The Daily Brunei Resources: Brunei - 50 years under emergency rule

I am a fan of his blog and had bought one of his books on the compilations of his articles. The book is very informative and giving an insight on the historical and important event throuhout the history of Brunei.

It is an interesting read and this is the first time that I had knew of such existance of the emergency rule of our beloved country. Thank you very much for the blogger to share the radio transcript.
The Daily Brunei Resources: Brunei - 50 years under emergency rule: This is a transcript of a radio interview conducted  and broadcasted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio Australia

Lemon Mojito

LEMON MOJITO

Last week ago the family was having a pot-luck session at my late grandparents house. And what better way to quench the thirst to berak iftar on the hot sunny bright day by making Lemon Mojito

What you need:

1.    5L pitcher jug
2.    Sprigs of mint leaves (bruised it roughly so that the minty flavour would seeped into the drink)
3.    1 litre bottle of Waitrose Club Soda
4.    1 Can of Sprite / 7 Up
5.    4 lemons (3 1/2 lemons juice and 1/2 lemon cut into wedges for garnish)
6.    1 1/2 cups of sugar
7.    Topping it up to the brim with crushed ice and cold water.

How to make it:

Lemon juice and sugar added into the pictcher and poured in about 2 cups of water to diluted the sugar and form a lemon syrup.
Add in the club soda and carbonated drink (Sprite/7up)
Add in your sprigs of mint leaves and wedges of lemon
Stirred and top it up with crushed ice.
Serve

Dim Sum Anyone?

This is from the same book as my Mandarin Orange Crochetted Foodies called Gourmet Crochet. Will upload the patterns steps when I am free and less hectic with other committments. I love dim sum especially siew mai. Hubster was saying to me a few days ago that I should crochet something useful instead of these which has no purpose at all.

Mandarin Orange Chrochet

Last week I had crochetted a mandarin orange from my left over bright orange yarn. It was adopted from a book called Gourmet Crochet but actually from a tomato but I had change the yarn from red to bright orange since I love eating mandarin oranges.

Will upload the steps on how to crochet your own mandarin orange later. So stay tune :)

What You Need To Crochet A Mandarin Orange
3.5mm Crochet
Bright Orange Yarn
Green Yarn for the top stem.
In this project I only use a Double Crochet (UK) / Single Crochet (US) and finishing in decreasing my stiches

Horlicks Layer Cake (Kek Lapis Horlicks)

Horlicks Layered Cake (Kek Lapis Horlick)

 

Ingredients:

(A)

8 Eggs Chilled
200g Kaya
280g Hongkong Flour
1 tsp Baking powder
90g Iced water
1 ½ tsp ovelette

(B)

285g Butter
100g Horlicks
½ can Condensed Milk

(C)

Green and Purple Colouring

Method
1)      Mix (A) and beat until fluffy. Set aside
2)      Separately Beat (B) until smooth and even
3)      Add (B) into (A) and beat evenly
4)      Divide the mixture into two and add in colourings
5)      Bake as follows:
        a.       Purple Layer
        b.      Green Layer
        c.       Until the two mixtures finish.

Note:

1. Oven temperature is around 180C.
2. Using the top oven only.
3. Each layer takes around 4-5 minutes or until the layer is golden brown. If there is air bubbles forming on your layer cake, prick the air bubble using fork. Press lightly the cook layer after that before pouring in the next colour layer.
4. Once all the mixture finish. Cover it with aluminium foil. Change the oven settings to top and bottom. Bake until 10-15 minutes.
5. Cut when the cake cools down so that the layering would not break.  

 This recipe I had adapted from a recipe book calked Warisan Umi where I omitted one ingredient which is Tasty Biscuits as I felt that I dont want the taste of crunchy biscuit in my cake.

Enjoy xxx

Back to Office after my Customised Programme on Rapid Assessment & SIMEX Design for NDMC

This is what I attended (an unscheduled training) during a week long absentia from 1st May til 05th May at IBM, UBD. This course is designed for the early responders at the relevant goverment agencies. It is mainly classroom oriented course with practicals on how to use Mission Kits when going for deployment. And it ended with an exercise simulated by NDMC - I feel like I am an in that show called 'the amazing race' kinda feeling. The mission is to collect important data which called "Disaster Assessment Survey" for the Assessment Team - my team was called BruneiErat2 (Alpha2).

The Team BruneiErat2

On the way to the disaster field

Simulated Disaster Picture

Apple 3D puzzle

The family went to the Book Fair at the International Convention Center as the daughter was persistant to go there. After several cancellations of the trip due to the heavy moonsoon rains we finally went there last Monday.

There was not many booth to visit I reckon there are less than 30 booths putting up their wares. The daughter end up buying a craft sewing set of making a felt doll. I ended up buying the 3D puzzle sets that when you had completed it turn into paperweights and key chain sets. Last night it took me nearly 2 hours to complete the puzzle (not bad for a first attempt). So here is the outcome of my first 3D puzzle which eventually become my new paperweight on my desk in the office