HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Here's my resolution:

inspired by die -> finish a book every 2 months

start having a planned/patterned day. i never really organise my days, letting everything flow. so im gonna try to come up with a "schedule" and see if i could keep it =p



last week Tuesday ifta invited me n elvin to her place. It was my day off so i decided to "cook" something for them. i lookd around for an easy recipe n i found this: fromage blanc and blueberry crepe blintzes. The recipe looked easy n the photo looked good. but of course, some small 'disasters' followed, my blintzes didnt turn out like the picture xD i substituted fromage blanc with roomkaas (easier to find in supermarkets here.. NOT i didnt knw that fromage blanc in NL=kwark :p).

So instead, my blintz looked like this:



And the following are the events that caused it:
~first: i didnt knw where to find crepes -.- so i thought i might use.... pancakes instead.. xD yea op kors i could also make my own, crepes in this occasion, but laziness prevailed n i went for pancakes.
~second: i didnt pre-heat the pancakes :p so when i tried to roll it, it broke xD as i lookd at my destroyed roll of pancake ifta casually saved the day by saying "try to heat it up first in the microwave".. GENIUS! why didnt i think of that? xD
~third: instead of using normal sugar, i used bastard sugar.. why? coz its cheaper xD result: the blueberry sauce almost turned into blueberry jam! lol..
~fourth: absent-mindedly i threw away almost all of the blueberry 'syrup' to the sink -.-

luckily ifta cookd a major yummy spaghetti ^^ n we were so full so we decided to eat the pancake for breakfast. bsides.. who eats pancake for dinner? :p well.. i was already nibbling some even after saying "i'm full.. i'm full!".


the girls looking happy after yummy spaghetti

after dinner was MOVIE time! yay!! ifta had this selection of... INDONESIAN horror movies!!! xD the options were The Legend of Sundel Bolong, The Legend of Sundel Bolong 2, and The Wall.


i had to "censor" ifta coz she didnt wear her headscarf :p

Sundel Bolong is *ahum* ..

...a female ghost in Indonesian mythology with long hair n (like most female ghosts..there must be an international convention for this..) wears a white long dress. She lost some skin on her back (see movie picture) but it was partly covered by her long hair. Some stories has it that she was raped and then died, some stories added that she gave birth in her grave. (how this is possible i have nooooo clue). Some stories said that besides scaring the living hell out of people they also take newborn babies.. or.. ask a living person to hold her baby and then something scary supposed to happen when that person agrees. (Loosely translated from wikipedia :p)

The Wall i guess was about this female ghost that showed up from the wall (hence the title xD). So The Legend of Sundel Bolong won unanimously :P

It was not as crappy as i thought xD Baim was kinda cute, he looked like the whiter version (and straight hair version, and no-beard version, and famous version xD).. of neysa's husband *giggle*. The movie also had some twist that i didnt expect such as .. the part when the village workers and the religious people started slaughtering each other :D but we're still wondering whether the husband whose wife had turned into the sundel bolong might b able to remarry.. well i guess we have to save the question for The Legend of Sundel Bolong 2!!!

anyways.. was great fun..

so here's the recipe again, with metric conversion n how to make ur own crepes :D (for 10 average-sized rolls of goodness :p)

ingredients
1.5 cups of ricotta cheese
0.5 cup of cream cheese (or kwark)
1 lemon
5 tablespoons of sugar
4 eggs
340gr of blueberries (bosbessen or bosvruchten or blauw bessen). the recipe asked for frozen ones but i think u can find fresh ones here in NL... but since they're going to be used as the sauce, i opted for the jarred ones cause they hv this 'syrup' inside.
1.25 cups of flour
1/8 teaspoon of salt
1.75 cups of milk (volle melk is recommended of course)
2 tablespoons of melted butter
some more butter for sautéing
10 crepes..

1. making the crepes: -> this looks like my next project.. if only i could find ppl to eat 'em xD ..blend 3 eggs, 1 cup flour, salt, milk, and the melted butter.. 'pulse' until its properly blend. Chill for 1 hour or up to 1 day. Heat the frying pan (medium-high), melt some butter, pour in approx. 2 tablespoons of batter. Tilt the pan around to coat the surface evenly. After 45 sec-1 minute, or until its translucent and dry, loosen the edges with a spatula and toss it over to a piece of wax paper (baking paper). use wax paper in between crepes to avoid it from sticking to each other.

2. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celcius.

3. The cheese filling: grate the whole lemon (only use the yellow part! dont grate the whole skin off xD), mix it with the cheeses, the egg, and 3.5 tablespoons of sugar for approx. 30 seconds.

4. Fold the crepe in half, and place the rounded edge at facing up. Take about one full tablespoon of the filling and put it on the right of centre in a vertical stripe that does not quite reach the top and bottom edges of the crêpe. Then fold the top and bottom of the crêpe so that it just tucks over the cheese filling, and then fold the right side over the filling, and roll it gently toward the left. Repeat for the next 10 crepes.

5. Melt 1 teaspoon of butter on medium-high heat and sauté the crepes 2 minutes per side, to make them crispy. Repeat to all crepes.

6. Transfer the crepes to a baking sheet, and bake for 8 minutes.

7. The blueberry sauce: cut the lemon in half and juice one halve. keep the other halve for.. i dont know.. scaring off cockroaches maybe.. combine the blueberries, lemon juice, the rest of the sugar and flour in a saucepan over medium high heat. Simmer for the 8 minutes that the blintzes are in the oven.

8. Plate the blintzes, and serve the blueberry sauce alongside.

robyn's be mine

*sung with tears runnin down*

It's a good thing tears never show in the pouring rain
As if a good thing ever could make up for all the pain
There'll be no last chance to promise to never mess it up again
Just the sweet pain of watching your back as you walk
As I'm watching you walk away
And now you're gone, there's like an echo in my head
And I remember every word you said

It's a cruel thing you'll never know all the ways I tried
It's a hard thing, faking a smile when I
feel like I'm falling apart inside

But you never were, and you never will be mine

For the first time, there is no mercy in your eyes
And the cold wind is hitting my face and you're gone
And you're walking away
And now I'm helpless
Sometimes wishing's just no good
'Cause you don't see me like I wish you would

There's a moment to seize everytime that we meet
But you always keep passing me by

You looked happy, and that's great
I just miss you, that's all

dancing version here ballad version here

stupid v.2 :p

a guest was eating gule kambing
after he finished he asked: "Zijn er lams in Indonesie?" (di Indonesia ada domba gak?)

without thinking i said: "Ja.. 'tuurlijk" (Yes, off course)

split seconds later i realised that.. i dont think lambs can live there -.- it's effin 30 degrees!

but i decided to stick with the story n said: "Ja, maar zij leeft alleen in koudere plekken.. en hun vacht zijn niet als dik als het lams hier" (iya, tp mereka tinggalnya di tempat2 yg dingin, trus bulunya ga setebel domba sini -.-)

the guest just nodded.. hehe.. dia kali mikirnya "ni orang bego banget sih".. i hope he's drunk enough to believe me.. mango juice drunk xD

bego sebego2nya bego deh..

to entertain myself n forget how stupid i am is the newest comic con trailer of watchmen.. yay..

1250 days

Go off to sleep in the sunshine.. I don't want to see the day when it's dying

picture of the week

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nyahahahaw hahahawww...

found it from here

things that im reading *yawn*

so there are FIVE books that are currently in my reading list
seriously for you who might b interested,this is not interesting at all. i wish i hv juicier stuffs to post but sadly no. what's with the emotional wave thingy? is it done yet? yes.. it's over. thank you for asking.

first is the collection of short stories by the late Indonesian author A.A. Navis. The book is Iko's who kindly lent it to me so that I can share his fondness to this particular author. Well I think this guy's brilliant. His stories have unexpected twists and endings. And he has his own way of story-telling. He avoids using difficult words or jargon and over-dramatisation. I'm still at his 14th story -.- one story away from his masterpiece, "Robohnya Surau Kami". My favourite so far was about this pregnant woman, who, amidst of her nature being over-suspicious to everything, tried to, for once, put her trust to ...a beggar and her mute-son n baby. because she's pregnant, and she doesn't want a bad karma will happen to her unborn child. so she let the beggar to work for her as a house-maid, and this one evening she n her husband decided to go out. Then they saw this kid, who looks like the son of the woman working at their place, but.. the difference is, this kid isnt mute. he was telling a story to a group of amused street people (beggars, peddlers, and the like).. that he's been peeping whenever this woman's taking a shower, n he made fun of her big pregnant stomach, and that he is never the son of the woman-beggar (that at that time might already swiped clean all of the couple's valuable belongings)... and the story ends with the pregnant woman fainted and gave birth prematurely -.-

Watchmen.. still on page 24 :p Rorschach was investigating of what seemed to be a normal murder. But he found out that the murdered man was The Comedian, a government-sanctioned superhero after the Keene Act that bans superheroes, is passed. Got introduced with the rest of the characters (Ozymandias, Nite Owl I & II, Silk Spectre II, and Dr. Manhattan). Rorschach already deduced that there might be somebody who wanted revenge on masked heroes...

Rahasia Meede was E.S. Ito's second novel (he's born at 1981 -.- his first novel was published in 2005 .. he was 24 -.- dammit). It's about chain-murders, an underground city below "the Old City"-part of Jakarta (Batavia), a historian from Leiden Universiteit with a *ahum* secret mission, to discover VOC's treasure (yeaah Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie..) Its funny that im reading it here. Feels, close and far away at the same time.. so yeah the novel isnt like any kind of novels by Indonesian authors out there right now (not chick-lit,teen-lit or othr kinds of -lits, not stupid romance novel, not pornographic novel, not sci-fi wannabe novel, n not this-is-art-damn-it novel). its dan brown-ish but not quite :D but yea, he seemed to couldnt really avoid the "romance and sparks" bits. its unnecessarrryyyyy.. but anyway, a good read :D

Guns, Germs and Steel.. this book's heavy -.- Chauft bought it for me.. last year i think.. At first i didnt even want to know how many corn species there were in the old world. so i skipped to more interesting chapters, like the spread of food and produce cultures and why some people, like the aborigines and the Papuans, stick to hunting and gathering. but then felt there were missing pieces of information so i retreatd n bear myself to reading the corn species.. now im already in chapter 16, the part that explained where Indonesian people came from (we're from South China.. so yeah.. im chinese :p). what is this book about actually? it's 'A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years'. That short history is explained in 480 pages.. o_O

Critical Mass..just finished chapter one :p its like the sequel of Guns, Germs and Steel, Critical Mass is what the society do after they realise that they ARE a society, a group of people with a political system and hierarchies..explained in a mathematical way o_O so first chapter was Hobbes and Leviathan, and the introduction to the concept of utopia and commonwealth.

AND on the (PC) playing list are:
The Last Shadow Puppets - Meeting Place
Arctic Monkeys - Baby I'm Yours.. the first signs of Turner's getting mellow, and perhaps the spawn of The Last Shadow Puppet idea. The song was originally sung by Barbara Lewis, i believe..
Cat Power's live (Black Session) in Paris, digging her soulful voice..
Detektivbyrån - lovin their dreamy, catchy, electronic, instrumental love-making stuffs. and the accordion.. cant hv enough of accordions:p
Some stuffs by Kings of Leon (of course)
Metric (Cat Power + Yeah Yeah Yeahs :D)
And in my mp3 player is a playlist consisting of Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Deftones, and A Perfect Circle.. to balance the "mellow" pc playlist :P

i know there shud b links n references here n thereeee buttttt im not in the mood -___-" besides.. u can always google..
and this doesnt mean that im not aware of what happened in India or other places in the world but i dont like to post about really2 scary and sad stuff -.- n theres already a lot of commentary out there anyway..