Coconut Shake in Melaka

Melaka is my favorite place for vacation. Although I have been here many times, but I love to re-visit it because of its rich heritage culture, typically the baba and nyonya. You may find all sort of cuisines here, like Nyonya, Hannan Chicken Rice ball, Satay Celup and many more. 

My friend Wilson recommended the famous coconut shake at Klebang, a place located about 30 min drive from town. With Google Map and Waze, finding this place is easy.

Initially, I thought is a café style, but disappointed to find is just a hawker store at the road side. It was crowded with people queuing to order. Many cars parked along the roadside causing slow moving of traffic. 

People are curious, when they see many people queue up, they will perceive the food must be good. Henceforth, more cars will pull aside and join in the queue.

The Coconut Shake tastes refreshing in a hot day. The way to made is simple. First, chop off coconut to extract the juice and meats, add in few scopes of ice cream with sugar syrup and ice, blend well in a blender ....

Da! Da! 

A cup of cooling and refreshing coconut shake is ready to serve! The sweetness was just nice, the coconut juice turned into milk shake texture due to the ice cream, the coconut meats were blended into fine pieces which added some chewing sensation while we drink the shake.

Not bad at all ... especially in a hot day.

Each cup cost RM2.50 which is affordable.

You don't have to go Melaka to drink it. Why don't you make it at home? 

But if you are at Melaka at this moment, try it la!!

Year of Learning

2014, Time has passed 14 days without waiting for anyone. If you live aimlessly so far, then life had wasted and shorten 14 days already. Lately, I keep finding what to do in 2014, beside working hard, something ought to be done.

My church encourages us to read the whole bible, they come out a motivation plan to challenge us to complete the reading of the whole bible by May 2014, then we journal what we learned in a book which later submit to Pastor for review. Church will reward whoever complete the challenge.

Woo ... that isn't easy because one bible has 66 books, if divided by 5 months, I need to finish 13.2 books averagely per month. If count by chapter, with 1,189 chapters, I need to accomplish 8 chapters per day.

Sound easy, isn't it ? Definite not! To do that, it involves a lot of discipline and persistence to do that. Nevertheless, I will try my best, after all, the more I read, the better I anchor myself in the word of God. Henceforth, I decided to give it a try la ... 

Beside bible reading, I wanted to start off a business to give training or to develop of website design on part time basis, hoping the sideline business can help me a bit financially, who know if God willing, it can be flourished into an online business that give me a steady income. However, I still think my knowledge and skill are limited. So this year, is the year of learning and upgrade myself in these areas, typically in graphic design and webdesign skill.

The best place to learn all these with lesser cost will be in Youtube. I have found many generous people in Youtube that are willing to share their knowledge and skill. Thank to these wonderful people and I started picking up pieces here and there to improve myself.

In fact, I have learned something yesterday from Lesa Snider who is famous in graphic design, she has shared "4 secrets of great design" in graphic design in Youtube. which is 

•  Proximity - Group related items together
•  Alignment - Create Visual Connection
•  Repetition - Repeat element throughout piece
•  Contrast - Make unrelated items different 

 

I was impressed with her simple and easy to understand presentation, she gave me ideas and what went wrong in my design. Unfortunately, she stay the other side of the world, otherwise, I would love to attend her session.

For many people, youtube is a place for fun and gossip place, people spend many hours looking for funny stuff, but I see the serious site of youtube and it is for sure a hidden treasure for many people.

 

Time for a Change

When thing didn't go your way, is time for a reflection to uncover what went wrong. 

Self reflection is needed and is very important because it will help us to find our hidden or blind spots. We need to deal with our own weaknesses and get improvement in it.

Lately, work didn't go smooth and having difficulty meeting bosses' expectation. It affects my work morale and emotion. 

However, I am over-comer. I will deal with it!! 

Whatever is it, my Father God remains my protector. He will show me the way. As long as He is with me, who can be against me. 

Thank you Jesus because I have you.

Happy New Year

New Year is a new beginning. Whatever things that are unfinished in 2013, is given a new leaf to get it done. 

I suppose to be happy celebrating the new year and busy planning my new year resolution. However, I am feeling gloomy and restless in pass few days.  Something gone missing.

Reflect back, my sense of achievement had gone missing!

Har!!

I don't feel the joy and motivation in my working life. I didn't keep my commitment with God. My financial obligation remains high. I spent too much time in reading fiction story books. I wasted energy in unproductive tasks and so on.....

Negative thinking surrounded me and I am low in self esteem.

I kept reading the sickening news in newspaper about my country especially news on racist, corruption, injustice, hike in price, inflation, supremacy of one race etc. All these negative news make people wonder are we still worth living in Malaysia.

With expected economy slow down and rising cost of living, life in Malaysia no longer easy.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Enough of all my complaints.

Well, although is not really happy at this time, but I would like to greet everyone who is reading this blog a Happy New Year....