Friday, December 20, 2013

Paku dan kelas masak memasak

My laki dulu pegi keja naik motor, selalu la menyingut pasal tayar motor pancit kena paku. saya selalu la tanya, macam mana boleh kena paku, takkan lalu dalam semak kot or sengaja langgar papan dekat tepi jalan tu. my laki selalu cakap ada banyak paku yang sengaja ditaburkan di tepi jalan. tu pasal laluan motor ni kalau perasan ada banyak no phone untuk tukar tube/tayar pancit bagai. bila dah emergency, sah2 no tu jugak yang orang akan called kan...secara tak langsung boleh 'ketuk' dengan harga mahal. tukar tube je boleh cecah 50 hengget walhal kalau dekat kedai biasa cuma beberapa hengget je. tu yang my laki cakap la...ada jugak yang kena lagi mahal dari tu.

Dari pakai tayar biasa, my laki tukar kepada tubeless tapi tak boleh bertahan lama jugak. kalau dah setiap minggu kena tusuk paku, mau tak rabak tayar tu kan walaupun boleh sumbat cacing. 

Jahat betul orang2 yang buat keja tabur paku dekat laluan motor ni kan, agak2 la kalau nak kenakan orang pun.

Semalam saya ikuti kelas membuat tartlet di Ulu Langat. memang best la walaupun dah pernah buat sebelum ni tapi apa salahnya menambah ilmu lagi. ini bukan kelas yang pertama, dah banyak tempat jugak saya pegi belajar baking cuma tinggal lagi malas nak up dalam entry je. ni terlebih rajin since cuti panjang kan...dah ada modal nak bercerita, maka teruskan aja. 
  
pegi with my friend yang punya minat baking yang sama, our cikgu yang pakai kemeja pink tu uolsss
 
sesi menguli adunan untuk jadikan doh
 
selepas menjadi doh, adunkan dalam tart shell dan kemudian di bakar
 
untuk adunan egg tart
 

adunan kastad untuk fruit tart
 
cara double boiler chocolate
 
ada peserta yang membawa kelapa goreng, sedap jugak bila dah jadi tart kelapa
 
egg tart
 
fruit tart

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Laksa Asam

Teringin sangat nak makan laksa, cukup bahan2 maka jadilah...

Bahan-bahan:
Laksa - direbus dan toskan
Ikan sardin dalam tin
Daun kesum
Lengkuas - diketuk
Asam gelugur
Serai - diketuk
Bunga kantan - hiris nipis
Garam
Petis udang
Air

Bahan hiasan:
Hirisan nenas
Hirisan timun
Hirisan cili padi
Hirisan bunga kantan
Telur rebus
Daun pudina

Cara-caranya:

Masukkan isi ikan kembung bersama kuahnya ke dalam periuk. masukkan sekali daun kesum, lengkuas, asam gelugur, serai dan bunga kantan.

Didikan di atas api sederhana sambil kacau rata. perasakan secukupnya dan masak sehingga mendidih. 

Masukkan laksa ke dalam mangkuk dan letakkan bahan hiasan serta kuahnya. lepas tu bolehlah dihidangkan.

Boleh letak hirisan bawang jugak, tapi saya memang tak berapa suka makan bawang sebagai hiasan (tak dimasak).

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Penanggal

Nak kata movie ni seram sangat, rasanya biasa2 je kot. saya yang agak2 menebal jugak rasa penakutnya, boleh stand lagi menonton movie ni. pemilihan dari segi pelakon utama adalah amat bagus, saya suka watak murni dgn syed yusoff dan watak ni aja yang paling menonjol dari mula cerita sampai ke akhir. ada jugak watak yang saya rasa, kalau watak tu takde pun tak terkesan kot. 

Watak murni yang dilakonkan oleh Ummi Nazeera memang hebat la. dia ni pun alahaiiii cantiknya. ini baru dinamakan wanita melayu asli, takde kacuk2 punya. memang sesuai wajahnya untuk watak2 serikandi melayu.

Watak syed yusoff pula dilakonkan oleh Azri Iskandar. padannya sangat, bininya kalau tak salah pengarah movie ni kan. lakonannya memang best, seni mempertahankan diri pun mantak cantik je saya tengok badannya beraksi. cuma yang nampak plastik hanyalah lense biru tu, orang arab2 ni mata biru ke semuanya...

Watak hantu penanggal taklah seram sangat, takde adegan terkejut2 tahap tertumpah air minuman pun. susunan cerita yang agak mengelirukan, sekejab murni tu kecik sekejab besar dan ada tu pulak murni tu kecik besar...eh pening da. 

Banyak je watak lain selain watak murni dengan syed yusoff tu tapi saya tetap tak merasakan watak yang lain2 tu membantu dalam movie ni. seperti saya katakan sebelum tadi, sekiranya watak2 diorang tu takde pun takpe...cukup sekadar watak utama je, jimat cost pengambaran gitu hiksss. lagi kecewa, diakhir cerita banyak watak yang tak tau apa kesudahannya...gantung tak bertali gamaknya. rasa tertipu pun ye jugak, bila tengok the making of tu kemain sedap lagi jalan ceritanya.

Okaylah meh tengok sinopsis cerita dan trailernya sekali. tunggu Astro 1st la ye, wayang dah nan ada lai. 

 

Penanggal mengisahkan mengenai Murni (Ummi Nazeera) yang dibela oleh neneknya, Mak Ajeng (Normah Damanhuri) yang berketurunan Jawa selepas kematian orang tuanya akibat dimakan haiwan buas di hutan.
  
 Mak Ajeng, yang mengamalkan ilmu hitam, terpaksa menyerahkan saka penanggal miliknya kepada Murni pada saat kematiannya. Bagaimanapun, akibat diburu penduduk kampung, Murni terpaksa melarikan diri ke hutan.

Pertemuannya dengan Anom Merah (Nadia Mustafar) yang sarat mengandung, mengundang kemarahan orang kampung selepas mendapati ada tanda di leher Murni. Hampir dibunuh penduduk kampung, Murni kemudian diselamatkan Syed Yusoff (Azri Iskandar).

Kematian Anom Merah ketika melahirkan anak, akibat diserang penanggal turut menimbulkan kemarahan si suami, Jiwa (Yus Waisar).

Syed Yusoff pula cuba menjejaki Murni sehingga ke tengah hutan. Kehilangan Syed Yusoff merisaukan adiknya, Syed Umar (Zul Ariffin) serta tunang Syed Yusoff, Sharifah Zahrah (Fasha Sandha). Mereka dan orang kampung cuba mencari lelaki itu sehingga tengah belantara sebelum menemui pondok didiami Murni. 
 
 

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Free Birds


Teringin nak tengok movie kartun pulak kali ni. 

Filem animasi kali ni mengisahkan ayam turki yang cuba untuk mengubah nasib mereka daripada menjadi hidangan utama setiap kali thanksgiving. cerita ni memang sangat kelakar dan fun untuk ditonton untuk semua generasi. 

Meh terus tengok sinopsis ye, kot2 boleh bawak anak2 pegi menonton weekend nanti kan.
 
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Reggie the Turkey (Owen Wilson) has always been afraid of Thanksgiving because turkeys have always been on the menu. However, his attempts to warn his farm-based flock constantly fall on deaf ears and has made him an outcast. When the other turkeys finally realize what's going on, they throw Reggie to the wolves in an attempt to save themselves. In a surprise twist of fate, he winds up being named the "pardoned turkey" by the President of the United States (Jimmy Hayward) and is subsequently taken to Camp David. Although initially hesitant, Reggie soon eases into a routine of doing nothing but enjoying pizza delivered to him by the Pizza Dude (Scott Mosier) and watching telenovelas.
 
About three days before Thanksgiving, Reggie gets bag-kidnapped by Jake (Woody Harrelson), the president and the only member of Turkeys Liberation Front. Jake tells him that the "Great Turkey" told him to find Reggie and take him back to the first Thanksgiving with him to take turkeys off the menu once and for all. Despite interference by federal officials and several attempts by Reggie to trick him back to the surface, Jake manages to commandeer an egg-shaped time machine with an A.I. software named S.T.E.V.E. (George Takei) and takes Reggie with him back to the same day in 1621. Once there, they are immediately attacked and separated by colonial hunters led by Myles Standish (Colm Meaney). Reggie and Jake are quickly rescued by native turkeys led by Chief Broadbeak (Keith David) and his two children Ranger (Jimmy Hayward) and Jenny (Amy Poehler), the latter of whom Reggie is immediately smitten with. Broadbeak explains that the turkeys in the area have been forced underground since the settlers came and that they can't risk fighting back without the settlers taking them.
 
The next day, Broadbeak has Jake go with Ranger to spy on the settlers with Reggie and Jenny spring all the hunting traps they've set up. Despite initial hostility, Ranger and Jake find out that the settlers have already begun preparations for Thanksgiving as well as where they keep their weapons. Meanwhile, Jenny, who believes Reggie is lying about being from the future, is impressed with his unorthodox way of springing the traps. However, they are soon intercepted by Standish and Reggie is forced to get her in orbit over the planet aboard S.T.E.V.E., validating everything he said in the process. Reggie tries to convince Jenny to go back to the future with him once everything blows over, but she tells him she can't bring herself to leave the flock no matter how much she likes him.
 
Jake drags Reggie away from Jenny and tells him he has a plan to attack the settlers. However, Reggie has gotten sick of all his unproved stories and threatens to leave. Desperate, Jake tells him that this trip was more about him making up for him not being able to save three turkey eggs while escaping a turkey-fattening facility when he was younger, although still maintaining that the Great Turkey convinced him to go through with this. 
 
While still reluctant to believe what he said, Reggie still goes along with the plan. They manage to use gunpowder to destroy the weapons shack, but Jake inadvertently leaves a gunpowder trail back to the tree the turkeys are hiding under. Standish and his men flush the turkeys out from underground, capturing enough for the feast and killing Broadbeak in the ensuing panic. Jenny is sworn in as the new chief and orders the remaining turkeys to prepare an attack on the settlers.
 
Despite Jake's attempts to get him to stay, a heartbroken Reggie heads back to the present. Once back at Camp David, Reggie is confronted by three future versions of himself. Through the awkward conversation, Reggie discovers from one of them that he was the Great Turkey having used S.T.E.V.E. to throw his voice and appearance. Inspired, Reggie goes back in time to stop the attack erasing Standish from history in the process. Through S.T.E.V.E. and the Pizza Dude (who was also brought back to the First Thanksgiving), Reggie convinces the settlers and the arriving Indians that pizza is a more acceptable food than turkeys, taking them off the Thanksgiving menu entirely.
 
In the end, Reggie decides to stay with Jenny while Jake takes S.T.E.V.E. in order to look for new adventures. However, Jake returns moments after leaving and implies to Reggie and Jenny that their antics have caused the future to be thrown out of whack.