Friday, August 12, 2011
After watching Lisa Eldridge's video on The New French manicure this morning, I decided to paint me some new french.
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| I actually used 2 colours but the base one look like my own nail colour in the picture |
It was not easy at all to DIY. Took me forever to finish both my hands. Fortunately it only took me one try and though I have not perfected the art yet, I'm quite happy with the result (for a first timer, kira OK la).
Well now I'm too lazy to paint my toe nails so I'll leave the task for tomorrow - hopefully. Now I'm almost ready for the weekend! Hope the rest of you will have a great weekend too :)
p/s: for those of you who are looking to try it out, here's the video
p/s: for those of you who are looking to try it out, here's the video
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
We had a fantastic weekend at Lopez Island with amazing friends. The weather was sunny and the clear blue sky was perfect for our little getaway.
Our trip was filled with plenty of rest, mouthwatering food, sunbathing, games and football. I even managed to squeeze in my workout in between with a workout buddy. Quite refreshing to have someone there to push me harder.
Only downfall was our trip heading home. We had to wait 5 hours to catch the ferry. What a waste of one whole beautiful day. But overall it was a very lovely weekend. I am blessed with wonderful friends and family!
Friday, July 29, 2011
In my previous post, I mentioned that I'm taking up a new diet challenge that consist of 6 days of healthy diet & 1 cheat day every single week. Still I refused to sacrifice taste for health. Thus, I've been on a mission hunting for healthy yet mouth watering dishes. A favourite of mine that I found fairly recently is Chicken Fingers and I paired it with Mango Avocado Salsa (turn it into Mango Pear Avocado Salsa) that I found on another blog plus a green salad on the side.
I made a few tweaks to both the recipe to suit my palate and to make up for the ingredients that I don't have on hand. This is a really simple meal to make yet one that is capable to excite your taste bud with its delightful flavours!
Chicken Fingers Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken breast
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 whole egg
- 1 egg white
- 1/4 cup low fat drinking coconut milk
- 1/2 lemon juiced
- 3/4 cup whole wheat bread crumbs (I made my own)
- 3/4 cup dessicated coconut
- Olive oil to oil the baking sheet
Method:
- Preheat oven to 350 F
- Cut chicken breasts into strips
- Combine ingredients 2-5 and rub them all over the chicken strips
- Combine ingredients 6-9 in a bowl and mix it well (egg mix)
- Combine ingredients 10 & 11 and mix them together (bread crumb mix)
- Oil the baking sheet
- Dip the chicken strips in the egg mix then coat it with the bread crumb mix and lay it on the baking sheet.
- Repeat step 7 for the rest of the chicken strips
- Bake the chicken strips in the oven for 30-40minutes or until the chicken strips are golden & crispy
Mango Avocado Salsa Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 1 large mango peeled and diced
- 1 avocado diced
- 1 yellow onion diced
- 1 big handful cilantro chopped
- 1/2 pear chopped
- 1/2 lemon juiced
- 2 teaspoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Method:
Gently toss all the ingredients together and voila it's ready to serve with chicken fingers or any other meat or fish of your choice.
Happy Cooking & Happy Eating!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Harlow! Apa khabar? Lama tak jumpa ye? MY BAD!
This is a poor bloggie. Can't believe it's almost 2 years that I have not showed S-A-Y-wEn any love. Guess it's time for some loving maintenance.
Quick update about me:
Bought a house in fall 2010. Then, I went back to Malaysia alone in the winter time for 1.5 months. When I came back, we moved into the new house (well the husband moved in first) just in time to celebrate Christmas in a new place that has a working fire place (finally right?) and brand new washer and dryer (fuh have been so deprived of that for the past 2 years that I was in Seattle).
[Family Room]
[The Pendant Chandelier is my Pride & Joy]
Now that we have a place of our own, we have a small vegetable garden on our deck. Other than our deck, I have to say our backyard is a nightmare! Weeding still in progress LOL.
[Lemon Thyme]
[Valencia "Orange" Pepper]
[Early Girl Tomato]
Some of you might remember that 2 years ago back in 2009, I had a fitness goal but I never really kept up with it. Gone are the days because I made it a point this year to view fitness as a lifestyle. I make sure that I workout at least 3 times a week (I usually try to hit 5) and eat healthy 6 days a week with one cheat day (this I have to try like REALLY REALLY hard). I usually abandon my fitness goals in a matter of weeks but this time I've manage to keep it up for nearly 4 months now and still going strong. WHY? Because I see real results.
For the first time in my life, I'm able to do regular push ups not just one but a number of them and I'm moving on to the more challenging variations. Just 2 weeks ago, I was so happy that I am finally able to do my front split AGAIN after losing the flexibility for so many years!!!
Anyway, that should be sufficient for my first post after 2 years of MIA. Till then!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Yes, I have a lot of goals but this is one of those that I'm really passionate about. Working on achieving it does not seem like work at all. In fact, I enjoy every minute of it. I've always love playing with it since I was a kid (without my mom's permission for using her stuff of course) but it faded behind school and work. However, it was recently reignited when I started helping out MoofMoof build his/our business. Thus I'm going to work on it while still helping MoofMoof build his business.
So what is this wonderful goal that makes me go all musical and lalala? Makeup! I'm aspiring to become a makeup artist so I've been volunteering to do makeup for friends and people who needs makeup services. Last week was my first time doing makeup for people whom I don't know. It was exciting. The girls were a joy to work with and I had so much fun working with them. I'm very happy and satisfied with the results even though it may not be compared to the works of professionals yet. All in all it was a very rewarding experience. Here's what I did to Becky & Joanne for their homecoming:
Becky
Joanne
Becky & Joanne (aren't they adorable?)p/s: Constructive feedback and criticism are always welcomed.
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