Polento Wheat Cookie recipe

Another first time to wrap the end of the year. Baking cookies, never done it myself before. ChatGPT baking, here goes. For the sake of clearing up what ingredients i have on hand.  Going with no baking soda type recipe.

Ingredients dry mix:

- 1 cup polenta, add generous amount of sesame seeds

- 1 cup wheat flour , add mixed mueslie wheat and dried raisins 

                                         

Ingredients wet:

- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened in microwave oven

- 1/2 cup granulated sugar

- 1 large egg

- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract replaced with cocoa + Jacob coffee mix 

- Pinch of salt

Instructions:

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. use ikea ceramic plate for placing mixed dough .

2. In a bowl, cream together the softened butter and sugar until smooth.

3. Add the egg and vanilla extract, mixing well.

4. In a separate bowl, combine the polenta, wheat flour, and a pinch of salt.

5. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing until a dough forms.

6. Gently fold in the soda water until well combined.

7. Drop spoonfuls of dough onto the prepared baking plate sheet, spacing them apart.

8. Flatten each cookie slightly with the back of a spoon or your fingers. Yes finger pressed cookies, uneven shaped original.

9. Bake in the preheated oven for 12-15 minutes or until the edges are golden brown. 18 min works great. First prototype batch too thick cookie, its better to have flatter dough to get crispy cookies.

10. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Mixed Chilli Oil - my recipe

Due to the problems at work, i need to start clearing my stocks and ingredients. Suddenly saw my bag of dried mala chilli. Here goes, chilli oil experiement or what i called now the chatGPT/Internet/IG cooking.

                            

Remove the top of chilli , remove seeds. Crush the chilli to finer pieces (no processor or blender) so its all hand work. Heat an almost one small bottle of oil (target storage). Fry the chilli on low heat.

Chop and mince up some garlic 4-5 cloves, only had  yellow onion , so 1 slice and diced it goes. In it goes.

Had some cumin leftover, in it goes. 

Add some paprika powder, add some sugar and salt.

Toss in generous amount of sesame seed. I got half a bag from prometer just not long ago =.=

Turn to high heat, fry till brown and fragnant. 

Turn low or off the heat. Add some soy sauce to the mix.

Let cool. There the chilli oil ,which turns out pretty good. Will try this out with peanut butter for the noodle flavor bomb recipe.

Braised pork belly

This is part 2 of my remaining half of pork belly. It goes to the original braised pork belly or black soy pork (oh tau yew bak) plan. My intention is to make it really soft by braising , trying to achieve the taiwanese ru rou style aka melt in mouth.

INGREDIENTS  

For the saute on pan cooking part:

1 slab pork belly About 2 pounds -  using what's left from roasting

2 tablespoons soy sauce  - reuse the soy liquid from mayak egg marinate lots of them to create liquid

5 slices fresh ginger powder , dash of it about 1.5 tablesppon

3 stalks green onion Cut into 1 inch pieces replace with diced white onion, red onion, garlic, half tomato i got lying around and mixed meat powder

4 tablespoons chinese cooking wine You can use your favourite white wine instead - swapped to my cheap 2L Belo Vino 

2 pieces star anise Broken up - skip since i dont have

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon Optional -add a dash of it

For the dark soy sauce part, heat separately in pot.

2 tablespoons dark soy sauce

2 tablespoons brown sugar - used sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

 

Cut the pork belly up into 2 centimetre thick chunks.  This is the traditional Chinese way of serving it.  Place meat directly on pan to fry no need oil lots of it will be extracted from the meat. After browning the meat in a separate pan saute the onion, fragrances along with the other seasoning ingredients and  the soy sauce mix cook for 15 minutes.

Add the browned meats, to saute pan and finally transfer to the pot with dark soy sauce and the brown sugar. Bring to a boil and then turn it down to a slow simmer. Cook until the liquid condenses into a thick gravy i just leave it up to 2 hours. It turned out similar like those ru rou pot broken down meat.

That's it, ready to serve! Result is pretty satisfying even though lacking the rare 5 spice powder in burek/balkan land.

Roast Pork Belly Recipe

There is first for many in cooking aspect this year. Pork belly sells on cheap today about 5xx dinar (RM25) for 1kg. First thought was going for braised pork , then i saw it had the bony parts as well. So here goes partial of the purchase to roasting pioneering trip -- in the oven it goes. 

As usual google around and quick search in IG for reference.

INGREDIENTS

Little bit drop oil - rub on skin side

Sprinkle generous amount salt on skin

Marinate mix for meat - missing many items like 5 spice powder, star anise for more traditional chinese style , so jebiga screw it just go basic.

Pork belly 0.5kg i think

Some recipe calls for blanching the pork first. I skipped it, just go straight patting the pork dry with paper towels. Slicing the skin provide more area to crunch the skin i think, didn't do it though since my meat is already cut up already.

Place it on the wire rack. Rub the meat spice mixture on bottom side. Just few drop oil rub on skin, then spinkle generous amuont of salt on skin. Had to tie up the meat slabs since its already sliced thin when bought.

Pre-heat the oven to 200°C. First go for about 30 minutes. Lots of oil/lard dripping for pork belly. Next roast at 15 minutes interval, keep watching the skin. 2 rounds and its ready, total of 1 hours roasting at 200C.

Remove the roast from the oven. Chop up and serve with whatever you like this crunchy goodness.

Homemade flat bread recipe

 Flat bread recipe is simple ; only few 3-4 ingredients.

wheat flour  - got 1 pack 1kg for less than 60 rsd. (RM2+). use 1 cup to get 4 balls.

water - add little by little to get the right consistency

salt-  just a little pinch

oil  - few drop after kneading few minutes

add some sesame oil - press it into the dough right before going into pan.

Shape into golf ball shape. don't have a rolling pin , so this becomes like a palm and press flat bread. Oil pan, heat up a bit first then sort of cook in little oil & heat it into flat bread. In the pan i drizzle some sugar well, i suppose to give it a little sugary glaze on surface. 

Looks a little pita-ish and can leave it on pan to brown abit. Probably can use as wrap, taste wise its a bit harder like wrap than the looks of roti canai.

DIY Goulash vegetarian

 Bought a goulash mix , its a powder packet. Custom adjust it since i don't cook beef, i turn it vegetarian.

Goulash Ingredients:

Yellow Onion – used both yellow and red

Green Bell Pepper – you can use other colors of peppers if desired (used frozen mixed)

Ground Beef (omitted) , i fried minced pork mixed separately to eat together.

Garlic - minced garlic

Tomato Sauce - replaced with a dash of ketchuo

Diced Tomatoes – 

Beef Broth - replaced with chicken stock

Worcestershire Sauce - dont have, changed to vegetarian stock mix

Seasoned Salt  - used normal salt

Italian Seasoning - omitted

Bay Leaves

Dry Macaroni Noodles – used chinese ramen noodle

Cheddar Cheese - omitted. ate with cheese bread stick, super nice combo with cheese.

Paprika powder-  2 tablesopon ,season with salt and sugar.

Red and yellow chilli 3/4 each.

Root vege - carrot, potatoes

Start by  browning protein (i fry it separetly) , brown the onion and bell pepper, toss in garlic until fragrant.

Pour in tomato sauce and diced tomatoes along with mix, broth and Worcestershire stock/paprika for some added depth of flavor. add some bay leaves. remove leaves after cooking

Add in the seasonings , blanch noodles separately and serve with sauce..

Anime DEC-JAN

The legendary hero is dead! Total ep12. Something abit different, comedic in a nice way. Legendary hero dies on episode one, and what continues on with protagonist filling up the heroes' role. .

Hell's paradise 13 ep - story of an assasin that received a mission to find the Elixir of Life. It's pretty interesting and decent art, expect S2 to come since the last episode ends with the shogunate sending more reinforcement to Paradise.

Dungeon of black company ep 12 - comedy type and sort of different genre of current trends. NEET protagonist got transported into a fantasy world and struggled being Corporate Grunt. It is light and funny storyline till the end. Sort of nice from the current isekai trends. 

Dead Mount Death Play ep13 - this is probably season one about Corpse God that got reincarnated as Polka as he got assasinated. The art, story and how the anime are potrayed together are pretty and nice. Kept things interesting throughout the whole series. This is pretty rare, tbh most anime have some moments where story spent so long for developing some storyline/character and drags on abit about it. 

Ya Boy Kong Ming ep13 - is a pretty solid and good anime about a songtress trying to make it big. The story line, vibe and art all have style and depth. Didn't know anime about song will have decent story and also song. Probably will save the OSTs for in personal librbary for listening. It's interesting that recent anime all revolves around travel forward or back in time. 

Immoral guild ep12 - this is definitely an ecchi anime NSFW despite it being a Square Enix production which got me started. Aside from softcore ecchi scenes and if the classic hentai tentacle shit don't disgust you, the series are pretty comedic and not boring. But all the scenes lead to ecchiness and lewd side ,so this really depends on what is your tolerance level to go on till the end, again its a quite decent less serious storylining aside of nonsense scenes that always leads to its original intended ecchiness direction but at alot of times strangely humorous. 

Mashle: Magic and Muscles ep 12 - the other popular genre at the moment. Overly powered MC with unique quirks you can say. It's interesting, funny and S2 is coming soon in 2024 Jan. Pretty worth watching since its don't have much cringe scenes and probably you can't stop from episode one till the end.

These marathon episodes probably will end for current journey. Had problem with work visa that HR and everyone ignored months ago and now it finally surfaced. Created sort of a situation of being deported by mid Jan. Not unexpected but came earlier than what i hoped for, well it is what it is.

Drama DEC-JAN

 Bloodhound - netflix series 8 ep. Pretty good story , lots of voilence and fighting so it depends on your preference liking, full of actions. Just a little strange certain parts of steory dont really connect well , for example the side female character just go missing after being in the centerlight for half the series or more. Still pretty good series about modern day loan shark and underworld at modern Korean setting.

Sweet home S2 released in Dec 23, total 8 ep. The story deviates from manga now if im not mistaken. At one point of S1 it starts deviating when outsiders truck invaded the camp. The story is different now. But S2 is like story of camp #2.. S3 maybe story of MH-1 or camp #1  ? haha.

Yuu yuu Hakusho  - releasing in mid Dec. One of my childhood favourite, not sure how good adaptation they will do. Read that it will cover 2 arc up to dark tournament which is alot to cover in just few netflix episodes. We'll see how well it goes. Update: not a bad adaptation albeit a little too short, been 15 years + since i read/watched the mange or anime. It's basically snapshots of some scenes along the long arcs till Dark tournament arc to piece them up for the story to make sense and changing parts here and there to make it shorter and compressed into 5x 45-50min espisodes. To be frank Kurama and Hiei looks hideous compared to original art, Kuwabara got the character right but probably hard to find a fit for kuwabara/sakuragi style character in real life and probably a challenge i suppose to get Hiei right. Karasu surprisingly hits the spot.   

Lost you Forever 2023  - total 39 ep. It spends almost first 1-10 ep talking about how it started and how lead actress is living. in Middle she starts meeting the main players of the drama. Not boring,but feels like the drama is abit dragged . The last 2-3 episodes seems like its wrapped up abruptly , feel like a very jerky ending. But the subtitle says S1, so probably there is S2 in plan already from beginning.

You raise me up 2021 - total 8 ep. K drama about a strange theme erectile dysfunction. Have to say the plot and production is decent, while its good keep it short and sweet. It focuses alot on romance , and spent most of time developing character which is less seen as most of time k drama tend to over exaggerate or dramatize, it still a romance themed drama though and what seems like it will be very comedic and ecchi didnt happen. Still for some parts such as first 5-10 min of ep 1. Its really strange that main male lead spends 95% of the time doing part and worrying about other shits , spending parent's money to rent an apartment in Seoul. Still it had some touch of realistic feel as long as you dont get too serious about where the plot heads to most of time. One of those good guy finish last romance kdrama.

Hellbound 2021 - total 6 ep. Story about divine or hell retribution in Korean setting, featuring mainly 3 gorilla/apeman avatar and a head apparition thats like Power Ranger Zordon's long lost brother who looks cooler than him , thats all about it. To be honest its a big waste of time, probably can put this production crammed up all into one movie instead. Halfway in, but still couldn't really put my fingers on what's really the main plot is about yet. There is alot to gripe about the series. At last episode now and everythings still feels like its going downhill from 1st 10 min of episode one. Sadly this one is not deserving of a Netflix production with such poor beat around the bush and story puzzle pieces that dont really piece together the story line puzzle and sort of like piece of gibberish here and there that don't connect and relate much to each other. The mystery is not well explained or revealed instead focuing on human capitalizing on the strange event happening. Deacon Yuji build up a good bad guy vibe only to be taken away by police for battery assault, what the heck at least give him an immdediate decree as retribution man. Whatever happened to the detective that they sort of focused on earlier. And worst of all is the ending, sort of like The Mummy returns that left viewer puzzled on top of the already 5 + episodes of puzzlements and so many strings left loose like the Chairman guy's ending, what happens later to the miracle baby, what happen to New Truth, the public's reaction etc..  No wonder i was snoozing off at episode 2, which doesn't happen so far on any binge i have recently.

Weak Hero - total 8 ep. Is based on Korean webtoon, revolving about 3 friends in school and with setting of high school bullies as the main storyline. Expect some violence , not that gory but some tense scenes where you will think what will happen to this or that guy in the pinch. Other than that would rate this about so-so , not dull but not very exciting story. The lack of emotion of lead male most of time, i'm not sure is it intentional or according to the webtoon character. The first bad guy was okay building quite good, but later on most of them are pretty much meh.

Strong girl Nam Soon - total 16 ep. K-drama about a family with hereditary superwoman power. Aside from this, the story is pretty decent and something that is out of K-drama stereotypical drama. The appeal point of this is it involves some romance and straight up drama about the drug trafficking and mafia storyline. Pretty recommended for watch. Lead actress is your typical korean lady beauty and the excellent protrayal of her mother adds up to the appeal of the series.

Yangpa Jjangajji -pickled onion and chilli

Saw on insta an easy no cook version by eboake. taste great due to soy + sugar duh. i soak 1 day and removed onion, continue use to soak as mayak egg liquid.

Chopped onion

Chopped chilli

1/2cup soy sauce

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup vinegar

1 cup water

Add minced garlic variation.

China visa application (for those who need it anyway)at Belgrade

source from google maps - opening times updated to Mon,Wed, Thurs per embassy' email feedback

Pretty strange circumstances I have. Since family plan trip to China I need to submit my own here. Local citizen don't need visa for tourist entry so I'm like the odd person applying china visa at Belgrade.

Some basic embassy link for info :http://rs.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/lsyw/qz/

Anyway, first follow the online link. Key in all the information have a visa photo softcopy ready. Don't need actual since the form will attach by the website into a visa form. So save money printing the photo. The checklist is there , just follow 1-9, fulfill then provide i suppose.

source via embassy site

Need passport copy , one blank page for visa stamp, residency status in my case I had temporary residence pass, precious approved visa records. China itinerary , flight ticket and accomodation booking info . I attach too work contract and travel insurance since I got them for my work trip seems to work.

Visa issue is 3 months validity , so need to time that it's valid for my trip. Once everything is in place submit online. Asked in email to embassy no need appointment just walk-in to submit. Location is at Konzulat kineski at Augusta Cesarca 2b opposite is a small cafe.

Wait for turn, go to middle counter and give all documents , sign the application form and handover passport . The visa should be ready in 1 week or so i was told. It was Monday on the day i went and the NPC lady said to collect next Monday. Had to remind her how about payment.

Payment is to be done at Raiffeisen bank. Embassy will produce a slip it costs $40 for single entry L visa for tourist. Probably covert up to 44xx Dinar.

Only hiccup is I went to bank, queued for 30 mins and the lady said need to see a copy of the passport..whatthefack. So had to go back there again next day with a softcopy and printed photo of passport or whatnot. What a bummer.

Finally on next day morning, went back to bank for round 2. Queue 30-40mins again, this time finally managed to make payment. Got my receipt and my slip back. Looks like exchange rate changed, so total damage is 4507 RSD.

Hainan chicken rice chili sauce

 suddenly mau makan chicken rice chilli . go google for a simple recipe. ok straight forward, except that i got no blender. so going handmade (chop) and expect rougher textures.

INGREDIENTS:

1 red fresh chilli straight chopped  de-seeded

3-4 mala dried chili , soak , cut and remove those with mould

5-8 cloves garlic depends on size and if u like lots of them , peeled chopped minced

was going for ginger powder, but i forgot eventually. well still ok taste wise.

2 tbsp chicken stock/seasoning powder

1/8 tsp salt to taste , use feeling pinch of salt

1/2 tbsp rice vinegar   - sub with old vinegar

2 tsp sugar to taste - 1.5 pack sugar

juice from 2 limes - no need so much lemon juice. about half to 3 quarter

DIRECTIONS:

In a food processor, blend Hand chop and whack everything to a smooth paste as possible. 

Season to taste with sugar, salt or chicken seasoning powder, if needed. Serve with my roasted chicken meat. Taste ok la, acceptable in Euro land.

Keeps for about a week in the fridge.

Oven Roast chicken - easy , juicy

 Whole chicken. Remove the innards from the ribcage area. clean the rub with salt/seasoning

Marinate - with salt, yellow tumeric for few hours.

Do quick google about oven roasting 1kg take 1 hours. more or less at 200c. split 30min , then turn the chick. i changed to the steel tray since sitting on plate will soak the chicken. Plate below the tray to collect chicken sauce , add herbs + onions, potatoes and carrot. 

Glaze material . Easy to find ingredients you have in your fridge or pantry.

Garlic + Butter = Garlic Butter

A touch of lemon

A hint of dry white wine (optional, but adds so much flavour to the meat while keeping it so juicy)

Orange juice

1.5 tb of sugar

Sprinkle of salt

A bit of soy sauce

Mix herb + seasoning for meat

First time i do roast chicken in oven in my life. Juicy and nice, could get crispier skin if roast another 10min i think. Cheap and pretty easy.

Washing to be done later after roasting. Using ikea plate is possible.

This yields 2x wings, 2x drumsticks, 2x chicken breast meat and bones for broth making later.

Drama K , T, C or watever NOV-DEC

 Netflix series , Home sweet 10ep , is based on Korean manhwa. There are some deviations since i read the manhwa before but the adaptation is pretty good. With a suspense ending, so people will be left hanging i suppose. Can't remember how the manhwa ended so i'll leave it be until S2 comes. Which brings me the question of when they will do adaptation of Solo leveling haha.

BM tahun 4 - karangang - Suasana di Dapur

 

credit to cikgu mozello for the karangan title & photo.

Sweet and sour chicken - easy recipe

Simple and easy recipe. 2 parts recipe as below, mix chicken salt corn flour. i used 1 egg its fine as well. Cut in some potatoes to be fried in oil.

Mix sauce recipe, set aside. Saute minced garlic some sliced onions and diced tomato. Cook till mushy, add sauce mix in , cook for few minutes. Add fried chicken + potatoes in. Done and ready. 

Ingredients:

Chicken breast
Egg 2
Corn flour
Salt

Pepper, Bell pepper, Onion, Carrot, Diced tomato

Sweet and sour sauce :
Life brand tomato sauce 4tbsp
Chili sauce 4tbsp
Sugar 5 tbsp
Vinegar 2 tbsp
Soy sauce 3 tbsp
Water 30ml - replace with apple/orange juice for a sweet twist.

Anime - the marathon continues OCT-NOV

Jujutsu Kaisen  - s1 total 24 ep . anime is way better in the sense less information to digest. couldn't spend so much time to linger and try understand the whole concept by in anime is smooth flowing. and s2 is available.

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World - 25 ep . protagonist in modern world get transported to fantasy world. only have one special traie ' time leap back upon death'. Update: it went downhill from ep2 . couldn't hold my interest at EP3 (abandoned).

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime - 25ep , have s2 as well. this one is interesting moving story and content. There should be more sequel coming since S2 ends with a halfway story.

Mushoku Tensei : Jobless Reincarnation - s1 ep11 , another one of the top Isekai anime. This one have a realistic and more adult twist to the anime. It doens't focus on the system thingie but have a different style which i find pretty appealing and fast moving.  Part  2 is the sequel and S2 is airing in 2023. One noteworthy thing is they spent pretty good effort in adding filler scenes to the introduction ,gives it a pretty good feel vibe.

Attack on titam  - S1 , S2 , S3 and final season part 1 16ep, part 2 12ep , part 3 2ep. S1-S3 is a little slow on the story,  it is pretty brutal killing off characters left and right. Story can be pretty confusing and twists here and there. Final season is where things become more interesting. Soundtracks are all pretty meh except for S1 opening.

Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious 12ep.  Another older isekai. pretty interesting but sort of ended 12. well at least its kept interesting all the way and ended abruptly before it start feeling like a drag.

Rise of the Shield hero - another isekai. yet to start.

Ragna Crimson - .

Didnt start Jojo's adventue yet. 

Gurenge Piano By E//

 just a progress check-in  of e// piano. when she gets better her mum promised to get her the Nezuko costume for children's day.

Apple pie filling recipe - trial and error

Looking at cheapest material where i am now. -apples 

First time in life, im gonna try my hand at making sort of jam/ spread using apple pie filling recipe.

Ingredients - 

4-5 apples i think i cored and peeled up to 6 of them  (bought cheapest Gala, smaller and fresh).

Dice them and put aside.

On medium heat pan drop in .

2 tbspoon - butter  ( i used margarine aka fatty spread here).

2 tbspoon water - substituted with apple juice since i got on hand

1 tbspoon cinnamon powder - bought 1 small pack just for this experiement.

1 tbspoon sugar - sub'd with 1 pack litttle brown sugar

Add diced apples. 

Keep cooking until they turn soft. Dont have a masher, i kind of wanted something like McD's apple pie filling. So i cut them smaller while cooking until they soften and water. 

Add cornstarch 1tbspoon  - i use feeling measurement.

Cook until apples soften to your liking.

Let cool off, then keep in jar - i suppose refrigerate. Will update back how long it lasts.

This recipe yields me like 3/4 of a big jar. Labor intense, cut and dice apples while watching swordsmitch arc kimetsu no yaiba. But taste is pretty good, like those from mart shelf, minus all the preservative im guessing it depends alot on apple sweetness level, or to compensate by adding sugar.

The skins from peeling, throw them into oven. i baked 10 min 100c 2 times, then go for 15min 125c. Abit charred, but its crispy. Maybe last round should've gone 10min 100c as well. Make use of everything, these ideas i get after looking around random insta post.

 

2023 buku teks for primary school (Malaysia)

 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bzAAhKmy8_Jho_d8f-6uJnaiWZZ5el9Y?fbclid=IwAR0d2Qagsh0wbFIHTo_iBFMM9nhv4Lm9E6yzBwlxq-UrqliMWcXwbmWb-Lo

Raita - timun/zuchinni yogurt mix

This indian salad is pretty straight forward. Makes a great low calory snack or when you feel like need something to bite.

Core materials that makes the taste matter: 

Zuchinni  1pc

Indian onion 1pc

Red Paprika (quarter)

Apple (quarter or half if you like sweet)

Diced tomato - (quarter)

Jogurt 2.8% - pour in as needed use jour brajn

Lemon  (quarter)

Chop slice and dice zuchinni into small size. Salt and let sit 10 minutes. Continue dicing up the rest of items. Squeeze zuchinni to discard water and mix all together. 

 Add a dash of salt and sugar. 

Squeeze lemon juice. mix , mix and ready to serve.

Optional - add chilli powder (don't make much difference to me). 

Optional - add parsley flake or cumin powder or mint flake (don't have these so no idea what's the difference).

I serve with some fried onion since i like crunchiness. tomato may contribute to watery gravy ,may opt to leave it out if you like less watery yogurt sauce. 

BM tahun 4- karangan - Suasana di kantin sekolah

 

Chilli oil + peanut butter noodle

 trending recipe for easy and yummy dry noodle. works with ramen or any soup instant noodle i suppose.

boil the noodle, drain in cold water and leave aside to dry.

chopped garlic , chilli (powder/gocuhjang), scallion, sesame.

heat oil up and pour into the mix

add soy sauce and lao gan ma , then mix in the peanut butter.

mix noodle in, add with any dry condiments you like - fried onion or peanuts & anchovies.

probably top with finely sliced cucumbers would taste refreshing

One pot vege rice + protein of choice

 another one of those prep meal stuff. again to reduce cooking to 2 times during weekdays.

i would usually like to have rice. 

rince rice, and soak for 30 minutes minimum.

chop - onions, carrots, potatoes, paprika and frozen corn.

its good to have chicken stock . if no  replace with water+butter+chicken seasoning+garlic seasoning or any of choice. 

will be good to add ginger slice, but im lazy, i go with tumeric ginger powder.

all these mix into into your rice pot, if no rice pot use a large cooking pan and cook for 25-30min .

watch the fire as the rice turn fluffy lower the heat.

usually for the protein i go with chicken + onion.

premarinade with dark soy bean, vinegar, basil leave soy sauce and garlic or any type of choice.

fry in pan till slightly char. 

optional either stir fry some simple vegetable or add water with corn starch to make gravy. 

once vege/ protein with gravy is ready, pour into your rice pot at low heat.

mix . then you get prep meal rice + protein + vege.

next will probably try those mushroom gravy style chicken.

Anime -new age SEP-OCT2023

 Am i the strongest ?    - 12 ep , magic, reborn , funny and interesting all the way :) still ongoing

Zom 100: bucket list of the dead  - 9 ep still airing. zombie apoc , with main protagonist is carefree worker.  - seems like this one is suspended indefinitely.

Seven deadly sins 24ep  - this one is under netflix i guess the art was improved a bit. seven deadly sins season 2:  revival of the 10 commandments  24ep -  seems like there is season 2 sequel . s3 wrath of the gods season 3  24ep

3x3 eyes 4ep - is actually a prelude episodes. the manga is one of my favourites when i was small. Balanced amount gore and comic relief pack in one alongside yuu yu hakusho , saint seiya, kenshin rurouni , gensomaiden saiyuki , shadow skill , FMA and many others. 

Saiyuki reload , gunlock ,  -25 ep my all time favourite from Saiyuki sequels. there is one series released last year. start from reload now.

The sequence 50 ep . saiyuki reload 25ep , saiyuki gunlock 26ep , saiyuki gunlock blast 12ep. Latest release will be Saiyuki zeroin  13ep (2022)- looking forward to watching this latest series of Minekura kazuya althought the arts is considered outdated since its from early 2000s anime. Update: zeroin seems to overlap gunlock blast on Hazel Grouse so this series is sort of like an arc not an exact sequel. It sort of ends with Hazel/Ukoku encounter and leaves the real ending hanging about stopping Gyoumao revival experiment and solving the cause of demonic wave that causes the problem in their current world.

 

Kimetsu no yaiba  aka Demon Slayer- the first season consist of 26 ep. till the fight of Rengoku , the fire colored hair hashira.  This is continue on to Season2  which is  "Kimetsu no yaiba" entertainment arc  - with total of 11 ep. Mugen train is a prequel to a window before end of Season 1 i suppose. having watched this prior in wrong order. Season i suppose will be focused on sound hashira having the spoilers shown in facebook highlights as well. Season 3 should be the swordsmith village arc total 11ep. 

Jojo's bizarre adventures - 

1. Season 1 ('Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency')
2. Season 2 ('Stardust Crusaders')
3. Season 3 ('Diamond Is Unbreakable')
4. Season 4 ('Golden Wind')
5. Season 5 ('Stone Ocean')

Whats next ,,,

tokyo revenger 

revenge of titan

Drama - K, T and C (JUL-OCT)

 Recently finished an amazing drama series. 

1. Till End of the Moon - 48 episodes , C-Drama. Pretty good story, pretty solid story and pretty cast.

2. When a snail falls in love (Thai) , T-Drama. Not bad pretty entertaining, set in police station environment. Supposedly derived from a comic and chinese version.

3.  Our blooming youth -  12ep K-Drama. Set in ancient korean palace. Pretty solid story, good development and entertaining side cast.

4. Zombie Detective - 12ep Kdrama. Detective theme plus zombie. Entertaining so far, story was kept light and interesting till the end. 

5. One piece 2023 - 8 ep .  adaptation of comic , this is part one. interesting not weird somehow. Would be interesting to see s2 where all the weirdos characters like Frankie, Chopper , Brooks come in.

6. Love you forever ?

7. Forbidden Marriage  2022- 12ep K-Drama. Ancient Korean palace setting, pretty solid story ,entertaining and good cast as well. .

8. three kingdom RPG-  2012  25ep .HK drama . protagonist got sent back to 3 kingdom era, and particiapte in some main events. fans of 3 kingdom may appreciate this series more (*or not maybe). ending was surprisingly...   - wont make it a spoiler here.

9.  Chinese Odyssey part 3 - is a movie sequel of Stephen chow's legendary movies. This one however falls below par of its predecessor although there are some light moments thats pretty comedic, and not sure if its all in Mandarin which again makes this much less enjoyable and relatable to its prequels. Other than that the storyline is pretty much not so bad. 

10.  Wrong carriage, right bride  - 24 ep . C-drama.  Standard idol and new chinese drama in ancient setup , with pretty/cute actress and handsome actors. Stories of 2 female leads being swapped on Ep1 , funny sometimes and slow to build up on first 2-3 ep. Was stuck here and jumping to others more interesting ones, but the story line is pretty good and not boring at least, jumping on 2 scenes of each female lead and their struggles with physical / mental perils respectively. Not too bad, but might not  be to some other's that dislike idol type drama.

Surivor note: DIY Quick Kimchi - derivation from kimchi pack base

So to be lazy and not cook that much that often i found the Chinese Market selling kimchi in little packs. Psst, this probably finish in 1-2 serving. Then i got an idea, why not use this as base and make my homemade kimchi batch. 

 Recipe: 

 Zuchini/Krastavac 1pc 

Cabbage (no napa cabbage here) less than half of small ones. 

Paprika/green chilli  - half pc

Yellow/Holland Onion/Luk Crni 1pc 

Garlic/Luk beli 7-9 cloves 

 Red apple/Jabuka - half sliced and diced. 

Carrot 1pc small sized 

Salt 2 tablspoon 

Sugar 3-4 spoon or to taste 

Vinegar/used old vinegar 1 spoon 

Red chilli powder since no gochugaru - 3-4 spoon to taste 

Lemon 1/4 or 1/3 , use your feeling. 

White sesame 

A drizzle of honey - optional 

1. Zuchini, slice into small bitesize piece, sprinkle salt. Set aside for water to discard. 

2. Cabbage, chopped into size u like, i like smaller fine slice. 

3. Boil water with salt. This is brine - once boiled let it rest 5 min. Dump cabbage in for 10 min. 

4. Add water to the pot, soak for 5 min . Drain and sprinkle salt over cabbage, let rest 15-30 min for salt to soak in. 

5. Rinse cabbage, drain, let it dry. 

6. Chop up the rest of veggies into smalle pieces. 

7. Mix salt sugar vinegar chilli powder to cabbage, add in the little kimchi packet for the base. 

8. Mix all together, test and add what is lacking to taste. 

9. Let it rest in room temp for one night. (up to here, will check back if this round 2 ferments great) 

10. keep in fridge for up to 2-3 weeks.

Dubai Airport transit - things to do here

Finally the time has come, i got off to a new journey... not eastern region of M land but another new region unknown to me in Europe. Anyway back to post topic, my flight from KLIA is transitioning at Dubai Airport aka DXB and i had a 10 hours + layover wait.

First off, the flight will normally drop us at Terminal 3. The map of the airport terminal and different gates will show behind the tickets i reckon. So what can be done, if you have about 10 hours and is not going out for a short tour of Abu Dhabi ? 

Getting to gate A & F requires security check so it's quite a pain to get around if you lugs around a backpack and any hand carry bags.

1. Complimentary transit hotel  - if you fly Emirates it is complimentary by the airline for transit >5 hours and will appear in the system as an option.. However, you will need to book 48 hours in advance. When you bought flight tickets, you can go into emirates skyward site, manage flights and there you will find the Dubai Connect. You can book a transit hotel, check on visa on arrival requirements (i was told Malaysian passport no need preapproval and to do visa on arrival over counter i reckon, and assuming that hotel is outside of airport nearby). 

Unfortunately, i lucked out... the boss man asked me to reschedule my flight 1 day in advance. Thus i forfeited my complimentary transit hotel T_T.

2. Take a shower - so at T3 there are if not mistaken at least 2 toilet with shower that allows you to take a refresher shower on top of brushing teeth, washing face etc. So do bring a small towel since it will be handy. Surprisingly bidet is also available in the toilets , feel so at home haha.

Shower with a tiny table & single hanger to place your stuff.

the so familiar bidet - i would say good job DXB 👍

  3. Have a hot drink for almost free- bring your own thermos mug, bring along one or 2 sachet of tea/ coffee mix. For those on the frugal side, this one beats the 20$ coffee anytime. There are hot water nearby those shower toilets area. Things at airport are normally jacked up price wise so this might be a better way. Also if you feel like it you can bring some dry small packeted food, jerky etc just to get through the transit time. I didn't try bringing an instant cup noodle, it is however available for around 10 AED if not mistaken at airport vending machines. What i did was since i had some kitkats and choclates from my flight over (too much food served) i kept it handy for the transit time.

4. Find a good comfortable spot and doze off , hopefully able to counter the jet lag effects. Since i had the time, i toured the whole B gate where it is the center of the terminal while doing Pokemon Go. I found this spot to be the best B32 one end of B gate. With a bench that you can fully lay down on, power socket and if you need to a small table to have meals do some laptop/tablet activities. I will be helpful if you got a earplug type headphone wireless perhaps since there will be noise everywhere. And set an alarm to make sure you don't overslept your boarding flight time.

even got a small playground. 

this is how people rock these chairs :)

notice the power socket its either down by his leg , or below the little tabletop thing. Recharge both yourself and your devices/power bank.

the typical lying chair (pink) are available all over T3. took a doze on one of these, B32 chairs definite beats this since you can lay down all the way. i had with me a pillow convertable to blanket and this one gives me like a 3 star sleep on these B32 chairs.

So this is it all about the DXB transit i experienced, hope it helps one way or another. There are plenty of stuff people listed at other terminals but i felt too lazy to explore further. Ciao, till next time.

Ukulele - getaran jiwa by Henry Rotinsulu

took a while to find this previous piece.

https://www.chordband.com/guitar/hendri_rotinsulu_getaran_jiwa.crd

 Chords used F, Dm, C, A, G, Am, Gm, D, Em

[intro :]=====

F Dm C A Dm G C Am Dm G


=====[verse :]=====

C
Getaran jiwa
          Dm
melanda hatiku
     G
Tersusun nada
      C
Irama dan lagu
  Gm          A
Walau hanya sederhana
    Dm
Tetapi tak mengapa
  Am          D
moga dapat membangkitkan
       Em       Dm      G
Setadarlah kamu wahai insan


=====[reff :]=====

          C
  tak mungkin hilang
        Dm
  irama dan lagu
       G
  bagaikan kembang
                A
  senantiasa bermadu
    F        Dm
  andai di pisah
    G         A
  lagu dan irama
               Dm
  lenyap tiada berjiwa
  G    C G
  hampa


=====[musik :]=====

C Dm G C
Gm A Dm
Am D   Em   Dm   G


=====[reff :]=====

          C
  tak mungkin hilang
        Dm
  irama dan lagu
       G
  bagaikan kembang
                A
  senantiasa bermadu
    F        Dm
  andai di pisah
    G         A
  lagu dan irama
               Dm
  lenyap tiada berjiwa
  G    C Am
  hampa
               Dm
  lenyap tiada berjiwa
  G   ( C )
  hampa


=====[outro :]=====

C Dm C Dm G C