Junior Masterchef 2

I almost forgot that last night was the premiere of Australian Junior Masterchef 2 on Asia’s Star World. And I ended up watching the later show and slept rather late :-p

I always love watching Masterchef, especially the Australian ones, no offense but the US Masterchef contestants are a bit rough, and they have a bad mouth, swearing things and that.. the Australian ones are more like a family.. Maybe it’s only because of culture differences.

So amazing that these little kids can cook such a decent and sophisticated, sometimes amazingly delicious meals and desserts..
Ugh, it made my confidence just poof!!! gone away just like that.. I’m a 28 years old and soon to become a mother.. still cannot cook a simple meal so saaaaad…
I’m planning to peek on their special recipes and those I think that’s nice and try it at home myself..
I hope I can be a better cook for my husband and future kids.. *fingers crossed*

I just opened the official website.. and alas.. I forgot that the show is already finished in Australia, and for Asia, it’s a bit late.. so they actually have the winner already -_-”
So, I saw the winner!!! Arghh.. such a spoiler.. but I’m still going to watch it..
It is more fun to be involved in the process, right?

Saturday Currents

listening : Michael Bublé’ s Christmas Album Special Edition. I love Michael & I love Christmas!!!

eating : we had wonton noodle soup tonight. YAY! It’s been a cold rainy day lately.. the wonton noodle soup will be perfect to warm up the stomach :-p

drinking : green beans milk?! I don’t know how to say it in English.. in Bahasa Indonesia, it’s called air kacang hijau).

wearing : School sandal, white & red stripey dress, and a pair of glasses.

wanting : to make a girly mini books.. maybe some of my friends with daughters might want it

needing : a massage.. as the belly is getting bigger, I feel more and more back pain and tired legs.. I just haven’t found the right person who can really give a pregnancy massage..

thinking : that I have to stop shopping on scrapbook supplies for the time being.. I kept adding and adding supplies, but none has been done yet.. well, just a few.. while I have hundreds of papers, stamps, paper punches, crop-a-dile and lots of embellishments now..

enjoying : sitting here on the floor in front of my laptop and surrounded by the newly came scrapbook papers.. haha.. I love looking at their cute, gorgeous designs :-p

wondering : what other dishes or cake or cookies I’m going to try cooking or baking next.. I really hope I can prepare my children’s meal everyday.. got to start learning soon.

thankful for : having a healthy pregnancy until now, I’m 8 months pregnant I had quite a stomachache two days ago, but it’s nothing serious. The doctor said, it’s because of the baby, he’s getting bigger which means it’s becoming more and more difficult for him to move in my belly.. and I have a little of gastric pain, I’ve been eating late.. So now.. I’m going to supply my self with a lot of fruits and snacks in the room, haha.. just in case I got hungry late at night :-p

Saw the ONE minute with Ali Edwards on Big Picture just now and thinking about having one for myself.. maybe next time

Just a short one..

This is just a short post..

I stayed at home today.. feel like cleaning up the room, although there’s still a lot of things to dump and organized.. :-p
So I managed to re-arrange my drawers, move our underwear (my husband & mine) to the other drawer and turn the currents for baby clothes. We cannot add more cupboard, it’s not that we cannot afford it, but our bedroom is the one that do not have extra space for new furniture. The baby crib will take 1 x 2 meters by it self.. so we decide to not getting any other cupboard and just re-arrange our stuff.. haha..

I washed some of the baby clothes too.. can’t wash them all at once because it’s just too many and I did it by hand.
It makes me happy seeing the little socks hanging there.. haha.. love the tigger and pooh socks..

And I did a little baking too.. I made chocolate cupcakes.. But I think the recipe does not use too many chocolate (only 2 spoons!!), I want to look for more chocolatey ones
But I’m pretty glad with today’s result.. no more burned cupcakes!

Happy 5th Birthday, Daniel!!

Two days ago, December 5th’ 2011 was my friend’s son’s birthday.. but we are celebrating it tonight

It was fun gathering with the girl friends.. the husbands and kids are coming too, and they are chit chatting and the kids are playing in the playroom.

And yesterday, I started making this for her son’s birthday.. another scrapbook frame, this is the third one I made for my friends, I hope she’s going to like it and a use it to place her son’s 5th birthday photos

I made it using papers from Echo Park Little Boy..
I really love this collection.. the colors are cheerful and they have planes, trains and cars pattern that is really boyish and cool for scrapbook-ing the little boys. I made the layout copying the layout I found on this site.

At first, I wanted to make the layout exactly like the example has, but then I changed my mind..
Because I wanted the page at least fits three photos, two small ones and one with a larger size (like post-card size for example). So I made some modification.
This is what I came up with..

The left one is the view of it in a frame.. ready to be wrapped and given to the happy little boy
The right one is the photo before it went in to the frame..

Below are the detail photos..

I added some flowery details with Prima Marketing flowers and bows made with twinery.. yes, I think boys can go with flowers and bows.. :-p
On the bottom of the page, under the bigger photo space, there’s a little train.. toot! toot!
I also added some glitter accent on the train, it doesn’t really show on the photo I think..

I think I have said it, but I just have to say it again.. I DO really love this little boy collection!! I love the colors!! And to make it merrier.. I added colorful little buttons on some of the circles.. haha..
I added glitters on the letter stickers too.. I just love it..
Do you think I did too much on this? This is the first time I made a page this merry and colorful and just.. so full, I think :-p

I stamped this at the back of the frame.. a little gift made with love from my husband & I.

*ting!
My cellphone just rang.. an SMS came in and it came from my friend. She said the frame is so cool!
So happy I could be smiling in my sleep tonight

Good night everyone.. sweet dreams..

Busy Sunday

I usually wake up late on Sunday.. and spend the evening taking a nap.
But this Sunday, it was different. We both woke up around 7 am.

We’re ( my husband and I) are planning to have dim sum with my parents & sister in law. There’s a new.. umm.. it’s actually not a new place, it’s been open for about two years, serving suki (like Japanese shabu-shabu) and Chinese food. And now, they are starting to serve dim sum.
We tried it before with some friends and thought that it’s nice, so we are taking our family there today.
We ordered bitan (black egg) porridge, siomay, salted egg-bun, chicken feet, tofu spring roll, etc.. I don’t know their proper name in English.. hahaha.. well, it’s a nice breakfast

We spend the day at home, my hubby was organizing his stuffs and as promised, I made pizza :-p YAY!

My friend’s baby sitter has worked to a British family for almost 4 years and she surely knows quite a lot of western breakfast because of that. I don’t think that pizza, lasagna, and sandwich are British breakfast menu, but all I know is that she’s good in making them.
She made us a crispy and yummy pizza last time and I’ve been asking her to give me the recipe.. but she’s just used to make the bread dough by instinct she said, I mean, she’s doesn’t really know the exact measure of the flour, olive oil etc.. so I guess rather than making myself confuse and lost because of not knowing what to do.. I bought a recipe book, called Pizza Kriuk. It’s an Indonesian recipe book..

Here’s what I came up with..

This is the 1st batch.. I made total 4 pizzas..
The left one is a photo of the 1st pizza before mozzarella topping and the right one is after topped with mozzarella :-9
All before going to the oven.

Left photo is the 1st batch.. nyummm.. My hubby said (& I also thought), tastes like tomato.. hahaha.. I believe I have put too many tomato paste in the sauce mixture :-p
The right side photo is the 3rd batch, slightly smaller size and less tomato paste and thinner bread.. requested by my hubby & he likes it

This is a photo if you want to see how small and thin the 3rd pizza is.. hahaha..
All four pizzas were finished in a day. I brought the last one while visiting my friend in the afternoon.
I also made a soy bean milk.. my mother lend me her machine, so easy, just add water, (previously soaked and peeled) soy beans, and pandan leaves to give a nice aroma.. then press the button.. your milk will be ready in half-an-hour.. haha..
I’m planning to make soy bean milk everyday till labor time, and maybe take turns with green beans too.
People say it’s good for pregnant ladies.

It is indeed a busy Sunday.. my hubby still continue organizing his stuff after we went home..
But we’re both happy and I’m planning to make some pizza bread again soon.. but I think I’m going to modify it into something else.. 4 pizzas in a day, although it can be said a personal pan sized, it’s still a bit too much.
I just like the thin and crunchy pizza bread

How’s your Sunday?
Hope you had a great one!

Meet Little Printer.. I want!!!

This little thing is really cute.. especially if you are one of those people who loves to keep paper trails on everything..
And this is definitely going into my wish list!

Read more about Little Printer here.
Watch the video on Vimeo.

My A to Z

I’m trying my best to write more on my blog and sometime I just can’t help myself running out of ideas..
I usually browse through people’s blog which I think is inspirational to me.. in fact, I have put the list of inspirational blogs on my side bar, you can check them out there.
And yep, while browsing, I found these post on Amy Tangerine and Pattycake’s blogs.. the A to Z things.
I thought it would be fun to play along..

Here goes, the A to Z of Jeanne..

A. Age: 28
B. Bed size: a King size.
C. Chore that you hate: sweeping sticky dust.
D. Dogs: I don’t have dogs.
E. Essential start to your day: a nice warm bath followed with a sprinkle of cold water in the end.. so fresh!!
F. Favorite color: pink & white.
G. Gold or Silver:I like both.
H. Height: 1.5 m.. how much that in inches?
I. Instruments you play: I don’t play.. hahaha..

J. Job title: housewife.
K. Kids: about to have one February next year.. I’m 30 weeks pregnant
L. Live: Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia
M. Mother’s name: Ayling.
N. Nicknames: Cen or J.. (some friends called me J back in high school & college).
O. Overnight hospital stays: knock on wood, none.
P. Pet peeves: careless ignorant people and bad drivers.. kinda put on my nerves.
Q. Quote from a movie: “You’ve got to be fair to her.. She loves you, if you don’t love her, you’ve got to tell her.” from Rod Tidwell, Jerry Maguire (1996). I really like this quote.. well, whether to a guy or a girl, you just have to be true to him/her and mostly, to yourself.
R. Right or left handed: Right handed.
S. Siblings: 3.
U. Underwear: Yes.
V. Vegetable you hate: I don’t hate vegetables.. love them, but the least favorite is Pare (bitter melon), so bitter..

W. What makes you run late: snooze button, rainy morning and wrapped in a soft fluffy blanket.
X. X-Rays you’ve had: dentist.
Y. Yummy food that you make: to tell you the truth, I’m not a good cook and in fact, I cannot cook :-p but I recently made a pear raspberry pie, which my husband really like.. so I guess that’s the most yummy food for now..
Z. Zoo animal: I love chimpanzee, lion cub, bears, penguin and whale.. amazing animals..

Hihi.. now you know a little more things about me..
Thinking about making one of your own (A to Z)? Let me know, k?

Have a wonderful day!