Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Memasak (cooking)

If you are a student who live off campus, you better cook because it is one of the best ways to save your money. Yeah!
This is my own style of spaghetti with tomato sauce that I mixed with chili powder, curry powder, fennel seeds, etc.

Fennel seeds are very common in my home country, and easy to get. I brought a lot of other herbs from Malaysia to Iowa to ensure that I don't miss my Mak (mom) 's cook so bad. 

I love the Chef Gusteau's motto in Ratatouille, 'Anyone can cook.' He is certainly right!

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Some little things to be grateful for

I watched some videos from the World Strictest's Parent, about how they brought kids from Europe to   places all around the world. Those videos gave me ideas on, you know, the problems that some of the kids experienced. Like what my  teacher said, 'Things happen'. 

How here we goes, 'the summaries'. *Sorry for the broken English orders and word choices.



1.     Nicole, she just could not accept that she is mixed race. She wanted to be white, and if there was a chance for her to be like Michael Jackson, she would agree. Her grandmother told that when Nicole was small, she would scrub her body, and the grandma asked her what she was trying to do, and she said that she wanted to be white. Different things happen to Nathan, who had slept with around 52 girls and lost his virginity at 12-14 years old. Nathan missed his home, and the first thing he did when arrived home from Barbados, he apologized to his mother. *In Barbados, the people speaks good English, I remembered what Mdm Avlon told me about they, the Africans need to learn both African language, and English, and pass excellently on both of them. They realized. (In Barbados, South Africa)

2.      Chez lives with his mother. A single mother. Chez is a gay in fact. 'He then is in his final year of school and he is the top of his class. He is rebuilt a close bond with his mum. And he even does his own ironing' (Youtube). Different things happened to Bex. Bex changed when her brother dead. Sadly, because of her changes, her mom even called her the daughter from hell. 'After living with the family in Georgia, Bex has stopped drinking during the week. She is moved out of home and in her boyfriend. Her relationship with her parents is still rocky' (Youtube). They realized. (in Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

3.      ‘A 18-year-old father-to-be Wesley McGillian A boy around 17 years old’ (Youtube), has a baby and her mother, a single mother doesn’t want him to abandon the baby like what his father did to the family. The father hung up him and his mother to dry. So, in New Jersey he started working for the first and he got so touched when the adopted father brought him meeting with the neighbor’s. He, the boy, bought sweet clothes for his babies, and ready to be a dad. The girl, another girl, ‘sulky, secretive 16-year-old Tamsin Carruthers, Cole’ (Youtube). Her father busy working and has kidney failure, and the mother donated hers, and Tamsin changed after that. She took a lot of drugs. She had hard times to be honest with herself and try to learn to communicate with her mother. She extended her stay in New Jersey for two weeks. They realized. (in New Jersey, USA)

4.      ‘An angry girl Nicki Stygall and permatanned Jerri MacVeigh travel to Sri Lanka.’ (Youtube)  Jerri said that she did not give to the poor. The mother also brought her to the disabilities home. Jerri just couldn’t go inside because she could’t respond to any of them. Jerri cared so much about her appearance. The mother just want her to be grateful for what she has because Jerri is really fortunate enough. Nicki got angry so easily. She got kicked out from school because she ‘burked’ the students in her school. Nicki has this deep down empathy towards this old Sri Lanka woman who works to earn for a living, until late at night. At last, both of Nicki and Jerri came back to the disabilities home. Nicki did it in usual ways, and Jerri followed along. She realized how fortunate she is. She admitted that she was being so selfish. She gave those balloons to one of the people there :) Nicki said sorry to her mother. And yeah, they realized. (in Sri Lanka)