#256 Happy National Day Malaysians!

Today Malaysians are celebrating their 50th National Day. I would like to take the opportunity to wish HAPPY NATIONAL DAY to All Malaysians and in particular the following Malaysians ....
1. Fifi Fuad , Her Hubby and the twins
2. Hasmiza Hashim, Manieza Abu and Sahri Sarif - Where ever you may be
3. Hafiz Zulkifly ( IIU) and wife
4. My Blogger friends: MamaFami, Rinnchan and Nabialishad & Families
5. My colleagues and ex-colleagues
6. SYF 1989 participants, Seminar Belia ASEAN USM Minden 1991, Rombongan USM and IIU to Brunei 1991.

#255: Unbelievable ~ Craig David's

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Love this song. It's for YOU ( you know who you are)

Craig David - unbelievable

Always said I would know where to find love,
Always thought I'd be ready and strong enough,
But some times I just felt I could give up.
But you came and you changed my whole world now,
I'm somewhere I've never been before.
Now I see, what love means.

It's so unbelievable,
And I don't want to let it go,
Something so beautiful,
Flowing down like a waterfall.
I feel like you've always been,
Forever a part of me.
And it's so unbelievable to finally be in love,
Somewhere I'd never thought I'd be.

In my heart, in my head, it's so clear now,
Hold my hand you've got nothing to fear now,
I was lost and you've rescued me some how-.
I'm alive, I'm in love you complete me,
And I've never been here before.
Now I see, what love means.

It's so unbelievable,
And I don't want to let it go,
Something so beautiful,
Flowing down like a waterfall.
I feel like you've always been,
Forever a part of me.
And it's so unbelievable to finally be in love,
Somewhere I'd never thought I'd be.

When I think of what I have, and this chance I nearly lost,
I cant help but break down, and cry.
Ohh yeah, break down and cry.

It's so unbelievable,
And I don't want to let it go,
Something so beautiful,
Flowing down like a waterfall.
I feel like you've always been,
Forever a part of me.
And it's so unbelievable to finally be in love,
Somewhere I'd never thought I'd be.

Now I see, what love means

#254: Honey garlic sesame chicken : recipe #154

The picture speaks:
Ingredients:
10 wings, seasoned with salt and pepper, coated with original Kentucky flour, deep fried till crisp.
roasted sesame seeds

Honey sauce:
2 garlics~ chopped
2 tbsp Honey
1/2 tsp mustard paste
1/2 tsp sesame oil
chicken stock powder
corn flour slurry
1 tsp "kesturi" juice ~ you can use lemon juice as well

Steps:
In a wok, fry the garlic till fragrant.
Add in the rest of the sauce ingredient and simmer till sauce thickens.
Adjust seasoning before adding the wings and the sesame
Add in the chicken and sesame and stir till the sauce coats the wings.
Dish up

#253 : Pesta Sukan Remaja 2007- closing ceremony

Tutors and Maths lower sixth students were involved in the closing ceremony as spectators at the National Stadium. There were a few ocassions when we had to find shelter due to the heavy downpour at the stadium. I was not able to take lots of pics as I was scared that my SLR will be damaged . I am yet to upload some of the pics at my photoblog and to SLY, if you happen to visit this blog, I think I will post all to my back up blog ;) See you there!

#252.. Ambuyat time..

Auni have been asking me when will the next "Ambuyat" time. This morning at Jerudong Market I bought fresh "tenggiri" fish and prawns (yay!) . At the "pasar borong" at Selayun, I bought the ingredients for the Ambuyat feast including "tempoyak", "jaruk binjai", "lemiding", "tibadak" and others. I also bought "candas" for the occasion. So , it's ambuyat for today's lunch and here's some of what we ate ..

#251 mmm......

I was "hired" by my boy students to help them in the "business" that they have proposed. They came up with the idea of ice-cream served with some sort of ice-cream biscuit and cake. They have tried so many recipes but some how was not able to come up with the right one. So, I came up with pie biscuit filled up with my black brownie .. this was how it looked like... I asked my children to "test" the product and they liked it very much .. So.. Good Luck boys!

#250 Dusk.... The time for reflection

This poem is dedicated to one of my student, who came to see me two days back in my office. Dear, please be strong and never let go of Hope.

#249 My dream photoshoot ?hahaha

#248 HONEY MUSTARD PRAWNS: recipe #154

My picture speaks.....
Ingredients:
15 large sized prawns - cleaned, deveined and "rub" with a little salt and white pepper powder
3 garlics- chopped
2 tsp mustard sauce
2 tsp honey
1 dsp oyster sauce
1tbsp dark soy sauce
juice from 1 kesturi or you can use juice from 1/4 lemon
1 kesturi-sliced
corn flour slurry

steps:
1. In a wok, shallow fry the prawns till done.
2. retain about 1 tbsp of oil used,fry in the chopped garlic.
3. Add in the sauces ,honey and a little water. Stir till combined.
4. Add in the prawns, stir to evenly coat the prawns and the sauce.
5. Add in the corn flour slurry and the kesturi including the juice.
6. cook till gravy thickens and dish up.

#247: Experimenting with the photo edit software

#246 TRIPLE "S" EGGS : recipe #153

This is one of a very simple eggs recipe that I liked. It has the SOUR, SWEET and SPICY taste. The main taste came from the tamarind juice, the onions and the chillies that were used in the recipe. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
4 Eggs- Fried; bull's eyes; well done
1 onion, julienned
2 garlics-sliced
2 red chilies- sliced
2 green chilies-sliced
tamarind (ping- pong ball size)- water added, juice extracted
spring onion
sweet soy sauce
Thai's fish sauce
corn-flour slurry

steps: to make the sauce,
-heat oil in wok
-add onion and garlic
- add in the chilies, tamarind juice and the sauces
-add in the corn flour slurry
-when sauce thickens, add in the spring onion and dish up
-pour over the fried eggs
-serve warm with rice

#245 : Muffins for sale

I am now slowly venturing into muffins's business. It started when my hubby brought my soft chocolate muffins to school and from there people are now ordering my chocolate muffins. At first, I didn't want to do it, but I think Allah has opened for me another "pintu rezeki" so, well why not... and another thing is that I really enjoy baking and cooking, so it's not a hassle for me to do it. So,wish me luck people !

At the moment I am selling at 3pcs a dollar with minimum order of $5.00 :)

#244 BAKING MOOD: BLACKBERRY MUFFINS RECIPE#152

Adidarwish was counting the mini Hershey's ,which he ate afterwards.
He keeps me company in my kitchen nowadays! Very early in the morning

Darwish's biorhythm nowadays really makes me feel exhausted. This started since I stopped breastfeeding him a week ago. Nowadays, he wakes up between 1.00 to 3.00 a.m and when ever he is awake, he never allows me to sleep. I would sit on the couch half asleep, awaken only when he shouts at me direct to my ears or jumps on me *sigh*. His pattern enables me to go to the kitchen as early as 4.00 am. This is actually a good news for the rest as nowadays I have time in the morning to fix something nice. Last week, I've made cookies, breads and muffins. Today, I was actually able to bake 3 type of goodies; Puff (Thanks Ma) , large breakfast cookies and black berry muffins. Here's the recipe for the muffins:

Dry ingredients:
1 cup flour
1tsp salt
1/2 tbsp baking powder

Other ingredients
1 large eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tsp milk
1/3 cup sugar
4 tbsp warm melted butter
1tsp vanilla
6 oz frozen black berry- thawed , drained excess liquid, coated in flour


steps:
Preheat oven to 180C
Whisk dry ingredients and other ingredients- separately
Then mix the two types of ingredients, fold quickly till the dry ingredients are moistened (do not over mix) , Then add in the berries
Divide the batter evenly in the muffins cups
Bake till the muffins cooked , about 15-20minutes, let cool for 2-3 minutes before removing from the pan, serve while warm or within a few hours of baking.

Adapted from simply recipes

#243 : The "dangsanak" pictures ... :)

#242 JUS BERSANDING CEREMONY

I had injured my knees when I did my morning walk at Shahbandar, there is a big abrasion just below my right knee *ouch*, as a result, I have a slight fever, I guess it is to activate the production of antibody by my white cells. I don't think the wound will heal quickly as the area is a fatty area... I hope, it will not affect this week exercise... :(
Anyway, Jus bersanding ceremony took place yesterday, alhamdullilah, to Jus and Hubby, Congratulations once again. She look lovely in her light yellow wedding dress. Btw, to all cousins and readers, I think I will only be able to upload the pics in my photo blog this weekend...so stay tuned ... ok...here's my version of Jus bersanding ceremony. (Jus pics with Sukrin here were taken by my hubby, as there were so much shoving around). ...My picture speaks...:)

#241 JUS'S BERBADAK CEREMONY

Today is Jus's berbadak ceremony. I took quite a lot of pics, but will post it in my photo blog as soon as I did my school stuffs. So to all cousins, stay tuned and sabar ok! MORE PICS HERE, HERE AND HERE

#240 SHE IS HIRED!!!

Congratulations to My sister, Mimi @ Shikin, for being employed as Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, after a long wait... about a year. Good luck, Happy teaching and Do your very best! Yay ! another teacher in the family.