Trip to Genting

On our recent trip to KL, we spent 2 nights at Genting where the kids really had a blast trying out all the games and activities on offer inside and outside. Zahra was at first quite upset they didn't have a small harness for her to go wall climbing, the others ofcourse had a go though didn't get up so high! Zahra also couldn't try the archery as all the bows were too big! Thank god she was tall enough to go on the roller coaster even braving the 15minutes queue for the 2 minutes ride!!and when the rain finally cleared she had more rides to go on outside!

Selamat Menyambut Bulan Ramadhan

Amin's feet being cleaned and massaged by tiny fish

At the restaurant on the 39th floor of PNB Darby Park celebrating my 40th Birthday. Zahra upset waiting for her spaghetti!
In front of the F n N cans murial

Wow how time has flown, tomorrow it's the sighting of the moon for Ramadhan, we have been busy since setting up kitchenofjasmine.blogspot.com and alhamdulillah we have had a great response. In the midst of this I left Hanna to deal with the orders with Anita and went for our week long holiday to KL. As always we shopped our way all over the major shopping centers of KL and the kids also had a blast at Genting. Whilst in KL I celebrated my 40th birthday with the family, got lots of presents and we had a great dinner at the restaurant on top of PNB Darby park which specialises in Malay cuisine we were all quite impressed with the food although Zahra insisted on ordering spaghetti from another cafe in the Hotel!!. The view from the restaurant was overlooking KLCC so it was quite awesome! as Zahra and Fatin kept saying! We stayed at PNB Darby park and I really recommend this place to those of you looking for good, clean and spacious apartment style lodgings in KL. it is directly in front of the KLCC surau and a 10 minutes stroll into the KLCC park across the road from the PNB darby park will ofcourse get you to the KLCC shopping center. The apartments are well equiped with full kitchen utensils and our apartment even had a large ricecooker although we only utilised the kitchen to cook maggi and eggs! The laundry is quite large and there is huge pool and children playground too.

Outside the KLCC there was a huge murial made out of empty tin cans...another Awesome moment!! The kids ofcourse were impressed, maybe we should do somrthing like this with all the cans from HariRaya nanti?!!

Right now in KL there seems to be craze to let little fish clean your feet by sucking off all the dead cells. Amin, Fatin and Hazim had a go whilst we were in Genting and thoroughly enjoyed it although Fatin was very squeamish!!

We met up with Rizal and Nurul although we didn't take any photos, hopefully we'll see them again over Hari Raya depending on Rizal's work schedule ofcourse.

OK Selamat berpuasa everybody!

ASEAN Schools Tennis Championship

Yesterday 12th August 2008, Amin left with his Tennis Squad to represent Brunei in the ASEAN Schools Tennis Championships. This competition is held once in every 2 years and this year Singapore is the host country. More importantly it is Amin's first tennis trip abroad! It was quite official with a flag handing over ceremony and a doa selamat before they left! Hopefully they wont come back empty handed. Good luck Team!

Kids in the kitchen

Once in a while the kids from the compound converge at my house more accurately in my kitchen to try and come out with their own creations...albeit in the end not all seem edible to eat! Fatin being leader tried out my new alphabet cookie cutters which mum bought in the US. They used the cookie recipe from Nigella Lawson's book although the end products looked nothing like what Nigella had produced! Nevertheless it filled up an afternoon!

Soft Centered Chocolate cakes

Amin my food Techie son/kitchen messer!! has been using up a lot of my good chocolate which I bought all the way back from Singapore to make us these...soft centered chocolate cake. Actually kan these cakes only take less than 10 minutes to bake and around 10 minutes to prepare, anyway they really are sooo yummy and in actual effect uncooked chocolate cakes!! Tapi nyaman and not eggy or weird tasting, I think some restaurants around town also do this dish but at times overcook it so you dont get the soft centered effect!! I was going to put up the site from which Amin got the recipe tapi he said he had tweeked it to make it easier and has not allowed me to reproduce it here so liat gambar saja lah! He has served it here with thickened cream and a dash of chocolate sauce hearts.

Zahra's trip to the musuem

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!

Summer holidays ramblings..

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!