"Star Kids" Club

Recently Adrian mentioned that we should plan a short getaway as he had some leaves to clear.

Well, with budget constraint and also saving for our Australian tour in 2008, we decided to go on a cruise. Thus we have booked ourselves on SuperStar Virgo for a 3D2N Cruise to no-where.

There are 2 main reason for chosing the Star Cruise :

1. Anthea and Anders have not travel on a ship before, so it would be a good chance for them to explore something different. (ps: i have never been on a cruise as well...hehe)

2. In conjuction with the School holiday, Start Cruise has a special program - A HOLIDAY SPECIAL WITH 'MR. BEAN AND FRIENDS' ON SUPERSTAR VIRGO . Since Anthea and Anders are BIG FANS of Mr Bean, this will be a good time for them to meet their Star onboard.

Today, i went to Star Cruise office to make the payment for our package. There is a 15% discount for SAFRA card holders, so for adrian and myself are entitled to the discount. As for Anthea and Anders, they get to cruise for FREE as Star Kids club members. So overall, we had a very good deal for family of 2 Adults and 2 children. To pamper ourselves a little, we have booked a Balcony Class room with Oceanview.

I am looking forward to a cruising fun time in mid November when the Captain shout " ahoy - all on board"...hee.

As i took the afternoon off to do the payment, i decided to do another round of muffins - Chocolate Ricotta Muffins. This is my 1st time (again) using Ricotta cheese for muffins. This ricotta cheese has a very smooth and nice taste. I got it from Carrefour hypermart in Plaza Singapore.

The muffins turn out very well and i am really surprised and pleased with them.

Thank's god it's Friday.

Muffins Sunday

Today adrian is on his Sunday work duty.

My MIL came in the morning to fetch Anthea for their weekends swimming sessions, thus i am home alone with Anders.

Anthea has been looking forward to this Sunday where she can stay at my In laws place during the day. Louis, Eve & Faith are doing their weekend relaxation trip in Bintan. So my MIL need not babysit Faith.

After lunch, Anders had his usual afternoon nap. Without any disturbance, he slept quite immediately.

This leave me FREE to do my own chores. So i baked a dozen of Blueberry Muffins. This is my 1st attempt at Blueberry Muffins. I realised my mistake - too much sugar. The recipe asked for certain amount of sugar and Blueberry. Overlooking that i am using Blueberry fillings which are already sweetened, i should have 1/2 the sugar content..hee : P

Well, overall the Blueberry muffins turned out nice on the texture. For this round, i used cake flour which i think helps. I bought cake flour for the cheese tarts recipe and since i still have balance of the flour, i thought might as well used it. Glad that it was a right choice.


Baking without my "sou chefs" are so much relaxing and faster. When they are around me, i tend to be a bit off focus as i need to keep watching out for them.

So this baking session was quite an enjoyable moment for me.

Anthea was so cute, yesterday after eating the Blueberry cheese tarts, she said : "mommy, you bake more and sell them for money." What a compliment..haha.

i told her mommy's baking standard is only good for self consumation and not for sale, people will asked for their money back. : P

We had dinner with my in laws at 香港珍街 near our place. It was another nice and simple dinner. Father in law shared his experienced on property with me at dinner table. Hopefully, one day i can be just liked him...(Daydreaming again...)

Island Princess & Little Treats

Anthea is very into Barbie shows. I think we have almost all the collections of Barbie shows - Fairytopia, Mermaidia, Princess & the Pauper, 12th Dancing Princesses, Rapunzal,Swan Lake, Nutcrackers - you named it, we have it...haha.

So the latest addition to her collection is - Barbie as Island Princess. She had been eyeing on this show for a while and kept saying that she viewed the show on Computer while at my inlaws house.

Yesterday, while we were at a VCD shop, my colleague was purchasing VCD/DVDs for work purposes. I was browsing through the VCDs when i saw the words - Movie Musical on Island Princess, i knew i have to buy it. We enjoyed Princess & the Pauper very much because it's a musical and the songs are all very mesmerizing and i love them. So i hope that this musical will be as good as that. When i showed Anthea the VCDs, she was elated and kept jumping up & down. After she cooled down, she said "Thank you, mommy." I am really glad that she is appreaciative of this small kind.

At the same time, after buying the VCDs. I discovered a new Muffins/Donuts shop. The name of this shop is - The Little Treats. I bought a box of 6 muffins - Apple Cinnamon, Chocolate Delight, Blueberry, Strawberry and Cheese. They shop has a promo card for stamping and i believe the challenge is to collect 6 stamps to get 1 FREE box of muffins or donuts.

I must say or admit that the muffins were really, really GOOD. After eating so many different brand of muffins...hee.

I had the Apple Cinnamon and the apple was well cooked to the taste. My only complaint is too little fillings. The chocolate delight was just nice and the chocolate is not too sweet.

My colleague tried a double chocolate donut but she said it's too sweet to her liking. I will try one the next time i buy my next batch of muffins... : )

(sigh..how to lose weight like this... : P )