Thursday, April 28, 2011

IPAD 2!!!!!

Ah Ipad 2 udah launch di Malaysiaaaaaa. Duh jujur, pengen bangeeet. =(
Too pricey. Sudah lama ngidam Ipad 2. 
Soalnya featurenya bagus2 semua.
Ahhh I wish I have job right now. 
Hmmmmmm. =,=


the Smart Cover!
Dia lengket kayak magnet.
Di lipat, ketarik sendiri
Jadi sandaran deh
oooooooh. Life just too muuuuuch.

*wishing to to get one*

Bali Cooking Class,Lovina cooking, Lovina Hotel

Bali Cooking Class Lovina Cooking School, Lovina Hotel Informations

     Near the northern tip of the island of Bali lies a stretch of villages by the Bali Sea. Lovina Beach is the name. Lovina is really a string of coastal villages to the west of Singaraja. Escape from the hustle and bustle of Kuta to Lovina Beach located in north Bali, about 12kilometers from singaraja citys. It is well known as an excellent site for sunset watching, snorkeling, and diving. Darkly beautiful, Lovina offers quiet and calm, and is popular Asian tourists and those avoiding the hustle and bustle of the southern beaches. A number of coves offer tranquil, protected waters and Lovina is one of them. Although the sand is grey, it is quiet and peaceful, and popular among those who shun the glitzier beach resorts of the south. It is a popular place for dolphin watching; dolphins play in the water off Lovina. Famous for its early morning dolphin-watching boat tripsand Cooking Class, Lovina also offers good snorkeling and diving, and trekking in the nearby mountains. Diving off Menjangan Island, part of the Bali Barat National Park, is generally regarded as the best in Bali. Boats are readily available to take divers over to the island, where there are no residents or hotels.
In Lovina you can choose any hotel, we are recommendation your stay in lovina
1. Aditya hotel






















HAVE A NICE DAY
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Handicraft Bazar


Handicraft Bazar 29-30 of April. Das 14 às 21 Horas. Conselho Comunitario do Parque São Jorge. Florianopolis. Welcome:)

Things That Make Me Smile

Yes, Lent is over, but this is such a fun topic, I thought I'd keep going and post once in a while.

I love to come out the door in the morning and finding our Maximum Leader lounging in the sun on the front porch.

Cheezburger of the Day

Fava Bean and Goat Cheese Dip with Radishes


After being so thrilled to find all of those beautiful fava beans at Canino's  Mexican Market here in Houston, I knew I was set to make this delicious looking dip in Martha Stewart's April issue.  We had a busy weekend with many activities beginning to wind down for the school year.  I knew there might be some fast food runs here and there so I wanted to make something healthy for at home.




My son's "Odyssey of the Mind" team qualified for the state competition. That would keep us quite busy for half of the weekend.  His team was challenged to build a contraption that would perform a "simple" task like hammering.  They had to come up with a skit and tie the contraption to a storyline that included a famous person from history.  They created a story line about a lost invention of Leonardo da Vinci. 



The ingredients that went into this dip were simple but so aromatic. It was a wonderful dish to pull together because it is so visually appealing.  The lemon zest and juice with the fresh snippets of tarragon made my nose buds tingle.


Fresh Fava Beans from the market




The soft goat cheese is a perfect partner for the mild fava beans and the sharp crispness of the radishes.
I just cannot believe I haven't eaten radishes until now.  They are so good...well...especially spread with this dip.


Fava beans are the prettiest color green.  They are fun to shell because the pod is so big that they really "snap" quite satisfactorily!


The team did a great job.  Often I had to chuckle at the variety of pieces and parts teams were carting up and down the hallways.  All items for costumes and apparatus must come from scrap parts so some of the uses of foil, candy wrappers, soda cans, and whatnot were pretty amusing.  The judges were wonderfully kind and supportive of the kids.  Many of them had funny hats that they wore during the competition to create a light-hearted mood.



As the school year draws to a close, events like this help mark the end of so many new experiences for us here in our new home of Texas.  This was a tough move for all of us but we are finding our place slowly but surely in this metropolis.  We enormously appreciate the diversity of cultures all coming together in this city.  We always feel like we've just tipped the edge of discoveries waiting for us here.

Fava Bean and Goat Cheese Dip with Radishes


Fava Bean and Goat Cheese Dip with Radishes Recipe:
(adapted from the April issue of Martha Stewart Living)

Ingredients:

2 pounds fava beans, shelled
1/2 cup soft goat cheese (4 oz)
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest,
plus 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon water, plus more if needed
1 bunch radishes, halved if large

Prepare an ice-water bath.  Bring a saucepan of salted water to boil.  Cook fava beans until tender, 1 to 2 minutes.  Drain, and transfer to ice-water bath.  Let cool.  Drain, and peel beans.

Pulse beans, goat cheese, oil, tarragon, lemon zest and juice, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a food processor until just combined but still chunky, about 6 or 7 times.

Stir in water.  Add an additional tablespoon water if mixture is too thick.  Transfer to a bowl.  Refrigerate until ready to serve.  Sprinkle with pepper just before serving.  Serve with radishes. (Snippets Notes:  I found these imported thin crackers at Whole foods that had bits of figs and hazelnuts in them.  I know, it sounds odd but in addition to the radishes, they also added a nice crunch)

Ingredients:

Greece Is Now Paying 22% On 2-Year Bonds

Final score: Mathematics 1, Marching and Chanting 0.


Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

2011, year of saying 'i do' ???

assalamualaikum, 12:49 am, HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY ABAHHH!!! :D I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, ALLAH KNOWS HOW!

very short post. suddenly, i do feel like this year, is the year of marriage, the year of wedding, the year of saying i do. :) Especially when it comes to Prince Williams & Kate, this 29th april 2011. it's abah's birthday by the way. oh yes, it is TODAY. half decade since abah was born, and a special date, that i believe everyone in this whole world will bear in mind and can't wait for the royal wedding. aite?

by the way. i am 22 this year. 22, a graduated diploma holder, with no permanent job. :P and i found out, a lot of my friends are getting married this year. just check out my FB!



my gf, naiya --- LIKE 'wedding guide asia' :P
oh yes, she is engaged by the way. it's her turns soon!


and let see. 15th June 2011 - ecah's wedding.
my collegemate.


5th june 2011 - khuzaimah.
a classmate when i was 15.




Jannah's wedding - 15th July 2011.

senior, a writer, someone to adore. :)



okayyy. that is, like, erm... okayyy, I AM GETTING OLDER and i have to take act more like an adult! that was the 1st thing on my mind.

and i have to admit, there are a lot of wedding songs lately! FEW of them;

Colbie Caillat - I Do
Bruno Mars - Marry Me
Taylor Swift - Speak Now

okay friends, whose next? :P


Bitter cupcakes

Hello, FELLAS!
Its been so long I haven't update.
I'm so sorry for this, I will be rarely update because the busy time preparing for university.
How are you my gorgeous readers?
How's life treats you?

I'm gonna do the second IELTS test this Saturday. I'm so sad that my last result is good enough but the faculty wasn't satisfied, so I need to retest.
I'm abit lost my spirit, pretty bad. But hopefully I'm lucky enough for the second chance.

Well, currently media throught out the world have been fussy about The Royal Wedding, Prince Will and Kate Middleton.
It is like wedding in fairy tales. Well I'm enjoyed to watching their news tho.
One thing buzzing my mind is Prince Will and Kate are so lucky, their love is strong and going so well.
While I feel the opposite. *galau mode : on*

I'm dreaming about romantic words everynite, I'm hoping sweet eyes look into mine, but I'm expecting too much I guess.
What I got are fighting, fighting, and fighting.
I'm bored with fighting.
Further, "sorry" isn't enought to breaks the cold war.
As usual he is gone and no updates. Du du du. Vervelend.

Is there anyone who wanna teach me how to be a girlfriend? HAHAHA.
Or is there anyone wanna scolding me until my ears deaf?
I'm pretty upset and disappointed.
Temper and Tense are becoming the king between me and him.

I'm going with him for more than a year, but for these two months we just have a piece of little time to communication and full with problems.
It must be something wrongs between.
If anyone has medicine to clearing memory, please contanct me. Desperately needed!

I regret I should write a sad thing in this post, but would u all understand? *crying like cinderella*
I need advices about relationship, before it changes to relationSHIT. Haha.

However, I'm pretty happy today. I just got home from Dhani's house. We had a small reunion. Hmm its bert friends meeting hahaha. There were Olin and me as usual ;) then Dhani, Iqbal, Roland, and Christandi. We were celebrating Olin's 19th birthday. And it was funny and lovely.

Tomorrow I'm gonna meet up with Kak Nadya, Indah, and hopefully kak rachma will join. We gonna busy gossiping about Hanze hahaha.
How about you?

Heel veel affections from me♥

Cheers,

Ketty Tressianah

www.keketketty.blogspot.com

I Used To Be A Royalist

... until I found out that Kate and William were living together.

Huh?

I thought the modern price for being noble was noble behavior or at least the facade of noble behavior. Living up to ancient codes of conduct and all that rot. Carrying on in the Victorian tradition and leading by example, what?

Other than their fancy clothes and legions of adoring fans, Kate and William can't be distinguished from a modern unmarried British couple playing house so they can shag more conveniently. That makes them ... what? Elton John without the talent? Mascots in ascots?

Forget it. Dump the lot of them.

Vintage caravan of my dreams






Constance the Vintage Caravan
Hello! How adorable is this vintage caravan? She's called Constance and is a perfectly pimped-up 1950's Sprite 14. There's bags of room inside (the seating converts into two double beds) and you can seat eight around her table. MMMmmm she's probably bigger that most Manhattan apartments.

"CHAO TOM" Recipe

INGREDIENTS
  • Sugarcane sticks, peeled 8 six-inch
  • Oil 2 tablespoons
  • Seasoned prawns
  • Prawns (medium), peeled and deveined 300 grams
  • Salt 1 teaspoon
  • Chicken mince 1/4 cup
  • White fish fillets, flaked 1/4 cup
  • Garlic 3 cloves
  • Shallots 3
  • Sugar 1 teaspoon
  • Egg white, beaten 1
  • Fish sauce 1 tablespoon
  • Rice powder, roasted 1 tablespoon
  • Black pepper powder 1/4 teaspoon
  • To garnish
  • Iceberg lettuce , leaves separated 1 head
  • Rice vermicelli, optional , blanched and drained80 grams
  • Shallots, sliced and crisply fried 4
  • Fresh coriander leaves a few sprigs
  • Fresh mint sprigs a few sprigs
  • To Serve
  • Fish Sauce Dip


Method
  • Rub salt into shrimp and set aside for fifteen minutes. Rinse and drain. For seasoned shrimp, prawns in a blender to a paste, chicken, fish, garlic, shallots, and sugar grinding. White poultry, fish sauce, roasted rice powder and pepper powder and mix well add. Divide into eight equal portions.Lightly oil your hands, around the middle of a cane stick to tightly wrap a portion of shrimp mixture. Repeat with remaining mixture and the sugar cane sticks. A grill pan and grill on medium heat for five to ten minutes sticks, changing them frequently, until lightly browned on all sides Heat. Remove and place on individual serving plates plate.On, lettuce leaves, rice vermicelli, fried shallots, fresh coriander and mint arrangements. Arrange shrimp on top sticks and serve with fish sauce dip.

"CHAO TOM" Recipe

INGREDIENTS
  • Sugarcane sticks, peeled 8 six-inch
  • Oil 2 tablespoons
  • Seasoned prawns
  • Prawns (medium), peeled and deveined 300 grams
  • Salt 1 teaspoon
  • Chicken mince 1/4 cup
  • White fish fillets, flaked 1/4 cup
  • Garlic 3 cloves
  • Shallots 3
  • Sugar 1 teaspoon
  • Egg white, beaten 1
  • Fish sauce 1 tablespoon
  • Rice powder, roasted 1 tablespoon
  • Black pepper powder 1/4 teaspoon
  • To garnish
  • Iceberg lettuce , leaves separated 1 head
  • Rice vermicelli, optional , blanched and drained80 grams
  • Shallots, sliced and crisply fried 4
  • Fresh coriander leaves a few sprigs
  • Fresh mint sprigs a few sprigs
  • To Serve
  • Fish Sauce Dip


Method
  • Rub salt into shrimp and set aside for fifteen minutes. Rinse and drain. For seasoned shrimp, prawns in a blender to a paste, chicken, fish, garlic, shallots, and sugar grinding. White poultry, fish sauce, roasted rice powder and pepper powder and mix well add. Divide into eight equal portions.Lightly oil your hands, around the middle of a cane stick to tightly wrap a portion of shrimp mixture. Repeat with remaining mixture and the sugar cane sticks. A grill pan and grill on medium heat for five to ten minutes sticks, changing them frequently, until lightly browned on all sides Heat. Remove and place on individual serving plates plate.On, lettuce leaves, rice vermicelli, fried shallots, fresh coriander and mint arrangements. Arrange shrimp on top sticks and serve with fish sauce dip.

Aloo Mutter Korma Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
  • 1/2 cup chopped onions
  • 1/2 tsp ginger-green chilli paste
  • 1/2 tsp garlic (lehsun) paste
  • 1 cup chopped tomatoes
  • a pinch of turmeric powder (haldi)
  • 1/2 tsp chilli powder
  • 1/2 tsp garam masala
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • 1 cup boiled fresh green peas
  • 1 1/2 cups potatoes, boiled, peeled and cut into cubes
  • 1 cup Vegetable Stock
  • salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp chopped coriander (dhania) for the garnish



Method
  • Hot Heat on a medium flame and a non-stick kadhai, cumin and dry roast for about 10 seconds, add the seeds.
  • Add onions and cook until they turn brown, while stirring constantly.
  • Ginger, green chilli paste, garlic paste and tomatoes and simmer until tomatoes are cooked add.
  • Turmeric powder, chili powder, garam masala, sugar, peas and potatoes and cook for 4 to 5 minutes to add.
  • Add vegetable stock and salt and simmer until gravy thickens.
  • Serve hot with coriander garnished.
  • Recipe Source: Zero oil bread and Subzis

Aloo Mutter Korma Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
  • 1/2 cup chopped onions
  • 1/2 tsp ginger-green chilli paste
  • 1/2 tsp garlic (lehsun) paste
  • 1 cup chopped tomatoes
  • a pinch of turmeric powder (haldi)
  • 1/2 tsp chilli powder
  • 1/2 tsp garam masala
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • 1 cup boiled fresh green peas
  • 1 1/2 cups potatoes, boiled, peeled and cut into cubes
  • 1 cup Vegetable Stock
  • salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp chopped coriander (dhania) for the garnish



Method
  • Hot Heat on a medium flame and a non-stick kadhai, cumin and dry roast for about 10 seconds, add the seeds.
  • Add onions and cook until they turn brown, while stirring constantly.
  • Ginger, green chilli paste, garlic paste and tomatoes and simmer until tomatoes are cooked add.
  • Turmeric powder, chili powder, garam masala, sugar, peas and potatoes and cook for 4 to 5 minutes to add.
  • Add vegetable stock and salt and simmer until gravy thickens.
  • Serve hot with coriander garnished.
  • Recipe Source: Zero oil bread and Subzis