Chinese Herbal Recipes : Ginseng Chicken Soup

Guess what? I'll be cooking today cause it's weekend again and he'll be here for dinner. I'm planning to cook chinese fried rice, cabbage and a chinese herbal soup. I love the fact that chinese herbal soup can actually help our body in a way for health and so on.

Today, I plan to cook ginseng chinese soup, and it's kinda easy to cook actually. Ginseng is good for warming, red dates are good for increase available energy and calming. :)

The ingredients that you probably need is just:

10gm of ginseng roots
5 red dates
2 sliced of ginger
A whole chicken or maybe 3 or 4 chicken drum
1 1/2 litres of water
1 teaspoon of salt to taste

First of all, clean your chicken throughly with water. For me, the best is to have the skin removed. Then, put all the ingredients in expect for the salt and bring it to boil with small fire for 2 hours.

After 2 hours, the chicken will be soft and the ingredients will absorbed into the chicken. Then , it's time to serve. But, don't forget to add in the salt and stir it. Then, can MAKAN!~!~ :)

pic are from http://herbal.recipes.googlepages.com/recipes_2.html

Things to do..

I'd finished off my presentation and it was alright though I was blank for a few seconds in the presentation... And now, I can't wait for this friday to come.. It'll be a fun week this week. I want to enjoy as much as I can before I put my self back to study mode. The torturing part bout study is not bout study, I think it's the beginning to tune myself to concentrate. I felt kinda lazy these days but I know well, time is my limit especially with 6 subjects and a final year project, I just can't mess them up. I just need to get it done and over by May.
Wish me luck.

There's is so many things to think of, I guess stress will finally struck me down again after this week. So as for now, I'll loosen up myself to have the best time of my week.

As for us, I guess whatever I've written in my blog, my friends are really concerned bout us. I just wanna thank them for their concern and I'm happy that they care bout me.. Thanks hui na.. :) I'm fine.. Everything that we have through this 1 and a half year is worth the fight I had and the fight will continue and I rather see it as a chances rather than risk. We know what we actually want now, and only time will unfold what is installed for us. That's all I can say. So, aza aza fighting!~

Exam Results..

I had officially got my exam results and guess what, I'm happy bout it. My average is kinda ok. Hopefully this semester I can just maintain to be in first class.

Anyway, I have a final year project brief presentation this wed and party on this sat.

Can't wait for weekend where I can see him again. Weekdays is killing especially when the workload is a lot.

Pray hard, work hard and play hard!~!`

Love is....

Everything I bottled out inside of me burst out last night when I have time alone with him. After bursting out, I feel much better bout the doubts and problems I have in me. For almost 2 months, I didn't realize I was actually depressed and been thinking too much bout " what if "? It was killing me softly and deeply with me being emo most of the time and I had finally put a fullstop to everything I was thinking.

I feel so much better. I have so many other stuff to think off and I realize that life is a game. So, I gotta play it well. It's a a game of mentality rather than physically. If I have only an extra second in this world, why not I be more happy rather than sad with things that will not be happening soon. Right?

Anyway, I'm very happy to have him in my life. Though at time he puts me off and telling me off, but he has one genuine intention, which makes him very special compare to other people in my life, cause he's the only person who loves me at a time and telling me what I have done wrong cause he actually care bout me. So, from the moment he was beside me when I burst, I knew how sad he was to see me in that condition and he cares bout me. I saw his eyes were red but he was man enough to hold back from letting his tears drop as he always tell me crying will not solve the problems.

For him,

"no matter what our future will b, I believe as you said.. Castle can't be built without sweats and tears, so don't ever let me go when u see me falling cause you are the person in the world I can only cling to. "

love lots,
jen

7 days to go..

It's seven more days to go to get my Official exam results for last semester exams. Hope evrything will be fine. :) Tried my very best...


And, this semester I have 6 papers for exams and a final year project which is 20 credit. Killing especially the railway engineering and sustainable construction. I don't get what my lecturer is teaching in front. so, gotta try to catch up..

Busy busy life again... :)

Genie in the bottle...

I feel like I've been locked up tight
For a century of lonely nights
Waiting for someone
To release me...

If you wanna be with me, baby
There's a price you pay
I'm a genie in a bottle
You gotta rub me the right way
If you wanna be with me
I can make your wish come true
You gotta make a big impression

The music's playing and the lights' down low
One more dance and then we're good to go
Waiting for someone
Who needs me

Hormones racing at the speed of light
But that don't mean it's gonna be tonight

Oh whoa...
My body's saying let's go
Oh whoa...
But my heart is saying no

If you wanna be with me
Baby, there's a price you pay
I'm a genie in a bottle
You gotta rub me the right way
If you wanna be with me
I can make your wish come true
Come and set me free, baby
And i'll be with you

I'm a genie in a bottle, baby
Come, come, come and let me out

PART 2: Weight Issue...

As I mentioned, losing 10 percent of your current weight can make you looked better somehow but in one condition, if you are not slim or skinny k? haha. I have a friend who get back to me and comment that he'll be like a skeleton if he is to lose ten percent of his current weight (Tun, my Burmese Friend). haha..

Anyway, another way I read from somewhere that you can actually shed some weight is by eating banana everyday in the early morning and you'll see the results after 2 weeks. It has been researched by some Japanese and papers had also been published stating that A Banana a day will lose weight. I'm currently trying it out so if it works, let me know ya?

And, try to opt for wholemeal bread instead of normal bread. Wholemeal bread is believed to have more fibre in it and fibre is good for health. I loves wholemeal bread especially with cheese. :)

Not only that, stir fried food like Chinese Food has lesser fat and oil contain than deep fried food like KFC and McD. I'm kinda try to avoid fried food like french fries cause it contain a lot of oil inside and imagine, those oil is going into your body when you consume it. Not healthy. Not healthy. Try to squeeze the oil out from french fries using tissue paper and you'll get what I mean.

Music Genre I love...

i was introduced into this song by him. haha and I love it... Esp the beat and the voice she has.

Lady Gaga... Poker Face...

Shocking News@!~!

There's 2 shocking news, which I had just found out.

One of it is about Dubai's maybe having it's downfall. Shocking as it can be especially in it's construction line which it has created a lot of jobs for civil engineers. Civil engineers who had opted to work there must be having headache. As the world is facing economic crisis, it's not easy to find a paycheck, which as high as what they can get in Dubai.

more news bout Dubai can he read here : http://www.newsweek.com/id/172641

And another shocking news, which are not kinda new is about a Malaysian Child Prodigy in Math, who had successfully got into Oxford for Bachelor Degree's at the age of 13 in 1997 turned into a Prostitute. Isn't it shocking? It is such an embarrassment for Malaysia although the FAther is Pakistani and mother is Malaysian.

More news bout her: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/article3176.ece

February 14 2009

It was 14th February 2009, and as usual every 14th Feb of the year mark the day where couples are seen holding hands, with flowers looking lovey dovey to profess their love to each other. One that day itself, I had decided to wear a black dress, kinda sexy in a sense that it shows my shoulders and he was wearing a red shirt. We did not have a lavish dinner as he thinks that everyday is Valentine for us and people who celebrated Valentine lavishly means that on normal day, they are not as in love as that day itself. I find it quite true as I think that as long as the person you love is spending that day itself with you, nothing else matters.

We'd decided to went to midvalley and guess what, it more crowded than usual, especially outside the GSC cinema where queues were as long as till the McD. So, we'd decided not to watch any movies as we may end up sitting with our head face up to the screen, ( can cause neck pain).
And we went for a JApanese food at the Garden. It tastes great.

In the end, we headed back to my uni to catch the available bus back.

MOst people must be wondering why do I love him as he is.... haha, well, although at times he made me break down but at times, he treat me really nice esp from the pic above, it was hot as the sun was shinning so brightly on me and yet, he went to stand in front of me to face his back to me to block the sun from me. and somemore, he was wearing long sleeve. Sweet heh.. haha :) Get the point?

ANd he got me this 3 roses with a cute teddy bear attach to the stick and a handmade valentine guy. He said he spent 2 hours of his sleeping time to think of this for me. I'm touched. haha :)

As for me, I had folded 101 double heart shape and a handmade card for him. I am a romantic person also I guess. So, how did you spend your valentine? Lavish dinner?Expensive gifts?
It all does not matter as long as the person you love, loves you back. :)

PART 1: Weight Issue...

When I was back in Kuching during cny, there are some people who know me, asking me this question " You lose weight eh? What did you do?" Hmm, when people asking me this question, sometimes I feel so happy till I feel like hopping around like a bunny or at times, I asked myself
" Did I lose weight? Or are they just trying to make me happy?"

Well, here I am trying to explain how I did this. I mean in losing some weight. I believe all of us will look different if we are able to lose 10 percent of our current weight. I mean for chubby person like me. I have the problem of gaining and losing weight very fast. I can lose and gain weight in short period of time, as in a month or 2. So, it's not healthy.

I remember when I was in Form 3 and 5, when it' was PMR and SPM. I gained weight like crazy. When I study, I can eat non stop. Seriuosly. I had kueh chap almost every night when I was in SPM. So after SPM, I looked so bloated. Even during diploma time, I am kinda chubby. And HE told me i looked disgusting at that time. But I often tease him, how did he fall in love with me when I looked like a pig? haha.. Funny isn 't it.
This is a picture of me during Diploma time. Fat huh? see the fat I have at the chin there. Wow, really scary.

And this is me now. I guess my face slim down. I hate the fact that my face will be very very chubby when I put on weight. Somemore my face is the round type so it's very obvious that I'm fat when I put on a little extra weight. Blame for my genetic lol. For Him, his face will never be fat. So, he has been deceiving everyone that he's muscular, but actually underneath the clothes, there are beyond that. haha.. he's gonna kill me for saying this.

Anyway, believe me try to lose ten percent of ur current weight and you'll look much prettier and more handsome. Not that I'm trying to say myself prettier. :P I'm still far from perfection. And I'm a perfectionist. So here I am again, to perfection here I come. (I sound like a Wonder Woman, duh)

Babies

It's been a very long time that I want to discuss bout this topic but I was really busy as I had Exam and new year break. Do you know how much do I adore babies? Haha.. If I am destined not to be married in the future, I may go for an in vitro fertilization and may break the record of the octuplet mother. And now I feel like a mummy pig. haha..

Nyway, I thinks that bringing up a child is not an easy task. Not to say to have 8 kids in one time. I'll be ending up working 3 jobs a day to rare them as to be a single mum, it's a lot lot harder. But I believe most of the parents out there are not filial peity to their own parents but to their own child. It's a life cycle I guess. It's like how our parents treat us, in return they want us to treat our own child the same way.

I was in a mid of conversation with one of my uni lecturer until we got into the topic of babies and kids. He told me that babies are born as in the same way we can look at it as a blank piece of paper. Some are born smarter than others as in the quality of paper is better than the other papers. But all babies are still innocent as in a blank piece of paper. The way we bring up the child to become an adult is like the way we draw on the paper. It does not mean a better quality of paper will results in a beautiful art in the end. It depends on us, the artist itself, who wants how our drawing to be on the paper. So, upbringing of child is important.

Looking back on our grandparents, parents, aunties and how our brothers, sisters, and cousins characteristics are. It was all the art work of our elders. Hence, parents play a very very important role in making sure their kids will be someone in future. Think bout it. It does make sense.

Love is,,,

Love is loving someone by giving all your heart to him regardless what he'll do to them

Love is seeing someone you love happy

Love is a journey to marriage

Love is feeling the butterflies in your stomach when you are with him

Love starts with a smile but tears happened during the journey to fulfill happiness

I seldom talked bout love but it's a week from Valentine and I can't really describe much bout love but all i understand from it, is Love never let us gives up on the person we love so much till it makes me hold on regardless how much tears had been rolling down my cheeks.

There are times of joy and laughter and also time where I'm emotionally break down by his words and actions. Pictures of us weren't allowed to be surfaced in internet so at times I feel hidden and by the way he asked me to be quiet when he converse in a phone call with his family. It's been one and a half year, and people around me are asking me questions like does his family knows bout you and all I said is I don't know but deep inside I know the real answer to it.

I am always wondering is he trying to protect me or thinking I am not good enough for him? My heart were always breaking into pieces and I am always putting it back into pieces, consolling myself everything will be alright and to put myself in his shoes. He's been telling me we does not know what will happened in future but I believe in what we wants in our life. Things happened if you really wants it badly enough.

I never ever think that he's the worst bf I have or whatsoever. I always think he's the one I really want to be with cause that's what my heart have been leading me and telling me and making and keeping me to hold on no matter what obstacles is in front of us and how difficult it can be. Am I the one for him? Or he just wants me to be in a chapter in his life?

At times, I feel as if I don't exist at all in his life and at times, he made me feel as if I'm the most luckiest girl in the world. Am I the one asking too much from him? Or I'm just not perfect enough for him. Am I an embarrassing girl to be with? I've been trying so hard to be close to perfection but seems that I'd failed over and over again. And this had been causing me pressure and pain esp when he was away for a month. And things didn't seem to get better when we are back for cny. Will the upcoming Valentine mend my heart back or break my heart again in pieces?

I wish I had a courage to be like what is in the lyrics said "Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run. You be the prince and I'll be the Princess. It is a love story just say yes.Romeo save me, they're trying to tell me how to feel. This love is difficult, but it's real. Don't be afraid and we'll make it out in this mess. I got tired of waiting wondering if you ever coming around. My faith in you is fading and I said, Romeo save me I've been feeling alone. I kept waiting but you never come. Is it in thy head? I don't know what to think."

Will the ending the same as the song? I wish..

Inti college friends gathering during cny.

It's glad to be able to meet up with my ex college friends. One thing I've realized from the gathering is everyone are in different path of their life now. Some of them seems to be busy at times with their studies and work. I guess that's life, everyone are in a different chapter of life.
I have mine too.

A lot of things happened lately. Not really a good one. I'm really hoping and praying things around me will get better and have less worries.

As for now, I'm finally back in Nottingham as is Nothingham to lead another 12 weeks ++ include exams. Now in the 1st week, I have my final year project so will be busy again. Life is about moving on. So, wake up jen!~!~

Spring during CNY..

Nice pics huh... I'm so in love with boots though it may make me looked so AH LIAN.. lol

1st day back in Kuching

It was the day when I first landed in Kuching for Chinese New Year. Invited some of my friends to my dad's birthday at my house. But sadly, there aren't much photos that are taken that day. :(

In the pics are kelvin,john, frans, hui na, me, dedrick and ivan.



Frans had a mouthful of food as Dedrick helped to take pic of us.