Go watch this!

My handsome Dan will be playing, hence definitely worth spurlging your RM30 or RM20 (if you're still a student or if you're old enough to be considered a senior citizen and for the disabled) for the ticket *hee

P.S. And if you do make it for the Saturday show, you're most welcome to join Dan and my family for some mean heart-attack noddles, which is just opposite of Hosp. Besar for supper *yum yum

Only 2

At this very moment in time, I'm uncertain and unsure about almost everything in my life.

The only 2 things in life that I'm very sure of are;
1. God is always in control - and that His good plans and ways will always prevail.
2. The man that I'm very much in love with (which is Dan), is the only man that I want to marry, share and spend the rest of my life with.

My surname is NOT 'Toh'!!!

This week's gig is very challenging and fun. If u like Brazilian music come check out Angelita Li from the 23rd to the 26th @ Groove Junction. Cover charge for the first 2 nights (23rd&24th) is RM30 and RM60 for the second 2 nights (25th&26th). If u wanna have dinner, a RM150 package is provided.
Angelita Li is a jazz artiste from Hong Kong and has toured Asia for many many years. U can check her out here:

Vchannel-Angelita

or here :

Myspace-Angelita

The BEST part bout this gig is Daniel 'Toh' is written on the poster as their bass player...haha. I don't quite know who's Daniel Toh.....but i'm Daniel Foong and i'm holding a bass on stage and playing the bass on this gig....

We start at 9pm on wed and thurs and 10pm on fri and sat. Come check us out before u miss out on this gig nearby u..I think we're kinda already booked for Thailand and some other jazz festival...not sure but u might not be seeing her till maybe a couple of months or a whole year.


On another separate story...Cass' lemon cake rocks!!!!! As she is unemployed now, pls feel free to place home-baked cakes from Cass...haha ... i'm sure she will give u special discount... $$$$

I'm jobless, therefore I bake

I've been baking A LOT for the past week. For the mean time, it's the only thing that is keeping me occupied - or my mind will start churning up negative and miserable thoughts. Sometimes I wonder whether I'd made the right decision by resigning from my previous job. But when I think of it again, I felt so much more down when I'd the job. Its just that the process of searching for another job, is making me a tad depressed - can't seemed to find one that suits me or is to my liking.
I'll be turning 23 soon, and at times I'm still not sure of my career pathway.

Dan has been doing a great job by cheering me on constantly - thanks Hub. I do wish he was physically more available, but he has been extremely busy with work. Am excitedly glad that he is doing well in his career :) At least there's something to celebrate and be happy about :) - hence all the more to bake and feast *hee

Well let's get back to food :) Apple bread pudding is simple to make. Just add slices of one whole apple to the bread pudding recipe.

The apple bread pudding was a tad more mushy compared to the normal bread pudding. But it still taste yummy. Goes well with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream. You can also replace the apple with bananas - it'll taste equally good :)

I like to alter recipes according to my liking - hence for this bread pudding recipe, I added in brown sugar.

The outcome: the crust has a darker shade of brown - looks burnt, but in real fact it isn't. In terms of taste, it is much more finger-licking-good compared to the original recipe. If you were to compare the apple bread pudding with this one, you'll notice the crust is significantly lighter. For the apple bread pudding, I did not use brown sugar.

Bread Pudding Recipe (modified by Cass)
ING:
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 cup granulated white sugar
1/8 cup brown sugar
6 slices crust-on white bread
2 small boxes of Ligo golden seadless raisins
1 & 1/4 cups of milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
Some margarine
8 inch square tray

DIR:
1. Preheat oven at 175 deg. Celsius.
2. Add cinnamon and sugars together - mixed well. Put aside.
3. Grease tray with margarine.
4. Spread one side of bread with margarine.
5. Cut bread diagonally - half. Arrange the triangle-shaped bread in the tray, slightly overlapping with one another - butter side-up.
6. As bread is added, sprinkle the sugar mixed and raisins onto the first layer.
7. Repeat steps 4-6 for the next layer.
8. Mixed milk, eggs and vanilla essence in a bowl. Pour over bread.
9. Set aside for 15 minutes.
10. Bake for 30 minutes, or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Up next is Lemon Frosted Lemon Cake. A favourite among my family and Dan. This is my second trial, and it turn out prettily well. If you remembered the post on my first trial, it came out ugly - like some sort of volcano cum mountain *hee

Lemon Frosted Lemon Cake
ING:
226g unsalted/salted butter
1 cup granulated white sugar
4 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
zest of 1 large lemon/2 small lemons
2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup (60ml) lemon juice
9 inch round tray

For icing:
115g icing sugar (sifted)
2 tbsp or more lemon juice (according to preference on thickness and lemon taste)

DIR:
1. Preheat oven at 180 deg. Celsius. Grease tray with butter/margarine.
2. Cream butter and sugar till light, fluffy and pale in colour.
3. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Followed by lemon zest and vanilla.
4. Stir in flour, baking powder, salt and lemon juice.
5. Bake about 40 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
6. Allow cake to cool.
7. Mixed icing sugar and lemon juice together, and pour mixture over the cake.

Would you like a slice of Lemon Frosted Lemon Cake? :P~

P.S. To my other unemployed friends, have fun trying out the recipes :)

Life in point forms

1~I'm jobless. Wooo...
2~Just resigned from Nestle Manufacturing Shah Alam on Wed.
3~Received an offer from Nestle Head Office (HOU) yesterday, to be part of the sales team.
4~Told HOU that I just resigned from the other Nestle a couple of days ago.
5~HOU said they would get back to me, but I'm quite skeptical. Hmm..
6~I went nuts because of mum. She's been brutally hard on me since my resignation.
7~As a result, I drove Dan nuts too 0_0
8~I hope we won't make 'nutty' babies in the future.

Let the music heal your (foot) sole...

This week i'll be playing both fri and sat at Groove Junction.
On Fri : Giant Timeline & Elvira Arul (my band) will be doing the usual funk, R&B and soul repertoire.
Rated : WW
On Sat: I'll be sessioning for veteran jazz pianist, David Gomes. He's a frequent jazz-er in international jazz festivals world-wide and has obtained an acclaimed reputation as a very stylistic jazz pianist and singer as well.
Rated: MW

Both nights starts @ 10pm and the club's cover will be RM30
Groove Junction is at Desa Sri Hartamas.

Looking for better opportunities

I've just resigned from my job, and I'm truly glad that I did :)

So many things to be excited about

I'm currently so overwhelmed with excitement!
There's just so many things to look forward to - my first real job, my future with Dan etc etc etc...
Yup, the list is unending.

Though life will be a tad more busier for the both of us, I've confidence that we'll still have time for one another, family and friends.

I wish I could completely express all of the excitement within me, but I've no idea where to begin.
I'm like a little girl with a bag of candies in her hand, and I can't decide on which candy to unwrapped and taste first *hee

I'm just thankful and grateful to God for His constant favour and blessing in Dan and my life - and we're still looking forward to more :)

A Must Watch Gig

A not to-be-missed gig for this coming week would be GIANT TIMELINE featuring saxophonist JULIAN CHAN, which will be held at GROOVE JUNCTION, Desa Sri Hartamas on THURSDAY (10th JULY '08), 10pm.

From left to right; Wei Li on Keys, Faz Aznam on Guitar, Julian Chan on the Saxophone, Daniel Foong on Bass, & Steve Naris on Drums

I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE everyone to be there. It'll be a ONE in A LIFETIME gig :) There will not be any cover charge on that day, so there's no reason for your girls and guys to miss it *hee

You'll enjoy every second of it, right from the beginning and till the very end of the show - 100% GUARANTEED :)

This gig is definitely rated WW.

Sushi wushi

It was a whole day affair for Dan and I yesterday. We spent our time around KL - mostly window shopping, and we managed to watched the movies "Wanted" and "Hancock" too :) Both movies were equally good, but if you're a huge fan of action-packed movies - "Wanted" would be a must watch.

We had lunch in Sungei Wang - I never knew that they had a food court located at the rooftop of the car park area. Food there is way cheaper than the ones located within the mall, so it's a really good place to have a good and cheap meal.

On the contrary, we had dinner at Sushi King, BTS. Its been awhile since I'd sushi, and the price of sushi has escalated tremendously 0_0 Still tastes good though :P~

We had only 6 different types of dishes (shown above), which amounted to RM41.60! I do know that Japanese cuisines have never been cheap, but I guess with the price increase in petrol and all - everything is getting more and more expensive 0_0

Maybe I should pack lunch & dinner the next time Dan and I do spend the whole day out *hee

The first & last baking session for this month

I'd intended to bake only once today, but my youngest sister kept pestering me the WHOLE morning to bake muffins during the night too - hence I ended up baking TWICE today, and it is definitely going to be the first & last baking session for July *Phew! Baking is extremely costly =_= I should find myself another hobby that doesn't require a single penny.

Baking butter cake was on my morning agenda. Woke up at around 7.30am, went for a jog, skipped breakfast, and started with the baking.

The butter cake was lovely. Soft and fluffy :)

Right after having dinner with Dan & my family, my litter sister and I started preparing the batter for the chocolate chip muffin. The batter was really sticky, had quite a difficult time transferring 'em into the paper cups.

The outcome: The muffin wasn't as sweet as we expected it to be. Good for those on a diet, but not for the sweet tooths.

After the cleaning, I felt really tired. In actual fact, I was done not too long ago. Still contemplating whether to jump straight into bed, or to take a bath *hee

Honestly speaking, I really need to shower :P

A kg a week does not keep the doctor away

Life has been pretty mundane for me since completion of my internship.
I've been home bound for the past week - eating, watching endless re-runs on tv, surfing the net, and more eating *smiles guiltily
I've only have another week of break left before starting my first day of work in Nestle as a product technologist, hence I'm trying my utmost best to savour this temporary mundaneness :)
Well there's nothing new about me to update on - other than the fact that I've put on 1 kg in just a week :P
I'm hoping I won't pile on another kg by the end of next week 0_0

Beware of Corn and Spam, Con and Scam.

This evening a Chinese man in his 20's rang on my doorbell. He claimed to be a representative from Nabinco Network Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Welley Sdn. Bhd. He said he was conducting a consumerism survey in conjunction with the opening of the company's shopping complex. After asking me a few basic consumer-related questions, he proceeded to explain that as an opening promotion, the shopping complex is having a lucky draw contest. Upon unveiling my lucky draw coupon, he said i won a mystery gift which could be a car. This whole conversation took place for about 30mins and he was trying to fish for a lot of my personal information and also trying to convince me to let him in as my grill door was still locked. Finally, his true agenda was revealed. He said that since the company will also advertise me as a lucky winner, i had to first pay RM3,880 cash for advertising fees and road tax/insurance for a car that i supposedly just 'won'. So i told him i wasn't interested and asked him to leave. I immediately ended the conversation and closed my apartment door.
Be aware of scams like this. Do not be hasty in giving any of your personal information to any strangers even if they offer you lucrative prizes. Always be suspicious and careful to scams.
Shortly after, i went online to google up the company names and found out that they were fraud companies. Knowing the person was still around my apartment premises, i called the police and tell them to arrest this guy. Apparently, the cops in Setapak branch station near where i live don't even know what i was talking about. They kept transferring my calls to different officers. Obviously they sounded so ignorant and lazy. Hence, it is up to ourselves to fend for our safety and be aware of scam-mers.

p/s: i left out a lot of details in this story, too lazy to type. Ask me if u wanna know more.