Pangkor Island

Here are several pictures in Pangkor Island in June 2007. I attended Outcome-Based Education (OBE) course which is a new requirement for all engineering course in Malaysia. The first audit or accreditation will be held in March 2008. Currently, most of us were busy preparing for the unnecessary documents hehehe..

About the course, we were taught by UTM lecturers how they conducted their class in UTM based on OBE. Surprisingly, most of their class is 100% course work with less than 40 students. I still wonder how on earth we can implement OBE in class of 100-700 students??? With limited spaces in Lecture theaters and lecture rooms, how are we going to do group discussion ?? Let upper management decide this :-)

Fellow SMMRE colleagues

Scenery at Teluk Dalam Resort

Diam tak diam..

At the airport with K/Afidah, Syahira, Sharon and Syaf

Classic pic with Sharon and Tun

Tengok mata diorang tu hahahaha...'Banjir' ke kak?

Last kopek 'menjilat jari' fried chicken hahahaha

Abang Ghulam and K/Ton's house

Auntie Fatimah's house

BBQ at Auntie Priska's house

Diam tak diam, I came back more than 3 months already...so fast...Still feels like yesterday..hehehehe..still can feel the weather, the people there, although I never think of going there again hahahaha...I haven't downloaded pictures at Syahira's place though..To those involved in farewell gathering and last kopek party, again, thank you very much.



Today, I completed 3 months out of 7 years service in USM. hehehe...not bad though, I finished one class for 2007. From today onwards, I think I will have more time to concentrate on research, and of course do lots of marking...

Nasi Arab ala Kayron--97% FAT FREE :-)

Here are pictures of our cooking session at K/Ton's place...Biasala peram lama sikit :-D

Main product: Nasi Arab

Ayam

Acar

Ni history je skang ni...masak tu apa ye???....hahahaha..

Warga Dapur

Referring to my previous post on 11 April...

:-) I found k/Tun's recipe was just toooo hard for me (or any modern society??). Therefore, I hv successfully modified the recipe to suit my lifestyle..However, this recipe only for 4 persons (my size) or 2 men...:-))

Advantages of my modified recipe:

• 97% fat free :-)
  
• Cook in microwave or electric rice cooker- simple life
• 30 minutes preparation and cooking time
  

Ingredients:

1 cup Basmati rice
Half Bombay onions (cut into rings)
0.5 kg lean beef -preferably steak slice or 'batang pinang' (cut into bite size)
3 Tbs vegetable oil
1 Tbs lite butter
half cup lite evaporated milk
half carrots (grated coarsely)
1 Tbsp salt
1 Tbsp sugar
3 Tbs Raisins
Water (Ratio of water 1.5: 1 measurement of rice) **

Method:

1. Sauteé (tumis) until fragrant and crunchy (garing) with vegetable oil and butter. This should take around 5-10 minutes.
2. Add water and evaporated milk
3. Add lean beef pieces and grated carrots, then stir and put the lid on, lowering the heat and remembering to stir occasionally. This has to be done till the meat is cooked through (daging menjadi empuk).
4. Stir in the salt and sugar. Cover and let the mixture simmer.
5. Pour the mixture in rice cooker (microwave or electric)
6. Stir in the raisins.
7. Place the rice cooker in a microwave, and set at HIGH for 20 minutes. For electric rice cooker, just press the button and wait until cook hahaha
8. To obtain a good mixture, stir the mixture every 10 minutes. If lazy, stir the rice when its cooked.

How simple is my recipe...feel free to try...:-))

* evaporated milk and butter (make sure 'lite')- make the rice taste even better...

Farewell Part 2

With Novi, HJ, Diana, ans ShashiniWith HJ, Balan, Diana and Shashini

More pictures from old days....hehehe

My 'cozy' space

Me and Alec

With Steeve

Fellow officemates

Farewell gathering at Syahira's place

With Kim and Chuan- Just came back from Yum Char ;-D

With Linda-my Teddy bear :-)

Some pictures in Gold Coast

Killer lecturer..hehehe

This semester I have to teach the semicon fab subject which I never touch for the past 10 years (am I that old??) :-))...Student feedback after second week is the most interesting hehehe

-Of course not directly to my face. A friend of mine had discussion with a few final yr students about final year project. They asked permission fr their supervisor to leave early to attend a class or else the lecturer will close the door. Of course the supervisor asked who was the lecturer, and she did list down all the 'nightmare' lecturers e.g. Prof Z, Dr A, etc..hehehe...she was surprised when they mentioned my name hahaha-I wasn't surprised though!

In the beginning of the class I already told them what are my expectations. Why should I tolerate 10 minutes late when I can make 10 minutes early? Why can't I bombarded them with quizzes, exercises, assignments and group discussion when I know those were the right things to do to make them study ?..hehehe...If I have to award them even 5% marks, I'll make sure they deserve it. There's no such thing as 'FREE marks' in my class...hahahha...up to now, I have heaps of things to mark from my weekly quiz, group exercise and group project hahaha...Now, I guess most of them pay attention in class because the question may come out anytime. That's life....

My Romeo

Ahaks...my Romeo's air conditioned was sicked few days ago..After changed its condenser, it works well. I just realised, I forgot to change the gear oil which was overdue nearly 3000 km hehehe...really need to find time to do so..

Next on my wish list: change front shock absorber, find paint for touch up..My Romeo has pimples from sand truck...really annoying....