5th loaf !!

Whole Wheat Sunflower Seed
Chocolate Chip Raisin (baked twice)
Chocolate Raisins Loaf

And my 5th loaf is the Killer Toast.

I'm loving the bread maker. :)

Ok so I baked a loaf of bread last night (Sunflower Whole Wheat Bread) which turned out having a kueh like texture which my bro strangely liked it. My dog likes it too.

I baked another loaf before going to the gym. Chocolate chip Raisins Bread. Tasted much better than the 1st. However still not there yet. Not sure what's missing but I'm going to try again. Need to perfect the art of making bread.

I'm going to keep trying... 

With my new job I have more time. I'm actually happy that this change has given me more time to try new things, learn new skills and also spend more time with my family.

I started going for mandarin class in January. 8 times a month. Hopefully, by the end of the year I'll be rather fluent in the language. My main aim is to be able to read the chinese characters. Well having gone for 6 classes thus far, I have to say my progress is quite slow.

In my one month break between jobs, I tried different recipes. Mostly cooking Chinese Restaurant Class food such as dong bo yuk. With the new job giving me more time, I've also tried baking too. My latest experiment was baking bread.

All thanks to my cousin sister. Went over to her house and she served us warm delicious bread which she baked using a bread maker. Decided that I should get one too. Last night, went over to Giant to get their home brand bread maker. It's promotional price was 178.88 but the receipt showed 129 only. A real bargain. Decided to immediately bake a loaf of bread that night itself. Sadly didn't have bread flour so all purpose flour it was.

From dong po yuk to bread, it has been quite an adventure. I have to say though that it was not always a success.

I'm going to bake and cook more. :) guess since I wanted to get a culinary degree when I was younger, I'm fulfilling that part of my dream now. Slowly but surely getting there.

Live life like there's no tomorrow. Enjoy every moment. Well with the world being so chaotic, I guess that's true. You'll never know whether the plane you board that morning will arrive safely. The peace and freedom that we have now as a nation may be gone tomorrow. You'll never know.

Right now wherever I am, I want to make the best of it. I don't want to regret this life.

Family & Friendship are important. It's more important than all the money and holidays. I don't want to lose sight of the 'prize' by getting distracted.

Only one life, 'twill soon be past,
Only what's done for Christ will last.

It's been two weeks. Within the first week I met the whole team at the department's team building. After being well adapted in HSBC, it's time for me to adapt into this new place.

I really miss the prayer time with colleagues at HSBC and also the Christian circle. Thankfully, there's technology and they are only a train away. 

Well, things started really rough at HSBC and it got better so I'm sure things can only get better with God in it.

It's a wrap. A video summary of my 5 years with HSBC. Thanking God for the experience both the good and bad which has certainly made me 'richer' and stronger in character

https://youtu.be/hiyaE17hweM

Hitting another mile stone in life. I try to do something different every year to celebrate reaching another mile stone. Last year it was my first expensive hair cut. This year, I dye my hair for the very first time.

RM120 for a hair cut, organic colour and treatment. A little itchy when the dye was applied. Other than that, it was a pleasant experience.

I liked the outcome.