Good morning 13th May 2009. Today is my eldest son's birthday. I woke very early this morning. Last night I have set my phone alarm to 4:30 am. Today I want to prepare some nasi dagang to bring to the office. It's has been so long, after I bought the brown rice, I planned to prepare the nasi dagang, but always got something else that need my attention more. So today, I decided to cook some home made nasi dagang for family and friends in the office. Nasi dagang with acar timun, replenished with Gulai ayam and gulai udang. On top of the gulai udang I also add hard boiled eggs. I packed 2 bungkus of nasi dagang, one for my daughter (bekal so that she doesn't need to queue at the school canteen this morning) and the other for my husband. And of course I bring some for my officemates.
So everybody can have a taste to the home made nasi dagang. Although the taste couldn't challenge the professional makcik kat Pasar Siti Khadijah, it still in the edible mode.
The ingredients for the nasi dagang that I prepared are as below:
Nasi Dagang Kelantan
Ingredients for the rice.
1. Of course the brown rice (without this, I couldn't call it nasi dagang)
2. Glutonous Rice
3. White Rice
4. fenugreek or Halba
5. Ginger
6. Onion
7. Garlic
8. Fresh Coconut Milk
9. Salt and sugar
Steps
1. Mix the 3 different rices
2. Put in a big container such as basin or plastic tupperware
3. Pour some water into the container till reach above the mixed rice.
4. Add some fenugreek or halba
5. Let them soak for a night
6. Go to sleep because tomorrow need to wake up early
7. After an overnight, steam the rice. (Usually we use the periuk kukus made in Thailand. Don't worry about that coz the one that Made in Taiwan also will do)
8. After the rice half cook ( around 30 to 40 minutes ) , pour the mixed riced in a big container and pour the fresh coconut milk (if couldn't get the fresh one, you can also use the one in a box such as cap Hanna, ke Adabi ke opps .. no branding here)
9. Stir until evything(ops Ms Swan influences here) everything mix well.
10. Add some salt and sugar
11. Steam again.
12. After half an hour take the mixed rice and pour again in a basin, but this time just add the slices onion, ginger and garlic.
13. Put evything in a tupperware. Ready to be eaten
Ingredients for the Gulai Ayam/ Gulai Udang
1. Chicken (potong 12 atau potong 16 - depend on how big you want the chicken to be). Note : this one is a must have. Or you can replace the chicken with shrimp or ikan tongkol (in other word ikan aya or tuna fish, lovely).
2. Fresh milk
3. Onion to be blend
4. Garlic to be blend
5. Ginger to be blend
6. Tumeric to be blend
7. Rempah gulai "Cap orang memasak". This rempah is recommended by my late-mother in law (she is the best Cook in Kampung Mahligai, Melor). You can find this rempah only in Kelantan.
8. Kerisik
9. Salt and Sugar
10. Gula melaka or "Nissan" can only be bought in Kelantan or Terengganu. If you couldn't have this one, you can replace with the one made in Siam or just replace it with Gula Merah.
11. Budu or Anchovy Sauce. This one can be ignore if you don't like the smell, but if you add this one .. It bring the difference in the taste.
12. Asam Jawa or Asam Keping will do
13. Fresh chillies
Steps
1. Tumis All the blended ingredients
2. Pour the rempah and stir until mix and change the color to redish/orange.
3. Put the chicken
4. Add the asam jawa/asam keping, salt and sugar
5. Wait till evything mixed
6. Pour the fresh coconut milk (For those who want to replace with a more healthy meal, just replace this one with fresh milk)
7. Stir well
8. Add kerisik and anchovy sauce if necessary
9. Put some fresh chillies.
10. Ready to serve.
So, everybody can enjoy the delicious nasi dagang. So that's enough for the nasi dagang, the purpose i'm posting this is to wish my eldest son a happy 17th birthday. Wow, you are getting 17 this year. By all mean, I just want you to know that I still love you like 17 years back. Never getting lesser than that. Hope you study hard for your semester exam, and remember that the SPM is also around the corner. So sharpen your knowledge. Work hard towards it...And I always pray for your best.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Happy Mother's Day
Hi, meet again. Hope it's still not too late to wish Happy Mother's Day to all the lovely mother and mother to be in the world. Although deep in my thought, we should celebrate mother's day everyday, not just once annually. But if so, can't imagine how full and occupied your locker will be..Full with roses and gift boxes.
Last Sunday on 10 May 2009, on the Mother's Day itself and same with the previous morning i woke up as usual and knocked my daughter's door for a wake up call and shake my other son to get ready for school.
Later, that very morning and on my laptop I found a small box and 2 roses nicely put. I know this must be from my daughter, no wonder last night she was busy doing something in her room with the door locked. I thought she just want to avoid her brother, because usually the day before school, she must be very busy with unfinished homework.
I opened the small box. Though it was very small,but I appreciated the present. I took the box and the flowers and arranged nicely on my bed. The time didn't allow me to open it, coz I need to rush to work.
In the afternoon, when I was in the office, my daughter called me up. "Umi, dah buka ke hadiah angah bagi" she asked. So I answered that I didn't manage to open the box cause I need to rush to the office. She sound devastated. I know, she really wants me to open that very minute when i saw the present. No wonder why she purposely put on my laptop. She knew that, before going to the office, I will pack and keep my notebook in my bag, so I will find the present that she gave and will open it immediately.
In the afternoon, I arrived home, locked the car, ran into my house, hang the car key and rushed upstair. Aha, I opened the gift my daughter presented me this morning and I found a very small, tiny time sand. You know the small bottle, with three compartments, filled with sands. The sand will gradually fell, when you turn it upside down. Very nice.. I remember last week she said to me, this month I will get 3 presents. The three are for Mother's Day, Teacher's Day and My birthday. I replied to her that I don't want any present this year (last year she spent her pocket money for these three events, so I asked her not to buy any present next time). I added to her that she doesn't need to buy me anything because she was my birthday present since last 12 years ( she was born on the same date with me except yearla). What I like most with what she gave is the lyric for a song that she wrote dedicated to me, the one that she wrote on the box wrapper.
May is so special to me. My eldest son birthday is on 13th May, my youngest son is on 2nd May and my daughter and me on the 20th May. And it happened that every year we are celebrating Mother and Teacher's day in May too.
Last Sunday on 10 May 2009, on the Mother's Day itself and same with the previous morning i woke up as usual and knocked my daughter's door for a wake up call and shake my other son to get ready for school.
Later, that very morning and on my laptop I found a small box and 2 roses nicely put. I know this must be from my daughter, no wonder last night she was busy doing something in her room with the door locked. I thought she just want to avoid her brother, because usually the day before school, she must be very busy with unfinished homework.
I opened the small box. Though it was very small,but I appreciated the present. I took the box and the flowers and arranged nicely on my bed. The time didn't allow me to open it, coz I need to rush to work.
In the afternoon, when I was in the office, my daughter called me up. "Umi, dah buka ke hadiah angah bagi" she asked. So I answered that I didn't manage to open the box cause I need to rush to the office. She sound devastated. I know, she really wants me to open that very minute when i saw the present. No wonder why she purposely put on my laptop. She knew that, before going to the office, I will pack and keep my notebook in my bag, so I will find the present that she gave and will open it immediately.
In the afternoon, I arrived home, locked the car, ran into my house, hang the car key and rushed upstair. Aha, I opened the gift my daughter presented me this morning and I found a very small, tiny time sand. You know the small bottle, with three compartments, filled with sands. The sand will gradually fell, when you turn it upside down. Very nice.. I remember last week she said to me, this month I will get 3 presents. The three are for Mother's Day, Teacher's Day and My birthday. I replied to her that I don't want any present this year (last year she spent her pocket money for these three events, so I asked her not to buy any present next time). I added to her that she doesn't need to buy me anything because she was my birthday present since last 12 years ( she was born on the same date with me except yearla). What I like most with what she gave is the lyric for a song that she wrote dedicated to me, the one that she wrote on the box wrapper.
May is so special to me. My eldest son birthday is on 13th May, my youngest son is on 2nd May and my daughter and me on the 20th May. And it happened that every year we are celebrating Mother and Teacher's day in May too.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Attending a conference in France
Wow, can't believe it. I was given the opportunity to visit Paris the romantic city. The bright star doesn't showed up everynight I guessed, so why not enjoying it.
Garden and office in a movie
Garden and office in a movie is something i produced to express my feeling. The garden basically surrounds my little hut while the office landscape also inspired me most of the time. For all the viewers out there, do enjoy the movie clip. Happy watching. Till then..
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Journey from Kelantan to Kedah
Everytime when my family travel from Kelantan to Kedah, my youngest son and daughter always ask their father to stop at any recreation area especially the one with river and waterfall. So last week, their wishes came true when on the way back from 5 days holiday at my hometown in Kelantan, my husband purposely give a chance to them.
When we arrived, the place was so quiet and not crowded with people as usual. We have stopped by several time before but it was always full with people. Adib and Fatihah quickly changed to swimming clothes and jumped to the cold and clean river.
My eldest son, he used to be like his youngest brother when he was small, but now his aged is reaching 17 this May, so he just joined me and husband admiring the view. The splash of the cold water was so tempting, i'm shouting to swim too. So enjoy these photo I managed to capture.
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Island Hopping in Langkawi
Hi, greeting to everybody. Especially to those who just came back from school breaks.Last 2 weeks I attended a 3 days and 2 nights course at Langkawi.It has been so long since my last visit several months ago.
The course was arranged by Unit Peperiksaan to all the Penyelaras/Penolong Penyelaras KKBI for each department. And as usual the 8 to 5 session are packed with valuable informations. We were introduced to Quest2 application, resfreshement of the KKBI etc.
And besides the absolutely fully informative courses, we also appreciate the chances given to hop the island. We cruise along the langkawi sea to the Gua Kelawar, Gua Buaya, floating seafood restaurant(we dropped by and able to see live and realtime all the nemo, belangkas, etc) and luckily we could also fed the eagles with breakfast leftover which is of course the bread slices that has turned into bread chunks. From far we can see the Kilim Geoforest Park, Pulau Kasut(the island sure very much like a shoe-but without the shoe tie), Pulau King Kong (you should believe this - unluckily the boat cruised so fast i can't take a snap of it).
I managed to take some interesting photos to share.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Rebate Online
On 14 February 2009, i logged on to pos online for car cash rebate. My kancil road tax and insurance has been renewed early February. So i figured by 14 February i was eligible for the rebate. Previously, my husband suggested me to go to the post office and claim the rebate(I should have followed his advice). I replied to him mentioning that i don't like to queue at the post office (although we are not queueing anymore cause we can take the number then find any seat in the post office before they called our number) and beside I should use the technology [this is my area and i earn my living with it], so that i don't have to be physically in the post office. I registered, filled in all the necessary information and successfully submitted my claim.
The system displayed that i will get my rebate after 3-4 working days. On 20th Feb, i logged on to the system to check for the claim. I acknowledged that my claim is still in process. The next day i checked again...still ini process. So i called the 1300300300 number asking for my rebate status. Luckily i don't have to wait long, a soft spoken guy from the service center answered and get my particulars. He said he will report my query and explained that it might be due to the system that caused the delay for my cash rebate. though in my head i thought that system should make their services much faster and easy. On the other hand the system doesn't function as it supposed to work.
Today, i checked the system again, and it's end up the same..
The system displayed that i will get my rebate after 3-4 working days. On 20th Feb, i logged on to the system to check for the claim. I acknowledged that my claim is still in process. The next day i checked again...still ini process. So i called the 1300300300 number asking for my rebate status. Luckily i don't have to wait long, a soft spoken guy from the service center answered and get my particulars. He said he will report my query and explained that it might be due to the system that caused the delay for my cash rebate. though in my head i thought that system should make their services much faster and easy. On the other hand the system doesn't function as it supposed to work.
Today, i checked the system again, and it's end up the same..
Another Birthday
This morning, i was woken up by my phone alarm with a note "Birthday Cik Ngah". Ha ha, that very minute, i typed birthday wishes embeded with happy smiley animation and sent to my beloved sister. Wish her the most wonderful birthday ever. 23th Feb, I never missed wishing her happy birthday, though we are physically far located, she in east coast while me up here in nothern area...you are very near to me in my heart.
Later not very second, my phone beeping and i got a thank you message from her with additional "Wait for my free call" message. I wonder if i could switch to the same phone package as hers, which i guessed she is using prepaid hotlink compared to me using a postpaid celcom which i think the bill is so ridiculous and not worth paying ( the plan that i took is 250 bundle minute call duration and 20sms.- RM50 per month) and what i did paid most of the months is hunded over... When celcom said RM50 minute, of course it doesn't included the hidden item such as the itemised bill(rm3.00), telemanager enhanced(rm5.00) Call me tones(rm3.00 - of course this one i don't blame celcom), 5% monthly charges and chargeable usages, plus effective november last year all calls made to short codes such as 100 and 103 charged RM1.00 and RM2.00 respectively.
Thinking of switching to another provider but i don't know why, it always keep holding me on...
Might be due to the reasons
a. Most of my friends have this numbers
b. All my student also has this number
c. Don't have time to call the provider
d. Haven't decide which provider to choose
e. I love my number
f. My kids have already memorize this number.
Well someday, I will find the time....
Later not very second, my phone beeping and i got a thank you message from her with additional "Wait for my free call" message. I wonder if i could switch to the same phone package as hers, which i guessed she is using prepaid hotlink compared to me using a postpaid celcom which i think the bill is so ridiculous and not worth paying ( the plan that i took is 250 bundle minute call duration and 20sms.- RM50 per month) and what i did paid most of the months is hunded over... When celcom said RM50 minute, of course it doesn't included the hidden item such as the itemised bill(rm3.00), telemanager enhanced(rm5.00) Call me tones(rm3.00 - of course this one i don't blame celcom), 5% monthly charges and chargeable usages, plus effective november last year all calls made to short codes such as 100 and 103 charged RM1.00 and RM2.00 respectively.
Thinking of switching to another provider but i don't know why, it always keep holding me on...
Might be due to the reasons
a. Most of my friends have this numbers
b. All my student also has this number
c. Don't have time to call the provider
d. Haven't decide which provider to choose
e. I love my number
f. My kids have already memorize this number.
Well someday, I will find the time....
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Faridah's Birthday
Just finished my breakfast at the umi's cafetaria this morning. So i followed the advise "Eat your breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar", I took a half plate of plain rice (of course the plate is still full, except the rice amount is reduced), compliment with cencaru sumbat, some anchovy, slices of cucumber and a must have sambal belacan prepared by mak teh.. And not forgetting the teh-o-ice....(i change my beverage menu today, and everyday..so everytime when came to the cafetaria, i couldn't say "air macam biasa" coz nothing "macam biasa" to expect.
I met my mentee's. They were about to started their breakfast. Ina, one of my mentee signaling her eyes toward Faridah (another mentee) mentioning "Puan, kelmarin birthday Faridah"....Opps I forgot her birthday and some other mentee too i guess.... Last year i bought in advance 20 mini tweeties, koala, bear, panda at the Bukit Bunga. Keep save in my locker at the office, and when the birthday come, i got something to give.. Regret, this year i didn't prepare that... so Here i wish to wish Faridah "Happy Sweet 20th Birthday Yesterday. Sorry I didn't have anything to give as a birthday present, but later when i have time i will find something for you"... Though i thought i a card will do just fine...
I met my mentee's. They were about to started their breakfast. Ina, one of my mentee signaling her eyes toward Faridah (another mentee) mentioning "Puan, kelmarin birthday Faridah"....Opps I forgot her birthday and some other mentee too i guess.... Last year i bought in advance 20 mini tweeties, koala, bear, panda at the Bukit Bunga. Keep save in my locker at the office, and when the birthday come, i got something to give.. Regret, this year i didn't prepare that... so Here i wish to wish Faridah "Happy Sweet 20th Birthday Yesterday. Sorry I didn't have anything to give as a birthday present, but later when i have time i will find something for you"... Though i thought i a card will do just fine...
About Faridah : Celebrating 2oth birthday on 17 Feb 2009...A very humble, nice and sweet protege, soft spoken and easy to get along with. Hardworking and patient..
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