Being feminine would be good :)

Just had my bangs cut yesterday into 'dora' bangs and as the result, I look more feminine than before. Hehe..

Well, since yesterday, I just realized that I look more feminine because of my hair, not because of my appearance - even though this is not my first time having 'dora' bangs.Apparently, it is because I always think that wearing simple and comfortable shirt is enough. Also, why stress with all the make up and fashion stuffs if I barely go out to fancy places and more to campus? Boyish style is better :P but as a girl, there is still a part of me that want to be feminine, indeed. Even that part of me is getting stronger after I read some renowned fashion blogs. Seeing them doing photoshoot, with tons of fashionable things and act like model really makes me interested and (maybe) motivates me to start become more feminine. Haha..

Ya, maybe I could just start it right away, but first thing first: I should do proper medication to my skin. To be honest, i got so many insect-bite marks in my skin due to my 'sweet-blood' and it makes me really not confident to dress femininely. It's quite a shame that I were so lazy to take medication earlier. But ya, now I should working on it. Really.

Proper medication, changing my fashion style little by little, start do some make-up - well, it will take some time but ya, I should just enjoy the process. It's fun though. :)

Dare to Move ( >ω< )9

Well, it has been such a long time since the last time I post my blog. Actually, it is because I rarely come back home, while in my dorm, the internet connection is really terrible -_____-' but i just realize that there might be a mobile version of blogger and yeah, I just found it! Haha.. So excited that I can do some posting again. :D

It had already been 2 months since my last posts, and during that time, sooooo many things happened to me. But overal, everything is doin' fine - especially about my planning to open my own mini bakery in dorm. Until now, i still can't believe that i finally can make it happen. At first, i doubted about that due to some reasons :
1. The bug disasters in dorm
2. Afraid that if the security of dorm found out about my activity, they will ask me to stop.
3. Afraid that I can't do it successfuly

Yah, to be honest, I tend to think too much and doubt myself about that. But thanks God, He strengthened me to move forward and just deal with all my doubts. As the result, my small business in dorm runs well until now, my cakes usually sold-out, and orders are keep on coming to me. Oh, how I am really happy and grateful with all of that. :')

I do learnt a lot from this business - creating new cakes, increasing baking techniques, be independent, wiser in managing time, etc; but the important part is : dare to move. I realized that to achieve what we want, we can't just sit down and wait. Instead, we should make a move to make it. In addition, do believe in God because God always be with us. :)

For now, Little Rascal (my bakery's name) has run quite well in the dorm area. Hopefully, if God allows me, this Little Rascal could expand its existence to bigger and bigger markets (amen!). Hehe..

That's all for today. Ciao~ :D

Orientation 2012 - A Week of Fun

Heyhoo.. It has been a long time since the last time I posted here due to lack of idea what to post. Hehe.. But now, lemme share my story about Orientation 2012 in the previous week.

Previously in Orientation 2011 I had already been participated as a supervisor (SPV). In 2012's, I joined again... as a SPV again. Haha.. This time, I partnered with Eka, my best mate and supervised a group named "Rachel Khoo". In the first day of Orientation, even though I had been there before, but still I became really clumsy when I first met my kids. All of them were veryyyy quiet. But well, it was the first day, though. Luckily, day by day they started to get along well among each other and started to show their true self - crazy and alay! (LOL) Also, we managed to supervise them well until the end - even tough there were some ups and downs within the group. 

When the orientation came to the end, there were so many feelings mixed in one - happy, relieved, sad, etc. Happy and relieved because finally our duty has done and we can finally take a rest as long as we can (during orientation, all of the committes were lack of sleep). However, sad because  as an SPV, that was the last day I had fun, craziness, and alayness with my kids. Not only me, the other SPVS might feel the same like me. :( But well, even though it had already ended and all of us might be busy with our univ stuffs, doesn't mean that the relationship between me, Eka, and the kids ended just like that. I believe that all of us can keep the compactness and togetherness. :)

There were so many things that I got and learnt during this Orientation as well. I got new friends from both the committees and the kids of batch 2012. I learnt from Eka how to be patient and cold-headed when dealing the problems. From the commites, learnt about discpline and English communication skill. While from the kids, I learnt to be ALAY (I actually don't know whether I should be happy or sad with this.. Hahaha..), to be calmer and don't take assumptions quickly. In addition, I wanted to start being more open about myself to others, as when I gave comments about my kids, I advised them to be more open to others. At the same time, I just realized that I myself still not really open to others. So, seemed like I indirectly learnt about the openess from that. :)

All in all, I really feel grateful that I can be the part of Orientation 2012 as the SPV of group "Rachel Khoo". Even though it was very tiring, but I really had sooooo much fun and lessons. Thank you so much to all of the committes, Eka, and my beloved kids. Love u all <3

Cheers, One Step Ahead! :D

Simple questionnaire for presunivers ;)

Here's the thing.

In my previous post, I did say that I wanted to open my cake shop and if I made it, I might start it first in the dorm area - continuing my cake selling after the entre week. Thus, I wish to know all of your, especially my univ's friends' opinions about that. What do u think? :)

Please kindly drop ur comments and opinions here and also, visit http://jojomul.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-first-3-rascals-d.html too. Thank you. :D

Oldies FTW!

In 9gag, I saw a post like this:

After I read this, I remembered how I used to listen to this song quite often previously. Then I searched the video and watched it. Well, I should agree with this post. Those 2 parts are what make this song very catchy and unique, even though the meaning was not really good. But from this 1 song, I felt like I really missed to listen another oldies songs. Thus, I watched another Queen's "Killer Queen" video, then jumped into The Beatles' "Yesterday" and "Hey Jude" video. Oh my, oldies songs surely are the best. 

Personally, I think almost all of the oldies songs are good and very renowned. When u mention The Beatles, Queen, Guns and Roses, etc or just hum the lyrics of the songs, I am sure most of us still recognize them even though the songs are soooo last year. That is no wonder, since the oldies songs are simple yet meaningful and memorable. Compared to nowadays' songs, I still prefer oldies ones - 70's till 90's much more than them. I mean, some of nowadays' songs are good and easy-listening, but the others... sucks. In my opinion, those "sucks" are more focused on their face, their swag style, but the voice is just so-so and nothing special. Rarely I found nowadays' songs like the oldies one - which is simple, unique, meaningful.

But, whatever. Still, oldies FTW ! :D

Cake testing: Ice Cream Cake

Finally I'm done with my ice cream cake! Yeayyyy~ :D

At first, I just wanted to try making caramel ice cream. It was a success, however the taste was too sweet for my liking - and for my family's as well. Ya, kind like alpenliebe, in my opinion. I thought that maybe all of us wouldn't want to eat that ice cream too much because of sweetness. Then I brainstormed what should I do with that ice cream and I ended up make it into ice cream cake.

In that cake, I wanted some texture and balance. Thus, I made the cake consists of biscuit crust, ice cream, and cake. With the biscuit crust, I imagined that the crunch of it will bring another indulgent. In addition, since the ice cream was too sweet, I added diced fresh strawberry to make it less sweeter and also, for another texture. For the topping, I made a chocolate ganache, but too bad I made wrong measurement with the ingredients that the ganache was too runny after I poured it all over the cake. For another deco, I wrote my soon-to-be cake shop's name "Little Rascal" (hopefully I could make it.. Hehe.. ) with white chocolate, using sauce bottle (with fine tip). However, seemed I didn't melt the white chocolate completely. As the result, there were still some chocolate bits inside the melted chocolate and because of that,when I was decorating the cake, the chocolate sometimes stucked on the tip. :(

Here are the photos:

Soo messy.. Pardon my first time decoration >__<'

Look at the edge. The ice cream melted way too quick !

A slice of the cake. My, just realize that the top cake is very thick. Hehe...

Well, enough for the appearance. Let's talk about the taste. Well, it turned out to be like I want. All the texture and balance were well-presented. The strawberry inside the caramel ice cream had successfully made the ice cream less sweeter as well. Hooray!

The cake testing was good. But, my cake decoration and cake assembly still need more concern, indeed. Hehe..

Cook homemade fetuccini - again

When I have nothing to do at home, I usually spend my time to make pastries. Why pastries, simply because that's what I really am passionate with, more than the food like main course or appetizers. In fact, I want to learn cooking food too, but as my mom always cooks at home and her cookings are way moreee delicious than mine, I just rarely had any chance. But today, I had it as my mom wasn't at home - she was in Semarang since yesterday and will be back on Tuesday. 

Today's cooking is homemade fetuccini with curried string beans and egg on top. At first I just wanted to cook stir-fried string beans. But suddenly, I thought about making homemade fetuccini. I guess it was the after effect of watching Masterchef. Several days ago, I re-watch the first season of Masterchef U.S and there was a pressure test to make homemade fetuccini. I then remembered that I had tried making one at home once, but not so good - because I had no idea in using the rolling machine to roll the dough at the first time. So, why not try again? I had learnt much how to use the rolling machine correctly, though. Hehe.. 

I made the dough, rolled it, sliced it, and voila... it turned out very good! Much more better than before. Yeayyy! :D Then I spared some of the string beans for the fetuccini, prepared the curry block that I found in my fridge, and started to cook. First I made stir fried string beans. It was a simple dish, and I bet everyone can do it well. :) After that, I cooked the curry fetuccini with string beans. For finishing touch, I imagined to make a poached egg. In my mind, if I made the perfect poached egg and top it on the fetuccini, when I sliced on it, the yolk would oozed out and that would be great. Unfortunately, as it was my first trial, the yolk was already cooked and there wasn't any oozy effect on my fetuccini. Better luck next time for me >____<

Today's cooking. Too bad the egg on top was overcooked  >__<

The presentation was quite different than my expectation, indeed. Hehehe.. For the taste, it was like Indomie Kari Ayam, but with less broth. In addition, I guess I quite overcooked the fetuccini. And while writing this post, I realized that when I finished boiling the fetuccini, I forgot to put it in the cold water to stop the cooking. :( Overall, I am proud with my cooking today, but still I need to improve my cooking skill, though.