Food Adventure

Well, this is embarrassing. I should take a mental note not to blog when you're very sleepy. What was I thinking. "Drama going on over at high school"? I bet this is the part where Suburgatory is stuck in my head. Yeap. Definitely is. 

Moving on, this marks the second last day of being a girlfriend. Seriously, changing from a girlfriend to a fiancee is kinda big. It's like you have more responsibility that you already have. You even have another set of future family-in-laws. It is not that I wanna take a step back but this is different. Different from what I've used to for the last 1823 days. 

Let's take a break on that and see the photos that I've been meaning to post. Food. Food. Food.

I cannot tell you how much I LOVE I Am Cafe's cocktails. They're like AMAZING! Fish & Chips were my choice and those to-die-for rainbow crepes were his for our little tea time. The fish is light, crispy, not oily and fresh. A lil pet peeve though is that WHY NO LEMON in my fish & chips? It is the most basic essential in every fish and chips. 

Then it was my lil brother's 14th birthday. I'm in charge of baking his birthday cake and also an excuse to experiment something that I've been wanting to do for my engagement cake. and TADAAAAAA!! this is the end result! It was absolutely yums to the max. Who would ever say no to chocolate? Not me. Even dad & uncle says it taste like Secret Recipe's Chocolate Indulgence. 

There's a layer of crunchy nutella feuilletine with a soft chocolate sponge which is topped with luscious dark and milk chocolate mousse. And all is enclosed with rich dark chocolate glaze. Do I need to say more?

Then a dinner date with Mr. F @ Fish n Co. The food was good and the only thing I would rave about is the pasta and also the fries. Such a sucker when it comes to potatoes. Love love anything that has potatoes. Anw, the pasta, sauce is so creamy and sinful and the prawns are well seasoned.

An impromptu belated mother's day dinner at Ah Poh Kitchen which is located at Clementi Ave 2. The food here is definitely better than the ones at West Coast Plaza. It is the same company only that they have different name. Don't ask why coz I don't know. I think the cook here is more power thus the food is nice. Have to admit though, the service here is slow. So next time you're in Clementi, head over to Ah Poh Kitchen for good halal zi char. Oh, almost forgot, there is no GST or Service Charge which is definitely a PLUS!

Then there was the time when we (my family and Mr. F) had early dinner at Koh Nangkram, the Halal Thai food at Bugis. The pandan chicken and tom yam is the best! The chicken is tender, juicy and packed with flavor. No one like hard rubbery chicken right. Also, the tom yam is packed with spices. You can taste the sour, sweet and spicy. I live the heat it gives when you sip a little bit of that soup. Perfection. The only complain is that the service is slow, super slow. They had quite a number of staffs compared to the previous location they're at. Just tell your workers to chop chop go! fast fast go! Why can't we dine with excellent food and fast service but affordable? Hmm... 

And there was me just being greedy during lunch. Regular pizza all for myself. My colleagues was surprised as I am to finish all that at once. HAHAH... oh, don't you worry, I had a filling dinner too. :)

Can't remember what we did on that day but Churros was for tea time. SO GOOOOD. SOOOO SOOO GOOOD!

Oh, I remembered. It was a bagedil making session at home. HAHAHA. a bucket full of mashed potatoes waiting to be shaped and freezed. Intesive labour of peeling, cutting and frying those yellow goodness. Thanks to the handy dandy mini ice cream scoop, we had all the mashed potatoes the same size and it definitely makes the job so much faster. And I had to, just had to make it a lil heart shape. 

Leftover candies were lying around at home, and those wedding gifts from my cousin cousin's wedding. They had like cartons of sweets and gave some to us. So we packed them into individual little goodies bags to distribute to the little kids who will be coming over to the engagement. yup.

And lastly, the last feast for now. Hajjah Maimunah. Nothing to rave about. The food are just normal. A good thing that it was not my money, coz it doesn't worth spending so much on just average food. 

Finally all the photo of food are out of my phone and there are some space! I guess the next post will be about the engagement itself. 

xoxo,

Fiqah

Her 20th

So..... like I said, I made a super tall rainbow cake for Sis's birthday celebration. 

I don't know whats with me but my crazy side popped up so i decided to make that tall cake. It consists of 6 layers of vanilla cake with lemon curd & vanilla buttercream filling, then covered with thin layer of vanilla buttercream and topped with Yoshi fondant figurine.

so how? nice or not? hehehe... anw just fyi, I have a baking instagram @fleurdefarine . All cakes baked freshly at a halal kitchen and most importantly made by loveeeeeee. Heeeeeeee :D 

Ciao. 

xoxo,
Fiqah

57th

Today marks our 57th month as a couple which means i'm left with 3 more months to engagement. *squeals* Can't believe it that we actually made this far... I love you dear. 

so....

I think most of the stuffs are 30% done? Hahaha! I'm always procrastinating and when nearing I will stressed out myself. I am so damn ridiculous lah.  

Kitchen is done, rearranged the place and finally i managed to put my baking stuffs at a proper place. I have so many things, utensils especially, not including the sugar, flour, etc yet! 

My bedroom is also done with rearranging. Left with grandparents room which will be used for the engagement later on. Thinking about that, they have so many things in the room. I have NO IDEA why they like to keep unnecessary stuffs. Also, they hate it when I clean it, coz I will just throw away almost everything that I see unless it is important lah, you know what I mean right? And I Like to say, "Ni benda nak simpan lama-lama buat ape? buat dodol?" Hahahah.... no link with dodol but I just like to say it. Maybe next time I must say, "nak buat jeruk ke?" Hahahah! Biadap sungguh eh.

kk....

So here are the list that need to be done :

1. Clean grandparents room 

2. Find deco (ribbons, foam, clear boxes, etc) for the wedding trays ( fyi, i managed to borrow it from my aunt's brother-in-law, so I save on that!) 

3. Boyfriend's wallet - I thought of an idea but not saying it here coz he might read this. 

4. Buy Shawl

5. Buy & paint the house (sick & tired of the orange colour, NEED to change!)

6. Food - menu settled, only to purchase the ingredients and utensils. (decided to cook on our own, gotong royong lah kirekan.)

7. Cake - flavour & deco settled, only to purchase the ingredients and bake and decorate. (yup, I'm baking & decorating it on my own!)

8. Purchase chocolates / candies / fruit for the candy & fruit basket

9. Purchase Sejadah & Kain Pelikat. (I think we settled on this idea...hmmm...)

10. Purchase storage boxes & table (for desktop) from IKEA

wahhhhhhhh.... clearly there is alot of things to be done. all completed in 2 months? Definitely can if I stop procrastinating. Hehehehe.... 

Not forgetting, HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY SYASYA!!! welcome to the 20's club sista!

oh, oh, I made a super tall rainbow cake and a small yoshi fondant figurine topper for her. will post up the photos later.... ^^

Timecheck : 5.17pm.

less than half hour to end of work! :D

Ciao.

xoxo,

Fiqah

Should i or should i not?

Should I or should I not engage a MUA (Make-up Artist) for that day? I can't decide if I should do my own makeup, but then again, if I were to do myself it will super light. hahahaha! I just can't let myself to put on such thick makeup. 

hmmmmm... maybe I should eh? and the person I asked also available on that day. 

What do you think? Is it necessary to have a MUA? 

When I think back, I should do it if I want to look nice right? This is my problem here, I need opinions. But when I'm stuck at my office desk with limited network service (Singtel, you better do your job. Rebate ain't enough), I can't do much but wait till the end of the day to ask for opinions. Tapi ada masa eh nak blog segala. HAHAHA. Shhhhh...... 

How How How

Oh, on another happy note. I get to use my cousin's cousin's dulangs. Hehehe. not sure about the charge though. Aside from that, at least i need not worry so much in finding the dulangs. For the deco, I'm sure we can think of something to bedazzle the dulangs. 

And and on another happy note! I FINALLY FOUND THE ENGAGEMENT DRESS! HEHEHE. So this makes two things less to worry. Bought it last Sunday with mum, aunt, sis & cuz at geylang. Walked around and around and around looking at so many designs and me being so cerewet, i don't like most of it. Some caught my eye, but no stock, no size, not appropriate for the event until I found something that caught my eye that fits me!

But not so fast! It was my size and the last piece and it was SINGKAT! triple haisss lah. I was definitely upset coz it looks so nice on me and also the design, LAWA SEH. lucky for me, I have a backup piece. Tried that on instead & I love it! I love Red colour, like really lawa but they say that I need something that gives it more menyerlah. Leceh jugak tau ajak makcik & cuz aku ni, but they are super good at it! So we changed the colour but have the same design, BARU LAH MENYERLAH! HAHAHAH!!! & to my surprise I loved it too! 

kk enufff. hehe. gotta go back to work. I'm "snaking" right now. OOPPPSSS! byeeee~~~

xoxo,

Fiqah