Tomorrow would be Malaysia’s National Day, Hari Merdeka, as what the locals would have loved to call it. Thus, tomorrow would be an official public holiday and I’m fully anticipating to use it to make my experimental cookies!!

I’m not making as many cookies as I used to in the previous years for Eid Mubarak, Hari Raya Aidilfitri. I’m just going to make three this year, and the rest will be topped with Keropok, snacks. I’m going to make my usual Pineapple Tarts and two other cookies, one of which I am going to test out my new recipe. The other cookie, well.. I haven’t decide what to make yet!

Currently, I am also making Tempeh and had experimented with a few recipes. I have already packed them and now I’m letting the yeast cultivation to set in. It’s suppose to take two to three days for it to cultivate properly however looking at the rainy season, it’s going to take a little much longer.

While I am busy listing out my new recipe, please feel free to view the short term health insurance NC rates they have. It’s quite affordable and good for first timers.

Insurance is a must for your future! Who knows in the future, something unexpected came up and you’re involved in an accident. Instead of burning your bank account to cover the expenses, you can always claim your insurance. So it’s advisable to have an insurance for everyone.

I have created this recipe weeks back and it had forgotten to post this. You now do not need to head out to those fancy cake cafeterias to get your own slice of Coffee Cake Walnuts. Just follow the instruction below and I promise you, you’ll not regret it one bit.

Chocolate Coffee Walnut Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 2 cups all purpose flour ( you can also use self-raising or cake flour)
• 150gm of butter
• 1 cup castor sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2tbsp of instant coffee (dissolved slightly with warm water)
• 1 cup milk or evaporated milk
• 1 cup of chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup of chocolate chips

NOTE: As I have stated above, you can use self-raising flour or cake flour for this cake. Either one works nicely and tasted great if you add a dollop of cream or a scoop of ice-cream onto the cake. Don’t mind the cracked top since I’ve added a little bit too much of walnuts and chocolate chips for my own taste.

1) Sift all the flour, baking powder and salt together.

2) Cream the egss, butter, sugar milk and instant coffee mix to make a smooth fluffy batter.

3) Add the flour mix on (1) into the batter. Mix it well.

4) Fold in the chocolate chips and walnuts. Pour the cake mix into a 22cm cake pan (circle) or a normal medium sized rectangle cake pan.

Chocolate Coffee Walnut Cake mix

5) Bake it at 170 degrees Celcius for about 40mins. Cool before cutting.

Once again its the holy month of Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims world wide. A whole month of fasting from dawn to dusk, refraining from consuming food, sputtering out ill saying words like vulgarities, give alms to the poor and needy and to always remember the hardship of the lives of the poor throughout the month.

Well fasting is from dawn to dusk, so for pasta lovers who wish to break their fast in New York, you can always head out to Syracuse italian restaurant. I heard they make a scrumptious delight out of that spirally pasta.

In the meantime, I’m heading out to Singapore for the weekend. Should anyone wishes to drop me a line, feel free to email or sms me. Ciaoz!

Sick and tired of those irritating pop up ads whenever you turn on the internet? Really hated and despise of entertaining irritating fake ‘Security Alert” windows that dings from your task bar? Gritting your teeth as you swear at the idiot who caused the inability to turn on your REAL anti-virus?

Don’t bother slamming your head onto your desktop. I have the simplest solution.

A few days back, one of my family members unknowingly fell into the “Security Alert” malwares. Ever since then, the irritating application turns on every available minute to remind us that we have trojans, virus and all that sorts in my computer. It’s a messy job to clear up the registry but it only took me 5 mins to download the Anti-Malware program to end this war.

Malwarebytes.org is the best thing that can ever appear on the Internet World. It is somewhat like Spybot but instead of massacring Spywares, it destroys Malwares. It is recommended by Cnet so don’t worry about it being fake applications.

You just need to install the Malwarebytes software, update it to its latest updates and then run it. You’d be amazed at the beauty of what this baby can do. Even your super-dooper anti-virus can’t beat this honey.

To download the free version, you just need to click here.

Remember after you have cleaned your computer of these pesky pests, make sure that you weekly update them and scan your computer! Never be complacent!

I have watched my fair share of horror (zombies and ghost) movies ever since I had my parents pass to watch movies by myself. In fact, come to think of it.. I’ve watched all of the horror movies that was shown in the cinema and only a good few managed to make me squirm in my seat. Those that was able to make my stomach turn and heave was the best!

I have a high tolerance for violence and gore scenes. The only time I ever get myself scared witless is whenever I’m down with fever. Apart from that, I could easily watch and sleep through a horror movie without flinching a bit.

Unfortunately out off all the horror films I’ve watched, none could have ever beaten Dawn of the Dead, Infection (Japanese Horror Film), Chinese Vampire Old Movies and Freddy Krueger. Up till now, those 3 movies could still give me the creeps and make my stomach turn up side down.

Best human eating zombies movie should be given to Dawn of the Dead. The suspense along with the gore, that movie nearly made me puke out by the time it ended. It even managed to give me nightmares that same night!

Infection. Ahh that movie was a great gore mentally psycho movie. Totally much better than Ju-On and Kokuru-san put together. This story was a great stomach heaver for me. Almost three-quarter through the movie, my stomach was protesting and I had to keep everything in since the interesting parts were getting more interesting. Too bad, no nightmares from this movie.

Chinese Ghost Vampire Movies. Even though the stories made were decades old, the movies still manages to scare me with sudden appearance of the vampires, intending to suck a person’s blood out. Unlike the current horror movies, these oldies were made interlaced with lots humor, making the viewers feel at ease, lulling them to drop their defenses before dropping in the horror parts. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a decent non-dubbed Cantonese Vampire videos so bare with me on the English Dubbed ok..

Freddy Krueger. OOh… The dead walking nightmare that has manicure problems. Well, when I was younger I was convinced his Wolverine’s Claws were his nails. The dark scenes compiled with never ending suspense and surprisingly no gore made a great impact on me. I tried watching the old movie again and again but unfortunately it still managed to make me flinch at those irritating Freddy Popping In scenes.

I was quite surprised to read on today’s paper about a new museum opening in JB this coming 3rd October 2009. The museum is to showcase collection of artifacts related to the Cantonese, Hokkien, Hainanese, Hakka and Teochew clans. Situated at Jalan Ibrahim in Johor Bahru, the museum is ensured to leave visitors a rustic feeling as the museum and surrounding buildings has existed more than 60 years ago.

I am more than delighted to visit the museum and take a more personal look at the lives one my ancestors had to go through during those old days. But since it’s opened on 3rd October, I’d wait out for a few weeks or perhaps months later before dropping into the museum.

Perhaps by then, the musuem has become more established and have more artifacts and activities for visitors to partake.

I know that its a bad habit and bad eating manners to have eat while working. However I am not working at this moment, instead relaxing my mind with all the stale news and information which I have been neglecting for two whole weeks.

I am so itching to head out to a hot spring or a beach and dunk myself in for a long relaxation. It’s been very stressful and messed up these weeks. In fact I am not surprised to find that I have lost a few Kilos and obtained two huge large eye bags, rivaling Panda Bears.

I don’t need weight loss supplements to slim down. Just pile me with lots of stress and problems and I’m down to my skeleton. Ramadan will be here in just 8 days! 8 DAYS!!

I didn’t realise it’s that fast.. wow.. Time really passes very quickly when we’re busy. I can just bet that I’m not going to celebrate y Hari Raya. No mood.. But Ramadan will be another story.

Haiz.. I need to doze off now. Will update soon.

Since the first time my brother brought back a computer have been fascinated by the technology and have always tried to master how it works. When Internet first made itself known, I was in nirvana. Even though the speed as was slow as a snail and the information was quite pathetic, I was still entranced.

I could still remember the days while everyone of my friends were still trying to struggle the command of the virtual life, I was having fun studying the back door of each network. The Internet was a world that is ever changing and that became my first love.

It also frustrates me whenever I try to access certain websites, a network filter blocked my passage. Thus, it gave me a new purpose to constantly study the nature and how to deal with network filters.

There are a few ways to unblock blocked websites. However since I am too lazy to type out my own confusing version of step by step How to Unblock Websites guide, I’d have collected some good websites that explains the steps clearly.

TechFaq: A simple hassle free step by step instructions to unblock websites from your network filters/ servers.

SneakingIn: You can just type in the websites you want to visit in the input form and happily access your websites without going through all the steps to unblock and avoiding being sniffed out by our network administrator.

Parents and guardians must always monitor their child’s internet activities regularly. The internet is a vast space of media and exposes many information, pictures, games and even adult contents to users.

So just imagine your 6yr old child, innocent and eager to play his internet game and unfortunately typed the address wrongly and is redirected into another webpage that has adult contents. If that’s not bad how about finding out that your child became addicted to these sites and introduced their friends to these sites.

See how serious the situation can get?

Internet has become a pool of information that is impossible to be monitored 24-7. Millions of users worldwide connects to the internet every second and at least 40% uploaded information, details and DIY videos to the internet. Even though authorities struggles to monitor the internet and take down websites that are destructive to the society, at that second the website is shut down, another 10 websites of almost similar content sprouts out.

So the best way to make sure our children and wards do not meddle into the dark zone is to daily or perhaps weekly check on the sites that child has visited.

To do this, you have to open up your internet browser and press (CTRL H). This will open the browser history of the sites that has been visited for a time span.

If you find that the sites that your child has been frequenting is not a safe content, you can always block the sites. To do this, you can learn the step by step instruction from this site. Don’t worry, I’ve read it and it’s very easy to follow.

Don’t wait and hesitate to block the sites that are unsafe for your child. Too much negative information can affect your child’s future.

As the old saying say, a kitchen is a woman’s sanctuary. I’m not really sure if its the truth for all woman but I personally love my kitchen. A kitchen is my playground and my stress buster. The more stress I get, the more food I bake/ make.

Even though my kitchen is not equipped with the latest designs and appliances, at least its fully stocked up with all ingredients that I deem as a MUST HAVE. I do no like having pre-made food like those sauces you can find in the supermarkets. I prefer making everything from scratch and from there I can explore more ways to make sauces and pastes or even inventing new recipes.

However like most chefs and housewives, I long for a perfect kitchen. Who doesn’t want to have a nice large counter top, shiny kitchen sinks, space oriented pantry racks and ever handy cabinets! Ooh.. a perfect kitchen.. especially if all the necessary kitchen appliances, huge oven and not to forget, shiny pots and pants!!

What a lovely kitchen…