Lemon Custard

This time we tried new thing again.
LEMON CUSTARD !!

Lemon custard !

Lemon custard is a thick, soft cream that has a wonderful sweet and sour citrus flavour. It can be used as spread for bread slice and filling for tarts, pies, and cakes.

Ingredients :

• 4 lemons
• 3 eggs
• 100g of butter
• few tablespoons of sugar

Fresh lemon juice

Butter

Easiest ingredients you can get in any supermarket !


Method :
1. Whisk all ingredients together in a professional stainless steel saucepan bowl.
2. Cook in medium heat and keep stirring until it thicken. (10 ~ 15 minutes)
3. Add few tablespoons of sugar and taste it.
4. Continue to stir and cook until very thick.
5. Pour them into a jar and let it cool down. (if possible, strain it first for smoother result)
6. Refrigerate for 4 hours.

Add few tablespoons of sugar

DONE !!

Note :

• Make sure to scrape the bottom of pan while cooking so that the curd thickens evenly without burning the bottom. We burnt the the curd at the bottom of the pan. It will appears chao ta. 
• Add more sugar if you think the lemon is too sour.
• Buy a better quality of unsalted butter. Don't buy chap pu long brand if you want your lemon custard to taste and smell nice. Trust me. If you know what I mean.

Stir stir stir

So, you are once again ready to prove to your parents you can open a bakery shop in the future.
Will upload more DIY confectionery in the future. Stay tuned !!

Lovely Lemon Custard

Life in HKUST (Part I)

I went to Hong Kong before for vacation with my family in 2007.

This time, I was there again for international summer program in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). 

With the ISP program officer at the farewell lunch

It's pretty cool to have the opportunity to have an exchange program experience in this top ranked university in Asia. I mean, not everyone will have the chance to be there as a student right? It's so lucky that UPM is one of the university which have collaboration with them. 

Why not give myself a try? Grab the chance, apply, and go. 

Love the environment of this university

It's not that expensive after all. I manage to spend less than RM5000 to survive and enjoy my 3 weeks in HK. (including air flight ticket, meal expenses, accommodation, transportation fees, souvenir and tuition fees)

I am not exactly sure what had happened. But Malaysia Airlines upgraded our seat from economic class to business class at the very last minute before our departure time. That was really a huge surprise for us and it was really an experience in a life time to be on the business class seat in a flight !! I mean, if it is not sponsored, I am sure we will not purposely go and get that god-damn expensive business class ticket to travel by flight from one place to another.

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The 'Atas' food they served us.. *tears*

Look how spacious !

HK is not very far from Malaysia. About 3.5 hours of flight distance.
Upon arrival, Andy was already there to meet up with us and ready to send us to HKUST. (We actually arrive at 5.30am in the morning and he is already there !!)

Me and Andy at the Victoria Peak - at the best spot to watch the spectacular night scene of Hong Kong

Andy is our HK friend who once came to UPM for exchange program. I am so grateful to have him for us for this entire 3 weeks in HK. He and his family actually gave their 100% to welcome and took good care of us during the entire journey in HK. Cannot be thankful enough !!

HK is small and the land is so limited. They are literally "filling up the sea with land" every year to expand the land in order to build more buildings. According to Andy, it is estimated that the Victoria Pearl Harbour will eventually become a piece of land with full of buildings in years to come.

Hong Kong

There is no doubt that the land in HK is expensive. To have a sea view accommodation in HK is rather a ridiculous thing to ask for. And guess what? My hostel have it!

The view outside the window of my hostel room

The room of UG Hall IV - Student Hall of HKUST

I really love this room so much. It is the MOST suitable room for a university student. This room is small but guess what, they have air-conditioner, refrigerator, a big study table with multi-compartments and a wardrobe. OMG. You really can't ask for more. The toilet and bathroom are so clean. They even have cleaner to clean your room once every 4 days. I sometimes just cannot believe I am in a university hostel when I wake up in the morning. 6-star for this student hall !!!

HK is a developed country. There is no surprise that HK today is that developed.
The attitude in every Hongkies has really impressed me.
They work very hard and efficiently. Even when I am queuing up to order food in the canteen, I can feel the tension when being called to order in front of the counter. Their pace is so fast until I cannot manage to catch up.

Street in Causeway Bay

Hongkies like to work. Even those who are already old.
These old hongkies have children to take care of them, but to work is a way to prove that they are not old enough. To prove them is not useless.
So you can really see many old men and women anywhere on any of the busy streets in HK. Most of them collect old paper boards and aluminium tins to earn some money.

At Yuen Long - an old town

Hmm... signing off.
Stay reading for more story!

:D xD

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