Why not grow your own vegetable?

Hi peepers, talk about growing our own vegetable. I did remember last time i posted about some home grown herbs. Today, I got another harvest again, but is about vegetable.

Remember Mochi the bunny rabbit in my previous post? There is a picture of Mochi with the surprise winter melon. That picture was taken in last week, and guess what. The melon grown well and now it is cover with white snowy powder. That means it is ready to be eaten.

Here is how it look when it is ready.

wintermelon 1

A layer of white snowy powder will cover the whole melon. Maybe that is how winter melon get its name.  Yet, be careful when picking the winter melon too. It also got some very tiny hairy prickles that   covered under the white protective powder.

Hope these pictures clear enough to show the tiny points.

You can hold it gently and avoid being hurt by the small prickles.

When I was harvesting the winter melon, to my surprise. There are another 5 more winter melon on the plants. Wow, there can be a great feast of winter melon. Well, I'm not going to eat all of them. I can give it to my neighbours!

Here have some peek of the cute winter melons. Love them!

wintermelon 2 & 3

wintermelon 4

wintermelon 5

So,where is the winter melon that I picked just now?? Here it is!!

My winter melon is big enough for me as it almost as big as my face. :D

Now, time to cook it. First, wash away the white powder layer and the prickles will drop also. Winter melon now will become summer melon because the white skin become green skin. Haha.

Cut it into half and you will get its seeds inside.

Wanna grow another winter melon plant? Easy, just take the seeds and throw it at your backyard. It will grow by itself. Winter melon plant is a very strong surviver. Or if you love your garden to be tidy, just dig a hole where you prefer it to grow and put the seeds inside.

So, today lunch will be winter melon soup. Clean your winter melon then cut it into half. After that cut it into small cube size so it can be cooked easily. Get ready the chicken stew first before putting in the winter melon cube cut. Set it at medium heat to boil the stew then turn it into low heat to slow cook it.

If you got a slow cooker, you can just put everything inside and let it cook for you. I cook it for about 1 hour before serve.

The winter melon hard texture will be soften and you can feel it melt in your mouth when you eat it. I love this kind of slow cooked winter melon that you can feed yourself even when you are sick and unable to eat solid food.

So, why not grow your own vegetable?? It is healthy and save your money too.

Ok, that all for today. Hope you have fun reading my post.
Cya next time.







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Arigurumi Bunny Rabbit - Mochi (Part 2)

Hi, welcome back to visit Mochi again. So this is the Part 2 where some nice photos had been taken last week and now it is out here to show everyone. Part 1 is simply about where I found Mochi's pattern and a link to her blog and her pattern.

I picked a day for snapping good picture of Mochi where there were enough sunshine got get good picture. I love bringing out my arigurumi doll for outdoor pictures. Their colour contrast with the nature so well.

Let's have some pictures do the story.

I was bringing Mochi to school that day. Mochi was kinda excited..Haha..Let's snap a picture first before heading off. 

Mochi picked a seat just in front of the front mirror of my car, so he can get all the view he want. *Sorry the front mirror of my car was kinda dirty that day* 

This is Mochi sitting on my office desk. Mochi is kinda small, he is smaller than my candy can. But, Mochi can sit by himself. See, because he got a bunny bob tail and that support him to sit properly.

Oh, what a cute little bob tail.

Then, I decided to let Mochi outdoor to get mixed with the sun, flowers and plant. See how the yellow flowers contrast with Mochi so well. I like this picture very much.

Mochi on the branches among the bushes. I like how Mochi looked so relax sitting there. I wish I can shrink into his size and sit there together with Mochi.

This one is nice too. I put this picture at the top as header for this topic. Mochi is totally stand out in this picture.

After school, we had some walk at my back yard. Suprisingly, we found a melon growing without our notice. Hope it turn out big and nice for my soup later..Yeah!

Sunset..

Mochi going back into my room and chill with his friend Pegu.

Thanks for dropping by.

Have a nice day and hope you enjoy the pictures.

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Arigurumi Bunny Rabbit - Mochi (Part 1)

So,what is my mini project? By the small little foot I posted in my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, I guess it is hard to actually guess what is it. Here is the sneak-peek that I posted that day.

Lousy tipper I am, me myself cannot guess what is it. Haha..Anyway, it is done by now and I am posting it out then.

By the way, hello all peepers who drop by and have a look at my Mochi.  

Mochi The Bunny Rabbit is actually designed and pattern written by Amy in Little Muggles. I was blog-walking that day and found this cute little rabbit. Although my craft is not so cute compare to the original product, but I believe every crochet arigurumi has its own identity. So, carry on, I will make it into a key-chain and chain it to my travelling bag. Mochi will go everywhere I go.

This is the PDF that I download from Little Muggles, it is so neat and colourful. It makes me can't wait to second to pick up my crochet needle and start crochet straight away.

I started with it head and attached the ears. Is funny that my bunny head is kinda sharp and look like a bun head here. I thought adding up the ears will make it look better. Its seem like bunny bun head look. Hahaha...

Then I continued with it body. It is not tricky to have half body white and half pink. Just change yarn colour in the middle of crochet. But, yes, at first will be a bit hard to change yarn if you are not use to it. Well, practice make perfect, right?

Then finish up its arms and legs and also don't forget it tiny tail too. Sewing the small tiny arms, legs and tail to the body is not easy. There were few times that I almost poke myself. Better be careful when sewing it. About the eyes, I don't really know where to find the round safety eyes for small toys. Never seen it else where here, so i just sew 2 black dots as bunny eyes. Then give him a smily mouth. 

Mochi in the pattern picture has a bow ribbon around its neck. Staring at my Mochi, I think I should find him a nice ribbon too. A pink ribbon maybe, haha. Mochi looks naked without a ribbon cover its neck. Haha..

Here is the back of naked Mochi. 

Tomorrow, after getting him a ribbon, Mochi will having another photo shoot session for my blog. I can't wait for Mochi to get its ribbon and having fun taking pictures of him.

Thanks for reading. Stay tune for the Part 2 where fun begin.

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Cya~!!

Did you cry when you found out you're pregnant?

While surfing for some information online about pregnancy, I came across this kind of question. Did you cry when you found out that you’re pregnant? Well, this question even came from me myself when the truth hits me. Am I going to cry or not? WTF! I am pregnant already!

So, I guess this post is mainly about how I found out my baby. Well, we haven’t really plan for a baby after get married. When hubby asked me when I want to have a baby, I answered “When its time, it comes.” To my surprise, the time had come!

After married, we, like the other young couples, planned for a simple honeymoon as we were short of money. Most of the money went to the celebration party and some wedding ceremony cost. Malaysia is a place where you can easily find a nice tourist spot and spend a nice vacation there. Since my hometown is in Penang, we will not going to have our honeymoon in Penang anymore, it was too close to home for honeymoon mood. We went Pulau Langkawi instead. Then we spent the rest of our holiday divided for two sides of our family, my family and my hubby’s family. Holiday ended and we went back to our work station again.

Funny thing came, my period late. I use to have late period but this time is kind of weird. I suffered sharp pain at my lower abdomen and the pain linked until my private area. This kind of menstrual pain never happens to me before. I can’t even sit properly! I convinced myself that later my period will come, maybe this was just temporary. Still, my period was late and I told my mom. My mom helped me buy a pregnancy test when she went out to market next morning. I had my test on that particular morning also; people said test it in the morning when your urine still contains most of your body waste. The result came in negative. Ow, I was pretty sure it was the menstrual pain but in a little bit different kind of way.Back to my working station, menstrual pain was gone. But, I got sensitive breast and some limp node under my armpits. Still, I was waiting for my period to come.

Just in one fine day, when my hubby came out from his working station and visited me. I told him my period was late and he brought me to pharmacy to get a pregnancy test. I kept the test in my handbag, thinking, will it be? Positive? By the time we were shopping in the shopping mall, I felt the need to go to toilet. So, I took the test in the public toilet. After cleaning myself and put on the cap for the pregnancy test pen, I went out to find hubby. Well, I got a glance, there were double lines. Hubby was waiting me at a rest corner with some food.

I think my face was very tense that time, where I cannot smile nor cry. Hubby already can guess the result of the test. “So? How is it?” Still he wanted to hear the answer from my mouth I think. “ Errr…double lines.” We were glued to the chair for a moment. Mind went blank and many people were walking, we were in the shopping mall with this shocking new. I didn't react like most people do. Cry of tear and joy? We stoned! Haha, because we were just married for 1 and a half month.

Well, anyway, baby is growing up well in my tummy. Congrat to both of us finally grow up and become somebody parent. Another journey with joys and tears I believe. I guess the answer for the question, “Did you cry when you found out you’re pregnant?” is very obvious then. Haha. Nope, I didn’t cry, I stoned!

Thanks for dropping by and wish you have a nice day.

What A Date & Day

Wow, today is 4th of April and it makes the date written as 4.4.13. Well, I'm not really so supersticious  but normally in Chinese culture the number 4 is not really a good number. Let's me tell you that, the number four in Hokkien Chinese language pronouns as 'sea'. And yet there is another word that have the same pronunciation. That is the word 'dead' or 'die'. So, double 4 means double 'dead'. Chinese people will not likely celebrate any big event on this kind of date. But, the young generation will normally didn't take much care of this old thinking anymore.

Well, no big deal with the number and date. But sadly, I fell sick so suddenly today after I had my evening nap. What on earth I suddenly fell sick? Everyday I have my evening nap yet today I fell sick. I got hit by the fever wave and I am suffering sudden chill with a warm body and forehead. Maybe the weather plays it game too well. The temperature here can reach 34°C at noon then giving a heavy downpour at night. Human body is not yet evolve until the level that we can torelate the sudden heat and cold.

Now, after having a slice of bread with jam, I took a tablet of Panadol Soluble. Laying on bed trying to write and read something at least before I fell asleep.

I had google before when I catch fever last time. Panadol Soluble can be taken by pregnent woman. But, still I need to get furthur consolation from my doctor to make sure I'm safe to take the medication.

So, hello peepers out there. How's your day today? I shared mine. I hope you have a good day and everything went out smoothly. See you all again next time.

ps: I wanna share something that I read before, from Simply Truths website.

Simply stated if we choose to think positive thought, we'll get positive result; if we think negative thought, we'll get negative result. So, I have to think positive. When I wake up tomorrow morning, everything will be fine and it will be a fine day for me too as IT IS FRIDAY!! :D