Baked Raspberry Cheesecake: 25 April 2007

Just like any other Wednesday afternoons, you will see me infront of the pc (what else if not busybody-ing reading other people's blogs or reading stuff on digital scrapbooking) and the children were playing with their toys. The tv was on low volume on Cbeebies channel. But on that special warm 25 April 2007 p.m. D came to visit after fetching her children from school.

I was so guilty there was nothing to serve to the guests immediately. Luckily a couple of days before I bought some ingredients for an easy cheesecake recipe. The plan was to invite D to come over for a personal tutorial. Since the Guru was there, so I thought we might as well have baked cheesecake for tea.

There I was asking D to bash the digestive biscuits, mixing with butter and squashing on a spring-form tin. I did the beating of the cream cheese with the rest of the ingredients. It was not that difficult really when she was there.

When the cake was in the oven, I whipped up some 'jemput-jemput ikan bilis' (ikan bilis courtesy of DITH and family) and prepared a teapot of tea (errkkk this should be the first to be done when they came right?).

We all sat down and had our afternoon tea on the floor. The children finished theirs rather quickly and played in the backyard. The moms were talking about losing weight and exercising over our lovely tea.

The next day, just like any other Thursdays, during a routine visits to friends' blogs - D had a special announcement on her blog. No! Not about my cheesecake! But it was her birthday on 26 April 2007!

I grabbed my mobile phone and gave her a quick call. Obviously I was "upset", she didn't tell me that it was going to be her birthday. Surprisingly, none of her children whispered it to me. Her children knew how to keep a secret! And I regret asking her to bash the biscuits, bla bla helping me out in the kitchen. She should have been given a special treatment.

Sorry with this 'basi' birthday wish, D. Some people celebrate it the whole month, you know!! And some the whole year. Yes, I'm very sluggish with my entries, I still have loads of entries in the queue waiting to be published, family visit to Stratford upon Avon, our picnic at Longford Park, barbecue with Babah's colleagues at Rutland Waters and I intend to update on Sarah and Amar's progresses. At the same time, I'm crazy over scrapbooking.

Speaking of birthdays, I actually have many friends who were born in May;
Elviza (E.M.) - 3 May, who also shares the same birthdate with her son, Luqman.
Ibu Amin dan Ammar - 5 May
Jue - 5 May
Em, Sherin's son - 6 May
Maklang - 8 May
Sherin - 14 May

and family members in May;
Tok Ayah - 6 May
Opah - wait for it you guys, coming soon!
Yaya - also wait for this one :)

To all of you, happy birthday and may success and happiness come your way always. Pretend that I made the cheesecake for you. To the others, you know where to find the full recipe, yeah? Visit pondok-pondok.