Mai....mai....cotton sudah mari

Sila sila... jangan malu-malu cuci mata tengok kain cotton ni...

dan ini.....
lagi
dan lagi......
Hehehe...korang minat ke kain cotton yang tidak diketahui sama ada sesuai untuk dibuat baju, cadar atau langsir. Yang pastinya sesuai untuk yang di bawah ini hehehe.....

dan yang pastinya juga ianya adalah buatan.....................

Well, inilah hasil dari intaian aku di Spotlight pada minggu terakhir puasa gara-gara nak kurangkan kesedihan dan kesyahduan disebabkan housemates balik beraya di Malaysia huhuhu

Macam di kedai kain di Malaysia saja kan. Aku rasa kedai kain di Nilai 3 dan Nilai Square lagi cantik hahaha...Not only the outlet, in fact their cotton too...japanese cotton kan... :))....Kalau korang berminat sila lah pergi ke Nilai ya, tapi kalau nak pergi outlet yang berhawa dingin sila lah menapak ke Jakel dan cawangannya ya..;))...Kalau tak silap aku, ada kain dan harga kain Jakel di KL tak sama dengan di cawangannya, misalnya di Seremban dan Perak. Tu dululah, sekarang I tak tahu ya....Psst...jika masih berminat dengan pameran cotton ni, sila nantikan episod 2 ya hahahah....

Tart lagi ek ???? Lain pulak lah ............

Hehehe...disebabkan aku agak kurang betul, maka aku buat tart lagi on friday afternoon. But this time it was fruit tart. Actually, I planned to make it on thursday nite so that I could bring the tarts to office for my friend who gonna give me soup spices. Kinda of barter trade hahaha. Unfortunately, my housemate have visitors and they had dinner and chit-chat at the kitchen table..so how I gonna make my tart ?? I'm only prepared the pastries dough at 9.30pm and later proceed with my work upstairs...tak larat nak prepare the filling that nite. So here is my version of fruit tart....once again, first time making this tart.

Please don't laugh at this 'uncreative' decoration ...;). I supposed to decorate it with peach slices too but I kinda lazy to open up the can hahaha. Here is another photo of the tart.

I got the recipe from bro Rozzan blog and I noticed that for a quarter of the pastries dough, I managed to get 12 shells of 5cm diameter. Thank you bro....However, I only used 6 shells and prepared 1/5 of the filling without add in egg. How to divide an egg to 1/5 hehehe...Since I still got the leftover of blueberry cheese tart filling, so I baked 4 pieces of blueberry cheese tart. My housemate loves the fruit tart and we agreed that we love the blueberry cheese tart more hehehe...yelah peminat anything cheesy kan hehehe...

Then, I had nasi lemak with leftover lamb rogan josh to break my fast. I had nasi lemak again with sambal ikan bilis and boiled egg for lunch
( opps..kupas telur pun tak reti kan disebabkan tak pandai nak rebus telur...kureng masak kuningnya huhuhu...)
and nasi lemak and sambal telur for dinner on saturday.


Psst...........actually the chili paste for sambal ikan bilis and telur was the leftover from last monday..

Wah!...macam fairy!!! Not me la...

Hehehe...of course not me lah..the fairy, but this wedding la....



Dah berapa kali aku ulang tayang tengok this video...don't know how to describe it....Ya ya, I know like fairy tales la......Ada kawan cakap dia hampir pengsan tengok video ni hehehe...Opps..TQVM pada yg upload video ni dalam youtube.

Macam dah lama tak bersiaran pulak aku nikan. Entries hari rabu tak ter publish, harini aku baru publish hahaha....Selain busy, I just don't know where is my blogging mood gone.......

Actually on wednesday, I was super duper bz trying to finish my writing since I have an appointment with my spv on thursday. In fact, when the day come...I still haven't finish writing...no abstract, intro that not properly written and still no idea how to relate certain of my result with previous works....However since I went to see my spv after hibernating for almost two weeks in my home, my spv hinted that she prefers me to work in the office even though she said that she doesn’t mind me staying at home as long as I do my work, not just watching tv and eating…She has the experience on spot-checking her student at home and found out that he was ‘doing GAGA’ at home...No No...please don't ever do this to me my dear spv....

Ayo yo...my dear spv, I cannot do Gaga lah...since within 38 hours from wednesday morning up until thursday midnite I only slept for 2 hours only...I really struggled to finish my third paper writing on wednesday. That is why I only had leftover food to break my fast on wednesday...nasi impit, serunding ikan, lamb rogan josh, dal and chicken curries....

And of course for sahur on thursday I had the leftover food of sayur lodeh+sambal ikan bilis. Luckily, I managed to grab a bottle of coke from the nearby groceries store to make me stay awake. I only slept after subuh and rushed to meet you my dear spv at 10am. Remember we only had brief discussion about my work and also about me for not feeling comfortable in the office since the new office mate came. Thank you for your suggestion. I'll do that but I'm not sure when and how to do so because it's not easy avoiding people feel offended.

Then after meeting you and giving you the draft of my third paper I have to send you again the draft of my second paper...I know you still hasn't read the draft of my second paper. In fact you lost it. I know you are super duper busy with your lectures and preparations and also marking the test and tutorials scripts. So definitely, I have to send you another copy of that draft. But before I can send it to you, definitely I have to add something in the discussion base on the article that I just read. It took me nearly 2 hours to really understand the article and write in my own word to use it as a support for my result. Then, by 5pm I couldn't stand anymore staying in the office, so I went to the city and later broke my fast alone in Oporto....what else definitely I had grilled chicken. That I still managed to stay awake until 12.30am.....So, no wonder I felt restless and weak and also had mental blocked on friday morning due to the effect of not enough sleep which also influenced my body clock............

Kenapa aku asyik nak membebel, mengomel dan komen

Before I start nagging, it's better if you look first at my menu for yesterday, sayur lodeh with sambal ikan bilis. As usual ..versi tak cukup bahan, I don't have any tempeh, beancurd, suhun, fucuk...but beans and carrot and tomato will do hehehe.....Teringin nak makan coz when I called my sis last sunday she was preparing this sayur lodeh. So she let me know the important ingredient which is dried shrimp =udang keringlah. Hehehe...you all mesti dah tau. I je yg tak tau.


Where did I get that pressed rice or nasi impit...buat sendirilah. Remember, I broke my fast with rice and sambal ikan bilis on monday. So, nasi tu, aku pi tambah air lagi dan masak sampai lembik. Then kasi himpit lenyek dengan senduk la. The funny things is I did this at 5pm, so kena letak nasi impit panas2 tu dalam freezer nak kasi sejuk n keras hahaha coz berbuka at 5.52pm. Tapi lembik jugak hehehe. Later, I had strawberries and cream cheese leftover from tart filling as desert....
So, nape nak membebel...Bukan apa I tak suka kawan tipu I, ambil kesempatan ke atas I. Kalau ikutkan haritu aku malas nak ambil barang yang aku pesan dari dia. Actually, sebelum confirm nak order dari dia, dia dah suruh check harga pos...so aku dah check for 2.5kg parcel, post cost via air is RM66~aud22. Alih2 dia charge aku aud30. Bila aku ym pasal that cost and other things, dia tak balas. Esoknya bila kami ym, aku ada gak tanya pasal ym the previous day, dia kata tak perasan. Sedangkan sebelum ni...dia mmg sentiasa perasan my ym walaupun offline. Then dia sibuk desak aku ambil barang tuh, maybe takutlah aku tak nak bayar. Dahlah hancur, nak jugak charge harga yg sama, pulak tu pergi tipu pulak charge post. Memula aku mmg fikir tak nak bayar pun, tapi kesian kat dia n fikir jugak for long term relationship. Tapi, bila raya pi umah dia, aku rasa raya2 ni, better redha je la. So, bayar lah..tapi aku tak ingat the total cost aud43 or aud44++..So aku cakap aku bayar aud44, kalau kurang bagitau....Alih2 lepas tu dia ym, tanya aku bayar aud42 or aud44..aku hangin betul. Kira, aku dah redha n malas nak panjang cerita dia buat pulak aku camni. Memang confirm berkira minah ni...Lepas ni sorry aku nak berurusan atau nak share dengan dia. Teringat dulu dia nak beli air botol, cari yg paling murah. Aku pulak as usual beli air coke. Tau tak alih2 dia tak jadi beli air, then minta air aku je....Kenapa aku nak sebut benda ni kalau aku kata aku dah redha masa raya. Sebab bila aku cerita dengan myhousemate dia terkejut dengan harga pos tuh. Sedangkan famili dia pos barang 9kg, kos post rm172.60..so yang aku punya 2.5kg, aud30~RM90....tak ke pelik....Hish! camna lah orang macam ni hidup kan dengan mengambil kesempatan kat atas orang lain.....

Tart lah pulak.....

Teringin sangat nak makan tart...maka hari sabtu lepas, aku buatlah blueberry cheese tart. First time buat tau. Kenapa ada saiz datuk dan saiz cucu. Awat yang saiz cucu lain beno rope nyer...

Buat yg saiz besar 4 ketul je. Tulah I takde mini tart tray. Yang ada mini muffin tray..so guna jelah. Then buatlah sendiri coraknya guna lidi, cam tak puas hati..so guna garfu pulak hehehe...Tapi serius, rasa nak menangis menggelek dan meletakkan doh dalam acuan. Lama sungguh !!!! Disebabkan rupanya kureng maka aku tak jadilah nak bawak hampir semua tart ni ke open house my friend. So, hanya beri tuan rumah and my other friend 9+5 ketul je yg saiz kecik tu. Nak bagi yang besar tu takut dalam tak masak. So, tinggalkan mesej kat umah suruh my housemate makan. Tapi terkejut jugaklah bila balik, yang saiz besar dah dimakan 2 ketul. Hehehe aku ingat depa nak makan yg kecik je hahaha. Malam tu aku makan yang kecik je la. So, hari ahad aku tengok tinggal 2 ketul besar dan 2 kecik. Satu yang besar tu aku makan buat sarapan. Then aku buanglah kertas suruh depa makan tuh, and plan nak letak bekas tart tu tempat lain coz ingat nak makan lagi yg sebijik besar tuh. Tapi bila pikir balik takkan lah depa nak makan lagi coz semalam dah makan lagipun aku dah buang kertas tuh. Bila ku turun petang tu nak mandi aku tengok ada lagi tart tu, ingat lepas mandi nak ngap...alih2 dah lesap. Rasa terkilan sangat huhuhu...tapi redha je lah. Tu lah next time asingkan yang sendiri nak makan and yang nak bagi orang. Cuma tak sangka pulak ada ramai orang yang jenis tak makan saman macam aku terkilan nak makan pizza mangkuk tuh...dahlah biar je bekas tu, bukan nak tolong basuh huhuhu....Takpe pengajaran hehehhe...kena ikhlas dan redha dengan apa yg terjadi kan...Huish! ngomel pulakkan. Aku ambil resipi yang sememangnya diakui sedap oleh aku dan rakan2 dari Mamafami. Thank you very much mamafami and sources (Chef Anuar and Alex Goh)...... :)).

Untuk gathering pada hari raya kedua which is last two saturdays, I baked this kek lapis prune yang tak cukup lapis ni hehehe....

Tapi agak bantat coz aku tersilap salin cara membuatnya dari blog bro Rozzan. Apa-apapun terimakasih bro Rozzan, sungguh pun bantat habis je aku makan hahaha. Nanti cuba lagi tau!!!! Aku tambah sikit mixed spices dalam adunan ala2 resipi kek lapis Rima.

Semalam baru start puasa ganti. Ada yang kata boleh sekalikan dengan puasa 6. Ada yang kata tak boleh. Ada yang kata dapatkan fadilat puasa 6 dulu, puasa ganti bila2 boleh. Ada yang kata better ganti dulu puasa wajib, baru buat yang sunat. So, aku gantilah dulu puasa wajib ni, kalau diterima puasa 6 tu juga alhamdulillah. Jika berkesempatan insya allah aku buat dua2, habiskan ganti then baru puasa 6. Semalam aku berbuka dengan sambal tumis ikan bilis dan telur dadar berkarot yang pecah ni hahaha....Actually, memang dah terkantoi makan nasi rumah kawan sabtu lepas. Aku malas nak masak nasi coz beras dah habis. So, kena bukak pack baru...tu yang malas hehehe...Tapi dah selamatlah makan nasi semalam kan. Lagipun tak guna hidup tanpa nasi jika berat badan sama je hehehe

Kalut masak, coz sibuk dengan Adobe photoshop nak melukis object for my research. Tak tahu nak guna software ni, banyak buang masa cari guide dalam internet. Nak lukis sendiri tak tahu, nak ambil gambar dari internet pun, still kena ubah suai....Sampai kawan saya cakap saya ni buat phd in science ke arts hehehe....Tulah dok mengadap benda ni dari 4pm sampai 12am, semata2 nak hasilkan satu objek kecil yang 3 dimensi. Tapi tolakla masa nak masak, berbuka, sembahyang dan lain-lain ya hehehe. Stress pun ada dengan kerja, dengan masalah orang ...bila stress teringin sangat nak minum coke huhuhu, walaupun pernah terbaca coke boleh mematikan sel otak. Susah nak tido last nite, kalau tak fikir...selfish pulak, bila fikir nangis, bila baca doa nangis...kan lagi bagus bangun sembahyang malam daripada buat drama air mata.....

Bila cakap pasal drama ni, tadi baru habis tengok epilog syurga cinta episod 25. So habis hari khamis la kan, episod 28. Tak sukalah guna Tonton ni, lembaps..better website tv3 yang dulu. Oklah, nak lipat baju n pulun buat kerja ni coz dah email spv nak jumpa dia khamis ni.

Lima hari tanpa nasi

So, kalau tak makan nasi aku makan apa pulak ???
For dinner on Wednesday, I had this spiral soup..yummy...

I just used adabi bihun soup paste hahaha. I also had this soup for my lunch and dinner on Thursday. I really focused on my paper writing but several times juggling between writing and modifying the figures using Adobe illustrator that day and just slept at 3.30 am on Friday. For brunch on friday I had maggi goreng which also my breakfast and my dinner for today. Jimatkan...1 pack noodle untuk 3 kali makan.
For dinner and supper on friday, I had this garlic nan, chicken tikka, dal and chicken curries.
The nan bread is so soft and yummy...quite large that I still have another one third of it hahaha.
I went to my friend's 'open house' this afternoon. They served stir fried prawn, beef in soy sauce, ayam berempah and mee tomato...yummmy...blurp hehehe. So, of course 'kantoi' diet tanpa nasi :))...hehehe no point diet without rice, kalau asyik makan kuih raya n kerepek

Makan apa yang ada....

Tetiba teringin nak makan nasi himpit with kuah kacang. Last saturday, masa sambutan raya di sini, aku hanya makan satay, nasi lemak dan rendang. Bila banyak pilihan makanan, tak tahu nak pilih apa...at last tak ambil apa pun dah. Sibuk posing2 je hahaha. Tetiba rasa nak bergambar tepi pantai, maka ajak lah kawan bergambar dan makan2 kuih raya hari ahad. Tapi pakai baju raya tahun lepas. Sesudahnya...gambar dia yang lagi banyak, walaupun aku punya idea n plan...

Masa seronok2 posing tuh, ada kawan call jemput datang her open house. Seronok dapat makan nasi dagang, laksa, kuih serimuka dan kuih bakar. Malam tuh, aku pulun habiskan pulut serunding yang aku buat hari khamis malam for sambutan raya hari jumaat lepas. Hari isnin, malas masak so hanya makan maggi kari je. Semalam pulak tetiba craving for bihun goreng. Since, I didn't have bihun...fried suhun pun jadilah.

For lunch today I had telur tiga rasa hahaha...actually sambalnya tu leftover sambal ikan tiga rasa masa bulan puasa hehehe...


Oklah...nak writing for my third paper. Yang second paper tu tak tau apa jadi....Sambil writing, sambil layan ILUSI...hei..manalah epilog syurga cinta episod 25 ni....

Eid Mubarak

Salam Aidilfitri dan Maaf zahir batin dari perantauan

Biskut raya yang terlampau.....

Hehehe...sorrylah buat gempak saja. Tiada yang terlampau dan melampau, melainkan warna biskut raya ku. Ada tak orang berani makan this red colour cookies. My third raya cookies which also the third cookies that I ever baked in my life, strawberry biscuits that I baked on sunday afternoon...sambil basuh baju, sambil baking hehehe....

I got the recipe from Bro Rozzan blog. TQVM bro ...Unfortunately, I couldn't find strawberry essence either in woolies or asian grocery stores, so I just used strawberry jam. Yang peliknya, sebelum dibakar memang ada rasa strawberry, tetapi bila dah bakar hilang pulak rasa strawberry tu. Anyway, I still like the taste and how the cookies looks too...:). You all tak perasan ke ada small and big hole...sesuka hati aku saja kan....

Hmm...have you ever wonder what happen to the first cookies=milk cookies which are not melt in the mouth? Hehehe..keras kejung pun, I only have 3 pieces left .....

But what about my second raya cookies. Well, here is my samprit pandan that I baked on saturday nite...
Apa ni???? Please don't laugh at my cookies la. I know that tiada lansung rupa samprit, rupabentuknya tak sekata, sememeh dengan coklat etc. Habis tu, I don't have any cookies mould/press machine. Have you any idea what did I do to get that parallel line on the cookies ..;)). I got the recipe for this superb cookies from Mak lang Azie....TQVM Mak Lang. You know what, actually that choc on top of the cookies is not cooking choc. Coklat whittaker aku masih ada lagi sikit, since rasanya tak larat nak makan di bulan puasa ni..boleh jugak dijadikan penghias my cookies kan :)).

Disebabkan, terbanyak melantak merasa biskut raya aku rasa tekak kembang semacam je. So, for dinner I just had this stir fried veges and sausages with oyster sauce and black pepper as seasoning....

Orang lain sibuk shopping raya..aku shopping for spring/summer !!!!

Just right after submitting the latest draft of my second paper to my spv, I started my activity of stress relieve on friday. At first I thought I wanna buy baking stuff, tapi macam tak larat nak jalan jauh. So, apalagi...ronda2 nak cari accessories for rayalah. No, definitely not gold or diamond...I opt for cheaper material which kalau hilang I tak berendam air matalah. For the past few years I prefer necklace compared to bangle or bracelet. Maklumlah, I ni ganas...selalu sangat my bracelet putus. Nasib baiklah kakak yg tolong buatkan my gemstone bracelet tu sudi sambungkan semula for free. Macam2 ada such as tiger eyes, amethyst etc. Lagi teruk, last year I lost my gold bracelet in K-Mart or Big W. Nyesal tak sudah tau. Oh...back to non-gold accessories here, I was so rambang mata and definitely confused in choosing variety of necklace design and colors. The red color necklace so tempting but then, kena fikir jugak..banyak sangat ke baju yang boleh matching with this red color necklace/pendant. Better I choose black accessories, unfortunately the design is not to my liking whether the design is rather too much or already outdated in Malaysia. And of course it supposed to be within my budget limit and also that I can wear it in Malaysia too. So, I end up buying nothing hehehe.

Then, I went to the clothes outlet and tried the abstract pattern A cut skirt...love it!!!! Since it's new arrival...definitely the price is beyond my budget hahaha. Then, I went to another outlet and tried this jeans material dress. Really love it..........
Tapi, aku ni kan pendek, pakai baju kembang lagilah nampak pendek hehehe. Ok, then I tried another jeans dress but jersey material....
Kelakar je kan, belt tu senget sebab terikat pada cangkuk di pinggang tu. Tapi material ni, macam melekat di badan pulak. Di waktu spring best jugak pakai dress munge2....
Tapi, tak sesuai pulak with me...pinggang entah ke mana. Then, I tried this blouse/shirt....
Suka jugak..but I don't like that wings. Masuk oulet lain, try pulak baju ini
dan ini.
I like both, tapi perlu ke tak perlu. Then, pi tengok bakeware, takde pulak sale. Pi pulak Priceline. Tapi, lipstick cover girl yang paling murah and paling aku suka, takde stock pulak...chet!!!!, masa cuba tester tak perasan. Then, pi woolies beli sayur etc. Alamak jumpa lagi adik ni. Kesian dia dok cari fresh fruits like berries nak bawa balik malaysia, tapi hanya ada satu pack blueberries je. Tau tak pasal adik nilah, maka aku kena pergi lagi city hari jumaat. Actually, on thursday, after meeting with my spv I went to city with big plan...I met this adik on the bus to city. Then, he wanna treat me for iftar in Oporto. I kindly refused his offer since I got my own plan. But he kinda insisted, so, I just followed him. Tetiba, dia ajak pulak pi masuk chinese shop to buy australian souvenir. Hish, budak ni, haritu dah shopping kat Paddys market, ni nak beli lagi...beg dah overweight lah dik oii...So, temankan je lah adik ni and tolong carikan souvenir dan tolong tukar kotak dan kain alas untuk souvenir tu. Banyak songeh lah budak ni. Lepas tu, sementara nak tunggu waktu berbuka, takkan nak lepak lama2 dalam oporto kan, so kami pi David jones. Hish hancus my plan to go to Chica booty/Tempt/Myer to window shopping and try certain outfit. It's ok...best jugak tengok dinner set in David Jones. So drooling tengok Royal Doulton hehehe...Wah! here ada bakeware/tray yang menarik instead of usual muffin tray. Takpe, next time lah. Then, kami pi Cotton On...sukanyer tengok baju/skirt munge2 hehehe. Tengok je la, tak sampai hati nak beli. Tapi terkeju tengok adik tu, tengok satu jacket, belek sekejap..terus beli....agaknya lelaki memang macam itu. Di oporto, adik tu belikan ayam and burger lagi tuh...best2 ada nenas tau. Alhamdulillah dengan rezeki ini. So, disebabkan hajat tak kesampaian untuk jamu and cuci mata dengan baju2, maka aku terpaksa datang lagi hari jumaat hehehe. Dan hasilnya adalah ini...reasonable price where I can wear it not only in Oz but in Malaysia too :))............dasar boros tapi kedekut jugak kan.....

and I packed Indian food for dinner....Beef vindaloo, butter chicken and veges korma.

Guess what, kebetulan adik tu pun sedang makan di cafe tu. He asked me to join him even though that I already packed my food. So, I just chit chatted with him while arranging my groceries. You know what, he bought me drinks even though I told him that I already had potato fries and coke. Since I just bought lindt choc from Priceline, so, I gave it to him...sort of buah tangan nak balik kampunglah. Rasanya tengok kat JJ last year, it cost about RM21-23/bar and here we can get it for aud3~Rm9/bar.
Haiyoo..ini adik, pergi belikan aku samosa pulak. Memang seronok orang belanja, tapi kesian kat dia...hari2 belanja kakak dia ni. Geram pun ada, orang dah bagi dia coklat, nak balas pulak. Apa2 pun..patut bersyukurkan dengan rezeki ni...Alhamdulillah...Semoga adik tu dimurahkan rezeki.