Ice Cold Mornings

I woke up to this two days in a row.

ice frost in the pathway

its blurry but you can see the frost on the grass

Frost covered the grass along the pathway, as well as cars, bins and lawns. Its freezing cold at 2degrees (but it really felt like negative 2!!!). My hands and feet were so cold, it needed to be thawed. Time to use my ugg boots to work tom.

Weather reports say that we haven't had this cold weather since the 80s. If this will continue in the next few days, I wouldn't be surprised if we have snow in Toongabbie. hehe. but im scared...

Another two done!

Yey, my wait is over. Got my CPA results last Friday and I barely passed my Strategic Management subject. I was so depressed after the exam because it was so tricky!!! The materials were very easy to read, and I think I only spent a week or two studying because I knew what was being discussed (or so I thought). But come exam time, I think I got confused with the choices and did a process of elimination when answering. This was the only CPA exam that I couldn't find the answers from the materials. My only consolation was most of the people I knew who took the exam also found it difficult.

And when I got my result last Friday, I was ecstatic! Finally, I can move on and forget about it, haha. One more subject to go and I'm done with my CPA. Global Strategy and Leadership - Bring it On!

Sweet Little Yuan

Facebook status of my sister:

"Grenna was sleeping alone in her bed last night while her Langga carried Yman to sleep. Suddenly, Yuan, slowly went up to her bed and said: "diri sa ko oi!". She just let Yuan slept beside her but Yuan took her hand and held it tight. After 5 minutes or so, her Langga with their Yman opened the bedroom door and said "Go back na sa imo bed Yuan kay mag sleep na si Yman diha". Yuan quietly went back to his bed and said "Thank you Mommy".


naiyak ako, waaahhhhhhhhh


ps... Yuan is 4 years old while Yman is 6 months old.

Kalamansi Muffin

What would you do if you have heaps of these?

Why not turn it to these?

Early this week, Jess and Daisy brought kalamansi from their backyard and I ended up with loads of them. I was thinking of creative ways of using the good old kalamansi and I remembered I read somwhere about the very yummy Kalamansi Muffin of Real Cafe in Boracay. So I searched the internet for some recipe and lo and behold --- I got it thru Market Manila, where else??? hehehe

So, armed with (over the top) butter, sugar, yogurt, flour and kalamansi extract, I made the muffin and followed the recipe to a T. It was too buttery for my liking. Brought some to the office and everyone liked it. I might tweak the recipe next time and half the amount of butter to make it less fattening.

Thanks again Marketman for the lovely recipe!