Coffee? Anybody?

I'm a coffee person. I'll drink at least/max 2 cups per day, normal working day, morning one, afternoon one, weekend, lunch/tea time one, dinner one .. Why limit to 2 cups per day? well, as we all know, coffee is not good for our health la, so cannot drink tat much, and also my friend told me there's a case where this guy drank 6 cups in one day and died!! ya.. DIED!!!

Although i like coffee, but i don't like those coffee @ coffee bean / star bucks and etc. Those coffee smells good but taste not good. hehe.. I like coffee with milk one, yes, sweet condensed milk. hehe.. and my favourite is nescafe, but i heard ppl say nescafe is the worst among all, so i limit myself to one cup of nescafe per day. Besides that i also like those from kopitiam, nor those kopi powder then add milk one leh.. nice nice...

What about you? Do you like coffee?

A good year to deliver baby?

A lot of chinese believes, baby born in the year of pig (especially this yr, the golden pig) brings prosperity and luck to the baby. Well, it's true, look around you, those ppl that born in the year of pig normally have a better life. hehe... better life means, maybe don't need to work very hard but got money to spend, or even rich and etc. Easy life in other words. There's 4 among my relatives, and yes, they all really don't need to work hard but got lot's of money to spend..

But i'm quite surprised to see there's even more ppl going to deliver baby in the year of mouse, which is next year. Well, some accidentally one lar. hehe, but some, they really purposely wait for the year of mouse!! Yesterday when i was out shopping, i saw a lot of pregnant woman, ya, really A LOT. more than 10 within 2 hours!! Besides that, my brother's wife, gonna deliver baby next yr jan, then another friend of mine will be in feb, then another friend, will be in march, and ANOTHER one will be in april!!! wow wow wow!!!!

I understand if ppl want baby in the year of pig, but the year of mouse?? why? Can anybody explained to me??

Servicing car.. kena chop chop chop...

I spent around RM 200 servicing my car. Luckily I brought enough money with me as I thought it would be less than RM150 for changing the engine oil and also the break pads.

I kept all my receipts on car servicing, when i checked back, i realized that servicing car in KL is much more expensive than @ hometown. Same engine oil, RM10 more expensive, the break pads RM20+ more expensive.. ~sigh... he some more told me he didn't charge for the labour fees. sure lar, you already added it in mar...

oh ya, he said got free gift for me some more...
guess what is it?

the most ugliest cup i've ever seen.
anybody wants ar?

Ice Fire Polo Bun (冰火菠萝包)

I've been to Oldtown Kopitiam so many times (Kepong, Aman Puri, Puchong, Ipoh and etc) but i never tried their famous chef recommended Ice Fire Polo Bun (冰火菠萝包) before. So today i decided to try.. instead of ordering the same thing every time mar.. hehe..

definitely very much smaller than the
pic shown in the menu..
but good thing is, it's still hot..
and smells nice too!!

see the butter melting!!
yummy..
not bad, will order again next time..
hmm, but quite expensive lar, RM 2.20 each
for a small bun.

Kam Lun Tai Moon Cake (锦纶泰)

I remembered last year i bought a dragon fruit moon cake and it tasted good. I decided to buy that one again this year. I do not remember what brand is that, then i saw this...and i bought it..

Dragon Fruit In Black Currant Paste
(龙果紫罗兰)　from Kam Lun Tai (锦纶泰).
RM 9.67 (i think got discount lar,
cos i saw the price is RM10+)

I'm already regretting when i removed the plastic.
y? well, this is definitely not the one
i tasted last yr, the black currant smell
is too strong!!

it's actually pink in color, and the middle part
is purple, looks a bit greyish..
FL told me the one i bought last yr
was from Hoi Nyoi Tin (海外天)..
$%#^^#&^#*$#, why can't u tell me earlier?
you were there when i bought this mar.. aiseh...

So how it taste? The skin is quite oily, erm, it's nicer than the one i ate from HYT but it still can't compared with the one i ate from Fu Shan. hehe ..

Weekend = Housework Day

What's ur weekend like? For me, my weekend can be one of the following:

1. Spending money Day ~ shop shop shop till my pk!!!
2. Housework Day ~ sapu sapu, mop mop, wash wash, iron iron... boring...
3. Sleeping Day ~ sleep till 3pm, makan breakfast + lunch, then continue taking a nap, till 8pm, bath, eat again, watch tv a while, then sleep. hehe. have to recharge one mar, if not how to work next week??

My favourite? of cos spending money day la!!! shop shop till pk, very syok one.. hehe.. This weekend is a boring one, cos it's HOUSEWORK DAY!!!!!! i just sapu floor, mop floor twice, washed 2 toilets!! tired tired....

what's your weekend like? hopefully it's much interesting than mine la..

Sambal Ladies Finger with Minced Meat

I don't really like ladies finger, cos no matter how you cook it always very sticky. till i got a little tip from my aunt, she said, steam, stir-fry, ladies finger will still sticky, the only way to make it less sticky is to boil it. ooo.. really? let's try..

Sambal Goreng, Ladies Finger & Minced Meat

boil it for 5-6 minutes...

Cut into small slices and put it on a plate.
let's prepare the sambal minced meat.

stir-fry garlic in hot oil.

add a bit of soy sauce,
then toss in the minced meat.

fry fry a while, then pour in the sambal.
add a bit of water.

ready to be served.
(i think i used too much minced meat la..
can't see the ladies finger also.. hehe)
oh yes, ladies finger really less sticky after boiled it.
try it for urself!!

Why do you like to cook?

"Eh, why you like to cook ar?" A question raised by a friend through msn after she read my blogs about Recipes. hmm, let me think, why i like to cook? actually hor, i do not think i like to cook leh.. cooking is not something that i like to do on my free time. "then, why posted so many recipes?" another question pops up.

well well well, let me made myself clear. i cook, not becos cooking is my hobby, i cook for 4 reasons (cooking also got reason ar? hehe..yala, abuhh-then??)

1. Save money. $$ always not enough mar, wat to do?
2. Don't know wat to eat. Pan mee, Wan tan mee, mixed rice, chicken rice, all very jelak leh.. if you eat outside food for 10 yrs (both lunch and dinner), i bet you also will be like me..
3. It's healthier la.. homecook food, at least you know you washed and clean all the ingredients properly.
4. got nice kitchen, don't want to cook meh, then spend so much on kitchen for wat? (hehe, actually i did not spend a lot on my kitchen lar, it's just that kitchen is the only place i renovate mar, :p)

If you do notice ar, the recipes i posted, all very simple one. I only cook those easy to prepare food, those very susah one, go outside eat lar, it's worth to let them earn the money since so many preparation needed, right? hehe..

As a conclusion, No lar, i do not categorized myself as a person who loves to cook, i just doesn't hate cooking only.. :)

what's wrong with me today??

At around 6pm, I've already decided not to cook tonight, no mood. hehe.. decided to go mamak to have my dinner. While i'm driving home, i suddenly remember there's pasar malam today, i changed my mind and decided to go pasar malam.

Around 7+, FL called and said he's stuck in the jam, won't be able to reach home so soon. At that point of time, i still did not change my mind, i told him i'll wait for him and then we will go pasar malam and find food. but somehow, 15 minutes later, i decided not to wait for him. hehe.. (hmm i'm not always like that, changed my mind that often...something is not very right with me today..) anyway, i sms him and told him i decided to cook something simple, maybe meehun soup.. so i started to prepare the ingredients needed...

While i'm cooking, i suddenly feel like eating stir fry meehun.. so immediately i changed my mind to start frying meehun!! oh no!! what's wrong with me today??

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Nasi Lemak!!! Where are you??

I love to eat nasi lemak, especially those from the malay stalls. Normally they only selling in the morning, from 7+am to around 10am. The rice is wraped by using banana leaf, add in sambal (sambal lebih.. hehe..), telur goreng, kacang and ikan bilis i dun like, so i won't asked them to put in, costs about RM1.50 (cos i add fried egg ma.).. makes me feel very satisfied after i finished that packet of rice!!

There's a few stall which i feel really nice.. one is somewhere near KDU, when i was still in college, they were selling one packet for RM 0.70 (biasa la..), now don't know still selling or not. and another one is at the megan avenue 2, that one also nice.. and the third one is somewhere near my office, kelana jaya (opposite old giant, there's a lot of malay stalls, dun go to the wrong stall. hehe. this stall that is nice normally they bring their kids with them.. small small kids.. husband and wife selling..)

From monday i was trying to look for them as i know once they start puasa i won't be able to eat it.. monday, tuesday, wednesady they also not selling, and today start puasa already..i guess i'll only able to eat again after raya...

oo.. i missed their nasi lemak!!!!!!

Perfect Life?

This is something that happened to my friend's colleague. I'm feeling kind of down after I heard this, ya i know although i don't know that guy, and there's nothing i can do to help him, but hearing these kind of news really makes me feel sad.

Let's refer this colleague as Mr.A. Mr.A is in his thirties(below 35), quite good looking, considered very successful in his job, high position, good salary. Besides that, he had his own business as well, few houses and recently just bought a BMW. Basically financial wise, stable, can consider rich also...

As for relationship, he just got married few months ago, the wife is a pretty lady. Everything seems perfect to him, relationship is good, financial wise, good, job, good...then one day he went for a blood test. It's not that he felt sick, it's just something he do every year, to have a yearly blood test. Results came out, some results seems abnormal, doctor requested for further checkup and then...

he was diagnosed with CANCER!! he didn't feel the pain, didn't feel uncomfortable, to outsiders he's still looks very strong and healthy. The doctor asked him to go for an operation, to remove the cancer part and operation is not the end of the story, after removing the part, that part need to be further tested, to determine what stage of cancer he's in. and it's considered as a major operation, need at least a few months to recover..

His life seems to be perfect to most of the ppl until a month ago. I felt really sad after hearing this, money is important? job is important? i think, health is the most important thing.. without health, money/job all is nothing...

praying for you, hope you get well soon. Amitabha!

EPF to offset your housing loan

Seems like all my 3 wishes on Budget 2008 did not come true. ~sigh, no choice lar...but there's one thing which caught my attention, which is, to withdraw EPF for housing loan installment. hmm, sounds interesting...

For those that have no idea what i'm talking about, it's something that had been annouced on Budget 2008. We can now withdraw our EPF to offset our housing loan. The EPF monthly withdrawal will directly credited into our personal account.

So if your monthly housing loan is RM1K, you can withdraw RM1K to pay off your loan. haha..u wish!! just joking only!! :p You can only withdraw 30% of your EPF contribution (from u & from ur employer).

Let's say your monthly salary is RM2000, you contribute RM 220 (11%) and your employer, RM 240 (12%), total contribution = RM 460, 30% of RM460 = RM 138. So you can withdraw this RM 138 to offset your housing loan.

hmm, if we can do something like this, then i'm quite interested...say for eg, this month i want to withdraw, (probably need to renew car roadtax, insurance and etc) this money is very helpful, but after this month, you probably don't need it anymore, so might as well keep it in EPF so that you can have more $$ when you retired. sounds good hor.. but i think won't be that flexible la..

Interested? hehe...

How do you categorized??

Reading blogs had become one of my habit, a daily habit. Besides visiting my own blog, hehe, of cos have to support my own blog mar.. there are a few blogs that i will visit everyday, without failed.

Besides the daily visit blogs, there are also some other blogs which I found quite interesting. These are the blogs that i will visit only after i visited all the daily blogs. Of cos not every day i have time to read all these, but I will make sure i visit them weekly. (if at work no time, weekend only read lo...)

Apart from that, there are also some blogs, which I know their existence, some of their posts attracted my attention, but not every post. As for these, i will visit at least once a month. Then of cos, when i'm super free i will browse randomly, to explore some new and interesting blogs.

So tell me, what do you think of my blog? How do you categorized it? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Yearly????!!!! hopefully not yearly lar.. :p

What's this?

Are you able to guess what's this?

Let's removed the plastic bag..

opened up the newspaper..
har..it's clearer now.. tupperware, yellowish..
do you know what's tat?

TAH-DAH!!! it's DURIAN!!!!!!
wow, each and every one is wrapped
using cling wrap!!!

see? let me opened it up..

wow wow wow.. thick thick flesh...
super nice smell....
totally can fight with the one i ate 2 months ago
(Durian Is Back)

what's all about this? why wrapped like tat? well, let me tell you. This morning when i'm in office, ms Q told me she brought something for me. hmm, when i looked at the square square thing she's holding, i totally have no idea what is that! she then asked me to smell it. Although it's wrapped in so many layers, i can still smell, the smell of DURIAN!!!

Immediately and secretly we put it into the fridge. luckily you can only smell it when you put near to your nose, else the whole comp will have this durian smell... :p so how it taste? no need me to say u also know it's nice lar. it's actually VERY nice, sweet with bitter, my favourite!! and the seed? wow, can't really see the seed.. hehe.. envy leh...

p/s: thanks Ms Q for such great home plant durian, don't worry i will bring some lemon to get rid of the smell in the fridge. :p

How to get rid of tea stain from thermal mug?

I have a habit of drinking green tea everyday (working days only, hehe..) using my thermal mug, can keep warm mar.. drinking is good, but the tea stain makes me feel very headache, the whole mug looks so dirty, yellowish!! and to clean them is not easy, you need to scrub (i also dono whether can scrub or not. but i cannot tahan the tea stain, so dun care lar...) real hard to get rid of those tea stain..and it will come back again after 2 weeks, no matter how u wash everyday.

I decided to google about it and i saw some ppl suggested that used lemon juice or baking soda to clean it. Well, not really sure wat is baking soda, but i have lemons in my fridge!! haha, it's experiement time!! i cut lemon into half, 'hmm seh dak' to use the whole lemon. hehe.. squeeze it and pour it into my thermal mug. then i add in hot water and soak over night.

the next day i checked, hmm, although it's not 100% clean, but it does helps, perhaps i need to use the whole lemon la.. hehe... i should try baking soda next time, see which one is better!!

Simple Dinner for 1 in 15 minutes

You are alone at home, lazy to go out, what would you have for your lunch/dinner? maggie mee? well, think about it, if one month once it's still acceptable, but one week once? not good for health ya... you need about 5 minutes to cook maggie mee, let me show you something which u can cook in 15 minutes... more healthy and delicious..

The ingredients depends on what you have in your fridge, be creative!! I have some chicken breast, cabbage and abalone mushroom in my fridge. So these will be my ingredients.

Chicken breast cut into small slices,
seasoned with soy sauce,
little bit of sugar & little bit of pepper.
(here's a little tip for you,
chicken can be seasoned in advance,
keep it in tupper ware and refrigerate.
it'll be very convenient for working ppl like us,
come back home, can start cooking right away!)

cabbage & abalone mushroom

dao qiam ~ 豆签 (soak in hot water)
(meehun/mee/mee sua, up to you.)

stir fry garlic in hot oil.

pour in chicken and saute.

add in cabbage, saute and add a bit soy sauce (or salt).
i only have cabbage in my fridge,
it would be better if i have some green leafy vege.

lastly, add in the abalone mushroom.
saute saute, add in some oyster sauce (a little bit will do..)

add in some water. I have a lot of vege & abalone mushroom
so i added a bit of water, if you prefer more soup,
add more water.
let it boil for a while, and add in the dao qiam ~ 豆签.

dinner is ready!!

Did you write it yourself?

A friend sent me a few url of some artists' blog. While i'm going thru it, I can't help to wonder, are they the ones updating the blog? well, what makes me think that? u see, they are so busy, they always fly here fly there performing, they have to prepare for their albums, for their movies/advertisements/interviews and i bet they do not have 8 hours of sleep everyday.. so do they really have the time to update their blog everyday??

I just hope they are the original writers and don't let their supporters down.

Just ONE (or many) word (s)??

I've been tagged by Sean for this. To answer a long list of questions, by just one word. Originally is one word, but then Sean decided to change the rule a bit, we can answer it by using more than one word. Well, since Sean is the one that tagged me, so i shall just follow his rules!! Here we go...

Where is your cell phone? no idea (in the room gua.. hehe..)
Relationship? Yes
Your hair? Shoulder Length
Work? Sien
Your sister? 1
Your favorite thing? $$ (who doesn't like $$?)
Your dream last night? Errr, don't remember
Your favorite drink? Coffee
Your dream car? nope, but if i can afford a Nissan Latio Sports Hatchback, i would be happy .. for now la..
The room you’re in? living room
Your shoes? Vinci, Hush Puppies, Scroll, Nike, Fila, Nose
Your fears? siu-keong
What do you want to be in 10 years? no need to work
Who did you hang out with this weekend? myself
What are you not good at? company politics
One of your wish list items? Nissan Latio Sports Hatchback
Where you grew up? Malacca
Last thing you did? yawn
What are you wearing? Pyjamas
What aren’t you wearing? socks
Your pet? nope
Your computer? Acer
Your life? Boring
Your mood? not so good
What are you thinking about right now? to take a nap
Your car? Made in Malaysia
Your kitchen? modern
Your summer? our country got summer meh? hehe..
Your favorite color? Purple
Last time you laughed? 2 hours ago
Last time you cried? last week while watching the super sad movie
School? APIIT
Love? Sleep

haha, so now it's my turn to tag ppl.. see who are the lucky ones.. :p have fun!!

chanKelwin
Jason

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Kerepek Taufu (豆腐饼)

I believe all of you out there tasted taufu before, but have you tried Kerepek Taufu? haha, no leh... let me present you the taufu chips...

when SH asked me to try, i was like.. huh, what's this? then he said kerepek taufu.. i looked at him, and asked again.. taufu? he said, yes, taufu.. try lar... then i took one to try..and guess what? it's really nice!!! 4 out of 5 colleagues asked him where he bought after they tried. I'm one of them also lar... he told us he bought at this stall at giant, kelana jaya...so the next day (which is today..), i go buy...

Seaweed Soy Crisp Kerepek Taufu (Vegetarian)
one packet RM 5, 3 packets RM 13

it's green color, becos of the sea weed gua..
very tasty!!

Soy Crisp Kerepek Taufu (With egg)
one packet RM 4.50, 3 for RM 12.

yellowish... this one less salty..

i pour into a big tupperware,
mixing the two of them.
hehe.. yummy yummy!!!
taufu also can make chips!! geng leh!!!
i wonder how they fry.. hmm...