2015

hoo...cinnamon...never seen that flavor before
wonder how it taste would be
I would love coconut, jackfruit and maybe avocado
seen one of famous chef in Masterchef Australia use this fruit to make his ice cream ::oops::

damn!!! those pizza pictures !!!!
i am having a GERD and cannot eat anything too spicy, too sour, too sweet, too hot, too cold, etc etc etc.

and i'm craving for pizza ::nangis::

I love coffee, I love cream. So when I finally made Coffee Ice Cream, man, I just can't stop eating it. OMG, this is way too dangerous for my hip! But it was so good. The customers love it too. The orders are already in for next weekend. Oh no, I got homework as well. Darn. I'm so obsessed with this ice cream thing. So much fun! Ok, I better do some study now.

Too late to study *sigh


"Why it gets hard to learn as we get older? Older folks have more data on their hard drives than younger folk. Much like a hard drive that is 90% full. Read write access takes longer. The question now is, how do we clean and reorganize the disk so it works more efficiently."

to clean and reorganize the disk, you need to study hard
no have "too late" for study

*dimarahin ga_genah ;D

Lebaran sebentar lagi. I'm going to mudik! ::woohoo::

And Mami is gonna come with me. Alhamdulillah, she got her visa without any problem whatsoever. Tuhan sayang banget sama aku. *feeling blessed

Absolutely knackered. Work, study, work, partyyy... Got to catch up with some sleep. Saturday afternoon sounds like a plan. But I'm not used to having a nap anymore. Sigh. Ok, perhaps I can finish a bit early tonight. Sometimes 24hrs are just not enough.

Guru Cacat Pemberi Semangat, what an inspiring episode of Kick Andy. And no, I don't think they are disabled coz they don't have any disabilities, in fact they do more than most abled people. Disabled people are those who are not able to help themselves with what they have.

These gifted people are even able to help others and inspiring more Indonesians to be like them. My kind of heroes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OwrDKo5tFKA

don't too make anything complex

disabled people just the people that in not normal condition like normal people in physically only, in relation about inspiring, that's the other thing, not related to disabled definition

gomen nasai before soalnya my english always belepotan

Disabled means that their ability to do something has been removed. These poeple have proved they still have the ability therefore they are not disabled.

Despite their physical impairment they don't give up. That's what I call inspiring.

Gordon Ramsay's Top Tips for Starting a Restaurant

Every man and his dog seems to want to set up a restaurant these days. The dream? A cosy little place filled with adoring customers, a team of passionate staff and a full cash register. Sound familiar? Then it's time for a reality check. As Gordon Ramsay says, "two thirds of restaurants don't survive past their first birthday."
There are long hours, grumpy customers, financial demands and all sorts of other issues. Still want to do it? Then we've got some tips for you - Chef Ramsay-style.


1. Don't be arrogant

Ramsay: "A lot of people open restaurants out of vanity, people who can't even boil an egg. That's like me buying a rugby club because I like the game. One of my biggest bugbears is that you don't need any qualifications to do it. People fall in love with an idea and don't want to learn their craft, which takes years - time and commitment."
Sure you're still up for it? Ok then...

2. Have you done your homework?

Ramsay: "The secret of a good local restaurant is knowing your customers and catering for them. Do your research."
Does the area need an expensive fine dining restaurant, or would it be more comfortable with a homely baked potato place? Make sure you know the area, check out the competition and work out what their strengths and weaknesses are. What will make yours stand out from the rest?

3. Choose the right chef

Ramsay: "A restaurant owner's best investment will always be in the chef, and if you haven't got that major asset in the kitchen downstairs, then forget it. The guy's got to be a motivator, be a leader, make you money. He's got to bring customers back."
Make sure your chef is up to the job. Are they a cocky young upstart who doesn't know if they're cooking pork or beef, or a well-seasoned chef with vision and drive?

4. Who's in charge?

Ramsay: "You've got to trust the brigade that you're paying, and secondly bring them on, evolve them. Make them talented. Keeping hold of them, motivating them."
If you're the owner then the responsibility ultimately lies with you. You need to know what's happening in every area of your business from the kitchen to front of house. Don't be a control freak though; your staff's opinions are valid too.

5. Communication and teamwork

Ramsay: "Key to any successful restaurant is regular communication between management and the head chef."
But it doesn't stop there, all the staff have to be communicating well with each other and working as a team. Let's not forget the customers either, make sure you're listening to them too. At the end of the day they're paying your wages.

6. The menu

Ramsay: "The more dishes, the lower the standard."
Long menus lead to confusion for everyone. They can have chefs running round like headless chickens, customers waiting or walking out, and all sorts of undesirable items going off at the back of the fridge. Start with a simple menu concentrating on quality produce cooked well and you're on to a winner. Your chefs will be more efficient, the diners will be happy and there shouldn't be much wastage.

7. Quality control

Ramsay: "Mistakes stay in the kitchen."
Ensuring quality and consistency in the kitchen is essential for a successful restaurant. Even if service is busy, it's not an excuse for sloppy plates of food leaving the kitchen. If it's not good enough, don't serve it - it could ruin your reputation.

8. Keep it clean and organised

Ramsay: "The cardinal rule of cooking: your kitchen must be clean, and by clean I mean spotless!"
There's nothing worse than an unhygienic restaurant, and your customers won't like it much either if they end up with food poisoning. Make sure all your staff have the right hygiene certificates and set up a decent cleaning rota. Get to know your local environmental health officer - they'd rather help you than close you down.

9. Be flexible

Ramsay: "In my own business I'm very aware that you have to react instantly to changing trading conditions: cutting down on overheads, reducing costs, tapering menus, you have to react straightaway, not wait. In today's climate we're producing figures weekly, not monthly, you have to be on top of what's happening."
If something isn't working, swallow your pride and change it. Flexibility is fundamental to any successful business, so try not to be too pig-headed. It might be your baby, but that doesn't mean the customers will love it as much as you do.

10. Don't give up

Ramsay: "One thing I need to see is the fight, the determination and the grit."
When things get tough, it's hard to keep sight of your original dream, but if you work as a team, serve food you believe in and don't delude yourself about how things really are, you're in for a better chance.


Source: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/r...hen-nightmares

i got GERD, 2 weeks and counting.
it's terrible. i cannot eat foods that i love... pizza, nasi padang, indomie, dendeng balado ::nangis::

Hi [MENTION=922]Shaka_RDR[/MENTION]

I'm sorry to hear that, I really hope you get well soon. :hug4:

Are you in medication at the moment? Did the doctor put you in a special diet?

Finally made my own Roti Manis or what the posh people call Brioche. They were light and puffy, out of the oven the taste was just amazing. ::cabul::


https://scontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...44&oe=55F3118D


Never thought I could make bread, always believed it was tricky. Well.. it needed a lot of patience and was therapeutic. But uhm.. I need to think about this culinary business again as I don't want to do it just because every man and his dog wants to set up a restaurant these days. Do I really want to do it? Will I be very good at it? This little voice in my head keeps telling me I could do more. What if I combine all the ideas together? Wow..

The Australians must be one of the loneliest people in the world coz they just can't shut up. The more I listen to their pathetic lives the luckier I feel for having a husband, family and friends that I could talk to. And of course those things that keep me busy and my mind going. I don't understand why they think they got to talk about their weekends or where they went for dinner to everyone at work or how many bottles of cheap wine they could buy themselves. Can't wait to get out of here.

what happened with Australians mbok? i have friends from Australia and they're all ok.

shaka: mbok was just being cranky :cengir:

lol, i know.
i am being [overly] cranky too lately... and i got GERD because of it.

Watching Kingsman made me miss living back in the UK. I miss the snow, the cold weather, the sense of history, the humour, BBC, M&S, how easy it was to travel to Europe, watching Wimbledon in the daylight, the chocolate, the lamb, the milk coz they are better, even the tap water coz it tastes better!

It was a long time ago when I saw snow for the first time. I was at Schiphol, traveling by myself. It was early in the morning, I looked out through the window and suddenly saw some flakes falling from the sky. It took me few seconds to realise that I was watching snow falling. It was so beautiful. I felt excited and kampungan at the same time! ;D

Happy days.

So my flight to Bali has been cancelled due to volcanic ash. ::doh:: Headache. Things get a little bit too much for my wee brain these days. Time for a break. Oh no I can't. The flight has just been cancelled and I might spend this weekend in this stupid ****** country!!!

Someone has made the situation got even worse, I feel like ****** killing him right now. Too many idiots around me, can't stand this. I already made it clear what I wanted but they never listened. I already paid for all those tickets and now am going to pay even more because some dickheads thought they knew better!! If I was the Human Torch, I would have generated flames by now and burnt everything around me.

^
i know ur feeling mbok.

a new colleague told me, "hey, why are you always complaining? cheer up man, take it easy."
and when i show her those idiotS' (plural) job results... she then said, "next year, put shotgun in the budget request. you'll need that" ::ngakak2::

I'd like to believe that there is no such thing as an idiot. People just didn't understand the assignment but too proud to admit it or too lazy to ask for some explanation. That's when I call a person being an idiot. They don't ask any question coz they don't want to look stupid but they are actually being stupid when they don't ask the question then they get it wrong in the end.

Anyhow, I'm on my way to Bandung now. Time for a break and lovely time with my family and the fooood.. ::hohoho::

Eid Mubarak!

well, mbok... i'll try to explain with example.

one of the task that i do as a project management officer is registering software development projects.
we (me and my boss) already stressed it not only once, twice, or thrice... but to the extend of yelling and screaming to 1 person almost every week.

and yet..... he registered another software development project.
i checked the documentation files and.................... exclaimed "what kind of software development is this????"
he answered: oh, this is not a software development project, this is a software testing project. i should follow the same regulation right? ::arg!::

PS: he is a MASTER DEGREE student and passed the project management class.

The redundancy will be in April. Thank God! Finally I can start planning my next journey.

Never been made redundant before, don't know how to react. Should I be sad or worried?

Mum is enjoying her holiday so far. Considering that it gets as cold as 7 degree in the morning, she is doing very well. But time has passed very quickly, she'll be 75 soon. She starts to forget things so I have to repeat myself a few times. I also need to speak slower and be a bit more patient with her. People grow old and eventually die, I know nothing can stop that. It just feels a bit sad sometimes when you can see it happening to your own parents. Then the questions start, have I done enough, have I achieved what she wanted me to achieve, have I made her a proud parent?

Sydney

I thought I had the patience. I expect a lot out of myself and others so I don't understand when people do unreasonable things. I say looking after parents is harder than looking after children coz you have never been old before. You have been a kid before, kids do silly things like putting stuffs in their mouths so when you see them doing it you kinda like ah.. I remember that! But when parents do silly things, you can only wonder why with a big question mark.
It is a worry too because you might end up just like them. I don't want to be like Mum. Her world was very tough on her; her entire life was for her husband and kids.
We are mother and daughter but our lives are so different. I have all the freedom and I fear nothing. She is out of her comfort zone and she is so scared. My poor mother. I wish your world had not been so cruel to you.

There's no need for understanding in this case...just accept it :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7yUGrMt5WbM

Such a beautiful song, makes me want to go home, stay in bed, cuddled.

Part 1
Not everyone is worth to fight for, not everything is worth to argue over. Sometimes to be the spectator is the best thing to do, let them fight and stab each other. The world aint gonna miss losers.


Part 2
I cannot be mad, I just feel sorry for those who like to fish in troubled water and accuse me of doing it. Funny how impossible it is for some people to be honest to each other. Are they too scared to live with the consequences afterwards so they prefer to lie to others and themselves? Most people are just too weird. Can't be friends with everyone. I'd rather do what I did best, pick and choose. I mean why not, I pick and choose food that I put in my mouth, I pick and choose when I'm shopping, I pick and choose the music I download. Life is pick n choose.

I feel wiser already. ::hihi::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBn7bjy9c4U


I guess I like Synthpop, perhaps because I grew up listening to Duran Duran, Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys. New Romanticism, was a reaction to punk and heavily influenced by former glam rock stars of the 1970s such as David Bowie and Roxy Music. When men and women wore eyeliner and lipstick. It didn't bother me at all in fact that was I considered cool in the 80s.

Meticulous

People who are meticulous can be pretty annoying, what with their extreme attention to detail. But if that person is, say, your surgeon or your accountant, you'll want them to be meticulous.

The Latin root of meticulous is metus, which means "fear", so it's easy to see how eventually meticulous got its meaning. Someone who's meticulous is afraid of what will happen if they're not careful enough to get every detail right. "Detail oriented" and "perfectionist" are other ways of describing someone who cares deeply about the small things and about getting things exactly right, every time. Concert pianists must be meticulous, because audiences are always listening for wrong notes.

If you are meticulous and you enjoy things being neat and tidy or generally aesthetically pleasing, it is most likely a character trait. Potentially could be obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) which differs from OCD.

OCPD is often confused with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Despite the similar names, they are two distinct disorders - OCD is an anxiety disorder and OCPD is a personality disorder. Some OCPD individuals do have OCD and the two are sometimes found in the same family, sometimes along with eating disorders. People with OCPD do not generally feel the need to repeatedly perform ritualistic actions - a common symptom of OCD - and usually find pleasure in perfecting a task, whereas people with OCD are often more distressed after actions.

So I potentially have OCPD. That explains why I enjoy working with the systems so much, having everything configured perfectly. Even at home no one finds pleasure in cooking, baking, ironing or cleaning as much as I do. ::ngakak2::

I said, the GP would contact me. The next day I got a letter from them. I said, lung cancer. The next day he told me his sister has been diagnosed with it.

It's getting creepy. I need to stop this.

Bandung to Pekalongan - Semarang - Solo by train. The plan excites me already.

I do enjoy traveling around Indonesia, tasting the originality, supporting local produce and business, meeting people who are just as happy in their own little world. And I always meet people that make me smile if not giggle. Like the lady who did my nails in Lombok years ago. 'Would your husband take you back to his country?' she asked. I tried so hard not to laugh because perhaps, in her world, the scenario could be very different. Or question like, 'where can I find a husband like yours?' from a young lady in Samosir Island a few years ago. Or a couple of kids who wanted to have their picture taken with hubby coz they never had a white man speaking to them in Bahasa Indonesia before.

And of course having the food that I had before when I was a kid was just priceless. Like Soto Padang that I had by the beach in Padang; it was to die for. Or Soto Medan in Pematang Siantar, it was delish! How could I not be picky with food? How could I not think that Aussie food is not worth living for?

I am so looking forward to this trip. :senang:

Just found an idea, a project for me when I retire. ::woohoo::

Well I can start it before actually, in fact when I travel to Central Java next year.

“When you're older, you're stuck in your own world and might not open up yourself to a new friend."

At a certain age we just become busy: the demands of work, love, and family can sometimes mean that friendship takes the backseat.

That is so true, I have put friendship at the backseat. I don't have time seeing or talking to my friends anymore. Like today, I just said hi and goobye to them. I could have been more friendly and made people laugh but I just can't be bothered. A friend invited me to a new group, that does not interest me either.

All I have in my head are ideas and plans, and of course, a few jokes. Human interaction? Zilt!

No, I can't force myself. I just find it interesting.