Hussien Chalayan SS08 laser outfits

His amazing outfits is really fantastic! Here's the making of his creation. I really love his work, it is almost like looking at an installation art piece!

Paper costumes

Recently, my students have participated in a paper costume competition. I am please that they have constructed different kinds of wedding gown for the event. Great creativity has been shown through their work of art. These are those wonderful tissue flowers...
Using toilet paper rolls to create texture, marvelous creation!
Paper cut flowers on the wedding gown.
Obviously is the Japanese origami influence paper towel's flower. Here shows the designer working on the garment.
Interesting texture and roses, nicely done.
The designer and her friend lending a helping hand......... using tapes and glue. All these creation can be worn by a model and parade in the fashion show. These are all the designers and their models wearing their creations. All the hair styles, make-up and accessories are prepared by the designer to create the look and style of their own.

Actually, I am impressed with all their work. They manage to finish everthing within 2 days. Congratulations to all who participate and won prizes. As the saying goes, you never try you never know. To all my students, Best of luck to your future creations!

Japonais influence...

Has been searching around town for some good food and recently also found out that all the Japanese restaurant are running out of ideas for new food stuff. Of course I could not blame them as the food are still about the same price yet inflation has become an obvious scene. Since then, I can't find good food around except to cook by myself to satisfy my tummy. A sudden crave has hit me, I therefore created this appetizer made of raw Salmon.... yum!
Successfully made up these delicious "Gyoza" or Japanese dumplings, ingredients include cabbage and mince pork. Of course I buy a packet of dumplings wrap and seal it with the fillings and freeze it in the fridge for a while before I pan fry it! last but not least must always pair it with some Worcester sauce with ginger. Here's the recipe...

• 1 packet Gyoza wrap/ dumpling wraps (20pcs)


• 200grams mince pork


• 1tsp finely chopped leek


• 2 tsp salt


• Cut 1 quarter of a whole Cabbage


• Marinate ingredients:


• 1tsp white pepper


• 2tbsp corn flour


• 2tbsp sesame oil


• 1tbsp mirin


• 1tsp soy sauce


• 1tsp salt

1. Firstly rinse the cabbage and finely chopped into tiny pieces, then add the salt and squeeze out the extra juices from the cabbage. leave aside.


2. Now prepare the mince pork and combined all the marinate ingredients together with it and mix well.


3. Then add in the cabbage and leek into the mixture. Mix it well.


4. Peel each dumpling wrap and place half a spoonful of mixture in the wrap and pinch it the dumpling way.


5. After wrapping all the dumplings, prepare a pan and add some oil in it.


6. Place the dumplings on the pan and pan fry it. Some call it sticky pan dumplings because you tend to stick the three sides of the dumpling till it cooks before you serve.


7. Tips: When you are wrapping the dumplings and the surface of the wraps turns sticky, you may want to freeze it in the freezer until you finish wrapping up the rest. Also if you find the mixture is watery, freeze it for a while before you continue to wrap.


8. Futhermore, while you are cooking the freeze dumplings on little bit of oil, you may decide to sprinkle some water while pan fry it. Enjoy cooking!

http://www.grouprecipes.com/50490/japonais-style-dumplings.html

The Age of Ignorance......?

Recent events that happened around me have inspired me to write this article. I have wonder lots of time why people are so inconsiderate these days. There are so many whys and how come……

I need to voice this out of my lungs as my toleration has come almost to the limit. There are so many things happening around us that some people choose to ignore the fact or either the (it-does-not-concern-me) attitude seems to over power their mind. Of course I am actually indicating those people who have lots of free time to laze around and do nothing often and those who choose to ignore other people life and be crude.

Like the drivers driving on the streets, they choose to ignore other drivers around them and do what they like; they don't signal while turning and does not obey the rules. Or most of them do not use their side mirror to even take a look at other drivers who are driving along the streets. How sad? Accidents happened because of their inconsideration of other persons' life. Those youngsters, who drive fast and furious on the streets, also endangered other people as well.

There are so many examples in life that shows the inconsideration of the Homo sapiens; they are only selfish people and who cares about nothing other than their own. But no matter how I believe that God will punish them one day, not by us who tolerate but by others whom they love. Their love ones will suffer for their own mistakes. As I strongly feel that God is watching over all of us, silently and waiting for the right time to show us what we have done to others.

Surely I think all people out there are kind-hearted, which I choose to believe; and maybe just say; some unpleasant things do so happened and they temporarily just ignore the others for a moment. Thus I think this is the most sensible thought of mine whenever bad things happened to me. Worse thing is that some of them just do what they like.... and behave like a child and throwing tantrums and degrading themselves morally to create havoc for others all the time.... and how come they have the time and freedom to perform these nuisances? That is also why laws and rules are made.

In most cases, those who suffer and bullied are normally people who do not want to create trouble. Mostly consists of those innocent or gentleman or the poor or even children. It does not mean that those who stay quiet will always be quite.......... as tolerance does has a limit to it as well.

World Music Festival is in town again....Yippie!

I pass by the roads and there they are..... the banners all pop out like mushroom after the rain. The World Music Festival is on again! Yippie Yeh... I am looking forward to attend as last year was a good one and the first in Penang too.....!! Now we do not need to travel to Sarawak and catch the show.

It was raining cats and dogs last year but we stayed until the end, hopefully it won't rain this year! *Pray to god* Well, if you people out there wanna join the fun... visit this website, as the event will starts on 2nd May till 4th May 2008. Last year was in July... so I guess they have move it forward to avoid rain!
http://www.penangworldmusicfestival.com/
http://www.penangworldmusicfestival.com/gfx/band_salem.jpg
See you there! Adios!

Rice powder mask - Bedak sejuk!

I am not going to attach any photos here as I have already introduce this product long ago in my blog. Here I would like to mention that I am currently doing a survey on how many people actually is still using Bedak sejuk as a facial mask. So, do help me to perform this research! Thanks to you all! Do vote at the poll beside this webpage!
Adios people!

Busy Bee... me!

It's a holiday on Thursday.... and well, I just do not know why I get so energetic to do things during holliday when I am suppose to laze around and sleep the whole day. Maybe it is just not me. I am so used to find things to work on whenever I am free..... crazy me! That's what all my friends say!

So here they are, these muffins are baked in the morning. I had it made within few hours. Honestly, I just feel like making muffins and there goes. Luckily I had all the ingredients in my pantry. Here are the chocolate walnut muffins and the lovely honey muffins. The chocolate ones are not that successful while the honey ones are good. Well I love them both though!
Here's the quick dinner that I had last friday before going out with friends. My salami and roast beef delight! I was very full although I had like a few pieces only. :)
This is another quick fix for the night for both me and my hubby....... tomatoes and slice beef pasta! It was really yummy........ I had the pasta cooked directly with the tomatoes, and herbs; some bay leaves, rosemary and thymes. Will do this again!

The Exotic Sahara Night

Beautiful Sahara desert has always been mysterious and gives us a sense of exotic and freedom. Well that's my defination on the Dream of Sahara. I highlighted this event because it is a Belly Dance showcase perform by students of Zero fitness dance studio in Penang, and I happen to be one of them... :)

This is the auditorium that we performed in, the banner here states the Dream of Sahara which is an appropriate theme for our performances. The event was on the 15th of March 2008. A wonderful saturday night fill with lots of excitement for those who attend and participate. A night that we all waited anxiously.
This is a beautiful performance from the dancers. They had use those tinkling Zils, also zills or finger cymbals, (from Turkish zil, "cymbals") to perform in this belly dancing as well. The coordination was marvelous, the timing and the spirit was really wonderful. Love the costumes, really gives you the Sahara feeling! Lots of camel, and belly roll as well. Well done!
Here are those cuties! Kids belly dance performances! They really twist and turn and shimmy well! Love them all, they are so lovely and cute. Like they say everything start from young! Even the hair cut are soooo.... Egyptian too, wow!
So this is our performances, we called it "Momo" as it is the title of the song. Well our group practice real hard on this, we hope everything turns out well....:P

We have consider everything from top to toe as well...... the costumes, jewelery, make-up and even the tattoo at our belly.... hah! To all my fellow belly dance friends, well done and hi-fives to y'all. All the hard work was really fantastic! Hope we can do this all the time... keep going! We all love the dance and we have really put our heart and soul in it, Kampateh!

Finally here is our beautiful instructor and choreographer, she had patiently help and bare with our mistakes all this while, all the best to you Conny! As we will be having another big event soon on May in conjuction with the World Belly Dance Day, all proceeds will go to charity as well. Hope to have support from all. See y'all there!

For more info, visit here: http://zerofitnessdance.com/

Oh before I pen off, this is actually my favourite show of the nite. The Tibetian influence tribal belly dance. Quite an awesome display of strength, movements and creativity. Well, I have little exposure of tribal belly dance and I personally feel really tense and full of surprise whenever I watch the tribal belly dance, contrastly egyptian belly dance are quite feminine in a sense, the dance itself is full of curves and sensuality. Well, in short I just love the way that we have to move the muscle in our body, those muscle that you never know of!

Easy party food!

For an easy and quick fix for a party.... hehhe... I have some new stuff that I try here, Recipes from the TV show. Well it is easy and quick to make.

First we have Watercress soup, then we have the Salami ham delight, then lastly we had some delicious dessert..... the crunchy oat surprise.

Here's the watercress and the potatoes cooking away in the pan..... I have some celery in here too with either some stock of just water to boil the potatoes to make it soft... then some salt and pepper.

You can get the recipe here on this webpage..... :)
http://www.grouprecipes.com/44411/watercress-soup.html

After it cooks for a while in the pan... transfer to a blender and blend up a storm. Viola... the watercress soup is almost done, mix some milk, DONE! Easy and quick to make. You can try this yourself and let me know! :)

Here's the Salami Ham delight..... nice picture huh! I bought this really nice baguette from a local bakery store. It's not the usual white flour baguette instead it is made of healthy rye and sunflower seeds. So, I bought some nice salami and ask them to slice it thin for me. So here you are, the awesome part is I have some shredded Parmesan and pepper on top, NICE!

Alrite, here comes the dessert! I have baked this Crunchy oat surprise in the oven and this is my first try on this.... hmmm... not bad I manage to get the ingredients I want a the "Cold storage" so that's why I give this a go. Well the surprise is it had bluberries in it, as you see it is hard to find here... so lucky I manage to get it!

Now you can see here the cruchy oat mix with blueberries in it! I have added some Drambuie to give it a kick! Heheheee..... Yummy!

The Love potion....

First of all, I wouold like to give a piece of advise to all those wives, lovers and girlfriends who cannot cook, it does not matter whether you can or cannot cook, as long as you put your heart and soul in it, it will tastes good, no matter what. Your partner will appreciate that you have try your best.... but most importantly.... YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST... and you must definately tell him/ her so! That's the love potion that I am talking about. The rest is history.....:P

As you can see, I tried to make the tomato salsa.... with the pan seared chicken thigh.... kinda overcooked a little... but otherwise it tastes good! hehhee..........

Here's a bit of interesting decoration.... a love shape huh! Well simple pan-seared salmon, see those pinky flesh, I top it with rasberry sauce! And the tofu, scramble egg and bean cake underneath! YUM... this was a first time success! hehhee..... I did serve together with my Hot Garlic Potatoes too!