Well hello there.

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I was browsing through my email and read an email from a website/blog that I subscribe and she linked a video about the story behind the KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON poster. Okay, I admit I do not really understand the hype behind why so many people like the poster. I feel like it is just a saying that don't really effect me but I have to say that the design is simple enough to catch my eyes.

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So check out the video on the history behind it which I found quite interesting :)

ENJOY!

P/S;  I just got back from Cameron Highlands yesterday and do expect to see post updates on flowers, cactus & my crazy friends :D

All About Foods (well not really)

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Food I cooked baked

So, a few days ago I was on the must-cook-something mode so as I was browsing on this awesome blog : "One Good Thing by Jillie", I found a recipe, Spicy Honey Chicken that makes my tummy growl. Since I have 7 strips of chicken breast that need to be used up, I decided to try the recipe.

And being a lazy bum like me, I decided to omit & change few ingredients. Well reason is I don't have the item used and I was lazy to put on proper clothes and drive to the store.

Here is my version of the recipe, I recommend you stick to the original recipe(HERE) :

Rub
2 piece of garlic and small onion
2 T.spn chili powder
1/2 t.spn rocksalt (I should have add a little bit more)
1/2 t.spn cumin (I think I do not like this seeds' taste so maybe I'm gonna omit this on next time)


Glaze
1/4 cup honey
1/2 t.spn vinegar


Direction

1. Pound all the rub ingredients in the mortar until everything became a thick paste.
2. Rub the paste onto the chicken and if you notice I mix them with the honey & vinegar together. (I'm too lazy to glaze them afterward, so yeah)
3. Bake for 20mins on 150 degree.
4. Serve & eat!

Food I ate

Since this post is dedicated on the foods I made & ate for the past week, here are more pictures of food. I know, random. 

On the first picture, I made a wrap using a wheat wrap with romaine lettuce, sausages, tomatoes and wasabi mayonnaise. 

Second picture is what I normally eat and yep, that's what my grandma cooks. Well, of course not the same thing every single day but these are the only picture I took. 2 fried fish (I don't know the type, well I only know the Malay name which is Selar Kuning), a blob of Rendang hitam (Grandma's fav!), curry prawn (yum) and bokchoy soup with few romaine leaves.

Food I tried for the first time

Yes that is exactly what you think it is. The all time favorite and famous RED VELVET CUPCAKE and you might think this fact is bizarre, this is my FIRST TIME trying it. Yep, say what ever you want. 

Verdict

I don't really understand the hype over this cupcake, i think MAYBE the baker who I bought from doesn't use the original recipe or maybe it's just me. 

Will I buy again?

YES! but from a different baker.

Bake for myself?

YES, in fact, I've bought all the ingredients already. HOWEVER, I don't have time to bake (for now) since this week is SUPER DUPER HECTIC WEEK! 

And FYI, my cake won't be red, it's gonna be BLUE :D

Things I do besides eating

What you see in the last picture down here is the effect of a hectic week, after tests and assignments due on the same day, my brain can't function properly so I took my NYX jumbo eye pencil in Milk and start to color the back on my hand and I took few shades of "rainbow" from my Coastal Scents' palette and start painting my hand.

Yup, that's how I do it. XD

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Mengkuang Dam

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I been putting off this post for nearly a week and for that I'm not sorry. No, really. I'm KIDDING. I feel bad. I mean, I don't make any promise but I feel bad for myself because I can't fight the laziness in me. 

Well, moving onto the important thing I need to share, Mengkuang Dam is the place where I went most of the time to jog / feed the fish ever since I was little and apparently now. 

FYI, I was born & raised in Selangor and Pulau Pinang is where my grandparents (my late mom side) live. And since currently I am studying at UITM Pulau Pinang, I live with my grandparents. So that explains why I like to go to Mengkuang Dam, the place is amazing and it is like less than 10 minutes drive from my house. That's the bonus point! :D

These pictures was taken on Monday, YES, MONDAY. And I really love to go there on the morning compared to the evening as the  sun is so harsh on the evenings. I assure you the sun's ray can blind you. Am not kidding here. And the temperature, so hot that you can feel like your skin is burning. 

With those reasons, I have to get my workout done on the morning and FYI, I'm not a morning person, I sleep late, I woke up at 6.30am for Subuh prayer and If I don't have any class on 8am, you can find me sleeping with the sunshine shining on my face like I'm dead. Yep, that's me. 

So, enough with the talk and just admire the pictures of nature. Oh, this is the path I always use when I'm jogging alone, if I'm with my friends, we went for the other path. A hilly path which is much more enjoyable but since I'm a little scared of what might happen if I went by myself, I wouldn't take risk.

So right after the walking + jogging, went home and made a papaya-romaine smoothie. This is just an experiment as I have never make a smoothie with any vegetable in in. Taste okay, maybe I should put more papaya. Will try this again soon!

This are what my typical lunch looks like, A plate of rice + some fish + veges. 

The picture on the middle is a pear + yogurt + honey combination. Also an experiment which turns out not bad and really filling. It holds me over the hunger for a good 3hours. Yup, tested it :)

The last picture is a proof of an addiction of mine, yup, watching YouTube's Beauty Guru (Nikki). Love her! 

“What Would My 3D World be with LG Optimus 3D?”

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As I was checking my mail inbox, I read an update by Nuffnang and came across a contest to win an LG Optimus 3D. And you ask me what is that? No it is defenitely not Optimus Prime as in the Hero from Transformer. It's an Android. It's sleek design caught my eyes when I saw the post on Nuffnang's blog. 

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Since I do not know much about techs stuff, I browse around LG's website specifically to gather a little bit of info about the Android itself. You know, Love at first look is not entirely applies in technology as well as reality. So what I found was these Key Features below (copied from LG's website : http://www.lg.com/my/mobile-phones/all-phones/LG-smart-phone-optimus-P920.jsp )

Key Features

• Beyond Dual Core, Tri Dual Technology
• 3D Real-Time Recording
• Glasses-free 4.3" Wide Display
• True gaming in 3D
• 3D Hot Key for Immediate 3D Access
• View 3D footage on YouTube
• Seamless Content Sharing via HDMI/DLNA

Let me be honest here and tell you what really interest me about the bad boy are: 

1. Beyond Dual Core, Tri-Dual Technology.
   It enables faster transfer of data. Who doesn't love that right?
2. Glasses-Free 4.3" Wide Display and 3D Footage on YouTube.
   For those few who reads my blog or knew me well, they probably know that I am a sucker for Youtube Videos hence the 3D footage without the need to use or worry about breaking the 3D glasses PLUS the wide display is all a BONUS point for this Android. Well, at least for me. :D

So, back to the original question as what the title of the post : "What Would My 3D World be with LG Optimus 3D ?"

I must say, it will save me tons of bulkiness of the needs to bring my camera around, with the phone, I can take pictures, videos plus in 3D. How can't that be sweet?

I can record the awesome people I always meet at Mengkuang Dam (The place where I always jog), as they run very fast and they are my inspiration to get moving and did I mention they are older than me and most of them are in their late 40s to early 50s. O_O yup, you read it right.

As of what I wrote earlier, I can watch YouTube videos on 3D and without the 3D glasses is simply awesome! I wonder if I can watch all of my TV series on that as well? Hmmm, need to get one to try!

Wish me luck and my the luck be upon those who enter as well. To enter, check the details HERE if you haven't already!

19th February 2012 - The 21 years' mark of my life.

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Yep, today is the day where I was born by my late mother, Noorizzah, 21 years ago. I think I lived a good life ever since I was an infant and I am grateful for that. And don't be shocked, the truth is this year, I'm not really looking forward on celebrating big for my 21st birthday. Some people would bid goodbye to the age "20" with a big celebration, but I don't feel like it. 

And what you guys should be shocked to is the fact that my Operation Management's Lecturer decided to have a class on SUNDAY. Her original plan was to have class from 9am to 4pm since our 2nd test which supposedly held on Saturday of 18th February 2012 was cancelled due to the examination hall is used for an event. However the plan has changed and my lecturer end the class quite early, around 1 I guess. 

My friends and I decided to have lunch at AEON Jusco, a mall near our campus and little did I know they've planned a little sneaky surprise before we went there, at the toilet to be exact, which I did find something is weird because at the toilet I put my bag on a chair while Biha & Yana (my 2 best friends) waited for me to finish up my business, I heard like they open the zipper of a bag, but since Biha also wears a bag pack, I doesn't suspect anything at all. 

And Yana did cover up the act by "accidentally" took out her calculator from her zipped tote bag and said that she took the calculator when she was actually wanted to take out her phone. She & Biha giggled like crazy and of course I didn't suspect anything because naturally all of us always take other things from our bag when we actually wanted to take something else. I mean, who doesn't do that right? ADMIT IT ALREADY! :P

However I felt a little weird when I picked up the bag because it felt a little weird (as for the position of my books) but I thought well, that's normal because I shoved my books, pencil case & bottle in there without organizing them properly like I always do. So we went to Jusco for our lunch and done a little bit of shopping, bought 3 large bottles of 100plus (my grandma's fav), cherry tomatoes & bread. After lunch, I send them back to my campus and parted from there. 

At home, as I am winding down after I got back from lunch, I opened my bag pack to check why did the bag felt so stuffy then I found these babies in it : 

I am so FREAKING EXCITED! I mean come on, who wouldn't when they found out there are gifts MAGICALLY (Yes, I want to use this word) appeared from your bag pack. Haha. I was laughing alone like a maniac. HEHEHEHEHEHE.

First of all, I saw the Subway coupons and I was like, YES! I love Subway and so does my babes Biha & Yana. So going to use them soon! Plus, its been quite a few months I've have any sandwich from Subway! :D

Second I opened Biha's present, it was a LEARN CHINESE THROUGH ENGLISH book. Okay, I wanted a How to learn Chinese book from Popular (a bookstore at our mall) but they don't have any good ones, by good I mean the basic that I can understand as I only know 1 to 10 in Mandarin. 

Yup, I used to learn in a Chinese Kindergarten. A few minutes later I remembered when I was at Biha's house, I was checking around her room and found 3 new books she bought from a bookstore and she took 1 of the book and said it is personal. I'm GUESSING this is the book. MAYBE. Gotta ask her :P

Last and certainly not least, A DARREN SHAN's THE DEMONATA VOLUME 1 & 2 by Yana! WOOHOO! Okay, lemme get this straight, I just finish reading a book by Darren Shan, The Thin Executioner and I LOVED IT. So, HELL YEAH! I so looking forward to read this book! Weeeeeeeeeeeee :D

BEST PRESENTS EVER!

And of course;

BEST FRIENDS EVER!

P/S: Thanks also to those who wishes :D