We have 2 pots of chillies, basil and parsley, 1 pot of lavender, spring onion and an unknown flower.

The parsley and basil is growing very fast. I have to harvest them almost every 3 weeks.

Check out our chilli pots. It’s like a mini jungle!

Lots of chillies waiting to be harvested.

The lavender was dying and drying up. So we changed the soil and move it to a bigger pot. Now it looks healthy and finally growing well.

He sang 3 songs in this car journey:

1. Barney’s I Love You
2. Itsy Bitsy Spider
3. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Marcus Singing 1

And here, he’s singing Cheryl Cole’s Fight For This Love.

Marcus Singing 2

The many faces of Marcus.

Firstly it will be my first visit to Central Asia, have never been to Kazakhstan thus the trip will contribute to my obsession of visiting ALL the countries (my last count was 41 countries). Then Dav agreed to come over and spend some time out there with me. Fantastic ideas… Spain can wait some other time.. LoL

Now let’s see if it will take place.

In true English style, her fiance called our parents to asked for their blessings, a few days before he proposed. Traditional yet so sweet! I don’t think my parents were expecting it.

Now it’s time for us to save up cos she wants a beach wedding and it doesn’t look like it’s gonna be in Malaysia. Cant wait to have another celebration in the family.

Congrats again Jas & Richard!!

From your sis and bro-in-law.

I came upon this recipe when I was browsing The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook by Tarek Malouf and The Hummingbird Bakers. Now if you have not heard about Hummingbird, you should! Especially if you’re into cupcakes. I believe it’s American and it has several branches in London. But it is VERY FAMOUS for its cupcakes.

Anyhow back to my attempt to cheer myself up.

So after dinner I started making the cupcakes. Marshmallow and cupcakes are definitely my all time favourite junk food (right on top of the list!). Therefore I thought the sugar high will lift my spirit. One bite from the cupcakes and I thought I could have instantly become diabetic! It was WAAAYYYY too sweet for my liking (and I’m a person who likes her sweet desserts!). Imagine I didnt even follow the full recipe, it will be even sweeter if I had melted the marshmallow and poured it into the cupcakes.

If you’re interested to try, you can get the recipe here.

Mixing the marshmallow with the frosting. Never again will I make anything with frosts.

End product. Excuse the picture quality. I was using my iPhone.

Today I read on PerezHilton.com that Sara Barellles also did a cover version, more jazzy and folkie.. which I also like.

Enjoy all you single ladies out there!

Dav and I have been hoping we could pick more this year and thus we have started going to the Common every weekend to check the progress… For the past 2 weeks, there was barely anything and the blackberries were either green or red (i.e. not ripe). Yesterday we were more successful. Although there’s lots more bushes where the blackberries are still not rip, we did find a few bushes with very big and black berries.

My father in-law was very excited and we could hardly stop him!

We managed to get a container full of berries. Hopefully that would make one jar of jam. We are already planning to go back again next weekend to get more.

Anyone interested to come along?

Blackberry plant. It has lots of thorns which makes picking slightly more difficult and sometimes painful.

One container full of blackberries.

To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan of the HBO series until I moved to London and got close to AA. Since then, the series’ creator has made 2 movies. I enjoyed the first movie very much and was very impressed by how there was a twist to the story line. Now the second movie came out earlier this year and I noticed it has a bad review. I didnt have a chance to watch it with the girls in London due to all the business trips I was on. Plus Dav would never go and watch it with me.

Few months after the movie premier I totally forgot about the movie until I saw it in HMV yesterday. So I make a note to remind myself that I must watch it! So finally today I watched it for the very first time.

My verdict, I totally LOVE it!

The reason why I like it is not because of the fashion or the drama. But because I can totally relate to Carrie, for the first time. I totally agree with her on how it is up to you and your partner to decide how to make the marriage works. Whether it is 2 days off each week, live apart with occasional visits or maybe sleep in separate rooms!! I personally feel that society has pressured a lot of us into living a certain way and get frown upon when you’re not following the normal path / trend.

Dav and I have been true to ourselves in having a marriage the way we want it to be. We create our own tradition and make changes as we see fit.

As Carrie said at the end of the movie, “You have to take the tradition, and decorate it your way.”

The food is served in a 3 tier tray but cant be refilled. They have really cute tea pots and the atmosphere is great. I would definitely recommend this place. The price is really reasonable too!

Love the macaroon dipped in chocolate.

My tea set.

Another cute little tea pot. Can’t believe they serve teas in different types of teapots.