Tiramisu ~

Tiramisu is the easiest dessert you can make at home because the result will turn out to be very satisfying.
This is the second time I make Tiramisu with my sister.
We have tried other confectionery like pandan cake, egg tart and chocolate chips cookies, but nothing turns out to be as like the expected one.
So just play safe, make a Tiramisu again this time.

I think most of the Malaysian do not know Tiramisu is actually an alcoholic dessert.
So all this while those Tiramisu cakes we get in the bakery shops nearby is not Tiramisu?!
OH GOD YES.
My whole life was a lie until I discovered it last year when told by my sister (whose been travelled to nearly 20+ countries in the world).
Malaysians get rid of the cocoa liquor and replace it with just cocoa essence in order to adapt to Malaysia's halal culture.
Tiramisu is an Italian cake and dessert. It is made of ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks and mascarpone cheese, and flavored with liquor and cocoa.

Here is our recipe for Tiramisu !
Ingredients :

• a box of Mascarpone cheese (300~350g)
• 250ml of thickened cream
• an egg yolk
• a pack of sponge fingers
• Baileys Irish cream (cocoa cream based liqueur)
• few tablespoons of sugar

Mascarpone cheese

Thickened cream

Egg yolk

Sponge ladyfingers

Baileys Irish cream

There are a lot of types of cheese in the supermarket. Mascarpone is an Italian cream cheese. It is very rich and a bit sweet. It is essential for the creamy taste of Tiramisu.  Don't try to replace Mascarpone cheese with  any other types of cheese like Mozarella cheese if you couldn't find any Mascarpone cheese in your nearby supermarket.
You might not heard of ladyfingers. They are light and sweet hard sponge cakes roughly shaped like a large finger. It is rather not so common as a snack but I guess it can be categorised as a type of biscuit.
You might encounter difficulties in finding these ingredients in Tesco, Giant or Jusco. They can be easily obtained from Cold Storage.

Steps
Heat and beat the egg yolk onto hot water.

Beat the mixture of the cheese and thickened cream until smooth and fluffy.
Add the heated egg yolk into the bowl and keep beating.

Add a few spoonful of sugar. (Taste the sweetness while adding)

Pour sufficient amount of Baileys on a plate.
Dip the sponge ladyfingers in the Baileys on the plate. (Dip, don't soak)
Place and arrange them into a container.

Pour the creamy mixture onto the dipped sponge fingers.

Spread the layer well and add another layer by repeating the same step.

Sprinkle some Milo/Nescafe powder on the Tiramisu.
Chill for at least 4 hours in refrigerator.

Tadah!!! Tiramisu is done !!!

I know right ! Easy !
This home-made dessert will eventually looks and taste like the professional's.  

Nom Nom Nom !!
I'm not sure is it me overly obsessed with Baileys or just love Tiramisu !
This tiramisu serves 4 to 6 people. But I'm sure I can finish it within a day.

Hope you guys can try it out on your own!
That's it. Enjoy!

xD

Shake them out

My sister always says to me that result is not anything when you are in the university.
That is ...hmm..., true.
But let just back to reality.
We always do comparison since we were born.
From kindergarten until university. We always compare the marks on the examination sheet.
Even after we graduated, we compare the amount of money we can earn. 
How wealthy is your family, how big is your house, how expensive is your car, or even, how beautiful is your wife?

This is a cruel world. A mad world indeed. 


So please tell me, result is not anything? Not at all.
Right now, at this moment, examination result is everything for me.
Yeah, I bet is the kiasu attitude in me, perhaps, the air surrounded around me.

This is the story :
I used to be always get teased by people. I can always take it as a joke. I smiled and laughed. That is the only way I can continue with the conversation. I am not angry nor sad. I am not that confident enough as the rest, that is my weakness, and so I think I deserve all these teases. 


I was searching the so called confidence in the past.
Right now I am searching for something which can make me feel good about myself, can let my parents feel proud about me.

I have nothing left.
Besides writing out nonsense on a piece of paper and posting some non-nutritious blog posts on my blog, I do not have anything left to make me feel better about myself.
Sometimes even in a casual conversation with bunch of friends, I can hardly feel the "yeah".
By doing my very best in every test and examination in every semester, and thus get a good result, is the only thing I can feel good about myself.

Eventhough I can't guarantee that these examination result I get can brings the success of my future, but something I know right now is that, it is everything for me to feel good about me as a person.

That is also always the reason why I wanna learn new things to stuff up my life.
I've found the importance to always learn something new to me.
Even if it is a half-filled pail (direct translation). But I don't care. 

Yeah.
This is rather random.
I am not disappointed, I am not sad. Just neutral.
I am just shaking it out, something that haunts me.
Here is the song :


Sorry, don't get tired of the frequency of the glee song videos in my blog.
Just a nice song wanted to share.

GET A LIFE, YOU NERD!
I BET YOU DON'T HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE.
*Okay*

The royal town of Klang

I'm from Klang, and proud to a Klangist.
I really love my hometown.
Friendly people, ehem, good foods are everywhere.

Klang

Night view of Klang

In university, we make friends from different places.
As a Klangist , do you have any idea where to bring your non-Klangist friends to hang around in this small town?
Very hard right?
This place seems to be so happening for us, but it's really hard for us to find any clue that which part of Klang is fun and worth-going.
AEON Bukit Tinggi? NO WEYYH !

I decided to post up some of my recommended places that worth going.
All of them are just my personal recommendations.
Let me just name it --> aH Wai's recommendations !!  :

1) "Ah Herh" Bah Kut Teh

 Serve in a bowl not claypot 

First thing when people mentioned about Klang for sure is Bah Kut Teh.
Klang is the home town for this well-known Malaysia food. No other place can make it as good as the Klangist.
There are hundreds of restaurants/stalls selling it in this small town.
Each 1 of them has their own unique taste. The deliciousness of each of them is just personal.
My family has our own "regular" Bah Kut Teh restaurant/stall to go to when it is "Bah Kut Teh day" - normally once in a week. "Ah Herh" Bah Kut Teh have two stalls which located in Pandamaran and Berkeley.

Every droplets of the essence of the soup is just full of tastiness. Not to mention their soup is not that concentrated and "thick" which will not makes you feel very greasy and fattening after eating it.
(Some people will recommend "Bridge-side BKT" which is also very famous, but I don't remember I've tried it before)

2) Chong Kok Kopitiam

Half boiled eggs and kopi

This is one of the rare places where you can find different races of people gather here to have breakfast.
You can order a hot Nasi Lemak and a hot cup of kopi if half boiled eggs and kaya bread cannot fill up your stomach. The environment here is just so right to have a great start in the morning. Very historical !

Kaya bread

3) Cendol Klang

The famous Rojak and Cendol in Klang

Since 1972. It used to be just a hawker stall on the street with long queue. Until recent years (around the year 2000) only they move into a shop. The taste, hmm, not that tasty anymore lah. But still quite a historical taste that is a must try in Klang.

4) Pandamaran YoYo Ice and Fried Chicken

Fried and roasted chicken with homemade chili sauce

When I was small I stay in my grandma's kampung house in Pandamaran. I have loads of memories here in Pandamaran. Believe it or not, I used to always pee and shit at the small drain outside the garden of this kampung house. And not to forget catch small longkang fishes and tadpoles at the drain. What a childhood~ only the 90's kid who live in this small kampung will ever experience it. This YoYo ice and fried chicken were the food I'll get awarded when I did well in my exam. I would say it's not just about the taste, but the memories too.

5) Laksa

Bihun Mee Laksa and iced bamboo juice

Personal recommendation. The curry soup is mixed with more coconut milk, which I love it very much. It is located just opposite Cendol Klang in a small hawker stall.
This type of Laksa, some other Malaysian like to name it Curry Laksa rather than just Laksa.

6) CK Wan Tan Mee
A small stall beside a big road near Delta tuition centre. Maybe I seldom eat wan tan mee. But this is by far the best I've tasted lah. Their shui kao is really nice. *thumbs up*

CK wan tan mee

7) Taman Chi Liung Claypot Chicken Rice Bowl
Damn. I'm drooling while posting the pictures. The chicken rice is served in claypot to keep the hotness and freshness. The smell of the hot black soy sauce rice with some small button-sized salted fish pieces is just too tempting. Besides, the pork intestine soup is just the perfect match for this chicken rice.

2 pots of chicken rice and soup

Love the soup !

There are a lot more places to go in Klang.
This is my recommendations at this moment.
Maybe there is a lot more for me to explore in Klang.
Until then I will add more recommendations into the list.

Oh yeah ~ Just came back from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) for international summer exchange program. It was really an eventful trip and I have a lot of things to blog about it. Just wait for it, I will write about it later or sooner after some arrangement and compilation. (It's gonna be a very tedious job)
For now, as usual lah~ I want to have some rest before the new semester. So I choose to nua at home. Like every holiday.

Trust me. I'm gonna work really hard for the next semester. << Repeated it for the N times already.  
Okay keep reading! #kthxbye

Maybe?

So, there is one song which gone viral recently.
And congrats for hitting #1 on America's oldest music chart - Billboard - Hot 100 this week.
The song, Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen is too catchy until when someone just randomly post one row of the lyric on Facebook and you eventually will sing it in your mind instead of reading it.
At first when I listen to this song was like, hmm! what? When does western music is going for cute and sweetie voice. And you can clearly notice the trend of the western music is changing now. The rises of boy bands like One Direction, The Wanted, etc.. #OHGODWHY.
Carly Rae Jepsen's boss is Justin Bieber... #OHGODWHY again.
And I've seen a lot of crazy stuff related to this song. They are all funny.
So here are some of them : -

Obama singing CMM
Damn funny video, edited by one of the You-Tuber by cutting every single word of the lyrics from the  monologue by Obama, with CMM's background music, making it like Obama is singing the song.


Most of the rage comic from 9gag.com which make me spit water sometimes.

Call you Maybe?

 Sandwich maybe?


 Creative name card.

I would say song like CMM is quite a success - in term of selling music as a product.

This song, always, without fail, will stuck in my mind for a long time whenever someone just blow out some of the rhythm of the song or the lyric. (Chorus only, I don't even remember how to sing the verse or the bridge)

Same goes to the song last time, Friday by Rebeka Hitam(localised into Malaysian style) Rebecca Black.
Literally, every Friday I will sing Friday. SERIOUSLY.

This song is not that bad lah. HAHA!

Hard to explain

I couldn't believe time past so fast. <--- Every opening of my blog post. Forgive me, getting old, lack of creativity now.

But seriously, IT'S ALREADY JUNE !
Left with 2 more papers to kill.
What? Exam is still going on and you are sitting here right now and blogging about your life?
Oh yeah, this semester is another total disaster, so I just let it "go".
And if you notice, after every 2 to 3 posts, eventually I will talk about my engineering student's life.
Apparently this is the life of an engineering student : Nothing... besides projects, laboratory works, laboratory reports, assignments, circuit design, create program, debug errors, go to lecture, back from tutorial, knock lecturer's room, beg for extra marks, faking a smile, ask for food catering, buy crappy junk food,...
Seeing my friend enjoying eveything. ENVY.

Looking back what I have been through, I seriously hope everything is worth it after I graduate from this course.
Well, I don't think I am those typical engineering student lah. From what I observe so far, "Science-based" students don't like to share their thought. OR to be precise, a VERY PURE "Science-based" students don't really give a damn what is happening around besides their field.
True right? I don't see many of us like to read story book, have passion in music, writing a blog or etc.
In this exam period, to share my thought on my blog is one of the way to get out from the stress.
Or rather grab my guitar and practice for new songs.
Just couldn't love it more.

Will keep my blog updated by maintaining every month 2 posts and above.
Keep reading ! :D

Last week of Semester 2 ~

Every time when I think of something interesting to write on my blog, I'll eventually forget it at the next minute...

Alzheimer's ...

This is just a simple post to keep the blog updated... 

A wrap up for my semester 2 ~

Been busy for a while recently... 

Unlike last semester, this semester is all about electronics! (which initially I was so excited about it) 

The starting of it was great and smooth!

Now is another total messsssss !! 

Until now still not very sure what am I studying...

Every lecture class is like this

and after lecture is like this

But I am glad that I chose tennis as one of my credited co-curricular course.

Learning something new is what I want! 

Still not very good at it, but at least I know a little bit how to play it.

Next two week will be my final exam ! 

I'm going to be as serious as like back in Form 5 and Form 6 ! 

Where I usually spend 70% of my day studying ! (approximately 10 study hours per day)

I don't know how I make it last time ! Maybe because of Mr Low (Add-Maths tuition teacher) which always gave us so much of motivation and push last time. Miss those class with him !!

I'm still keeping my Form 5 "agenda-diary" where I always used it construct timetable and breakdown for what I'm going to do and when I'm going to finish those thing. Well, as a motivation !

1 week to catch up all those things that have taught on lecture for one whole semester is possible.

It is just about the commitment of own-self towards own's academic performance.

I have to have a positive mindset now !!

I need motivation !!!!!

WATCH OUT LAH EXAM !!!!

Unripe Apple

At this moment, where we are always busy :

searching the meaning of life ~

thinking the best way to communicate better ~

thinking which group of people to join  ~

having childish conversation ~

raising up a "peace" sign and making cute faces when taking photo ~

On the other hand, some of my same-age-friends are busy :

transforming into a new person ~

getting prettier and handsomer ~

looking macho and confident ~

getting married ~

or even having his second baby ~

Well, this is not that odd after all.

I'm not surprise if another long lost friend is getting married in few months later.

It's 21, and we have no excuse not to think like a man anymore.

Ahhhhhhh again ~

Well, MATURITY? NOT in my blog ~ 

lalala ~

neni neni bubu ~

I know it's time for me to start realising how childish I am. 

HA ! Someone volunteer to have a makeover session for me?

But at the first place, would you mind just send me some life? I need them to play my Diamond Dash ~ 

Addictive ~

TEHEEEEE ~