shopping, shopping, shopping and broke, broke and broke

This month I defy my promise which I am not going to buy anything anymore. I accidentally bought these items from Nekrock except the wrist phone. That one is my last year wish.

I keep saying to myself that I should stop buying watches but every time I said that, I end up buying more watch. Because of that, I am not going to say anything about my habit of buying watches anymore.

As for this week story, I have done nothing much. I am finishing one journal paper and hopefully I can submit it before August.

My latest gadget, wrist phone. It features pack just like normal handphone


Michael Kors watch with mother of pearl dial


Waist pouch... my first ever waist pouch

Gears: Olympus E-620 DSLR with Zuiko Digital 14-54mm f2.8-3.5 Mark II

the music and the light

Gloomy winter with gloomy economic year. What is the best thing to have. A soothing music with a beautiful light that can light up our mood. I make a close inspection on this installation in conjunction of winter festival. LED light combined with music really make my day. Touching the led and watch the LED change the colour really mesmerizing.

Beautiful light with soothing music


Ghost bump all over as the temperature sinking down...

Gears: Olympus E-620 DSLR with Zuiko Digital 14-54mm f2.8-3.5 Mark II

spaghetti with meatballs

My weekend full with makan-makan. I baked, I grilled and lots of cooking activities. Last night dinner was Spaghetti with meatballs my own version.

Ingredients:
1 packet of spaghetti
1 bottle of pasta sauce
oregano
mince meat
mushroom (slice thinly)
coriander leaves (chopped)
basil leaves (chopped)
egg
onion (chopped)
salt and pepper
cooking oil

How to make meatballs:
Add onion, oregano, basil and onion into the mince meat. Add 2 eggs (for half kilos of mince meat). Add salt and pepper. Mixed together.

Heat the cooking oil, take a table spoon of mince mixture and roll using your hand to create a meat ball. Fried the meat balls until it brown or cook. Toss and put a side.

How to make a sauce:
Add a bit of oil. Put a bottle of pasta sauce. Add the mushroom slice. Cook till mushroom tender and seasoned.

Last step boil the spaghetti in a boiling water. Don't forget to add salt into the water.

Dinner is serve!

Gears: Olympus E-620 DSLR with Zuiko Digital 14-54mm f2.8-3.5 Mark II

the long story of handmade shoe from bandung

About a year ago when Nahar and I visited the Indonesian Cultural and Exhibition Expo at Royal Melbourne Exhibition Centre, I ordered a pair of shoe from one of the exhibitor because of it quality.

It cost me AUD75 bucks including the postage with a promise of I will getting my shoe less then a month. After month I still didn't see the shoe coming and I waited from month and month. At one stage these shoe maker sms me saying that the shoe is on it way but actually it is not.

After nearly a year I forgotten about this shoe until about a week ago I received SMS saying that he is going to send my shoe through his friend from Monash University. A dorsen (lecturer).

I made an arrangement to pick up the shoe at Monash University, Clayton on Friday morning with great anticipation. I met this Indonesian guy who worked as a Director at the Deputy Vice Chancellor (International) who responsible for bringing my shoe.

When meeting this guy, I am kind of a bit of shocked when I am greeted with few questions and statement about my study and also about his journey to Malaysia. He invited me to his office and the first statement that he made was, he had a bad experienced when he was in Malaysia and Melaka. He said that our taxi driver is the worst and rude in the world. The tour agent that arranged his travel was cheating on him and so on.

I am quite shocked actually to hear that statement. I can say the way he say it was a bit sarcastic. I am just wondering whether is it true that our taxi driver is the worst in the world and does it any different from Indonesian taxi driver. For me if it is true that I think the authority should look into this matter seriously. I am just confused with the statement from someone who came from the country that even worst then us made that statement. The way he say it just like orang baru pertama kali dapat kerja kat luar negara and merasa hidup senang hingga lupa yang dulu mungkin hidupnya merempat or even worst and he have nothing at all.

Or maybe it is just a statement from one Indonesian who have forgotten that what he have back there (in Indonesia) is not even comparable to what we have back home (Malaysia)

With all those remarks, I decided not to pursue further. I dismissed myself and leave the place with a smile. I am smiling because this guy remind me this proverb. "Ibarat monyet dapat bunga."

Meanwhile the shoes, it is not the one I want it. I ordered different design. Tapi disebabkan tak nak la menunggu kasut yang lain setahun from now, I just take this shoes. The leather is hard, the shoe is not comfortable at all, not like the one that I tried before. So what happen to my 25buck shipping cost? On top of 75buck I am paying for this shoe, I have to add another AUD11 bucks to pick it up from Clayton. From 50AUD for a pair of shoe, I end up paying 85bucks. Not worth it at all.

Shoes that has been forgotten

Gears: Olympus E-620 DSLR with Zuiko Digital 14-54mm f2.8-5.6 Mark II

malim's grilled ribs with salad

Today I would like to share the simple recipe of mine. Once in a while I will cook this recipe just for a change. If you are a ribs lover then these recipe is a must to try!

Ingredients:
Beef ribs (cut it to short pieces or as desire)
Honey
Soy sauce
Chillie sauce
Tomatoes sauce

For Salad:
Zucchini or cucumber
Carrots
Tomatoes
Avocado
Coriander leaves
Basil leaves
Lemon (extract the juice)
Olive oil
sugar
salt and pepper

Preparation:
Dabbed the rib with clean towel. Put it into a large bowl
Mix the honey, chille sauce, tomatoes sauce, soy sauce into the bowl. Coated the ribs and leave it to rest for at least an hour until all the flavour been absorbed.

Heat the oven and set to Grill mode. Heat to 170 degree. Line up the ribs and grilled for 30 minutes. This will give you well done meat. In between check the ribs and turn around to let it evenly cooked.

Preparation for the salad:
Stripes thinly the cucumber and the carrot using the skin peeler. Shredder the Coriander and Basil leaves. Cut the Avocado into cubes. Seeded the tomatoes and cut into cubes.

Add the lemon juice, salt and pepper, olive oil and a pinch of sugar. Using salad mixer or your hand mix all the ingredients together.

Once all done serve it onto the plate. To add some touch on the ribs, take a small portion of soy sauce, olive oil, chillie sauce and tomatoes sauce in a small bowl. Heat for 30 seconds in a microwave.

Before serving drizzle the sauce onto the ribs.

Once all done served it onto the plate while it fresh


Give it a try.... you will love it. Simple and easy to prepare. The whole process took around 40 minutes or less.

Gears: Olympus E-620 DSLR with Zuiko Digital 14-54mm f2.8-3.5 Mark II