Blue is 'Biru'

My mind is as clear as a blue sky.

I should 

and

I have and I must think clearly 

and

Calm as calm as the river flowing 

so I could think wisely

Even though I know 

my mind is actually in a total mess

worried

and my heart is pounding

anxiously

trying to get everything ready on time.

I must be calm

I must think clearly and wisely

so many thing to do

stay calm

I should be patience

 all the time.....

Looking at the clear blue sky

no breeze at all

so so calm

Made my mind meditated 

Then 

I walk my way though

still looking at the blue sky

with hope

so I think I could

and I should

and I will

Blue sky

Blue is 'Biru'

Breakfast / Morning Tea / Afternoon Tea

Kuih Sagu Kelapa

My yellow "Kuih Sagu Kelapa"

Another Malay traditional 'kuih' / dessert

Easy to make. Just need tapioca pearl / Sago as the main basic ingredient.

Made a tray, a lot for one person. It will take me a while to finish the whole lot. :-)

Every morning must have at least one of this for breakfast. But you can have it when having morning tea or afternoon tea or as part of the dessert after lunch or dinner. Nice

Snack Time : Kuih Gunting,

I am trying to cut down and try not to buy something which I could make myself at home. I have been making lot of Malaysian Traditional snack for myself  rather than I bough all those chips from the supermarket/shops. I like making traditional Malay food which is my childhood food and it easy.

This is one of the traditional Malay cookie/snack. Kuih Gunting. Easy to make spicy and crunchy. Preparation time less than 30 minutes including frying and eat it..:-)

The ingredients:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup rice flour
1/2 teaspoon salts
1 table spoon cumin
1 table spoon coriander
1 table spoon curry powder
1 table spoon chilli powder ( if you like it hot just add some more I add more than 1 table spoon :-) )
1 egg
and water, the amount of water just  enough to make a dough

Method:
1. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
2. Add the egg then water small amount at a time.
3.  Mix it and kneed the dough till it not sticking
4. Then take some of the dough roll it with roller pin as thin as you can.
5. Cut it with scissor with what ever shape you like.
6. Then fry it .
Finally enjoy...the crispy spicy and crunchy Kuih Gunting

What cooking.....

Nothing unusual, I went to asian groceries shop and saw frozen 'petai'.Then, I decided I want to make 'sambal tumis petai' for lunch and for the whole week. I had my 'sambal tumis petai' with 'Nasi goreng belacan ikan bilis'. (habis lah bau petai kat rumah)

My New Favourite: Anuar Zain Ku Berjanji Karna Cinta

New song from my favourite Malaysian Male singer, Anuar Zain. Just FYI I sang few of his songs in some of my performances and one of his song I sang for a competition and I won. :-) 

People said my voice sounds like him or visa versa.. (hahaha perasan kan...)

Love this new song. His new song is so typical Anuar Zain ballad. Doesn't matter I love it.

So enjoy..........


Ku Berjanji Karna Cinta

Up and Down

Up and down mood this week.

No idea and not motivated.

Still, have to push myself try to do as much as I could

My recipe: Low calorie Low fat Lemon Cheese cake

Slightly different from the one I have made previously. It lemony and I change totally most of the ingredients to low fat low calorie ingredients and less sugar. Even the crust for the cheese cake is low calorie. 

The recipe.


Making the crust.


        Ingredients: 

             180 g corn/rice crackers brand Corn Thins, Real food ( you can use any finger biscuits or plain biscuits such as digestive or Marie etc. I used  Corn Thins because low calorie and low fat crackers compared to other biscuits)

               90 g butter ( I used extra light western star extra light because of low calorie low fat and contain low sodium)

Crush the corn/rice cake crackers in a food processor. Then add melted butter, mix until both mixture combined well. Place the mixture into the baking tray about 20 cm size tray. Pressed down firmly in the base. Then baked for 10 minutes in a pre-heated oven at  160C. Let the base set and cool  

Making the filing:


          Ingredients:

                 250 g  Philadelphia Low fat Cheese ( I choose the lowest calorie available among these brand)

                      250 g ricotta cheese extra light 

                      250 g yogurt brand Yoplait Forme ( Prefer this brand because I like the taste and has low calorie too per serving. Can use any brand you wish)

                        1 egg ( can add one more egg)

                        1/3 cup Caster sugar  ( up to you how much sweetness you like can add to 1/2 cup or 2/3 cup of caster sugar. Even you can use any of the sugar substitute to make it even lower in calorie. But for me I don't like the taste of the sugar substitute and 1/3 cup of caster sugar is just enough)

                        25 ml freshly squeeze lemon 

        grated lemon skin (can leave some of the grated lemon skin for decoration/topping) 

Mix all the above ingredients in a food processor/ using a mixer until smooth. Pour it all over the cool base and then baked for another 40 - 50 minutes. Once cooked let cool. 

This is my version of low calorie low fat Lemon Cheese cake.......

Staying Home

Raining for the last 2 days and it nice to stay at home instead. Did a lot of house keeping and groceries and cooking. :-)

Festival Indonesia 2010, Melbourne

Event: Festival Indonesia 2010, 23-24 October 2010

Location : Federation Square, Melbourne

Some of the performances on the 24 October 2010. The show started at about 10 am.  This year performances were totally different than last year. Interesting. Always enjoyed watching cultural performances. 

Here are some of the performances...

Very colourful and entertaining....

Drastic Changes

I still can remember last week when I was not feeling well. I don't really enjoyed much lying in bed can't even got up. I will felt dizzy with sore throat and no appetite which was not comfortable at all. A week past same day much fitter compared to last week. Even I went to Uni walking in the morning. Glad, and I felt I  am back on track. 

No body want to get sick but you can't avoid it at times and do your best to get well as soon as you can.

Tony's new hobby

Even at his current age, 78yo he still keep on active. Which is good. He is still independent and still driving. When I went to his place last Saturday, he really wanted to show me his new hobby. Building a famous miniature buildings/things. :-) 

He had completed the sphinx and now his current project is Tower Bridge of London.

 Cool 

Kookaburra

One of  the popular and commonly native bird in Australia, Kookaburra , an Australian Kingfisher . 

Even there is a popular Australian Nursery Rhyme about Kookaburra on the gum three. 

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Kookaburra Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Eating all the gumdrops he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
Leave some gums for me

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
That's no monkey, that's ME!!!

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Make a Wish

Antique 'Aladdin Genie Lamp'

Trying to make a wish, I rub and rub the lamp no genie came out 

:-), 

just kidding

Creative Food Decorations

Event      :       Festival Indonesia 2010, 23-24 October 2010

Location :       Federation Square

One of the attraction I found that was really interesting. I like arts and decoration very much. So this was one of those did caught my attention. 

Guess from what this decoration made off. :-) 

A pumpkin 

An Indonesian Master Chef  gave a demonstration on how to make a flower from onion

My favorite Scones I

I called it The Mills' Scones. This is how they Dianna and Lenora Mills made their scones. Lenora made it look so effortless.

2 cups of Cream

2 cups of Lemonade with 2 teaspoon of vanilla essence

Add all the above ingredients to mixing bowl with 6 cups of Self Raising  flour.

Mixed all the ingredients.

The big d'oh before start cutting into small pieces

The small cutting d'oh

Slightly shaping the d'oh. Then bake all the scones in the oven which already been preheated earlier at 200C for 15-20 Min

The baked scones

Soft and yummy end product 

My favorite Scone II

Better Condition

The last few days I have been trying to go out from the house and it seems that my effort did not work. In the end I am still ending up spending my time lying on couch or bed the rest of the day. Yeah blame for my sickness and I feel lethargic most of the time. The other reason was my appetite was not so good too even I made nice beef soup but I can't finish it or even eat it. Today I told myself I must go out get fresh air and do bit of socialising.

I almost called Tony to cancel my trip to his house. Even though I have good reason but if I want to cancel, I should call him yesterday or the day earlier. He might already made some kind of preparation before hand which he and his family did. The whole family really expecting me to come. OMG,  Glad I didn't cancel it, looking at the time, effort and preparation and I am glad I came. I had a great time too. A personal demonstration (3 to 1) just for me the making of scone. I know it easy to make. I made it twice but I couldn't find why mine is not as soft as what Dianna (Tony's wife) and Lenora (Tony's daughter) scone or should I say The Mills' Scone. Really really soft and yummy. At the same time when I had the scone today it  helps improving my appetite. In my next entry I will tell the whole detail of The Mills' Scone. Check it out. :-)

I need to do more to improve my appetite today other than scone especially for dinner, I decided to make rice porridge with salted fish and anchovies , then I made 'Mee Udang'/Prawn Noodle. 


At last now I had my appetite back. I don't mind eating to much today. Now it shows good progress of my recovery. I want to get back to my 100% fitness level at soon as I can. Alhamdullilah I am almost there.  

Thought I feel much better

I had a good rest last night after I had a course of antibiotics. No more feverish but very lethargic. I thought I could go to Uni today which I did, but couldn't do much. I still feel bit lethargic. It is a warm day today too bad If I have to spend whole day at home.

Recovering

I was not feeling well since yesterday. But I am feeling much better now. Just need a rest that all I need and I spent the whole day at home, resting.

Been So Lazy

One of those day, wake up early in the morning feeling  so lethargic and moody. But I have to force myself and get ready to 'work', which I did. I was thinking 'working' from home earlier but I don't think I will work well at home so much distraction. COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Forcing myself at least read and write something rather than feeling regret later on. I will be much better through out the day.