being in medical we have to store medical records for at least 5 yrs!! mana ada tempat???With this annoucement its a relief for us too at least our job still there....hehe


till my next entry..............

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posted by Kak Elle at 9:01 PM 13 comments

Kakelle and makan2 tak bolih di-pisahkan!!

Simah ni yang kak elle kata smlm nak buat carrot cake.Nak buat recipe ada kak dapur kakelle.

till my next entry...........

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posted by Kak Elle at 9:36 PM 33 comments

I promise there will be no talk of food today because banyak yang terliuh bila masuk blog ini....kesian kak elle bila membaca komen2 dari mereka2 yang jauh di luar negri.

So for today's entry we shall move on to other things ...........




See this novel?Hati Seornag Wanita and the writer is non aother .... Norisah A Bakar aka nor_ash burn.......Nor ni kak elle promote kan your latest novel ada hadiah tak?....haha

Last wednesday I took a halfday leave so as to cook some dishes for father's birthday and it so happened that Norabella too was on a halfday but to see a doctor ... btw Nora how are you now?
She came to my clinic to give me this novel she bought for me from JB.We took the lift down together and decide to have lunch at the Banquet at JP and of course we had chicken rice our favourite.Nor_Ash if you are reading this entry when can we meet for that autograph?I am yet to start with the novel because once I start reading nampak tak tido lah satu malam nak baca habiskan.Si Adah dah tunggu bila I habis baca dia nak pinjam baca bab dia cari tak jumpa kat singapore.Writer singaporean but kena beli kat malaysia... macam mana ni?

Now come to cab drivers.......as you know I take a cab home practically everyday after work cause at times I will buy dinner and stuff from the supermart and other places at JP or when I have to stay on till late I have to rush back so that I can buy dinner for father.At times when I am late he will eat just bread and after that he won't eat what I've bought asal dah kenyang ngan roti.
I met all kinds of drivers some are really very polite and nice to talk to and some drive as though he is in F1 speeding and cutting in between lanes.There was a day last week I told the driver he has a good collections of oldies as he was playing Elvis Presley songs .... so we began talking about the good songs of our era and he is a music lover and he showed me the cds he has in the cab and yesssssss they are also my favourites too unfortunately the journey home is only about 20 minutes so unable to listen to them.
Yesterday I was angry with this mat after telling him my destination ingat dia tau as he drives through PIE but who knows he went straight to the expressway so I was shocked kenape mat ni jln yg jauh pulak?? I pun ask lah why are you driving through here?Jawab dia this is the way...bengang I di buat nya dia ingat this is first time ke I naik taxi....dah lah jln jauh dah tu trap in jam....I really gave him back and he keeps apologising so instead of $9/- fare jadi $12.50...mm...next time please ask if you not sure of the route.

Today Unilever S'pore was having their moving out sales so Ft and myself went there during our lunch break but masya'allah ramai nya orang and the Q was so longgg.The things were going as low as 80% less and it is a good bargain.Unfortunately we were unable to buy anything as the Q for paying is just too long and too slow and ontop of that the rain start to pour cats and dogs.Actually we already selected the stuff we wanted but had to put them back .... so sad:(
We were late abt 10 minutes driving thru' the rain and looking parking at JP.

Lastly we had a terrible news and I am still shocked over it....our colleague from our main branch dapat berita yg suami dia meninggal di rumah sakit.Mungkin dia tak nak kita tau yg suami nya sakit jadi bila dapat berita tu semua rakan kerja terperanjat.Her hubby was diagnosed as cancer of ?unknown and given 1-6 months to live but who knows tak sampai sebulan dia dah pergi....we were told she pengsan bila hospital menghubungi nya.Padahal dia mmg ambil cuti halfday nak pergi hospital tapi ajal tak kira masa kan? yang sedeh sekali kawan I ni pun sedang menghadapi masaalah penyakit Lupus.My only wish is she will be strong to face all these and she has 2 sons to look after.Tomorrow nite Adah,Ft and myself will go to the wake eventhough we don't work together but we are all old staff and we know each other and went through a lot working for this practice.

See no mention of food rite?Well folks have a nice weekend:)


till my next entry................

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posted by Kak Elle at 9:41 PM 18 comments

As I've said in my last comment I took half a day leave today so that I can dish some dishes to celebrate atok's birthday.Being the hostess I have to prepare the food and for tonite I did the usual all time favourites.



Lacey pancake aka roti jala to be eaten with curry chicken.
Rojak salad before and after with peanut sauce...dah lama tak makan ni...bila dapat memang syiok sekali......haha

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posted by Kak Elle at 11:46 PM 24 comments

HAPPY 79th BIRTHDAY TO ATOK AND HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY TO FAREEZ DANIEL.

The youngest is Aeez(anak kak lady) ..... aunty and all in singapore would like to wish you a Happy 6th Birthday.Semoga Aeez menjadi anak yg soleh dan menjadi kebangaan pada ibu and ayah.Hmmm.....kalau potong kek jgn lupa simpankan aunty sepotong ye?

Ini hadiah cake untuk Aeez......hahaha...... sedap tau:)

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posted by Kak Elle at 10:52 PM 17 comments

It's sunday once again and its time to cook as siblings will be coming to visit bapak...dapur ku berasap :) Glad to say I do enjoy cooking and trying new recipes and making new recipes!!

By the look of things I think I should change my daily happenings to my daily menu ... haha
sorry folks if my blog make you feel missing home cook food for those away overseas.
Some of the recipes are available in my dapurkakelle
do give it a try and feed back to me.

I start early today after subuh I begin to defrost the stuff I need to cook and after reading the newspaper my task begin and by 10 am all done and its time to clean the house and taking another shower.

For the adults I have asam pedas ikan pari,telur dada and yesterday crispy chicken berlada and for the kiddos beehoon goreng and teriyaki chicken wings.
To doc easylady your guess is right "oh my children will love the prawns"...hahaha....yes the kids will aim for the prawns too leaving the veges behind and thats why I add chicken meat to it and sometimes crabmeat stick.I am lucky in a way as prawns are quite cheap here and the ones I normally buy is about $8-9 per kg and they are fresh and of good size too.I am hantu prawns just like mama sarah and so are the children too so don't mind buying them every week.

Last nite by the time I finish doing my e-billing it was almost midnite and after cleaning up went to bed at around 1am.I hope to get some rest this afternoon but then we are going to visit my niece to see her new baby which I haven't seen yet .... ok nenek groovy nak tengok cucu along with the other 2 nenek also.





2pm.....
Ram and family came with a cake from Secret Recipe to celebrate bapak's birthday so perhaps the trip to see the baby will be later.Here's the chocolate cake and it looks yummyyyyyyyyyy for today forget about the caloriessssssssss.......haha
Before we left for Sengkang we did a small celebration for atok's birthday just my 2 sisters and family....mmm.... the cake was yummy but too rich!!

Selamat berehat pada semua:)

till my next entry................

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posted by Kak Elle at 11:47 AM 15 comments

Today at 6pm my sister Ram called asking me to get ready and they will fetch me and father for dinner.At first I was reluctant to go as I have lots of e-billing to do and she passed the phone to Aini to sweet talk me into going....haha.....terpaksa lah siap.

We went to Seoul Garden at Ngee Ann City for BBQ ..... it has been a long time since I last go to Seoul Gdn.We used to have one at JP where I work and since last year they moved to god knows where.Nora jgn terliuh ah......

Here are some pictures I took when we were there... a little smoky....



We finally finish at 9pm and it was a good dinner once a while and the dinner is an early celebration for my father's birthday that falls on wednesday 11th April.
I guess we will have another celebration later when all siblings will be able to make it.

till my next entry

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posted by Kak Elle at 12:07 AM 12 comments

The cemburu aka jealousy is still without an answer ...... if you think its only a thought actually it does mean you are jealous rite.....and there are a few kind of jealousy and deep down in every heart the feeling is there.We shall leave that cemburu feeling behind us and look forward to other things like makan-makan lagi.......hahaha............

Today is a public holiday here in sg being good friday which is good I need that break after a busy week at work.The last 3 days I was unable to submit my e-billings as I have to be at the reception desk.Hmmm......both our receptionist was on medical leave on same day for 2 days!! it does make you wonder rite why both on same days???haha was there a conspiracy?god knows rite FT....its okay we managed and our work went without a hitch...... di tanggung beres.This is nothing betw me and FT as we were brought up to be multitasks.

After this entry I have to do my e-biling from home again and to mama sarah your help is required pleaaaaaaaaaasssseeeeeeeeeeee come over.....hehe

This morning I feel a bit energetic and scrubbed my whistling kettle until it shines....after that start my cooking for the 2 of us and if anyone drop by thats all I have for lunch and prob our dinner too unless if I feel like frying bee hoon or pasta when there are more people.

Our meal today is simple just ........

Ikan selar goreng sambal...oh the colour look so pedas but its not just nice ..... Sayur bening kobis with glass noodle (small pot meant for 2 persons..haha)
And mama sarah I tried Wah's prawns again and this time I marinated with a bit of asam juice and taste ok but I still can't get the dry look....this prawns will be mine alone cause father doesn't take prawns after his stroke,he is very picky on his food now). Bismillah........jemput makan kekawan and its only 12.30pm so this brunch no breakfast today.

Another weekend is here again and here's wishing everyone have a nice weekend:)

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posted by Kak Elle at 12:34 PM 14 comments