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Blogging again, yeah!

2007-04-26T16:13:00.000+08:00

Sorry for abandoning this blog for longgg time ( more than 1 year I think). Gomenasai!

Setelah dipikir2 ternyata blogging itu gw rasa cukup penting buat improve writing skills gw (terutama english), jadi bakal sering diupdate deh mulai sekarang...!

Mungkin gw berusaha buat bikin balance post nya either pake english dan indo....Too frustating sometimes to speak personal matter without my own mother tongue hahaha.

Akhirnya, I now can wait for my graduation day from NTU, yeah!

Long Time Never Update...Busy Busy Busy

2006-11-04T23:52:00.000+08:00

Daily Job Currently....

Maryam's farewell party - how nice a friendship is!

2006-04-09T07:37:00.000+08:00

Well, hmm...I'm really so sorry for abandoning this blog (again) even longer time. Kekekek. The reason is must be coz I'm too busy. Thanks Fan to remind me! Another thing is I have no idea what to write! It will be so boring if I only write my daily hectic life or blabbering my vexation because of my so-called 'cold' environment Lab.

I realize doing IA is even more hectic that just normal studying (lectures, tutorials, labs). I need to wake up so early then spend most of my day-time in the lab and yeah reach my room at almost 7pm. So tired, even I'm unable to read something afterwards. I prefer to sit in Lecture Theater, eventhough it's much more stressful but I can manage my own time, no constraint at all.

OK ok back to the topic. Last Friday, we celebrated a farewell dinner for someone who's leaving our ICES company. Yeah don't misunderstand me, she is a good friend of mine. That's all. I was the organiser for the event and managed to get some of my colleagues to join this. So I supposed to post this blog thing since last week rite? hehehhe.

We planned to have our dinner at Sakura, a chinese-thai halal restaurant at Far East Plaza, but there was a misunderstanding between the female booking operator and Karen. In fact there are plenty of Sakura thing restaurants and she explained wrongly hence in the end I misbooked a restaurant! What a heck...But don't worry, we still had our dinner at the restaurant just 1 level below Sakura. It's called Nana, a thai halal restaurant. Overall the food was very nice and tempting, but a bit too spicy. Some photos are attached below.

me and Maryam- thanks for your nice handmade cheesecake

The food is tempting huh?

And we had our dessert at Gelare, an Italian low fat ice cream chain...What a perfect nite! Oops we're in 'what talking you' mode -Ronn's trademark :-)

Then the last thing I want to write is of course about my IA. First of all don't ever think I am a complainer or being too fuzzy, but just that I really want to speak up about this matter. Well, I have done my IA for about 12 weeks so far, which means I still have 10 weeks to go, but I realize Jurong Island generally and ICES especially is not a good place for me to work in the future. I think NTU which is 'less sophisticated' compared to ICES can provide me better environment to work in research, really! The best thing is NTU lab can give me unvaluable warmess and friendly environment to work. Well, I do not say that ICES is too bad place to work, but I cannot get the same feeling there. I like the research there, but not the so-called 'cold' environment. The one thing that can make me survive is our NTU student's corner, hahaha. I'm so luck to have you all as my friendly colleagues man! I think the only person I'm going to miss a lot after I finish my IA is my uncle-boss, how luck I am to have him as my boss...

Sometimes I was very vexed when working in that company. The people were oftenly too annoying in a certain extent. Do this wrong, do another one is also wrong. Hmm. I don't think I need to explain more about this, but it's too humiliating. Another thing is they seem look down to students whom they think are less capable to do their sophisticated researches. Even some of them seem never expect significant result from our job due to so-called maid-salary-student. Again that's somewhat humiliating! Hmm I really dislike this kind of people who always think that they are the smartest people on earth thus abasing people who are not that smart as them. What a heck! Come on, being a smart person means you have more responsibility to help weaker people...

Memorable Birthday Celebration by SSS

2006-03-06T23:09:00.000+08:00

Hmm, confuse to choose the title coz happens on the same day... OK, as planned by Larissa, our SSS president, SSS family decided to celebrate my b'day tonight. Feel so excited having 2 b'day celebrations on the same day...Never experienced it before. That's why I am so kanchiong....

Generally, our traditional b'day celebration is a bit different from normal S'poreans. Let say at this afternoon celebration, after I blowed the candles then just cut the cake and distribute that's all. But not in our Indonesian students tradition here, before 'touching' any food provided, I must ask some guests for their testimonials and how they feel about myself. That's a good point! I can see how others feel and think about me so far. Moreover it can reveal about myself more. For me the most important is the bad things about me, so I can improve myself in the years ahead...sometimes yah it's difficult to accept but please be real!

There were 13 of us who came to my hall TV room, and all from fellow SSS friends + Zuhdi who came late. Most of the testimonials said I'm a good chef and a good senior for my SMUN8 almamater, that's for the pros. For the contras some of them said I am a very complex and unique person and sometimes mumbling too much if I was angry...hahaha sorry Yodh! Then the most memorable one is from Adilla n Larissa. Hahaha. Lariss said I'm one of the only 2 persons in her life who has her category for that kind of people, a structured, goal oriented and organized people whereas Adilla described me as a person who has very complex thoughts that others may not understand me well. I didn't know about that things deeply...but I feel that's somewhat true. Because of that confusing but needs deep understanding Adilla's testimonial for me, I decided to give her the first cake.

Wow, the cake was nice. Thanks for all of you ya...here is the cake. So beautiful and tempted cake...Psst our SSS singers Fanny n MT sang my request favorite songs, Lagu Rindu and Cuma Manusia by Keris Patih...really awesome! I never expected this, your impromptu performance was wonderful...

And and our memories...

Lastly our big and warm SSS family that always makes me cheerful during stressful and hard NTU life...

Remarks: Thanks ya Dil for your nice gift. Really like it...Thanks thanks! For Fanny, hmm don't misunderstand me yah, she is just a nice friend of mine...thanks for your sms, I'll try my best to understand his behaviour. For all thanks for coming to this very simple party, hahaha I'm supposed to be the chef for b'day occasion, but now I'm having holiday from cooking, hahaha it'll be strange if I cook for you all for my own b'day *sigh*. Ok, b'day story for today finished. I'll try my best to be a more mature and better man years ahead!

A Nice Birthday Celebration by IA friends

2006-03-06T05:48:00.000+08:00

Hi Hi, yup today is my birthday. Must write long nice story then, kekekeke. It's my 3rd birthday since I came to Singapore for the first time exactly. Flash back, in my 1st B'day here around 2 years ago, my ex-roomate, Komeng bought me two big choco cakes and organized a small party for me. Thanks bgt ya Meng for that. Then I didn't celebrate it for last year coz I was too busy preparing the exams...

Frankly, I feel I'm getting older and older hehehehe. Huh, many people in the office will be so angry if I said so.... ahahahaha, the reason coz it's considered still young as 3rd year undergrad student coz most of my S'porean friends aged at least 22 for gals whereas 23+ for guys...What makes me surprised was Kunn said that I am still very young. huh? How come, strange you..kidding2! kekekeke. I got lots of friends who are even younger than me as my fellow friends or even seniors here in NTU like our maestro Barra who is 20 years old for his final year, Larissa 19 years old in her final years and Komeng who is still 19 years old for the same year as me. Hahaha, that's why I can say I'm so old!

Actually I intended not to celebrate this B'day, as I used to be like this. Likewise in my family, we never 'really' celebrated birthday, coz the meaning of birthday is you are getting older and should be more mature, that's all, why should we celebrate? kekekekek. Mostly we only ate special dinner or lunch in the family and among the close family, that's all. hmm but suddenly Larissa sms-ed last nite and conveyed that she planned to celebrate it for our SSS family, the invitation all sent, so must die die come, or else...so surprised yah, thanks thanks, write a story about this in another posting!

Great surprise occurred in my office. Yup, I cooked my fav choco pudding yesterday in the early morning to share with, firstly I thought no body will know my birthday coz I kept it as a secret...But wow they bought me a nice choco-blueberry cream cake, thanks yah all, especially for Maryam, thanks a lot! I never expected to be as happy as today...Fortunately they like my own handmade pudding!

So far I got lots of sms-es, friendster message and B'day card from my friends either in Spore and Indo, here they all. I put them as they originally written and first time first...

Hiban (my high school friend): Oy oy, Met Ultah ye !!! Makin Baek!!! Makin Sukses!!! Makin Tobat!!! Makin Alim!!!

Larissa : Bram! ultahmu dirayain besok jam 8.30pm yaa...Di Hall 5..Jgn telat dateng yaa undangan tlah disebar huehue..:D eniwei met ultah! *kiasu d, ngucapin slamat sejam sebelum ultah :P

Adilla : *cute bunny icon* I'll stay here in your "Inbox" & wait till 00.00 on 6/03/06 so I'll be d first to GREET y@u & say:HaPPY bDaY, Bram! May Allah bless u in eVERy seCond of ur life...JazakiLLah kHoiR. Best, Adilla.

Ferry Ang: oi crut,slamet ulang taun ye, inget, umur kita trus berkurang, makanye, buruanlah tobat, jgn crut melulu, edi tansil lu ntar, wakakakak..

Gito (my close high school friend...Miss you so much To): no sweet thoughts to forward. no cute graphics to send. just a...CARING FRIEND saying...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BRAM! God bless u..

Mama n Bapak (love you a LOT!):,,SLMT ULTAH KE 21,,ya Bam smoga taqwa + iman Islam sehat lahir batin, sucses dgn hasil gemilang dan selalu dlm lindunganNYA sampai jumpa Juni mendtg amin dr Ma2 Bpk

Iffa (close junior high school friend, miss you a lot too Fa!): Bram...happy bday. May ur dreams come true, being more mature, and get closer and closer to Allah. amien.

Karen : Happy birthday...NB: So pity her for today, coz she forgot to bring her Jurong Island pass card, then she needed to rush back home at Tampines...I cannot imagine it if happens to myself.

Fanny : Bram, happy 21st st b'day ya. May all ur wishes do come true. May Allah always beside you. -fanny-

Bu Wahyu: Selamat ulng th, hrs lebih dewasa ya, mudah2an apa yg kamu cita2kan dpt terlaksana n mendpt berkah n rahmat NYA amin...3X

Angelina: Bram, met ultah, ya. Sory baru inget. God bless you even more

Ainun: Bram, selamat ultah ya, maaf enggak jadi dateng ke acaranya :-)

Om Ed: Belum terlambat khan? SELAMAT ULANG TAHUN. SEMOGA ALLAH MEMBERI YG TERBAIK.

Hanif : Wa Bram..Maap bgt, gw gk inget =S Anyway met ultah ya. Moga2 smua cita2 lu kesampean smua amin =)

Manda (direct from Compiegne, France...wuih hehehhe...) : bram, happy belated bday y...semoga semakin mantap saja,bahagia dunia akhirat =). amin...-manda

Risyad ( I don't believe I have known this high school (chairmate...:p) + NUS friend for almost 6 years, but never ever seen him angry, huehuehue!) : Eh bram ,wah maap2 lupa kalo lo ultah. Sori2. Happy belated b'day yak :D moga2+yg positif2 huhehehe. Maap2 beneran lupa huhu

Huh...I don't think I am able write another messages written on my card from my IA friends..hehehe. So long yah, afraid makes you bored. The beside one is the card, it's so nice and cute and the messages are meaningful for me. What a wonderful birthday!

Meeting New Friends

2006-02-23T15:10:00.000+08:00

I am really getting bored here in the office. Not many works need to do recently and no body in the lab except me and YanQi. Maryam is taking MC for these 2 days coz of her diarrhea, Kunn is still in Germany for conference, Uncle Shoucang (my boss) is seldomly there too, really a quitest lab I've ever visited. You all please come back soon, thus we can talk cock again, hahahha. I'm so sien right now. I think may be blogging is a good solution to get rid of it.

Ok here the story goes...

Last few days I was really exhausted, really! I went out from my hall at 7am to work and came back at 11.30pm for 3 days consecutively. Hence I could only sleep for about 5 hours per day. Fortunately at least those tiring days were compensated by lots of laughter when I was hanging out. Yup, I spent those days together with some new friends from University of Indonesia who had study tour to Singapore. Most of them are from Faculty of Economy. I got one close high school friend in the group, she is Lufi. There were 8 of them who came here, 3 gals and 5 guys. If you asked me who are their name one by one, I can answer " I forgot" hahaha. So many of them and I got short term memory for spelling others' name too... *sigh*.

Basically the program was arranged by Risyad cs representing Bingo, an entrepreneurship club in NUS. He is also my high school close friend till now, and the event itself was really successful, as graded 4.50 out of 5 by Bingo committee. Congratz Syad! Besides the UI guys, I got also new friends from NUS i.e. Vivi, Todo and Faisal. They are so friendly and nice anyway. What I couldn't believe is Faisal has been staying in Singapore since his primary 1 but his Indonesian slang is still good, but he pretends not so coz he said he has limited vocab *sigh*. I wouldn't know if he didn't tell me about that. Nice to meet you all guys, looking forward to hang out with you all again! Within those days, we managed to go to many places like Sentosa Island, Orchard, Esplanade, etc. Because I seldomly go there, so it's a nice event for me also...Moreover I like to be a tourist guide hahahaha. C u again friends in Jakarta...

Here are some photos taken (credited to Lufi cs)...

What A Wonderful Night...

2006-02-17T00:01:00.000+08:00

Hmm, so sorry blog! I really have abandoned you for weeks. Hehehe, but thanks for Heather (Hi there, Hyvaa Paivaa! ) for reminding me about the rotten CNY story. I was so busy with the hectic labwork recently and really have no idea what to write, but got it now!

Ok, here we go...

Last Thursday was our attachment student 2nd outting with farewell party concurrently. As had planned before we'd go to Geylang Area to have Durian Party. I was really drooling since past weeks before really going there. The best idea was Maryam managed to bring her camera to our very strict Jurong Island! (Hehehe, don't ask me how she did it, secret! But it's really fun to know her genius idea. Hahahaha). For your info, this island is very crazy about the IP (Intellectual Property) of Singapore related to our own researchs, so no wonder why no camera allowed. Some people thought wrongly about the banner in Jurong Island checkpoint (really! it's like when we're entering boarding room in airport, we need to scan our bags, etc. I remember one day Annie Wong brought a knife-shaped thumbdrive...then the police thought it was! She didn't manage to reach the bus on time eventually...so seow!), henceforth JI, indicated that no camera allowed, they thought it's only valid in checkpoint, not the whole island. Hahahaha, good thought!

In the morning before I came to the lab we took some pictures, coz it was Eunice Goh's (a nice friend of mine in my office from Singapore Poly, really cute, nice and helpful. I remember her in the way she first opened my thumbdrive cap. She was fooling around herself. I was laughing crazily at that time. Hahahaha.) last day of attachment, hence at least she managed to snap our funny day. So sad not to see her again next week, but she planned to study at NTU after graduation, so good!

The photo snapping continued to our lab. It's really weird and dangerous of course, if some strict bosses knew about this, we could be charged! Fortunately, Maryam managed to take pictures of I and her, three of us (me, YanQi, her) together and lastly she together with Kunn! Hmm, yup, Kunn is my new acquaintance in the lab, he's a research fellow from Indonesia (but graduated from USA, no wonder he speaks perfect English!), and in fact we are neighbour back in Jakarta. I live in Jatinegara whereas he's in Cipinang area. But somehow he seldomly talks to me, don't know why. I'm afraid he thinks I'm a real geek, hahahahah. Once he told Maryam why he did so, but really really not a good excuse and really wrong perception about me *sigh*. In fact I know that he's a very very nice and caring person, once he spoke to me using Indonesian slang. It's just need more time to be close with him. If you see him for the 1st time, you won't belive how smart he is and how young he is being a real researcher (he is only 27 I guess), people will be bluffed by his own gaul outlooking, hahahah! He's still single anyway, hahaha, anyone?. Pssst, by the way the cleaner auntie in my lab admires him so much :p

Back to the topic...

After our working hour finished, we (me, Ronn, Zhang Peng, Yandan, Lijun, Eunice, Maryam, Annie, Karen and Liang Wei) were heading off to Outram Park MRT, continued to Aljunied and reached Geylang eventually. I know most of you might think Geylang is related to Red-Light area (Houses that have red number on their doors indicated that they are prostituted area). It's true. When we passed by that area to have our dinner, so many of those prostitutes were standing on the trotoir. But I could not say they are chio bu, but just somewhat incredible! OMG! It's only 7pm anyway...it'll be even worse at late hours...

The dinner itself was very common. No special thing, moreover I had no appetite at all. The most important part was the Durian! OMG, it's really fragrant, just sweet (not so bitter) and not so ex. Because Maryam and I decided not to join my fellow friends to go to another red light area, so we reached the Durian stall 1st. We shared our 1st Durian and ate them slowly, also continued to talk more about Kunn, me, YanQi etc. hahaha really funny.

Huh, that night was really awesome for me. I can feel that I am so glad to meet all of them, good friends to share, to laugh, to think, to discuss, etc. Hahaha. I just cannot imagine how loud I am if I laugh in the office because of them...That's why I won't ever regret that I cancelled my overseas attachment last time...

Here are some photos taken on Eunice's farewell dinner...(Credited to Maryam, who has diarrhea right now, take care ya!)

Of course not forgetting the photo together with my lovely and nice labmates, YanQi and Maryam. With both of them I can laugh a lot and feel not being in a boring lab, hahahhahaha....Nice to meet you all

Chinese New Year Goodies

2006-02-05T10:41:00.000+08:00

Few days before CNY I and some of my IA friends ( Yandan, Zhang Peng, Liang Wei, Annie Wong, Eunice, Lijun ) went out to Chinatown to buy some stuffs. They bought some cute all-red colour CNY decorations whereas I bought some nice and cute Jelly and Mochi, oranges for greeting my lovely supervisor and very sweet tangerines. We departed right after our working time finished and hang out until around 11pm. Hehehe.

Then surprisingly on Friday (Jan 27) while I was doing my lab work (huh, no body there except me and Yan Qi, all in CNY mood, *sigh*), my supervisor gave me Hong Bao (red packet-red) and 2 oranges (must be even number!). What a nice supervisor...So touching, this is my 1st time in life getting Hong Bao (coz I never celebrated CNY...). Fortunately I had the same idea with Yan Qi to give him goodies, so ashame if not. You should know that for Chinese if someone gives you Hong Bao , that means he/she is married.

Here it is, cute isn't it???

Moreover because last week was still in CNY mood ( my supervisor said so...), I bought Daifuku Mochi Ice Cream to indulge my sweet tooth.

Here they are together with so called CNY Jelly and Mochi...hehehe

1. Fruit Jelly, 2. Mochi, 3&4. Daifuku Mochi Ice Cream

NTU Campus Views

2006-02-02T22:58:00.000+08:00

Hmm. I just want to post some NTU views during Chinese New Year (Day 2- 30 Jan 2006). Oh my god, it was like a real dead city. No body walking around and all hall canteens closed (except muslim food). Really pathetic...Fortunately it's back to normal now!

Lots of Thanks to Ny & Arri

2006-01-31T12:49:00.000+08:00

This posting is especially dedicated to Ny and Arri! Really fortunate I am to have friends like you all. Let me elaborate...

Last weekend, Ny went back to Jakarta coz she had family occasion. It's only 2 days anyway, what a short journey! Hmm well to be frank, If I got a close friend (must be well known, otherwise I'll feel guilty to ask others unnecessary things, hehehe), I always ask that friend to buy something that I'm really crazy looking for in here, a small tiny island Singapore, hehehhe. For example, last time I asked MT to buy me pempek ( Indonesian fishcake- red) and Aziz to help me to bring Dunkin Donuts and Indonesian sweet soya sauce.

What made me surprised was she bought me a lot! Really sorry if you felt I bother you. At first, I hoped I could only bite those my childhood fav choco only 3 times, but in fact I got the chance to bite it 25 times. Oh my goodness, really thanks ya Fan. I really couldn't finish all, so I decided to share them with my office friends like my lab partner, Yan Qi, my new nice S'porean friends Dalton Tay and Annie Wong. They said it's nice. Hehehhe.

Here is that so-called my lovely childhood choco ( This choco reminds me lots of nice things during my primary school, why why? Coz lots of my neighbour called me that choco brand name, hihiihih, moreover it's nicer than Top!)

Beng Beng, my memorable childhood fave choco

Then for Arri, another special thanks for you. One day before Chinese New Year, we went together to Sim Lim Square to buy my so-called upgrade lists. I was afraid at that time if the shops closed coz it's near new year eve. Fortunately it was not! Now my computer is really nice and lovely, hence really can make me stay even longer in front of it. Thanks for helping me to upgrade my obsolete PC. Sorry ya Ri for being so silly about hardware n software.

Here is my upgraded PC, so glad! Alhamdulillah...

My lovely PC!!!

Chinese New Year !!!

2006-01-30T12:24:00.000+08:00

Remarks: Never ever think I'm a racist blogger due to this posting. I am really not! I just want to prattle some of my experiences living in Singapore.

Intro:

I realize I am a Chinese outlooking guy, really. You can see it from my photo. That's true coz I'm a still Chinese descendant. My grandma's mother is a Chinese woman who migrated to West Java area and married with local Indonesian man, but then she became a real devoted Indonesian sinceafter. It's proven by being a combatant during Indonensian war with Dutch. So overall I am still mixed. Nah nah, due to this fact people sometimes thought wrongly that I could speak Chinese. Somehow that makes a bit messy in my conversation, in my daily life. When I met new people they spoke Han Yu (Chinese-red) directly to me, even without noticing I am not Singaporean. I always feet abash...That's why I intended to learn at least simple Chinese to explain to them. Hehehhe.

Even worse in my company, lots of people are Chinese outlooking, and sometimes they generalize that all Chinese are non-moslem. Hmm but I am. Somehow it's difficult to explain them if not in really constraint condition. Fortunately they understand well and really respect my belief if I told them eventually. What a relief! Even some of them saying "how come leh?" or " Difficult to believe leh..." In addition, my family never celebrated Chinese New Year, coz we have our own Indonesian tradition and moreover we must be a real Indonesian for good sake rite *sigh*. So I know nothing about this celebration, but why don't we just enlive this joyous festival here. hehehehe.

Looks funny, no, not funny at all but unique! But thanks God, You always gives me the best thing which is, I got a very kind supervisor and he respects my choice, proven by allowing me to have Friday prayer (2 hours plus!) and takes over my job at that time...

Main Topic:

On Chinese New Year Eve, henceforth called CNY, we ( Me, Barra (our maestro who just came back from his exchange in UBC, Canada), Yodha, MT, Fajo and Arri) went to Chinatown to walk around and watching the fireworks (plus firecrackers). Actually there were many places to watch it including Esplanade. But we decided to come to Chinatown coz looked more suitable and we never went there before.

There were so many people there, so crowded, but at least better than new year fireworks. The place consists of old but unique buildings (Liang Wei said they're built during WW 2) decorated with CNY red stuffs. We needed at least to wait around 2 hours till midnite, coz we arrived earlier.

When the fireworks were being launched, I was so surprised that firecrackers were also being exploded just few minutes after. The unpleasant case was they were too close with the audients, really. Moreover they also sowed small glitter powder into the open air in the middle of. Walao, ckckckck.*sigh* Some people were catched those powders in their front eyes, so they needed to back off to the furthest places. The firecrackers also produced some smelty smoke...but overall really worthwhile to watch!

We finished it by 1am and decided to walk from Boon Lay MRT to NTU (Really!!!). Then arrived at my room at almost 3am. What a nice new year eve...Thanks for Barra who had organized our SSS so-called small outing.

Here are some of my CNY eve photo taken...

Then on the 1st day of CNY, our SSS family (me, fika, risyad, arri, daren, MT, barra) had another movie outting to Orchard. We were all suprised coz Orchard was like a dead city, most of the shops closed except fast food chains. At first we planned to eat out at Ayam Penyet Ria at Lucky Plaza, but all closed. *sob sob* Finally we ate Taco Bell near Lido.

We continued to watch Singaporean movie called " I not stupid too 2". For me the movie was realy awesome! I like the story flow. It's really smooth, some scenes were very touching (Damn, I cried at that time...*blushing*) and some could make laugh like crazy. Compared to "I not stupid 1", the story is more mature and has more meaningful messages. Hahahha, overall it's worth to watch! Must die die watch ya...*sigh*

Recipe Series #5 == Fusili Egg ==

2006-01-17T22:50:00.000+08:00

Ingredients:

4 eggs
1 small bowl fusili, soft-boiled
Leftover imitation pizza topping
1/4 onion
1/2 tsp minced onion
Butter
Pepper, salt, seasoning

Steps:

Saute garlic and onion with butter
Add pizza topping, seasoning, pepper and salt to taste
In a separate bown, beat eggs
Pour the sauteed topping into eggs
Add fusili
Polish butter on a fry pan, pour egg mixture
Stir quickly and after egg is done serve with chili sauce

Recipe Series #3 == Double Chocolate Pudding==

2006-01-17T22:49:00.001+08:00

Basically I wanted to make a perfect choco pudding since long time a go. But frankly this is my 1st time to make a nicest one. I got the recipe idea from Dapur Syl, but I modified it accordingly to the my own availability and make combination with the spongy pudding. The steps are somewhat time consuming and need you to do it thoroughly, but the result won't make you regret...The taste is heavenly nice!

Ingredients:

Layer 1 (solid pudding):

1 pax agar powder (@ 12 grams)
190 gr sugar
60 gr choco powder (Van Houten brand is nice!!!), sifted
800 ml milk ( take 300 ml to dissolve choco powder)
3 yolks, beaten

Layer 2 (spongy pudding):

1 pax agar powder (@12 grams)
190 gr sugar
60 gr choco powder (Van Houten brand is nice!!!), sifted
800 ml milk ( take 300 ml to dissolve choco powder)
2 yolks, beaten
3 white eggs, whisk with mixer until there're hard peaks

Vanilla Vla:

400m ml milk mix with 80 gr sugar
1 yolk
1 tbsp cornflour, dissolve with 1 tbsp of warm water
1/2 tsp vanilin powder (can be substituted by Rhum)

Steps:

Layer 1 (solid):

In a bowl mix together 300 ml milk, sugar, and choco powder. Stir until the powders well dissolved.
Pour the 500 ml milk into a pan, add agar powder and whisk. Add the choco mixture. Use only low heat and stir occasionally.
After it boils, take some amount of mixture and add into the yolks, stir quickly and put back into the pan. Stir again.
After it boils again, before it's poured into the mould, strain the agar mixture to obtain smooth texture.
Put in the fridge after no more steam.

Layer 2 (spongy):

Do these steps after 1st layer has solidified. Repeat the step 1,2 and 3 of solid part above.
After it boils for twice, strain into the whipped white eggs mixture and whisk quickly to prevent coagulation.
Pour into the mould and let it cools down

Vla:

Pour milk, sugar and vanilin powder into a pan.
Stir quickly and use low heat.
Take some mixture into the yolk, whisk and put back
Add cornflour
Serve with cold pudding

How how? Long steps aren't? But that's cooking art...long steps but you won't regret the result. Hehehe.

Recipe Series #4 == Imitation Pizza ==

2006-01-17T22:49:00.000+08:00

Ingredients:

2 pax sliced breads
1 can champignon mushroom, sliced thinly
1 can kernel corn
1/2 bell pepper
Spaghetti sauce
2 pax sausages, sliced thinly
250 gr cheddar cheese, grated
1/2 onion, minced
1 tsp minced garlic
Mayonaise
1 tbsp butter
Salt, pepper, chicken seasoning

Steps:

Saute onion and garlic with butter then add sausages, mushroom, corn and bell pepper
Add salt, pepper and seasoning. Keep it for topping.
Spread over mayonaise and spaghetti sauce on the bread respectively
Add topping and cheese
Bake for 3 mins until cheese melted
Serve with chili sauce

Memorable Farewell Party

2006-01-17T22:19:00.000+08:00

If there is a meeting there should be a separation. As our club SSS had planned before to have a Manda farewell party on Sunday night (combined to Kemal belated b'day celebration), so we prepared lots of things including the most important thing...Foods!. What a bland party if no food. Actually we planned to have BBQ, but Laris insisted to substitute it with indoor dinner due to impredictable weather. In fact that night was clear enough, hahahha. The event itself was going pretty well.

Our welfare committee representatives (Me, Ny, Gempa, Yodha) cooked 2 dishes, Imitation Pizza and Special Choco Pudding with Vanilla Vla as I designed so. We start everything at 2pm and could finish them earlier. Coz there were lots of leftover eggs, so I cooked them together with some Fusilli and tadaaa we had our own so-called pre dinner ( or appetizer?) special scammbled egg. We decided to eat only for four of us, hehehe. Later I'll put the complete recipes. The processes were not as tiring as when we're making Macaroni Schotel, they're rather easy and quick, but still need fast actions.

Here are the foods...

Choco Pudding

Imitation Pizza

and our secret Fusili..hehhehe

Sauteed Fusili

Then the main courses (plain rice, ayam opor, sambal goreng, sausages, stir fried veggy )...oopss I forgot to take it properly. Sorry2.

After bla bla other not important things, we arrived at MT and Fajo's room and had Magrib prayer together with Barra as imam and reach Hall 13 block 64 TV lounge by 7.30pm. Wow, there were lots of other foods also, like Onigiri Zushi, Canteen 13 dinner, etc etc. Unfortunately I didn't take all the pictures.

Before any eating occasion, due to our late music performers, duh, we decided to celebrated Kemal b'day first. The 1st pudding (instead of cake) went to Laris. Of course after she spoke out her 1st testimonial for Kemal. Hmm she said that he oftenly never say Hi if they both pass or meet somewhere until she 'slaped' him. Not only for her lah!!! Me too, when I ever talk to him except if there SSS cooking event??? for me he is somewhat strange. Really. If I pass him then I'm sure that he looks at me and vice versa but after I say hi, he's perfectly silent and never ever reply my say-Hi. Am I doing something wrong or what? So weird rite? I just cannot tolerate others that know others then never say hi each other. The reason he says that he forgot the person's face is really not a good excuse, how come he can forgot someone if we meet oftenly? Please, I know here is an individualist country, but not all the people like that! Ok since then I never say anything if I meet him. I don't care if he thinks I'm an arrogant person or what. I know how I'm inside me deep heart. I'm hard hearted already now. Fine fine, stop this non sense, let's continue to the main topic.

The strangest thing was the pudding became the 1st dish served which was supposed to be served at the last. Many people said the pudding was nice hehhehe, so glad and the pizza was like the real taste (I don't know why?). I only got around 2 slices of pudding (the slices were exteremely thin!!!), hmmm I must make it again this weekend to revenge :-). Just can't imagine the pizza finished only in few minutes, really a guy eating instict. Hmm, eventhough I didn't taste a lot of my cooked food, I was still satisfy coz for me the art of cooking is not how good I can cook or how many my own food I can eat, but how glad others taste my cooked food. That's wonderful if others like my food. Many people asked me during the party where I learn cooking? Hmm in the lab I answered. hehehhe.

Well, after eating those strange opening food, we continued to Manda speech, not many important things except that I know she has been trying hard to get what she wants to go overseas (since high school...I never realized it before). Then the most amazing one is our newbie performers. I almost didn't believe Barra can sing so good. Hmm, really a nice event!!!

Hey hey...look at our newbie SSS performers, their songs were awesome!

and and...our nice SSS family...

Sayonaara

2006-01-14T13:35:00.000+08:00

I heard a proverb before that says " What we start must have an ending", either happy or sad ending. Hmm for me that's somewhat true. I experienced many things like this of course. And for example: Today is my last day working as a parttime researcher in Biomaterials Lab, after all the hassles... I cannot say that I did an outstanding research or poor research, but I prefer to say it as neutral and adequate. I've tried my best and thoroughly. The reason why I say it's neutral is probably because I didn't do the whole research of mine like a year before, but rather helping others to do theirs. Hence I'm not sure how they interpret it. Not really necessary to read tough scientific papers either, only doing some so called quick experiments. Still that makes me happy and broaden my mind what is research for and what is the real meaning. Overall the ending was nice and meaningful, not forgetting to greet some nice friends there of course. Kawaii ne...

On this last day nothing much to do, just normal and simple thing, then came to MSE afternoon tea together with MT and Yodha. The foods were nice but I didn't have big apetite though. The main thing was my high school organisation's (SSS) farewell dinner preparation. We bought everything in the evening and I planned to make choco pudding and imitation pizza. Hope will be all right. The shopping itself was nice but tiring.

I want to thank a lot also for Bobo ( Aziz nickname -red) for his so called oleh-oleh from his holiday back in Jakarta last few weeks. Hmm, it's so nice. I said to him I'd pay for it, but at the end he didn't want to. Really made me feel ashame... Flash back, I asked him also to bring empek-empek (Indonesian traditional fish cake) last year holiday, but he did the same.

Here is the oleh-oleh. An Indonesian famous donuts franchise. They have nice taste and good assortments. Unfortunately Singapore doesn't have them...:-(

Nice donuts flavours : Strawberry, Marmalade, Choco-Peanut, Choco and Vanilla

O ya, the Sayonaara here is not only for my lab but also for Manda, a high school and Uni friend of mine. She's going to have exchange program to Uni of Compiegne in France, so nice. Have an amazing and wonderful journey, au revoir!

NB:Last week after the tiring cleaning of my room, I got to take the pictures, hehehe. For the sake that may be I'll miss them in the future when I'm not staying anymore here. Really a nice room of mine.

Anyway, neat or not???

Attachment?

2006-01-12T13:24:00.000+08:00

Hmm feel like to write more now...Last Monday I renewed my phone subscription plan for next 2 years together with Risyad and his friend called Haskell. There was a student offer at Singtel that's exteremely cheap and really worth it. They offer only $19.90 for 100 min talktime and 1000 sms, quite surprising rite? No wonder if last 2 years I needed to pay around $30 for less worth value.

Haskell is from Math faculty in NUS, hmm seems interesting ( imagining on my math experience during high school ;->). He's a kind and friendly guy, I think Fanny shouId know him during KOMMA 8 (He was the 1st winner on 2003...). We talked a lot during our hang out, from our school,untill his plan to go to US for further studies. You know? Normally I didn't talk a lot with whom I little know, evenmore if their minds are pretty opposite or freak (extremely conservative -red) with me. But Haskell is ok, a nice guy either. Then we had dinner at Zingdo Ngee Ann City (a Halal Korean Restaurant), trying to taste Bibimbap ( Korean hotpot rice with bean sprout kimchi, veggy and beef). Well, not bad either but rather ex. The disappointed parts were it's not really at hot stone (bap means hot stone, hehehe) and they didn't use the traditional Korean chopstick and spoon. Yes, they were supposed to use the whole round-shaped spoon and iron chopstick (which I heard can make fingers hurt ;-( ). It's hard siah to find these utensils in Singapore, or anyone know?

I intended to take the picture, but hmm It's so embarassing in front of Haskell lah, really paiseh paiseh! May be next time go there again to eat out with really 'close' friend

How about the attachment? I'll be doing it soon, but I still have to do 1 more task in Biomat lab. Quite sad also that I'll leave this lovely lab this week. The lab that intro what is research for the first time last year. I promise to return for FYP! heehhehehe. What makes me so happy was Xia Yun gave me a box of sea shell-shaped Belgian chocholate to thank me...so cute,haven't opened yet till now...still no sweet-tooth mood to grab it. Thanks a lot yaa and I still feel so sorry about all the unperfect jobs of mine!!! How she knows I love chocolate anyway?

Here is the chocolate...looks nice huh?

Ok I elaborate more about the attachment, here is my project topic from studentlink

New formulation approaches of drugs using nanoporous-powder and nanoparticles materials as functional excipients. The student will be involve in synthesis, modification and characterization of uniform sized nanporous powder and nanoparticles as functional excipients. Loading model drugs onto nanostructured materials and investigation on the controlled release rate by invitro dissolution test. The student will have intensive hand-on experience in R&D of nanostructured materials and the biomedical application.

Basically what I need to do is making nanoporous particles for treating severe diseases like cancer. By using this small tiny particles cancer drug can be loaded into their pores, they have good efficiency and effectivity in curing diseases. Seems interesting... I never thought before that I'll do this project. Anyway, I'll be working in a research institute called ICES (Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences) at Jurong Island.

Courtesy of ICES

Talking about Jurong Island can't finish in few sentences, hahaha. Basically, It's a big reclamated area in south of Singapore mainland. It's built by rearranging some tiny islands in South Singapore. And it's very restricted to enter this island, of course no camera is allowed (they are unaware of how good phone camera is...kekekeke). During the intervew day on October, I was really amazed with the island, it's so huge but consisting only of petrochemical plants and research centres with their toxic and massive tankers. The drawbacks are only they don't have worship places and hot (fortunately my company provide bus to go outside to do so). So before doing this attachment I need to adapt to wake up ealier, sometimes terrible yah. But that's the challenge...

Raining...Relentless Raining

2006-01-08T11:30:00.000+08:00

It's raining here in Singapore since few days a go. It seems occur consecutively after only few hours break. In effect, I felt very cold even in my own room which is normally terribly hot and of course it takes longer time to dry clothes...

Last week I did a lot of things in the lab as I got 2 tasks from 2 PhD students rather than only 1 like in the holiday. Yes, Yeeshan is back. So she also asked me to do some tasks. Eventhough I won't be paid anymore (it stopped since 2 Jan),but I'm still willing to do it, not due to cash of course, but more into my self satisfaction in doing something. Actually working in the lab won't make you tired physically, but mentally, hehehe. It's just unfair if I just leave my job without any good ending and throw away my responsibility to them. At least it's better for me to spend my time before IA commence next week rather than only nagging around.

There's good news from ICES that this semester they will provide halal catererer in their canteen, at first I was very worry that I need to prepare lunch per day before I work, really can't imagine it...at night preparing the food then morning need to wake up so early to work. Moreover Serene (the HR Manager, coincidentally my bosses in both ICES and Biomat Lab named Serene...hahaha) sent me an email regarding the orientation day schedule on our 1st day IA. It looks nice as the time is well prepared.

Few days a go Fanny said my blog now is becoming a recipe site, hahaha. Well, I like eating and cooking too, it'll be a waste if after I cook then I don't write what I've done. So I decided to include here. Hence I can share to all of you who are interested to try cooking as well. It's damn nice if you can spend your spare time to cook...you will release your hectic work stress. Finally as today is very cold, it's very nice to eat my favorite soya cakes from Jollybean. They're nice to serve with hot macha.

I can't hardly wait now to do research in ICES, being an independent researcher and use a lot of sophisticated equipments. It's not easy though, but I hope it'll be great.C u soon during this coming Idul Adha (still not sure what to do...may be cooking? :> ).

Four fillings soya cakes (L-R) : macha, mung bean, azuki paste, cheese

Recipe Series #2 ==Soya Pancake==

2006-01-02T13:30:00.000+08:00

I just wanted to make something special for my breakfast today.But because I didn't drink cow milk oftenly, so I substituted it with soya milk. Then voila a pancake was ready to eat...

From its outlook, it's like crepe..but it's so tender and fragrant

Ingredients:

140 gr flour
200 ml soya milk
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon molten butter
Maple syrup (I used Morinaga brand...)

Steps:

In a basin, mix flour, salt, baking powder using a whisker
After it mix well, add egg
Pour milk continously and stir well
Heat a flat frypan and polish (using cooking brush) with butter
Pour a little amount of dough and let it dry
Serve hot with maple syrup

Recipe source : tabloidnova.com (modified)

Recipe Series #1 ==Chocolate Pudding==

2006-01-02T13:20:00.000+08:00

I planned to make this choco pudding long time a go, but really lazy and no much spare time...Finally one day before new year I managed to make it.

Indulge your sweet tooth with this heavenly nice choco pudding...:))

Ingredients:

1 pack agar powder @ 11 gr
1 litre full cream milk
100 gr sugar (for those who don't have weight balance, just use tablespoon, 1 tablespoon = 15 gr)
100 gr sweetened cooking chocolate, molten (use microwave to melt it for 1-2 min)
4 teaspoon chocolate powder (I used Van Houten)
2 egg yolks, beaten
Fruit cocktail

Steps:

Pour milk, sugar, molten chocolate, chocolate powder and agar powder into a pan
Simmer this mixture using low heat and always stir using a whisker
After it boils, turn off the stove
Take few of the mixture, mix with the yolk then stir asap
Pour back to the whole agar mixture, mix well then turn on the stove
Stir for few minutes then pour into the agar mould
Put in the fridge after it cools down
Serve either with fruit cocktail or vanilla vla...

Recipe source: original myself

New Year Eve Firework

2006-01-02T12:46:00.000+08:00

To celebrate new year eve, Singapore held a firework attraction in Esplanade area. I, Reyhan, Harya, B'dul and Ryan went there to see how it was. We arrived there around 9pm and wow it's was so crowded...so many people. The funny part was so many indonesians there, some speak Indonesian slang, some Javanese, Sundanese...etc. It's just like Jakarta :>. We struggled to find the nicest place to see the attraction, it's damn hot and difficult. Sometimes we're scolded and being pushed by others who sat on the pavement. Finally we could find the best place to see it clearly.

To be frank, there was also new year eve celebration in embassy but we thought it's too far, moreover we don't like dangdut music at all, hehehe. Basically the firework itself was 9-minute midnite event therewith glowing written spheres attraction as well. They were both gorgeous and really worth to see. When the firework was launched one by one, so many people screaming like crazy. It was so funny when reyhan was teased by indo female due to his syukur song. Hhahaha.

In the end, it's even more difficult to escape when we wanted to go back. So many
youngsters sprayed foam-like snow to others hence make them so angry...

Here are the galleries...

Happy New Year 2006!

2005-12-28T13:07:00.000+08:00

New year is coming! It's around the corner. Fiuhh. I really can't believe it's been almost 3 years I stay and study in Singapore including almost 2 years I didn't go back to Jakarta. I miss home and beloved people a lot ( jot down...not the country :( !!! ), but I cannot leave the research work... I like them both, I must prioritize which one cannot be obtained more than once. And in fact I chose the best one, I didn't regret at all coz research changed my mind a lot. I promise I'll go back after the attachment.

Here are my new year resolutions:

Be more mature emotionally, spiritually and intellegentially :)...I'm old enough this year!
Score best for GRE and TOEFL...work harder for it :) None is impossible Ganbatte!SISU!
Be a better decision maker for everything
Eat more healthy food and do more exercise
Last but not least...do the best for final year! Yeah...

Hey you know what? I read from ST that Singapore will be doing terrorist attack emergency trial next month. It sounds strange but interesting. They will do simulations on chemical gas attack, double decker bus explosion, and 2 MRT blasts with the one when it travels along the tunnel. What makes me worry is I'll be doing attachment soon, then how if it happens during my bus or MRT journey?? Huh...

Lastly, Wish you all have a great years ahead! Celebrate this new year with no regret...

Tiring but nice weeks

2005-12-25T23:40:00.001+08:00

Wow, I realize I have abandoned this blog for 2 weeks. Haha. I was quite busy with the research work, I feel my life was very hectic but fortunately now enjoying long weekend. Frankly, so many things happened this two weeks, from the extremely sad to a nice one. Ok let me elaborate one by one...

At first week (12 Dec) mama sms-ed me that one of my nephews died due to complicated ileus operation...He's Guntur, bi Tuti's son. I was really schocked, I conveyed my great condolence asap. He's so cute and cheeful. Bi Tuti must be very sad losing her only son...

Then 1 week after that I got even more complicated problem. Huh. I was banned from polymer lab forever during this parrtime. Yakh, banned! I was really sad at that time. Ok let me tell you what happen. On Monday (19/12) I used TGA for my bilayer stent samples, but I realized that the hook position was too high to reach the pan. My mistake was I didn't tell the technician. Who cares with those unfriendly technicians!. One of them likes to blame student even for a small mistake. Everyone in MSE lab also know how nasty and arrogant she is! Then another one dislikes to speak to others who are not familiar to him. I just feel uncomfortable. So unfair. Hence I just continued using the equipment until the 3rd time. But ooops, finally the hook bogged inside the furnace and it broke into 2 pieces. I was careless..but it's not my full mistake!!What the heck...! He told me it costs $1000, so to solve that I needed to write damage report to my supervisor. He also blamed me that I never attended any formal training for using this equipment. But did they provide it??Huh!And fortunately I was not FYP student otherwise I would not be able to use it anymore for the rest of my project. I was very very dissappointed with polymer lab. I hope I'll be more careful next year during FYP. But the most important part was I made Xia Yun become very dissappointed...so sorry.

In the opposite condition, biomaterials lab is very very nice place to do research. I really appreciate the technicians there, Serene and Nelson. They are extemely nice and passionate to help if I faced difficulties. No barrier between us, we are treated just like friends...I think this lab is the nicest and memorable place in MSE for me. They welcome me well. Haha the last but not least I'm included in one of their gang now. Haha. Yes there are some gangs inside the lab, but fortunately I join the biggest gang. Kidding2.

Last friday the biomat lab biggest gang (Lisa, Serene, Kee Pah, Xia Yun, Yong Dan, Joachim and some FYP students) celebrated Kee Pah's and Joachim birthday. It was so nice and fun. Actually it's supposed to be 26 Dec (same with Lay Poh b'day I think...), but it'll be too late coz 26 Dec was still holiday. We ate lunch together at The Quad the continued to the main event haha including taking photos. We have our own cameraman in biomat lab, hehehe. Here was the cake. It's so cute, got golden stars choco...but the taste was not that good. Serene said so, coz it's not made from fresh cream...

Before letting them cutting the cake, we sang B'day song in 3 languages hahaha. So funny. They were Chinese, English and Indonesian. For Indonesian one, Lisa, I and Inneke sang. Last but not least we took pictures...

Here is our Biomat Lab gang...

Kee Pah and Joachim before puffing the candles

But the craziest part was they needed to remove the candles by using their own mouths. Haha,so disgusting. Hahaha rare custom... In the end Lisa insisted to spread the cream to their faces huhuhuh.

Joachim's turn
Kee Pah's turn (aiyo...our cameraman's camera flashed mine)

Lisa insisted to spread the cream over...

Far apart from the joyous occasion above, I enjoyed the X-mas long weekend only staying at room and watching TV. I got so many things to do to clean my room. Actually I planned it long time a go, but no time to do. But now finished all...so comfortable. I think I need to buy vacuum cleaner asap, coz so many dust inside..even I seldomly open the door and window but it always comes...So happy now coz I got half day off from labwork and can continue to study for my GRE...wish me luck! Oya one more, regarding the exam results, I also want to say Alhamdulillah. I promised before to always say benediction for the results no matter how bad it is. Yes it's far from perfect but not that bad...Thanks.

Decision Making

2005-12-08T14:17:00.000+08:00

These few days I am really getting enjoy working (and doing research) in biomaterials lab. I'm just realized that I like biomaterials more than other fields in materials science, how interesting and challenging a research job is. Yup these 2 years I have been doing research on polymeric stents. The difference is last year I concentrated on drug delivery system while this year I'm studying the elastic effect of bilayer stents. I'm interested to both topics, but most likely I'll choose drug delivery system for my future research studies. I did choose drug delivery for my attachment, but it'll use nanoporous rather than polymers. Hope it will be nice too. I really don't know how can I be very interested to biomaterial...probably because its usefulness and lots of application for biomedicals. How proud I'll be If my research can be used for curing others' diseases. During my high school period, I remember that I intended to have a degree in medicine, but how bad I was in biology...haha, but the most important is not necessarily to be a doctor to help others disease rite? I can use my materials background to help others through biomaterials.

OK lets go through why I put the title of this post as "Decision Making". It's related to last postings when I said about I got one nice mentor quitting his PhD degree in biomaterials. Unfortunately I got another friend want to quit also. Hmm...so sad to hear that. He's one of my best friend and "brother". I didn't know what to say to him yesterday when he told me bout this. I was just very shocked...what happen?why must quit? He said he's too frustated to the result of his experiments for this 1.5 year. Currently he's doing tissue adhesive for drug delivery. I was just silent for awhile when he told me everything.

At first I thought he's only kidding...but it's real. Actually he's been thinking about this decision to his supervisor, who is my best lecturer and friend as well...hehe. He then decided to quit asap and apply to either a polytechnic or as master student. He doesn't ever want to continue to PhD degree again in the future. Oh my god, taking PhD degree is not that easy in fact, lots of problems will come year by year. I really need to think it carefully if I really want to take it in the future then. It's not an easy choice though. I like research, but I'm still doubt... can I achive the set goal? it needs lots of my efforts to get the best result.

Those two persons that I've known so far really give me good lessons on decision making. I don't say they didn't decide it carefully, but probably they didn't think it deeply. I need to decide it carefully then, from many aspects that I should look.

Currently I'm thinking to get a preparation class for toefl, ielts or GRE during my next semester IA. May be I'll do it at night somewhere. I realized my english skill is still not good enough to get good score. I must do something to improve it. So I'll be more flexible to choose where to continue my study later.

Yesterday while I was learning how to use DMA with YeeShan, she told me better to take master first overseas then continue PhD then go back to Singapore. It's not so worth to take PhD directly here, coz the foundation may not be so firm and the status later will be different. For me may be it's partially true but the most important thing is I want to get new environment and new experience. Here is too study oriented for me...hehehe. May be I'll consider it. I'm a bit puzzled now.

Go back to my gastric. Hehe. Today morning I came to dr Tan as he asked me last week. He said I need to take other medications until 2 weeks onwards then come back to see him. Probably he'll do a Urea test 1 month from now. So totally I need to do it at least for 6 weeks. What a torture! I have to face it patiencely, unless it'll appear again. He said it's probably I got this bacterias when I was in Indonesia, and he assumed I got my own antibody from now on. Ok I need to continue working then. Bye.

What A Nice Day!

2005-12-05T09:01:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was a nice day...really nice but in fact there were some problems in my hall. No electricity from 9am to 7pm...I was scared of my smelly fridge. Fortunately I went out until 8pm, so not a big deal. And at the end my fridge was OK,still as usual probably coz I put fridge deodorizer and it's still cold enough due to partially melted ice. I realized there's no internet connection at night, I was really dejected and confused who's to blame. No entertainment except TV until I slept.

The nice thing was my weekend journey with Mai Leng and Karen to Orchard to eat out and walk around. At first we met at Taka Cold Storage coz I was the earliest person who reach there. I looked at some Japanese delicacies while waiting for them, they were so nice and tempted. I really don't know why I'm so curious about Japanese at this moment. Mai Leng introduced me to her female friends. I forgot their name, but they're quite friendly. One is our MSE junior and another one graduated from NTU NBS. Few minutes later (after getting lost :)Karen came then we decided to have lunch immediately coz she was very hungry unlike me who was a bit ful coz I ate fried rice at JP ( I didn't dare to eat late...), but those 2 Mai Leng's friends didn't join us coz they ate earlier.

As our plan before we'd eat at Sushi Tei, so we went to a branch at Ngee Ann City. We took picture in front of huge christmas tree when walking towards the restaurant. The place was indeed really amuse and comfortable. It had real Japanese atmosphere. Before ordering foods a waitress served us green tea either hot or cold. I chose the cold one. It's not strong and really a thirst quencher. Suprisingly it's free flow. The foods were look nice as I saw from menu card and were affordable, moreover there were lots of various Japanese traditional delicacies. In addition, they provided special ginger pickles on the table. It was tangy and very nice.

I ordered tempura ramen, tamago (egg sushi) and daifuku mochi ice cream for dessert. At first I felt too full, but it suddenly stopped when I tried one by one. Haha. I was not brave enough to eat raw fish...I think I need to wait at least few weeks to stabilize my stomach metabolism. Hehe. They were extremely nice and wonderful. The ice cream had chewy mochi skin and the filling was readily melt in my mouth. There were 3 flavours of this ice cream filling, they were macha, vanilla and err forgot another one. I was really full after all. I didn't have big apetite for dinner though... In conclusion I'm really amazed of Japanese people due to their creativity.

Mai Leng ordered katsuo (smoked salmon) sushi, crab temaki(hand roll) and black sesame ice cream for her dessert. She said they were nice too.

And Karen ordered the most coz she's very hungry. No wonder she spent a lot. Haha. She ate nothing before reaching there for lunch. She ordered sashimi and rice, salmon sushi and macha ice cream for dessert. At the end she realized she got light stomachache coz ate lots of raw fish.

Then we continued to walk around to the department store coz I was looking for a birthday gift for a special friend in biomaterials lab, who'll be having birthday right after christmas day. Unfortunately Mai Leng went home earlier coz she planned to watch TV, so only me and Karen left. I bought a nice and meaningful thing that's suggested by Karen. Actually she didn't fully understand the whole characters but at least she knew how to read the header word. Thanks Karen. In addition she bought a unique calendar and I bought air revitalizer including its fragrance liquid. I considered its usefulness to keep my room clean and the liquid itself can keep myself calm and relax...Eventually we finished everything at 7pm, then walked to MRT to go back.What a nice day!

NB: Here are our desserts and special free ginger pickles

Finally...

2005-12-03T21:06:00.000+08:00

Last Thursday, dr Tan called me while I was in the lab. He said Gleneagles Hospital realized that they have found some bacterias from last Saturday endoscopy. They got it after few days, unlike what dr Low said last Saturday that no bacteria but only stress effect. So I walked to MC directly coz I was quite free on that day. I decided to take rest after going to MC and came back to lab on the next day. dr Tan was quite surprised I was there only in few minutes coz he thought I'd be coming after 2pm.

It seemed no more patient and he'd be having lunch soon. He's so nice as usual. Yup in fact he said there were some pylori bacteria inside my stomach that can cause ulcer if not properly treated. Moreover it caused non-stop acid to be produced. Walah walah...so terrible. I was wondering how come I got infected? What I knew it's caused by unhygienic condition and mostly observed in developing country. It's spreaded thru oral. But here is developed country rite? But I didn't ask him how come. I thought I know the reason. Haha, in addition I was too shy to what he'd probably say...hahaha.

Since then I planned to be more careful in doing something related to foods, probably I'd always wash my hand before my meals. I seldomly did it... Then he gave me some strong antibiotics (I realized it after taking for two days...) for 1 week dosage, but probably would be useless coz it should be OK after few days. Next Thursday I'll meet him again to let him know and probably there will be Urea test to check and confirm the presence bacteria. I should say a lot of thanks to dr Tan for his passion and good job. He's very nice person though. While I was taking rest Kee Pah called me. He seemed a bit worry about my condition, but I said OK and not so painful. He'd be starting his holiday in KL together with some MSE PhD students in the evening. So nice. Thanks for your concern Bro, sorry to make you worry.

On Friday I did not do so many works, only re-learn (I mean refresh...coz I used it last year but a bit forget :( ) how to use TGA in polymer lab. Actually I was scared to go to polymer lab. It was because of the nasty female technician. Yes she scolded me, Teddy and Kee Pah last year due to small mistakes while we're using DSC. All people in biomaterial lab know how nasty she is. Haha. Even last year I remembered that we (Serene, Xiang Ling, Li Fen and Qiu Yi) gossiping her (I joined them coincidentally...) hahah. Xia Yun taught me patiencely and I learned how to use baloon expansion too. But due to careless mistake, Xia Yun was too stressful. Haha. Sorry for that. The only problem I encountered was during film casting. I didn't know what happen, many bubbles came out after I left it to cool down. I thought my casting technique was OK...probably the problem was in the solution.

Actually there was MSE afternoon tea but I didn't join coz I felt too full and dr Tan said better not to have meal in between main meal, coz it can disturb my stomach clock. May be next week I'll join together with Kai Yun. Then the good news is I'll hang out to Orchard with Karen, Mai Leng and probably Jia Yan on Sunday. We'll be having japanese lunch together and walk around. Hope it will be nice...and finally I'm feeling no pain now. I think that's because the bacterias are killed by the antibiotics. If tomorrow still no pain, I'll stop taking medications.

So Happy

2005-11-30T23:16:00.000+08:00

Last night I went out with Aziz and Reyhan to Esplanade area. Actually our first plan was to go to Chinatown, but coz we never visited there before we were not so sure how was there. So suddenly we changed the direction during MRT journey. Haha. During the journey we chatted normally about thing like "Singapore vs Australia" which occurs nowaday due to drug smuggling case. Hmm, we just shared our opinions if it's either really cancelled or done.We alighted at Raffles Place then walked towards Fullerton Hotel. Unfortunately it was raining, thus Aziz couldn't take picture for so many times.

We walked until Esplanade then took some pictures. The views were so nice and calm,it made me feel relax. The pictures we took are attached. We walked then to Suntec Tower 3 as I wanted to buy snack at Carrefour. It took long time to walk. Our knees were painful coz we walked continously. So we decided to have break when we walked back towards MRT City Hall. Aziz was surprisingly very confident to be captured by his camera either by Reyhan or timer. Hahaha. Then finally reached NTU around 11.30pm and we separated coz Aziz took 199 whereas Reyhan and me took 179. It's very nice journey. I felt relax and it really reduced my gastric painful.

Thanks friends! It's tiring but really worthwhile!

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Then today morning I came to dr Tan (again after twice...haha). He was nice and friendly as usual and asked me how I felt and how was the improvement. I answered 50% better confidently!. Haha. Sometimes I said somethings without even thinking properly. But I realized that was near. Yup. I was feeling better...So good. Alhamdulillah. The keys are just be relax and live my life to the fullest. So no medication was given today. Then he asked me to visit me again next monday but not so early coz he got something to do (may be he'll have longer weekend haha).

After settling MC matter I walked to MSE biomaterials lab to work as usual. Yup, I needed to do some film castings. The lab was a bit too silent. I didn't know what happen...It was 9.45am already. Haha. Then I just prepared everything. In fact I only waited the polymer solution to settle until lunch time. So I went to MSE computer lab to chat. I met Kai Yoon and Damar there. Then continued to have lunch with Kai Yoon. We talked so many things while having our lunch in Cafe the Quad. She planned to work at AMRC for parrtime and currently she is looking for floorball players for our school Inter School Game. Quite tiring that she still needs 8 more players. Good luck!

Few hours later finally I finished my 1st film. Fuih. It were 3 layers and needed 1.5 hours to finish. The result was OK, quite acceptable as Xia Yu said when we were walking together to biopolymer synthesis lab. But unfortunately it curved upon putting in the oven. Probably due to different temperature of outside and lab. She said she ever met me before in hall 4 where she stayed last year.

I finished my work for today around 3.30pm coz I couldn't do anymore thing as the applicator was used by a FYP student. I'll continue tomorrow together with the stent expansion tool training. Again unfortunately today is the last day for Kok Boon to work in our lab. He'll be quitting since then and working outside. He said to me before he's not so interested to do research. So sad coz I just knew him for these 2 days and he's a good & nice mentor for me. Good luck for your future career outside Kok Boon. All the best! C u in other places...

My first day working

2005-11-29T14:50:00.000+08:00

On Monday I went to NTU MC to see dr Tan to convey what dr Low wrote in a sealed letter. I realized he normally comes to MC at 9am. But I came 30 mins earlier. Ya he said I got erosion on my stomach and probably needs time to do a theraphy for around 6 weeks. I needed to take some medications since then, even right before exam period starts to prevent any gastric. And I needed to do some diets too. He asked me to come back this Wednesday to see how it'd be. I asked for MC letter as I couldn't work for that day, but unfortunately he allowed me to have only 1 day work leave. Not like what I said to Prof Subbu that I might leave for 1 week. Hmm so I must work on the next day.

Yup today is my first day of parttime work. I'm working in Biomaterials lab to help some PhD students. They are going to have vacation so I need to take over some tasks. This lab is now much different compared with last year when I was doing a biopolymer drug delivery project under Lay Poh. After entering the lab, I come into Serene desk, to say hi and to help me to see Yi Shan. WOW Serene has different hair style now. Then I talk to 4 Phd students and say Hi. They are Yi Shan, Kok Boon, Xia Yu and Alfred. They are nice and welcome me well. It makes me very comfortable. But mostly Kok Boon who teaches me how to use some equipments. There are a lot of changes in the lab environment. No more bullet sucker pipet, more ovens, more film applicators and last but not least no more Eric. Yes, he's one of the biomaterials research fellow whom I knew during MSE Club JC Quiz preparation. He helped me to run the DNA extraction from strawberry. He's so kind and very passionate in doing research. I say hi since then to him. He moved to Republic Poly to be a lecturer few months a go.

My tasks for today are only making some PLLA solutions and putting some glass plates in the oven. The tasks will be more difficult than I'm thinking as I'll be making 2 layers film from different polymers in which each layer needs 2 to 3 castings. Haha. But I'll take it then as my own opportunity. I will make some films from tomorrow onwards. Hope it will be okay. Kee Pah has some students also under him. One of them is my buddy Zhang Peng. We are going to have IA in the same research centre next semester.

I have my lunch together with Kee Pah and some PhD students from biomaterials lab. Their gang looks nice and they are planning to have vacation in KL this weekend. Actually I planned to have my lunch alone, but feel ashamed when Kee Pah invites me to join. After lunch I prepare some solutions together with Kok Boon and leave it overnight to dissolve well to be used for tomorrow.

Coincidentally I meet Zhang Peng in the lab and I chat with him for quite long time outside the lab. Haha. He makes me feel calm and asks me not to worry much about the exams anymore. He suggests to change my study plan as it's probably overpeak. Otherwise I will suffer once more time from this gastric. Thanks Zhang Peng, you are really a nice friend of mine. So now I'll take a rest and tonight will be continuing to watch Moto Kare. C u soon.

Regret it...

2005-11-29T14:25:00.000+08:00

On Sunday I was supposed to join our big SSS family outting, but my condition seemed impossible to make it as the outting would be tiring coz we needed to cycle around Pulau Ubin. Regretted it a lot, I missed 2 outtings consecutively held by SSS for this 2 academic years. Ya, last academic year (around February '05) I was supposed to join SSS outting to East Coast Park. But I had an important preparation for my MSE Club JC quiz, as I was the person in charge for 1 lab experiment and some judgements. Huh so sad... Then again this academic year, I couldn't join coz I was sick. So envy that I heard lots of funny things occured there from Larissa and Fanny. Hmm, I hoped I can really join outting next academic year. Really. Sob Sob. I missed those happy and cheerful SSS outting in Sentosa Island around 2 years a go when I was in first year.

Frankly the person who suggested to go to Pulau Ubin was me. I told Fajrian last time about this, coz he said probably we'd go to Johor Bahru. But what for??? I was a bit shocked, why must JB?? Too many risks to consider if that really happen. Fortunately my proposal was agreed by the prez and Fajrian.

I was preparing what kind of menu that was special but easy to make for this outting well during exams...Even I asked Mama to send me some tools I haven't had. My ideas were to prepare some Indonesian delicacies for this outting i.e. bolu kukus, as I love to cook and it's feasible to achieve. But in the end I was not capable to do it...Allah said in different words probably. Haha. But as a human I cannot overreliance on my own wish, Allah who controls everything on me.

So I lied on the bed for most of the time instead of having outting on Sunday. I realized I was painful enough to walk around. Hence I chose to watch some jdoramas and be relax. Later I'll post the reviews of the doramas I'm watching recently.

Finally it passed

2005-11-29T11:17:00.000+08:00

Fiuhhh...

That's the first word should I say on Saturday noon. Yup, I passed it.... I had no worries.

I went from NTU to Jurong East MRT around 7am, at first I was afraid it'd be late, but I reached there sharply at 7.30am. Hehe. Waited for Ferry around 30 mins. He came late...30 mins late it's more than late. Haha. We continued the journey to Orchard MRT then took SBS 174 at the opposite exit B. During MRT journey, Ferry told me he's been experincing this kind of gastric during his exam and even worse he vomitted right before entering exam hall. Huh, what a university life! He suggested me not to study alone anymore, better if I study together so that can chit chat. It will reduce stress. May be I'll try it next year (as next sem no exam for me...so nice!!!).

Fortunately we managed to reach Gleneagles Medical Centre sharply at 9am, as indicated in the appointment form. The venue consisted of lots of small clinics owned by each surgeon. Far away from my imagination that figured it's a big hospital like the one in Jakarta. After settling all the administrative matters, waited for another 45 mins. While we were waiting so surprised that on the clinic's wall all the doctor's certificates were pasted. Wow they were original. Hmm just wondering how come he's not afraid of stealing.

I entered the doctor's small room after the kind female receptionist called me to do so. The doctor (around middle-aged) was very kind and I think he was a very passionate surgeon...he asked lots of investigation questions and explained my curiosity about the procedure completely and always said not to worry. His name's Dr Low. He brought me into another building of Gleneagles Hospital downstairs. He also introduced me that there were 2 students would watch the procedure.

All were prepared after few minutes. He injected some anasthesy into my right hand to make me feel drowsy and sprayed another bitter anasthesy into my mouth so I didn't feel anything in my throat. The procedure was very fast but I vomitted around three times, I think that's normal. Just imagine when something big and long was pushed into your mouth hahaha.

I was supposed to feel drowsy for about an hour but in fact it's very short. I passed it finally, and my worried all disappeared. Thanks dr Low for making me very calm and relax. May god bless you always for your good job. He said I had an inflamation inside my stomach. It was due to hyperacidity, related to stress. He suggested me not to study very hard ( what he meant may be "but still study hard" :)) and be relax for few days, so the acid are stopped producing. Another kind nurse asked not to do tiring activities during next 12 hours...

I went back to NTU around 11.30am taking 174 directly to Boon Lay, it took very long...Hmm around 1 hour. Haha but the view was nice. I enjoyed it a lot. If I were not wrong I passed by ex darren's father condo which we had visited there around 2 years a go. Ate my lunch at JP banquet and went to my room to rest. So long journey for that day...Special thanks to dr Low and Ferry Ris. Thanks for all. Really appreciate it. And last but not least special thanks to NTU who gave me worthwhile insurance for this procedure.

Worry

2005-11-26T06:11:00.000+08:00

I'm really worry at this time. Can't sleep well. Can't eat properly too.I just feel that I'm worry what will happen today at the hospital. Yes, today is a very important day for me. Not sure it will be happy-ended or sad-ended. Sure I hope it will be fine.

Mama sms-ed me at the early morning just now. She said she can't sleep too. She's worrying about me. As she knew that It will be hard for me after finishing it, from infos she got from colleagues. I have no choice!!! I must be very strong, as I decided to take the risk.

Well, being a student who has bad gastritis is not easy. It comes anytime anywhere where your condition is not properly managed i.e. when you suffer from exam stress. Haha. I never thought it was because of the stress during exams. My mind felt OK but I noticed when the doctor told me. Yup that kind-hearted female doctor in NTU said it was. That means it should be fine after exams finished rite? But it's in vain.Almost 20 days I'm suffering from this and I hope it ends today! Eventhough I must face it with very worry face and lots of curiosity.

Yesterday, I was really crying. True. It's right after I went from MC. Not because of I'm so childish. But It's due to I was very scared of the worst case that I may face today. When calling Mama, I cried a lot. I asked her to hope and pray the best for me. Thanks Ma! I'm sorry I always make you worry during my sickness.

After having lunch with Karen, I felt better. Thanks Karen! She said no need to worry much. It'd be all right as she experienced it before, but in different case. She got it when her sinusitis came. She said not so painful but just uncomfortable. But still OK. I hope that will be true later. And we went to borrow some Japanese language books for beginners from HSS lib. Quite nice place there. Then continued going to Nanyang market as she said she wanted to buy the electromagnetic mosquito repellent, which I recommended before. Thanks for sharing anyway.

Lastly, now I need to prepare everything now, physically and mentally. Yah. I woke up so early, as I said previously, can't sleep well. I don't know when it will finish. I'm very nervous. Then later meet Ferry Ris at Popular Jurong East. OK.
Ja mata!

NB: Lots of thanks to:

- Mama & Bapak: Thanks for your caring. Sorry make you worry again!

-Om Ed: Thanks for your call yesterday. Sorry to make you worry too.I'll update the news.

-Karen: Thanks for accompanying and sharing with me yesterday. I felt much better and katarsis

-Ferry Ris: Thanks for your help. Sorry for bothering. You are good senior.

-dr. Har & pak Fir: Thanks for the supports! Really appreciate it...

-Larissa & Fanny:Thanks for your good hope

First Posting

2005-11-25T17:26:00.000+08:00

Well, I just want to intro my first and new blog. Welcome!

May be I should tell you first why I gave the blog title Tervetuloa. Yes, the background story of this name was long time a go. I can only keep it myself, haha. I'll be hurt if I dig it again. This word means Welcome in Finnish. Normally Finns greet their guest so. And it sounds unique to be used as a title.

At first, I was a bit confused what kind of theme should I combine. Hmm, after long thinking, freezing winter should be nice. As I never faced it before...strange huh! Thanks for reading. Please give some constructive comments if you want to.

Enjoy your reading!!!