Dumpling Craze

 

 

Whenever I'm at home, I'll make dumplings to eat because I'm so in love with dumplings and dimsum! It's quite easy to make but i use a few hours to make as i make a lot at once.

 

Dumplings! 

I would serve it by two ways:

one is to boil it;

 

 another is to fry it:

To make the skin you'll need:

• 350g of medium flour
• Some hot water  & cold water (the volume of water can be adjusted)

The dumpling ingredients:

• around 450g of minced pork
• Kuchai
• 2 eggs
• 1 big teaspoon of sesame oil
• 2 big teaspoons of soysause and cooking oil
• Some carrots & turnips

* Using these measurements you can make about 50 dumplings. Try it out!

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I know, it has been a long long time since the last post. The last two months were hectic, maybe its because i'm new in this environment and need more time to adapt to it. The first module which actually is the foundation,has finished, and i'd sat for the first exam last week. That's life--- taking exam when you have only studied for less than two months.

My life in Ipoh is quite exciting. One thing that surely cheer me up when i feel homesick is the food! No wonder people call Ipoh as the heaven of delicious food! Especially when my house located just in ipoh town and easily reachable to every direction in Ipoh. For now, i've tried quite a lot of food here (I'm still considering whether to write them down and give ratings and comments about the food.)

I miss people on KL, Subang Jaya and Kajang. Sometimes I feel sad for not able to study overseas, in "real" universities, where they write thesis and do extensive researches, like many of my friends who definitely are going to do. Some are going to US, to UK and also to Singapore. Do i have a chance? Yes, but it surely is more than 7 years later. I'm considered to be faster than many of my peers, which are only going to sit for STPM end of this year. That's the only thing i can console myself with.

My university life is not the same as i expected. I thought to have more freedom, like more time for own study, and activities which i've missed in past, but it's not. My timetable is even more packed than before, study hours even longer than any stage of education i'd experienced, which annoys me. Half of the time I have to attend for university compulsory subjects that are useless except for English subject. The long hours make everyone of us lethargy after class, what energy left to drive us to revise or study? Moreover, we still have to eat, sleep and do house chores.

And tomorrow starts the new module. Life goes on.

My first day lesson in medical college

Alright, how do i start this? Today is my first day of lesson in RCMP. The orientations were done in past three days, and there will be more orientation in Pulau Pangkor weeks later. I guess the additional orientation is to built stronger boding among the seniors and us.

Out of my expectation, the first lesson started with a patient entering the lecture theatre. We were required to ask her questions to find out the cause of her condition. She was assigned to be in the condition of Severe Dehydration and answer our questions according to the relevant signs and symptoms. Based on the questions we asked we can know how she get into this situation. Thus we had an experience of first day becoming a doctor.

After taking down all the information, we were divided into small groups to discuss furthermore on this to confirm the diagnosis. I'm fortunate to be in an active group that everyone contributes their ideas that we have to further study on. Lastly the ideas were organised into learning outcomes that we hope to find out and bring to the second discussion later on.

There was a tutor that guide us in the discussion so we can stay in the path. I'm happy that he asked questions to lead us there but not feeding us. It was a nice brainstorming session.

Although the patient is not really having the condition (fake),I feel that the whole Q &As and discussion helped us to think more critically and relate the ideas into main points.

Later on, the first lecture i attended was Anatomy. The proffesor explained so fast that we couldn't catch up taking down the notes.

The way that i'm studying now is different from my study skills earlier. In university level group study is definitely imperial, if not, you might bored to death or couldn't understand the concept well. Most importantly, they are someone to listen to your ideas.

You'll learn to be grateful after living here

Countdown of "The Most Unwanted Things I Wish It'll Never Happen" ....urgh...."again" since it already happened on me last year.

For those who often complain to me how sick to eat the same food everyday; how you wish you could live away from your family to gain freedom; how bad it is without tv, computer, movies; I can tell you how lucky it is for you to have clean food, how I wish i can stay in my home and of course I would want to have entertainment but sometimes we just can't and thats doesn't matter.

Last year have been very educating. I've learned to be grateful for everything I had before that and I'm sure if you were given the same condition as these you'll feel the same way as me.

Number 3:

The sudden presence of huge living things, including moths even larger than my hand, sickly huge spider with long legs which runs extremely fast, and cats that suddenly found lying in your bedroom.

Yes, I live in a jungle, not forest.

I don't have photos of the spider as it appeared Running to me when I was taking bath! My housemates saw it when they were in the bathroom too.

Number 2:

 You might want to open your eyes when you are eating. You wouldn't want to try on "fried flies" or any special exoskeletons. Once my housemate saw maggots underneath her chicken skin.

Number 1:

The colour of our water may not necessarily be colourless. It comes with distinct colours and sometimes  accompanied with smells. This is voted "the most unbearable" by my housemates as we have to use water  to take bath, wash clothes, cook dinner. We truly realised the importance of water!

Every colour below comes in seperate days.

Brown-black---

The most extreme, happened when water came after water ration,
bringing rust that sediments the tank. Surely can not be used.

Smell of metal.

Our bathroom we wash every week, but when dirty water came,
it stained our cleaned floor.

Yellow ---

Pale Green ---

With strong smell of chlorine ?!

The End




Although the unwanted things happened, life can be modified to become better by bringing in things we like. Thanks to my lovely lavender and daisy who accompanied me through this year!