Birthday cake

Recently  I celebrated my birthday , after  such a long  break from baking, I then decided to bake my own  cake. I was very satisfied  with the outcome. It was a fun theme  colourful  birthday  cake with buttercream icing. It was delicious too. Needless to say everyone enjoyed it and also the fresh fruit cream cheese tart. Nowadays, cakes come in all sorts of colours and flavours and it has been completely revolutionized with everyone recreating their own version.

My colourful birthday  cake

A slice of  my delicious  hazelnut butter cake 

Japan, a beautiful country

Japan is a beautiful country , as long as I can remember , it is one of my favourite countries. When I was  young, I remember watching the documentary programme on the television entitled 'The John Gunther High Road '. and one of the countries shown were Japan. That was in the 1970s, where communications were not as established as now. I was mesmerized with their tradition, such as their beautiful kimonos, geisha, springtime cherry blossoms and gardens. It is still one of my favourite  countries and I hope I will have a chance to visit it in the near future.
One of my nursing colleague, Maureen, we were in the same batch of Group 1/79, is in Kyoto now  doing a course, and she sent me these beautiful pictures from Kyoto. I am sure she is enjoying herself there.

One of Kyoto's gardens 

Beautiful greenery

Mother's day 2017

On the 14th of May we celebrated mother's day, its a day when we all reflect upon the good deeds and sacrifices a mother have unwavering showered upon her children through thick and thin. This year as I celebrate it from afar with my own family, I feel a nostalgic longing to join them. I was quite elated to know that my eldest sister Veron baked a beautiful butter cake complete with butter  icing to celebrate with our beloved mom and all the beautiful moms that were  present that  day, and also the family members gathering for the afternoon barbecue. Truly awesome and spectacular.

Veron, special mother's day butter cake with butter  icing 

A dreamy delicious slice of the butter cake 

Laurence doing a good job BBQ

Josie's Pineapple

I am compelled to write about how utterly ticklish that is that my sister Josie is always sending me updates on how her pineapple plants were doing. I can see that she really took great care of it. She is lucky that she has a great garden too. Having said that, she has also devoted most of her free time tending her garden. She is a workaholic too, nonstop doing anything around the house when she is not at work. She is a great sister and I am glad that her altitude towards life is hands on with a friendly disposition.

Beautiful  Pineapple Plant 

Tropical Pineapple 

Christmas 2016, getting ready

Last year Christmas was at my mum's place, a few days before  Christmas,my mum, brother and sisters were busy putting up the  decorations and picking out the tree. Last year they have decided to get a live Christmas tree upon many  requests to do so. I am happy to see that the tree they put up remind me of my childhood Christmas tree.

Mom and sister  Veron putting up the  Christmas tree

Christmassy Swag