Selamat Hari Lahir Malaysia

It has been 53 years.

Thank you Allah for my motherland

Thank you for everything and I mean everything

The service and the place where I was born.

The adventurous and wonderful childhood that I had on this land.

The education that I received.

The abundant of food and clean water.

Even for the horrible things that keep appearing in the medias.

Ones will never grow finely if ones never be tested.

I wish for more bright years to come

For more 31st August that I can be thankful upon.

=)

Bakery Lina 2

Turns out my attempt at baking worth it.

I got orders.

Mind the plural.

=) =) =) =) =) =)

An order for my less sugar, less sweetened milk steamed chocolate cake.

An order for my obese sausage rolls.

Sometimes I think to be in love is a stupid thing.

Because u will fall out of love.

It's excruciating to watch people suffer because of love, to watch they sin because of love.

Or maybe love is a pure and tender except that people has taken to define love in a completely wrong perspective.

It presents love as rough, no self respect, sacrificing too much and everything negative.

But I know, love is a beautiful thing, only if you know what love truly is, and you don't have to suffer.

Bakery Lina

I'm not a good cook or baker.

If my first attempt taste heavenly, don't expect same thing will happen to my second, to taste the same deliciousness is a blessing since second attempt most likely to turn disastrous.

Few comments from my abah

- my fried fish is comparable to fish crackers

- I would boil everything up to produce a pot of curry instead of stir frying the pastes first ~ he exaggerated a little of course. I will of course stir fry my pastes first, but it's true that I might as well chuck everything into the pot after that and let 'em boil =(

- I'm allowed to only fry eggs and pappadums/crackers. and he means it.

So since I'm not allowed to make even a meal, I resorted to baking.

First thing I baked was pavlova and that was a year ago.

So this summer break, my first baking project would be sausage rolls and mini bun.

Feedback?

It was half disastrous.

I don't know up to now if I'm supposed to sift the flour or not.

My yeast died.TWICE! ~ which means I chuck quite generous amount of dough into the bin.

Instead of brushing egg on the dough, I half-dunked each of them in the beaten egg.

So these are what I produced.

On me mom birthday, I was thinking of buying a cake.

Baking one is certainly not my thing.

I'm paranoid about the amount of sugar, egg, butter or margarine that are required.

But since me mom insisted that I steam her a chocolate cake on her birthday, I had no other choice.

Feed back?

I forgot step 4 and jumped onto 5 instead. So I had to return to square one.

The ingredients required scare me ~ a cup of thick sweetened milk, a cup of cooking vegetable oil, eggs and somemore sugar.

I shed off some sugar, and cut the amount of thick milk and oil.

It turned out good. Well, at least I think it did.

Since it was steamed, it is moist.

Since I reduced the amount of many things, it tastes slightly bitter, like dark chocolate.

I heard complaints that it's not sweet enough but well, it was gone in 24 hours.

Today, I'm making doughnut.

I've been stressed out.

Dumped my first mixture into the bin.

I forgot to sift the flour and mom said I must put bit by bit of yeast into the warm milk instead of throwing the whole packet into the warm milk.

I'm waiting for the dough to rise.

And we better hope that today's project turns out perfect.

If not, I may not be baking until I return to my own (my friends' too) kitchen in Hradec Kralove.

Seriously, if u are in my place, u will consider to do the same.

I have 2 XYs in this household who have a foots-long list of comments on my domestic skill.

And their feedbacks have never been good and when u get too much of negative feedback (lasting half a day at average for each session and u get that in every project), U'll stop doing the thing or else, someone might have to seek medical treatment because he has been thrown with dough (and let's hope the dough is hardrock.)

Catching Up

on things that I missed.

As a girl who grew up in a seaside settlement, plus that it's surrounded by lush greeneries

I believe it is a point for for me to have to know things like what is this fish called, the tides and some survival tips in the jungle.

These are some interesting things that the generation before knows them like current generation know how to operate a mobile phone. - This ia just an analogy btw.

Abah told me, if u want to catch or eat crabs, make sure crabs are caught when it is full moon.

This species who doesn't know how to walk straight even with 8 feet plus 2 claws is very fleshy during full moon.

And do you know, when the water is muddy (sea water I mean), itv tells us that the current sweep from the bottom.

Which is dangerous.

Superficial current would be dangerous for swimmer and profundus current (current from the bottom) would posseses hazard to both swimmer and diver alike.

And high or low tide is determined by moon.

From my view, the moon is visible in the morning and we have high tides in the morning taky.

Enough with the sea, yesterday I asked abah about snakes and bamboo.

In here, where it's humid and hot, snakes love to be in the bamboo clumps, simply because it's cool over there.

But bamboo is also the snakes' weakness.

In a more complicated explanation, you have a higher prospect to win over a snake when you beat it with a bamboo compared to when you throw a chunk of heavy wood at it, provided that you hit the target(that yucky,evil snake I mean)

I hope I can learn more about this and that.

They are so interesting.