Gery biscuit for raya?

Pernahlah dengar pasal biskut ni.
Akhirnya hari Rabu lepas terjumpa 😀.

Sedap juga.
Tiba2 teringat crackers+cheese dip in woolies land down under.
😅😅😅....sorrylah I cannot move on from my life there. The mixture of fun and painful 4 years of my life 😢😍.

You all masih berayakah?
Masih di kampung?

I went back to my home on thursday. I could not stay longer in my hometown since I just lazed around doing nothing except sleeping, eating and FB/IG 😅😅 regardless of my long list of things to do. Starting from assessing proposal and report, preparing for customers evaluation, checking documents for customer's temporary exchange, transfering data for my substitute, up to travel claim etc.

While I was taking bath suddenly I felt deep in my heart that I dont want to go. Even my mum said she wish that I can stay in kampung till saturday. But I have to be strong...lots of work to be done.

Once arrived here, I went for groceries shopping. Cari juga bekas kuih berdulang tapi sold out. Luckily I remember that I bought Avon food container that still unopened in my office 😅. Oklah tuh.

Balik rumah menghadaplah cheezy wedges and this

Then marathon tonton recorded My sassy girl and Queen of 7 days. So tang mana konon nak kemas rumah dan buat kerja ??? Setakat basuh towel je 😂😂😂.

Hmm ...hari jumaat barulah nak kemas dapur sikit, kemas upstairs, basuh baju dan bersihkan porch. Well...guess what? Petang I tanam pokok rambutan you 😅😅😅...gula batu. Harap tak kena timbus dengan batu kerikil macam last time 😅😅😅. Macam busy ek....idok le...busy marathon Hero seorang cinderella. Tiba2 rasa bosan menontonnya. Selain terbaring due to migraine ...patutlah pun my twin muncul petang tu.

Around 4pm kot ada org press the door bell. Alamak ada tetamukah? How? Nak keep quietkah? Rumah sepah and nothing to serve. Rupanya ada road construction worker minta air. I kan baru balik. Manalah ada stok air. Lagipun biasanya I masak air bila perlu je. Lainlah kalau ada filter. Bila pi dapur I campurkanlah air dalam jug kettle and water container. Cukuplah kot utk sebotol 1.5liter. Tapi bila I tinjau the construction worker has left. Rasa bersalah pulak 😰😰.

Pagi ni I had this for breakfast.

When I was looking at the front of my house,  I notice my neighbor planted mango tree in front of my house not in front of their house..hmmm...why they wanna block my view not theirs??? Then, I kemas downstairs, check customers's proposal  and bleach my old telekung. Now, I having a rest while watching Dia Semanis Honey the musical.

Kerja, Raya, Bank dan janji

What a busy friday... full of activities.

Pagi jumpa peserta kursus.
Then, ada colleague remind mengenai peserta kursus yang baru yg mungkin terlupa diambilkira oleh x-boss huhu. Besar akibatnya. Terus I blank. Bila I contact x-boss, dia suruh besarkan saiz. Tapi colleague tak setuju pula...betul juga, susah nak kendalikan peserta yg datang dari pelbagai background. Selain bilangan yg ramailah. Minggu ini macam2 perkara yg timbul. Request unit sana, request unit sinun, sedangkan kapasiti kami dah tak mencukupi. Malah ada colleague yang dah beri amaran, tak mau beban kerja lebih. How to rearrange my xboss plan??? Itu belum lagi mengenai sistem yg tidak boleh diakses dan I yg tidak berkesempatan nk semak.

Dok pikir dan tanya sana sini, dah lewat 30 minit pergi meeting. Syukur sangat I sempat, kalau tidak mungkin ada peserta yang mungkin terlepas anugerah akibat masalah yg x boleh dielakkan.

Then, yang menenangkan dan menggemukkan...aktiviti makan-makanlah jamuan raya. Macam2 ada...yum..yum. Food I suka, tapi ada perkata yg I tak suka...I prefer jadi org belakang je, but now perlu jadi yang di depan huhu. Satu lagi kita terpaksa tanggung malu, bila orang atas dah sampai, tapi majlis tak mula lagi dan ada makanan belum sampai. Pulak tu tiada usher utk orang atas, I yg memandaikan diri jadi usher.

Di kala yg perempuan sibuk tapau makanan dan yg lelaki balik untuk solat, I bergegas ke office memulakan bahan untuk penilaian untuk hari sabtu. Alhamdulillah around 4.00pm dah siap dan by 5pm dah siap fotostat.

Sambil tu, menyemak dan tandatangan dokumen penting dan memantau progress trainee. Kalau kerja ok, tiadalah yg perlu ditegur. Ni asyik la prestasi tak memuaskan. Dah tegur byk kali, sama ada cakap baik2 atau marah2 tapi tetap macam tu, dah minta maaf, ulang lagi silap yg sama...

For the first time this week I keluar office around 5.30pm. Pi Maybank nak keluar duit, alamak tutup coz proses masuk duit. Punyalah lama sempat I pi check mata, datang semula pun masih kena tunggu. Then, pi kedai borong junk food habis RM100. Masuk pula grand union. Bila pi semula Maybank pun kena tunggu lagi. Seriously??? Nak buat kami tunggu 1 jam kah? Sempat lagi membeli ini for RM20....

I think it is cheap for several items. Boleh tahan juga butter cookiesnya.

Malam pi open house jiran setaman. Segan juga perempuan sorang2. Tapi bantai je la. Luckily ada tetamu yg dikenali...idok le mcm kera sumbang. Pasrah je la bila kawan2 yg kononnya nak pi sekali malam, tiba2 berubah fikiran pi petang, lewat petang dan juga datang lewat huhuhu....

Sabtu pagi I pi kerja 2 jam. Ada order food for the course participant. I was really dissapointed with the food...very small portion and the caterer didn't provide one of the side dishes.

Petang ...apalagi open house la.

Good Friday, Makan Day and Baking Day

It was Good Friday and it was a holiday......

But why it is called Good friday ?
From wiki :
Good Friday (from the senses pious, holy of the word "good"),^[1][2] is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, or Easter Friday,^[3] though the latter normally refers to the Friday in Easter week.

Hmm..whatever...As long as we Muslim believe that Jesus(Isa) is God's messenger and he was not crucified. God raised him up to heaven. I remember that one of the Saudi student asked our english conversation teacher, why it is called Good friday when it is supposed to be Sad friday....terkedu cikgu tu hehhe. The same goes when he asked the teacher why Easter is associated with egg and Bunny. Yup, normally our christian friends don't know the reason :)....My friend's spv said it a symbol of new life....Korang nak tau, sila google ya...

So, how I spend my day on Good friday?
I planned to go to uni and prepared my lunch pack. When I went upstairs it has already 11.15am...Hehhee...so I cancelled my plan. And just did my work at home.

At 5.45pm me and my housemates=kanda, Indian, American and Philipino hmates went to have dinner at Thai restaurant..Our german hmate went to Melbourne..

We ordered fried rice to be shared. And each of us ordered the main course separately, but of course we shared that too. I had fish fillet in chili sauce...Yum...mine was the best.

Other food was quite bland for example grilled squid..Ohh..we really shocked to see that fried rice was aud27. We thought it only cost aud17 for 5 people...The price was ridiculous. I never thought it is really expensive..Yup maybe previously either our accommodation manager paid for our dinner our my spv treat me lunch there...In fact we have to pay extra aud2.50 each because it was public holiday....Huish! Why they charged us for that...It is opened, that was why we went there. It was not the other way round where they have to open because we want to eat there....

Then later instead of went straight to home we went to the beach. It was full moon, just in case they have the drumming festival...

Yup people was playing drums and fire woods nearby the beach

My Indian housemate wanted to go to the beach, so I accompanied her...from behind hehhehe.....She was so brave to play with the water even though from far I could see big waves coming............
Memanglah dalam gambar tak nampak omabk besar...tengok tu the tide is raising so fast....sibuk posing tetiba air dah sampai situ hehhee.....


who else...yours trully ;)On saturday we gonna have another activity. I didn't know what to bring. Belek2 my recipe folder, ternampak biskut samprit. Then turun bawah, tengok semua bahan ada. So that nite, setelah sekian lama I started baking again :). It was so hard to press the mould..nyesal buat, baik buat kek je. Guna mixer, masukkan batter in the tray and terus humban dalam oven. Mungkin coz aku tak timbang main agak2 je sukatan, maka I didn't get the right consistency for the dough, so bila tekan tak cantik bentuk yg keluar selain putus-putus..I gave up and rolled the dough flat and cut it to rectangle pattern. Sesudahnya I only slept at 1.20am. Tu pun my Indian hmate help me hehehe...Ni je tinggal serdak yg tinggal on Sunday afternoon..........

Kesimpulannya sedaplah tuh, my biskut samprit. Kalau tak silap recipe taken from MakLang Azie's blog. Kanda yang memula tak makan pun, sekali ambil 3 keping hehehe. My Indian housemate 2, 3 kali jugak asked my permission to eat that biscuits. Dah letak atas dining table..so just feel free to eat :)).........

Biskut raya yang terlampau.....

Hehehe...sorrylah buat gempak saja. Tiada yang terlampau dan melampau, melainkan warna biskut raya ku. Ada tak orang berani makan this red colour cookies. My third raya cookies which also the third cookies that I ever baked in my life, strawberry biscuits that I baked on sunday afternoon...sambil basuh baju, sambil baking hehehe....

I got the recipe from Bro Rozzan blog. TQVM bro ...Unfortunately, I couldn't find strawberry essence either in woolies or asian grocery stores, so I just used strawberry jam. Yang peliknya, sebelum dibakar memang ada rasa strawberry, tetapi bila dah bakar hilang pulak rasa strawberry tu. Anyway, I still like the taste and how the cookies looks too...:). You all tak perasan ke ada small and big hole...sesuka hati aku saja kan....

Hmm...have you ever wonder what happen to the first cookies=milk cookies which are not melt in the mouth? Hehehe..keras kejung pun, I only have 3 pieces left .....

But what about my second raya cookies. Well, here is my samprit pandan that I baked on saturday nite...
Apa ni???? Please don't laugh at my cookies la. I know that tiada lansung rupa samprit, rupabentuknya tak sekata, sememeh dengan coklat etc. Habis tu, I don't have any cookies mould/press machine. Have you any idea what did I do to get that parallel line on the cookies ..;)). I got the recipe for this superb cookies from Mak lang Azie....TQVM Mak Lang. You know what, actually that choc on top of the cookies is not cooking choc. Coklat whittaker aku masih ada lagi sikit, since rasanya tak larat nak makan di bulan puasa ni..boleh jugak dijadikan penghias my cookies kan :)).

Disebabkan, terbanyak melantak merasa biskut raya aku rasa tekak kembang semacam je. So, for dinner I just had this stir fried veges and sausages with oyster sauce and black pepper as seasoning....