I've just realised that its almost half way through the children's summer school holidays and the last time I've posted something was in June!! We started out the holidays by going back to Singapore to collect my Anty Hj Sarimah as she finished her 6 weeks course of radiation therapy. Alhamdulillah she's doing ok now. Since then I've been busy with a few cake orders and my sister and I have now launched our on line bakery service which you all can access via my other blog-
www.kitchenofjasmine.blogspot.com, the internet service at my house is really slow at the moment and it looks as if I have to buy a new and stronger router!! So posting of photos has been painfully slow and sometimes quite frustrating!! But do check out the site as we will post hopefully on a daily basis.
Other than that the kids have had their round of sore throats and cold and in a way I am glad its the school holidays as there seems to be some outbreaks of HFMD in some schools. Touch wood it will not infect any of our kids, we're staying away from the padang this year, not that my husband is interested in anyway to see the coloured lights this year! I guess it's almost the smae every year and the thought of having to mingle in the humid weather at night does not really appeal to us anyway!!
My mum had her birthday celebrations last week and I was extra busy with that baking and cooking. I think my sisters took photos because by the time I got back to my mum's house after helping to set up for the functions the ladies had already tucked into the prawn and chicken briyani that I had cooked as well as the Laksa Lemak, not to mention the chocolate eclairs, pavlove, marbe cheesecake and cupcakes!! Hopefully some of the pictures insyallah will be in the food blog.
Time just seems to be flying by so quicky there is only 4 weeks of school holidays left and soon my son Amin will be off for a 10 days tennis trip for the ASEAN Schools tournaments in Singapore before he joins us in KL. We've done all the essentials like going to the dentist, getting materials and baju's sorted for Hari Raya...what else do we have to do?....bbq's? days by the pool?..Ah roll on Summer holidays!
On our recent trip to Singapore we went to the Museum of Civilisation and History to check out the Mozart exhibition that Hariz went on and on about! The exhibition was a hands on one and Zahra got to see what life was like in the time of Mozart...actually i had to explain who Mozart was because the guide rambled on quite fast about Mozart and Zahra complained she didn't understand him!!! Anyway She got to make tooth paste by grinding chalk and mint I think! Then she got to make a paper wig. When it came to trying out a real wig and some mozart costumes, Zahra refused saying lots of people have worn the costume and she didn't want to!! That's Zahra for you! At the end of the tour we had a small picnic outside the hall and Zahra agreed to try on her own made paper wig!
