Betty Crocker's Chocolate Brownies D.I.Y

Argh..it's been quite some time since I last bake. I was really lazy though. Me, on a peaceful Sunday, just wanted to laze around the house doing nothing. NOTHING AT ALL.

I was convinced by Mummy to bake since there will be no breakfast for Monday. She wanted carrot cake, but I find it too tedious. After all, I'm just lazy to shred the carrots.

Hence, I made brownies. To be exact, Betty Crocker's Chocolate Brownies. My ex-colleague, Erizna, introduced this to me. She is a wonderful cook. She can bake very well, really! I wondered if she still does bake in Australia.

Let's get the ingredients ready:

• Betty Crocker's Chocolate Brownies prepacked mix. (I only managed to find this in Cold Storage)
• As stated on the back of the box, prepared 1/2 cup of vegetable oil, 3 tbsp of water, 2 or 3 eggs.
• Extra ingredients as you desired. I put in walnuts and extra chocolate chips.

The Main Ingredients


Walnuts and Chocolate Chips (ooppss..it's blurred)

Follow the steps below:

Step 1. Place the eggs into a mixing bowl and beat them until fluffy.



Step 2. Add in Betty Crocker's Chocolate Brownies Mix.

Step 3. Add in oil and water.



Step 4. Lastly, add in your desired ingredients.



Step 5. Grease the pan. I used a 8x8" pan. Soon after, transfer the mixture into the pan.



Step 6. Put in to bake. Adjust the setting to be plus minus 160C, for about 30-50 minutes. These settings actually depends on your oven's condition. The best of all is to observe the baking condition from time to time and re-adjust your setting.



And tadaa..this is the final product!



Hope you've enjoy today's baking session. Lolz. I'm boosting myself and made myself cheeky. Haha..

Anyway, hope you will try to make this one day. Add in more chocolate chips if you want it to be chocolaty.

Tschus~

-Shookie-

Wish Upon A Heart

Stumbled upon a lovely cup cake on one of the weekend's morning. I wasn't really paying attention to this as I just wanted to have something for breakfast, until Baby Cheng said "Jie, look at this. It's a love shape raisin."

Love Shape Cup Cake. It is my current wallpaper.

Wow..that really cute. Mommy bought cup cakes from Baker's Cottage as one of our snack-y bites. Never had we come across a lovely one.

Hmm. I wondered - It's the beginning of a wonderful day.

-Shookie-

An Outing With Riddick

An outing again. This time, Baby Cheng is diligently studying at home. Bro just came back from Vietnam on Friday (which means he is earning a lot of money to spend! ..hehehe..), so both of us went out for a movie and some shopping in KLCC.

Discussing about movie, do you think "G.I. Joe" is good? I did not receive really good comments about the movie. First, CatFish said he watched it for the action. Second, MengYee said the storyline is silly a.k.a. childish, nothing much by the way. She recommended "District 9" instead. Alien? Hmm..she sure has a certain taste in movie, and since the movie is new, so both of us decided to go for it.

District 9 Movie Poster

"District 9" was indeed quite different from my liking. Science fiction, thriller, action. A little bit bored in the beginning, but until the end, it is action packed. Quite interesting for me! Check out IMDB for the review and ratings.

Okay. It's confession time. I did some shopping today. However, the money was spent wisely, a good investment, i would say. BOOKS.

There is an advertisement on today's The Star newspaper about the Malaysia's Bookfest in KLCC Convention Centre. So I thought, it's a good time for me to get the rest of the Twilight Saga series, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. Eventhough I've already completed reading them, I do think it's worthwhile to collect a complete series. Nonetheless, Stephenie Meyer is good.

Here's my complete Twilight Saga series.

Twilight Saga Series - Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn.

Besides getting those, we bought these as well. OF COURSE, at a discounted price.

From top left - The Innocent Man, The Six Sacred Stones for Riddick, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle for Shookie and cook books for Mommy.

I've yet to complete the two books which I had bought from Kinokuniya a few weeks back. Guess all these books are going to keep me occupied and grounded at home. No more shopping. It's time to stay at home and be a good girl.

-Shookie-

p/s: A co-incidence bump with Pierre Martin (and he was with his GF)

McD Ramadhan Feast!

Selamat Menyambut Bulan Ramadhan!

and

Selamat Berbuka Puasa!

McValue Lunch has extended to dinner! That's rite! My all time favourite fast food restaurant is having a promotion! That means, for the month of Ramadhan, we can enjoy a superbly cheap McValue meals day and night!

Check out the leaflet!

Great selection for McValue Buka Puasa

Guess you guys must be wondering that, for sure I'll patronize McD as frequent as I can in the month of Ramadhan. Ah hem..though it sounded tempting, but I have my determination too.

Don't worry about me. You guys have to take care of your calories too yeah! Keep healthy!

-Shookie-

Totally Shock!!

OH MY GOD! I did not believe my eyes when I see them!

After withdrawing money from Maybank's ATM, I quickly hold the newly withdraw money and my purse; not wasting any time, I walked across to a shoe shop where Mommy was in. I tried to fold the money so that I would be able to slot them into zipper compartment of my handbag.

WTF! The stack of money was so hard to fold. Feeling weird, and a little nervous too, I took a good look of the money. Gosh~ I do not know it for real. The RM50 notes look so much different!

The first question that came to my fickle mind was "ARE THEY FAKE? DAMN, I HAVE A WHOLE STACK! WTH!"

I tried to calm down myself or else Mommy will be more nervous than me. I tried hard to convince myself. Believing it, for God's sake, I think they are real. By the way, I've just withdraw them from a proper ATM machine. There's no reason anyone, anyhow was able to swap the fake money into the ATM machine. No conspiracy here. I told myself.

Back home, I google-d for the new RM50 notes. Huh~. Truly, they are the new notes. *smile*

Take a glance of the new RM50 notes!

What a insensitive citizen am I! I did not know anything about the new RM50 notes. Lolz. Baby Cheng had already known about it a few weeks back. Shame on me!

For those who have yet to own the new RM50 notes, go to your nearest ATM machine!

*big grin*

-Shookie-

He's a CUTIE sometimes!

August, 6th. I was about to leave for work and I'd found a cutie laying down at the car porch. Guess who?

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Tadaaa~

The forever strong and mascular, JOHNSON!

Gosh..he looked so much like a puppy despite the fact that he's about 60kg, with his head bigger than mine and is able to stand tall reaching my height.

Bare in mind that even with his childish character to be gentle and playful, his is able to make strong attacks on human. No one in my family had escape his playfulness, with the impact of scratches and bruises.

And yet, yesterday he was such a CUTIE! I can't resist to just walk away and ignore his cute laying position. So here it goes, a blog for the cutie!

-Shookie-

The Devilline Weekend

Ouch..ouch..my wrist is still aching, even after taking ponstan, applied counter-pain and now, I had my wrist bandaged!

WeLoveOutings kaki(s) had a great weekend. Our hang-out to shop for Hui Ping's new phone and her birthday celebration at Shangri-la Hotel was marvellous! We named it "The Devilline Weekend".

Haha..sounds secretive yeah? Devilline is actually Hui Ping's nickname, or more of a webname; I would say. Her English name is Angeline, and somehow she transformed her name to a cuter, kinky ones, Devilline.

Saturday. We went to IKANO to get her phone. GOSH! Her dad is splurging her with a new phone which she had been nagging about wanting one since 2 years back. (And followed by a lunch buffet at Shangri-la Hotel on Sunday!) What a splurge!

Oops..no photos of us getting the phone as the shop (Sony Center) was extremely busy. Anyway, she got a SE W508i.

We then head to Ikea's Cafe for lunch, or erm..tea will be more appropriate. LOLz.

From Left - Phototaking on the escalator (haha..); Us with the yummy meatballs!

These were what we had for tea. Ikea's famous meatballs, and The Daim's Cake.

Checking out on Hui Ping's new phone, and self-vain photos.

Shopping at The Curve's Flea Market in the evening till night. Found a cute ribbon-type hair clip for Baby Cheng.

Chapter 2 - Sunday. Hui Ping's birthday celebration at The Lemon Garden Cafe, Shangri-la Hotel, KL. Two thumbs up for this restaurant! The food was fresh and tasty.

From Top - The grill section; Local noodles section.

Shookie's favourite: PRAWNS!! They serve baby lobsters too! And of course, oysters for the aphrodisiac fanatics!

From Left - Sushi & sashimi; A variety of mix vegetables & fruits salad.

From Top - Salad bar; Italian kitchen, where we found pastas, bruchetta, pizzas and some "the unknown to me" Italian food.

The bread, ham, cheese bar.

From Top - Chocolate Fondue(s)! [ Notice on the (s)? They have white chocolate fondue! >_< ]; Fruits section.

Desserts - CAKES & Ice Cream! Their fruit tarts are amazingly tasty - crunchy dough with a generous amount of fruit toppings.

Finally, after a tour around the restaurant, here's the introduction of the food! Erm..sorry for uploading only a picture of the food that we've taken. We enjoyed the food, but we've forgotten to take pictures. Big sorry! *blush*

These are the only photos of food that we've taken - Mushroom soup, scrumptious salad and the cute, little fruit tarts.

Snapping photos after our meal. Hmm..we were extremely full!

Here are the pictures of the birthday girl:

Hui Ping with her family.

Hui Ping with her mom, all the uncles, and grandma.

Hui Ping with Aunt Michelle and Baby Cheng.

Lastly, our self vain photos.



We've eaten too full. We had even skipped dinner that Sunday. Gosh, my stomach is still bulging out. I've been eating too much lately and I've put on some weight. Any slimming techniques to intro?

-Shookie-