C2 Green Tea Drink

Last Monday night, the rep from C2 called me to collect 3 cartons of C2 Green Tea drink. I welcome this drink with open arms as it came very timely for me. I had a full day of baking, baking and more bakings (yes, I did say I 'sau tong' but last minute orders came in) and I wanted to gulp down a refreshing drink to chill out more than anything else.


C2 came in 3 flavours.. Lemon, Green Tea and Forest Fruits. Available at 7-11, Mydin, Giant and Jusco, C2 Cool and Clean Refreshing Green Tea Drink is now set to take over Malaysia by storm.

We used to gulp down cartons of soft drinks for Chinese New Year but not anymore, now we opt for a more refreshing and healthier option. C2 is a good choice, thirst quenching and taste good too. Packed with cathechin, a powerful water soluble antioxidant found mainly in unfermented green tea leaves, C2 is brewed and packaged fresh on the same day, therefore retaining all it's antioxidant goodness. Green tea is known to reduce the risk of four of the major health problems such as Stroke, Heart failure, Cancer and Diabetes and those who has Rheumatiod Arthritis, Cholesterol, Infection, Impaired Immune Function ought to give this beverage a shot and it's also good for detoxyfing too.





Drink chilled, preferbly on the rocks (my choice), it's a welcoming new drink for the New Year to neutralize the copious amount of unhealthy food and cookies we consume during the festive season.

I'm not the only one crazy over this beverage. Amber beat me to it and she gulped down the whole bottle of Apple Flavour yesterday. Mmmm. chen hao wei... if Amber likes it, then it must be good, my fussy eater is very picky over her choice of food and beverage. This beats any other sugar packed zero nutrition soft drinks.




Hurry, go grab a carton to share with your friends and relatives over the festive season.

Pineapple Tarts

Last night, I was at Jo's house , assisting her to bake pineapple tarts. It was her first attempt making tarts and I am kinda excited for her as I also have some jam in my fridge, cooked weeks ago but I have not gotten around baking, coz : 1) I have no time 2) I don't really know how to bake. I love tarts and can whack jars of it but always afraid to attempt making them.

So, last night was an eye opening experience for me. She cooked the jam and I brought along my tart shapers.

Working hand in hand is so much more fun.


One of us will press the dough and the other roll the fillings


Rows and rows of pretty tarts


Baked.. yummylicous ! Makes me wanna go home and bake my own tarts immediately.


While baking tarts, we also chomped on some CNY cookies.


And the kids we running around, shouting and screaming, basically, just having fun.


Her kids and mine.

Baking with a friend is so much more fun !

Calling It A Year

We are moving office TODAY (yes, today, 5 Feb 2010 marks our last day in office. We are relocating and the building will be torn down for redevelopment). Everyone's in a frenzy, packing, discarding stuff etc... and I'm blogging.. coz I'm done with my packing and I went to the new place over lunch hour to unpack some of my stuff.

We leave this place with a heavy heart, been so used to the current environment and we just hate the new place. No choice, company is like that,, love them and stick with them or just leave.. that's their policy.

Our colleagues arranged for lunch, our usual 'sau gong chau' before moving to the new office. Then the management also presented us with :



In spirit of chinese new year, we each received a crate of 'kum' for properous wishes

Then we went for lunch at Hakka Restaurant at Jalan Kia Peng :


My nice colleague sponsored us wine and pu-erh tea and we ordered the CNY set :

Food nothing much to shout about but in spirit of CNY, it's nice gather for lunch and toss to the new year.

A new office, a new year, a new beginning and betterment for all !

Baking Frenzy

I finally 'sau tong' on my baking for sale. I had last minute orders for 10 tins of chocchipchocchunk walnut cookies and I got all done on 1 Feb, Wilayah holiday. 15 tins in all, from 9am to 4pm, with toilet breaks and maggi mee lunch breaks in between. Fast eh ?

Then I also delivered another 6 fruitcakes to a lady who wanted to give away as gifts to her friends. I halved the fruitcakes for her and this is what I did this time :

Wrapped and ribboned up


Fits nicely in a 6x6 box (so difficult to get, I went all over town, from Melawati to Cheras and finally found the cake box and pans at Chun Yip, Jalan Petaling)


Then, bagged them in the Giant Recyclable bags.. I so love these versatile bags..

I missed out taking pics of the chocchipchocchunk cookies. Soo many tins and my whole house smelled like a cookie factory. :)

Then the past few evenings, I squeezed in some time baking for family :


chocchipchocchunk walnut (mini containers), corn flake cookies and almond flakes for family. I didn't bother much on the packing though.. once open, makan only lah.. no need fancy packing.

With CNY 1 week away, I still have so much to do. Moving office this weekend (gosh, I so hate our management, choose the most inappropriate time to move, smack in the CNY last minute shopping jam)

Lemme see.. I still have the following to bake list :
- pineapple tarts
- more fruit cakes
- cornflake cookies
- coconut cookies

Maybe I'll wait till after CNY !!! LOL !

The Things She Does

We were back to Tampin last weekend. A good break for me, been baking almost every evening.
Amber is always cheeky and loud at Tampin, very 'yit lau' with her Mama, YeYe around, she's most happy.

I caught her with this :


Using the mosquito netting she used as a new born. She pretended to be a baby and baby talked.. yadaa.. aaa.. naa...nooo... and bla bla bla.. Looking back, seems like only a while ago my little baby was sleeping with the mosquito netting. Now, she gotta fold her legs before closing the netting over. Time flies.. and fast too !

Then we went for our usual jalan jalan to Tesco Malacca. I stopped by Bata to look at some shoes. I turned around and found her at this :


not only this.. and more of other shoes .. she just loves shoes and I think the Bata ladies were annoyed too. LOL !

The Tax Dept

I get taxed for my cookies. Everybatch I make, I have to give a little away.

Made these cornflake cookies last night :



and I employ 2 workers helping me with packing.
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one in the mouth ... see the small bump on her right cheek ?


another goes in...


and another....


crumbs are not spared either..


Every batch of cookie I make is taxed and I haven't account for the BIG TAX from the ATTORNEY GENERAL OF INLAND REVENUE in white shirt. LOL !!! However, these are moments I cherish.. my loved ones pinching a bit here and there..

The Loaf Members Day

Just came back from lunch and I must post this up. The Loaf had a Member's Day today. I did receive a sms but didn't think much of it as I just had coffee and snacks there yesterday evening.
We had a rather unexciting lunch at Bon Ton Lot 10 and I suggested to hubs to pop by Loaf for my cup of coffee. Oh my,, the people and long queue, only then I remembered my sms.

We grabbed a few pastries,coffee and exotic raspberry and rose jam.


The long queue to pay but was rather quick moving. We waited about 5 mins for our turn

This is what we had :

Regular coffee


And our little box of surprise. I like how Loaf boxes up the pastries for takeaway.


Our loot :

Motoko Confiture raspberry and roses jam.. some danish and a smiley hole faced bread for Amber. Hope she eats it in school tomorrow (another story to come about her recess activities)

Guess the bill ?

Total RM19.80 for everything.. If I'm not mistaken.. that's about the price of a premium large ice blend at our CB or SB rite ?

Go join The Loaf membership priviledges. Only RM10 and there's always lots of offers on other days too. Their pastries is ZE BEST-est !!! Once had it, you wouldn't want to go near Delifrance anymore..