猶太人最有名的10句話

 每一句都值得細細品味。

1、一杯清水因滴入一滴污水而變污濁，一杯污水卻不會因一滴清水的存在而變清澈。

2、這世上有三樣東西是別人搶不走的：一是吃進胃裡的食物，二是藏在心中的夢想，三是讀進大腦的書。

3、馬在鬆軟的土地上易失蹄，人在甜言蜜語中易摔跤。

4、世界沒有悲劇和喜劇之分，如果你能從悲劇中走出來，那就是喜劇，如果你沉緬於喜劇之中，那它就是悲劇。

5、如果不讀書，行萬里路也不過是個郵差。

6、當你的鄰居在深夜兩點彈鋼琴時你別氣惱，你可以在四點鐘時叫醒他，並告訴他你很欣賞他的演奏。

7、如果你只是等待，發生的事情只會是你變老了。

8、真正的朋友不是在一起有聊不完的話，而是即使不說一句話也不覺得尷尬。

9、時間是治療心靈創傷的大師，但絕不是解決問題的高手。

1 0、寧願做過了後悔，也不要錯過了後悔！

 

Sunday School Sunday 2013

18.11.13 (Mon)

Yesterday was Sunday School Sunday. As usual, the younger ones (2-9yrs old) were requested to present an item on this special day. Hence, they sang two songs - 我的家要荣耀主 & 主祷文. (started practicing weeks ago)

 

Click here for the first song & here, for the second song.

 

This year, all teachers were given an appreciation gift for their faithful serving in Sunday School Ministry. I remembered my days as a Sunday School (SS) teacher in my mother church, Klang Chinese Methodist Church (KCMC). I started serving in SS when I was 18 years old, as an assistant to Std One English class. One year later, I took over Std One class, and continued serving for 9yrs+..I liked teaching Std One coz I felt I could handle them better than the older ones, at least, they still listen to you and have the cutie look. However, in this present church, due to the small numbers of children, we have to arrange all the children (2-9yrs old) into one class.

 

So yesterday, Abby was the first in the line, leading the rest of the children to walk along the aisle and up to the stage. Hubby and I were happy to see that Abby no longer the timid gal 2 yrs ago..she walked steadily, swung both hands up, and sang well on stage!

 

15 years had passed..even the first batch of my SS students are now in their University life! I wondered if they could still remember me, Teacher Ai Leng, :P. Some of them are my Facebook friends though. And there was an incident where I attended a wedding Holy Matrimony at KCMC and in the car park, I met my ex-SS student's parents, who were also my church friends. Their children were waiting in the car while we were chatting. After that, I heard my ex-student asking his Mummy, "Mum, who is that you were talking with?" "Teacher Ai Leng ler..you can't recognise her?" "Huh?! That's Teacher Ai Leng??" I laughed. Then, one of my student is now serving in SS ministry too! Praise God!

I prayed that all the SS students will grow up to be the Children of God, walking the God's path and be a good testimony to people around them!

Abby, the Model Child 2013

15.11.13 (Fri)

Today is the prize giving ceremony, also the last day of the school term for Abby's Kindy. Parents were allowed to attend the ceremony too. So, around 9.30am, I drove to the Kindy with Ian.

 

 

By the time I reached there, the teachers were busy decorating the living hall with balloons, snacks and trophies..the students were upstairs, having some activities. Ian was so excited to see toys on the cupboard..so while waiting for the ceremony to start, he went on to grab a box of blocks and played.

 

 

Finally the ceremony started. Those students who will be receiving award were seated patiently on the chair. Then, the teacher called out their names one by one to receive the trophy. There were 5 model child (N1, N2, K1x2 & K2) and Top 3 students of each class.

 

When Abby's name was called, I could see her smiling, walking shyly to the front and received her trophy. I knew she was happy coz to her, trophy meant a BIG thing. (Papa has lots of trophies in his room too). Hubby even told her, "Abby, next time you get more trophies, then Papa will buy a cupboard for you to keep them!" Haha.

 

And, yippie, my 2 weeks of holidays started!

 

 

The gal wearing a hairband, many commented she is Abby's twin sister, even Hubby also mistaken her as Abby!

 

 

 

Abby's 2nd term assessment

13.11.13 (Wed)

Yesterday was Abby's kindy's Parents-Teacher Day, ie, Report Card Day! Abby sat for her 2nd term examination end of Oct and it's time to see how she score.

 

One week before her exam, I came out with some sample exam questions on BM, English, Phonics & Mathematics, to help Abby prepare herself for the upcoming exams. She made some careless mistakes (even with me giving her tips and chances)! I was quite worried for her, especially her Chinese subject, where she would need to be tested on 数笔画，听写笔画. She scored 84% for Chinese last term. Many of my friends commented on my FB that as parents, we shouldn't pressure our children too much, especially she is only 4 yrs old. Well, true also, as preschool nowadays, was unlike our times. I don't remember sitting for exams, having Science and Computer lessons...Anyhow, hopefully Abby will do better 1st term assessment.

 

So, when we reached the Kindy, teachers were there greeting us with smiley faces. Her class teacher shown us her report card..hmm..overall, she improved in all the areas, scored 100% in 4 subjects (BM, English, Science & Phonics (1st term 96%)), 87% in Chinese (1st term 84%) and 97% in Mathematics (1st term 100%), with an average points of 97.33%. (1st term 96.67%)

 

While Hubby chatting with her teacher, I saw a piece of notice on the table, something on the model child 2013. Then, her teacher took the notice, and congratulated us, informing that Abby has been chosen as the Model Child year 2013 for her class. (Total students: 9) We were really surprised, at the same time happy and proud for Abby! I guessed she still won't understand what does Model Child means to her now..but I am sure when she grows up next time, and see the trophy, she will be proud of herself too! 

 

Initially Hubby promised her if she scored 100% in all subjects, she will be rewarded. Since she was chosen as the Model Child, Hubby decided to buy her the present she requested.

 

This week will be the last week of the school term. Next year she will be going to K1 class. Hopefully she will continue to learn and perform well in her academic.

 

Concentrating on doing her sample exam paper

Careless mistakes made in Maths & Chinese!

 

German Cheese Cake 德国芝士蛋糕

12.11.13 (Tues)
I used to bake non-baked cheese cake as it is an easy and fast recipe. Today I tried baking a baked cheese cake. With the added lemon zest and juice, it made the taste of the cake even extra yummy! 

 

 

Ingredients

Sugar Pastry

120g butter

60g icing sugar

1 egg

200g soft flour

Rum Raisin (I skipped this)
30g raisin
10g rum

 

Cheese cake

600g cream cheese (I like using Philadephia cream cheese)

80g caster sugar

200g milk

1 lemon zest and juice

5 egg yolks

30g corn starch

Methods
1. Sugar pastry: Cream butter and icing sugar. Add egg and flour, knead into a dough. Line onto the cake pan.

2. Cheese cake: Whisk cream cheese and caster sugar to smooth, Add egg yolks, lemon zest and juice and stir finely. Pour milk into cream cheese mixture and fold in corn starch.

3. Rum raisin: Soak raisin into rum for overnight.

4. Assembly: Line sugar pastry onto cake pan and bake at 180C for 10mins to medium well. Take out and pour soaked raisin and cream cheese mixture. Bake at 180C for 40mins, leave cool and dust with icing sugar.

 

Line the dough onto the pan. Poke a few holes using a fork. Bake at 180C for 10mins before pouring the cream cheese mixture into it.

 

 

 

10 Fun Facts

11.11.13 (Mon)

I got fooled.. :)

Pandan Chiffon Cake 班丹戚风蛋糕

7.11.13 (Thurs)

This would be my 4th time baking a chiffon cake and today, I baked Pandan Chiffon Cake, recipe adapted from Christine's Recipe. Hubby and kids said YUMMY!

 

Ingredients

5 egg yolks
40g caster sugar
100g cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
100 ml coconut milk
2 tbsp pandan juice (see below for making pandan juice)
1/2 tsp pandan essence (optional)
3 tbsp olive oil/canola oil

 

Egg whites
5 egg whites
60g caster sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar

 

Pandan juice:
10 pandan leaves, fresh or frozen
1 1/2 tbsp water

 

Method
1. Preheat oven to 170C.

2. Beat the egg yolks with a balloon whisk and mix in sugar. Add coconut milk, pandan juice, and pandan essence (if desired). Combined well.

3. Sift in cake flour and baking powder in three batches into the egg yolk mixture. Mix well. Lastly, add oil. Set aside.

4. Use a large clean bowl, making sure there’s no water or oil in it. Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until bubbles form. Add the cream of tartar. After mixing well, add the sugar in three batches, about one-third at a time, and beat well between additions. Continue to beat until stiff peaks form.

5. Spoon out 1/3 of the beaten egg whites and fold into the egg mixture. Lightly fold in the rest of the beaten egg whites with a spatula, until just combined.

6. Pour into the cake pan and bake in preheated oven for about 35 to 40 minutes. After baking the first 15 minutes, if you find your cake gets browning, reduce heat to 150C, continue to bake until cooked through. A needle comes out clean when inserted in the middle.

7. Remove cake from the oven. Invert the pan immediately. Allow it to cool completely.

To make pandan juice:
Chop pandan leaves into chunks, pop in a food processor and add about 1 1/2 tablespoons of water. Process to small pieces. Place pandan leaves in a muslin bag and squeeze out the juice. You need about 2 tablespoons of it to make this cake. If you don’t have a muslin bag, just use your clean hand to squeeze out the juice.

Penang Street, Wall Painting

2.11.13 (Sat)

After having dimsum at a local restaurant in Georgetown, Penang, we started our "hunt" for some of the famous wall painting around the Penang Heritage. I did some research online for the exact location of those murals and it did helped. Some of the murals were located near to each other and within walking distance. We could only select a few murals as the kids were with us, couldn't really walk too long. I think we spent about 1.5hrs, taking pictures with the murals before heading home.

 

"Little Children on Bicycle", Armenian Street. One of the famous mural and we gotta queued up to take picture.

"Reaching Up", Cannon Street

"Giant Cat" & "Giant Rat", Armenian Street.

"Boy on the Bike" & "Little Boy with Pet Dinosaur", Ah Quee Street. Unfortunately, the dinosaur went missing.

Top: "Children Playing Basketball", Chulia Street & "Little Girl in Blue", Muntri Street
Bottom: "Char Siew Bao Uncle", Leith Street

"Children on Swing", Chulia Street

 

 

 

Mee Hun Ker 面粉粿

5.11.13 (Tues)

I don't really like to eat mee hun ker when I was young (coz I felt liked eating just flour). Each time when my mum cooked that, I would ask to cook noodles as substitute. Somehow at one point of time (can't remember when), I started to like mee hun ker and I asked my mum to teach me how to knead the dough. It was quite easy and I cook mee hun ker at least twice a month coz Abby and Ian like eating it!

 

Ingredients

Dough

300g flour (enough for 4 of us)

3 tsp salt, dissolve in 100ml water (you may add adjust according to your taste)

50g vegetable oil

1 egg

 

Fishcake

Lean meat

Vegetable
(you can add more ingredients for eg prawns, fishballs..)

 

Methods

1. Sift flour. Add in egg and oil. Slowly pour in the salt water and start kneading into dough. If the dough gets too wet, sift in some flour. Knead for 5mins or till dough become elastic. Divide into 4 small dough and let it rest.

(usually I will prepare the dough in the morning and cook as dinner)

 

2. In a large bowl of soup, slowly put in the dough (tore into small pieces, as shown in the video below) and other ingredients and boil to cook.

 

3. Add in fried shallots and ikan bilis. Ready to serve.

 

 

Restaurant Aik Hoe 益和茶楼

2.11.13 (Sat)

Today is Deepavali, public holiday. We already planned to go to this famous local dimsum restaurant in Georgetown, Penang, to try out the dimsum, and at the same time, go "hunting" for the famous wall painting in Georgetown. Seriously speaking, we hardly find any nice and delicious dimsum in the North. So, hopefully by waking up 6am+ is worth it, to make a trip there!

 

We left Kulim around 7.10am and reached Georgetown by 8am. I keyed in the address of the restaurant into the GPS but couldn't locate the shop! Then, we tried the GPS coordinates, still failed! Gosh..we spent almost 30mins, wandering around the area and finally, found it! (By that time, hubby already quite frustrated..he never like to drive around Penang especially with those one way street and the driving style of the Penang ppl, no offense to the Penang ppl)

 

Anyway, we parked our car at Love Lane and walked to the restaurant, located at Carnarvon Street, in front of the morning market. We invited another friend of Hubby to join us, so that we could order more food to share. Most of the customers were the local old folks, and you could see some tourists too.

 

From what I read from the other blogger's blogs. you should see the waiters carrying the bamboo basket filled with dimsum and you just choose from there. But, today, we didn't see any. Instead, we gotta go to the main dim sum counter and choose from there. I think we took more than 20 plates of dimsum and also ordered the fried noodles.

 

 

As we always have dimsum at this Restaurant in Klang (yummy, delicious and really those high-class type of dimsum), so, when we tried the dimsum here, we were not satisfy. As Hubby always say, whenever he goes to a dimsum restaurant, he will benchmark the prawn dumpling aka "Har Gao" first. If "Har Gao" is nice, then the rest of the dimsum should taste good too..so, today he was pretty disappointed with the "Har Gao" here..it's abit different where you hardly see prawn inside the "Har Gao", but a mixture of minced pork and chopped prawn meat. Then the "Char siew bao", I think the skin layer was abit thick and the fillings were less. Well, perhaps we went there with high expectation, hence, we were not satisfied with the food. However, the restaurant was crowded..I guessed the local people like these type of dimsum. The bill came to RM112.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Verdict out of Five (1-not good, 5-very good):

1. Quality of food: 2.5

2. Ambiances: 3 (old styled kopitiam)

3. Audiences: 4 (mostly the local people)

4. Price: 3 (reasonable price)

5. Services: 3

6. Hygiene: 3

 

Aik Hoe Restaurant

No 6 & 8, Lebuh Carnarvon,

Georgetown,

10100 Penang.

Tel: 016 472 0971

Business hours: 5am-2pm

Closed on Monday & Tuesday

GPS Coordinates : N05 2502.8 E100 2009.8 (you can try using these coordinates but it failed on our GPS)

Tangzhong Pumpkin Loaf 南瓜吐司

1.11.13 (Fri)

It's time to bake bread again. Today, I added in a new ingredient - mashed pumpkin into my bread recipe. You can refer here for the recipe too. I modified a bit on the ingredients.

Ingredients

550g bread flour 
11g instant dried yeast (about 2 tsp)
1 egg
100g milk
184g tangzhong

100g mashed pumpkin

49g unsalted butter, melted

60g caster sugar
1 tsp salt
 

Methods

1. Since I do not have a bread maker, I used the usual method, knead by hand. Sift flour, poppy seeds, bran and yeast. Make a well in the centre, add in egg, milk, melted butter, mashed pumpkin & tangzhong..knead into a dough, and continue for about 10mins til elastic and smooth.

**do not add in the milk all in once, to avoid the mixture being too wet and hard to knead.

 

2. Transfer the dough to a clean floured bowl. Cover with cling wrap, let rest for 1-2hrs at room temperature until double in size.

3. Place the dough in the loaf tins to have the 2nd round of proofing, until double in size. The best temperature for 2nd round proofing is 38C, humidity 85%.

4. Brush whisked egg on surface. Bake in a pre-heated 180C (356F) oven for 30 to 35 minutes, until turns brown. Remove from the oven and transfer onto a wire rack. Let cool completely.