Gulabakery

Sometime back, Aiman showed me some fancy cakes on an Instagram account under the name @gulabakery. So I started following it and every time Gulabakery posts up a photo, it's always so mouth-watering. 

As you all know, Aiman's love for coffee is quite cray. So being the good fiancé that I am, I'm always up to accompanying him cafe hopping but I'll end up either having tea or most of the time I'll end up ordering cakes and desserts. So when Gulabakery started conducting baking classes for public, Aiman decided that we should give it a go.

...and that was exactly what we did! I have to say, Nani (our host and our teacher) was just so so so amazing! The energy she has to constantly bake everyday and conducting classes every weekend and on top of that attend her Uni classes every other day is just impressive!

When we first arrived at Nani's house we thought "homaigoddddd. Her house smells so heavenly!! Like a chocolate heaven", coz some brownies were fresh from the oven and were there for us to just gobble em for breakfast. You have nooooo idea how yummy it is, it feels like dropping on a soft couch right after a long day's work. Yeah, that great! So moist. So chocolatey. So so so yummy!

Throughout the 6 hours, we baked 4 cakes, 7 batches of brownies, learned to make chocolate ganache, swiss meringue buttercream and butterscotch topping. I thoroughly had a great time learning from Nani. Man! If I don't wanna do banking in the future....perhaps baking could be a good alternative. 

Our final product - the Devil's chocolate cake. 

Well, I've half a massive-cake and a whole batch of brownies left. Gonna fatten my family and colleagues up!

Here in this video I was caught....well making sure the taste is just right for the cake. 

Nani is fourth from the left

Loved that Aiman and I went for something adventurous like this together. Looks like our birthday cakes in the future are quite sorted, right sayang?

aliaaiman - Hammy's Emcee the P Ramlee

A couple of weeks back, Tony woke me up on one of the mornings to insist that I quickly get a ticket for P Ramlee the Musical (coz he's acting as P Ramlee of course!) and I never thought that tickets were gonna get sold out so quickly.

Gosh, it got sold out like hot croissants in Paris! This is one Superstar who carried P Ramlee's character like a pro, you were so amazing Tony! Thinking back, I was so so privileged to have had the opportunity to work with  him when we performed for Dreamgirls the Musical back in 2011. There is something very unique about him that this humble superstar, and that is he never fails to give away this genuine happy vibe every single time I see him. And seeing me every single time was like every hour every single day for 4 months during those show time days, bless him.

I rarely see him, but when we do meet it's like we've just seen each other yesterday. He used to think I was forever-happy for some weird reason and could never understand why I had big smiles all the time during rehearsals that he nicknamed me....Hammy.

Today, every time I see him, he'd shout " Hammy!!" with the biggest smile, often hugging you so tight whilst lifting you up in the air and with the happiest energy and I so love him for that - It magically makes me feel special in some ways. You did many of us proud with your passion and skills in performing arts Tony and I hope our people would open up their hearts of heart to appreciate this in Malaysia. I've gone through the performing arts days and I can tell you, our people are not as cultured (in performing arts) as you think they are. P Ramlee was a fraction of how much Malaysians never took performing artists seriously until they are gone.

Well for now, I have to say if you've not watched P Ramlee the Musical, they've extended their show for another day due to the crazy demand so make sure to check out for it! Believe me, it's so worth it. I love musicals and theatres in general, but watching your friends perform up there makes it even more special to watch.

Well done dude, Hammy's so proud of you! This is also the guy I've asked to become the emcee at my wedding reception. 

Additionally, the cast for the restate of P Ramlee were just beyond amazing and I have never felt more proud than I did today to see so many of my friends up on stage! Ruzanna, Iedil and Ben :) And oh, have you guys heard of Nadia Aqilah? She played Saloma and MasyaAllah! She was such a star!! She played the character so so amazingly well :)))

This up and rising Superstar, a big favourite in my family for we go a long way back to those Uni days when he used to be the one making sure I was never homesick and would on some days come over to my place with Pizzas after classes. You're truly a gem Iedil, love you like big big time! :)

So much love with my theatre-loving girls :)

Me Time

Over the long weekend, I had some good 'me time', doing everything I wanted to at my own time my own way however I want it to be. It actually feels really good :)

Doing new adventurous things like how I used to with different people, and meeting new faces, meet, making new friends! There was something about it that made me really really happy and weirdly gave me some thought about whether I'm a changed person, because everything felt familiar whilst I did it. Only that I no longer do them often I guess.

So here's to planning for more adventurous things to do for myself and whoever is up to joining me!

:)

Bubble Football

ATV

Flying Fox

Travel out of the country maybe? 

Bring it on :)

aliaaiman - Four Drops of Lemon

Aiman and I recently came across this article that talked about healthy eating and how the business is just mushrooming here in KL right now. Of course it was also a good reminder for us to eat healthy prior to the wedding. I'm not saying diet (I'm not speaking for Aiman btw haha!), but more like watch what we eat. I'm surrounded by some who wants to lose weight and would resort to dieting but I can never ever see myself joining the diet bandwagon. I'll get so moody I might just cease to function afterwards -_______________- 

My theory - The more I eat, the higher my metabolism rate and then I can continue to eat even more and keep on building that metabolism rate. 

I love my food and I love trying new places to eat. If you see my instagram pictures, they're always filled with food! At the rate I'm eating, a lot would think that I'd just snowball, but I guess that metabolism theory works huh? :P Although I do think I have quite a round face!

So over the weekend, Aiman and I decided to prepare our own healthy lunch. It was quite an activity I'd say. Scoop that avocado, blend those chilli paste, slice up em salmons, marinate those fat Portobello mushrooms, squeeze 4 drops of lemon... I've never seen Aiman in the kitchen, what more going all "where's the bread knife?", "Do you have a wooden mixer?" "Do you have something with more surface for me to mash?", "I used FOUR drops of Lemon". Not too sure what's up with the four drops specifically. 

But safe to say, I'm marrying a long-hours-working-wife proof husband. Or do you actually call it a I-can-feast-on-PS 4-whilst-I-wait-for-workaholic-wife-to-come-home husband?