To the Loony & Recitals

Meant to write a note or two earlier but I guess I was just too lazy... It happens. [grin]

Date: 15th Sept 2007, Saturday


Sunz was back in town to continue her medical studies from India to Malacca. So a meeting was definitely in order. Came saturday; Sabrina, Sunz, myself and my younger sis went to Midvalley for a nice lunch. We enjoyed our food at Little Penang Cafe... But now what? I'm not one to plan everything in advance because I believe things will just flow when you're having a good time. Sabs had already bought her new shoes and Sunz bought some cassette tapes, what is there to do?

Since they wanted to buy posters but didn't know where to buy them, I took them to KL to buy some. With all the good food and sugar from the Baskin Robbins ice-cream gone to our heads, it was like a mad house in the car ride there. If anyone was hearing us, they'd hear random shouts and fits of giggles (we were having a good time by the way) and probably be thinking "Ha~! A bunch of loonies in a car."

After parking my car in S&M, we took an easy stroll to Petaling Street since Sabs wanted a bag to go along with her new shoes. 'Note from Sabs: Never break into new shoes when walking with a bunch of loonies in KL. ' Needless to say that the poster hunt was a success with myself and my sister bagging another 22 posters to our collection, while Sunz got 9 (plus a hunky looking poster) and Sabs with 3... I think..

So with our treasure hunt coming to an end, I dropped off the gang at my house and we parted ways from there... *sob, sob* I continued my day with an interest to attend a piano recital with Pui Yee at KLCC.

Without a moment to rest, I made my way to KLCC to meet up with her. Since we were both early as the piano recital only began 7.30pm, we took a nice wet stroll around the KLCC park. Truth be told, I never walked a full circle there before this. It was fun to walk around when you see hordes of families running the other direction to seek shelter from the rain. We had our umbrellas up, of course.

In our walk, we found our at the convention center. As the day was turning darker and the rain now even heavier, we ended our park walk and decided instead to look at the piano showroom. (Note to Pui Yee: I command you to stop thinking about your new "affair" at this point~! Hahaha~! You and your piano... Just kidding by the way)

Anyway the piano recital we attended was by Mr Loo Bang Hean and he played very nicely. The pieces were Chopin: Marzuka; in C# minor Op 6 No2 , in A minor Op7 No2 & in C# minor Op Posth, Granados Valses Poeticos and lastly Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor Op57 "Appassinota". If you knew what I talking about in this paragraph, good for you because I'm just typing what I see from the programme leaflet. Hehe~!

After the performance (he did an encore), we went to Dome to eat dinner since both of us haven't eaten there before. The food is good but for a price. All good things must came to an end but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have fun again, my friends. Til next time, Cheers~!

Creating Mooncakes

It's that time of year where mooncake sales go up because mooncake festival is coming~! And what better way to celebrate this festive occassion than to dabble into homemade mooncakes. Sweet~!

First we needed to prepare the utensils/equipments... Well, the only utensils that we really needed to have beforehand was this. Mooncake mould. Yes, I'm aware that it's in shocking pink. It was much cheaper to get the mould in plastic than the traditional wooden ones... Aside from that, we used a mixing bowl, weighing machine, spoon & tray.

When I saw this I thought it looked freakishly weird so I decided to share it with you guys. What is it, you ask? That was the basis of a mooncake... before making it pretty that is.

The skin of the mooncake consisted of a special flour, icing sugar, shortening & water. We added fresh strawberry since we were making strawberry mooncakes. That strange black blob on top of it was actually red bean paste, which we bought pre-packed. Ahh... the convenience of technology...

Anyway, we covered the red bean paste with the mooncake skin and then we put it into the mooncake mould. [squash, squash, squash]

Oh~! To make it easier for the moulded mooncake to come out, we needed to dust the mould with flour... Oops.. so the first mooncake we made actually needed to be banged out since it got stuck-ish in the mould. Hehe~!

Tadaa~! A homemade mooncake. As odd as it sounds, initially the mooncake will be a bit oily (must be due to the shortening). This type of mooncake that we made just needed to be chilled before served. When chilling, the recipe book told us to wrap the mooncakes in kitchen tissue paper. [shrugs]


For first timers, I think it turned out pretty well. Cheers~!