Tonight's EPL Score (Game 6)

....ada lagi tomorrow..BYah!!

Raya 2010

Been wanting to post this but baru now ada masa... My Raya for this year, can say a lil' disorganized on my part. I didn't plan to visit any friends on the 1st day because I have tonnes of work to do even though I was on Raya break. I planned to go visiting on the 2nd day because most of my friends only open house on 2nd day and I don't feel like driving around Kuching for both days.

However, on the first day I ended up home alone. That's sangat different from last year's Raya 'coz usually I'm the one out visiting. I was so damn bored that I decided to go visiting...but to whoz house???? I ingat want to visit some of my UNIMAS mates together with Ik but he didn't reply my sms. Just when I was about to go for my afternoon nap, Ik replied. He's having open house at his aunt's place. So I went there with another 4 mates..and we (together with Ik) went on to visit another 4 houses. By the time I pulang rumah, it was 11pm (we started late, at 4pm). So that was the first day.

Second day Raya was the real deal...although I have to admit I was uncertain about the whole thing. You see, the 2nd day plan was done by Swinburne mates..my juniors la... so I was not really sure if they really welcome my participation in their convoy. Only on the 2nd day itself (morning) I manage to confirm my participation, thanks to Donald.

1st house, as usual...rumah Speul in BDC.... convoy owez starts from BDC. Next up rumah gerek Alda...big house really..cuma too big and too many people, rasa macam makan di kedai jak. After that, we went to Nutt's house and Aspa (rumah sebelah Nutt). By then I was full to the brim.... Wanted to go home but I don't really know the way out of the area...So I had to join them until I reach familiar scene.

Next up...rumah ..erm..rumah sapa owh? Don't really know her but she's the daughter of YB Senator Idris Buang (masuk paper aku)...and after that rumah beeb beeb... By then..it was 6pm and I was more than stuffed.. Lepas ya barulah pulang...

*This post was supposed to be longer and with pictures but I am currently very busy, not much time and yala tek..malas mok type.... Byah...

Focus..focus....

I've been trying to work on my maths tutorials since last night but I can't really focus. The best I did was to open the first tutorial and do the first question... and that was it. Maybe I was a little too tired so okay la...

But today? Apa my excuse? Too hot? Suddenly too humid coz the rain came down for a while and now the heat is all over the place??? Aduh aduh aduh....Damn....Byah!!

My Tadika Life

My first formal education was in Tadika Kenyalang (which year owh???), it’s located opposite a row of 4D outlets. At that time, can say 90% tadika in Kuching (Sarawak also) ajar ppl using Chinese medium. So back then, I was really lost among others la..semua budak budak cina… luckily my neighbor also attend the same tadika….I don’t know his name but everybody call him Boy. I think he’s in Singapore now jadi technician or something like that.


Anyway, when I first attended school…. I was not so over-awed with the situation. I didn’t cry and was not that bothered about whether my mum was there or not. But I was very very quiet and I could hardly make any friend (except for my neighbor, but he spent most of his time crying coz hez a cry baby). Like I’ve said, they’re Chinese and I’m Iban and we still basically speak in our own bahasa (I cakap Iban sampai Primary 1 woooo….).

I can’t really recall a lot but I do know at that time I know no shit about Chinese and I spent most of my time observing others. The only time I was really into class was during maths class. So at that time, I only speak Iban and numerics…bahasa Malaysia pun sik tauk….

During my time as a tadika kid…. I only remember the day my nose bled and the day I threw up on my class teacher (HAHAHAHA)…. The nosebleed incident occurred when I had a fight with Boy (my only friend that time wooo…). That eventful day, I was sick and tired of him crying. It was like our 2nd month in tadika and he can’t adjust to his mom not being around. So I told him he’s a crybaby and if he can’t stop crying, he should go home and never come back to tadika. He ugut (gila nak… kecik kecik dah pande ugut, dah la bapak nya polis) mok tumbuk me… so I told him to punch my face..and he did (padan muka saya..) ….and my nose pun berdarah. I’m not sure if I cried but won’t be surprised if I did la… I went to the class teacher and cerita lah itu incident. Maka his parents kena call…he kena marah… he nangis again…. And for me… his parents gave me gifts so that I won’t get angry and my teacher pun give free spiderman tumbler so that I stop crying (so I did cry eh..).

The muntah incident occurred when I was having a mild fever and I was on my way home. Back then, the tadika will provide van sekolah to send budak budak tadika home. Usually I’ll sit on a real sit, but on that day I was not fit enough to compete with others so I ended up sitting on a place I can hardly describe as a seat. Due to the spot, I was facing the back of the van and I was not used to it. That plus my mild fever, I ended up muntah on the teacher…HAHAHAHAHAHA….. I think she was the lesser favoured teacher in tadika..owez jerit jerit….. Padan muka….


Well..that’s about all regarding my tadika life… Next time la if ada masa, I post on my Primary school life… Byah!!!

Squash Competition in UNIMAS

UNIMAS Squash Club is organizing a competition this 29th September and 6th October, and for the first time this competition is open for all students. In the past, competitions has been an internal one for members of the club. Just for the record, I won 2nd place last semester WITH a sprained ankle since quarterfinals yuh!!


Anyway....it's good that this time they're making it open for all students and I do hope the response will be good.. crossing fingers eh... See YOU IN COURT!! Byah!!

New slepa...

Brand new slepa, bought them kat tempat Jewl kerja...well, bawah his office la...


Cun sik??? I know la they're sandals and not slippers... but to mua.. any footwear yang bukan kasut are slepa... peduli la if they're Crocs, Nike, Adidas, Asadi, Sandak... they're all slepa... Byah!!

Was a long Wednesday

It was the longest Wednesday I've ever been to, now I'm not going to complain about long lectures anymore. The story macam ini... A week before that, my lil sis used my car and basically tested the front bumpers with a RAV4... Of coz my ride menang la, both in terms of whoz tougher and whoz on the right side.


Unfortunately, the RAV4 guys are gangsters (according to story la) and in my car were my sister and her female frewns... So, bla bla bla..my sister yg perlu bayar... cis bedebah... Her mistake was... she went to the RAV4 guys punya bengkel, baru call me , asking on what to do... Since dah like that, mana can do anything rite?? Itu sebab, my parents had to fork out RM350 for the RAV4 repairs and another RM200 for my ride..


That's why I was at the workshop on Wednesday.... Just for some 'short' job on my bumper... I could have sent in my car and go off..pulang rumah ka..lepak with frens ka...but I waited there at the workshop because:



1) It's the same workshop yang link with the RAV4 guys



2) The place looks so shabby, it's more suited for drug activities rather than fixing cars..

3) I takut I sent Nissan Frontier in and get back Isuzu Invader '98..... Yala, mana tau they curi spare parts and put in some tin milo...


4) And I simply don't trust them there...



So I waited...and waited.... From 9am....to 11.30 am (break for lunch, I drove my car to MJC for lunch with Jewl)..and sambung again at 2pm... No wonder very to the slow... 1 guy basically repairs 4 cars...


Well, only ada boss and worker only ba...and the boss usually goes out to meet with suppliers and get suitable paint..


Finally, at 5pm, baru siap... The paint job finished at 4pm like that..but needed to wait an hour for the paint to dry... Aiseh..nasib the job was good...


Moral of the story... Jewl, mun first time jalan tempat ya..pake jak pakej... byah!!

10 AaaHhhhh

Other than sexual activities (like having sex, oral sex, kissing, caressing and sewaktu)..there are other things that will make you say 'AaaHhhh'..the sound after you feel kelegaan...

1) After a few hours on the road (like a bus trip from Serian - Sri Aman without any stop) and you've been holding your pee... when finally you stop and go for your wee wee.... 'AaaHhh'......

2) Some people might say "Oh damn shiet..." but I'm pretty sure ada 'AaaHhh' kat hujung hujung the cursing.... I'm talking about shittin' here foo..... hahaha..

3) Kehausan after running on the treadmill like those guys in 'The Biggest Loser'... once you get your first sip of isotonic drink..... that's what I'm talking about ya'll...

4) A cup of fresh arabica coffee after a few hours staring at the computer screen/doing real work...

5) After playing soccer, go to top floor Boulevard Kuching, pay RM2 and get yourself a massage on the OGAWA chair... (massage parlor even better...)

6) Take a sip of an aged red wine..slowly..and 'AaaHhh'....

7) Selepas berhempas pulas reaching your back, finally dapat garu the itchy spot..:P

8) A mug of Tiger beer right after work... how's that ya'll??

9) This is nearly sexual...... but it's not if you just stand and stare, at the sight of a very hot and sexy secretary bending over at the photostatting machine...

10) A long day at work, crappy seat, no increment, no beer, no sexy secretary, not much time to enjoy your daily routine in the toilet... too poor to eat great food and wine... the BEST sensation will have to be the moment you drop dead on your bed.... Goodnite folks... Byah!!!

Happy Malaysia Day

To me, today (16th Sept) is more significant compared to 31st August simply because it was on 16th September 1963 Sarawak and Sabah gained independence from British colony. It was on that day, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore together with Malaya officially formed Malaysia... Again I'd like to stress here, together FORMED and not JOINED.

A lot of people, especially those of Peninsular Malaysia have the mentality that Sarawak joined Malaysia and thus that makes them wonder why Sarawak have their on bill of rights. I guess regardless of what historians and politicians have to say, the bill of rights that we have is a clear indication or bukti that we're a forming member and that's one of the things we asked for.

Just last night saw it on the news, a lecturer from a local university suggested that all the protocol things and limitations implemented on peninsular people coming into Sarawak, to be REMOVED!!! It's the STUPIDEST thing I've ever heard!! As soon as the special rights that we (Sarawakian) have are removed, that'll be the day we loses our identity as a forming member.

Don't get me wrong, we do welcome those from other states to come in... We have lot's of peninsular people as ketua jabatan or pengarah, even in some state gov posts... Even in UNIMAS we have quite a number of lecturers from the peninsular... We do need their knowledge (yes, most of them are more advanced than us here)..Just that there are things that we should reserve just for us. Sarawak is still a young state and most of us haven't receive what is fully ours. If others (those from other states) are given equal rights (e.g ability to acquire land titles) as us, then most of us here might be deprived of what is rightfully ours.

We are still very much 'slow', not because we want to..not because we are taking our sweet time..it's because most of are have yet to be reached. Maybe once Sarawak has become of a stronger state, then you guys out there can come in.... NOT.... it's our identity...we wont just give it away.... hahahaha... It's not a small matter...in metamorphosis terms..it's like asking one to pinjam or share his wife/her husband...



Well... I don't want to take away the gloss of today's celebration just because of some stupid remarks... So guys... Happy Independence Day...Happy Malaysia Day... Salute!

Home made Caesar Salad

This one is basically cheat code punya...coz Caesar Salad will have Romaine lettuce, salad dressing, croutons, Parmesan cheese powder and some meat (usually chicken breast, lamb or prawn). But my chicken boobs were still frozen, I haven't abducted lambs in Desa Ilmu and I was not in the mood to play with prawns...so I decided to make this one fully vege. As for croutons, I just ran out of bread and for Parmesan..dush dush...only ada cheddar..... So in the end, it's just Romaine Lettuce and salad dressing.... :P


Salad dressing for Caesar Salad is made of:

1) Egg yolks + cider vinegar + olive oil + salt + you beat them until kembang = home made mayo...

2) Add the product above with canned oiled anchovies

3) 1 + 2 + with black pepper and Parmesan cheese powder + mustard + beat them all up....

and PRESTO!! You have your Caesar Salad dressing..oh wait, you'll need to store them in the fridge for 12 hours... DESPAIR!! DESPAIR!!

Fear not..that's where ready made mayo comes in handy..ahaks... I simply don't fancy canned oiled anchovies because... I can make my own version of oiled anchovies... Just heat up some oil in a pan..while waiting, pound some dried anchoves but not until they're all mashed up like powder...just lenyek lenyek penyet.. Once the oil is hot, off the flame and throw in your pounded anchovies.. let them cool down and ten tambah mayo, salt and black pepper..don't forget, a pinch of love... PRESTO again!! Ada salad dressing...


So now, just gaulkan them both in a bowl and they're ready to serve... Byah!!

p/s: For more info, just email me..

Sri Lankan Induced Beef Curry

Now..before we go on...I'm not doing something disrespectful here. I do know most of them there (India, Pakistan, Sri Langka, Bangladesh and etc..) do not eat beef and I'm not making beef curry with 'Sri Langkan' in front to anger anyone. I am controversial, but I don't want any war. That's why I put 'induced' in the middle.


Here in Malaysia, Malays usually cook their beef by making them into rendang or masak kicap... To me they're way too thick and too oily, at times they're more towards sweet rather than spicy... Thus when I saw a couple of Sri Langkan recipes via TLC, I decided to adjust a little and thus call it Sri Langkan INDUCED Beef Curry. It's not entirely Sri Langkan style, I just like the part they use pandan leafs and curry leafs... their style of cooking made me come up with this recipe..


Anyway, for this dish I'm using ingredients available at my house; ginger, garlic, kayu manis, curry leafs, pandan leaf, beef cutlets, curry powder, turmeric paste, and some coconut milk (instant pun ok). Again I'm not going to tell you step by step, you have to email me for that. Basically I marinated some beef for 30 minutes with salt, curry powder and some lime juice. while waiting, blend ginger and garlic...add some cooking oil and chicken stock in (this will be half of the amount of kuah you want).


It's time to start cooking... heat some oil in a pot.. put in kayu manis, then pandan leaf and curry leafs... Don't wait until they're all burnt...once the aroma starts to rise, put in your blended stuffs. Also add in curry powder and turmeric paste..Let them all play together for 10 minutes or so (until starts boiling)..tambah garam and a pinch of love...Bila dah boil, then baru masuk in beef and lower the flame.

Some people prefer frying meat first before adding water or so on..... But that's not the correct way. According to Chef Sanji of Baratie, if you cook it that way, the taste of your meat will larut with the kuah..and thus the taste of meat will get all over the kuah and not in the meat itself. If you put in meat when the kuah boils, only the taste on the outer layer of meat will larut, but the inner part will still retain the taste...and so far I have to agree.


When the kuah starts to boil again, the meat dah masak...This is when we add the coconut milk...let it simmer for a while and there you go...sedap wooo.. Byah!!

Switch

Something different happened today...not weird but different for a change. Usually by 6pm, I'll either be in my room surfing or outside helping out my dad with his garden. Instead, today at 6pm I was in the kitchen preparing to cook and my lil sister outside helping dad with his plants. That's great for a change, once in a while I do want to cook for the family..Oh ya, mom was/is at work until 10pm.



I don't really mind cooking for the family. I used to cook for everyone when I was in secondary school and while waiting to enter matriculation. All the cooking, I have to thank my aunt for teaching me on how to cook pork porridge when I was still in Primary 3. How I love cooking..and my parents are quite lucky to eat what I cook... I'm pretty sure they don't know that I used to be the kitchen guy in some restaurant/cafe a few years back. They always thought I'm a waiter in some hotel or cafe to kill my time. Not only I used to cook as a source of income, I even set up the menu at the place I used to work!! Those are things executive chefs do in Restaurant Makeover (Astro - TLC)!! Too bad that after I left, sales went down and a year later the owners sold the business...

Anyway, what's for dinner today?? Quite a lot but I'll tell you more on my Sri Lanka induced Beef Curry and my home made Caesar Salad in my next post... Byah!!!

Project: River-Taxi Project_Part 2

Right now I'm in the process of dissecting the outcome of our survey in Sri Aman... The most significant information is shown below. From the picture, we can see out of 198 respondents, 59 of them stay near river while the other 139 stays in villages further in land or in town area.


Interestingly, we observe that out of those staying near river, only 23 respondents uses water transportation while 36 others do not use them. Reasons stated are concerns on the safety aspect of water transportation, the low or non-existent of public water transportation and the availability of roads from their houses to town. From respondents not living near river, we’re surprised that there are water transportation users among them, 32 of them. Of course the other 107 of them do not use water transportation because they don’t need to.

I expected more users from those staying near river and no user at all for those staying further inland... oh well..Byah!!

Masuk paper lagi...

I think it's only my 4th time masuk paper.... this time for a Raya visit to rumah YB Senator Idris Buang..was with Swinburne convoy for 2nd day raya...byah!!! suk ba..sakai...

Basikal tua......

I gave my bicycle to my lil sister a few years ago because all of a sudden she want to cycle with her friends....Fast forward to today, my bicycle is in an awful state at the veranda. My sister was only into cycling for 2 months and that's it. How sad I was when I took a look at my bicycle yesterday. Cycling has been one of my many hobbies and I used to cycle from BDC-Tabuan Jaya-BDC and even to Green Road area. Since I'm so far away from jogging again, I thought it'll be good if I start from cycling and then jogging when I'm a lil lighter.


So kesian my bike....sob sob... could hardly turn the wheels, rusty...


Mok tukar speed pun macam sik dapat..stuck 4th and 5th speed jak can..if nait bukit susah la..


Right pedal macam mok tercabut jak..ish ish ish....


The rim is quite rusty, but can sand paper one la....The bladders memang completely out la..hopefully tayar masih okay la...


Good news... the chains still okay and the bearings also okay..brakes pun ok..only need a lil oiling... so the major things I'll need to fix will be the tayar and gears... lupa also how to do it..last time slalu tuning tuning... nvm...my projek sampingan... Byah!!!

Reason for not wanting to be home...Internet

Some people love to be at home... I neither love or hate it.... but most of the time I prefer not to be at home. I can give you loads of reasons but for now I'm going to give you just one... My parents have a frustrating way of saving electricity.

Electricity bill for my house is between the range or RM80 - RM130 per month, largely due to the washing machine, fridge (we used to use 2 fridges until we get a large one), fans and the 24/7 water pumps (3 of them) for our fish pond. Of course the lights and other electrical appliences like Astro decoder, parabola stuffs and wireless modem+router.

To save electricity, the solution is to switch off the wireless set (modem+router) and Astro decoder when not in use. The thing is, both appliances are the lowest consumer (of electricity)..... So by switching them off will not make our electricity bill to go lower than our current range of consumption...and I seriously think we can save more electricity if we switch off 1 or 2 of the water pump. I mean previously we have more fishes in the pond, so now surely they don't need that much oxygen....but dad doesn't want to risk his precious fishes... so Astro and wireless will have to give way.

For Astro, I'm ok with it. We rarely watch TV and it's a cultural shock for me every time I'm at home for holidays 'coz I'm not so used to watching TV. Life as a 3rd year student is very busy and the only time I watch TV will be for football matches (at Siang-Siang). As for internet, I'm not so into an agreement with my dad.

The main idea on why we set up wireless connection at home is so that we all can use the internet, unlike during dial-up connection days. Usually I'll do my work in my room to avoid unnecessary distractions and most of the time I do my work until early in the morning. Sometimes, I'll take a nap before continuing my work at 4 or 5 in the morning. That's when I get frustrated. I am a very grumpy person right after waking up. I get very angry when I want to google for information and there's no connection. Then I'll have to go down, switch on the modem and router and wait to make sure everything is all right. It's even more frustrating when I'm in the middle of my googling and suddenly the connection went off. When I go down, mom or dad will simply say that they thought no one is using the internet.


SERIOUSLY?!?!?! I'm in my 3rd year engineering studies and they know I have 2 ongoing projects and 2 ongoing assignments, and they thought no one is using the internet?!?!?!?!? Technical based students are the most spontaneous when it comes to doing our work. I'm not saying we are disorganized, but most of the time solutions and ideas just pop up and we'll straight away be on our way. We do have our checklists, we do arrange on what to do on which day but we also do our work dynamically....

I'm into saving electricity as it is part of our job as engineers (future) to conserve the environment...but I simply don't think it is good to switch off the internet all of a sudden just because no one downstairs is using the internet. Why am I blogging about it instead of talking about this to my parents?? Well, I did and again they give a frustrating answer..." If we off it and you're still using it...then just switch it on again, apa susah." ..... sigh... how I wish they know how bad our internet provider is.

I don't know about your place, but at where my house is (BDC), if you switch off your modem, you'll only get your connection back in 15 minutes if you're lucky. Sometimes, you won't get connection for a few hours and that's when I'll have to refrain myself from calling TM to complain. That's also will be the time for me to try not to foolishly explain (to no vain) to my parents on how our current internet system works..... I did it once and their reply, 'If like that, why did you want to connect internet in the first place...cancel ja, apa susah"..... SEE!!!! Now you guys know why I'm not so into holidays....Itu baru internet issues...Byah!!!

My passion for cooking

A lot of people (especially girls) were surprised when I told them I can cook and I used to cook in a small restaurant. How I love to see their surprised faces and it's even better to see faces of those enjoying my cooking (especially my gf, my number one customer). Seeing such expression gives joy to my heart and I want to see it a lot of times.

Because of that, I hope that in 10 years time I'll be able to run a small restaurant or cafe. I don't know where exactly or will it be western, eastern or fusion, but the concept will be more of a family cooking. When you eat in a family, the food gets better (well..if the family is in a good mood vibe la...haaha...). My menu..well..will most likely be simple dishes, ones you usually can find at home. Why? with the fast pace of life now, more and more people can't enjoy home cooking anymore.



What makes a dish more home cooked? Well, it's the love and care you have for your dish and your customers. When you cook for your family, you'll always ask yourself, " Is it sweet enough? Sour enough? Salty enough? Healthy enough?"...that's because you care for your family. Thus you'll also make sure you're using quality food and also you'll make sure you prepare them the right way.


Cooking should always be simple, the simpler it is, the easier it'll be. I'm not taking an easy way here, but I simply think that when cooking is made simple, you'll be able to control things better. Too much spices will spoil the original taste of your food. I don't want my fish to taste like some sour fruit.... spices should only compliment the main ingredient, not taking over it.

And in terms of cooking method, I just don't get some chefs using nitrogen liquid...and some other scientific stuff. True that theoretically some scientific method will preserve the good stuffs like vitamins and minerals... but it's not like we need a kilo of vitamin C per day!! In addition to that, what if things go wrong and you get nitrogen liquid all over the kitchen?? Cooking method should always be either frying, boiling, steaming or roasting... maybe you can use 2 methods per dish, but not more...


In terms of ingredients...always use fresh ingredients available near to you. Local ingredients are cheap too.. I don't understand why some restaurant owners like to use imported ingredients like bay leaves, thyme leaves..basil.. when they're all preserved, dried and expensive. Even if you order them fresh, they're all dried up when it reaches here (Malaysia). Plus, not all of us in Malaysia loves them (imported herbs).... Some of us here even gives it a 2 thumbs up for a spaghetti just with some button mushroom, beef and tomato puree (locally made)..... When the ingredients are fresh...customers will love them.


So for those interested in cooking as well...keep in mind that when you cook, keep your ingredients fresh...cook from your heart..add a pinch of love and always keep it simple...Byah!!!

Mee Sua or Mee Suah?

What ever the real spelling is, I love mee suah... The aroma of rice wine, the tenderness of chicken thigh and the softness of the rice noodles/vermicelli...


Owh... Just look at the picture!!

Luckily for me, I know how to make mee suah. The most important element is the soup. My style of cooking is always simple. You don't need all those fancy spices from some sing-sheh. From my experience in cooking, always use fresh ingredients available near to you, imported stuffs doesn't really ensure good results. Plus, locally available ingredients are cheaper and easier to get.

I'm not going to tell you step by step, but I'll tell you what you really need. You'll need chicken, always use fresh chicken thigh. You'll also need rice vermicelli, garlic, shallots, Shiitake mushroom (dried ones also okay) and some rice wine (cheap ones pun ok). Basically you just dump everything (except for shallots and rice vermicelli)into a pot of boiling water. Then you slow down the flame and let them all play together for 30 minutes. If you like your soup to be strong, add more rice wine. When the soup is done, it's time to prepare your noodles. Add rice vermicelli into a bowl of bowling hot water. Take them out as soon as they're soft. Timing is important here 'coz if you put them for too long in hot water,they'll get all sticky. You don't need them to be fully cooked since your soup will do the trick.



So in a bowl you have your noodles, add in your soup and chicken thigh. Chop your shallots, sizzle them with some oil and then pour them into your bowl off mee suah..... So there you go..Mee Suah/Sua.... For full recipe and steps on how to make mee suah, just email me.... Byah!!!!!!

Future looks bleak...

When it first open, a lot of people came and said the place is like a section of KLCC shopping mall. But with the opening of The Spring, a lot of people and shops moved out of Tun Jugah.... I just wonder what will the future hold for Tun Jugah...

Crabby egg

I'm allergic to some seafood, especially crabs. But doesn't mean I don't know how to cook crabs (for the record, I can cook ya). The easiest style will cooking crabs with eggs. For this menu, it's soupy style as in with a lot of kuah.


First of all, you'll need garlic, ginger and lemon grass. Usually others will not use ginger if they're using lemon grass and vice-versa, but I I want the soup to have the spiciness of ginger and the aroma of lemon grass. You'll also need some eggs (depending on portion of crabs) and don't forget our main ingredient, crabs.

Basically you just fry the ginger, garlic and lemon grass. Then dump in crabs, stir them around and add a little bit of water. On the first boil of kuah, get your mobile phone and set your timer for 5 minutes. Just before you take them out, add some eggs and stir a bit. The reason we add eggs is to add volume to our dish. You see, usually when we buy crabs, we prefer the ones with eggs. But usually out of 10 crabs, maybe 3 with eggs. So thats where chicken eggs come into play. Don't worry about the eggs, the heat from the kuah and ketam shells will cook them. Time to serve...



p/s: For full recipe, just email me and I'll be more than happy to share for free!!

Sticks..sticks...satay...satay....

It's very hard to find a place with good satay. In Malaysia, satay Kajang will be the bench-mark. Since I'm in Kuching, 50% of satay Kajang's quality will be enough. Most of the time, you can only find overcooked, thin, lousy kuah satay, overpriced and tough satay. But FINALLY I found one stall which is not so bad.


It's not as good as satay Kajang, but the meat is quite juicy and the portion is not too little. I went there with my gf a couple of times, and 20 sticks will be gone in 10 minutes (slowest pace).


You can order beef satay, chicken satay, lamb satay and ketupat. They do sell ayam penyet as well but I think their satay is the BOMB!



I just have to tell you guys about it. Go to Mohd. Rex satay stall at Jalan Song (they have other stalls at other places but this one is the best so far), it'll be near One Jaya Mall back entrance. Very very nice ya'll....Go and have a bite..Byah!!!!!

Kuda..horse....kedekut kedekut kedekut....

Dun play play, ada kuda at Desa Ilmu..... Came across it while driving through the area.. Usually you'll see the chap in the evenings..makan rumput...

Beads Stuff....

A friend of mine is doing some business thingy with handicrafts made of beads and so... It's quite surprising since I do know she likes them (beads stuff) but never thought she'll upgrade her hobby to a small business. From the pictures, they really look nice!! You can configure your own design and my order is on the way...You guys should check it out at Crafts & Knots.

Project: River-Taxi Project_Part 1

One of my course for this semester is Engineering Design, where we are required to learn the necessary steps to design something, ranging from a pen to a huge machine. For this course, the biggest marks will come from our project and this semester, the theme is River-Taxi.

River-Taxi project theme came around when CM of Sarawak commented that water transportation should be used in most of Sarawak because we have a lot of rivers and most of them are inter-connected. Thus, there you go. The setting of this project (base) is Batang Lupar in Sri Aman.

Sri Aman is the 2nd Division in Sarawak, roughly 2 hours 30 minutes from Kuching. The town center is located near the river itself and river transportation used to be the main transportation from Sri Aman to other villages until the introduction of proper roads. Since then, water transportation slowly died and the only ones left are fishing boats and personal boats belonging to those living further up and down river (a few villages not linked with roads).


Our task is to come up with a scaled model of a boat (River-Taxi) which can carry at least 10 people. But that is not all since we have to consider the speed of the river and also the occurrence of tidal bore. Plus, we must also consider the needs and wants of the Sri Aman public so that they will be attracted to use water transportation again. In addition to that, the topographical factor of Batang Lupar and it's subsidiary rivers must also be taken into consideration.

It is a daunting task for my group comprising Quazo, Biduq, MD Shukry, Jong and myself. This is the intro of our project, I'll post the rest of our progress as soon as later....Byah!!!!!!!!!

Removed counter

In the end I decided to remove my counter since it's kinda stupid. Why? Well, if you visit my blog today...let's say 10 times to read and comment and etc, the counter will still count all the visits as 1 since it's from the same IP address. So it's kinda stupid in a way. As of today, the counter stated 6, but when I viewed the number of hits' it was more than 50..... So, I'll search for a simple but smarter counter and install it later....I think 'll start from 0...Byah!!!!!1

2nd Day...

Yup..so far...I'm going for 2nd day... I guess I'll be following my family to visit family friends for 1st day Raya..


'Yay!' I'm so 'happy...'

Smart but unwise...

It's true you know...it's unwise to pull back our ambassador from Indonesia... We should only do that if we're about to engage in a war with Indonesia.


If it's just shit and street demonstration, no need lah panggil pulang..buang duit jak pulang and then send back next month..

Addicted...

I should either be watching megastructure stuff on Astro or doing my River-Taxi graphs...but nooooo...I'm busy online, addicted with facebook..shiet..


Somebody help me!!!!

Where to go for raya????

So far..cuma Speul jak invite, ya pun sik sure if he open house on 1st day or 2nd day.... haiya.....

Online Manga

I'm still waiting for the latest Naruto and Bleach manga since One Piece is taking a month long break....Where do you guys get your latest manga?


I'm checking out mine at www.bleachexile.com. Check it out guys..byah!!!!!!!!!

Just 5???

I opened this blog a few days ago....and up to date, there are only 5 hits. I'm not sure if it's the right figure 'coz I'm not sure if I set it count those from the same IP address as 1 even if they view my blog more than once or not.


Is it because people are more into tweeting? I'm not so sure..Never mind...Blogging goes on..Byah!!!!!!!!!

Offensive remarks in FB??

"No wonder UiTM is ranked at 300++ this year. With the exception of a VERY few, just look at the kind of grads they are churning out. Pathetic!..." - facebook user.

A friend of mine actually posted the above quote. Initially I was offended because my younger sister is studying there and I wanted to study there a few years back. But I was rejected..meaning if I was rejected, it means I'm simply worse than those currently in there!!! Wa wa wiwa...


But then again,I was rejected due to very technical reason. I have a Diploma in Electronics Engineering and I applied to Civil Engineering programme. So yeah, I am applying something out of my major. But hey, I am doing my degree in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering in UNIMAS now and they're ranked HIGHER!!! Who's having the last laugh now???? I think I'm going to email my final transcript to the Timb. Dekan whom rejected me 3 years ago....HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Due to this fact, I am no longer offended by my friend's remarks.... Byah!!!!!!!!!!!