I'm a full-time mummy

Ever since I started kindergarten at 6 years old, I have been attending public schools (main language is Bahasa Malaysia) and during my earlier years, I mixed around with a lot of Malay friends and even spoke Bahasa with my elder brother at home (he also attends public schools), even to this day. So Bahasa Malaysia used to be my main language other than Cantonese and later on English (brushed up more when I met my hubby then boyfriend through snail mails, I had to practise and brush up my English as he doesn't speak Cantonese) Anyway, I think it is fun to be able to practise back and sharing what I know with those of you who are interested.

And so, here goes our next lesson: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Chinese New Year is coming up in few days time, so this is just in time for you to practise and try out greetings your fellow Chinese friends, colleagues, relatives :) 

For those of you who are more often on Facebook, you can also find the tutorials on my Facebook fan page. I have created a "Let's Learn Bahasa & Cantonese!" album to store the phrases. Enjoy learning!

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For this post, I am sharing my 1st breadmaker recipe, Home Made White Bread. We were out grocery shopping at Tesco when hubby beckoned me over to have a look at some breadmakers sold there. After a quick Whatsapp session with my buddy (she's using one too), we decided to get the Tesco breadmaker (model BM10). I got this recipe online and followed it exact to the dot.

Ingredients:
* 1 1/3 cups of room temp water
* 1 tbsp of sunflower oil (for my 2nd attempt, I replaced this with VCO)
* 1 tsp of salt
* 2 tbsp of sugar
* 3 1/3 cups of bread flour/high Protein flour/high gluten flour
* 2 tsp dried yeast


Methods: 
* The key is to put in the liquid ingredients, followed by semi liquid and finally the dry ingredients. So add water follow by oil, flour, salt and sugar.
* Tap the pan lightly to settle the flour.
* Make a small hole at the center of the flour heap. Add the yeast there.
* Lock the breadpan in the bread maker.
* Set the program to "Basic" follow by loaf size and select the crust color. (I didn't change any settings, and leave it as default)
*  The bread maker will complete the task in 3 hours.

Outcome:

This recipe is definitely for keeps!

To view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!

Firstly, don't laugh at MY drawing and coloring skills. I am not good in it. But I'm glad our girl is happy to see mummy drawing her Disney princesses.

Now why this drawing falls into the 'Teaching & Learning Moments!'? As our 3 years old requested for me to draw the princess characters, I told her to get me the color pencils.

* Listen to instructions (Me: 'Alyson, get the black color pencil for mummy to draw her hair.')

* Execute the instructions (Alyson goes and look for the color pencils as requested by mummy)

* Bonding time between mummy and daughters

Win-win!

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