ENTERING MY 3RD MONTH

Assalamualaikum,

Since yesterday, my life has been upside down. After receiving a very shocking email from the PG office, I had tachycardia plus sweating! haha. Well, the issue is still ongoing and I believe the shock made a movement for us to have our first meeting with all the PG students in the department. Alhamdulillah. Things does turn out to have good reasons behind them.

This whole hanky panky thing really reminds me of the old memories while doing my Master. The same history repeats itself. huhu. Alhamdulillah, I'm glad that I've gone through the process and I hope it will improve this time insyaAllah.

Anyway, I'm already in my 3rd month PhD. I am counting the days just like counting the days during my pregnancy. In my opinion, PhD is like a time bomb. Everyday, the time keeps on ticking away and if I don't plan my time properly, the time will just slip away and nothing will progress. So far, Alhamdullillah, I've been doing labworks. There are more labworks to do. But, thank you to my very helpful understanding SV for guiding and supervising me perfectly. So, during my night prayer, I must pray that she will live long life, be happy and filled with Allah's barakah and rahmah fidunia wal akhirat. Amiiin.

Latest news, Bibik is not coming back. Yeah. Whatever the reason is, I am glad that she is in her country and not running away just like she did before. So, cooking, cleaning and the rest of the housechores are the added "fetal kicks" for my PhD pregnancy. Haha. I am stil cooking the same food somehow. Yet still to cook new recipesssss....

Aha, talking about new recipe. I did this recipe three times already. Habib loves this so much. He can really eat this Mac and Cheese many-many times. :) So, I must share the recipe here so that  I can refer back easily whenever I want to cook it. And Habib can also refer here whenever he wants it later when he is a grown up man and missing his Umi's Mac and Cheese. haha

The recipe is:

Makaroni Bakar Extra Cheese
Sumber 1 : DayangJack@DapurKu SaYang
Sumber 2: Dapur Mamasya
Sumber 3: Kak Nita

Bahan-bahan : untuk 4-5 orang makan

2 cawan makaroni + 1 cawan pasta spirals (direbus ala dente* dan toskan)- guna 3 cwn makaroni
150 g minced beef/chicken/seafood
2 ulas bawang putih (dicincang)
1 labu bawang besar (dihiris dadu kecil)
1 tin kecil puri tomato atau 1 botol kecil sos spagetti - kak nita guna Kimball
sedikit sos cili
sedikit sos tomato
sedikit garam
sedikit kiub ayam -kak nita tambah
1 sudu besar mentega
sedikit mixed vegetables (akak tambah)

Sos Putih :
2 cawan susu segar
1 sudu besar mentega
sedikit lada sulah
2 sudu besar tepung gandum (dibancuh dengan sedikit air)
1 slice cheesedale atau 30 g krim keju
sedikit garam dan gula

lain-lain : keju parut dan oregano
mozarella cheese (kak nita tambah)

The reference is: http://jomknitamasak.blogspot.com/2013/10/makaroni-bakar-extra-cheese.html

InsyaAllah this Sunday I will bake one. I'll try to snap some pictures and add in for my next blogpost insyaAllah. 

Till then, Annyeong Haseyo

SISAPPLE DELIGHT

Assalamualaikum,

Alhamdulillah, it had been almost 9 months since I started doing my part time business at SisApple Delight selling desserts under Missapple Enterprise company. The main dessert that I'm taking order is pavlova. I wrote about pavlova sometime ago. But, I was not able to continue sharing about it until today...

You can visit my blog at http://www.sisappledelight.com or LIKE my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/SisApple-Delight/.

Well, doing a part time business, I've seen the ups and downs, but for each month, I can see the money coming from the regular customers. Alhamdulillah. Thanks to my mother for initiating the idea by giving us to the chance to taste pavlova. Thanks to my husband for supporting me and motivated to start the business. A special thanks to my mentor, DB, the tauke apam & tauke Nutty Crunchy for making this business into reality. :)

There are a lot to share about business tips but maybe I'll share it in my SisApple Delight blog... :)

Please have a visit to my blog to see the products and some of the recipes I've shared...
  

Habib is SisApple Delight's favourite model. See how yummy and delicious his 3 layered pavlova is? hehehe

WEEKENDS ARE ALWAYS OFF

Assalamualaikum,

READING
I tried to bring home the works for my research, but I failed to finish and complete the work before the following week. Since I can't be in front of MY DELL all the time during the weekends, I read a book sent to me by Prof Muhd Kamil Ibrahim, which I received happily last Friday. His signature was on the 1st and the 2nd page. But in the 1st page he had written: Ini buku terakhir dalam simpanan saya. Moga dirahmati Allah sentiasa. Signed, 22/12/10.

It's an honor to receive his book and what he had written made me so excited and very happy... I tried to look for the book at Popular Bookstore and bukuonline.blogspot.com, but they said there are no more copies... (Just...Maybe because I bought 3 of his Travelog Haji book and 1 Travelog Dakwah book and gave them as gifts to my friends... But I didn't mention that to him of course.. hehe.. :) )

I am so glad that I really searched for his book... SubhanalLah, almost every page I marked by folding the right or left corners of the pages. His words are words of wisdom man. The experiences that he shared, Alhamdulillah, made me think and felt so much relieved... :)
(Allah answered my prayer through his book, I believed... Alhamdulillah! Syukur Ya Allah!)

In the 1st chapter, he said that he was inspired by what Tun Mahathir said: "Perkara yang sukar jika dilakukan secara berulang-ulang, berhati-hati atau dengan disiplin yang tinggi, maka setiap orang boleh mencapai kejayaan."
I will share some other contents later insyaAllah...


COOKING
Cooked 2 special menus today... LUPA NAK AMIK GAMBAR!!! tinggal tulang je....

1. AYAM SEDAP THUMBS UP
Bahan2 perap
Ayam seekor
2 s/k Biji ketumbar dan 1 s/k lada hitam ditumbuk
1 s/k Serbuk kunyit
2 s/k Garam
4 s/b minyak jagung

Bahan2 tumis
Minyak goreng ayam
1 s/k biji ketumbar dan 1/2 s/k lada hitam ditumbuk

Sayur-sayuran
1 biji bawang besar
1 biji potato
1 btg carrot
1 biji cili benggala (red pepper)
1 cawan air
Daun ketumbar dihiris

Cara2nya
1. Gaul ayam dengan ketumbar dan lada hitam yang ditumbuk dengan serbuk kunyi dan garam. Tuang sedikit minyak jagung ke atas ayam dan gaul. Perap 2 jam/1 malam dalam peti sejuk.
2. Panaskan minyak, goreng ayam dengan api kecil.
3. Gaulkan bawang besar, potato, carrot dengan lebihan minyak perap dan dibiarkan seketika.
4. Tumis ketumbar dan lada hitam yang telah ditumbuk dengan minyak goreng ayam tadi.
5. Masukkan sayur2an termasuk daun ketumbar.
6. Masukkan air panas.
7. Alihkan bahan2 semuanya ke dalam periuk besar yang bertutup.
8. Masak lebih kurang 1/2 jam hingga 45 minit. Pastikan periuk ditutup supaya ayam masak sempurna.

2. BUBUR SAGU JAGUNG (MODIFIED KETUK2 RAMADHAN: Norman Hakim buat bubur ni utk Memey)
Caranya
1. Sagu direndam dalam air biasa sehingga mengembang.
2. Masakkan sagu dengan air lebih kurang 1-2 cawan.
3. Masukkan gula lebih kurang 3 sudu besar.
4. Daun pandan
5. Masukkan Jagung kernel Adabi/jagung manis Ayam Brand, dibuang air dalam tin.
6. Masukkan 1 tin susu cair dan kacau hingga mendidih.

3. MEE BANDUNG ADABI INSTANT
Bahan2nya
3 paket Mee bandung Adabi
6 cawan air
Minced chicken Ramly setengah
5 fishballs
6 helai sawi dan batang
3 biji telur
Garam sikit

Cara2nya, ikut aje macam belakang paket Mee Bandung Adabi.. :)
SEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!

THE WEEKENDS ARE FOR THE KIDS
Playing, reading, praying, eating, bathing, clean Huzaifah after he poo-poo... Here are just some of the activities. They are growing up so fast!

Habib
Habib is a very adorable son... Very cute boy!!! Chubby!!!
He's talking a lot nowadays.. and always heard him reading and sounding the end of a word.
Every night before they sleep, he's forced to read the doa tidor, doa makan and to recite the Al-Fatihah.. Alhamdulillah, the sound of the words are there eventhough the whole word was not mentioned. hehe

Huzaifah
Huzaifah, reading Iqra' till huruf Da now.. Can recite doa makan, doa tidor, Al-fatihah, Al ikhlas, doa naik kereta, doa keluar tandas...
He's very tall...
He had fever and cough last week, so we brought him to the clinic to take antibiotics. Mujur ubat sedap, senang nak makan! :)
Very playful.. This morning let him play Bob the Builder online and starfall.com.
I just watched him solving the Match A Pair! He can remember where the "1st W" is to match with its pair. (I couldn't entertain him because we were busy closing up our Belanjawan Keluarga 2010... How much we spend every month?!! Astaghfirullahal 'Azim. InsyaAllah... InsyaAllah... 2011 kena azam rendahkan belanja sebulan, boleh ke ek??!! Boleh BOLEh! Malaysia Boleh! ;))

Oklah... Huzaifah suruh buat air teh.. the weekends are for them and families.. so I have to work hard during the weekdays eh?? InsyaAllah!!!

Wassalam