A MESS MEANS ARTISTIC CREATION!
The new movement against oldies’ tidiness

Greek mythology creatures' style would definitely be retrograded in the coming years, as it has just retrograded to Trojan’s style in this era!

Written by Mrs. Money

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Recently See Hua Daily News organized such a competition:

Readers were asked to participate in choosing the best after make-up and hairstyle photo. Perhaps I am an oldies, after I glanced through them one after another, in my opinion I really think those girls or guys look much prettier or handsome without make-up with those spiky colored or highlighted hairstyles.


I wonder if those youngsters taste really have turned “rotten” or “tasteless” or they just want to rebel against their “over proper” parents and grandparents:

“Hehehe …. old folks! You want me to comb my hair neatly with your kind of white color smelly oily cream? I would create my hairstyle with the blue-colored gel and color mousse as I don’t want to walk out later dubbing by my friends as ‘Agong’ or ‘Amar’!” When the old folks complained, young folks would thus retaliate, “This is the most classic spiky Trojan’s hairstyle, how could you said I look like ‘nothing’?!~&%$#!”

Those young ladies would retaliate their old moms, “Your big rolls spiraled Farrah Fawcett’s hairstyle already out of fashion, do you know that she already died long ago? Do you know that we all call her kind of hairstyle as old rich aunties, Datins or old nenek’s hairstyles?”

Every Monday morning, once children returned to school, they left with weekend mess behind in the living room, bedrooms and kitchen, as usual on every weekend I always kept vacuuming and they kept messing up. Suddenly, I realize that perhaps for these new-age kids: Perfect for them means imperfect, thus they messed the tidy rooms up, drawing and painting on the floor and wall, pasted stickers all over refrigerators and even on bowls and bottles.

After messing up the newly cleaned and tidied rooms, so now I could read from their inner-mind conversing with my inner-mind, “Hi mom, this is so called the most up-to-date interior designs decorated by budding interior designers like us!”

“Really?”

“Yes!”

“Okie!”

One day, I asked my seven years old son to come in front of a mirror, with his spiky durian hairstyle cost me RM18.00 in Spring uptown hair saloon instead of just RM5.00 in a regular hair saloon, I sculpted his hair with gel like a Trojan, he looked into the mirror smiling happily, amusedly and he could accept his new hairstyle without any complain. I found out in an actual fact, after that incident during any formal dinner or family outing, he would request me to do such Trojan’s hairstyle on him. One evening before a dinner invitation, he requested me, “Mom, can you do me the spiky hair, I want to show it to Jason?”


Sometimes last year I told my daughter’s nursery teacher that I would fetch my kids directly from the nursery to airport for a Singapore trip, I was surprised that they put red lipstick on my four years old daughter, she got all excited. I am quite sure that after 15 years from now, my daughter would prefer those toucans’ feather colors on her lips, in reverse the red would go up to her eyelashes and eyebrows! I can’t imagine by then how her hairstyle will look like, but I can kind of guess that if she knows I hate snakes, so she might use those snakes, lizards and spiders as decorated pieces on her hairs.


In order not to have nightmares and shocks, I would advise parents have certain awareness and anticipation of what your children’s styles in the future (15 to 20 years later) will turn out to be.

Trends and fashions in my vision:

Greek mythology creatures' style would definitely be retrograded in the coming years, as it has just retrograded to Trojan’s style in this era!

Perfect futuristic designers' wall!





Perfect futuristic designers' floor, no more Persian carpet but wooden blocks and old CDs, in short ones have less troublesome to locate it from a shelve, by then ones just browse the target on the floor like tiles and pick it up! So futuristic modern mothers don't need to clean and tidy up their house like their old grandmas once did!!!!

Applying MyKid’s Number and MyKid Card for Overseas Born Kids

All a sudden my daughter’s principal asked me for her MyKid’s number, I was wondering what was it!

Written by Mrs. Money

http://www.jpn.gov.my/en/informasi/mykid

http://www.myrealestate.com.my/viewtopic.php?t=964&sid=ac82dac4b394dacd2592e3443d17616a

(Reminder: Look up for Warganegara!)

My son is coming to 8 soon and my daughter is 5 but due to my ignorant I never heard of such thing called MyKid’s number but a while ago I did read once from newspapers that our Malaysian under 12 kids in option can apply for their children’s identity card.

Then this early morning before 7:30, my daughter’s principal asked me to give her my daughter’s MyKid’s number but I asked her, “What is it?” She quickly produced one of her Malaysian born student’s birth certificate with 12 digits coded number on the top right corner and the birth certificate number somewhere downwards.


Gosh! But my kids birth certificates issued in NZ Malaysian high commision are so different from what I saw. I became nervous, I rushed back home, turned in internet, there were someone in certain blogs also asked the doubtful questions like me, but someone advised them to ignore MyKid card as long as they have Malaysian birth certificate done. However, in my case, both my children are studying in Malaysia and now the Education Ministry is requesting for my daughter’s name, MyKid’s number and birth certificate number.

So I started to call Kuching IC department, there was no one answered the phone, I then only realized that I was calling them 10 minute before 8:00 am!

Finally a little after eight, I made a call again, this time I got someone answer, after few transfers finally they told me, “Look for Warga Negara.”


About 3:00pm, I got my two kids out from nursery brought them to that popular passport and IC building somewhere in Simpang Tiga, when one enters the building the right side upstairs is passport office and for IC making one has to turn left and go upstairs, but the upstairs got so many departments, so I asked from the enquiry counter, one of the ladies told me, “If your kids born in overseas, they don’t have MyKid’s number, you wait until they are 12 years old then you come to make one!”
“What?” I argued slightly, so finally the lady issued me a number to ask me queue up the IC department to enquire from one of those staff.

While sitting and waiting, I asked my friend who came along with me, “Are you sure this is where we should sit?”
“Supposedly!"
“But this morning they told me Warga Negara (registration Dept) but this is IC department!”

I returned to the enquiry counter again asked the lady, “Do you have so call Warga Negara here?”

“Sure! This is the number, you go right there now.” She pointed at the opposite side.

“Hooray! We don’t need to wait.” Immediately I was served.

This staff named Encik Mujammed Hazid from Warga Negara was so helpful and friendly, he turned in the computer, “Your son’s MyKid’s number is in our system already.”
“Really?” I was thrilled
He turned his computer to show me, “Look here!”
I was relief of what I saw.
Then he told me, “I will apply MyKid Card for them ok?”
“Gee! Thanks so much Encik” He's really so thoughtful.

Later he even gave me two print-out receipts for collection with MyKids number provided, upon reaching home, I could just copy down the Mykid’s number to the Ministry of Education enquiry form that my daughter’s principal given in the morning.

“When I come to collect?”

“Around two months.”

“Thanks so much, my information was it would take three months!”

So if your kids born in overseas, as long as they were registered as Malaysian citizens, their MyKid’s numbers are already in the registration system, you only need to go Warga Negara asking for the number and requesting to issue MyKid’s card.

Hi! Kids will love their IC, their IC is without photo and thumb print, but remember when they reach 12, you have to bring your kids to change another adult IC with photo and thumb print.

As Malaysian citizens, we should be very grateful that our country provides us free MyKid’s card free of charged. You just need to bring along kids’ birth certificates and your own IC (either mother or father).

I was so impressed of how good the altitude of this Warga Negara staff, Mr. Muhammed Hazid, I told him that he reminded my good Yugoslovakian Muslim friend that I met back in late 80s in E. Europe whose last name is also Hazid. “I really appreciate your help, Mr. Hazid!”

Note: My experience with passport dept staff were as good too when I renewed my passport many months ago.

These are the enquiry numbers: 082-248120/082-414662 (Warga Negara, Kuching)

BEWARE OF DOGS!

...... that bark from across the fence

Written by Mrs. Money

http://blogs.news.com.au/bossy/index.php/news/comments/what_can_i_do_about_the_neighbours_screaming_baby
http://www.steadyhealth.com/my_neighbours_kids_never_stop_screaming____Driving_me_insane_t104678.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100406134431AAvfEzj

There was one of the dogs across the fence, whenever I was weeding next to the fence. It would come continuously barking at me until I walked off, gosh! No matter how I sweet talk to it, our frequencies never on the same wavelength. But surprisingly, it would never bark at my gardeners who did the weeding.

Once an American psychologist said that an old dog would behave like its master (share same frequencies with its master), I finally understand the meaning of what had happened since last night, July 1st, 2010.

Across the fence frequently there were dogs barking at 3:00am at 5:00am whenever they saw a frog, a water hen, a stranger walked pass or joining the howling with the rest of our neighborhood canine species and water hens when a siren-on ambulance happened passing by at 2:00am. There are many cars over the fence, at 1:00am I got waken up by the cars locking sound, sometimes early morning at 5:30am I got waken up by cars unlocking sound. At the other side of fence is a highway, where is a permanent Kuching Midnight Racing Track.

My professionalism taught me well to listen what I wanted to listen to keep in mind, if I am a pianist, those unwanted noises are just the counterpoint for a Fugue. Of course if the counterpoint got too loud, I would be disturbed and I tried to solve the solution by sticking double layers plastic all over the louver wooden windows, sealed up all the holes that not even an ant could get through my house.

The problem is I was from a small town once, my next door neighbors of all different three directions were at least 5 kilometers away from each others, but in Kuching though I stay on a little house on a range, but the next door neighbors can be seem everyday by just across a wire gauge fence.

It’s quite embarrassing at first when I moved in the house, as first time in my life; I have such neighbors staying so closed to each others. When I saw them across the fence, I wondered, should I greet them 10 times in a day if I saw them out there for 10 times in a day? Then I found out that my greetings always were ignored and dogs’ barking were provoked instead! Okay fine I gave up after a year, being staying rude and impolite conditionally now. Also, I realized that even the dogs across the fence also not used to have new neighbor moved in an almost decade old vacant house but I later noticed that they only spared their smiling faces to only Ang Mo visitors. Animals like dogs and cats usually don’t like young strangers, but my kids love them, imagine the picture now of how my kids chased after neighbors’ cats got in my house. Screams, screams, screams, woof, woof, woof, meow, meow meows, screams, screams, screams, our counterpoint were always too loud and annoying.

I was a stranger to Kuching city when I first moved in Kuching, I told my friends that I didn’t know where is Kuching from its paws to its whiskers, you can’t tell any Ah Dog or Ah Mao friends that your husband could be only reached by telephone 24 out of 30, security is your priority. When daughters frequently without a father figure to seek as a role model, they become a little monster to their mommies; they would be a good girl to every relatives, teachers and friends, except their own mommies.


Recently, the my little crouching monster under the roof suddenly comes to an age that she loves to scream to show her tantrum, and her real depressed lonely helpless mom also needed to scream to connect the same frequency. So what had happened last night was her mom needed to pick up her brother at 21:15 from his tuition, she chased after her mom screamed loudly that she wanted to follow her mommy.

The chase and screams continued out at the car port, suddenly across the fence my name was being called first time in my two years stay in this house but followed by a rolling fortissimo scolds to hush the little monster. I looked at the panic little “angel”; I turned to apologize instead of giving a bad example to her of how to conduct nasty bitchy bad mouthing fights.

So I educated my kids very sarcastically, “You know there are two kinds of people they never control their tantrums of not giving people any face: One is the gangster and the other type is those typical ex-British brain-washed civilians who ate full Ang Mo shit ones, yet they didn’t learn the most refined British’s good cultivation, they speak only English and dialects except no Mandarin. There are bitches in Chinese, Malay or Ang Mo cultures; they simply don’t give people who annoyed them any face!”

How much I wish someone who has much more experience than me in educating kids and who loves dogs but at the same time could extend a helping hand by teaching my kids nicely and kindly, “Come my little monsters, these are some candies for you, let aunty tells you that you have been screaming too much, really disturb my sleeping and the whole neighborhood, can you treat your mom nicely so your mom don’t get angry and screaming too? I will scold you huh, if you scream again, okay?”

Actually not all neighbors are negative towards screaming kids, one of them told me, “For so long, we don’t have kids sound in this neighborhood, all kids are growing up around our area!”

“Thanks my friend, unfortunately not everyone here works from 8 to 5, some of them are working without timing, they have to sleep during day time, noon time, early evening or just before twilight and they hate screaming annoying kids cum their angry mom while they sleep at indefinite hours!” Sometimes you can’t force someone who prefers barking dogs than screaming kids. Also owls and pigeons hard to stay on the same tree if they don’t know such virtue called “toleration.” By the way my monster shouldn’t be staying as a monster forever; kids grow fast, change bad habits in every three months, who knows that this Kuching stay might be just another of my sojourn, a transitional home to path my new career earning another more suitable home.


This morning, I whispered the little monster out of the bed, “Hurry up, please don’t give me any tantrum or screaming, or else your mom will be scolded loudly again until faceless by the one you saw and heard last night, got it?!” Hohohoho, she got up quietly and didn’t give me hard time this rainy morning.

My aloof oddity to release my aggravated depression by honking, fast driving and hysterical was just a last night nightmare! In life, sometimes unpleasant painful episode happened could unexpectedly turn into good education for some maverick breed children!

THERE WAS SUCH A YOUNG MAN WHO CAME ACROSS MY LIFE BEFORE

He played me as it a little rabbit in his foxy hands

Written by Mrs. Money

http://www.shell.com/

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/tag/richard-wiseman/

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Royal-Dutch-Shell-Reviews-E5833.htm

http://moneytaitai.blogspot.com/2010/01/wisdoms-gained-from-tales-written-by.html

http://moneytaitai.blogspot.com/2010/04/some-of-youngest-bullies-budded-in.html

Many years ago in an oil city, I was involved in a community service by working as a newly formed pro tem charitable organization committee president, then one day my friend brought along a potential colleague of hers to join in one of its activities. He is quite a talented guy and without checking much on his personality and background, I directly promoted him to a certain designation just because he told me his mom was from my hometown and also because I always treasured talents and potential youngsters.

I still remember his name as Aphi Then, actually I was never too close to him (not even having coffee once with him) but he was one of the most ingratitude young men that I came across in my life, may be due to he was employed and trained in an aggressive oil and gas Company made him such a subtle unharmed outlook.

For at least three years, no matter how much I tried to promote him, the arrogant young man acted as he was just somebody greater than me, but never realizing that I was trying to help and promote him silently. However in return to me, he was so cruel and unreasonable. He secretly cooperated with his old friend whom he respected, his plan was if his deal got success, my organized society would be a history and his friend would fly in town periodically to share a piece of the cake. With his friend to counterate my professionalism, immediately Alphi leaded another exact similar activity group with the help and backup from his oil & gas company.

Very soon, our pro tem committee was invited by Aphi's oil and gas company to a brain-storming session between his top managing bosses and my pro tem committee and as a president, I was continuously questioned by his top bosses of my abilities to succeed in registering such a charitable society. They kept emphasizing that they got so many elites, talents and the cream of the cake in their company that they could probably do a better job. In short a scene plotted by Alphi to convincing the oil town general public, his bosses and my pro tem committee members that I was simply not elite enough, not smart enough, not talented enough and not good enough to work as a president of such activity organization and smoothly, things got his ways.

But very soon everything cooled down, I found out later that Alphi never succeeded his ways when his bosses who supported him got transferred. However Alphi never gave up kicking me out from my pro tem committee, he befriended with a staff whom I trusted the most and her uncle was a YB, and as before I left the town for my maternity leave in overseas, I appointed this most trusted staff to be the acting president of such non profitable organization to take over my works. With backup from my betrayed staff, Aplhi was on his ways for another plot again, especially they went to mass together every weekly. So more than four years no news charity organization from registrar office, it suddenly got approved after four months I left my duty temporary. I still didn’t know their games behind me, I immediately wrote a recommendation letter to let this trusted staff by then as a president of the newly approved non-profitable organization.


After few months, this trusted staff suddenly left my businesses with another staff, who also became a good friend of Aphi, they took more than 70% of my business resources to open their own business and they put out such an arrogant altitude to me that, "You know who is my uncle?" Due to such crisis, I rushed back from overseas to the oil city, with such a sudden return, my ex-staff puts up such story, “She wants to the president back again!” Which I never thought of in my brain, as I already successful gave up my responsibilities, all the while in my mind I just wanted to help the oil town youngsters and I knew that I wouldn't stay in the oil town forever as I already long got my PR to leave the town once all my duties done.

Very soon, the secretary of the approved society called, “Are you still interested to become the president?” In such an old age having the crying baby, I would be an idiot if I agreed. Immediately upon my return from what I heard the gossips here and there, I figured out very soon of what had happened. I wanted to confirm my doubts of who was one of my greatest enemies that planned to bar me from having anything to do with such a non-profitable society, in short I wanted to find out who was behind the whole scene.

I replied the secretary, “Sure, but in a condition that …………. unless 100% of the committee members agreed to let me becoming the president then I will take the post again.” She didn’t know I just wanted to set a trap to let the enemy fallen into it.

On the next day, few people called me up, “Last night, when we were asked who opposed you to be the society president again, only Aphi making his excuses to bar you.”

“Very good, that’s what the answer I wanted. Thank you very much for informing me!”

“BINGO!”

When I returned, I learned that just a few months before, one of the committee members requested to quit her position as a treasurer due to when she was asked by such approved non-profitable society president to approve a bill of RM50, but with a 1 added ahead, which got claimed as RM150. Less than a year later, my ex-staff quitted her presidentship probably she found there was not much kan tou in such non-profitable organization, but her presidentship had already landed and created her extra jobs and contracts in her uncle’s political party.

I always wondered if that Aphi really had shallow eye sight, he trusted his church dishonest friend more than the honest me who once treasured and cherished him. When I was the president for such pro tem society, I had to dump in so much of my own and family money to let the necessary activities ran, in realistic neither YBs nor any oil and gas company willing to help an not yet approved society.

I still ran my business soundly after such crises of facing bankruptcy done by my ex-staff. I always told myself, “If I could start out from nothing to something in my career, I am not afraid of any crisis; but for those ex-staff who tried to steal my resources to start out their new business establishments, they probably thought that what they did to me would get me to hell. As they only knew how to ‘steal’ and ‘rob’ openly without any guilt after they walked out from their churches.” Only God knew that how well I treated them, so they got no face to do bad things when I was in town.

Any social activities by then became a history to me in the oil town. Alphi never knew that I knew what he did to me, very soon he came in the scene again with a thick face, who knew that he was not happy again I was doing well again in my business! Well, I thought he should be unharmed to act silly by then, I always wondering why he was not just against my positioning in the pro tem society but seemingly he also didn’t like to see that I was living soundly and happily. Very soon after he visited me, he called me wanted to order something, but when the thing arrived, his handphone was not active, so I called his office, one of his colleague replied, “Sorry he is in Holland now!”
“How about the FFFF that he ordered from me? He knew today the thing is coming as I already told him the date, and the things will get rotten soon if he doesn’t come to collect it!”
“Sorry, I don’t think he will be in town tonight or tomorrow.”

A week later Alphi called me, “Where is my FFFF?” he never apologized.
Customer is always right, I didn’t scold him or telling him off and I tried to get rid of him politely. Who knew this Aphi was still not happy of not toying me enough, few months later he wanted to order a big item from me that probably would cost like RM30000.00 to 50000.00++, and again he played me up after I spent so much phone bills to ask information he required from my supplier. I told myself, “Enough is enough! Aphi the sinking boat, you go under water!” Soon, he got posted by his oil and gas company to work in Holland, what a bless for a young man like him if God got eyes but his bosses in his oil and gas company probably were blind like me!

I really don’t like this young man Alphi, now you must be wondering why a character like me hated a young man who was at least 10 years younger than me in reverse of a normal days I would have promoted his interest to give him a lift whenever I could like a teacher.

Alphi became one of the “regrets” in my career life, the "drowned corpse" or siew rein got hidden by me since long ago in a closet, but whenever I licked my old wounds, I would always wonder why he got such a bad heart of never gave up haunting and playing games with me!

What is forgiveness?

God also conditioned us that if we want to be saved, we have to believe that he is the only God

Written by Mrs. Money

A poor weak lady was bullied by a group of business rivals and their gangsters' relative; the "parley" actually was a "threat" and the poor lady was demanded to close down the business within 24 hours or put up a newspaper to apologize on the front page, block letters in red for a week and together with 10 tables feasts to invite all their listed friends.

Then the poor lady handled the insults, humiliation and wrongful accusations all by herself, she never gave up her job for the first fifteen years, but eventually the prolonged malady caused her dropping her job.

So during a sunny Sunday a preacher told the poor lady, you should forgive what they did to you, then you will get out of the blue.

The poor lady went back home, but found out her credit card was overdue, all bills not yet paid and the bank account was insufficient enough to settle the overwhelming bills bills bills. She grumbled, "How could I forgive someone who used dirty ways, distort and twisting my professional image, they acted exactly like “professional murders” and yet they are still live like winners, rich and richer, those bloody business rivals still go around cheating, telling lies, threatening to demand cash from poor victims etc?"

Then in an unexpected morning, the poor lady learned that her lotto ticket won many million dollars, she became wealthier than all those people who bullied her before, she cried to God, "Thank you God! I know what is called forgiven now and now I can forgive those people who once wrongly accused, humiliated and insulted me with their distorted stories to damage my professional image and murder my career!"

Moral of this story: Forgiven is subjected to a certain conditions! Unconditioned forgiven also is subjected to a certain conditions.

God wants us to forgive people so he would forgive us in order to gain access to his heaven, but how many people could do it if without a certain conditions happened to them?!!!!

HOW TO MAKE BELACAN?

Especially for those Malaysians who stay in overseas



Written by Mrs. Money

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_dehydrator

http://www.google.com.my/imagesrlz=1T4SKPB_enMY363MY363&q=mortar+and+pestle&um=1&ie=UTF8&source=univ&ei=pjwbTKu8IZLDrAePhYWuDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CD0QsAQwAw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Ying-jeou

It was a memorable May afternoon, I went with my eldest sister to an outskirt teak store looking for furniture along a beach. After we emerged from the shop I saw so many Malays lined up to buy something, excitedly and full of curiousity I dragged along my eldest sister to see what the hawker was selling. "They are waiting to buy small shrimps!" With my four inches high heel I was a head taller than everyone, I turned my head to inform my sister waiting under a tree. I expressed my interest, soon those Malay women one after another began to give me all their secrets of how to make good belacan from No. 1 to 10!

"Thank you so much Mat chit, without you all, today Money Tai Tai still don't know how to make good belacan!" I was so grateful of those friendly Malays women, good cooks always willing to share their secrets when meeting their own species!

When I talked to the hawker in my army days trained spoken Malay, he immediately spoken to me in Mandarin, and he gave more shrimps than what my sister paid. “What a surprise to see a Chinese here wanting to make belacan?!” That’s his wordless expression but they were all very keen and encouraging, my sister and I bid them farewell to these nice and kind country folks.

"Goodbye, hope to see you here next year!” But I was not certain that I would return there as I already moved to Kuching secretly for a month by then.

Homemade belacan is very clean, not as smelly and it is pinky color. I done by myself alone, while my eldest sister just watching it as she paid for the krill, she wanted a share but didn't want to let her hands getting fishy!

I remember I learned how to make it on 21st May, 2008. I was pestering the krill on a mortar while watching the Taiwanese’ presidential election result, however my belacan already done (in two hours only) but still didn’t know its final result, only three hours later someone told me Ma won the election.

Ingredients:
Small shrimps (seasonal krill) and salt (if you are in overseas, you can try to use very small shrimps)

Procedure:

Wash the small krill with salted water
Dry the cleaned krill with paper towel, or use a muslin cloth to squeeze the excess water (Thanks to my mom, this was taught by my mom, she is a bad chef but time to time she is very sensible mom!)
Pestle the krill with a mortar and add any amount of salt you want all depend on how salty you want your belacan ends up! (Never use the blender as the result will not be successful)
Keep pestering until the krill become very fine and paste-like
Dry the paste under the very hot sun (with a net covering the top of a metal container) or dry the paste in a food dryer dehydrator
Taper the dried paste into the shape you prefer, wrap with aluminum folder pack tightly in a plastic container, store in freezer.

Note: If you want smelly (fragrant) belacan, then don’t dry it so quick, after dried up by the dehydrator for two hours (not too dry in this case) then leave the paste out under the hot sun for another 2 to 3 days until it turns smelly before you taper the paste into shape and store!

MAKING KOREAN KIMJI IN KUCHING
A Secret Revealed of How to Make Korean Cold Kimji and Regular Kimji

Korean Cabbage Kimji

Korean Cold Kimji

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincalok
http://www.drbenkim.com/how-make-kim-chi.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Kimchi

I heard my friends told me whenever they asked their Korean friends teaching them making kimji, they would get the answer, “I will make it for you if you want to eat Kimji.” So seemingly no Korean wants to teach such family secret to outsiders, anyhow different Koreans make different tastes of kimji, same like the rest of world, talented cooks prepared better and tastier kimji.

Almost two decades ago I worked for a Korean couple in Brunei, they were excited that I love to eat their Korean kimji and I gradually learned to make different kinds of kimji just by merely looking at them making different kinds of kimji throughout the year I stayed with them.

A secret to tell those who don't know this:

Always give a quick boil for any pickle you make in order to stay crunchy even after 6 months.

How to prepare Cold Kimji?

Add salt to Sliced white carrot, spring onion, chili, black pepper corns, sliced ginger and sliced garlic

Many hours later, wash off excess salt. Final rinse with boil water

Add Water, sugar and vinegar, give a quick boil.


Store in sterilized bottle and keep in refrigerator

Best eaten after two weeks.


Ingredients:

1. Sliced daikon (white carrots); sliced garlic, sliced ginger (get rid the skin), spring onion of two inches length and chilies sliced in long thin pieces.

2. Sea salt, a dash of sugar, water, rice vinegar and black pepper corn (shouldn't add salt to let the omosis taken place)



Procedure:

Use the salt to soften 1. (daikon, herb and spices) for 6 to 12 hours. Wash with fresh water to get rid excess salt.

Boil water with 2. until boiling, quickly add 1. waiting for a quick boil, turn off the fire immediately.

Store in a bottle and store in refrigerator



How to make Chinese Long Cabbage Kimji?

This is a most common Korean kimji and a favorite for Malaysians who love Korean foods.

Preparations:

Immerse garlic in water

Instead of using fish sauce, I use sesame oil fried with cinjalok or minced ikan bilis (for those who are allergic of prawns)

Tossed sesame seeds

Making kimji sauce using cooked rice and water, Korean chili powder, spring onion, red chili, red capsicum, garlic, ginger with skin peeled (optional apple, Korean pear or big onion)

Ready prepared Kimji sauce with added raw sugar and pickled krills fried with sesame oil

Salted white daikon and Chinese long white cabbage

After many hours later, rinse the excess salt with water, finally give a rinse with boiled water

Drained white cabbage and white carrot

Give a quick cook with drained vegetables with sauce, add sesame seeds. Cool and store in refrigerator. Best eaten after two weeks.

Ingredients:

1. Two Chinese long cabbage (halved but cut smaller pieces to save time), a bunch of spring onion about two inches long, either shredded or sliced daikon (4 big white carrot) and sea salt

2. Four handful of big red chilies (deseeded and chop); Korean chili powder (use your own eyes to estimate the red you want), 2 big red capsicum, a bunch of spring onion, four big pieces of ginger (skin peel off), 12 cloves of garlic

3. Raw sugar (alternate use minced apple, pear and big onion), little rice powder (I prefer quality Japanese or Korean rice freshly grinned with water) .... the reason you don't need to use rice vinegar!

4. Cinjalok (For those allergic to shrimp you can use minced ikan bilis) fried with sesame oil and fried sesame seeds. Please note that Koreans would use fish sauce, however our coastal Malaysians are so used to eat good quality fresh fish and prawns, we prefer our own cincalok or ikan bilis, we won't like the taste of inferior quality fish sauce or anchovy. In this case make sure you buy the best quality fish sauce to replace cinjalok. (Cinjalok is made up by a species of tiny shrimps)


Procedure:

(*) Add salt to 1. to let them soften for an overnight. Then rinse with fresh water.

Blend 3 with little water until fine and then add 2 for blending. Boil it then add (*) for a quick boil. Once cool down, store in containers, sprinkle fried sesame seeds and cinjalok (or fried minced ikan bilies) on top. Store inside a dark plastic bag for a day, store immediately in the refrigerator. Ready to eat after few days, but for the best result will be after two weeks

Note: Shouldn't add salt to the sauce as soften cabbage and daikon are very salty, let omosis taken place after combination.

How to prepare Daikon Kimji?

Cut daikon into cubes and add salt

Many hours later, wash off excess salt with water, give the final rinse with boiled water

Mixed in ready made kimji sauce with the drained daikon cubes, give a quick cook.

Add sesame seeds, mixed and store in refrigerator. Best eaten after two weeks

Ingredients:

1. Daikon cut into cubes (to bite size) and sea salt
2. big red chilies (deseeded and chop); Korean chili powder (use your own eyes to estimate the red you want), red capsicum, spring onion, ginger (skin peel off) and garlic

3. Raw sugar (alrenative can use minced apple, big onion and pear), little rice powder (The more you use the rice the sour kimji later would get. I prefer quality uncooked Japanese or Korean rice freshly grinned with water or you can use minced cooked rice) .... the reason you don't need to use rice vinegar!

4. Cinjalok (Alternative for those allergic to shrimp you can use minced ikan bilis) fried with sesame oil and fried sesame seeds


Procedure:

(*) Add salt to 1. to let it soften for around 4 to 6 hours. Then rinse with fresh water.

Blend 3 with little water until fine and then add 2 for blending. Boil it then add (*) for a quick boil. Once cool down, store in containers, sprinkle fried sesame seeds and cinjalok (or fried minced ikan bilies) on top. Store inside a dark plastic bag for a day, store immediately in the refrigerator. Ready to eat after few days, but for the best result will be after two weeks



How to prepare seaweed kimji?

Ingredients:

Shredded seaweeds, salt, minced garlic, fried sesame seeds, minced ikan bilis, Korean chili powder, sesame oil

Procedure:

Fried minced garlic with minced ikan bilis until brownish, add chili powder, finally add shredded seaweeds fried until dried. Springled fried sesame seeds on top

HELP ... LITTLE COLOUR WOLF AT HOME!

Written by Mrs. Money

“Help! Help! Little color Wolf!” Mr. Money looked around wondering what I was screaming until he saw his seven years old son looking at him cheekily.
“What are you doing?” He questioned his son sternly.
“Nothing!” He twinkled his shinning eyes like a little kitty.

“I tell daddy to chop your hands if you touch me here and there again!” I threatened him.

It’s time for sexual education to this little color wolf! When he started to show such curiousity in sex? I remember it started almost two years ago, the little color wolf was sitting at the back of the car with his cousin, suddenly his 17 years old cousin pulled out few pieces of torn papers out of his bag pack and she laughed while showing her mom on the front wheel. They were waiting for me in the car, so the minute I got into the car, my sister laughed, “You don’t need to worry your son will turn into a gay in the future.”
“Why?”
“Look at these …” She then showed me all those semi-naked female figures from magazines perfumes advertising pages.
“Oh my XYZ&*! Nobody taught him this, I was so busy in the oil town office and when he did that by himself? He packed these inside his bag pack ready to bring these to Kuching?!”

I got quite many friends confided in me about their kids, e.g. when one of them reached 10 years old, she would cut naked girls pictures and hide everywhere, and her mom would wait when she slept, then she would search for them and took them away. Some kids would wait when their moms went to work; they would go into their mommies’ bedroom to read those women magazines that their mommies forbid them to read. Some top students of a certain famous secondary school would hide in a classmate’s house to watch blue films while those female classmates who followed them would use pillows to cover their faces, and these kids I knew of were actually very active in their church youth fellowship and their holy parents never would know that “I know what their kids were doing last night!” The more those mommies forbid them to see the more curious they got.

For more than 20 years in my profession, I seem too many little growing kids to teenagers then until they went to study in overseas, most of the time our Asian kids just shy off when coming to subjects regarding sex, even just mentioned the word SEX.

Recently when my son showed my cousin an excerpt, “Sex during pregnancy” I was shocked of how he could burrow into my personal belonging, particularly picked and read those pregnancy magazines as these articles are like rubbish waited to get chopped out!

“It’s time to buy him THE HUMAN BODY from Popular!” I told my cousin.
“Yeah!” She laughed

I think my eldest sisters got the most successful sexual education for her kids, she made them read the human body during their “curious age”, I bet her kids have no problem to pursue medicine in the future!

“Hey kids, now here with the book THE HUMAN BODY, it got so many naked pictures for you to see, you can see it everyday, read how human beings propagate! Spell words of every parts of any male or female human body if you want!”

Once they finished reading the book, my sister asked her kids questions then asked them to find from internet how to make a test tube baby. My sister told me how the ways she gave her kids sexual education even before I was married, that should be more than 10 years ago.

I noticed later that her kids were acting coolly or having very high EQ when facing sexual subjects not like so many other teenagers that I knew of would shy off as hypocrites, but with their friends they were actually watching blue films.

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Wireless Obsessions

Written by Mrs. Money

School holidays, many parents didn’t aware their devilish kids hacked other users’ lines to get in internet or hacked into other users’ mails. When they are too carefree they would use their HP to take their “naked little brother” to send their girlfriends, and many teenage girls thought that it’s an intimate treasured photo, they didn’t realize it’s an insult for them. When a boy thinks that a girl is very “hiaw” he can come to an extend sending a x-rated photo or sex toy to such girl, I learned it from a male friend when I studied in USA, he told me; “…………… My friend asked me to go in a sex toys shop bought a toy for his girlfriend in Malaysia, he told me that she needs it when he is not around her!”


Any invented communication tools involving in wireless transmissions or aliens’ transmission; our earthy human beings would get obsessed so badly. Even my young monsters at home could be easily obsessed, early morning one of them would switch on the TV herself (now dared enough to challenge mommy’s “NO”) and the other one would take up my HP to figure out games by himself, and everyday my HP battery is running low quickly.

Youngsters would get obsessed to internet activities; old folks would get obsessed with TV soap operas and kids with computer games.


My time to “conditioned” kids: “How could you control by a TV (HP games)? A living thing controlled by a non-living toy! Useless you! Why can’t you control yourself not being controlled by a toy?”

They both did improve slightly after the brain-washing, but I could see their rebellious scintillating from their eyes, I don’t mind they watch their TV and play their games to par up with their era, as long as they are willing to go to nursery, willing to eat their dinner and willing to take shower and sleep on time.

I think high tech modern tools and toys are like devils’ inventions, anytime ready to recruit our mankind as their disciples. These inventions attracted especially to youngsters and most youngsters’ brains could automatically and instinctively compatible utilizing the new inventions efficiently.


Actually, my kind of brain-washing and conditioning is good to control kids being grown up too materialistic.

FIVE YEARS OLD MONSTER AT HOME!

She is no different from prehistoric cavemen, my house is just another Niah Caves but in Kuching!

Written by Mrs. Money



She is still in an age with highest subconscious; soon she will get kicked out from the Garden of Eden!

What a joke if I tell you that God could be a female figure when "et" converted to a physical being in order to live in Garden of Eden. Eve might listen to God’s word if "et" was a male figure and our religious believes would be entirely different. It's just a joke, actually God should be a male figure according to my bible research, but Eve even could disobey her "heavenly father" but rather chose to believe a snake possessed by a devil, Eve had not gained worldly wisdom before she got kicked out from Garden of Eden yet she already got that rebellious defected genes in her.

Eve rather listened to a snake than God, the girl chose to listen the big bad wolf rather than her mom and now my little five years girl never listens to me, when I cooked rice, she wanted noodles, when I gave her milk she wanted oat meal,, when I gave her coke she wanted Ribena and when I gave her sundae she wanted ice-cream cone. When I asked her to return her toys to the basket after she played but she would deliberately dump them under her bed and love to cut the papers and stuck them everywhere and I would clean the house for more than 5 times a day. When I bought her to shower, she would lock the door and I would scream angrily because she pour water into all the bottles of shampoo and body shampoo, anything with bubbles is her favorite. She only behaved if I told her, “Your daddy is coming back home today, so don’t mess up the house.” Either Odysseys behavior revealed on her or she simply got certain rebellious defected genes inherited from Eve!

Many friends asked me should they beat their daughters with a rattan, as laws in USA and Singapore, children shouldn’t be canned. Personally I think they should be canned but not abused. I am expecting lots of social problem in the coming twenty years with children not being canned when they were young.

In the highest subconscious age of 3 to 5, they are half stupid half smart, half conscious half no cognitive awareness and half devil half angel. When they turned into annoying monsters insisted an expensive toy from their poor mommies, due to the laws said “No canning”, so no matter how their mommies tried to cool down the monsters they insisted wanted their respective toys, in front of many onlookers soon their mommies gave way, little monsters won their wars.

After 20 years later, someone offering “yes” kids some drugs, they never learned conditionally of such word called “no” and “pains and rejections” in their subconscious realm, their wills cum wise brains struggling to control their bad actions, drugs and other compulsive bad habits easily become their adult toys!

In an adverse, if mommies said “no” to little monsters, and gave them some painful canning, mommies won their wars. Their little monsters adopted conditioned-learning into their subconscious realm. Twenty years later their friends ask them, “Happy hours. Let’s go looking for pros!” Suddenly their fierce mommies’ face emerged to give them some hesitations and thinking, they can easily let their wise brain and wills under controlled before their bad actions, as they were being taught since young days.

Divorced parents with kids of 3 to 5 will bring them silent hurts in their subconscious realm. I witnessed myself a rich couple who divorced with a daughter at 2 and another around 4. 10 years later the 14 years old girl told me, “I want to be a lesbian when I grow up.” Her behavior wise is really recluse and weird though I really think that she will turn into a very pretty girl yet she behaves with no confidence postures and acts. Their divorced rich dad and pretty mom s both found their respective partners and left the kids to their grandma. However, her younger sister acted very normal and wise. It’s very painful when I think of these two lovely girls, I just pray that nothing bad will happen to them of wherever they are now.