Big Bad Wolf Preview Day 2016

Yesterday was the Big Bad Wolf Books Sale Preview Day. Went there very early in the morning. Passed some preview passes to some friends there. Then waited for Mr Wolf to open up its doors. 

First impression when got into the sale. Hmmm...seems smaller.  Venture further in. Uiks...upstairs Food Court not there anymore nor is the Playland. (no babysitting service liao)

Now they have a Cafe with Christmas decoration on the ground floor for people to rest their feet and have a bite to eat. 

Mamarazzi kept commenting this year sale seems to be smaller. Floor space taken up by the Cafe and Premium Zone but but but see this! The receipt when unrolled is taller than me leh!

Bad Mr Wolf and the Wolf Gang. They must be conspiring with Mamarazzi. She is trying to get me to read more Chinese books . Mr Wolf brought in loads of Chinese books. 

 And this resulted a trolley full of books for me and sobs sobs...predominantly is Chinese Books.

Don't worry. Majority of BBW books is still English books but just that Mamarazzi managed to grab so many Chinese books instead of English books for me .

And the Chinese books were so cheap some more leh.

Babies, toddlers and young children would be very happy coz there are loads and loads of activities, play a sound books , books with toys and cute stuffs for them. Parents!  beware. Your pockets will be empty if you bring along your kids as they will wanna ask you to buy everything within their sight.

Here are my haul . Tom and Jerry RM3 each

Tom and Jerry RM3 each

RM3 books 

RM3

The four books RM5 each while Popeye RM6

Thicker Tom and Jerry RM8

 Looney Tunes RM5 each and the other is RM6

She even bought Chinese Doremon comic for herself...RM2 each only and also joining in the coloring fad .

There are loads of Colouring Books for adults with price ranges between RM6 to RM25. She bought this Flowering Pattern book for RM8 only.

 The RM25 ones comes with colour pencils. She regretted putting it back now. Should have bought it.

Nevertheless, she bought some English comics for me too

 I found Wimpy Kid Box Set and immediately put into my trolley. It's only RM100 for 10 books but she made me put it back coz I have 5 of the books in the set already.

Instead, she found this for me. It's RM10 only with book and audio CD.

Thanks to D'leene for finding Big Nate book for me

Found some Archie related books. 

Mamarazzi can't resist grabbing this. "Harry POTTY and the Deathly BORING".

 Lego vs Mixels RM6 members price and this super cool Science kit is for me

 Mamarazzi asked me to choose one of the Lego books there for myself. Normal price RM40 but members price RM36 only.

But I didn't want those. Instead I choose this. Also something like Lego . RM15 only

 Since I chose that, Mamarazzi decided to get me this too. Also RM15.

 Some books that friends "tumpang" Mamarazzi to buy

 Looks like her friends are into colouring. 

 Except for one who is into Minions. 

 She got these two box sets for herself for collection. RM30. The brown ones have 4 hardcovers books while the green one have 10.

 A little lamb just like the one she bought for me at BookXcess years ago. This is gift for a friend's newborn .

Two notes pads for me.

Purposely snapped photo of this Mockingjay Note book to make a fellow blogger jealous. She is so into Hunger Games books.

Saw in BBW that they have the Box set with 2 or 3 types of different covers style. Too bad Mamarazzi have the books already . Else she would have taken one home.

This year preview feels somewhat a bit sober as compared to previous years. Many book prices seems to have gone up by around RM2 thanks to our current economy. Can't afford to buy diamond ring and pricey handbags but at least still can get free plastic bags from BBW la.

Hopefully next year Mr Wolf and gang will bring back the Food Court upstairs. At least we will have a choice whether to eat RM4 bun/RM6 Egg Mayo sandwich or to choose to eat Pizza with a soft drink for just RM7.90.  One Egg Mayo Sandwich at the Cafe,  can buy 2 Tom & Jerry books leh.

On the positive side, Mamarazzi is very happy that Mr Wolf have introduced Members Discount and yellow stickers items (for extra discount ).

Mamarazzi no need to go through the hassle of going to separate counters to get discount vouchers. And then got into the sale to spend more in order to use the discount vouchers.

This time, the cashiers straight away offset the amount when paying. Thank you for the extra discount!

You can see more photos of the books found at BBW sale here :-

Big Bad Wolf Books Sale 9th-19th December 2016 at MIECC, Seri Kembangan

 It's that time of the year again. the much anticipated Big Bad Wolf Books Sale ! The  biggest books  sale in Malaysia and the only one that let us do midnight shopping. Yup! It will be OPEN 24 HOURS!


DATE: 9 - 19 December 2016
TIME: 254 hours nonstop (7 am 9 Dec - 9 pm 19 Dec)
VENUE: Malaysia International Exhibition & Convention Centre (MIECC) @ The Mines

This year we have a nice surprise. A big bunch of my friends and me gets to go for the Preview. Thank you very much Mr Wolf for the Preview Passes. Looking forward to this Thursday.

Our Banana Tree is doing Strips Tease

We have eaten a lot of banana before but didn't really know how it is formed. 

One morning Mamarazzi noticed a weird shaped leaf. Hmmm.... soooo round eh. 

One day later can see the reddish tip appearing.

Three days after that can see two "petals"  unfolded. Inside each "petal" there is a bunch of babies banana. So cuteeee~!

 Each day Mamarazzi peeked.  It's been a week and there are around 7 bunches of bananas unfolded. The 8th onwards started to look stunted. 

maybe it means that the male flowers is forming. A gardening friend taught Mamarazzi to cut off the "heart" once male flowers appear. 

 Maybe he mean this.  Now waiting and see if there will be more bananas before cutting off the "heart" .  Heard the heart can be use to for salad.

While waiting for the Banana Tree to finish doing strip tease,  Mamarazzi is also attempting to make Kombucha. The starter have a strange name called Scoby. Nothing to do with Scooby Doo. Will update you when there is more result. 

Meantime, if you are free, don't forget to drop by Bukit Jelutong Plant Exchange tomorrow morning  ya.

Now Mamarazzi is busy labelling the plants. We'll be bringing around 100 plants to be adopted.

See you there!

Meet Up At Awet Thai Seafood Restaurant , Kg Kayu Ara

Nope, Mamarazzi hadn't gone nuts. I know it's not the season for Mooncakes nor Bak Chang. She made these specially for a friend from Aussie who came back for a visit. Hmm.... entah orang Dubai ada jeles ke tidak?

Arranged to have Thai Food as the friend long for Thai Food.

photo credit to Auntie Claire

 All in a happy mood except me. .. Mamarazzi said am in the pubescent mood. Very moody and hard to get me to have photo. Mamarazzi also lazy to snap photos la. Therefore the food photos in this post is from Auntie Claire.

Photo credit to Auntie Claire

Going to Thai restaurant of course must have Tomyum.  Very spicy but our overseas friend "cool" aje. Wah...she sure can take spicy stuffs.

Photo credit to Auntie Claire

Basil leave minced meat. First time having this. I thought not spicy but surprise surprise... spicy la. Hmm...must ask Mamarazzi to try cooking this the non-spicy version.

Photo credit to Auntie Claire

 Paku vege stir fried with belacan. Again the adults ate till syok syok.

 Photo credit to Auntie Claire

My favourite.... Chicken Feet kerabu... Told them not to put chili padi but why they so naughty. They added chili padi.

Again, Mamarazzi happily ate it all.

Photo credit to Auntie Claire

 Green oink oink curry. Definitely not for me though the adults likes it pretty much.

Photo Credit to Auntie Claire

Finally something i can eat...but but ... a bit chewy for me. Mamarazzi and Papa likes. 

 Photo credit to Auntie Claire

The adults all busy chatting and laughing all the way. Gossip here and there. Hmm...anyone's ear itchy or sneezed that day? *muhahahaha*

 Photo Credit to Auntie Claire

While they were busy doing that, I finally found something I can eat. I quietly walloped nearly half of this dish of Oink Oink meat. Sooooo soooo yummy

Photo credit to Auntie Claire

 Especially frozen and kept for Aussie friend. 

Photo Credit to Auntie Claire

After the meal , they had this while I had Iced Cendol. I like Cendol better. 

Meantime, feedback from Aussie friend is that the Bak Chang rate 8/10 while the mooncakes piggies got full marks. She even whatsapps-ed Mamarazzi a slowwwwww strip tease of oink oink to the slaughter. 

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The Making of Keropok Lekor and The Coming 4th Bukit Jelutong Plant Exchange on 3rd December 2016

 *Sweep sweep cobweb* Aiyoyo...few weeks didn't blog what happened to blogspot ah? How come all the controls , dashboard etc all changed already.

Busy doing what ar...hmm...the usual lo...boiling Kdrama and Mainland drama. Finished "On The Way to Airport" and "Boss and Me". The former was good but not "wow" but the latter was really hilarious.

 Anyway, on top of boiling drama, Mamarazzi FB on how to make Keropok Lekor. Since the recipe seems simple enough..Mamarazzi immediately went to hunt for the necessary ingredients the next day.

Recipe  calls for Sardines fish and Sago Flour. Have to de-bone the fishes. Very tedious work😰 and not much meat .

 Blend the meat using a blender and add some iced water with a pinch of salt. 

 Then add some Sago flour to the fish paste mixture. According to the recipe, the portion is 2:1. (200g meat : 100g flour).

 After mixed everything evenly, it's time to rock 'n roll. 

 Rolled Keropok Lekor ready to go for a swim in the wok. 

 Nice hot bath.  It's cooked once it floated up .

Cooling on the tray before Papa eat. Usually Keropok Lekor are fried after this but Papa eats it as it it.

Papa said too chewy. Too much Sago flour. Mamarazzi posted up in FB and her friend told her to change to recipe to 6:3:1 (Sago Flour : Tapioca Flour : Wheat Flour). A friend made some keropok lekor using the improved recipe and found them just nice.

Conclusion to recipe....well....will not make unless desperate la. A lot of work and the total cost not really cheaper than buying ready made Keropok Lekor. The bright side is that the head and tail of the fish can be use by Mamarazzi to make FAA(fertiliser) for her plants.

Apart from trying out new recipe, she is also busy planting.  Seedlings and cups of plants are everywhere in the garden, under the trees and in the car porch.

Yup! preparing for the 4th Bukit Jelutong Plant Exchange.  It will take place next Saturday. Here is the details of venue and time :-

Bukit Jelutong Plants Exchg #4

Date 3rd December 2016

Time 7.30am to 12noon

Venue D'Bayu Next to PapaRich, Jln Serambi U8/24, Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam

Note : 

1. all participants are welcome(pls support for a greener world n a healthy get together). Kindly label your plants so that the adoptive parents know what it is.
2. Please bring your own bag to avoid waste
3. Recycle- please bring your unwanted pots or containers so that we can use for the next event.

The Plant Exchange is open for all. You can bring a plant/some plants to the exchange to be adopted. In return, you can adopt some plants home. If you do not have plants to contribute, no problem. You can still adopt some plants home. 

Don't be shy. Do come and join this event. The organisers are cute as teddy bears. No fierce tigers there. 

Come early ya coz from past event experience, by 11am, most plants would be gone. Early birds gets the early worms. 

P/s:  If you are using WAZE , there are 2 PappaRich at Bukit Jelutong. Make sure it's the one at Jalan Serambi U8/24 ya.

Harvested this foot long okra yesterday. Papa ate it raw.  Still young. Not harden yet.