things i do when i have nothing else to do

i've been hit by the baking bug and this afternoon i baked brownies...from scratch!! and it turned out darn well!! so much for dieting. hiyooo..how to diet like this?? i can't resist a piece of cake or a brownie or a nice piece of kuih.

here's the recipe that i tried:

1. melt some 60g of chocolate with 125g of butter in a double boiler.
2. sift 60g of flour and a pinch of salt.
3. beat 2 eggs with 160g of brown sugar until you get the "ribbon-effect". that's when your egg and sugar mixture turns into a consistency that when you drizzle a ribbon-like form on the mixture itself, the "ribbon" will stay there for 4-5 seconds.
4. pour in the melted chocolate into the egg mixture
5. fold in the flour and the chopped walnuts and chocolate chip
6. bake for 30 minutes or till the top is shiny

Voila...bon appetite messieurs et mademoiselles!

besides baking, i do other things too...like constantly layan-ing my very very chirpy son nazim through the day. he has this uncanny ability to repeat whatever he is saying for like 10 times (or more, with the same intonation and all until he gets a reasonable response from me). sometimes by the time he gets to his 4th or 5th rant, my ears just tend to turn off by themselves..and then when i realized that he's going to his 10th, i would quickly think of a remark that would satisfy his inquisitive mind...until he goes on again with another round of rants. and one thing that would keep him quiet for a while would be doing his floor puzzle.

him and his muka tak puas hati with something










if you can see closely, he doesn't know yet how to put the pieces of puzzle to make the big picture, but he certainly knows how to put them together :)









my baby girl, on the other hand, is doing well, alhamdulillah. she is such and angel, and forever in slumber land....zzzzzzzzz