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We all love this dessert! A little more job to do, but worth it.

Ingredients:

• Water chest nuts (cut into small cubes)
• Red Coloring – use only very little
• Potato starch flour (to lightly coat the chestnuts)
• Coconut milk – I used 2 coconut
• shaved ice (if have) – I omit this. Instead I cool the dessert inside my fridge
• Jack Fruit (shredded) -6 fruits
• Sugar and salt to taste
• Pandan leaves

Method:

1. Color the diced water chestnut cubes evenly
2. Lightly coat them with starch flour
3. Boil them until they float
4. Drain and soak  in a bowl of ice water immediately. Put aside
5. Bring coconut milk to boil with pandan leaves
6. Add in sugar to melt
7. Let it cool and add crushed ice
8. Put in shredded jack fruit

Although hubby and the kids love this dessert, I dare not make this frequently as it is very fattening and not very healthy to take so much coconut milk.  Don’t wanna waste my effort of taking the new diet pill, hehe…

Heard of Leptin, the latest slimming product in town?

I am currently trying it out and I find it is quite effective to suppress my appetite as compare to previous tried Amway and Herbalife. I even notice my tummy is getting smaller but that also means more wrinkle skin and I see the need of cellulite cure on my thighs too. Hope that Leptin will do wonders to my weight lose given a month time!

I just notice that I have so much acne on my back. It wasn’t like this before as far as I could remember, nor that I take much oil food recently. I think I definitely need to use some adult acne treatment to clear them otherwise it will be really ugly to wear bare back now

I still prefer to shop by trying out for my clothing first although it is really convenient to shop online. I would say, there are pros and cons of online shopping for clothes. There is a few occasion where I bought some shirts and I find that I don’t quite like the material, or it does not look good on me (although it look pretty well on the model). On the other hand, it is so easy for me to browse the pattern of the clothing easily in online shops like dereon without having to waste time to go check in the stores.

But shopping for cake is fine, since we do not get sample testing even we buy from shops too!

I feel bored at home already. Not because I am free and have nothing to do, instead I wish to walk out of the madness for a moment to take a breathe out there. Not that I do not love the kids, but I just need a break, to unwind myself. It would be nice to go indulge in some self pampering sessions, to have a full body massage, or a good facial mask using the prototype 37c and then a nice sit down meal without interference from shouting kids echoing behind.

On some weekends when we do not go out to KL, I like to go for a relax facial treatment. I try to attend at least once a month, to get rid of blackheads especially on my big pore nose. I need the relaxing massage especially on my painful shoulder. Good that almost all the beauty therapists are equipped with very good massage skills

Since there is lots of baking powder (from Kuantan), decided to make good use of it try out this recipe from Agnes Chang. Although chocolate has never been my favourite, this recipe looks tempting due to the cream cheese it used. And true enough, it taste fantastic (especially when it just came out from the hot oven!).

Ingredients A: 180g butter, 20g cocoa powder, 180g castor sugar, 3 eggs, 120g self-raising flour.

Ingredients B: 250g cream cheese, 60g castor sugar, 1tsp vanilla, 1 egg, 1/2 cup water.

Method
1. Melt butter in saucepan. Slowly add in all ingredients A.
2. Pour into tin and bake at 170C for 15mins (half cooked).
3. Mix ingredients B together and beat well.
4. Pour over a A and swirl thru with a knife to create marbled effect.
5. Continue to bake till golden brown (~25mins)

It would be nice if I have the beautiful silver-plated serving tray from www.redenvelope.com to serve my cake on the important days.

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My camera is starting to malfunction now. Does that mean I should be getting a new camera?

Although the current one is still working well and the micro sd is great, I no longer could turn the button to the video function. It would be wasted if I could not take the video of the kids anymore. Perhaps I should be getting a new camera, since there are many great models out there. Time to read more into what’s available in the market right now

We just came back from Genting. I won’t say it’s fun because its too tiring to take care of 2 demanding toddlers. But at least now they are older and can enjoy some of the rides with their sister. Also, this time we spend more days over there so we could ride through the theme park through the Vintage Car Rise. It is amazing to see that they really have very good pond algae control in their huge koi ponds. Too wasted we did not make it to the hot pool this time.

By seeing some positive results from my weight control program, I now try my best to replacement my meal with only the health drink. Not only I feel lighter overall, I feel more happier and confident too. Not only it can helps to loose weight, many claimed that it can be one of the best acne treatments as it helps with our complexion too. Anyway, there is nothing to loose by trying out right?