New Toy

Baby bought me a new toy!

He had some 'bonus' and thought he should spend on me. 😂 

He wanted to buy me a new Birkenstock initially but since my current one is still usable, why spend to get a new one?

So I told him that I would rather buy a bread maker. 

What triggered me to buy a bread maker?

It's because me and my colleague, Gaby are always hungry around 3-4pm so we were saying the other day, it would be so good if we can have some healthy food. That's when I thought about making our own bread. 

At least I can control the ingredients thus making it slightly healthier isn't it? 😜

My first bake!

It was a success. 

Bread rose abit too high that it got flattened by the panel 😜 

This is just a normal bread recipe. 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of warm milk (I used full cream)

• 1/2 cup of butter (softened)

• 1/4 cup sugar

• 2 eggs

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 4 cups of bread flour

• 2 1/4 of dry active yeast

According to my bread maker's manual, put the wet ingredients as the first layer followed by the dry ingredients. 

Yeast to be put in the middle after the dry ingredients and salt should be placed at one corner. 

This is because if you put salt on yeast and leave it for a few mins, the salt would kill the yeast. 

Your bread will not rise then. 

Another picture of my high rise bread 😂

My second bake was a different bread. 

I tried out the Quaker recipe for Oatmeal Bread.

This time it didn't rise as high because I ran out of yeast 😣 

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 tsp quick rising yeast ( I used 1 3/4 tsp)

• 3 cups bread flour

• 1 cups Quaker instant oats

• 2 tbsp sugar

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 1/4 cups of milk

• 2 tbsp butter = 30g

Place according to the wet and dry ingredients sequence and then press start. 

Oh oh.. 

Before I forgot, set to basic, light colour and it will automatically run for 3 hour. 

From kneading till baking 😁

Colleagues say it taste good! 

So happy. 

Today's bread finished faster than the previous one 😂 

Making food is my hobby and I'm now super motivated. 

I just love to see people eating what I make happily. 😊

Life is simple and happy like that. 

Some Updates after 1 Year

Forgive me if my post are unorganized or out of place.

It's been too long since I blogged and I've gotten so used to Dayre.

Dayre allows us to update anytime of the day in one post but for blogs, it's not that way. 

We have to compose a whole post before posting it up. 

That's the difficult part (which I've forgotten how I did that in the past) 

Similarly, I posted mainly about my life here and Dayre. 

Give me some time to re-adapt.

So let me start off with an update of myself. 

I'm still working at my current company. It's been 2 years and 10 months (as of todate). 

And last month, I was given a promotion.

For this, I have to thank my unit head for recommending the promotion despite the falling economy. 

I like my job. 

Although what I do on a daily basis are more routine nowadays, I still found things to learn every now and then. 

I've been assigned to train trainees and trust me, it's not easy. 

It's equivalent to double workload and trouble (if the trainee got into trouble, we would be in trouble too)

Illustration: 

From trainee

To me..

And my task. 

 

Hahaha. If I fail, I'd have to bear the consequences with my trainee. 

Of course it's not as serious as that. 

But in my workplace, we are very detail oriented and particular especially when we deal with certain level of people. 

But all is good. 

I have colleagues whom I totally consider them as friends. 

We do hangout on weekends and share about our personal stuffs. 

A few of my close buddies at work. 

With them around, work feels more interesting.

They definitely make me look forward to go to work almost everyday (used the word almost because I do have some blue days too).

That's work. 

My personal life has some changes as well. 

I HAVE OFFICIALLY ENDED MY LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP! 😆 yay!!

He moved to KL this month. 

But there's a lot of adaptations needed. 

I am so used to living alone, now that he is here, it sort of like interrupt my daily routines. 😂

Examples 1:

I used to stay late at work to avoid jam and also for the company as I will be alone at home.

With him around, I can't wait to go home. And I'll try to leave as on time as I can to avoid jams. (Which is quite rare to be able to avoid jams)

Examples 2:

I have stop having dinner. 

I'll only snack on some fruits, yogurts or cereals. 

(Hate eating alone) but it became a habit. 

So when he is around, he MUST have dinner and he seems to come with a mission to make me gain weight! 😑 

He went around telling people that I was too thin (God knows what is his definition of thin). 

And his mom made him bring kampung eggs for me. (more nutritious, she said)

Examples 3:

I sleep early every night. 

And by early I meant I'd be in bed by 930. 

Around 10 plus, I'll off the lights and sleep. 

But he is a late sleeper. 

With him around, we actually watched tv (chasing the drama series). 

By the time we finished, it will definitely pass 10 already. 

However, when he notice that I was too tired to even sit and finish one episode, he will go to bed with me. 

One of my habits:

I want to sleep at the same time with him if possible. 

Examples 4: 

I'm particular about cleanliness (not super OCD type) but more like dirty clothes has to be in the laundry basket and the first thing I do when I come home from work is bath. 

He on the other hand loves to leave his clothes all over the floor/bed. 

So I have to pick/clean up after him. (Still bearable though) 😂

Just one week and there's already so much to adapt. 

Nevertheless, I love having him around. Now I know I won't be going home to an empty place. 

He'll be there waiting for me. 

I'd never go hungry again with him around. 

I'd never worry about eating alone. 

Every morning, he will be the first thing I see when I open my eyes. 

I'd be able to cuddle to sleep. 

I can make do with any difference in our lifestyles/habits just to have him around. 😍

Back to Blogging

This is very random. 

But yeah..

 Was in a conversation with my colleagues for some getaways and I decided to look for the pictures we took during our D'Dusuntara getaway.

 Couldn't find it in any of our FB therefore I decided to search for it on airen's blog. 

I remember reading about it there. 

Only then I realised how I've forgotten about blogging and reading her posts strikes my interest again. Therefore, I shall try to go back into blogging once again. 

Let's see how I can juggle between work and blogging again. 

I started blogging with a group of friends and after awhile the only active ones was me and airen. 

I have left her long enough to be alone in this blogging world 

*drama coming in* 😜 

I shall return to walk this journey with you!