Month: March 2010

Air Asia, I Very Stupid One OK?!?

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For so many years of booking flight tickets online at Air Asia website, for the first time I feel very stupid. I don’t know how to use the website! I got stuck when trying to make a reservation.

After I selected everything that was needed to find the available flight, I couldn’t find any button to proceed to the next page! There wasn’t any radio button to select the flight too. I was looking high and low thinking that I might have miss it since they had revamped their site. How am I going to book a flight without the “next” or “continue” button?!?!

I thought maybe it’s because of the traffic in the site now that caused the site couldn’t load properly due to the latest promo but it’s not. How could a simple small button that is so small in file size couldn’t load?

Was wondering and looking high and low for clue but nothing. -.-” Believe it or not, I tried so many times with different browsers and all gave me the same results. I even tried to book again after waiting for few hours.

I gave up searching on my own and asked Allen to see whether his side got such problem or not. At first he couldn’t find the button too but at the end he said he did. It took him quite a while too but not as long as I did *LOL*


Guess what?!?! What a smart user interface!

Last time, there’s radio buttons for you to choose your flight but now… WOW! Very canggih(advance) I tell you! Even me, an IT graduate and someone who spends more than 12 hours on the Internet daily couldn’t figure out how to use the site! Very funny don’t you think so? Maybe it’s just me for being that stupid?

I found out about it when I accidentally move my cursor to the fare column and noticed the change of the cursor. I thought I saw it wrongly so I slowly moved my cursor around again until I saw the change of the cursor, I clicked and VOILA! All the buttons came out! WAH! “Impressive”!

I feel like want to bang my head to wall.

p/s: The flight is not for me, how I wish I have the money and time to fly. Sigh…

From My Angle

I Go to the Gym

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I’ve been going to the gym since yesterday evening. Hahaha… Most of my friends will not believe me because going to the gym is never in my list or even cross my mind. I never even step into one until Level Up Fitness opened its door.

I was given with a one month membership to redeem but I didn’t redeem it even until now hehehe… Kenny did ask me few times when am I going to redeem it and I kept telling him I’ll do it after CNY. I didn’t break my promise, I really went to redeem my free membership yesterday, right after Chap Goh Meh *LOL* However, I redeemed the one I got when I joined the body combat session at tHe Spring instead of the one month pass ;p.

Actually thought of redeeming the one month pass but I couldn’t find the letter before I went out of the house, it’s somewhere in my room but I couldn’t locate it that day. I remembered that I had the other pass to redeem so I decided to redeem it instead of the one month pass. Anyway, I found the letter already. Will redeem that soon maybe in April or May. We’ll see.

Now… I’m having jelly legs because of the group classes that I joined. Talking about someone who never exercise for so many years *LOL* So far I had joined body sculpt aerobics, body combat, Taekwondo, and fitball aerobics. The last time I experienced jelly legs was joining dance class.

Body sculpt aerobics and fitball aerobics are really something! I got my jelly legs from these two exercises! I did body combat many times and pilates once but never gave me such problem. I thought body combat is vigorous enough but I was so wrong.

As for Taekwondo, it’s not that tiring except I sucks in my coordination. Learnt some tips on how to do self defence too. I have yellow belt in wushu but it was more than 15 years. Ask me now and I couldn’t remember anything about it except the ma bu and split. I couldn’t split now hehehe…. Ma bu is fine but Taekwondo didn’t use this. However, with my jelly legs I’m having, anything that need me to hold something similar to ma bu position couldn’t be done at all ;p

I didn’t use any of the gym equipment because I’m not interested and I have the bicycle and treadmill at home that I never touch, so…

That’s all about my group classes experience at Level Up. In summary, jumping, kicking, running, punching, stretching are nothing to me but not those exercises that need to incorporate things like dumbbell or gym ball. Don’t have that stamina. Need to build it.

Tomorrow I’ll join Yoga+Pilates and maybe a bit of body combat. Looking forward to the belly dance this Friday.

Interesting

Cream Cracker Steamed Cake

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I’ve been thinking of making steamed cake since a long time ago but always didn’t get into doing it until last December when I was enjoying my long holiday. I found Cream Cracker Steamed Cake from a friend in Facebook. The recipe I’m sharing with you here is the original recipe.

The photo I’m showing is my modified version, my lazy version ;p Also I can never follow a recipe, I always ended up modifying it. I’ll put mine in italics so you can compare.


Ingredients:
250 grams butter

200 grams caster sugar

6 large eggs

21 pieces cream crackers (choose less oily ones, or else cut down on the butter)
I didn’t follow exactly, I just estimated it from the broken cream crackers I had in the container. I accidentally knocked the container and it fell to the floor so I have no idea how many crackers were in there. I could only count 16 complete pieces and the rest were all broken into bits and pieces. I ended up using the whole container hahaha… Roughly around 21 pieces I guess ;p

2 tablespoons Milo powder (or any other flavour you like)
I skipped this, I decided to do a usual cake rather than layer cake.


Instructions:

1. Leave butter at room temperature until soft

2. Cream butter and caster sugar until mixture turns white

3. Add eggs and mix until consistent

4. Blend/smash cream crackers into powder form

5. Stir powdered cream crackers into mixture until consistent

6. Halve the batter
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake

7. Add Milo powder into half of the batter
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake

8. Line a baking tin with baking paper
I just coat the tin with butter as I didn’t have baking paper

9. Pour plain batter first (thickness depending on how many layers do you want to make) and spread evenly
I poured everything into the tin

10. Steam on medium heat (water boiled on high heat before this) for 10 minutes, check by pricking to see if it’s cooked before pouring the second layer
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake

11. Then, pour the Milo batter and steam for 5 minutes (timing up to you, just make sure to check if it’s cooked)
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake

12. Repeat until all batter used up
I skipped this, you only need this if you want to make layer steamed cake

I steamed the cake for 45 minutes to one hour using medium heat. I just roughly estimated the time, I don’t remember the actual time. If you are not sure whether the cake is done, just use a skewer to check it. If the skewer can move easily inside the cake, then it’s not done yet. If it’s done, you should not be able to move the skewer easily as the texture of the cake is quite dense. Always make sure there’s enough water in the steamer.

13. Remove the cake from the baking tin, let cool on wire rack and serve.

My verdict
The cake is too sweet for my liking. You can reduce the sugar if you want to. Also you can add in a teaspoon of vanilla essence if you want to get rid of the taste of the eggs. You can also change cream cracker to digestive biscuits, any biscuits without filling will do also. Not only that, replace it with NESTUM®(the original one, not the 3-in-one kind) is great too.

I gave some to my friends to try and they said it’s not too sweet for them. Maybe it’s just me that don’t like very sweet food.

Try it out, very easy and quite fool proof based on my standard. I always ended up with failed cakes but still edible because I can’t follow a recipe exactly, tend to modify it, and skip some steps hehehe…

My Kitchen