:+: Pig Pat :+:

Happy Belated Birthday
Yomi!!

[08 July 2007]

Sorry this came late. You know la.. My Okui.Net is on strike. Thanks to Vamp.Net, I'm able to load this once the owner onlines. kikiki...

I know you don't take chocolates, however, just enjoy the pigginess.

The New Annadition of Year 2007 Pig Pat
(Year 2007 is the Year of Pig)

God gave a gift to the world when you were born—
a person who loves, who cares,
who sees a person’s need and fills it,
who encourages and lifts people up,
who spends energy on others
rather than herself,
someone who touches each life she enters,
and makes a difference in the world,
because ripples of kindness flow outward
as each person you have touched, touches others.
Your birthday deserves to be a national holiday,
because you are a special treasure
for all that you’ve done.
May the love you have shown to others
return to you, multiplied.
I wish you the happiest of birthdays,
and many, many more,
so that others have time to appreciate you
as much as I do.
By Joanna Fuchs

I'm glad I have known you as my friend,
I appreciate our friendship till this very day,
I'm grateful to have you as my friend till this day..
Wish to have you as my beloved friend again in the next world.
(Maklumla, someone said I'm in my Mid-Life already)

*Huggles*

:+: Konnyaku :+:

All you need is a can of fine peaches, a packet of Konnyaku powder, half small bowl of sugar and 1000ml of water.

This packet of Konnyaku powder is bought from Wee Hock Bakery Ingredients Shop. It costs only RM1.80. Compare with the one sold in the supermarket (RM5.85) it uses 1250ml water. It is more expensive and makes almost the same amount as this brandless powder.

Imagine walking at Travillion Mall at night with a packet of this. Then police come Sapu. This small packet white powder is enough to get you hang for carrying dadah more than X miligram. Imagine nia la.

First of all, open up the can of peaches and drain them. The syrup is about 250ml. So, you just add in the additional 750ml to make up to 1000ml.

Stir in the konnyaku powder into the 1000ml of water + syrup. Make sure the powder is not seen anymore before putting the pot on fire.

Put on small fire to boil.

Add in the sugar when it is boiling a little and stir well.

When it is boiling so Chiong like this, you can off the fire. Place the peaches into the tray and scoop in the 'cooked' konnyaku.

Set on rack for the konnyaku jelly to cool faster then put them in the fridge. One small packet of this konnyaku powder can make 4 trays.

Enjoy~

Serve the Konnyaku Jellies cold.

:+: Kin Jio Hiok :+:

LL Banana Leaf is a South Indian Cafe. The taukeh-nio's name is Lucy. How I know? I know lar.. Yerdeh~

History:
Long long time ago, in the Satok Land, there was a man who worked there. That man is my Daddy. When he first graduaded from Uni (far far away from Kuching), he started working for some firm in the same block as LL Banana Leaf. So, he came here for lunch very often. Therefore, know the taukeh-nio name lor. He Likes their Mutton Curry till this present day. And his love for mutton curry was carried down to his daughter, me lor..

Actually hor, come to LL Banana Leaf sure eat banana leaf lo...
Kekeke.. I'm SERIOUS *giving a very serious face*. Here in Lucy's, they are famous for their Vegetarian Banana Leaf. First they set a piece of clean banana leaf in front of you. Then, you take a piece of tissue and gulung with the banana leaf and start eating that way.
grok grok..

.___________.

The tissue paper is to dry your leaf lar.

When your leaf is dried, they will start serving vegetables. Lots and lots of vegetables. You can mintak manyak manyak if you like to. After all, this Vegetarian Banana Leaf is like buffet just not self service. You can ask for refill as long as you can finish them.

There are two types of rice for you to choose, Nasi Briyani and Plain White Rice. I chose Plain White Rice because the Nasi Briyani alone got bermacam-macam goodies in it and there's so many veges and curry to go with. How to eat? Just keep it simple, plain white rice will do just fine. (:

A: Spinach
B: Long beans
C: Money Chai and Pumpkin
D: Spicy Ikan Bilis
E: My favourite Yummilicious No. 1 Spicy Pineapple
F: Cucumber and Tomato pickles
G: Papadham Best cracker in the world
H: My favourite Mutton Curry
This mutton curry does not come with the 'buffet'. Hence, it's called Vegetarian Banana Leaf. The mutton curry is additional dish. This is a must EAT dish when you come to Lucy's.


This is Asam Curry Fish. It's spicy and sour. I'm not sure what's the fish they use, but one thing for sure, there's something fishy in there. kekeke...

This is their special drink. I never knew they serve such NICE YUMMYLICIOUS drink till Gladys ordered it. It taste exactly like the yoghurt drink you buy from Supermarket, just that it tastes fresher and nicer here. I'll order one of this when I go to Lucy's next time.
I like these two pictures and I can't decide which to upload so I uploaded both. Kekeke...

This one everyone knows what it is and how it tastes like. But in Lucy's, their Teh Tarik is NOT SO EXAGERATING DIEBETES SWEET unlike those mamak who like to taruh (put) LITRES of condensed milk into the tea before they start pulling (tarik the teh). You can taste that they not only use condense milk but also creamer milk (eg: Ideal Milk) giving it creamy milky taste without being TOO sweet. I like.



I didn't get any refill though. My cousin and aunty did. (Tua Chiakness) XDD
When you're done eating, just fold the banana leaf in halves, but I terer go fold in threes. Kekeke..

:+: Pictureless :+:

Can you all imagine blogging about food without pictures??

It's going to be so hard to describe how the food/drinks look like. A simple picture of it can tell a thousand words. Fuhh..

For example:

It is long and hard. It's best when it's fresh, young and hard. Each time it goes in and out, in and out, many many times in and out until it turn soft and out of juice. It will produce sweet and refreshing juice. It tastes the best when it's freshly made. If it's old and soft, forget about it. The juice would be very limited and there's no point milking juice out of it. Albeit, the juice ain't as sweet as the young hard ones.

This is one of my favourite drink.



Now now, in your opinion, what is the name of this drink?

There's no picture for it yet. Therefore, use your imagination and creativity.


** Special thanks to Gladys for reminding me about this special drink when we were out of water and hunger in thirst during our little hike at Mt. Singai. **

:+: Siburan Carnival 2007 :+:

Jang Jang Jang~~

I now Present you...

Siburan Carnival 2007
Organized by TheLife

The carnival starts tomorrow (29 June - 8 July 2007). There will be Food Fair, Trade Fair, Performance and Competitions held at the carnival. For more information please visit here *click*.

Stage Performers

Programmes
So many programmes in so many days..

Pergi la.. Jangan tak pergi..

See you there...

:+: Okui.Net :+:

First of all, many ThankS to Okui.Net (Streamyx). Eversince the Rainbow hugging the Sun incident, I can't seem to online as smoothly as before. I can't even upload new pictures for my previous post!! ARGHH!!! Is it caused by the weather? The cables got dried up?? Did the ants drink up the ports?

I've made several calls of complaints to their Okui.Services @ 1300-88-9515. Finally, (last night) they decided to send over the technician to check on the problem TODAY.

UNFORTUNATELY, they never came and the En. Teknikal called and said that there are some problems with the area ports (Telekom Centre Simpang Tiga) and the cables need to be fixed. However, they can't do it ASAP as they need to contact the main office first and bla bla bla approval from somewhere bla bla bla pass to somewhere bla bla bla. Even En. Teknikal can't say when I can online as smoothly as before.

MATI LA!!

How can they do this to ME?! Now, I can't even stay online for more than 10 seconds, after 10secs DC, 10 secs later connected then DC again then ON again. My Okui.Net is so **cked up now. It's like our car's signal light. ON OFF ON OFF tip tup tip tup

No Internet
No Gunbound
No Blogging
No Chit Chatting

Can you imagine my life right now??

ARGH!!!!

*long piak*

A simple post as this post took me hours just to publish it.

:+: I Found a Pot of Gold :+:

The idea that a pot of gold can be found at the rainbow's end originated somewhere in old Europe. In Silesia, an obscure area of eastern Europe, it was said that the angels put the gold there and that only a nude man could obtain the prize. Hmm.....

-http://www.deltatech.com/-

That's because you're not naked! XDD

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*sms ringtone*

Kelvin: Look at the sun now

hmmm.. Is this a prank? *~ Look at the sky... Sakai! ~*

annna: Y?

Kelvin: Smth happen to the sun, surrounded by rainbow. end of the world coming soon. hehe

.______________.
jia latt

Went out of the office and looked up in the sky, trying not to look like a sakai, while being watched by the nextdoor's kopitiam people eating their lunch.

AND I SAW THIS!!!

AND I WAS ALMOST 'BLINDED' BY IT!!!

:+: Picture edited by Kelvin :+:

Walked back to office while seeing white spots flashing *kacheek kacheek*

annna: Wa... So pretty. Wad happen? How can lidat?

Kelvin: dun knw. end of world. keke

*SMACK SMACK SMACK*

annna forwards the news to everyone in her phone list, ALMOST EVERYONE lar...

"Look at the sun! Rainbow around it!"

And the replies I get are all very creative...

Caleb: De sun's gonna fall.. Watch out

Uncle W: It's the end of the world.. aliens.. nuclear bomb exploding.. what do you think?

Mom: Why you do that. It nearly blind me.

.________________________.

Angel: Wah so nice! (I bet you'll be blogging bout it later)
Angel: So pretty! My daddy stop road side to let me snap snap haha (Of course must take picture of it! It's like once in a life time you see this!!)

Frankie: Wow! Thks! Take pic! (He so fast already blog about it. Click)

Esther: Eee really got la.. Cool.. Amazing. How could that happen?

The mystery of the Rainbow hugging the Sun with the mini moon is then answered.
Uncle W: My niece.. this is due to the cloud :)
Uncle W called: It's gonna snow! *laugh laugh*
Uncle W: Look into this site. It'll tell you why.

No. the Sun is not falling.
No. the aliens are not coming.
No. Nuclear Bomb did not explode.
No. Looking at the sun won't blind you.
No. It's not going to snow. It's Malaysia lar..

**more pictures coming..

:+: Be a Star Celebrity! :+:

StarCeleb is a new reality show hosted by celebrity model & actor Daniel Tan and celebrity model May Wan. It will be on air on NTV7. This show is in search for someone who is interested to become star celebrity, host, brand ambassador and model.

What are the prizes??
There will be 2 winners selected and each will receives RM 25,000 cash prizes and will be offered one year hosting and modeling contracts.

Who can participate?
Single Males or Females aged 18 to 30 who are able to speak in English or Mandarin can apply for this show.

When??
The the auditions are open for 4 days from 23-24 June 2007 and 30 June - 1 July 2007.

Where?
The audition will be at Level 2 (Catleya Room) Parkroyal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

Do you have the talent, charm, personality, style and X-factor to be the next star celebrity?

Everyone is unique and beautiful in their own way. Why not take this chance and find out how far you can go. Hey.. There's RM25,000 waiting for a winner and that winner could be YOU!

*pointing at you, you & you*

How to participate?
For priority queue, you can register online or fill in the form at the audition. You can get the form at StarCeleb. Click on the "Online Registration Form" at the ride side of the webbie. Fill in the form and click "Enter". Congratulations. You've entered the StarCeleb Audition.

:+: Please read the Rules & Regulations and also the Terms & Conditions :+:

REMINDER!!
Please bring along your NEW I/C and one RECENT colour photo to the audition. (Bring more than one ler.. Incase you lose one you still have extra or incase you want to kasih orang with your autograph on it. KEkeKEkeKE..)

StarCeleb activities includes:

• Audition Process
• Roadshow
• Blogs (this is an advantage to all bloggers out there)
  
• Magazine Shoot
  
• Grand Finale
• and many more exciting surprises..

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Here’s a New Advertlets Blogvertorial opportunity for 50 Bloggers!

Now now.. As Advertlets members, write a review about this new exciting full of surprises reality show and stand a chance to earn RM25 (30 hits a day) or RM40 (100 hits a day).

What are you waiting for? Get Kaching Kaching now..

Write a review now and Please Please Please don't forget to send an email to info@advertlets.com with the subject "StarCeleb Blogvertorial!" after posting your review and wait for the approval to participate in the blogvertorial program.

Hurry write a review now!

This opportunity ends on 1st July 2007.

:+: Happy Rice Dumpling Day :+:

Here's a happy looking Rice Dumpling.

Wishing all Happy Zhang (Rice Dumpling) Day~

Duan Wu Jie aka Dumpling Festival or Dragon Boat Festival is a day to remember the poet Qu Yuan, who was a loyal official in the court of the Chu Kingdom in old China. Other officials told lies about Qu Yuan to the emperor. The weak emperor believed the evil officials and asked Qu Yuan to leave the court. Over 20 years, the Chu kingdom got weaker. Qu Yuan was very sad that his beloved country was controlled by another country, the Qin Kingdom. He then decided to end his life by jumping into the river aka suicide. Fisherman who heard that Qu Yuan drowned himself in the river set sail on boats to look for his body. When they could not find it, they threw rice wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river so that the fish in the river would eat the rice instead of his body. The traditions of dragon boat races and eating rice dumplings on Duan Wu Jie thus begin.

- www.nhb.gov.sg -

Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Lunar calendar (sometime in June as today), Rice Dumpling is specially eaten on this particular day. On this day too, the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated. I remember last time, we used to have those boat race at Waterfront, Kuching. But then, I don't hear about it anymore. *sigh*

:+: Nyonya Rice Dumpling @ RM2 :+:

This Bak Zhang is bought from a lady who sells at Kopitiams. We bought from her at Sin Poh Poh Kopitiam. Every Sunday, around 9am she'll be walking around the kopitiam with a basket of Panggang (Glutinous rice with sambal filling @ RM1) and a basket of Bak Zhang. We would buy from her everytime we have our breakfast there. Her Nyonya Bak Zhang is very delicious. Not too kiam siap on the filling too. A lot of meat in there. XD

Here's a picture of her. XD

:+: Apple Crumbles :+:

Presenting...

Apple Crumbles

Gladys guess it right from the previous post. *sigh* So fast de.

This is something you can make for Father's Day in a tea party or as a dessert.

Here's what you need:

• 5 Apples
• 250g Sugar (You can cut down to 180g, so it won't be too sweet)
• 500g Flour
• 250g Butter (Salted)
• Cinamon powder
• Lemon Juice

Method:

1. Peel the apples and cute them into wedges. Then, slice them (about 0.3cm thick)
2. Arrange them in trays or 'teng kat' (stainless steal containers).
3. Squeeze some lemon juice and sprinkle 1 tablespoon of sugar.
4. Shift the cinamon powder on the apples. (By using a shift, cinamon powder can 'spread' widely easily)

As for the crumbs,

1. The ratio for the butter and flour is 1:2. If you use1 bar of butter (250g), your flour would be 500g.
2. The ratio for the sugar to butter is 1:1. Therefore, your sugar is at the same weight as your butter (250g).
3. Shift the flour and mix with the sugar.
4. Add in the butter and mix gradually, then use your hands to mix them.
5. Don't knead into dough!
6. To get crumbles, rub the mixture in your hands as if rubbing your hands.
   

This makes 2 Mickey Mouse.
Bake at 180 degrees and at 30 minutes or until golden brown.