Batik Marie

Batik Marie

250g butter(1 cube)
1 cup sugar (if don’t like to have it too sweet personally I think half cup is enough)
1 can evaporated milk
4 eggs(beaten)
1/2 cup milo powder
1/2 cup cocoa powder (Van Houten)
400g Marie biscuits (1 packet) (break in quarters)
1 tbsp vanilla essence

1. melt the butter over heat.
2. pour in sugar. stir.
3. pour in evaporated milk + eggs. keep stirring so tt the eggs dun get cooked in the mixture.
4. pour in the cocoa powder + milo powder slowly n stir till the mixture thickens.
5. after mixture thickens, pour the vanilla essence. it'll give a sweet aroma to the mixture!
6. once mixture thickens, roughly abt 15-20mins, can off the heat and pour in the biscuits.
7. mix it well then get ready a normal cntr, put the biscuit mixture in and use a flat metal to press the whole mixture down(tt creates the batik design!).
8. voila! let it cool before storing it in the fridge.

Your batik marie can be served the next day!before cutting it, make sure u defrost it so tt cutting wud be easier!batik marie can last for quite long, u can eat the whole mth!

Cheese Cake!!

Ingredients Set A

1. 24pcs Marie biscuits (MUST be Marie biscuits (马利饼) hor! – Round biscuits in Red color packaging)
2. 125g butter (Buttercup brand – Golden color packaging)

Ingredients Set B
1. 1 tin of pineapple rings. Cut up. (Pleasant brand – Red color packaging)
2. 4 tbsp pineapple water
3. 1 can Nestle Cream
4. Half packet (1 packet = 250g) Philadephia chesse (Silver packaging)
5. 5 - 7.5g Gelatin
6. 2 and a half tbsp sugar

Instructions for Ingredient set A:
1. Rub butter into finely crushed Marie biscuits.
2. Make the cake base by pressing the mixed biscuits into a big plastic-disposable container (about L: 27cm x B: 15 -17 cm or round container diameter: abt 24cm).
3. Refrigerate for 1 hour (at least).

Instructions for Ingredient set B:
1. Put ingredients set B No. 2, 5 & 6 to melt (keep stirring) then mixed in No. 1,3 & 4 and bring to a boil. Not too long or the mixture will be oily.
2. Let the mixture cool for about half hour and then spread evenly onto the cake base.
3. Refrigerate to firmness. (IT'S V IMPORTANT for the ULTIMATE PRESENTATION OF CAKE!)

-THE END-

P.S All ingredients stated above can be brought from NTUC. Follow the
brand(s) above closely. Any other brands used, will change the overall
taste of the chessecake. If you face any problems, feel free to contact
me ya? AND YES, after you have done it, tell me about it ok?

Below is a photo of the above stated ingredient… put creativity in works, try with some other fruit … my friends & I have tired blueberry… taste super nice too… see the 2nd photo….

We will be BACK!!! - Sipadan

So much dive till we get a few candid shots here during the drift dive & also group photo with our diving gang! =D This was a fantastic 4D3N with Kapalai Dive Resort in Sipadan & Mabul Island.
The staff and dive master are friendly and helpful. Videography is available too. Our group had one taken at RM290/CD (consist of 2 dives). The experience was such a terrific & memorable one that we sure will return to this amazing island!

Anemone Crab!

These were the two photos that I personally love a lot! =D The tiny crab found among the sea anemone. We were facing a bit of a current when we took the photo. The tiny one doesn’t seem to be affected by us. Kok Loong was keeping his ground by holding one hand to a rock and the other with his camera over her and took a few quick shots. The photo turns out to be really great!

Scorpion Fish

Frogfish is one of the marine life that Kok Loong hope to discover, however, was kind of a disappointed that we did not manage to find. However, found this Scorpion fish. Small size as it might be, I think it has a look of a dinosaur. A tiny one though… couldn't agree more with me? Haha…

The tiny one ~ Nudibranch

Besides these species, we see a number of nudibranch. Nudibranch is a member of one suborder of soft-bodied, shell less marine which are noted for their often extraordinary colors and striking forms. It was amazing sight to see them slugging on the rocks or sandy surface. In the photo are some just some species we found.

Cuttlefish Chase

Cuttlefish, among the intelligent invertebrate species has a real interesting body structure - cuttlebone. With its vision like human, I just can wonder what this cuttlefish thinks when it saw us coming toward her. It cleverly camouflage itself by altering it skin color. Their skin flashes a fast-changing pattern as communication to other cuttlefish and to camouflage them from predators as well.

Flying Gurnard

An interesting flying gurnard also caught our attention on the sandy ground of paradise in Mabul. This marine fish is notable for their greatly enlarged pectoral fins, it "walk" along sandy sea floors while looking for crustaceans and other small invertebrates by using their pelvic fins.

Turtle, Whitetips & Grey Reef Shark Encounter

Turtles and whitetip & grey reef shark could be seen on almost every dive! The largest troop of the grey reef sharks we encountered is at Mid reef, estimated 20 tails swam beneath us. However, we give a miss on the hammerhead shark =(

The Dive - Sipadan / Mabul Island

We have a total of 3 guided dives each day. Evening & night dive is on our own for advance or divers with night dive experiences. Of cos, I get pretty excited because this is the first time I have been here (though Kok Loong is not because this is part of his hometown, he has been here during his childhood) and I have heard so many “incredible tale” of this underwater world that I can't wait to see it for myself.

Indeed every dive here was breathtaking… Big eye jack fish & Barracuda were swirling in huge school like a tornado! Giant humphead wrasse was in matching in big troop for morning breakfast among the corals in shallow waters. Awesome sight! Different type of bat fish, butterfly, angel fish, trigger fish, puffer fish, eels are common sight. It’s not only fish that you see. There’s this super huge giant turtle that was seen staying motionlessly during our night dive at Kapalai Dive Center Mandarin Valley. It stretches a length of about 2M, almost thought that it was a giant rock in the darkness. Haha…

Sipadan Dive June 2008 (4 Days 3 Nights)

13th June, 2008, 7:30pm, we drove off from Singapore Tuas Custom toward Kuala Lumpur, Capitol of Malaysia on my friend’s car. Arriving Kuala Lumpur around mid night and we put up at Kok Loong’s (KL, my hubby) sister house, before taking up the AirAsia flight which departed at 7.20am, 14th June. 2008. It was about 2.5hrs flight journey from KLIA to Sabah, Tawau Airport. We have arrived Tawau on time at 10.05am (Tawau is 1hr behind Singapore time). We are immediately greeted by the personnel from Kapalai Resort and were put on another 70mins (depends on traffic, we took about 1.5hrs!) land journey on a mini bus to the Semporna Jetty. The speed boat took another hr or so… it was a long journey.

In the lazy, warm & humid afternoon, we finally arrived at this heavenly known island, Sipadan Kapalai Dive Resort, in East Malaysia Sabah. The whole resort was built on an island that was shallowly covered under the sea (p/s: No beach on this resort). We were greeted by the crystal clear blue water and baby blue sky. Starfishes were smiling at us, school of jack fish swimming around and blue spot stingray were spying on us. Our fatigue slipped away when greeted warmly by the staff at Kapalai and this magnificent sight!

The 3 mains meals of the days are all in buffet style. Afternoon snacks served after 3rd dive, tea/coffee, cold water and cordial served throughout the day. So we had our first lunch and was check into our “enormous“, non-air condition resort house. Our house was #50, which was the 2nd last unit along the two endless stretches of accommodation. The whole housing consist of a king size bed and a single size bed, with a really huge enough toilet that has both a standing shower and a bath tub that oversee the endless Celebes Sea…cool isn’t?! And not forgetting the baloney for chilling out anytime of the day.

Related links:
http://www.sipadan-resort.com/
http://www.journeymalaysia.com/islandkapalairesort.htm