Holiday Homework

Yesterday morning, also the last day of the June school holidays, she told me that she has 1 more piece of homework to do. I wanted to scold her for procrastinating but she said that no hurry to hand in. So I did not nag her to do it.
We were rushing out to meet a friend so she said she will do this last piece of homework at night. The night came and past, i forgot, she don't want to remember, we didn't do the work.
Today, after first day at school, she came back telling me that some of her friends handed in that homework today. But never mind. She still have time. Teacher gave the rest till this fri. I thought still have time too until she told me the homework is to..... read 30 chinese books.

Baking with Shatec

Got professional chef from Shatec to come teach the students baking. I sat in to supervise and benefitted greatly from the class. I have learnt:
- Be it cookies or cupcakes, once it's out of the oven, remove from the metal cooking tin immediately. Keeping it in the tin will allow the cookie/cupcake to be overcook, be exposed to water moisture at the base, resulting in a hollow (ugly) base. in the case of cookies, won't be crunchy anymore.
- Never over whisk the batter. max 4 mins. Over whisking will separate the oil out of the batter and the cupcake won't rise up.
- trick to adding fresh fruits e.g. blueberries, bananas, in the cupcakes. Cut into very small pieces so that it won't be too heavy and end up sinking to the bottom. Blot dry, sprinkle some flour if necessary to remove excess moisture.
- If trying to create oreo flavoured cupcakes, never sprinkle the oreo biscuit crumps/powder on the top. Colour of the oreo powder makes the cupcakes look as though it's mouldy. Unappitising.

Greetings

QQ, WX and WQ wish all a Merry Xmas and Wonderful New Year. Hope 2011 be a fulfilling and joyous one.

Babies

Wedding Anniversary

I ROM on this day 11 years ago! Gone such a long way with Ed.
We received wonderful news today. WX can come home today and WQ's weight finally increased, after a 40g drop over the last 4 days.
We decide to bring WX back tomorrow cos we were not ready today. Ed, QY and my mom having flu. And Ed and I wanted to enjoy our last day of peace before we busy ourselves with baby care.
Spent my wedding anniversary catching a movie and eating fast food lunch. Not very romantic I know, but it's quiet and relaxing and we had each other without any distractions. And I must remember I watched a movie on this day cos I can't recall when and what was the last movie I had. Pathetic...

Eating durians

I've never eaten so much durians in my entire life. Durians are suppose to be full of nutrients and good for babies. So in my bid to increase the babies' weight quickly, i am downing durian puffs almost everyday. I have to increase the girl's weight by 300g and boy's by 700g in 20 days.
I have always liked durians, but avoids eating them cos they are heaty and gives me bad sore throat and cough, illnesses that I can't afford to have when i'm teaching. But now, since I'm on leave and babies need to grow, there is no more reservations.

Active babies

Gynae injected steriods to help babies' lungs to mature, in case I go into pre-term delivery. I suspect it wasn't just their lungs that developed quickly. The injections were supposed to take effect in 48hrs and during these period, the babies got into some growth spurt too and was very "high". Their movements became very strong and painful, went on non-stop for 2 days and nights. It just felt like they were having one great dance party in my tummy.