Friends, holidays, more renovation work!

Two very dear friends of Ken and I have been with me in KL since 4th November. Ben and Christine W arrived on 4th November afternoon, and my parents returned from India on 4th November evening, so we have had full house since then. The very next day after B & C arrived, we attended the wedding of the lovely young lady who handles the marketing and PR aspects of the Academy of Pastry Arts.

Hanne and Terence, I wish for you the most wonderful future together. There will always be challenges, rough patches, and obstacles, but I know the love you have for each other will help you both get through it all. Check out this picture of the happy couple. Both look amazing in their traditional Indian outfits!

Since then, we have kept ourselves busy - shopping, sight seeing, EATING, baking, a break in Tioman, and now B & C are in Langkawi, at Tanjong Rhu resort. Next week we are off to Singapore and then, very sadly, they will head back to Europe on 4th December!

We found time to go to the Royal Selangor pewter factory and had a fantastic time. Here Christine and I are posing next to the worlds largest beer mug!

And we tried our hand at the School of Hard Knocks to make our own pewter bowls. Very therapeutic!

Then, on another day, Ben had a lesson on how to make prawn sambal :-)

And just this last weekend, we celebrated FOUR birthdays which took place all in one week. Mine, my brothers, my brother-in-laws and Christine. We definitely did not want to put in all the required number of candles into any cake - or the cake would have burnt to a crisp... but we did put 12 colourful candles on a chocolate malva pudding and all 4 of us blew the candles out at one shot :-).

In addition to the Malva pudding, I also made Banoffee Pie (VERY nice), and mini cheese croissants, chocolate croissants and plain croissants. My mum made curry puffs too, so you can imagine how stuffed full of food we were at the end of it all.

This was then followed, on the same day, by dinner - beef/potato cutlets made by my mum, and roast chicken made by my sister! Talk about JUICY....

As to renovations - the 'powder room' downstairs has been revamped to put in a shower cubicle for our lovely maid to use. Also new tiling, new sink, new toilet. It looks so much nicer now! Also doing some minor changes to my parents bathroom and mine. Once that is done there will be no more renovations to be done for the rest of this year! Anything else can wait till after Chinese New Year next year :-p.

That's it for now folks. Till next time, have a good day, every day!