Busy Busy Busy!

Ok, last week we had:

1) Vanessa's birthday party - had about 40 plus guests and it was way more relax than the first month celebrations! It was quite fun, and as usual I was tired out after it! Pics will follow in the next few posts!

2) Was sick on the day before and day after the birthday party - Friday I had my mega cramps and came down with food poisoning in the same evening! Sunday the cramps came back *sigh* So was on MC for 2 days.

3) Lots of work to catch up on, since I had a full day "wellness" seminar to attend on wednesday. So Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, busy busy busy.

4) Thursday was Vanessa's actual birthday, so I took an hour off, grab the helper, baby and my ma-jie (took me 45 mins to drive back to my mum's place in the HEAVY rain, which would normally take me 20 mins) and then took me almost another 45 mins to reach Thomson Plaza in the now even HEAVIER RAIN with almost-flooded roads and spoilt traffic lights. By the time we had dinner, it was like 7.30pm. My sister and hubby arrived later, at 8.30pm, no thanks to the rain, traffic jams and spoilt traffic lights. The other 2 kids had fun, eating their fav jap food. Vanessa, needless to say, enjoyed her Chawamushi and Udon. Me? I just enjoyed the fried tofu they had - it was yummy!

5) Friday wanted to take some time off, but discovered to my horror I missed out 1 email so I spent the entire afternoon rushing for the deadline, but only managed to complete one major portion of it. The remaining smaller sections I had the deadlines kindly extended till Monday *phew*

6) Rushed to Phoon Huat after work and guess what, THEY CLOSED EARLY. They put their closing time as 7pm, but I arrived at 6:45pm and the shop was DARK and LOCKED. According to the other tenants, they have the tendancy to close as early as 6.30pm. I'm going to write to their management and COMPLAIN! Rushed to Bengawan Solo and their butter cake were way TOO SMALL. So went home to bake the cake for my class on Saturday. Realised to my horror, I forgot to get sour cream and I was out of butter. In my desperation, I rummaged through my cupboard and managed to find a instant cake mix box, but it was expired in 2006. *sigh* Anyway I managed to dig out 1/2 block of butter and 3/4 block of butter to be combined for use. I also had to try a new recipe since the other recipe calls for sour cream and I don't have a ready substitute. In the end, it wasn't bad, I quite like the cake! Thankfully this time, I had the maid to help me sift the icing sugar, but this time, it's still only twice. I used my smaller kenwood mixer and boy, was it a mistake. It couldn't quite cope with the load of icing sugar, so it was really a lor of scrapping and adding water to make sure it gets properly "mixed". As for the cake board and box I couldn't get from Phoon Huat, I decided to sleep on it and get it first thing in the morning, since it's already 1.30am when my cake was done.

7) Gosh, Phoon Huat opens only at 10am! *sigh* I had to do with a makesift cake board then, and my pizza baking tray came in handy - just wrap it with alum foil! Did the crumbing first and then cooked breakfast for our usual Saturday "Breakfast by the Pool". Came back and and completed icing the cake - it wasn't perfect but I decided I wasn't going to kill myself over it since I have the roses to pipe! I managed to pipe 2 decent ones before I was repeatedly throwing the subsequent attempts back into the icing tub - NO GO! Gave up and then went for class. See the creations and mine in the next few posts!

8) Did my overdue marketing today and rushed home as it was my helper's offday. She kindly stayed back a little to help me to squash the items into the fridge and then took off. Vanessa was sleeping, so I prepared most of the dinner's dishes and by 10:30am, I sit down, took my breakfast and then a nice long shower. Baby was awake then, but she was following the hubby, so it was good.

I'm kinda glad it's over, but I'm wondering what next week holds for me!