Spring, Food and Bizarre Weather

This is why I love a 3-day weekend...

I got the time to cook variety of makanan kampung today. I was itching to cook all these after reading Ayu and Kak Yani's blog but had no chance to do so.

From clockwise: Ketam masak lemak cili api, daging goreng kunyit, timun+tomato cicah sambal tempoyak ikan bilis,kerabu mangga,sambal ikan bilis tempe,kerang rebus and air asam kerisik.

Most of the recipes were 'imported' from kak yani and ayu's blog, my cooking guru =)

And yesterday, we had the opportunity to tick off many more baby's items since Jai had his day off.
As well as capturing pictures of spring debut appearance in Davis! It was nice and sunny (but cold!), however  it won't last that long as a series of raining will be coming again by the end of next week. Urgh!

Cherry blossom usually is the first one to bloom

I have not watched Winter Sonata, but I think this picture reminded me of that series.

I have no idea what is the name of this pokok, but I think it is poisonous. Rupa macam berry. 

And it is in front of my house!

 Bunga rumput (memandai je bagi nama), these too were right at our doorstep.

Jai nih suka buat muka ketat tau!

Oh, I was down with cough and sore throat since Thursday. Shoot an email to my midwife and she was suggesting, steam,hydration and plain Robitussin or plain Mucinex. I went to pharmacy yesterday to buy the suggested cough syrup, asked the pharmacist which one is the plain version and he was quite reluctant to let me take any cough medicine as I am pregnant. He has a thick Vietnamese accent and from what I understand, he was saying the effect could go to central nervous system, so does to baby CNS. I woke up today to find I have lost my voice. So, right now, I have no other choices other than trying natural cough remedies, such as honey, lemon from what my friends suggested. The cough gets worse at night when the outside temperature drops to below 4C and this bizarre weather hitting Davis the past few weeks doesn't help either. You know, one week of sunny and warm weather at 24C then went down again for another week to 8C. That goes on and on.......

Alright.Nak sykpe dengan mak.Nasib baik ada gambar, kalo tak mesti dia ingat suara jantan garau mana yang call dia =P

Winter way too soon

My most favorite US holiday, Thanksgiving Day has finally arrived and like every year, I am very thrilled!

Reasons being:

1. I get to eat roasted turkey.

Thanksgiving 2008. Yummy turkey golek!

 2. Black Friday shopping frenzy. Although after 2 years living in the US, I realized the price especially for clothes, handbags and things like that were as cheap as other holiday sales, but I like midnight shopping. It is just different =)

3. A 4-day off from work.


Husband gets 3 days off from work too so I kicked start the long weekend tonight by a Western style dinner, grilled chicken marinated with herbs.

Finger licking good babeh =)

And yes, with winter approaching sooner than it should be this year (as usual, cold means depressing), I don't want to stuck at home doing nothing at night, so I bought two PS3 games for a  berperang bonding session with Jai.

Yeah mommy, I'm depressed too watching the both of you yelling at each other while playing game and ignoring me =(

Have a nice weekend! For those in the US, Happy Thanksgiving! And to my Malaysian readers, enjoy the sunny and warm weather (kita trade weather boleh?)

Babymoon Part 1

I had a long day yesterday and it hasn't ended yet. I wanna cry so badly but I need to get my work done as soon as possible. I can cry later :P I decided to take a break from working with my poster which I have to present tomorrow in a conference, hence this crappy post.

I just had my second prenatal check-up couple of days ago and had a long fruitful discussion with the midwife, Blanche. Got to listen to my baby's heartbeat using Doppler, baby's heart was beating 160/secs :) Wish we had Doppler in veterinary hospital to count the cat's heartbeat :) Hahaha. Anyway, that's the good news. The I-hope-it-ain't-going-to-be-a-bad-news is my thyroid level was slightly elevated and the hospital asked me to come in again to get another blood work done for T3 and T4 level. Well, my mom had a thyroid removal several years ago and that was why they tested me for the blood thyroid level in the first place. Tolonglah, I don't want any bad news.

So, that's that. I have a lot of things to digest after meeting the midwife, but will blog about it in length after I got back from the conference. The good news is Jai will be tagging along and we will have our first babymoon after the conference. I really need a short holiday after my QE and this is it! 

The conference is at Lake Tahoe which is about 2 1/2 hrs from Davis. It is one of famous places for skiing and snowboarding in California but at this point of time, I doubt there will be heavy snowing in Tahoe.

Nevertheless, it was snowing heavily in October when I attended the same conference 2 years ago. I was totally unprepared cos I wore a sandal!

My time is up! See you guys in the next post.

P/S: Babymoon Part II is half-checked :)

Cold winter.. duh!

No,the snow had decided not to make their debut appearance in Davis,though some part north of Davis was snowing yesterday. It must have been a cold winter this year ek?

Anyway, a normal appearance during these cold days.3 layers of clothes while studying INSIDE the house.

Winter is depressing! Urgh!