A favourite dish!

Presenting..... khaw neow ma-muang! A dessert which I first tasted and immediately fell in love with at the Ambassador's villa in Egypt when I was there during the end of 2009. I think whoever created the dish is a genius. Khaw neow ma-muang is a dish which comprises of sticky rice, eaten with mango and topped off with a coconut milk sauce. It took me a long, long time to remember the name. I recall the ambassador having fun teaching us how to pronounce the word and without any fail, he would repeat the name over and over again. 

"This is called Khaw. Neow. Ma-Muang."
"Khaw Neow... wait, what?"
"Khaw Neow Ma-Muang."
"Right. Khaw Meow-"
"Khaw Neow. Nee-ow, not Mee-ow."
"Okay..... Khaw... Neow... Ma-Muang"
"Correct!"


10 minutes later...

"Wait, what's it called again?"

So eventually I gave up and decided to give it a simpler name: Meow Meow. A year after not eating Meow Meow in 2011, I suddenly remembered about it during my days in NLB, so I asked a fellow colleague about it... thinking that it is a Chinese dessert. But unfortunately she didn't know about it and said that it might be a Thai dish. I googled, and yes, she was right! I've yet to make Meow Meow myself though... maybe I will one day, InsyaAllah.

Hmm. Good food makes me so happy. =)

A new phase.

After discovering frog images on my blog and tolerating with them for a very very long time, I decided that it is time. This is it! Farewell frogs, wherever you came from! 

But I just had to find out the origin of the frogs...

I googled, read, deduced, and concluded. The root of the problem was that I had been using Randa Clay's blog template since 2009, so due to many downloads of the very same template, the image served by the image provider Randa used exceeded the bandwidth limit. Because of this, the provider stopped serving the image, and with that, frog images appear on my site. And these frog images, are well known as the PhotoBucket Frogs. I secretly wish that they used butterflies or bluebirds or smiley faces instead though.


I can't give a more detailed explanation though - like what's a bandwidth and all. I'm not an IT expert... 

Okay, so to get rid of the images I had two choices. One, to search and then download the image in my previous bluebird template before uploading it to a personal image provider. Two, to simply get or create a new template. I chose number two for the convenience.

I started my attempt in creating the template. After 10 seconds I decided that there was no point to it - I had forgotten all html knowledge I ever had. But that's alright... I've never been into html that much, plus I think that there are more important stuff that I need to recall. So deciding not to waste much more time, I scoured the internet looking for free downloadable templates.

... and I wasted approximately 45 minutes. The irony. 

Perhaps blogger has lost popularity so the amount of templates has become rather limited. There was only one more thing I could do then - use one of the provided blogger template on the Blogger Homepage. It's something I thought I would never do, but to save my blog from frogs I just did it. It turned out to be pretty nice, actually... much to my amusement. =)

So insyaAllah more posts will be coming up, with new thoughts and views on certain stuff. Till next time, Assalamu'alaikum. =) 

A reflection of emotions.

I love listening to Emily Bear's piano pieces. And this is one of my favourites. You should listen to it too... maybe you'd love it as much as I do. =)

This is Emily's musical interpretation of the Northern Lights, as in the video. And this piece won the 2008 ASCAP award for original compositions for composers 18 years and below. Emily was 7 then.


I honestly love this piece because it kind of brings me to another place. And when she slows down, there's this sadness because there's no one around you. Then it picks up and speeds, looking for that someone you've always longed for. And suddenly - just suddenly - it becomes beautiful all over again. Because you realize that the person has always been in your heart. And then you feel complete again. =)