Category: Other

Chocolate chips cookies

I got the recipe from HERE.

INGREDIENTS

  •  1/2 cup (113gram) unsalted butter, melted
  •  1/3 cup (66 gram) granulated sugar
  •  1/2 cup (104gram) light brown sugar, packed
  •  1 large egg (grade A size)
  •  1 teaspoon (5ml) vanilla extract
  •  1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  •  1/2 teaspoon salt
  •  1 1/2 cups (186gram) all-purpose flour
  •  1 1/2 cups (255gram) chocolate chips (semi-sweet or milk)

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Note: This dough requires chilling.
  2. Place melted butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or a large bowl if using a hand mixer). Add granulated and brown sugars and mix on low speed until the mixture is smooth. Mix in egg and vanilla extract and mix on medium speed until combined.
  3. Mix in baking soda and salt, then slowly mix in flour and mix just until the batter is smooth and comes together. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl during mixing. Slowly mix in chocolate chips.
  4. Line a cookie sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Scoop 2 tablespoon balls of dough onto the cookie sheet. Spacing doesn’t matter because you will be chilling the dough. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 hours.
  5. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a second cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
  6. Remove the chilled cookie dough balls from the refrigerator and space them 2-inches apart on the cookie sheets. Bake (2 tablespoon sized cookies) for 11-15 minutes, or until the edges are a light golden and the tops are no longer glossy. Let cool on the cookie sheets at least 10 minutes before removing.

Upcycle an old PJ into a cushion cover

This was my old PJ.  The one that I had when I was in Durham.  But it has worn out.  When my late mom’s wheel chair needs a cushion cover, I searched for “suitable” cloth to make the cushion.  I could not find any cloth.   Then I remember that I have old PJs made from cotton.  So, I chosed this blue PJ and turned it into cushion cover.

I did not have to do extensive make-over for this one.  I just cut the arm parts and sewed the rest.   Since my sister did not allow me to use her sewing machine, I had hand-sewn this.

As you can see, there bottom part has buttons and a small pocket, the pre-existing features from my old PJ which I retained.

Old notes

1) Great leaders lead people to reach the higher level of morality.
2) Do not be leaders who have “personality chameleon” syndrome.
3) To achieve justice, you need to have courage, wisdom and temperance in a state of balance directed by god-conscious
4) Do not let the technology to take control of your life. You control the technology, not the other way around
5) To change the environment, you need to be a balanced individual (Wisdom, Temperance, Courage, Justice guided with God-conscious).
6) Stick to your principle, have courage to change and redefine/retheorize things around you. Don’t simply accept things without critically examine it in terms of your context.
7) Always self-examined (muhasabah) if you are not in a balanced state (W, T, C, J and G-C). Having self-examination on regular basis will maintain your spiritual Qalb. Do not lead it get polluted to the extent that you are losing integrity and become incompetent, greedy and frivolity

Note: Great leaders are willing to stand out and defend their principles at whatever cost. Some even lost their lives. Like what Kelly Clarkson once said “What doesn’t kill you make you stronger”.

International Research Funding Opportunities Page by UTM RMC

UTM Research Management Centre (RMC) is pleased to announce an International Research Funding Opportunities page is created to highlight competitive international research grants for all UTM researchers to apply.

All researchers are highly encouraged to visit our page at https://sites.google.com/utm.my/international-funds/active/july-2019 and apply the available research grants.

Hand-sewn small pouch

When I feel stressful, sometimes I like to sew beads on my baju kurung.  But I am too lazy to restock the beads so, whatever left is not enough to embellish my baju kurung.  I am trying to spring clean my room (a wish that I have since January) but like always, I find some of the things that I have stashed away (on my last spring clean).  I found a left-over fabric from my late mom’s baju kurung and a polka dot black-and-white fabric that I bought last year (for my other project that has never been materialised).

I watched Youtube on how to make lunch bag, pouch and and such.  I came across a video showing how to make a hand-sewn small pouch.  So, I gathered all the materials that I needed after maghrib yesterday and I started to sew around 8 pm until 10 pm and I continued to finish sewing this morning.

a)     

a) All you need are a piece of fabric (the sizes depend on your preference) – 4 pieces and a zipper.  The tools that you need are a needle, thread and scissor (for cutting)

b)

Align the different pieces of fabric together with the zipper and sew it together.

c)

Flip the stitched fabric and make sure the same fabric are stitched together.  Make sure you keep the zipper open.  When you sew the edges of the same fabric together, leave a small space (not sew together) as an opening so that you can flip the pouch like picture D below through the opening.

d)  ‘

After you flip the pouch inside out, sew the opening.

e) 

The end product.  I put my stationery, official stamp and such inside.  I always want to have a small pouch like this.  The one that I can buy have different sizes and materials that I don’t prefer.  So, creating my own pouch ticks every single requirement that I want to have on a small pouch.  Satisfaction guaranteed.

Fees increased at UTM

The recent uproar among UTM students and alike with regards to the increased of study fees was astounding.  Looking at various posts on UTM confession about this issue, I feel sad.  As an academician, I can’t make any statement on the university policy.  Well, they have the corporate office to give official statement on this.  You can find it HERE.  

 

Perkhemahan Akademik Fasa 3 SABK Madrasah Alattas Alarabiah: Hari Kedua

Today is my session (1 August 2019).  My session should begin at 830am.  But the students came at 9am.  I was mad.  They took their own sweet time to have breakfast.  Ita apologised because she did not forcefully urge the students to be quick.  What is wrong with this situation?  Why did the teacher has to apologise on the behalf of students?  I hate to deal with situation like this because the ones who should apologise are the students who came late.  Not the teacher who is in charge of the programme.

I met Fatin who was participating in a team building programme with the TNCPI office during lunch.  Fatin must be amused looking at how I was flocking by students who chatted non-stop about what they like about the camp.  What they liked about the camp?  Well, they got a smartphone courtesy of the hotel in each room.  So?  What do you expect?  Yes.  They stayed up late and got busied updating their Insta post.  They also said that it is quite rare for them to have opportunity to stay overnight at a hotel.   Some of them belong to B40 families.  Indeed it is such a rare opportunity for them.  Alhamdulillah the hotel gave them a good deal.  They have printed logo and signage in each seminar room.  So, students took pictures and whatsnot.  Me?  I took pictures for documentation purposes.

 

Perkhemahan Akademik Fasa 3 SABK Madrasah Alattas Alarabiah: Hari Pertama

Today (31 July 2019, Wednesday) is the first day of the academic camp.   My session will start tomorrow (1 August 2019, Thursday).  But I came today because I want to check out the venue and Ita asked me to help her taking pictures for documentation purposes.  Since they cannot use DSLR camera, we are relying on each other’s effort to take pictures throughout the sessions by taking turn using our smartphones instead.  Here are some of the pictures.

How to get started using people.utm.my?

Just to remind myself on how to use this website, I put the instructions here for my reference and others who might need it

  1. Go to https:people.utm.my/write your own name (the one similar with your formal UTM email)
    1. You will only see the “existing” webpage in preview format.  
    2. You cannot edit anything here.
  2. To edit the webpage, you need to log in by going to https://people.utm.my/
  3. You will  be directed to a page where you need to key in your name and password (the one similar with your formal UTM email and password for email).
  4. You will reach to the page where you can start editing your webpage.

How to edit the page

  1.  Click Pages (with 2 paper pages icon on the left side of your device)
  2. Fill in the information that you want to write on your webpage
  3. You can change the fonts, add pictures/images or link
  4. After you finish your work, please Click Publish (the blue button on the right) if you want it to appear in your webpage.  If you just want to save unfinished work, Click Save Draft (the grey button on the right corner, on the left side of preview).   If you want to preview of your work, Click Preview.

How to edit a post.

  1. Click Posts (with thumb pin icon)
  2. Fill in the information that you want to write on your post
  3. You can change the fonts, add pictures/images or link
  4. After you finish your work, please Click Publish (the blue button on the right) if you want it to appear in your webpage.  If you just want to save unfinished work, Click Save Draft (the grey button on the right corner, on the left side of preview).   If you want to preview of your work, Click Preview.

If you want to know more information, you can download some handouts from here https://humanities.utm.my/education/download/

Go to Webometrics UTM and check out the handouts to know more about it!

P.S: No more excuse not to update your personal profile 😛