New Year Eve Steamboat Dinner

New Year Eve Steamboat dinner with the  'Cheah' at Lembah Permai.  Full of good food and fellowship.

Iron Bowl Lunch

Family lunch at Iron Bowl.

Dim Sum @ Qi Xiang Dim Sum Restaurant at Farlim, Penang

Qi Xiang Dim Sum Restaurant located at Thean Teik Road, Farlim is spacious and offers variety of foods with reasonable price.

The Lay's - fellowship at Batu Ferringhi

Blessed to spent time fellowship and encouraging one another over food. Enjoying a good chat and celebrating God's blessing and goodness talking about a multitudes of topics.

Kuih Bangkit (Tapioca Cookies)

Kuih Bangkit - In Malay "bangkit" is rise. So literally "kuih bangkit" is translated as "rising cake or rising cookies".

Kuih bangkit, a powdery sweet cookie seemed very easy to make but is in fact very challenging.  To get the melt-in-the-mouth effect is no small feat.  The tapioca flour [some uses sago or arrowroot flour] has to be pan fried with pandan [screwpine] leaves until light and fluffy.  The egg and sugar mixture is hand whipped with a spring beater until light and frothy before the cooked flour and freshly squeezed coconut milk are added to the mix.  It is then kneaded to form a soft pliable dough that is not too moist or dry.  It sounds easy, right?  Grandma and Grand Aunt certainly made it look easy but try recreating it in your modern kitchen and you will agree that this “not-too-moist-or-dry” thing is almost a fluke shot.

Blessing - celebrating the joy of faith ...

Yes, my cup runneth over.  Every morning before I get up from my bed, I thank my Maker, God Almighty, for the good life He has blessed me with.

Sure, there were hiccups in our marriage, and life was not a bed of roses.  Friends are so important.  There were trials and tribulations, of course - married life is seldom smooth sailing after all, but we survived and fervently hope for more happy years to come in the twilight years of our lives.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise - Oscar Wilde