Reward of the day~

I sold this cake for the price of MYR 80.
[ I know it's quite cheap, I'm in Kuala Pilah laa:P]
2+kg of ganache coated super moist chocolate cake.
The cake was undeniably easy to make.
Only the baking time was longer than the usual 35-45 minutes of ordinary butter cakes.
This cake is baked in a slow oven for about 1 and a half hour.

The fudge?
Piece of cake.
I mix up dairy cream with chocolate and some butter, warm it up then let it cool down.
The ganache is ready.
Assembling took place.
I arranged some jelly coated strawberries and did the writing.
My cake is done.
[I always like my cake decorations simple]

My reward?
Yup.
That MYR80.

But that's not all.
The sense of personal accomplishment counted in.
The satisfactory feeling.
The smile on the face of my customer,
it's just brighten up my day.

That's my true rewards.

Of course, additional strawberry milkshake made up my day too ^_^
The strawberries were in excess.
I happened to always have stock for vanilla ice-cream
And, well, milk is a must in my fridge.

AAaaahhhh..
YUM!


Thanks Kak Salbi, Ketua Puteri UMNO Kuala Pilah for the order :)


p/s: I still couldn't find my kitty :'(

DREAMS

All men and women are born, to live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about ...

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
-Joseph Epstein


Copy-pasted article for today.
Thanks Uncle Aziz.
It's very inspiring anyway.

I'm way too devastated to write..
My kitten went missing~~

Stupid me.
I've taken for granted my dad had count them off before their evening's meal.

Stupid.
Dumb.
Idiot.
Careless.
I'm so sorry my little kitty.

Waaaaa....!!!!

---

It breaks my heart :(

She had the sweetest, innocent smile.
With a hearty laugh and melodious giggle, she reminded me of my pretty childhood time.
She made me grin.
Despite her admiring shyness, she walked towards me and opened up her hands.
She sat on my lap, staring into my eyes while playing with my fingers.

*Chupp!*

I had her lips sealed on my cheek.

She spoke words of the elves.
I'd like to put it in that way.
She ran around me and then led me to the swing.
I helped her to put on her tiny pink shoes.
Her silence of obedience awed me.
I smiled, again.

Then, as fate brought it, I have to leave.
She clung tight on me and started to weep.
She refused to let go.
My dam of tears was about to explode too..

I quickly gave her back to her mom,
kissed her hard on both cheeks,
ran towards my car
and slammed the door with a very broken heart.

She never stopped crying.

I felt terribly bad.

I waved goodbye in mixed emotions.


* I promised I'll come back again Nina*

Rest in peace, Crichton ~

A Case Of Need - I read it when I was about 11. The novel belongs to my brother. Or maybe to one of his friend's. He had written it brilliantly under the name of Jeffrey Hudson. I found the novel yesterday, with dog-eared pages and torn covers, I have plan to reread it in this few days' time. Hails to all the good doctors.

Jurassic Park - I didn't remember when exactly I had put my hands on this book. Not really a big fan of sci-fi, thriller genre myself, but this book had keep me awake all night. A total page turner. I saluted him as Einstein in writing. Genius masterpiece.

Timeline - How on earth he could dig out all the mysterical time travel hard-to-explain science?
I know it's not possible but after reading this, I did secretly wished to go back in the past and rectify all of my silly mistakes and stupid annoying jokes ;)

ER - My favourite show before Grey's Anatomy exist. Aside from drooling over Clooney's sexy smile, Crichton's creation of ER was considered bold and extra-ordinary show of it's own.

I didn't read all of his books [my bad] neither I watched all of his novel-adaptation movies, but for being an excellent writer and thinker, he deserved a simple tribute, right from the bottom of my heart.

Michael Crichton 1942-2008

Moving back to KL.

As the old Malay saying goes :

Jangan benci sangat, lama- lama suka.

Yup.
I've learned my lesson.
I hate big cities.
I swore to never live in big cities.
And now I have to go back to KL and earn my living there.
At least for a minimum time of 6 months.
I thought I should give it a try.
Talking about seizing an opportunity.

So, my dear customers in Klang Valley plus, hopefully, more in the future to come,
I'll be around, serving at my best, by this coming January , insya-Allah.
Hope to meet you guys soon and well, I pray hard so that everything will turn out just fine, in compose and as planned.

God, please bear with me.
Friends and relatives, I need your support.
Angah and Kak Ila, thanks for the given chance.
My kittens and cats, mom really hate to be parted from you guys.
And last but not least, Ayah and Mak, you know I always love to have you around.
I just have to go, yet again.

Fingers crossed, I swear to be myself no matter how seducing and enticing the outside world is; how selfish and impolite the people would be;
how snobbish and arrogant the people would behave like;
how cunning and deceiving;
how manipulating and egoistic;
God, please, let me be just me.

It's not that all city people were bad.
And it's not all about negative self-conception.
It's just a simple truth.
It's exactly how city people were portrayed.
I am just following through.

.. not a leaf falleth but He knoweth it ..
al-An'am : 59

God knows best.
Probably this is what He had destined me to do.

" The price of greatness is responsibilty "
Winston S Churchill

Alas, it's my own responsibility, striving forward and achieving goals while earning a decent money along the way, jumping over no matter what come across.


I hate big cities, but I certainly HAVE to DO this.

Bumiputera exhibition?

This is just another lousy entry...

Even though I did mention I hate big cities, I went to KL yesterday.
There was this bumiputera entrepreneurship exhibition going on in PWTC, but it was not up to my expectation, at all.


There was a booth selling slimming corset etc.

Another booth selling I-can't-pronounce-the-name tudung, busana etc.

Another booth selling keropok lekor.

And another selling their so-called energetic coffee mix..


Dush..


There were only a few booths offering information regarding loans and grants but probably due to fatigue or maybe because they didn't got the time to try their neighbour's energetic coffee drink [excuses, excuses], I was treated very poorly..


I wished I could slap myself for foolishly expecting bumiputra can offer me better than these.


I didn't blame the exhibitors. Of course, they can sell whatever they want to sell. And I am glad that nobody was selling cupcakes :P

By the way, this is a sample picture of my cherry white chocolate cheesecake my brother had taken using his DSLR camera.



*angah, thanks, but u can stop grinning in proud now, please*

November it is!

November!
You finally came :)

I have so many plans for this month.
Obviously, I'm going to turn 22 in the next few weeks.
It's still early, I know.
It's just a sweet little reminder for my sis.
And bro.
And cousins.
And friends..

I didn't really ask for a present, or did I? :P

Well, growing older is not a big fuss for me.
I'm still single, but being surrounded with a happy family plus friends who cared so much about me, why bother, right?
I don't think I have anything to complain around about.
I have what I want in life for the moment.
And I am as busy as a bee, working on my website which still look dull and quite pathetic (my bad!), I really don't think I can focus on building a relationship right now.

But yes, dreams are aplenty.
And to sacrifice a few in order to achieve more is just my cup of tea.
He can wait for that.
He should.

Oh heck, I don't even have that 'he' yet.
Hahahaha.

As Tina Fey of 30 Rock had put it in Oprah :

Let those men out there gain their experience about us through other women.
Let them flirt.
Let them have the relationships.
Let them get dumped and learn the hard way.
When the right time comes, they'll walk into our lives with undoubted expertise and treat us just like queens.
That's what happened to me.
And now I'm living the happiest days of my life with the man I love.
Don't worry singles!

I love you Fey :)

I'm going to bake white chocolate cherry cheesecake today.
This time is for Angah, cute sis :P