Mom was at my Sister’s place.  She rang me the other day asking me to come over as she has something interesting to show.  When I arrived (the next day), she showed me a durian in a durian.

Very interesting but the shocking thing I found out is… she actually stop everyone from further eating the durian just to save them for me to photograph/blog.  I.AM.SO.TOUCH.!!!

Mom even can suggest few angle point to shoot the durian in the durian and she insist that I should lift up the tiny durian and take another shot.  She makes me go, “Ma, why don’t you go get yourself a blog.” Wakakaka!!!

Another shocking thing is, “THEY ATE DURIAN ALSO NEVER CALL ME OVER!!!!”  HOW CAN!!!!

With kids around, we hardly cook spicy food at home.  What’s more with this nice looking squid?  This is what my Mom used to cook for us when we was younger.

Stuff some minced pork (marinate with soy sauce, papper, sesame oil and tapioca or cornflour) into the squid’s cavity, pour oyster sauce on it then steam them till done.

Top row:  Grilled Taiwan sausage, chives omelette (homegrown!), mangosteens.
Bottom row:  Inarizushi (rice stuff in tofu skin) and stuffed squid.

Good thing this is a back dated bento but looking back, I recalled that night I replied Hubby’s sms that read, “Throw away the damn food if you are not coming home to eat.”  That is because Hubby “suddenly” decided to change his plan for not coming home for dinner.  Good thing I’ve never post my bento on date and that way, I don’t put grouges in the blog.

Close up:

Grilled Taiwan sausage and home grown chives omelette

Inarizushi

Squid stuff with minced pork

During our recent 2 days/one night trip to Cameron Highlands, I came home with over 400 shots.  Day by day, my pc memory is running low.  Thanks to the 16gb external hard.  Instead of clogging up my blog with pictures, now I have them uploaded in Facebook.  I will still choose some of my favourite shots to share with those who is not in my Facebook account.

This is my 4 years old Little Missy occasionally aka Little Miss Troublemaker or Baby Princess but today I shall address her as Little Missy.  You will know why after looking at her poses.

Tips:  The thing with .jpeg files.  The more editing (resizing) you do, the quality is reduced by the number of usage.  So each time you resize them, got to sharpen it.  By then, you will get very crappy picture. The lazy me always do this.  Open the original picture (2888px), resized them at 600px for Facebook upload (sharpened it), resized them again at 200px for scrapbooking (sharpened it), finally resized again the scrapbook layout to accommodate my blog. (No more pixel to sharpen)  Crappy isn’t it!  If can, always use original picture and never reuse the resized picture.  Geddit?

Have you guys watch Transformers – Revenge of The Fallen?  If you do, you will notice Sam Witwicky address Bumble Bee as ‘Bee’.  Not sure about you but I think that name is a bit sissy to be used for a robot.  And to make him look more sissy, why on earth does he (Bee) have to weep a bucket (a scene in Sam’s garage).  And that scene of Sam parent’s garden is so beautifully ruin.  Awesome!  I wonder how much does the home insurance quote gonna pay for a new house.

By the way, here is some ‘Bees’ photographs that I took in Bees Farm in Cameron Highlands.  The purple flower is lavendar and they have heaps in the farm!

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We went up to Cameron Highlands over the weekend.  As usual, most car will stop at the waterfall to take a break from motion sickness.  While taking pictures of these wild mushrooms, a local man came over and told me they actually consume them.  Errr… no thanks!

Before we continue our journey up the winding road, Daddy can’t resist buying some golden yellow looking bananas.

My suaku kids is so used to seeing barcode scanner in Hypermarkets.  They was pretending weighing banana on the weighing machine used in pasar malam.

More post on Cameron Highlands after this 😉

The other day my Sister gave me a big plastic bag of her home grown organic Roselle. The buds is so pretty!  So ang-ang (red)!  The best way to bring out the shot is by having a white background.  This is how i do it.

Lay a piece of white paper as the background.  Use a white ceramic bowl.  Switch on your flash and viola!  You get white background and a shadow.  Unlikecropping of the background which will make your subject look so fake.

Now that I’ve got the shot taken, it’s time for cooking.  The taste of Roselle drink is very close to Ribena  minus the colouring and artificial flavouring.

Peel the petals.  Discard the seed. Boiled the petals in water for 30 minutes and sweetened the drink with rock sugar.

This Daddy hor, he is very weird wan.  I asked him to get me a packet of rock sugar.  He always come back with 2 packets of sugar anything!  Now that remaining one packet of rock sugar is taking up space in my fridge. *blueh!*

Chilled Roselle in the fridge.  Do not discard the buds as they are consumable. Another flash photography on the drinks.

My Third BIL (Brother-In-Law) is a bookworm.  He had nice collection of books that was nicely kept and arranged.  Too bad they are all in Chinese.  I was at my Sister place last weekend and the more I look at his row and rows of books, the more I find them fascinating.   Suddenly my inspiration came and I ended up with this:

Baby Ezekiel @ 13 days old.  This is my most favourite shot for now.  Will save them as my wallpaper.

Top:  Gardenia Chocolate Bread with ham, quill eggs, sausage man (using a toothpick to fasten the button mushroom as a hat.  Black sesame seed and a little photoshop as facial details *ngek*)

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My nephew Jonathan never like haircut.  The last time he had a haircut, he came home with a big ‘hole’ on the fringe.  I just had to laugh at him so hard! LOL!  His Mummy, that is my Sister decided to gave him a hair cut trim a month later.

Day after days, this favourite nephew of mine has grown so much more macho than before.  I’m not saying he is not macho previously.  I just love how he looks like right now and that bak-bak (fleshy) body.  Love him to bits! This is another new sets of photographs of him that I love.

I didn’t know he was so ‘itchy’ until I review the photographs on my laptop.  Yikes, he is making me itchy too.

p/s:  I’m not surprised if someone commented that my son is cute.  This always happen cos they don’t bother to read and comment for the sake of commenting.  Some even say, “you are cutting your son’s hair so who is taking the photograph?” *stick out tongue*  Don’t know should be happy or sad.