{"id":1367,"date":"2009-04-20T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T06:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2014-06-18T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T04:45:12","slug":"weekend-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>5th April 2009<\/u><br \/>\nBack from Bangalore and after a nap (only caught like 2hrs of sleep on the plane), went to Malacca to visit my besty and her 8 month old daughter, Maya, who are back from New York for a holiday. <\/p>\n<p>Look at Maya, I&#8217;m so envious of those big eyes!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/maya-with-pacifier.JPG\" alt=\"Maya\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 300px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I so like her skin tone. That&#8217;s the thing about mix marriages, you produce beautiful babies.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/maya.JPG\" alt=\"Maya\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 300px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no kidding trying to take photos of 3 kids together.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/zara-zaria-and-maya.JPG\" alt=\"Zara, Zaria and Maya\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/zara-zaria-and-maya1.JPG\" alt=\"Zara, Zaria and Maya\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/>Hmmph.. I give up.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I would stay a night there, but this round, due to heavy work commitments, I had to leave the same day after dinner. Will try to catch them again before they leave for New York.<\/p>\n<p><u>12th April 2009<\/u><br \/>\nZara requested for some cheese puffs and sausage rolls, so I bought some ready made pastry and made some for the girls. <\/p>\n<p>Girls were guarding the oven waiting for their <span style=\"color: #f88017\">Puffies<\/span> (That&#8217;s what Zara calls them, and Zaria followed).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sausage-roll-and-cheese-puff.jpg\" alt=\"Sausage rolls and cheese puffs\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 250px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Girls having fresh from the oven <span style=\"color: #f88017\">Puffies<\/span> for dinner, and they were very happy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/zara-munching-on-sausage-roll.jpg\" alt=\"Zara having her sausage roll\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 250px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/zaria-munching-sausage-roll.jpg\" alt=\"Zaria having her puffy\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 300px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the adults, I tried my hands on mushroom soup. I was quite happy with the result. Daddy said it tasted like the ones you get from the restaurant minus the MSG.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/home-made-mushroom-soup.jpg\" alt=\"Home made mushroom soup\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 300px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And main course for us adult was tuna pie and salad (Jelly did the weaving of the pastry and she&#8217;s quite good at that).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/home-made-tuna-pie.jpg\" alt=\"Home made tuna pie and salad\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 300px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><u>18th &#038; 19th April 2009<\/u><br \/>\n2 trips to Ikea, and many hours of work later, we managed to put up 4 of the girls&#8217; poster size photos up on the wall. Another 4 more to go. *phew*<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/home-project.jpg\" alt=\"Girls' photos on the wall\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 250px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zaria was very happy this morning, kept saying, <span style=\"color: #f88017\">&#8220;Look at that. 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