My Second Cake Experience

I was free and boring throughout this week. I just had my training yesterday. It is another new project I will accept this week. It is Nestle Nesvita 3 in 1 cereal drink. My sampling will be mainly green tea variant.  Hence, it will be indeed a good breakfast as I like green tea variant. Anyway, this will not be the topic I will like to discuss here. My topic of today is “steaming” cake. You must be wondering why is the term “steaming” was used. The reason behind is because steaming is the method of making the cake. The name of the cake is Chocolate Marie Biscuits Cake and it was my second experience of making cake.

For your information, the recipe was given by my auntie. She highly recommended this cake to me as it is the easiest cake and the ingredients are common to be found in the market. The recipe is as follow:-
a) 250g butter, softened
b) 200g caster sugar
c) 5 eggs
d) 250g Marie biscuits, ground
e) 2 tbsp cocoa powder

Right! The ingredients are commonly found! Thus, it will be my choice to kick starting my first trial in making cakes and cookies. I bought the ingredients yesterday and I found that the ingredients were not really expensive about RM15. The ingredients I have bought were in excess. Therefore, it still remains quite a lot for my next trial. Let’s talk about the process!

Firstly, I added butter and caster sugar and stirred it with stirrer. Perhaps, owing to the reason of I had frozen the butter; the butter is hard to be stirred. However, with my stirrer, the ingredients were mixed until creamy. The definition of creamy in my point of view is that the colour of the mix becomes whitish and the texture is smooth. Next, eggs are added one at a time and mix well. One of my observations after the eggs were added is the mixture yield higher viscosity and color changes back to golden yellow as well as the volume of mixture keeps increasing as the subsequent egg is added. The explanation from me is that egg consists of emulsifying property. Thus, the mixture will change the texture as time passed.

Thirdly, I sifted the Marie biscuit’s powder and added into the mixture to form a thick batter. After the mixture was stirred until smooth, I separated the batter into 3 portions. One of them was mix with cocoa powder. After all of the above being done, it is time for the steaming process. I pour one portion of the batter into a cake pan which greased with oil. Then, I steamed it for 10 minutes. However, I found the batter was not cook well. Thus, I steamed the batter for another 5 minutes. Owing to this is my first time of preparing this cake; I was not sure how to determine the doneness of the first layer of the batter.

I added on the subsequent cocoa batter on top of the first batter. I found that I had done a mistake that was the first batter was not cooked. And I found it rather difficult to spread for the second cocoa layer. As the first layer was soft and once I spread the second layer, the first layer was spread simultaneously. Hence, I found it rather like a rojak that mixing two different layers together.

Right at that moment, my focus was to spread the second layer thoroughly on top of the first batter. Although it appeared to be rojak in varies spots, but I still be able to finish spreading of the cocoa batter. I have once thought of throwing the cake into the dustbin. However, I told to myself that I need to finish spreading even it appeared to be unappetizing. As this was my effort for the whole morning just to stir and mix the ingredients together with my empty stomach as I was too excited to making the cake until not yet even had my breakfast at 12pm. Fortunately, the outcome of the second layer after steamed was not that terrible and even quite good in appearance. The moral of the story are persevere and focus the goal that was first initiated.

The last layer of batter was spread and steamed for about 15 minutes. One of the tips given by the recipe is that assure the first layer of batter was cooked before adding the next. However, I failed to do this and it made me quite nervous what was the outcome of my trial in steaming cake. Anyway, another tip from my personal view is that the fire to steam the cake must be big to make sure sufficient heats are given to cook the entire cake. In addition, you need to make sure your water will not dry off due to excessive heating process.

To have a look what’s the result of my first trial in steaming Chocolate Marie Biscuits Cake, I guess the photos below able to explain the outcome better than my description. For your information, the photos and the garnishes were my DIY production.

Chocolate Marie Biscuits Cake

Hence, I can say this is 100% William Ng ®. Wakakaka…

Chocolate Marie Biscuits Cake

Working?

Without wondering, my one month holiday passed. What have I done throughout the month? I really have no idea. I was supposed to work yet unable to find a suitable job that really fit my intention to stay only two months as I am in my semester break currently. Most of the employer heard that I merely able to work for a short period of time. Most not really want to accept me, even I am qualified to be their staff.

I guess one of the problems for me is that I am too honest. Whenever during the interview, the interviewer asked “how long you can work?” The answer will always be two months as I really have less than two months I can work for them in fact. However, if I could tell lie; I could have worked the first day of being interviewed. Unfortunately, I just could not get myself telling lie just for a job because I know the employer will be going to suffer after my resign. He or she will need to put on the advertisement in the newspaper for the Job Vacancy.

Another situation I found is that they will be disadvantage if you are university student yet applying for a job like promoter in Time Square. As they will usually ask you “what do you study first?” I have this experience that I went to Isetan in Lot 10 for interview as a sale promoter for clothes. The interviewer asked me and I told her. She asked me back a question which might sound really weird, “Do you have any fashion sense?” I was out of witnessed how to reply and I said that this is my first job as a promoter and I wished to experience variety of working environment. The reply from her was that “OMG, you never as a promoter yet you still dare and come and apply for this position?” The first impression from me was that you are so weird indeed, why not a 20 years old “teenager” to be a promoter? But, I did not speak it out and I kept silent.

So, as a university student, you are not top up on the hill. You will still have the opportunity being hurt by someone out there. Not saying that she was wrong to comment me, because what she was thinking was that she does not want to employ a newbie to work for her. In this case, there is no wrong or correct comment; it is just what and which position you are looking in this issue. I can only say there is not everyone out there really willing to give opportunity to newbie. If they are willing to offer to you a chance of learning is all your luck, if they do not; they really have the right to do so.

In fact, I found that not everything in this earth happened in the way we planned. At the very first place, I planned to work 2 jobs together in a day to earn extra money. A part time teacher in primary school and a promoter in The Store near Pudu area, yet I failed to do so. I found that my first intention to be a teacher is really wrong. I thought to involve myself in education will fit my standard as a university student. However, I was so naïve in this context. I really spent about 2 weeks time just finding something did not have any pay back. I was indeed disappointed until a level I admitted to myself that I am a failure, a job also cannot find by me. During that period of time, I found that if I finish my study, yet I face the same problem of finding job, I will be more stressful than now.

Anyway, I found it great to have gone through that few weeks of despair time and I was so lucky that I still have my family members to support me. I have interviewer for a job as teacher in OUG and nearly want to sign up, however due to the reason they signed me up is for part time and the working areas are too far as well as transport needed to prepare by ourselves. I found that it really sounded like very untruthful as they advertised for a full time teacher and on that day itself before we discuss the agreement, he did ask for his staff has anyone to recommend to work as full time in the center. However, when I asked “can I convert myself to be a full time teacher?” *as full time teacher can be paid as high as RM1500-RM2000 as settled in the newspaper.  The answer is no and he said that he has enough person. So, what was I said here is the trick being used by the persons today. Hence, just be careful to be cheated sometime.

Next, I went to interview as a sole assistant in Genting with my friends. I found that Genting is a big company so is also a good shelter for person like me. At first I wished to interview as the Guest Service Customer position. However, it was limited to permanent working staff merely. At first, I really have no idea what do I need to do as a sole assistant. After the interview, I was told that it needs to work in casino for the gambling machine “Lou Hu machine”. Due to the reason of the salary is low and I found that I could find the same offer here in KL, hence I reluctant the offer at my final decision.

At last, I worked for e- Promode which is an agent company for training promoter to supermarket and hypermarket. Since the day I have joined the company, I have worked on a project with the duration 2 weeks only weekend. To be a promoter in the hypermarket and supermarket, it is not as hard as I thought. The product training is the easiest as due to the reason I have received a product that really fit what I have studied. The project is a Nestle Nesvita Omega Plus, it is basically an adult milk product. So, the focus group will be basically range from age 19 to 50 years old. They are my target!

You really have no idea what was the feeling of being the first day promoter. Moreover, my working place is in Jusco Maluri. Yes, you do not see wrongly, it is in Jusco where is well known because of its strict rules. However, the rules not really effective to me as I always fulfill it for example no highlighted hair, no long fingernail and etc. May be I was studied in MBS before, I found it really is not a big duel to me. Wahahaha…

I was not guided to the working place, I was out of my idea where is the entrance for staff, I was doubt that I able to bring hand phone inside my working place and etc, etc……

These were my first worry when starting off my work. I was given a contact number that she is the “senior there”. She might be able to help me to settle my problem. I was told that I need to prepare the samples in chill. Hence, I was told to buy mineral water to prepare the sample. I was not tasted the milk product before, hence I really have no idea what will be the favor and taste of that milk product.

First day of work, I felt like pain in my both legs after the 8 hours working time. I had never been a promoter before due to one of the reason is that it requires standing which might be a kind of trouble for me. However, I felt better for the next day of work as I think I have adapted to it. Luckily, I have someone really helped me a lot whenever I faced any problems; she is Jyu Yann, a young girl who will be in university soon. She is nice and helpful as well as easy to interact with and I felt like she is my friend but not my colleague.

In fact, I was quite enjoyed in this project and learnt a lot from my mistakes too. It made me knew how to promote and approach to strangers easier if I would like to promote my own products in future. Moreover, the product that I promoted was having strong selling points for me to make the sales. Thus, I will usually make my sale target which is 30 pax for everyday.

The selling point are this product is the first Malaysian Milk Product that having a triple goodness. Firstly, it contains omega3 and 6 for maintaining a better heart condition. Secondly, it does consist of Acticol which is a kind of plant sterol that functions in lower down the bad cholesterol in the body if we consume it. Scientists proved that it able to reduce 7% of the bad cholesterol in the body after 30 days consumed. Thirdly, it is high in calcium and if you take 2 glasses a day, day and night; you will be able to receive 100% of the recommended daily intake of the calcium. Furthermore, it is reduced fat milk product; it simply means that it contains 60% low fat composition if relative to full cream milk. Hence, you will not need to worry that drinking this milk product will make you gain weight. In addition, you can have this product in other fit other purposes for example cooking. We knew that “santan” is not healthy to us; hence I am here to recommend to you this product to cook curry for an example.

Generally, the above are all my selling points. Therefore, if you are nutritional aware persons, you should be able to accept this product easily and they used to ask me question like “what is the difference between your products with Anlene?” I could not make a direct comparison in this case due to sensitive issue like conflict with the promoter of Anlene. So, usually what I will do is that I will reemphasize my selling point 1 and 2. The reason being that as mentioned before this is the first Malaysia product that having the triple goodness, hence usually the clients will accept and might end with grabbing one for a trial.

I can roughly classify the customers into three groups. One is that they are money minded as like me; the price will still be the ultimate determinant for purchase. In this case, we have to cut down the long elaboration of the facts and faster straight to the point-promotion price/ cut down how much/ save how much and etc. If you keep telling him or her facts, perhaps your customer will just stop you from continuing your elaboration.  If you straight to the point, perhaps they will consider your product and stop for another 30 seconds for the decision making on hold period for you. This will be the golden time for me to start attack  clients with the benefits and need to enlarge the picture of promotion in their mind so they will buy your product. Hence, here is the technique I will use for convincing my customer.

Next, the other group will probably like what I have said just now, they really inquiry the benefits of having your products. They do not mind to spend their money on product but they want the value in spending too. Hence, this group of people will need extra elaboration of the facts. For example, create the scenario of the seriousness of the heart disease as first Malaysia killing disease that killed a lot of Malaysian. Owing to this reason, Nestle is more focused on this issue and came out with this product, this is a 3 in 1 product as it will maintain your heart, bone and artery as well as veins in your body. For me, I really thinks this is a wonderful experience for me especially when I need to counseling my clients in future as dietitian.

The third group of people will be mixed of first and second group, this is more likely to be the challenging part as they will not decide based on one factor but more than that, hence it might need more passion to convince them.How to judge among these three groups of people? The answer is experience helps me to make a general judgment at first glance!

Anyway, I felt happy to have this as my job. In term of learning a new thing, I am able to have flexibility of working time merely on weekend although I might sacrifice my plan to go out somewhere during weekend.

My feeling

This post was written when I was having my exam.

Date  :30.04.2009

Exam has nearly come to the end. There are 3 more papers to go; the feeling of mine now is conflict. From one angle of view, I wish exam can end it right now; from another angle of view, I wish to maintain this moment as I know I will be leaving KTSN in another 7 days. I will only sleep another 7 days in KTSN’s mattress. I will only be the resident of E408 for another 7 days. After that, I totally need to remove and shift out all my belonging back to my home. This is sort of like conflict feeling for me, I admitted that I am an emotion person especially a place that I really sent my one year here.

After these 7 days, I wouldn’t be the resident of E408. A room that left so many memories and a space that I started to train to be independent. I have once experience to stay away from home that is when working in Genting. However, the feeling is totally different. In KTSN, I can easily find someone to chat with and spend my days there. I can lock myself in my room to just concrete study and read my notes. This can last for 10 hours in a day. What’s an amazing record in my life! At home, I never have the record to study about more than 3 hours unless exam. The most will be 5 hours.

E408 is a room of mine, I treated it as my second home and now I will forever leaving this room without return. Right now, I could say treasure the remaining days in KTSN. Make the best memories in KTSN, another advantage which I found when stay in KTSN is I able to go jogging easily without any hesitate. It is just right in front of our college there is a big Titiwangsa lake. I could jog anytime when I feel like extremely saturated of studying. Hence, kind of like leading a healthy lifestyle here.

The mood of my now not really bad or happy, a normal feeling and wish to finish study my epidemiology and genetic as well as my biochemistry lab test as soon as possible. For the previous days, I did not have much to comment, just stay cool with me and wish me best of luck in my exam. And for my friends who are having exam, good luck to you too.

3 days 2 nights in Banting

Date        :    15.5.2009 -17.5.2009
Period    :    3 days 2 nights in Banting

A trip that was planned years ago and finally able to make it comes true. He is Keng, one of my best partners while I was working in Genting. He lives in Banting and that is why we went to his hometown for a visit. I hadn’t been there before. I could say it was a great trip and really fun!

Yuen fatt and I took KTM to Serdang to wait for the arrival of my friend to fetch us back to his hometown. I guessed of being excited, we were there much earlier than expected. After my friend reached at the Serdang KTM, we kick started our wonderful journey and heading to his hometown-Banting. Before that, we were fetched to his university for a brief one round tour. I found that University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) is such a huge campus and the buildings are well designed as well as with modern sense. In comparison to my university, I would say UNITEN far more concern about the architectures of its campus.

In order to go to Banting, we need to pass through Putrajaya and follow the signboard to Dengkil. I was told that Dengkil is a town but relatively small than Banting. I could say it was a short journey drive from Serdang to Banting as my friend said it merely required about an hour similar travel to Genting or even lesser time. Along the journey, we have a chat and gossiping news that happened around us. It was such a long time we never met each other since last year. Even though we were not studying in the same area, we did keep in touch with each other through msn and blogging. Today, while chatting with one of my university’s friend, she was surprised we still able to keep a close relationship even after many years.  Indirectly, it shows to us how’s magnificent blogging power in playing a role to maintain a friendship…

A short while, we reached in Banting. Firstly, we had our lunch in a roadside hawker stall. It was a stall that order fried dishes. Keng ordered for us the 3 dishes, one of them is the chief’s recommended dish in this stall and got reported in the newspaper. The dish sort of like fried mushroom with meats and it is tasty and delicacy and the other dishes are full with style of hometown. “Three dishes and one soup” is a typical Chinese diet’s culture,  hence I really felt like at home.

After had our lunch, Keng fetched us back to his house for a rest. It is a single storey house and with garden like semi-D in KL. Keng told me that it was his grandfather’s land and owing to his ancestor was from China and at that time when arrived in Malaysia, they brought the land. Hence, a raw with consist of 5 houses all are his relative. Keng is the eldest son with two sibling- one younger sister and one youngest brother. His grandmother and grandfather live with them. I was so embarrassed to say throughout the period in Banting, I never able to talk with neither grandmother nor grandfather due to communication problem. They speak Hokien the only language and I really had no idea how to converse.

After sufficient rest, we went to his father’s wood factory. It was located in the palm oil farm and was surrounded with palm trees. Keng introduced us his mother, a friendly and a nice mother as well as a competence officer. She takes control over the office and the workers there. A lot of information was obtained from his mother as she explained to us while bringing us to visit the factory. To determine a good quality of a wood piece, it must not consist of any holes due to woodborer and growth rings as they will cause break of wood piece while further process into furniture or others. From Keng’s mother, we were told that the wood sources are usually from durian trees and manggis tree.

I was shown how a tree can be processed into pieces of wood. It was through efficient machine to cut them into pieces. When I was young, I used to wonder how tree in round could be produced as rectangular shape. And now I finally saw in front of my eyes, just like cutting cake. However, if you do any mistake in cutting cake, perhaps you might just get injured and with wound. But here, you might lost your precious hand due to high speed rotation of the saw chain functioned by machine.

A tree can be cut into pieces and the remaining part of the tree still can be sold to get money. The corner part of the tree which cannot be cut into pieces will be piled up as woodpile to be sold as combustion source. Even though the sawdust consist its value that is to be sold and further processed as fertilizer due to it is a best habitat for earthworm. In addition, it can be sold as hamster’s sawdust. The prices of the tree is calculated in tonne, each tonne yield about few thousands ringgit depends on the quality. Keng’s mother said, the whole tree can be sold into money, none of them are wasted. It will be exported out to Japan, China and others countries to yield a better price by normally it will be done by the agent.

She even told us that the problem that had to face in doing business, quite “kacau of the GOV people loo…”, again cour_ption my dear! You should know what I am meant! Really a tough job to be accomplished! However, Keng’s mother said all these need practices and once picked up, you will know the way too. That is why I described her mother as competence woman. This factory is run by his father with his uncles, hence it can be considered as familial business.

After the tour to factory, we were fetched to Morib near the beachside for a drinks and leisure walk. His grandfather was once lived in this area before and later moved into where they live now. Although we cannot find crystal clear water here, but teh tarik colour seaside can still be observed. Blow of humid wind carrying smell of sea salt can be felt here. A few couples are playing near the beachside and had a wonderful period together. We drunk coconut water and ate a traditional cooked style for squid-chip which can only be found in Banting. We waited until the sunset and chatted while waiting as well as took photos together. It was a romantic day while observing the sunset but it will be better if the one sit beside is your lover. Hahaa…

The sunset, dark had covered the sky and Keng fetched us to buy souvenir- i.e. kerepek. The owner is one of his relative who is Malay. After that, we had our dinner in as western restaurant and had our steak meal. I found that the stalls in Banting are like KL, they opened until 10pm plus. After the dinner, we went back to home and got rest for the challenge tomorrow-hill climbing.

We started our journey to Bukit Jugra at around 8am. The hill is a military hill that is used by the armies for practice. Besides that, the downhill is a grave site for Chinese and just felt a bit scary when I was traveled down alone after being abandoned by my friend. Haha… The hill is not difficult to climb and I will label it as morning walk rather than climbing hill. However, the scenery there is fascinating and beautiful as shown in the photos. Owing to I am a city boy, the natural view is seldom observed in the city and I felt like really coexisted with the nature once I stepped on the hill.  Anyway, it was really a fantastic feeling.

Almost the entrance of the Bukit Jugra, there is a farm which was specially built for the Sultan of Selangor for deer’s meat supply. Due to the Sultan has passed away; the site was abandoned until now and left no deer but bushes. A thought just ran through my mind, what’s a luxurious lifestyle for a Sultan.

After the tired exercise, we went back for a shower and later Keng brought us to have our breakfast. It was a unique meal that only found in Banting. It is almost similar with “Ma Bu Teh” but not really the same as it consists of two colours- white and dark black. The taste is slightly less strong if relative to “Ma Bu Teh” but savored with home style favor. The white soup was tasted a bit bitter as it was cooked with bitter gourd. In short describe-“Hochak!”

Another tourist spot in Banting is……Police Station. You might be wondering why is the Police Station became tourist spot, the reason being that it is grand and well architectural building like palace or hotel.  After breakfast, we rest for a while and continue our journey to Bukit Tinggi where is closed to Klang for a movie. The cinema is located in the Jusco and the Jusco is considered as big as Pavillon in KL. Hence, don’t you think that town area is not well developed or not concerned by the government nowadays! The movie we watched was Angel and Demon. If really want me to rate, I will give about 90% as it is directed adventurously and full of critical thinking. Briefly saying, it is a movie that worth to be watched in the cinema. The cinema was damn cool until my fingers were nearly frozen and hard to move. Luckily, I was wearing long pant, if not I guess I might got into sick already…

Right after the movie, we rushed to the toilet and went out straight to outdoor to regain our body heat regeneration. Looked at the time, is tea break time and we decided to high-tea in Old Town Restaurant. I have tasted espresso mocha in Sg. Wang and it is really suitable drinks for all walks of life as the taste is commonly acceptable by the public. However, espresso mocha is not the same as coffee mocha. The coffee mocha is far more “weird” taste than what I had as espresso mocha. So, ladies and gentleman please don’t mix up these two and thought that they are the same.

After the high tea break, we walked around in the shopping mall and my friend, Keng bought himself a cap. He told me that for guys, we only required an item in our dressing to look nice and presentable and one of the items is cap. I felt agree too when started observing the guys around the shopping mall. An item is sufficient enough to carry a guy’s character. Later on, we went back and had our dinner. We had a new guest with us in our dinner; he is Quan, Keng’s youngest brother. He is currently student and need to face for SPM exam. Retrospect the past; we had gone through that level nearly 4 years ago. The kind of fears during SPM examination was not there anymore and without realizing we are now at the level of university, taking degree course.  I could only able to comment, time flies.

We ordered a chicken, a fish, 1kg crab and clam/ “Lala” as well as a dish of vegetable which was an abundance meal for 4 of us. The fish was among the tastiest dishes which the method of cook was new for me. “Oil soak” is the term and it is a new term for me too, but anyway it is delicious to be tasted. The clams also taste not bad and one of the factors that contribute to the savor is freshness. The seafood was caught and cooked at the same day, thus freshness is the biggest advantage here. There was a small trouble for me as I was spilt over my face and shirt -the juicy from the crab when Quan tried breaking the hard shell of crab by using an instrument. However, I did not get angry as I knew that he did it with no intention.

This meal was sponsored by Keng’s mother. I should say quite cheap as it only cost us about RM60+. If we ate the same meal in KL, I will say it must be up to RM 100+ with the minimum. After the meal, Keng fetched us back and owing to his friends from Sarawak came to his hometown, he went to meet them for a short gathering. Yuen Fatt and I were in his house and we started to discuss back some of the Mathematic knowledge. I had been one year plus never touched Mathematic as most of my subjects require reading and understanding as well as memorizing but not figures solving. Even though I left Mathematic for long period of time, but I still be able to catch up easily as the fundamental was taught and saved into my memories years ago and I just need a starter to combust and ran the machine only. You might be asking me, “Why are you studying back the Mathematic?” The reason being that would like to be a part time tuition teacher and this is must knowledge for me in order to grab a seat as the position of teacher.

Last night in Banting, we felt tired too. Hence, we bed early than expected. A silent night and peaceful surrounding caused me to fall asleep until morning without awake. It was a sweet sleep and day of unbearable sorrow as we were required to back to where we from and lead back our real life. A town gave us an environment that is closed to nature and freedom. We were isolated from the noisy city, heavy vehicle such as bus and sound pollution. The lifestyle here is slow yet with high productivity. The people here are friendly and nice to be interacted. The rate of carrying living is relax and less stressful than in town. Once, I asked myself, “Is this what I am looking for?” —I don’t know. However, I am sure that this is a place I will be back in someday for me to search for the answer. Thank Keng for organized this wonderful trip for us and I really appreciate what’s you have done. Thank Keng’s family for treating us and gave us place for accommodation in your house as well as treated us a few meals.

This is a wonderful journey. In fact, we need not to have any modern or sophisticated environment for a first class tour. There is always something top of materialistic satisfaction… it is the sincere heart. I am glad to say that I found it in your home and I am really glad to be there. Although there were neither crystal clear water beach nor exciting theme park, but the culture of this town is much more valuable than the others.

A journey should not be leveraged into first class or low class. Some might say, a small town, there is nothing much to explore. In fact, it is you to determine where to explore and what’s to explore. The great of world, there are always things that we have not even seen. Even a small town could have its unique culture and tradition. If you are a good traveler, you will never miss the chance to experience it and took as many photos as possible. If you would say the trip is boring and without any excitement.  I will say that you are a part of the journey and playing a role in it too. If the trip is boring that is you did not carry out your responsible well enough. You have 100% control over a journey and to make it to be interesting. Hence, even a small town can mean a lot for an enthusiastic traveler.

At last, Banting trip- Mission Accomplish!

Can I do it?

It has been a long time I never dropped by here. A lot to tell but did not know how to kick starting it. Perhaps, just let my friends out there to know my recent news first. Yes, I am having a marathon exam for 3 weeks long. It is kind of like great to have time to study for the subsequent paper. Without realizing, I was examined two papers and waiting for another killing paper next Monday. Haha…

I knew that medic’s students have finished their final today after a week nonstop examination. I really have to say, they are the brave one to gone through the exams. Enjoy yourself for the holiday, play as much as possible. What’s about me? I will still be in KTSN fighting for the subsequent paper”S”.
What’s the feeling of mine now? In fact, I am a bit down and not in mood now. The reason being the papers that have tested on me really make me felt that way… Perhaps our lecturers are new for this semester, hence past year did not help us a lot but this was what I had focused more. I did not blame anyone for this but myself because I knew that past year just a reference for me to know roughly how the paper will be tested on me.

I was shocked to look at the questions in the paper that related to something absolutely new for me. People thought I can answer the question but I could not. I just have my tried to fill in whenever that was glanced at once in the note. I did study. If you ask me, compare to last semester, which do you think you read more? I would say, “This semester”. However, I really did not know is my effort being appreciated or not. As the paper in PPM and ASM really make me to have a kind of feeling that I did not pay much effort.

I really don’t know how… How does the result will be? How am I going to face the subsequent paper? The moment I sat for the paper, I said to myself even though you did not really know the answer, write something related to it, who’s know your answer is correct. This was the least I could do for the papers that were tested because I really did not what’s more I could do for my paper. I saw a few of my friends went out the exam hall so early and I kept saying to myself- “No, you cannot leave now, stay here. I know it is hard but if you choose to leave now, I bet you will be regret later. Stay until the last minute, think and read again the paper to look for any other clues, think logically the questions and try to answer it in your own way but not following the facts in notes (*as note really have the facts and need to remember really killing me and what I do at that moment is to roughly write out the idea based on my memories).”

Yeah, I fought the papers until the last minute even though I did not really have the idea what’s I written there is correct or not. For me, I have tried my very best to finish the paper without even a single minute wasted for leaving early. In my point of view, it is not the matter of how well you answered in the exam, is the matter of “Have you done your best at the 2 hours and 30 minutes? Have you tried your best to answer?” If the answer is yes, then you will leave no regret behind you as once you stepped out from the exam hall, the controlled is no longer up to you to decide.

I grabbed the moment that I really have 100% controlled of my paper and did my best. The remaining, I left for tomorrow, but in term of courage to stay until the last minute for the paper, I praised myself- Yes, I have done it. Gambateh! Nothing is impossible if you make it possible! Just believe! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!

I was touched!

It was an awesome day. It was Makan Malam Kolej. I was shocked in my life that we were all being invited to dinner without even paid a sen. The venue is such a grand ballroom although it is sort of like hall. The place is near Chow Kit monorail station. A great memory for me and I was glad I went there on yesterday function.

It was a traditional wearing dinner which required the participants to wear traditional clothes. In fact, I thought going for the sake of merit as we have the Kompetensi Generik. So, most of my friends are with the same thought like me, hence we didn’t really dress up nice on that particular dinner. What I meant was for the minority of us in real as we was shocked when the time we went, all sorts of traditional wears were seen every corner of the ballroom.

It was the very first experience of mine to wear traditional dressing. My clothes are baju Melayu and I was borrowed by one of my coursemate. I was wondering how to wear the damping as I totally out of witnessed. Luckily, I have a Malay friend to help me up here and we were quite amused when come to the problem when I need to go toilet. It was such a mess if I undressed the damping when I go to toilet as it needed two people to wear that damping.

The only problem I found for this dinner was that it started to late almost 9pm. We were starving and the dishes were in front of us with the fragrance flowed out from the dishes when it was preserved as warm. 24节令鼓 is one of the shows that I wished to watch yet did not have the chance until yesterday. Quite a lot of performance for that night and suddenly one question crossed over my mind. Where is the budget came from? Another shocked for me when I was watching the performance, a senior approached me to take photos for the competition of best dressing. I was stunned for a moment and said in my deep heart, “what’s the hell? Am I heard it wrong? It was my first time in my life that someone admired my dressing perhaps I guessed because I was dressed as Malay.

Then, when the time came to the flash show, it touched me and let me retrospect a lot of memories in KTSN. Another thought crossed into my mind, our pengetua really sacrificed a lot and brought a lot of new renaissance to KTSN until we are sort of like improving every day. Without wondering, I was staying in KTSN for nearly 1 year. Although I was a PBSM group –i.e. back home always but I have treated KTSN as my second home. I was taught to be independent here with the biggest change in my life that I washed my clothes by myself manually. At home, it was done by the machine and not by hands; hence I did adapt myself in KTSN. Retrospect the events that I have involved MMP…PT…PAP…4KL…debate….bitter and sweet memories are all instilled in my soul. I wish I could pause the time, pause the memories between us, the time we chat, the time we minum tea together, the time we knocked at our friends’ door in the same floor and discussing matters, the time we had ghost story time, the time we Plan B the lucky one and the time we bear our tiredness to be together to run a function and a lot others……

Knowing that we might be apart as most of us might move out from KTSN but I wished the memories will still be buried deep in our memories and the smile and laugher we experienced once in that moment will remained in our history……Thanks for all the memories that brought to me, I am glad and proud to be a KTSN resident in the year of 2008/2009.

JPD Night 2009

Venue: The Legend Hotel

Date: 14.3.2009

It was a memorable day for JPD as this was the first course night that we had since entered university. I heard that it was a 3 stars hotel and we all need to pay about RM85 for each person. Perhaps, it was a little bit expensive and I just wished that I could have more time in taking photos with my course mates.

It was shocked as I saw most of my course mate had a 360 degree change after dressing up. Make up and style hair really play tremendous role in molding personality of a particular person especially for ladies. I did expect and looking forward to see the transformation of my course mate especially for the girls who never made up in kuliah. I couldn’t even think how can they change and once saw; it really gave me a shocked and made me out of witness. OMG! What’s the Hell!!! You all better wear like that in kuliah so that the lesson wouldn’t that boring every time.

In fact, I did plan for the dressing during course night for myself. The right of dressing reserved to William Ng. The hair style was done by my friend, kar hau.. thanks a lot for helping me in this because I really seldom did any styling on m hair.

It was pouring on that day. For gentleman, it might still ok but for ladies. It was such a tough task to walk from their room to the front gate. Besides, the guard did ask for the reason and the dressings of the ladies as they did not cover themselves fully as Malay. However, do you wish to know our excuses? Haha…we said that we were invited by our senior for a wedding party. It was such a fun and good view watching our course mate like cat walking along the road towards the bus which was waiting outside KTSN.

Friendly speaking, we had late and the due to this we all like rushing like hell to setup our performance. I was damn busy and stress with my singing group throughout past few weeks. Even some of my friends did notice me very stressful. Luckily, all came to the end and I did appreciate the hard time 11 of us bear together and prasticed as a team. They included Kar Hau, Mei Xin, Ivy, Pei Yong, Verona, Sim Yee, Kai Yin, Sing Jui, Chi Yee,Kok Hau and me.

Unfortunately, I found that the seniors especially for the 4th year seniors did not really responded to us well and I felt like we performed and they just as an onlooker role there without even giving any moral support. Moreover, thought us as transparent and kept taking photos. Hello, please lah, you all are old enough to think and if you are the one on stage and yet people did not even put an eye on you, would you be enthusiastic to continue performing. I meant some of them lah not all. Really like iceberg….cool like hell…..

Then, another weakness of the night I noticed was that we did not have sufficient time to take photos. I knew we did have a lot of functions be cut off due to time consuming. Actually, my brady needs to perform dance but not enough time to let them do so. Hence, I should say next time need not to have so many performances and just make it simple, fast and efficient. I noticed that we did not even have chance to go out for shooting purpose and all the background of the photos almost the same and not attractive as well. In short, what’s the point to wear so called like prince and princess is mainly because take as many as photos in different angles. And, I could see that the picture did not even have mode and lack of good views.

However, I managed to escape myself just for the sake of taking photos like orang kampung masuk bandar, until the staffs there also reluctant to take any actions on us. There was the few photos considered as moderate good view lash, I found even one staircase where located near the lift was such a wonderful and perfect spot of view as well as the piano.

Anyway, we even took photos in the cafe with the limited background and space. Damn pity until so rushed for the whole event and did not even have any leisure time to sit and talk with my grandbrady and have a good conversation with them. I hoped that it will improve well next year as I really did not want to be so rush and I wished I tired

because I enjoyed not because I rushed for show as superstar or Cinderella.

At last…

At last, the exam had finished. After being bombarded with the overwhelming works in PAP, I remained two more weeks for the preparation of Mid Sem. I even “trapped” myself in my room for studied until last Friday. Finally, the disaster week had past. I felt like totally relieved from the stress of exam.

Within these two weeks, I had kept myself in room even though I could go back home. I cannot really describe the feeling of missing home yet unable to go back even though I know I can make it. It was the 15th day of Chinese New Year; people used to spent it with their family or lover. Yet, I did not. Kind of like emo too lah when everyone went back and remained me in that silent block. No one to look for and really felt like lonely at that moment.

I cooked as I was in KTSN. It was the first experience for me to cook in my room. I know it sounds like ridiculous. However, I really did it. I went to Chow Kit wet market for buying the vegetables and canned food. And most vitally, fruits. Really cheap buying fruits in Chow Kit, you will never had the same price in anywhere except here. RM 5 for 10 oranges. So, cheap…

I did an experiment on the vegetable storage duration. Mostly, if you had the vege from wet market, it will usually last for two days the maximum without any special treat of it, namely Broccoli. I found that Broccoli sold in Chow Kit quite expensive as it caused RM2 for just one small basket. If you asked me which is the cheapest vegetable, I will say cabbage as the cheapest price I could get is about RM1.30. Hahaha…it can be my two days dishes.

If you asked me, why should I find the trouble to cook and why not buying food in cafe? Perhaps, my answer is- it caused cheaper but time-consuming when you cook. However, when the moment you are eating the food, you will have the sense of satisfaction. It cannot be explained but I can feel it. Although it caused trouble in cleaning, but I guessed this is also a part of my stress management strategy. If I said, I did study every day. In fact, I am actually cheating on you. As I cannot cope with it and I might even be crazy if it happened to me.

So, when I was too stressful to read further the textbook, I will be my cooking time. I can neglect all the Krebs cycle, sterilization… The beauty of cooking is that I can even remember the characteristic of starch. I applied and manipulated it while cooking rice. Start from gelatinization, then Formation of Gel, next Retrogradation, last is dextrinization.

Coming back to my feeling of after exam, it is really a good relieve for me. Ultimately, I could go back home. I “trapped” myself for two weeks just for the sake of study. It was 5pm plus after finished the PPM exam. My friends and I went to Times Square for an outing. We planned to watch movie. So, we made a decision to watch Daisy and Benjamin. Before watched the movie, we had our dinner a Japanese Restaurant.

If I would like to grad the movie, it will be FIVE star. The reason being, it was the first movie that I ever watched used a perfect management of story yet not to over or sounded illogical. I was touched by the first scene until the last. This is indeed a good movie I would like to share my feeling here.

The story set to be as in current but retrospect the past of the character. It gave me a space of thinking when the sentence appeared in the movie. “My friend doesn’t have the chance to say good bye to her, I wish I could say good bye to you”…It was an uncomfortable feeling and I asked myself, will I be doing it as well. If so, am I brave to accept the fact that my parentis actually leaving me. In fact, this question came to me when I was young. At that time, I will have the thought of suicide if they are not here anymore. However, the feeling now is different. I don’t feel like suicide but survive because I know how hard my parent brought me to this mother earth. How difficult they raised me up, if I choose to suicide then all the hard work done by them will be a waste.

Then, the next question came again, when a baby born to be abnormal or even a “monster” look. Will I abandon him? If you see him in you backyard, will you keep him and raise him up although you was advised that he cannot live long. Will you be patient enough to carry this baby work through the obstacles in front him and neglect the critics that other people looked at you?

I just think that will I be strong enough in my religion that the baby deserves a life to sustain. I doubt that will I take the trouble to raise him by my own. Perhaps, God knows my will. Benjamin is a child that is different relative to the others who was born to be an old people. And yet, his mother who adopted him did not give up and always stand by him to guide him. Even though, she knew that he might not live long but she said, God bring this baby here, he is special.

When this child grow up to be a teenager…..then adult. The physical and appearance changed. From old to young. And he found that he actually had the ability of growing younger as the age increase. He really tasted all sorts of spicy in life from a sailor to a warrior. He joined the army force for the World War Two. He was so fortunate to survive. He did meet up his life partner. However, when the days past, he found that he could not live with them anymore as her wife had his baby.

He knew that one day, he will turned to be a child and this time, he will no longer able to take care of his family and even need his wife to take care of two of them. I t was really a sad part of this story and decision to make as to leave them. You loved them so much yet could not see them anymore.

One day, Benjamin was found and Daisy came to see him. Daisy is an old lady now but Benjamin is a child. And when Benjamin died, he was a baby. Dasiy hugged him and he jsut died in silent and could not even understand anything from Daisy. Sad…

So, after watched the movie, it gave a lot of space of thinking. I was glad that to bear as normal. I thank a lot as I am still healthy.

After watched the movie, we were supposed to go back. And I should be backing home as I can walked back within distance. It was because of the need to pee, I went to toilet. And it was because of the toilet, I changed my direction to go back home. And it was bcause changing path, I met them again. And it was because we watched Daisy and Benjamin, we were still at Times Square at 11.45pm. So, the final decision we made was sing K.

So excited as we never experienced sing K at late night. We did enjoy so much and I felt like every was so HiGh as we really enjoy it so much. As usual, it spent more expensive at the midnight package and we were charged for RM45++ for a person. Yet, we felt like a great experience for us too. It was 4am in the morning. In fact everyone just felt like tired but need to bear with it. So, we walked to the Mc Donald to chat and we spent about 2 and half hours there. A great and wonderful memory for us to spend a day together and I enjoyed so much.

At 6.50am, all of us really to go back. And I was the only one left them and back alone by morning walk to home. A long the street, there are people walking and ready to go to work for them. For me, I walked because I want to sleep. As I walked back, a lot of flashback of things in my mind. About the dinner we had, about the movie of Daisy and Benjamin, about the wonderful time of singing K, chatting together in Mc Donald and much more……………..

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My Sem Break Part One

I had to say this was my most free holiday. I did not work at all like what I used to do as in past holiday. In fact, I tried to find a job as a part time teacher. Being a teacher is my ambition even until now. I treated it as a job that is just for an odd job rather than my lifelong work. However, I failed to find one as most of them required the teacher to stay in long period.

Never mind, at least I had tried and got myself interviewed as it was my second time of interview. The first was given to Genting. Retrospect that time, I was really very childish or can consider do not know the “highness of the sky and thickness of the earth”, my friend and I went directly to Genting Highlands for a job. No plan to call up relevant department for inquiry but just went there. Still remember there was Sunday and the interviewed was on Saturday. So call like very lucky, I was directed to a manager and he gave us a chance of interview. The story carried all the way to 3 years ago. Kind of like a kid just walked out from village and want to use his bare hands to find a living. Brave right!!

Yeah, talking about Genting, my Kensettians had organised a trip. There was 14 of us and it was a 2 days 1 night trip to Genting. I did enjoy so much and had a great time there. I did not follow the others but Yuen Fatt and I was together the most of my time in Genting. We were there together 3 years ago and same until now. We neither to Theme Park nor follow the others to shopping in First World there. In fact, I planned to go for movie yet because of time consuming I did not watch. We went to the temple in the half hill by bus offered by Genting Group. It was free and I wished to go there when I was working in Genting, until now only had the opportunity to go there. We did send a couple of hours there and got relax there. Then, we used our lunch there and the food was vegetarian food which was nice and at a reasonable price.

There was a steamboat night in our apartment and I ate so full and thanks to everyone who had contributed in this trip. I had known much more about all the presence at that night, I treasure it and might our friendship stay forever.