esok hari jadi ayieku sayang ...ting ting ting

hayai ne..esok bday hubby ku yang ke-26....muda lgi hikhikhik....
so apa plan esok? tatau....tatau...tatau......

sungai?
melon gari?
just the 2 of us?

nak masak utk ramai2 tak larat laaaaaa.....dou syiyou...mayocchau naaaaa....
at least bab prezzie dah settle hihi...

hoikuen hunting.....

　

a typical 保育園(hoikuen - nursery school) in japan...sekali pandang cam sekolah kan...yes sebab bilangan kanak2 yang dijaga dlm satu2 nursery school ni boleh mencapai 250 orang dr umur 6bulan- 3 tahun....taska kat msia berapa orang agaknya ek....

anyway...sekarang dlama proses mencari hoikuen untuk adik...he's 4 and 1/2 months now...but acts like an older child..otonashi....hihi....you might ask ... kenapa nak hantar hoikuen? yup...because i asked kak su that question sedangkan abg pali blh jaga faris...and yus asked kak ainun that same question since i'm available untuk jagakan adik....and the answer is... so the child gets to experience life amongst the japs...to get friends his own age...so that he can benefit from the education they receive in nursery schools...so that he can grow mentally....

for example..they learn discipline early on....my senior masa kat fukui dulu sent her daughter to hoikuen just for a few hours a day..and since they learn to drink from sippy cups in school she has stopped nursing from bottles at an early age....cuba kalau kita yang jaga maunye ada budak dah besar pun still pegang botol kan... and another senior here sends her son to  hoikuen too and he no longer needs a diaper...cm cepat sikit....plus they have activities at school like swimming..singing and such....

 bukanlah nak kata kita tak leh ajar anak kita buat cm tu kat umah kan...yes we can but it takes patience hard work and mcm2 lg...plus i have a theory that kids learn faster from their peers...siap penah tgk documentary about a study on children development..they had a group of same age babies play together..and one of the kids still couldn't crawl but the other could..and the mother said when they got home tiba2 je they baby leh crawl.... saaa naaa...

anyway...back to the hoikuen hunting thing... pening jugak la..one of the things that they stress upon is that the kid has to be 6 months and older...special case je leh hantar budak lagi kecik... diorang yuusen (pentingkan) org kerja..bila dengar parents adik students　ada hoikuen yang tak brapa nak amik adik...nak masuk hoikuen parents kena interview dulu... ada hoikuen tak nak amik sebeb polisi dia semua org kena makan benda sama melainkan ada surat doktor (utk kita yg muslim susah lah - kalau menu hari tu cik 'bab' cm ne)...kita mintak bincang bab tu pun dia kata tak boleh...tu polisi sekolah...hmmmmm

the search goes on..... hopefully adik gets in somewhere.... i myself as one of his caregivers want the best for him...

kuet teow kuey teow.......

ye.....saya hantu kuey teow....tp tak reti nak masak sendiri...hari tu masa balik ke nihon saya bawak kuey teow kering tu dua peket...first try macam biasa2 je la...tak de lah best mana pun....

n then the other day, saya g tgk gambar kuey teow goreng basah kat fb pn dart...ma aih  terliur...n then sampai nak tdo pun terkenang2 kuey teow goreng basah yang jual kat pasar malam sri putra tu.....

n so.....

inilah dia hasilnya....tak basah n tak de kerang....ganti ngan asari....n i know tauge dia nampak mentah....sebab memang mentah pun hahaha....i loike...hehe...n if tgk kat puncak dia tu....yes people home made cili jeruk .... cili first harvest from...jeng jeng jeng

 

si pokok cili ku..... n memandangkan dia baru  membuahkan hasil sebanyak 4 biji cili hijau je.....

 

cili jeruknya pun dapat banyak ni je lah....huhu sedey kan...tapi cukuplah memandangkan saya sorang je yang makan....nanti ada buah lagi kita buat lagi hehe

berakhirlah pencarian.....or maybe not just yet...

so today baru lah leh access myresipi.com tu after soooooo long server down....

and dah jumpa resipi kuey teow goreng basah yang saya sangatlah teringin nak makan ( seme sebab ari tu gi tgk pics puna dart kat fb......huhu ) but then what is kuey teow basah without the cili jeruk right....resipi tu pun dah jumpa hehe......

berakhirlah pencarian.....but just to be on the safe side i printed out 2 recipes....buat taste test n then i can proudly say i've found it.....hihi

big decisions....

when you grow up you have to make decisions on your own and not have someone else make them for you...sometimes you get help in making the decision...and sometimes you don't really like the decision you make but have to deal with it coz it's the best way to go....

when i think of decisions i remember the poem by robert frost that we learned in form 4 about the road not taken...somehow that poem has always stuck in my mind

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


so today i made a decision...a big one albeit a bit rushed..i didn't look down that road as far as i could...coz i'll be making a detour (pretty sure bout this...but not happy bout it) in a few months time... i'm taking the road less traveled by (well less traveled maybe never been traveled by fellow malaysians in toyohashi)... and i'm feeling a bit anxious about it although hubby ensures me that if i don't like it or if the fare costs too much...we can make a u-turn and come back to the place where the road diverged...and go down the other road....

to tell or not to tell????

to tell or not to tellllll......nanti la dulu

kisah chiffon tak jadi2.....

i guess chiffon cake ni my enemy lah....i don't know why dia tak mo kembang tinggi cam yang sepatutnya...

last time i didn't asingkan the egg white from the yolks properly....so egg white dia tak berbuih n tak kental...so dia jd leper lepas bakar....

this time...i guess i didn't get the temperature right.....so my kek chiffon kurosato (supposed to be gula melaka) itu tergaring sikit...n bila terbalikkan dia pun jadi leper kat tgh...

sedey la...tp hubby kata sedap walaupun rupa tak de....huhu..sayang hubby ckp cm tu...itsumo arigatou hubby deary