Banana and Oats Muffins

12muffins just taken out from oven

Ingredients:
1.5 cups of Oats (I used Organic Rolled Oats)
1.5 cups of Self-Raising Flour
1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda (0r 2 teaspoon Baking Powder)
0.5 teaspoon Salt
2 Eggs
0.5 cup Brown Sugar (I used Organic Cane Sugar)
1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
1/4 cup Milk
1/4 cup Corn / Olive Oil
2 Large Bananas, mashed

Methods:
1. Mix everything. The texture should not be too hard or too watery. Adjust accordingly with oats and milk. If it is too watery, add more oats; if it is too hard, add more milk.
2. Bake in muffin tray, cupcake paper cup or any type of small casings. I baked in muffin trays of 12muffins, which I put cupcake paper cups onto it.
3. Bake about 15mins in 220degree celcius.

I just love these Banana and Oats Muffins. The muffins do not taste too sweet as I used cane sugar instead of castor sugar. They are healthier as well as they contain very little oil and no butter at all, and also using Oats as the main ingredients.

Will try more baking in the future. :=)

CPA

Oh... I'm so excited.

I checked with CPA Australia KL branch on the status of my application for advancement to CPA. The officer told me that my application is awaiting for signature from one of the officers by end of this month and thereafter they would issue written confirmation and shall post to me early of next month.

I'm actually awaiting for it to come in as my Mother's Day present. hehe... can save money ma... keke...

But seem like it won't come in before Mother's Day. I need to think about getting another gift for my mum.

Another question in my mind. What should I do with my CPA? Continue to stuck myself in my current small company with tiny income? Change job for better future which is strongly agreed by everyone? But I want to change job and move to UK to spend more time with J. Hmmm... J seems to have other opinion and not so agree on this. Haiiii... another dilemma...

Can I have a simpler life???? I hate all these dilemmas and stress on me.

Dear God, please bless with me with simple life, least stress and most happiness. Please give me strength to overcome all these obstacles. Please bless J and me. Amen.

Dilemma...

J need to decide whether to join his family trip to States in July in the coming few days.

But meanwhile, in my heart I'm hoping that he could actually come back in August for our 3 yrs anniversary. I think he knows I wish he could come back.

However, I don't want to force him. He has not joined any of his family trip for the last 2 yrs because he already spent all his holiday in KK with me. But I wish we could at least spend one more holiday together this year. I couldn't even think that I could only meet him next yr, make me really miserable and heart-ache.

Hai... in dilemma now. He is in dilemma too, but he didn't tell me what makes him in this situation. Why can't he be more straight forward to me le? I find it very difficult to us recently as he is damn busy. Sometimes he works and speaks to me in the same time, he ends up not concentrating on me. Am I selfish? Arghhhh...

Saturday...

Quiet, peaceful, no hassle, no stress Saturday... I just can't help myself loving this kind of life.

Been so relax today. Worked for half day and came home after picking up my uncle. Went for KFC with my parents and uncle. Shopping in Giant (we do this every Saturday). Came home and did some baking.

Baked a tray of 12 Banana and Oats Muffins. Very nice smell and fragrance while the muffins still baking in oven. Tasted quite good as well esp it's healthy as I used Organic Rolled Oats, Organic Brown Sugar and only 1/4 cup of oil. I just love it, and I can't deny that I love oats so much... healthy ma...

Watched some drama series and surfing net.

Going to eat dinner soon and I could feel my tummy is protesting... haha...

Later I will need to send my uncle home and will meet my friends for tea. One of my friends just came back from Singapore and I have not met here for 9 yrs + now. Can't wait to meet this pretty lady...

And hopefully, I could catch up some time with J. I miss him so much. Wish could c him in cam and talk to him.

This is my boring yet meaningful Saturday.

1 CENT

1 cent? Who bother the value of 1 cent?

Ppl kiasu like me now working so hard to dig out all the 1 cent and gather all together, hoping could exchange with the bank for other monetary value like 20 or 50 cents. Hehe... When you have a lot 1 cent, it could make up to few ringgit.

We used to have RM1 in coin form which was abolished few years back. I still have some of them with me. I should just exchanged them with the bank. Sigh... maybe at that time I wasn't that kiasu... hehe...

No choice... now everything is so expensive... everything increased in price but decreased in sizes or quantity... So gotta be kiasu too... :P

Pity...

J has been working almost 24 hours a day (except for his 6 sleeping hours which is also inadequate). He has been working after work as well at home. Apparently, he even works during his lunch time and most of the time he just ends up having simple sandwiches at his desk.

OMG. I just feel pity for him. I understand that it is a big project and it's his job to finish it. But, is it necessary to make my beloved J to work in this manner day and night and some more for 5 weeks? That sounds crazy to me... Can't the company employ more people to get involved in aid of this project?

I personally do not feel good nor happy to know that J is over-worked, over-stressed, under-rest, under-eat etc.

I just feel pity for him and wish I could be there to accompany him.

Dear Lord, please protect J. Give him the strength to overcome all obstacles that he may face. Make him strong. Comfort him when he need you the most. Give him the courage to face all uncertainties. And most importantly, make him happy. Amen.

Whole KK Blacked Out On 21-Apr-08

Yesterday, when I just finished my shower and drying my hair, suddenly my house blacked out. I quickly ran down to find my mum. Was thinking to dine out if she had not cooked our dinner yet. Too bad, she was half way cooking. No choice, had to eat at home. It was 6.45pm at that time.

Next, I tried to call 15454 to make complaint to SESB. Tried many times but couldn't get thru. My mum and I dined at dark with 2 candles. At 7.30pm, my aunty who is staying in Penampang called to check if my house was also blacked out. My uncle said it was so romantic at this dark environment.

Texted my friends and knew that whole KK was blacked out and other district areas like Sandakan and Tawau were also affected.

Eventually my mum and I felt too bored that we decided to sleep. Of course I couldn't as it was too hot. My NDS was also out of batt. At the end, I fall asleep while listening my Ipod.

Finally, our electricity supply back to normal at 10pm. I woke up at that time with sweaty shirt.

No idea why this black-out could happen, showing ineffectiveness of Malaysia SESB?????

Shame shame.

Feel so shameful today. Hai...

I just don't really favour of my boss' idea of going outstation every month. Always say business trip but in fact it is HOLIDAY. When he is not around, of course he won't know every single thing happens in the office and house. Whenever he is not WELL informed, he will bombard me left and right wihtout giving any face.

Just like what happened today. His best friend in fact took 6 big fishes and wanted to let the fish to stay temporarily in my boss' big pond, which costed more than RM20k. I thought he had already informed my boss bout it and the fishes are so big, heavy and so bulky to carry. Things happened so fast that his friend just put the fishes (together with the water that came with it from the previous pond) into the pond. Some more he told me not to inform my boss bout it.

Who knows? I told my uncle bout it when he called me on some official deal. He bombarded me left and right, asking me why I didn't take an initiative to give him a call before his friend put the fish into the pond, the water may contain bacteria la etc etc etc...

OMG... I don't mind he scolded me because sometimes I could be stupid and careless.

Just now, I called a KL friend (supplier as well) to ask about some quotes. He was laughing when he picked up my call and said "Clarice, I know you were being scolded just now. I overheard everything when your boss scolded you just now.hahahaha..."

OMG... I felt so shame at that point of time and I don't know what to say and how to react. At the end, I just told him that I already used to it coz this friend also knew bout my boss' character (love to bombard ppl no matter right or wrong). Then this friend made fun and said just take it as entertainment ah. ENTERTAINMENT?????? I don't take it as this way. When you are being consistently bombarded/scolded everyday no matter what you have done right ot wrong, it's really no longer entertainment!!! At a certain point, sometimes I could not even diffentiate what is right, what is wrong. Could you imagine the seriousness>????

Another point is, should he scold ppl till the whole world also "well informed"???? Is this the way a CHRISTIAN should behave?

Sigh.... damn bad mood now....

Miss You

I miss J so much. So much that my tears drop down to my cheek everytime I miss him. Hope so badly that I could be by his side all the time. My heart so hurt.

God, please lead us in our relationship, J means so much to me. God, please make me stronger, I don't want my pillow always wet by my tears.

Bad Luck????

Sometimes I need to do a lot of photocopy job in my office. It's kinda common that my fingers got cut by paper. Normally it would be just minor cut and bleed for a bit.

Today, again, my ring finger was cut by paper when I flipped the paper for photocopy. I could actually feel the paper cut deep into my finger this round. I know it would bleed more than usual as it's deep. Immediately I put my finger into my mouth and the next moment I was like "drinking" my own blood.

Got no idea why was the paper so sharp that it made a deep cut. Luckily it stopped bleeding after few minutes. Who knows? While I was taking a 3" arch file out from the cabinet, my finger started to bleed again when I applied pressure to take the heavy file out.

Why am I so prone to be cut by paper? Why paper always bully me??? Or actually it's me that being careless all the time???

Fake Friendship...

Time will show us who is/are our sincere, truthful, honest friends.

Recently, I have just "black-listed" someone that I don't with at all. This girl (I almost wanted to say some bad and dirty words to her) has been trying to chat to me one day in MSN. When I saw her buzz me, I thought she just wanna have casual chat which I don't mind. Who knows her 1st sentence to me was about J's family. Next question was about me and J's family. I never been close to her at all, even she was my ex-secondary school mate.

She has never been my close friend before, definitely not those that we could share any sweet and sour moments. I didn't feel great at all when she was digging my personal stuffs, which got nothing to do with her at all.

I told J about this as it bothered me a lot. He told me not to bother her at all and never let all these to bother my life.

In CNY, again, she was trying to dig about me and J from my close friends. She chose the wrong persons to ask. They all refused to tell her anything as they knew her character. At the end, everyone told me what she has done.

I could only conclude that what she has done is "unethical" and the end of the story is she lost all my trust on her. If she is so keen to know more bout me and J, she should come to speak to either me or J, not thru any unauthorised third parties.

Thanks girl for everything that you have done to me. I learnt the lesson and become more wiser n wiser now.

Manuka Honey Active 5+

I love Manuka Honey so much. It's like a miracle drink to me now...

I had been suffering from ulcer in my mouth for more than a week and it had not been subsiding at all. I hate the pain so much as it bothered me so much esp when I eat and sleep. I have tried those China Watermelon Frost pills, no use. Then, I tried Bonjela which should be very useful. Who knows the Bonjela at home smelled and tasted funny, I ended up throwing it into dustbin. Already feeling so hopeless about this ulcer and it caused me having sore throat too.

So, I tried to take some Manuka Honey that was given my J's mum when I went to London last year, hoping it could at least cure my sore throat.

The next day, my sore throat not only gone, even my ulcer subsided too. :=) Hehe...

Now everytime I don't feel alright, I will take my Manuka Honey. I think I need to get another tub of Manuka Honey now. My supply is going to be finished soon...

Lonely

I'm very sensitive and emotional.

2 days ago, J told me that he didn't eat much for dinner coz he had no more rice to boil. I didn't feel great to know this. He was very busy and I guess he won't bother to spend time driving to refurnish his rice supply. Hence, I bought a bag for him thru online shopping, hoping to make him felt touched as well.

Who knows? He asked me why was I bothered to buy him when I asked him whether he received the confirmation email from the shop and also if the parcel has arrived. My heart felt so "sour", feeling like what I has done was useless.

We had not been talking properly for almost a week now. Our time together is getting shorter and shorter. I feel blissful when J was here to accompany me, but most of the time I felt lonely when he was back to his own world. I couldn't do anything when I miss him, except texting him. But he got no time to entertain me at all coz he is currently busy with his new project, and actually he is always busy.

Oh God, please help me.... I don't want all this. I don't want to cry everytime I don't feel happy. I don't want to cry everytime I miss him. I don't want loneliness. I don't want to be helpless. I don't want to be weak though I have been to be as strong as I could. God, please help me.........

Sigh... Ulcer goes away from me...

I got difficulties eating, drinking, talking and even bother me when I sleeps. The ulcer is getting painful everyday. Can't even open my mouth wide. Hai.

Woke up in the middle of the night last night due to the pain. At the end, I just simply took a piece of this Watermelon Frost Lozenges, hoping that at least it could subside bit of the pain. Not too bad, I could get back to sleep till morning.

When I woke up, still painful as last night. And the worst thing is I could feel pain as well at the right side of my throat. haiii...

Hopefully it is not getting worse. I do not want to spend my weekend with any illness...

Yummy^^^^^

Yup, my banana bread and butter pudding turn out to be very yummy....

I hope I could post photo of it but I lost my camera $&^%&%^^ Actually it's stolen. hai... no one to blame... could just blame myself for being careless... :(

Now gotta 'dig" money to buy a new one... haiiii...

Banana Bread & Butter Pudding

Gonna bake another batch of banana bread & butter pudding tonight... I'm craving for it... :P

Guess J will scold me for eating "rubbish" again... He doesn't like me eating other food other than main course.

Bank B vs Bank M

I had been maintaining a saving account with Bank B (Malaysia local bank - Bxx Nxxxxxxx), u should be able to guess it now :P). Wasn't really into this bank but opened it long time ago because it was claimed an aunty that this bank B got a lot of branches in KL. So, I opened it for that sake when I was studying in KL.

I had not been updating my bank book of this account for 4 years. So, since my bro was going to this Bank B to bank-in some cheques, I got him to update my bank book too. SHOCKED me when I saw over this 4 years, masuk RM43.90, keluar RM34.00. So balance from this will be RM9.90 = RM2.48 interest per year??????? OMG.... #^#*%(^(*

Finally, I got the chance yesterday to go to bank and closed this account. I questioned the cashier for the above RM34.00. She said it was a standard charges for ATM card holder. She kept quiet when I asked her why this wasn't happen in other local banks. I told her nvm, I wanted to close my account. Hehe... She was puzzled. Guess what? I waited for 30MIN just to wait for her to close my account and calculate that few hundreds ringgit back to me. Hai... no wonder my aunty commented this bank "never maju". Now I know why...

Soon after I had done with this Bank B, I almost like run away from it, didn't want even stay there for another second. I crossed over the street to Bank M and deposited my money there. I bet I will get more in return with Bank M, from my past with them. :P

Learnt the lesson. Will tell all my fellow friends not to open bank account in Bank B... keke... :P

Bread & Butter Pudding

Baked some bread & butter pudding yesterday. My mum and me tried it when we took it out from oven and it didn't taste that great. Wasn't sweet enough and slightly dry. I was bit disappointed and was thinking how to finish the whole baking dish.

After 2 hours, mum had some again for tea with dad. She told me it tasted "alright" and "not too bad". I wasn't really into it as I thought mum must be only trying to comfort me.

This morning, I heated some up in microwave and surprisingly it tasted great. I could taste the butter, milk and egg taste and it is as moist as it should be. I love it.

My mum called me and told me everyone said it was nice. She brought some to office and her collegues and my another aunty tried it. She didn't heat it up after she took it out from the fridge.

Hehe... I'm going to bake more bread & butter pudding this weekend or maybe before this weekend. I'm craving for it now... hehe... :P

Sunday 6-Apr-08 Blood Donation & Baking Day

SP and me were too early arrived at Citymall. We went for some fish noodle for breakfast, then back to Citymall again. Surprisingly, I was the first donor of the day. This blood donation is organized by Rotaract Club KK.

The QE blood back staffs took all my personal details and checked my blood pressure. My blood pressure was again slightly high, the staff checked my blood pressure for the second time again and luckily my blood pressure back to normal 130-80. According to him, our blood pressure will be slightly high after our meals. Next, another staff checked my blood HB to ensure I have enough blood for myself and more to donate. I can't believe it when she told me I just have enough blood and I could only donate a small bag, instead of the big bag.

Another staff gave me anestatic (if i didn't spell wrongly) injection before he proceed to put in the bigger needle to transfer my blood to the bag. It only took 3 minutes to fill up the bag.

Went home after that. SP gave me a hamper (from SL) for donating blood and also for my new house. My parents were not too happy that I donated blood coz I tend to feel dizzy sometimes.

I baked bread and butter pudding while waiting for mum to prepare lunch. I got the recipe from 5xmom website. I cut down bit on the sugar. My bread and butter pudding ended up not sweet and bit dry. I should add more milk. Anyway, It's still tasty and yummy... :P took some just now and going to have more for tomorrow breakfast with milo... yummy... :P

Maybe I should try to bake another batch of bread and butter pudding next Saturday. Must remember to add more milk, sugar and raisins. Wish me good luck ya... :P

Saturday 5-Apr-08

Mum woke me up at 6.30am. I woke up like zombie. Was on skype with J until 4am that am and only slept for 2 hours. We headed to Nirvana for grave cleaning for my maternal side grandparents, mum's grandmum and brother. Was a sunny and in fact hot day. We still feel the heat though they set up (part of their promised service) 3 big umbrellas. We spent bout 45 min there. Basically, mum and aunty spent lots of time setting up for the praying etc etc. Me, bro and uncle did our own (we are christians) praying to respect the passed away one.

Next, we headed to another cemetery to pay our respect visit for my mum's grandparents. The sun was even hotter, esp we need to climb up to top of the hill this round.

Got home around 10am. I immediately took fresh shower. Was supposed to go to QE Hospital to donate blood for SL's grandmum. Her grandmum is going to undertake a major operation for her back bone. She is undertaking it under high risk of 50-50 as she is having kidney problem as well. Even if her operation success, it is still uncertain whether she could walk like normal, she may paralyse for the rest of her life. Better not talk about what if the operations fails.

I was really tired and dizzy by the time I had my breakfast. I ended up on bed sleeping till 5pm. I was having great time watching my drama series whole night till midnight. By the time J called me, I was already in my dreamland.

Friday 04-Apr-08

We ended up our Friday night at Starbucks Citymall. YW was sick. He lost his voice. Hence, we all lost our motivation to play board games in Carcasean Cafe. YW knows how to play most of the games there, so normally he is the one that shows us how to play every game.

Was a quite fruitful night as we managed to catch up with each other and chit chat for bits and pieces. :=)

Carcasean Cafe - Citymall KK

Carcasean Cafe is running by a ex-primary schoolmate of mine. Basically, you just need to order a cup/glass of drink of minimum RM4.50, then you could spend your time from their opening hour 10:00am to 12:00am there playing all sorts of board games which are imported from Germany.

It's fun and all our friends are addicted to the games now. In fact, I only played about 6 games there. Drinks there are quite good too. My friend is doing Lavazza coffee (Italian coffee), of course, you would expect every plate, cup, glass, coffee bean, coffee maker, etc are printed with Lavazza coffee trademark. The price is almost Starbucks/Coffee Bean kind of price, or just slightly cheaper. But, it's still worth it since we can spend so many hours there, meanwhile we could "exercise" our brains as well...

Hence, I'm going there again tonight... hehe... See you tonight Carcasean... :P

Down...

Sigh... I'm not in the mood for anything today...

No mood to work...

No mood to shopping...

No mood to eat... no appetite at all...

No mood to walk... surviving like zombie today...

No mood to think... my brain is not working today apparently...

Just want to bury myself into my pillow and sleep forever. Then, I don't need to think so much...

Sigh... I'm hopeless...

Here...

Hmmm... I think this is a better place for me to blog. Was blogging in wordpress but the complicated options give me headache. Blogspot is simpler. Better for lazy people like me... :P