Banana & Egg Pancake.

It was one of those days when I was at home with no one else and decided to cook something for supper. Not because I was hungry, but because I just needed to do something other than watching Devious Maids on Star World. 

So, I walked to the kitchen and saw bananas and wanted to bake banana cake. How ambitious right. I love eating banana cake but never made the effort to try baking one. Heh. I brainstormed some more and thought of this article that I read on Facebook about a 10-minutes pancake. All I need is one banana and two eggs. Both also I have. Banana & egg pancake it shall be :)

The recipe is super simple. I wasn't too sure so I googled some more. Apparently, if you like your pancakes to have certain flavors, you can add them into the mixture. Flavors like coconut or cinnamon.

Step 1: Gather the main ingredients. Two eggs and one banana is for one person's portion okay.

Step 2: Peel the banana and put it in a bowl for easier mashing and crack two eggs in a smaller bowl for easier pouring later.

Step 3: Mash the banana with a fork or any other fancy equipment that you think could do a better job.

Step 4: Once it looks pretty mashed up, you can either stop or mash some more, depending on how you like your pancake to be. More lumpy or smooth.

Step 5: Then, you pour in the two eggs and mix them together until they look like a pancake batter. Something that looks like the photo.

Step 6: Get your flat (NON-STICK preferable!) pan heated up. If you like, you can pour some olive oil onto it. I did. Heh. Make sure the fire is small okay. You don't want to have burned pancake with the insides still raw.

Step 7: I wanted some flavor so I went and searched in mom's cabinet and found this goodness. No specific measurement for how much cinnamon to put it. It really depends on your instinct (HAH!), and according to mine, I should have poured in more of the powder.

Step 8: Once the pan is hot (put your palm over-on-top (NO DIRECT CONTACT) of the pan and if it's feeling pretty hot, then your batter is ready to be poured in.

Step 9: Wait a while more and do a few peeking underneath to see if its started to brown. If yes, then can turn the pancake to the other side. Since I want it to be perfectly round, I used TWO spatulas and a whole lot of minutes to make sure it doesn't break halfway.

Step 10: Once the pancake has your favorite shade of brown, you may now remove it from the pan and place it on a flat plate.

Additional steps ahead:

Step 11: You actually can already eat the pancake, but I wanted something else to eat it with (just in case if the pancake is horrible!) so I decided to warm up two slices of chicken ham on the same pan.

Step 12: Take the first bite of the pancake with no other food. Well, it tasted blehh. Cannot taste the banana or the egg or the cinnamon.The texture of the 'pancake' is odd.

Step 13: Thank God for the two hams and Nutella spread! 

Step 14: To be honest, even with both of that, I couldn't finish the pancake. 

It was tasteless. It was boring. It was just blehh.

I think there are a few things that could make it better. Here are some of my suggestions (which I'm going to try one day):

• Taste your bananas first. If it's not THAT sweet, then ADD sugar into the mixture. 
• If you want to put in cinnamon or coconut powder for the flavor, PUT MORE THAN WHAT YOUR INSTINCT TELLS YOU.
• Cook the batter in FEW batches. Don't be lazy like me and pour all of it into one big round pancake.
• If you're hungry and feeling really lazy to cook other things, this could be a good pre-sleep meal. Not fattening at all. Just remember to ADD THE SUGAR!

Okay, that's all for today folks.

Go try it tonight! :)

Koay's Love Language #1, #2 and #3.

So, this is something new that I just randomly decided to have of the conversations that I have with Koay. Mainly for future purposes when I wanna read back. OR AS PROOF WHEN I WANT TO CLAIM THAT MONEY FOR THE FOOD --> read below to get what I mean. Heh.

This is quite important because being a humble guy he is, he had always 'apologize' to me for being a total 'loser' in the romantic things. Things like bringing me on an expensive dinner on our special days, saying romantic things and do all kinds of romantic things that people he knows are doing to their better half.

Despite me telling him thousands of times that I don't go for these things. I don't in fact agree with spending five hundreds dollars on a dinner on a special day just to show how much the guys loves a girl? If that's something that the guy can afford then that's their story.

Our story is simple. We do not let all the romantic things cloud us of our expectations on one another. We know very well where we both are in this. Expectations. Yet, I think deep inside he still feels like every girl wants a guy who is really good at their words, doing all the romantic gestures like buying flowers on a random day, bringing the girl to holidays et cetera and I am a girl, so somehow, I guess he thinks that I sure want that. Nope. Flowers die too quickly and too expensive some more. Hah.

The thing is he failed to realize that he's so romantic in every other way WITHOUT HIM REALIZING IT AT ALL. That is why I want to record it here. 

Mister Muthu, if you are reading this, please know that you have been the most loving and caring and I am the most blessed to be loved by you.

So, here goes #1, #2 and #3 of Koay's unknowingly romantic (my definition) gestures. His way of showing love. His love language. 

#1
*On the phone with him after work on Friday. He was already in KL for SEA Games preparation*
Him: What you gonna eat for dinner wor?
Me: Err. I think I'll just cook maggi mee at home. Not feeling too well..
Him: Mom didn't cook ah?
Me: Yeah.. No one is gonna be home.
Him: Tapau something?
Me: Umm. No money lah. Overspent last month. Nvm la. Maggi mee is okay.

*Later at 10pm, I received a message from Jack, his good buddy*
Jack: Hello Kutu! How are you doin? Makan d ah?
Me: Hello! Yeah, went out for dinner with my sister and bro in law. Why? Want to belanja me ah?
*Jack didn't reply because later I found out that he was asleep*

*Whatsapp-called (because somehow skype very lag) the lover later on before sleeping*
Me: Ehhh. Funny just now Jack out of nowhere texted me and asked if I ate d..
Him: Oh isiit? Actually.. I texted him, asked him tapau food and deliver to your house, but he fell asleep because he just finished work. Haha.
Me: Whattt? Awww. You crazy boy.

#2
*I woke up at about 530am because I forgot to switch off my alarm last night and couldn't sleep after that. Had some trouble breathing normally so I sat up and checked my whatsapp and replied him*
Him: Awake? So early? 
*called me since he was still in KL, about to board the bus to Singapore for SEA Games*
Me: Yeah. Alarm went off and I don't feel good now babe. I cannot breathe..
Him: Har! Are you serious?
Me: Mmhmm. *breathes in deeply*
Him: Go drink hot water now. Now ah. Go go. (look who's bossy now! :P)
*hangs up the phone and I dragged myself to the kitchen to get hot water*

*phone rings again*
Him: Drink d? Feel better? Go back to sleep okay?
Me: Err.. I think a bit better lah. Okay. Love you.

*few hours later, he called again to check if I feeling okay. The thing is he was the one who had high fever few days ago of suspected dengue. Thank God everything is good now. No more fever!*

#3
*I've been eating lesser starting this month because I really overspent the moolahs last month and it is quite okay because I eat my dinners at home every weekdays. It's just the weekends or certain days when my mom doesn't cook or coffee-time with friends that I usually will not order*
Him: Eat better food babe. Not bread and all.
Me: It's okay lah. I can eat bread and other things. I don't want and have no extra money to spend on food d.
Him: You just order what you want to eat okay? Claim from me when I come back!
Me: Whatttt. Awww.

Family Photoshoot.

Finally got some time to post all these amazing photos up here.

Our church, FGA Centre had asked the wonderful photographer, Ms Eulene Ooi to take photos of us to be used to portray on our church theme this few months, which ultimately focuses on family. 

We gladly say yes of course. 

It was an early morning kinda thing but we were all pumped up to be obedient models. I remembered Koay was working that day and somehow we managed to squeeze a 10 minutes session so that we could get our couple shot. Heh. Desperados we are.

So, here goes.

Special thanks to Eulene and Le Roy for this photoshoot session! :)

Childhood Chick.

So, I have been wanting to share about so many things and sometimes that's not really an easy thing to do because it's just too many.

So since I've got the photos with me now, I thought might as well share about my growing up years. Right till when I hit the rebellious years of my life. Heh.

Turning old is gold okay. 

Keeps telling myself that. Hah.

Oh well, let's just enjoy these photos shall we.

I don't have a lot so yeah.

Down the memory lane hah.

My one year old 'party'!

Last time straight teeth what then don't know what happened!

What hairstyle also got.

Give me your best guess! :)

So crazy to see these photos and realized how time is constantly moving. Now, I'm a young adult with a career and doing things that I absolutely love, being surrounded with lots of people be it friends or strangers waiting to be friends and loving life right now.

Sure being a baby is super nice since no worries of the future and what to eat next and what to wear tomorrow et cetera, but being an adult is similarly amazing. Making memories of things that matters and things that are silly. 

Let's not forget the fun part of making own decisions on the big issues. That part. Heh. 

Feeling all gooey inside about growing up because my car is in the workshop for the seven hundredth time and this time its going to be costing a bomb. I can only smile and remember what its like being an adult. Painful to bear but it will pass. Afterall, money will still come. Its' not like I will lose my job the next day or whatsoever.

Okay, now I'm just mumbling. No idea what I'm saying already.