Nonsensical Rambling of the Day

Gotta feel for people who slouch down in their seats, even when trains are super-packed. Must be difficult not having back bones!! Just sayin'...

Sunday Breakfast - Mum's Soto Ayam

Been a while but definitely Yum City!!

Flavoured Buns - Malaysia Truly Asia Style!!

Got these on my recent day-trip to Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Wish they have them here. Sure beats the usual fare of cream-filled variety we get here!

Day-off Breakkie

Fried Rice and Fried Yellow Noodles. Thanks mum!!

Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Had a hankering for grilled cheese sandwich. Why does the first one always burn?! Still delish notwithstanding, Yumm!

Celebration With Food Part II

More food in the eve when I got Fadhil what he wanted to eat for his birthday... Canadian Pizza, 2-4-1, LOL!! Alhamdulillah for the blessings of good food and good health..

Celebration With Food

Mum cooked turmeric rice for Fadhil's birthday. But I get first dibs! Muahahaha.... Happy birthday Fadhil. May His blessings continue to be showered upon u and yours! Amin. Love ya lots!!

Invisible Phone?!

     Someone asked me about iPhone 5 and I came across this clip. This looks more like a spoof than an actual ad for Apple. Goodness! I can't stop laughing! Do we have to be invisible to use this phone?

     "You can let it go, where did it go? Oh it's over here."

     LOLOLOLOL!!!

 

Decisions... Decisions...

     Mum cooked Mee Goreng this arvo. Helper cooked Nasi Goreng this morning. Forget decisions, I'm having both! And there's sambal sardines, fried chicken and fish crackers too, all my favs! How lucky can one get! Alhamdulillah for this wonderful spread...

Stubborn, Snarly Male

     That Jaenelle Angelline!  She's got the best comebacks ever!  But hey, how apt is this man! LOL!!

     Thanks Heike for the pic referral! 

Nonsensical Rambling of the Day

     Gotta wonder about the idiocy of selfish fools. It's one thing to do an illegal u-turn on a quiet street; quite another to attempt it at a busy cross junction! Especially when the u-turn proper is only a hundred metres away!!!

Women are Angels...

And when someone breaks their wings...

They simply continue to fly....

on a broomstick...

They are flexible like that...

Manna from Mum's Hands - Bee Hoon Hong Kong

My mum's one of those women who never follow recipe books. She'll look at certain type of cooked dishes and get ideas on how to make them or she'll have a taste and she'll know what went into the food. Yeah she's amazing that way!

But it gets frustrating when you try getting recipes from her though, LOL. Ask her how to may something and she'll say, "you add a bit of this and a bit of that..." and my next question would always be, "how much is a bit?". For someone who tend to cook from recipes, it could get frustrating, LOL!

Anyway, I finally sat down and got a few recipes from her and this is a good time as any to share. :) Be forewarned that the method used would sound like how your grandmother or mother tells you, LOL!

BEE HOON HONG KONG

1 packet rice noodles

3 cloves garlic - sliced or pureed in the blender

Salt

Light Soya Sauce

Oyster Sauce

Sweet Soya Sauce (or sugar)

Sesame Oil

Prawn, fish cake, meat (depends on your preference)

Vegetables (can be grated carrots, mustard greens, bean sprouts)

1. Soak the rice noodles (use hot water to soften it at a faster rate) and set it aside.

2. Saute the garlic in a medium-sized pot.

3. Once the fragrance of the cooked garlic is emitted, add water until it fills up 1/4 of the pot.

3. Add salt, light soya sauce, oyster sauce, sweet soya sauce; all to taste.

4. Add a dash of sesame oil.

5. Taste the sauce and see if you need to add anything else.

6. Add the either the prawn, fish cake or meat.

7. Once the mixture comes to a boil, add the noodles.

GREEN CHILI PICKLES

Green chili

Vinegar
Sugar
Salt

1. Cut up a few pieces of green chili (depends on how much you want).

2. Place them into a small bowl.

3. Add vinegar until they are about half submerged in it.

4. Add a dash of sugar and a dash of salt.

5. Stir the mixture well.

You don't have to eat it with the green chili pickles but it tastes so much better.

Cultivating A Love for Reading in a Fun Way!!

     We've just had our Book Week, this week and part of the activities include playing the Reading Song at snack time where it was hoped students would join the coordinators on the basketball court to 'read, 'sing' and 'jig along' to the music.  It's been a hit all week with Friday having the most number of students joining in.  I was a little late to the party but what I caught was surely priceless!  And oh, it was also the Book Character Dress Up Day, hence the wonderful costumes!

    The inspiration for this activity came from Florida’s Ocoee Middle School's youtube video of the same name so I did a little digging to see how it all started.  It seems that when they created a video in 2009, titled "Gotta Keep Reading", from Black-Eyed Peas' song, "I've Gotta Feelin", they unwittingly spread a globally infectious message to continue reading!  It is definitely an amazing example of the fluid nature of online social networking, youth exuberance and digital media.  And what a wonderful message to pass on eh?  Incidentally, I'm tickled pink to see the lead dancer holding my favourite book! ;)

     I just love the way they've amended the lyrics (with the permission of the original artist's publishers of course!).

Gotta Keep Reading

Gotta Keep Reading

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good good

book to read

Ooo hoo

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good good

book to read

Pick up that book

And turn the page

You’ll never know

Just what you’ll find

Information

Or Fantasy

Drama and Art

All make you smart!

I know that you’ll have a ball

If you turn off the TV and just read them

all

Just think, with a book you’ll be so

entertained

OMS has the best readers in F.L.A

Fill up my mind

With non fiction

Let’s get the facts

And use them up

Collaborate

Graduate

Feed your brain

And then we’ll just keep on reading

And reading and reading and reading and

reading

And reading and reading

Lets read it some more

Reading and reading and reading reading

reading

Keep reading and reading and reading

Gotta Keep Reading

Ooo hoo

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good good

book to read

Ooo hoo

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good good

book to read

I got my book!

Do you have yours?

What is the title?

And who’s it by?

Where is it set?

Maybe in Spain?

Is it fiction?

Or is it real?

Will it be happy?

Or maybe sad?

Let’s see what happens

By reading on

Open that book

And have a look

It’s an adventure

So keep on reading that book

Keep reading and reading and reading and

reading

And reading and reading

lets read it some more

Read it and read it and read it read it read

it

And read it and read it and read it read it

read it read it

Here we come, here we go we gotta read

(read read read)

Easy come easy go now we can’t stop

Fill that shelf with those books

Way to the top

Round and round

Read those books

Around the clock

Action, Sci-Fi, Humor, Adventure

Biography, Reality, Mystery and Fantasy

Read read read read read it up

What ever you like

Read those Sunshine States

Take those Reading Counts

Gotta Keep Reading

Ooo hooo

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good good

book to read

Ooo hoo

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good good

book!

Ohh hoo…..

Nicole Nasrallah, Janet Bergh

Ocoee Middle School

© 2009 Based on “I Gotta Feelin’ ”

By The Black-Eyed Peas

(used by Permission)

     So many schools have done their version of this too.  Here are just some of them...

In Honour of a Great Man

     Been ages since I've posted anything so I thought it's a good time to start today.

     In honor of the day 1441 years ago when an amazing man was born. We would be lost without Your guidance, O Rasulullah!