Kuih Semolina

Few days before, I tried to make something out of semolina after I got the recipe of Keseri from one of my Indian friends. But I modified the recipe she gave me and check some of the recipe online. It turns out to be like this..

I think the taste it just ok, but some of my friends think it is nice. For those who is interested can try to make it, it's quite easy to do. And this is just the second times I make it =p
Below are the recipe..enjoy.

2 cups medium fine Semolina

5 ½ cups water (can substitute to milk)

1 packet of santan powder (50g)

1 cup pf cooking oil (¾ cup if prefer less oily)

1 ¾ - 2 cups of sugar

Almonds, raisins, peanuts, etc as u like

1) Boil the water and sugar, when boiled turn to low fire and keep it hot (not warm).Don’t remove it from fire.

2) Use another non-stick pan, heat the oil in it but not too hot. Then slowly pour in the semolina while stirring.

3) Put in the nuts and raisin and continue stirring.Cook it until it change colour to gold brownish and almost all the oil is absorbed by the semolina. ( bigger and high wall one coz later u need to pour the syrup into it)

4) Remove the pan from the fire, then pour the hot syrup into it (in one gulp, do not pour little by little and be careful when u pour the syrup as the hot vapour may burn ur hand).

5) Then put the pan back on top of the fire and stir it on low fire until it mix well and all the water is absorbed.

6) Put it aside to cold down for about 5-10 minutes. Then put into container. Serve when it is cold.

Shopping is fun..

Yahoo, finally I have chance to go for shopping after 2 months trapping in the hostel. Damn busy studying until I hardly had time to rest well. Thanks to my sister for accompany me to go shopping. My gang of friends are not those type who are into shopping :-( Very happy..I bought something for myself. Try guessing how much they cost =p

The brand with the 3 stripes

Adidas Originals BY Missy Bassline Lo S

Feel Adidas Hat

Ok, time to reveal the price..

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For the shoes __ 659 Rub (NP: 3480 Rub) & Hat__ 89 Rub (NP : 1015 Rub). Did u guess correctly?

Quarantine day +.+

Our hostel has routine 'cockroaches-killing ' day..and on 26th Dec was one of it. Me and some of my blockmates together decided to clean up the kitchen as we knew always that there was thousand of cockroaches living there :-\ But out of expectation, the amount of them were more than we thought of. We clean up the racks, cupboard and kitchen table inside the kitchen but still there were alot of them trying to escape from us. We spray repellent on them and even step on them.

Then the floor lady came..and she too, was astonished by those cockroaches. We felt so embarrassed, coz we never try to keep our kitchen as clean as possible everyday..tat's why there were lots of them habituate there :-( Some of the blockmates like to left their unwashed dishes overnight eventhough they knew that will attracts cockroaches. She spray the real pesticide on whole kitchen and prohibited us from entering the kitchen until night.

Sarah sealed the door of the kitchen coz there are cockroaches kept escaping thru the door slit. And.. she even wrote a notice and stick on it in case some blurr blockmates open them with force. ( Adeline is one of them tat most probably will do so coz she was sleeping all the time when the whole thing happen.)

Written : "Attention ALL the inhabitants of 408:
The kitchen is strictly OFFLIMIT till after 9pm
Admission at risk of DEATH !!!
( Remember pesticides from biochem?)"

The cockroaches trying very hard to escape from the repellent. Too bad la, they were stucked there due to the tape on the door. ;-)

That period of time was so so suffering for all of us. We couldn't cook lunch and dinner.. *sob sob* All we can eat were only those food that no need to be cook at kitchen. Some of them even bought grill chicken from market opposite our hostel to eat.

Then finally the time to unseal the kitchen had came. And omg..the smell of the cockroaches were so so bad. There were alot of the dead bodies on the floor, and we had to clean up everything, including mopping the floor coz the pesticide was oil form.

P/s: To all my blockmates, please be considerate next time when u want to leave ur uncleaned dishes overnight, please think of the consequences.. Thank you.

Last Zachut day ;-)

[28 Dec,FRI.] Yay, finally we collected our last zachut from TopoAnat. I guess we're the last group to get the zachut.(*not our fault, it's due to d stupid time table + a HARDWORKING professor +.+)

Our TopoAnat Professor, Pro.C.C.Didikin.

Taken on zachut day.

Can u imagine..we could straight away go to eat after sitting in the classroom whole morning with a cadevar in front us. What to do..it's the life of medical student. LOL

The China-China Restaurant we're going are located at Smolenskaya Ploshad, Sadovoe Ring. For ur information, Sadovoe (Garden Ring) is one of the most important ring roads in Moscow beside MKAD (Moscow Circular Automobile Road) and TTK (Third Transport Ring). The traffic is very hectic&heavily loaded during working hours, as what I remembered, it's never quite 247. Most of the shops along the road are open 24 hours daily.

Traffic is quite smooth during afternoon.

On the way to China-China Restaurant, with Adeline in trolley bus.

The Famous New Arbat Street, taken from inside of the bus.
(I say..Sarah, y r u in the photo?)

China-China Restaurant is hidden inside this building-- Jigsaw.

We enter the restaurant 15 minutes pass 12pm, right after it start working.(Imagine how hungry we are=P) It is buffet@eat all u can style, so most of us emptied our stomach the whole morning..haha. Hey, it cost 300 rub per head, OK? Beside, drinks r not included.. of cuz we must eat as much as we could..

Group 1 picture (Shalini where r u?)

The 2 only guys in Gp.1..sad sad.
Interior decorations of China-China..nt bad huh.

Comments for the food there..
Well, nt bad overall. But feel very muak if eat frequently. Their choice are nt much, most are repeated (Eg: For sweet&sour flavour, they've sweet&sour chicken,sweet&sour fish,sweet&sour beef, sweet&sour pork..etc). However, their fried prawn dumpling is superb, nt to be left out their varieties of salad& last but nt least Baskin Robbins ice cream <- this is the force that attracted me to eat there.

The amount of Baskin Robbins I ate.. 6 cups.

We loafed there from 12.15pm till evening.. dun ask me y we stayed there so long, I oso dunno wat we did there.. talking, laughing, posing.. It was at first our group 1 makan only, but ended up one whole bunch of friends came join us when we're eating half-way, I guess they were too free too after all classes finished..haha.

Winter holidays finally start.. time to rest well, relax&enjoy to the fullest, & recharging for the coming new semester.

" Happy Holidays To Everyone! "