~ Omega

~ Omega

Birthday Celebration

Well I'll have a early birthday celebration with my friends. I've waited this day to come by. From early of this year till today I'll spend much money treating or giving gifts to friends on their birthday celebration.

Now this is my turn...to request something from them....since my friends are asking me where/what cuisine I like. Hmmm...upon thinking...I've give them some option to choose.

"As I'm having sore throat lately, I prefer food which are not heaty. I would like having a buffet dinner or steamboat or Japanese food or etc."

I'm not that cruel to ask something exorbitantly expensive food in the town. At least I give them other option....beside than what i've requested by putting the words "etc..."

But so far my friends haven't come back to me where they are will celebrating my birthday!

Is my request too much?

Alpha

Last Exile

Just finish watching this anime. It have a rather sad ending. A lot of people die in the last episode.


Dio Eraclea


Luciola

I'm very sad to see the death of Dio Eraclea and his bodyguard cum servant cum friend...Luciola...he is such a loyal friend to Dio.

Plot~excerpt from Wikipedia

The story revolves around Claus Valca and Lavie Head, a young courier pilot and his navigator, and their adventures in the floating world of Prester. In this romantic sky world based on stylized Victorian fashion and society, two countries, Anatole and Dysis (sometimes phonetically rendered as Anatoray and Disith), are engaged in a long and bloody war under the supervision of the mysterious Guild. Claus and Lavie, piloting their vanship (a small wingless aircraft) find themselves involved in a plot surrounding a mysterious little girl named Alvis Hamilton, whom they must deliver as "cargo" to the much-feared neutral battleship "Silvana".

Alpha

Review : Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

It quite a short anime which contain only 13 episodes. It a mission type anime with some magical power involved. It basically tell the story of a little school going girl name Nanoha who help a animal that look like ferret (is transformed from an injured boy) to collect some crystal which land in that area. So there are some fighting with others to collect the crystal.

The storyline is quite easy to follow. The graphic is nice. It have mild nudity. But 1 thing I don't like is why this anime have to use such little girl to be the protagonist. I rather prefer a teenager than a school girl.

~ Alpha

Durian Cake [Recipe]

Upon request from my colleagues....and to fulfill their wish, I bake durian cake. This is my first time baking it. The result is fantastic....it taste good. I recommend it to those who loves cakes & durian...give it a try.

I must say this recipe I get it from Kuali Online and is workable for me.

DURIAN CAKE

Ingredients

250g butter
225g fine castor sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
4 eggs
125g durian flesh, pureed

Sift:

200g self-raising flour
50g plain flour

Method
Preheat oven to 170 ºC. Grease a 20cm round cake tin. Cream butter, sugar and essence until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time and add durian puree gradually.

Fold in sifted flours and mix well to blend. Pour batter into prepared tin and bake in preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes or until cake is done when tested with a skewer.

***Personal Note

I cut down on the sugar to 180g as the durian itself have some sweetness.
By the way, the recipe request for fine castor sugar...I can't figure out which type it refer to. I just use icing sugar.

We could put more durian flesh to enhance the flavour (try to buy strong fragrance durian), but don't put too much as the cake might not raise. I myself put 150g durian flesh.
Durian pured?....well just smash the durian flesh.

According to the comment posted in Kuali Online, the cake could not store long. So have to finish it up in 1 or 2 days.

Just drop me a message if you have successfully bake it using the above recipe.

~Alpha

Natalie Tong & Chris Lai

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Some thought for guys....

Guys...

realize that the girl holding onto u..
is PERFECT in her own special way.

The way she laughs..
The way she sleeps..
The way she loves you..
The way she tries to please you...

Always remember that.

She can always get up and walk away,
getting someone else who can love her more.

For all you know,
there is someone out there
wooing her already,
but she is rejecting,
a maybe perfect love for her..

There might also be someone out there..
who is willing to love her more than
you are loving her now,
fulfill her every need
and love her as much as
she loves you.

Understand that.

Imagine this, guys.
When you are holding her today...
and then you cheat on her by hugging
and kissing another gal.
and then you run back to her...
and u do the same....
but you see love in her eyes...
What do you think?
Do you feel the hurt?
Can you feel the guilt?

She loves you not because you are
good looking,
have money,
buy her things,
make her parents happy,
or that you have a car.

She loves you for who you are.
Your every touch, every word you say,
everything you do.

Guys,

Cherish and appreciate your girl.
Don't break her fragile heart.
She is the only one who can love you that way.
You won't wanna regret letting go
of that special girl you have.
For everything she has done for you,
the least you can do is to give her unconditional
love as she has given to you.

Girls and guys...
if you agree with this,
repost this just so that everyone
can read this and appreciate
their girls more.

What is a Pound Cake?

Being a amatuer baker myself I really don't know what is the different between a butter cake and a pound cake. Because recently I've bake a cream cheese pound cake and it taste quite exactly like butter cake.

At first, I though this cake will have heavy cheese flavour but on contrary is quite mild. Besides than the cost I invest in the cake, I found no different at all. The ingredient, cream cheese is very expensive in Malaysia. For a block of cream cheese it cost about RM8.40. With this amount I can bake a normal butter cake...haiz...

So is there any different between these two cake?

Let me quote from baking911.com

Typical butter cakes are American butter cakes and Pound cakes. Both have a fine crumb, a tender moist texture and a rich buttery taste, which makes them some of the most popular cakes. Butter cakes tend to be richer than other types of cakes and have a good volume, but Pound cakes are the richest and densest of all Butter cakes.

OMG, now I know they are the same but only different in rich and density of the butter cake!

Somewhere in the net, I've read that the Pound cake is named so because of the weight of each ingredient they use is exactly 1 pound.

Now I've learn a new thing.

~ Alpha

Philosophy from Mushi-shi

Fabian comment :

Sorry, but I don't agree at all. This is one of the most amazing anime I ever watched, it's unlike anything I've ever seen before. Yes, it does have a simple, mission-type structure, but I don't hear people complaining about Cowboy Bebop because of that.

I like Mushi-shi's style, it's so laid back and every single episode seems to reveal another amazing idea. It's a bit philosophical and I think it's deeper than a lot of the crap us anime watchers usually degrade ourselves to. (Highschool romance? COME ON ALREADY!)

I agree and disagree towards the comments.

I must say, I agree that this anime do have a bit of philosophical. In few episodes, Ginko-san say that he is not like other mushi-shi who kill mushi, he kind of live peacefully with it whenever is possible. Like him, we also should try to live peacefully with our surrounding living being by not polluting the world, use less paper, don't use equipment or spray that contain CFC compound etc...etc. Think how we could save this dying earth now. Think how we human going to live if we destroy the forest and polluted the sea and air..hmm I think I overdo it...muahaha.


For Fabian this anime is the best, but it isn't for me. I have my own taste of anime that I like and dislike. Everyone have their own reason why they like to watch certain category of anime. So we can't judge those people that like to watch the so call "crap" you've mention. You can't choose for others!

Anyway, this is my blog and this is my review. I stand by my review, this anime is bored.

~ Alpha

The Evolution of Religion

At my first glance through this article Lama's brand new approach I thought this guy is a model before become a monk. Not until I've read the content that I realise this monk work for about a month as a runaway model at a production house which own by one of his student.

Here I'm not introducing Buddhism to you all or criticising it. It is an overview of world religion. I might quote it as my example since I've read it.

After reading the article, I'm pondering...do we need the religion to be evolve so that it adapt or suit to the new generation of mankind? As I've been taught at school, the world consist of 5 major religion namely Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism & Hinduism. All these religion have a very long history. I'm pretty sure their teaching is based on the society and culture at that original place and time.

It will be untrue to say that these religion didn't change at all after so many years. Yes they could have evolve in the several ways like the method of spreading the message, the ways of interpreting the holy book & etc....(well I can't think of other example...you tell me)

Nevertheless I believe their so core doctrine will endure forever and ever. It is not practical for us to apply the teachings of yesteryear literally. All we need to do is just take the principle of that particular teaching to be apply to our current situation.

But in recent year we could see that the some religion leader have openly condone the activity of gay and lesbian and even legalise their marriage. Are we that desperate to gain more worshipper/follower? Aren't these have violate the teaching of the religion that promote a union between a male and female? I think there are many more example that will prove that some of the religion have changed and slowly drift away from the main teaching.

D0 we need this kind of evolution to suit the new generation and invoke the wrath of the creator?


~ Alpha

Angora Rabbit

Have you ever see this kind of rabbit before?....or should I ask.. Are these rabbit? To me some are like dog..hahaha..

Alpha