Pineapple Cookies by aunty loh

I super duper extremely fall in love with Pineapple Cookies! But due to its high selling price, most of the time i only see it and air liur meleleh without buying it. So, I have wanted to make Pineapple Cookies since long looong loooong time ago liao. I have obtained all the information from friends to colleague, searching online, refers to book, newspaper, magazine and TV show. And Today Finally i have taken one step forward to bake it myself! Ngek Ngek Ngek! Remember, its 100% ORIGINAL MAKE BY AUNTY LOH HERSELF without anyone helping! My mum so bad, she rather sit outside watching movie also don’t want to give me a hand! But nvm, she ALWAYS trust my baking skill. Furthermore, i don’t like people to disturb me when i am doing serious and important task! :lol:

So, share with u all the recipe again. KEKE.

The main Raw Materials for pineapple cookies of course must be PINEAPPLE! Pineapple paste plays a very  important roles to the overall taste. And it is the most difficult part in the whole process. I have almost spent 5hours just to cook the paste! *Pengsan*

1. I used three pineapple.

2. Clean the skin. (Awwwwwwww….It is the most difficult part! My Energy, patient and attention all are being tested in this part! KNS! Next time must buy the already cleaned Pineapple, no matter how big different is the price! Since this is my 1st time to bake this cookies, i must show my sincerity by doing every step MYSELF :D )

3. Grated the pineapple. ( Some ppl may like to blend it. But i don’t like. It may become too creamy instead of crunchy)

4. Mix 3cm of Cinnamon Stick, 2 cloves and 1 tbsp lime juice into it.

5. Put 300g of sugar.

6. Cooked it with low fire (to prevent it from burning). Stir it every second until it is dry.

7. Ta Da! It is ready when it turns into golder brown colour and dry. Take it out and leave it cold. (KNS. I have spent almost 3 hours just to stand infront of the wok and stir it until dry! I think now my Right Arm got the Muscle like Popeye Sailorman edi! :neutral: )

8. Now we have to prepare the ingredient for the crust pasty.

Ingredient needed:-

250g     Butter
50g       Icing sugar
360g    Plain Flour
2 tbsp   Custard Powder
1            Egg Yolk
1tsp      Vanilla Essence

9. Mix all the ingredient all together to form a dough and leave it for 30Minutes.

10. There are many ways to shape the Pineapple cookies.

A) The first method with Heart Shape :P ( my own creation)

Tips: Remember to glaze the cookies with beaten egg. (to make the cookies look shinning :D )

B) The 2nd method i.e. the most common way like what is selling outside. The roll shape.

Tips: Lightly cut some pattern on top of it to make it looks nice! KEKE.

11. Bake at 170 Celsius for about 20minutes until golden brown. Leave to cool before storing.

Chiang chiang Chiang! This is the overall cookies!

Awww…. this is really delicious from the bottom of my heart!!!! My youngest brother keeping curi makan when i am baking. This means that it is really nice loh! Otherwise he won’t continue to eat after the 1st piece. KEKE. Before i bake this, i used to steal the recipe tips from colleagues by asking this and that, and they used to gimme a respond like:-

” Arhem.. Ms Loh, u know baking 1 meh?”
“Are you serious? it is really difficult and complicated to bake 1,  need alot of KUNGFU 1 woh!”
Ms Loh, U know or not gah?? Don’t play play ah!”

=.=”"”

I promised to reserve a tin for them after cny come back to work. Guess what their respond?

“Ms Loh ah..there is two possibilities u will reserve for us:-
1st- U are really kind enough to keep a tin and not to forget give us a try.
2nd- The cookies are taste too bad. Nobody want to eat. No choice, u have to bring it into office and hoping we will help u to finish it.”

=.=”"”

Awww…..they have too little understanding and seriously lack of confident on me! I learn to bake with my mum since i was a little girl okey? The first time i bake myself without anyone helping is 13years old okey? I love baking okey? I am not 千金小姐 okey? I bake even well than my mum okey? (coz she is still stick with outdated recipe. hehe), I am the 2nd chef at home after my mum okey?

Anyone interested to try Aunty Loh’s brand homemade Pineapple Cookies? HAHA. Pls come to  visit me during Chinese New Year la! Don’t forget Gimme Ang Pao woh! KEKE. But if u pantang to gimme angpao since u not yet marry, then u can “purposely” or “intentionally” lose in gambling and let me win CONTINUOUSLY la! muahahahha  :lol:

Gong Xi Gong Xi, Ang Pao Na Lai ooooooiiiiiii!

Happy Family by aunty loh

This few days i am repeating to watch the most touching part in Super Idol singing contest through youtube. I can’t stop my tears rolling down when the contestant with her teary eye, explaining the experience of how she is being abandoned by her mother in the age of three :cry: The song, the lyric, the melody, her singing, her expression and her background, make me totally heart broken :cry:

To watch the video clip please click on the following link:-

I wish to have a home

I wish to have a home (Part II)

After the video, I feel myself is sooo lucky enough to have a “complete” and happy family. I grow healthy under the love, care and protection from parents, i get the best education from kindergarten to university, i do not have to worry about shelter, food and cloth, i have sufficient money to spend, i have the freedom to make my own decision etc. In the road of life, i am not alone because….i have them :lol:

Comparing to the contestant background, i am soo lucky that all of my siblings are able to stick together and grow up under a roof with lots of fun. Under the guidance of parent, we all now are grow up with self-discipline, well behaviour, successfully graduated from university,  getting a good and stable job, having a caring partner and now its our duty to repay our parent for their hard work in bringing up us this – FOUR  MONKEYS. (Except for my youngest brother who is still studying).

I am a person who is very stick to the home. I remember how tough it is when the 1st time i moved to KL far away from home ALONE, started my 4 years college life and learn to be independent. This is my very first time to leave home and I have took such a loooong time to adapt with the new environment without my family and friends companion. It is realllyy a veryy difficult time for me. For the first month in KL, I am very shame to tell that,  i cried  and cried, in phone, in bed and even in bathroom due to serious home sick. KEKE. I cried until the extent that my family hold a meeting to discuss whether have to discontinue my study in KL and ask me come back to continue study in Form 6. But after all, they come out with a solution that is not contact me for few weeks and force me to learn INDEPENDENT. This is actually work for me, because i slowly learn to enjoy college life after get to know a group of buddies come from different state :shock: I really could not imagine the day without my family. I can’t live without them :-(   (Luckily i did not give up my study in KL or else i could not get to know unclechan liao :P )

That time, i used to come back home quite frequently. I must thank to Unclechan who accompany me for my very first time balik kampung. I am soo thankful for his helping because to a road idiot like me, are sooo easy to get lost in a big city. Luckily, i found someone who is come from the same hometown and same school with me. This is very important because that time i need a strong belief that i am NOT ALONE in this strange city.  Later on, we used to go back hometown togather and our “pure” friendship grow.

One of a sentence in the lyric:-

雖然你有家 什麼也不缺
為何看不見你露出笑臉
永遠都說沒有愛 整天不回家

I remember there was a time his father could not recognise his voice when he phone back home to ask someone to fetch him from Medan Kid. KEKE. My intuition immediately told me that, this “Bei Ka Zai” sure long time didn’t go back home already! Soo useless! :mad: Since then, from a pure friend starting point, i off and on will nag him the important to back home accompany family. Sometimes when i back hometown, sure i will ask him back togather. KEKE. Seems like my effort did not waste :cool: because now he know to come back home automatically to see see his parent and of course ME! :lol:

The purpose i post this entry is not to show off how good i am to have family and someone special as companion. There were soo many times people told me that not everyone also own a happy and stable family as mine. I have listened too many sad story from friends who are come from a broken family :( I feel sympathy to them but i just could not do anything other than borrowing my ear or shoulder for them whenever they are in need. I understand well their desire to have a complete and happy forever home.

For people who grow up in broken homes, remember that you are not alone and you actually can make something different of yourself by being cheerful, be brave and strong :)

For those parent, please bear in mind that love and caring of both parents are essential for a healthy growth of a child. It can be understandable that two married people are unable to stay together for whatever reasons, however, is it the right for innocent children to become the victim of divorced and go through the painful? NO! Please don’t repeat the mistake as what the adults have did in the above video clip.

For those who did not go back home for a long looong time or even those who doesn’t like to stay at home, please go back home more often, please appreciate every single moment you spend with family. Honestly, I really hate those who see friends more important than family, those who leave their home (离家出走) after quarrel with parent :mad: This is such a irresponsible / immature behaviour and after all they will only make their parent upset :mad: They may not know there are soo many people around the world like the contestant are actually wish to have a perfect family like them.

Sometimes what our parent want is not the money or gift, but they need our accompanion, our love and care as what they have given us when we were child.  Please show your love by going back home regularly and accompany them more often. You will know, you are actually the LUCKIEST person in the world :D

People will never know how special someone / something is until they leave / lost it. But maybe sometimes it’s important to leave, so they are given the chance to see how special that someone / something really is.

Share with you all the meaningful lyric.

我想要有个家

主唱 潘美辰

我想要有个家          一个不需要华丽的地方
在我疲倦的时候       我会想到它
我想要有个家           一个不需要多大的地方
在我受惊吓的时候    我才不会害怕

谁不会想要家           可是就有人没有它
脸上流着眼泪           只能自己轻轻擦
我好羡慕他              受伤后可以回家
而我只能孤单的       孤单的寻找我的家

虽然我失去了           温暖的家
但是我不会               轻易被墼垮
只要心中充满爱     就会被关怀
无法埋怨谁               一切只能靠自己

虽然我不再               渴望有奇迹
但是我知道               决不能放弃
伤痛不容许再等待     勇敢站起来
重建一个梦,重建一颗心, 让我重建一个家

My Fortune in Ox Year by aunty loh

Chinese New Year is coming soon. While everybody are busying in buying new year stuff, cleaning house, baking cookies, planning for buddies gathering etc, unclechan soo busy in preparing for his final exam. Wahaha. Meli Good :lol: Hope he able to go through the exam smoothly la. All Da Best.

This year is Ox Year. Oh no! I can’t believe that this is the second Ox Year that i celebrate. ( 1st Ox year is at Standard Six). It reminds me that…i am going to turn into 24 years old liao. KNS. I was born in Ox Year. In fact, my family always commented me that i am a typical Ox in home since small. Why do they say so? Its all because i always spoilt my home equipment, from cheap to expensive things, from small to big things! I am sooooo innocent :cry: I don’t know why everytime when i hold the item, sure it will die in my hand? Mostly the item is already half die, but in the end, i twist a bit here and there, then it become totally not function already. Then, i will be pointed and shouted by lots of fingers that.. YOU ARE SOOOO BULL! :cry: Example of latest case, i broke a Plastic Broom into half when i swept the floor. I spoilt my dad car radio when i ONLY adjusted the volume AS USUAL. What the dotdot. Maybe….i am bull… sob sob… :cry:

Back to topic. Chinese see their fortune & feng shui importantly.  So, every CNY sure we cannot skip the programme that a famous Sifu reports the luck for the twelve animal signs and what to do to escape from those bad luck one.  I am quite interested in this. As unclechan said, every women is addicted in this. :D BUT for me, i would not take seriously in it after all. I listen, but a day later i may forgot it liao. It is just a very insignificant guideline for me. If my luck is Good, then i will be glad. But if my luck is Bad, i will only take a very minor concious on that area, and it would not pull down my mood.

Below are the explanation of my fortune in the new coming Ox year. Sorry for those who cannot read chinese because i am so lazy to do the translation. KEKE. It is applicable for those who was born in year 1949、1961、1973、1985 (me)、1997 and 2009 as well.

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属牛的你,去年运势强劲,可说一时无两,事事称心顺意 。

( it is quite true. I’m so lucky in the year of the rat :lol: )

但希望你知道要居安思危,不会因为好运降临而乐极忘形 ,因为踏入牛年,你犯上本命年,「白虎煞」,命宫有众多凶星埋伏 ,缺乏吉星解救、助运,所以全年的运程都会反复不定 ,做事波折重重、危机四伏,必须要小心应付。太岁当头,无福有祸,是个多灾之年,凶多吉少凡事宜三思而后行, 以免破财损利。须防官非丧孝,横招口舌是非,有疾病产厄等血光之灾。守旧业为宜,不动则佳,动反招灾。

( Alamak! Bad Luck in Ox Year pulak! Gotta take extra careful!)

【事业】 [ WORK]
流年命犯太岁,人事关系和事业发展都不能顺心随意 ,加上今年命宫见「剑锋」,而由于这颗凶星主有刀光和斗争 , 因此在牛年中,你在公司里必然与同事之间有番龙争虎斗;而不幸的是,你将会是失败者

(Not so worry, because i already get used with it. I always LOSE in a fight since small. KNS. )

另外,「黄幡」凶星加临, 令你时常失魂落魄,做事不能集中精神,影响工作表现。今年事业不利,官运难通,难有晋升机会,满足珍惜己有的地位! 事业也难有更进一步发展。打工一族今年也不是好运年,机会不多,财运不通,工作地位等也难有提升机会! 不过, 流年又见一颗「华盖」星,表示从事艺术创作 、出版文化和娱乐事业的牛人,将有机会发挥才华,迈向事业高峰。

( Recently the global economic is facing the downturn trend, everybody in the world is being affected, not only for people born under ox year loh okey? I think it is a not so good time to change job yet. )

【财运】 [WEALTH]
肖牛的你,由于事业表现未如理想,正财收入难以增添,加上今年有 「破碎」星出现,令你无法积聚钱财,即使赚得财富 ,也会因某些原因而令你完全耗掉,以致财来财去一场空 。投资者避免短炒概念,在下注之前更要考虑再三;当然 ,没有十足 把握的话,最好忍手。另外,你缺乏理财之道 ,不懂管理金钱,以致收支更难达到平衡。今年财运不通,凡谋难利,正财仍可谋 ,事业难有发展。宜稳守旧业,脚踏实地的发展。

( I almost spent every single cent in my salary since i started to work. I have no saving. Die. Must save in this year already, stop asking me to treat good things okey? )

增财运方法: 在办公室或房间的放圆形麒麟挂件,麒麟,犀牛,貔貅,白水晶球一枚。和佩戴太上五岳福,十方自在平安福,太岁福。属牛的有车一族特别需要佩戴车挂饰 ,司机避邪福 观音菩萨车挂饰 太上老君车挂饰身上可以佩带以下助运饰品.

( Dunno what is that and i would definitely not so silly go to search for it just to hope more Money Come into my Pocket. Money do not have leg, it won’t come for you automatically after you wear the above antique okey?)

【爱情】 [RELATIONSHIP]
由于「华盖」的出现,故此今年你在感情路上大都是孤单一人 ,原因是「华盖」既主才华,也主孤独。

( Sob Sob.. I don’t want to be alone. )

已婚的你 ,容易与配偶因家庭 琐事或儿女问题发生争执;年长者更防老伴 身体欠安,要进医院诊治调理;

蜜运中的牛人与爱侣聚少离多 ,令两人感情由浓转淡

( Actually, It depends on the way u think on it. I believe, DISTANCE would not be the FACTOR in the failure of a relationship. 小别,是为了让彼此更想念,更珍惜在一起相处的每分每秒!Ngek Ngek Ngek.)

至于未有对象的你,今年不宜追求触摸不到的雾水情缘,努力工作才是上策。单身者今年也难有机会认识理想对象! 增爱情运方法 :男、女性可佩戴太岁福,合和福。

( For those guy who is still single , come to look for me, i have some ji mui to introduce. For those gal who is still available, go to find Unclechan, he has some heng dai to introduce. HAHAHAHAHA. )

【健康】 [ HEALTH]
流年犯太岁,所谓「太岁当头坐,无喜必有祸」,主牛人今年多忧心之事,也多心理压力问题,加上有「伏尸」在旁,情况更加严重 ,所以你必须随时留意身体的变化,健康问题不可掉以轻心。另外, 「黄幡」凶星令你失魂落魄,驾车人士或行人过马路时 ,容易发生交通意外不可不防。

( Gotta take extra careful on Road liao. Must always warn myself, not to speed, not to raise the speed when traffic light has changed to yellow!)

OVERALL

你在己丑年正犯太岁,无论是事业、钱财、爱情、家庭或健康等方面的 运程都并不理想,但你毋须过份气馁。今年只要你能紧守工作岗位 ,作风低调;做好理财计划,减少不必要开支;对伴侣和家人要处处关 怀,主动沟通;处理健康问题要紧记病向浅中医,自然可以减低太岁带 来的祸害,平稳过渡这个太岁年了。

Too Bad! Don’t let the above crap spoilt our CNY Mood. Hate.

Let see..Lengzai Andy Lau with his art creation. Recently, i read from newspaper that Andy Lau has designed a series of Cow collection for selling.

Then, i search from internet to get a closer look on his so called Cow. Well, it is quite cute and simple.

But, i see it from every dimension, top to down, left to right and front to behind, i also cannot see the toy looks like cow loh! except its signature Horn la. No colour, no nose, no mouth, no tail, some even no eye punya. Lagi teruk than the Hello Kitty without her mouth only. =.=”"  This is his son – Andox and Blackie.

Okla. At Last, I wish everybody Happy Chinese New Year! 牛年。。冲冲冲冲冲冲冲冲冲冲!!

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