Finally the commencement of my tai tai life today! Swam, had breakfast and housework for the rest of the day!

Finally my last day tomorrow. Have mixed feelings. Was really touched when my buddies held a 'surprise' farewell party for me. I have a lot of good friends there. Hopefully I can leave happily tomorrow. So looking forward to my break!

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It's been 2.5 years and i'm finally moving on. A couple of them got their letters today, made me sourish but I made the decision to leave cos the promo does not change anything except for the pay. I guess I need to be happy that I'm making a jump. Will miss the peeps though. Hopefully the people in the new place are nice. At least I'll be a taitai for 1 month!

I tot that I should have a post to commemorate 9th April 2010.

3 months after the wedding, I got pregnant quite unexpectedly only to find out and confirmed that 2 months later, it's an unhealthy pregnancy cos there was no fetus growing in the pregnancy sac. In medical terms, it's a Blighted Ovum.

Yesterday, I had a D&C procedure to evac the uterus. I was put to sleep so I had no idea how the procedure went. But i absoulutely do not feel anything now, so I'm officially not pregnant again. Have no idea why god wants me to suffer 9 weeks plus of pregnancy symptoms, but I always believe he has something in place for us.

To the 'baby' who was not there in the first place, maybe he or she will come back to us again when we both has a new and better job. Or maybe when I'm really a Tai Tai!

On the good note. I had a good grade for my performance bonus! Which means I had more bonus than the rest. Which also means, I can look forward to something this June!

Finally.
But I still want a new job. 2.5 years here have thought me a lot of things, I made a lot of new and good friends who have went through so much with me.
If only I can find a new job with even higher pay, good colleagues, LESS WORK.... :)

French Crepes

Always been a fan of crepes since we went to Japan last year. Japan's crepes had all sorts of filling.

When we were in France for our Honeymoon, we had to try crepes. So I had this 'Chocolate' filling (Not nutella because hubby doesnt like nutella) crepe. It was so nice during winter.

I have tried on 1 occasion to recreate the crepe, it tasted the same, but there wasn't this nice smell that filled the kitchen. Reckon it's because I didn't put in vanilla essence, so today, I found a recipe, with vanilla essence.

It works!

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Adapted from Famous French Desserts

Have changed the US measurements to metric and cut down the serving size to 4 so it's easier for me to refer.

Ingredients (for about 4 crepes):
60g Plain Flour from Cold Storage
150ml Whole Milk from Meiji
1 Egg
25g of butter from Lupark
(Cut off 1 25g, divide in 4 portions, and divide 1 of the portion into 2 to get approx 8g)
Note: 8g of melted butter to be mixed in batter, the rest of the butter for cooking crepe
Pinch of Salt
1 tsp Vanilla Extract from Bake King
1 tbsp of Butter at the side

Preparing the batter

1. Sift flour and salt in a bowl.
2. Make a well and pour in eggs. Stir well.
3. Slowly pour in milk while mixing, until small bubbles form on the surface.
4. Mix in Butter.

This is the texture I got.

If it's too thick, add more milk.


Preparing the Crepes:

1. Swipe Butter on folded paper towel, and wipe the pan evenly. Keep paper towel at hand while preparing crepes, in case you want to give it another wipe.
2. Pour in 2 - 3 tbsp. of batter and quickly move pan around, so that batter spreads evenly, covering the whole surface with a thin layer.
3. Let cook for about 1 minute. Then, flip with a metal spatula, and cook other side for about 30 seconds.

Repeat these steps until you are out of batter, stacking cooked crepes on a plate. Yum!

The Tai Tai Speaks!

So I've finally got down to creating this blog.

I'm not a tai tai yet. At least I hope soon. :p

But being a 'newly married and always interested by new amazing things' girl, I have decided to make full use of the kitchen, and the oven and of course to test the limits of my hubby, by WHACKING the kitchen.

This blog, is an attempt to store recipes. And hopefully, I do it consistently. Of course, I would have tried the recipes.

So I hope I do it more consistently than my own blog. :p

So it did not happen afterall.
I'm more than disappointed, cos the more I think, the more I bu suang.

But then, what can I do right. I guess it's time again.
Why am I always so unappreciated?

Sigh.

We got the letter today.
Bonus was not too bad considering the economic crisis.

However, the way it was given and the various discussion made me really sad.

I hope what I'm thinking will not happen, and what I wish for will happen.

No matter how unfair the system is, I'm still hoping to retain that bit of optimist and hopefully, it makes me feel happier.

Really hope so.

My boss sux big time!

I kinda quarrel with her and she got angry and stormed out!

But she sux at being a boss.

I hate her.

If it's going to jeopardize my promotion, so be it, I will go up and complain.

I had so much fun in Japan.

I love exploring places, walking as if time is not a factor, enjoying every bit of Japan.

I guess it I won't be going for any more trips any time soon. At least not after the wedding.

Anyway, had a hen's party today!

I made this.




Never realised I have such artistic flair.

We had fun at brewerks tonight!

So much beer. haha

Busy week ahead.