Saturdayz chapter! (writtten on 03.06.06)

today, was fine.it started of alright i guess. itz a saturday morning, wat could go wrong. nothing, rite? i was wrong,itz only ten in the morning andi can hear my mom screaming across the room, looking for her car keys she had misplaced the nite before.tatz wasnt so bad. a customer (damn fussy auntie) tat ordered a chocolate mocha cake from me, complained that her cake was too plain. damn women, ive slaved all nite to decorate her cake and she complained that it was too plain. how plain is too plain? hell, it had borders and flowers and i even wrote "happy birthday" on it, and itz too plain.. itz a bday cake for gods sake, wat does she want? mona lisa? anywayz that nite, she called and said that the cake was delicious. hahaha, at least her taste buds are still working.

wat would make my saturday nite a whole lot better. shisha and frens of course. hahaha. went down to uncle donz, brough my siblings down too for dinner. was at dons bout 9.30. damn early, it was so dead i felt almost like im in a ghost town. the heat picked up aound 11 that nite.

had 3 shishaz, all to myself, my all time fav, peach and apricot, had zaghoul (arabian dried raisins) and the other was peach lemon. a fren of mine, letz call him jibz, had a go on zaghoul, he hated it, he coughed, he cursed but the long he smoked it, he liked it. okay. hahaha. im a shisha freak. im happy when ive a shisha in my hand, and frens talking lotsa cock. thatz me, im simple.

soon it was 1 in d morn, and my siblings are begging me to go home. but we just got here i told them, they said im stupid. hahaha.. my siblingz hate me. besidez, jibz had to leave anywayz, so we had my last round of shisha and headed home. the nite was young and it dint end there for me. after droppin off my siblings at home, went up to cheras, to see another group of frens. got there and they decide to drive down to port dickson at the end of the month. so itz a plan. how cool will that be. a roadtrip before i leave. SWEET!!

everything isnt confirm yet, still lots to plan. ive gotta ask my mom for permission to use her MPV. my monster mini van. hahaha. the meeting wasnt long, was home but 2.30 in d morn. to me, it was still early. got home i on my tv and started watching my long and over due movies. watched brokeback mountain. gotta say it wasnt such a bad movie.

movie ended just before five, and i wasnt tat tired, so im posting this before i head to my bed, 3 hours left on the clock before my morning shift starts. nitez!!! =p

Forgiveness?

Awhile ago i told myself tat i shud tell my mates bout me leaving to further my studies abroad. and till now i haven't got a chance. itz been going thru my head this few days. and i feel like i shud tell them, like im seeking for forgiveness or something, is that natural? probably i shud, i dunno, every part of me is tell me tat i shud, starting wit the people im close to.

ive a plan, but i dunno if itz gonna work. how hard is it to tell someone something? well, if it hurtz them, yea. ive this fren, and she hates the fact that im leaving to further my studies, shes pissed at me, and she aint talkin to me, do i want that to happen to all the people i know.. definately not. well, i read this or watched it somewhere, something bout karma, if we do good thingz for people, good thingz will happen to us, and im thinkin, probably itz karma, i shud tell my mates or ill leave with a heavy heart, so i made a list of people to call, or write. so ill start today, ive decide to write a mail to some of my mates, just a informal note, sayin that im sorry, im leaving, and wish them all the best and that ill remember them where ever i am, n keep in touch... so nothing complicated. ive done my part rite. so i shud feel a whole lot better in the morn. oh well.. lets hope so.

i better start wit my mail. or ill get be caught up doing something else. kudos.. gd nite.

A Fanatic Fan!!

i never knew how much a person could be obsess with another person. maybe i do but to the point of impersonating another? so this is like the first time ive ever seen something this great. a dedication to our american friend Micheal Sendeki (i dun really knoe how to spell ta) =p... so enjoy this clip. Micheal im glad you got to meet ya idol!

"YouTube" Rocks!

lately everything on "YouTube" just rocks. i fell in love wit it the first time i saw it. got me alot of great and hilarious clip. ive added a few clip from YouTube onto my blog. go check out it out and dun forget the offical website. itz great and you wont regret checkin it out. enjoy my choice of clips and the new ones in the near future. =p

A Great Hilarious Mash UP!

A Cool AD!!! Watch It and Youll LOVE it.

The Mars Attack!!

well, last nite was fun. had a small gathering, just me, my sis (arniza), mars and faisal A.K.A The Marie Biscuit. had dinner down at the usual (uncle DOnz)and a lil shisha. all was well, caught up where we left of, talked bout the future, joked around. but there was something missing, more people. haha. i duno, it feels real great and cosy, but four people around the table smoking cigrattes and shisha wit fish cakes (otak-otak) goin around, just wasnt enuf for me. it was great, just not world. hahahaha. one thing was sure that nite. we all had a blast. so we were at donz from 10 till just before 12. mars had a tight cerfew and faisal just cudnt wait to get home to play "a guy game" and "winning eleven" on his ps2.

well, tat was a great 2 hours, tonight im suppose to meet them again. they made plans to go down to Luna bar tonight, and im not sure if i might go, sounds like a great plan, but i dun feel great, a lil sick in the stomach, but i heard drinks will be available. hahaaha.

so we will see tonight. now ive got a cake to bake and decorate. ill catch up tonight. =p

Interview With The Olsens (Rare)

Things That Matter And NOT!

i just had my visa done today and now im just waiting for the freaking medical exams. always hated the hospital. things are pretty much hectic around here. itz a month away before i fly off to sydney to futher my studies. how time flies by so quickly. at this point, everything is not how it suppose to go, itz a mess. havent got the time to hang around my frens, or go shopping or prepared myself for the journey and worse, i havent found a proper accommodation yet. itz scary thinking bout how itz a different world out there. i cant descride how weird my feeling is rite now.

things are a bit rough. and i have my "people" (was watching "honey" and she calls her frens "people"). still havent told most of them that ill be leaving. just a handful of them tat knoes. so wat shud i do? shud i tell? itz kinda last minute rite? i duno. i havent even plan on giving them a farewell party. thingz are really out of hand. didnt knoe it was so stressful. besides, even if i tell them, they wouldnt think ill be going down to sydney and study, theyre gonna shut me up wit negative comments like, im stuck up and im going down to sydney for the chicks and i wont be studyin and shit, and ill waste my time getting laid and going to strip joints. haha. oh well, i shud at least tell them, give them the heads up, after all theyre still my people rite. so yea. sooner the better. wont be seeing them in a while after this. oh gawd. how to tell them is a prob. =p

Ashley (Written on 24.05.06)

Not the first time shez been around my head, just tat lately, ive been dreaming and thinking bout her alot and itz not just when im asleep or lazing around. yesterday nite was a whole lot more than dreaming. itz like i was actually there next to her. everytime i dream bout her, we're like this cute lil couple and it feels like when we first meet someone new or how you and your special someone trying to find every small dark corner to make out. eventhough itz a dream it feels so so real to me. and when i awake from my sleep, ill have this huge smile on my face, like itz my birthday today n ill be smiling for hours and sometimes the whole day, until it hitz me. that this isnt a dream, itz the real world, and there no way in this life time am i gonna me her. shez a fantasy. she too rich and powerful to even knoe that i exist across the globe. so how do i meet someone whoz life is shadowed by a group of bodyguards and paparazzi every single second of the day.



i do pity them (her and her sis) sometimes, that power and richs can probably ruin a persons life at a certain level. like many other powerful and rich girlz, problems like weight could be an issue, like miss flockhart and miss hatcher. well, but that doesn mean we (regular normal people) dun have the same problem. i know i do, thatz why i work out on a regular basis. Anyway tthis is all a dream rite. so how come i feel good dreaming bout someone i dont even know. having a crush on her when she was a little girl till now feels like this crush i have on her have evolve into something more, but not till the extend of stalking her. how is it you can have a crush onsomeone you dun know for a long time and it doesnt go away? isnt a crush suppose to fade over a period of time?



if you must know, she isnt the only person i have a crush on, wat bout hilary duff? eventhough i have a crush on heri never actually dreamt about her. why? why is tat? dreams are suppose to mean something rite? i mean that is why the bloddy government around the globe actually fund researchers to find out wat they mean, rite? i wouldnt know, something as simple as an aliens, covered up to such a high level that it seems tat theyre just a fairy tale.


so, wat happens if itz telling me tat ill probably meet her someday. well, tatz great isnt it? me meeting the girl of my dreams, god. thatz like the world to me. 12 years of seeing her and not meeting her is such a long time. thatz like 3\4 of my life on a girl. wow. dun get me wrong about her. it aint bout the power or riches she prosess. it wouldnt matter to me if she lose it all. i mean, when i first saw her, she didnt have all of that, who knew theyll build an empire. all i want is to meet her and have a quiet dinner or coffee wit her. it'll change my life. definately. =p

Gâteau au chocolat mi-cuit numéro- Molten Chocolate Cake

Special thankz to La Tartine Gourmande for some new and great recipes!! just want to share a really great recipe. try it.. itz easy to make and it taste like the world is in your mouth.. go ahead and try.. enjoy =p

We say in French une dernière ligne droite, meaning a last run before the end. Chocolate week is about to end.

Comparison test #2 - Molten Chocolate Cake

Take the same idea, change the background a little with a few things here and there, basically just do as if you had a dress that you buy in different colours (well, I am a guy eh, and yes I acknowledge, I do that kind of things), and so then you are able to enjoy it every day, but somehow differently, because it is slightly different. Become a chocolate tester.

Ready for the second chocolate cake recipe? I am. And I already know which one is my favorite, because I ate a few of both batches.


In my search of the perfect coulant au chocolat noir (Melting Chocolate Cake, from the French verb couler = [to run, to melt]), I lay my eyes on the recipe that follows, from my current favorite cookbook, Tentations. In 3 words, it.was.perfect. In reality, there are a few criteria that matter, including finding the exact, perfect amount of cooking time for the cakes. Too long, too cooked? Not long enough, undercooked? In a way, better undercook than cook too much. And depending on your oven, it might take you a few times until you have this perfectly tuned. Once it is however, you are not disappointed.

Of the 2 recipes tried I preferred this one. (+ 1 after Sunday, see below)

I decided to add white chocolate pieces instead of the dark chocolate suggested, to create that gooey chocolate inside. Because it was just fun to play with different colours and textures. So what is so different about this cake?

Fleur de sel

There are variations on how many eggs you need, the amount of butter, but mainly what I loved about this recipe was eating the cake with sprinkled fleur de sel: a fabulous plus to the taste. Try it!

So if you remember recipe #1, for 6 cakes, I was using 4 eggs. For this recipe you use half, ie 2 eggs (large though). Less chocolate used, but more butter, a little less flour and sugar.

I also tried another recipe , with a pistachio coulant and I loved everything about it as well. And now I feel I am in a chocolate coma.




You need:

(for 6 small cakes)

110 g dark chocolate
115 g butter
2 large eggs
60 g flour
80 g sugar
Grated extra chocolate (or cut in small pieces)
Fleur de sel

Steps:

Preheat your oven at 400F (200C).
Melt the chocolate and butter using the bain-marie technique.
Greased 6 individual molds (silicone or large muffin pan).
Use an electric mixer to mix together the eggs with the sugar, until your preparation has a nice light white colour.
Add the flour and mix well.
Add the melted chocolate and mix.
Pour in the molds and add the extra pieces of crushed chocolate in the preparation.
Place in the oven for about 12-13 mns and take out.
Let cool down a bit before unmolding.
Sprinkle with fleur de sel and for the rest, you truly know what to do!

Any difference? Yes it is lighter!

Note: Are you tired of measurements in grams? ounces? cups? Everything? I am! A real nightmare for me if you want my opinion. I just cannot remember what is what and keeps going back to online conversion tool such as Google (just type in convert x ounces in grams) or charts! And thank God for my scale using the 2 measurement systems, which does the work for me. Yet, not good enough. So what about I try to work out a little measurement convertion sheet for all of us? (in the coming weeks). Are you up for that? Useful? Yes? No?

As for today’s recipe, here is what the convertions are:

110 g dark chocolate = 4 oz
115 g butter = 4 oz or 8 tbsp
2 large eggs = duh, the same!
60 g flour = 6 tbsp
80 g sugar = 6 tbsp


Do your maths!

Baskets of chocolate with truffle

The baskets of chocolate with truffle are a delightful caprice to enjoy. They are ideal to accompany the coffee, or for these moments in which the body asks you for chocolate. They are very easy to prepare and they will give a touch of originality.

The ingredients
2 tablets of chocolate fondant black, 1 glass of cream to mount, 1 spoonful of sugar and 2 spoonfuls of brandy.

The preparation
Trocea third two you depart from one of the tablets from chocolate and it melts to the bath maría, next, adds the rest of the tablet previously cut and do remove until you see that has been melted completely.

It uses 4 moulds of aluminum and paint the interior of the moulds with the ruined chocolate and introduce them in the icebox so that the chocolate hardens completely. It realizes the same operation again, extracts the moulds, paint them again and introduce them again in the icebox.

You will have to realize this process a few three times more so that the baskets have the suitable consistency. Once you already have the baskets, it prepares the filling, it warms the cream in a ladle along with the sugar until between in boiling.

It spills the cream in a bowl along with a tablet of chocolate previously stung, removes the compound until you see that has been homogenized and adds the brandy, it allows to cool the filling. It refills the baskets with the cream of chocolate that you prepared.

The tasting
It is no much that to say, simply are delightful. The liquor you can change it to your taste, it can be a liquor of mint, of orange, etc.

Special thanks to Directo Al Paradar for the great recipe!!! Enjoy =p

Elliot's Last Song (written on 20/05/06)

The results are in, and Elliott has been eliminated from the competition. I had figured he would be the next to go, but it still is a sad thing indeed. I will miss him.

I enjoyed the results show. The Ford commercial really cracked me up. The makeup to make them look old was great. I don't think Taylor can rap though. :-)

Taylor got a great reception from his home town in Alabama. Such a huge crowd at the mall. It is so nice to see the support for these contestants. I also really enjoyed his performance of Taking It To The Streets. I loved how he included Katherine and Elliott in the performance and they were having a great time doing the Taylor moves.

It's a shame that Los Angeles couldn't muster up a nice crowd for Katherine though. Would of been nice if they could of showed her a little hometown support too. I thought she did great with her performance of Think. It seems that most of the time the performers seem to do so much better when they are not going to be judged.

Elliott's homecoming segment was incredibly touching. What great support for him by his hometown. And he seems so grateful to have this opportunity. I really hope he gets a contract and gets to record the music he loves. Again, another good performance of Moody's Mood For Love. I think I'm going to have to download that track from iTunes when the album comes out.

The percentages of votes for the contestants are incredibly close. 33.06%, 33.26% and 33.68%, with Elliott being eliminated. What a nice singout with I Believe to My Soul. Goodbye Elliott! Hope to be hearing from you soon in the future.

Here is a video of Elliott singing Trouble:

SINGLE and loving it!!

A friend sent this to me. I have no idea where it came from but I loved it and thought I would include it in my blog. If you know the author please leave a comment because I would love to be able to create them (and buy their book if they have one!!)


BEING SINGLE
The Art of Contentment. For most of us, being single will be more of a phase than a final destination. This is the best place to practice the art of contentment. Someday, I'm sure most of us will fall in love and get married. But the thing is, love will always be tested.

Someone more handsome, beautiful, more charming, richer, funnier, sweeter would come along. If you have not practiced the art of contentment as a single person, chances are you would be tempted to want that and not cherish your chosen one. Practicing the Art of Contentment as a single person means that you take what life gives you, good or bad, you're willing to see it through. It means you don't walk away everytime things get tough because it builds in you patience, perseverance, understanding and a hundred different virtues that people in a hurry will never have.

Being single means you would find how it feels to be alone thus, allowing you to cherish every moment you spend with your chosen one. The art of contentment means you wouldn't mind if life had to make you wait for so long to find the love of your life, because you know that the waiting would only make the finding much sweeter.


Being single is a time of your life when you can get to know yourself better. You can pursue different interest and passions without having to ask another person's approval. It is a phase when you can keep focus on other things, discover your potentials and talents, and see yourself become more than what you expect to be.

Allow yourself to surprise you. Stop wasting precious energy trying to figure out why you're still romantically unattached. It's all in the mind. Take the time to go see your friends, spend time with your family, do charity work and you will realize that you are not, and never for one moment, was alone.

Try to get to know yourself first before you try to get to know other people. To be truly loved means to be known and accepted for who you are. How do you expect other people to know you and to love you, when you don't know who and what you really are? Sometimes the dilemmas we face are not between what is absolutely bad and absolutely good. Sometimes, it's between good and best.

Treat this stage of your life as a phase to evaluate who is good for you and who is best for you. Sometimes, you won't hear music, or feel magic to know who's best for you. The heart just knows and it doesn't need any romantically charged scenario to decide on the matter. Trust in your heart, and trust that time will eventually lead you to, not to the perfect partner, but to the most suitable partner for you. Being single
is a phase of life that we need to be thankful for, because being single means our hearts have yet to choose the best one for us.

Take your time, the world will wait. Being married doesn't guarantee that it will make your life happy. It doesn't guarantee anything at all. Sometimes, it only brings two miserable people together only to make their life even more miserable. Without the right intention, the emotional maturity, financial security and of course, unwavering love, you're better off unattached.

Living Life. Don't put your life on hold for Mr. and Mrs. Right, but don't let it waste away with Mr.or Mrs. Wrong. Life is about things that you do and happen to you everyday. It's not about the things that could have happened but never did, or things that you think would happen in the future. Live life now. Live it to the fullest and stop beating yourself up, trying to be perfect on a Saturday night date. Allow life to surprise you with it's most wonderful blessings