Of my kueh so far..

Here are some snaps of all the kueh mueh I made so far..


The red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting..



Tepung bungkus limited edition.. The 2nd attempt, and made only 2...



Keropok lekor leeds.. Xsempat buat sos dia..



Burger malaysia.. Rupa tiada, manis ada..



Yang ni lebih manis sbb ada model..,



The n-th attempt for buah melaka, the most successful one. The size is consistent with plenty of gula melaka filling.. Terbaek..

And yesterday I made bingka carrot.. Lupa nak snap plak but basically turned out allright.. Its, orange... ;p

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Of Iftar so far

Salam 5 Ramadhan.. I am having no trouble with the 16-17 hours of fasting so far, Alhamdulliah.. Its probably with niat utk berpuasa, Allah's willing that i had not experience gastric etc. Prior to Ramadhan month I had a couple of ngeri experience with gastric and migraine that results from my attempt to reduce food intake.. Diet la konon, but after the scary experience in the form of a week of continuos flatulence I decided its not worth it.. Heheehe..
Anyways, I dont really have much interesting thing thats worth mentioning except our menu so far;
1) nasi ayam - made it myself
2) nasi ayam - neighbour house
3) gulai kawah - so cair that someone think its soup.. Heheehe
4) macam2- kari, gulai ikan, paprik ayam.. Open house jiran2 kt bawah..
5) thats today, i still havent decided but most probably the ribs that i marinated a couple of days ago..
And bersempena bulan puasa ni, maka tekak pun teringin la nak mkn maca2.. So for day one i made red velvet cup cake. Tak jadi sangat n i dont particularly like the fact that i had to use the whole bottle of red coloring just to make the paste out of 2 tablespoon of chocolate powder.. And its not as moist as some claimed it to be.. For day 2 i made brownies cheesecake. It was ok initially but densed after i refrigerate it!! But cik abg kata ok je.. Tah la.. I decided not to make any dessert on day 3, but I surfed for recipe for tepung bungkus.. I craved the runny white santan and chewy inti kelapa.. So early day 4 yesterday i started preparing the inti kelapa which is just kelapa parut n gula melaka n pandan.. Then the tepung beras n santan.. Oh yes, I did not have the daun pisang for wrapping the kuih so I used aluminium foil instead. To cut the story short, I found after twice steaming the batch, the all important santan part was.. hard n not gooey as it should. And upon breaking fast , I tested it and it tasted like..... Putu bambu with inti kelapa.. Huhh malu nya, dah la bawak rumah org.. Nak buat mcmana.. At first I thought it was the resipi, but then a friend said it was probably the indian rice flour that i used thats causing it to taste like putu bambu and that I should try to use thai's rice flour first before deciding if the recipe was a hoax.. I mean, I did search other recipes and basicly all are using 1 cup of rice flour with 2 cups of santan.. So I could not have done anything wrong except maybe the daun pisang..
Anyways, enough of the putu bambu/tepung bungkus. I also made cheese caramel puding in 2 version; big-bakar, small-kukus. The small version confirmed jadi. The big one tak sure because I never got around to taste it.. It will be for today's iftar..
Ok, enough already about food and such.. Salam Ramadhan...

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Of whatever

Ofis sangat sunyi minggu ni. Both offices lengang sbb ramai yg g conference kt Beijing. Almost half! Bila that group blk the second half akan ke Hawaii pulak! Fuyoo kan diorg2 ni.. bila la aku pulak.. Hahaaha.. Membakar semangat ni. Tp betul jgk kata member sorg ni, kalau g conference kt terikat dengan deadline whereas kalau jurnal kt boleh submit when we are ready..
Lagi satu yg membakar semangat ialah member yg berjaya viva in less than 3 thn!! Superb dan power ranger! Nak jugak!! Huhuuhu..
Jumaat lepas ada talk, sorg ni nak bersara dan dia kongsi pengalaman dia dr zaman dia dgn national coal board sampai leeds uni. Anyways nak cerita time lunch yg dia sponsor tu heheehe.. Met this pakistani lecturer doing his attachment here. So dia tanya la pasal my project, so cerita la pasal process modelling CTL, gasification, FTS etc. Pastu dia cakap dia buat something on it masa kt pakistan etc. The point being is that he highlighted experimentalist vs modeller (adakah..) exp. mcm dia buat exp ke, theory kurang compared to modeller yg supposedly have sound fundamental. Tah la.. Bila start belajar ni aku rasa aku xtau apa2 pun, started from scratch (xkt from zero sbb ilmu utk search kt google n sciencedirect ms awal tu ada..) scratch as in garu kepala.. Heehehe.. Sampai skrg aku punya tendency ialah I cant move forward unless I understand it. So kalau xfaham kerja xgerak.. Sangat teruk! Alhamdulillah slowly I tried to bypass the urge to know 'everything' and settled with 'something' and am making good progress. The results are promising, alhamdulillah.. Kena ngadap sifu esok petang mcm bese.. Nak present mcmana pulak ye.....