A Series of Blogs

Day... Rain... Result's Research

Assalamu'alaikum

Now... it's already in half month of October.... here after almost two weeks had nice weather (but not with winds... always blows and made colder), just from this morning rain falls down until now... and in my opinion from my experience or see what people did, we always complain about anything, everything... even it's good enough there must be something that's not suit with what we expected... but wish it's not daily... and get use to it.

After rain... we will see the rainbow appears... and I wish I will find "it" in my day (my life... or it's too much if I say my life... dunno... so what u think about it?)  just wanna through my tough days, with bad result... and will have research presentation soon (on 5th November).

God (ya 4JJ I ya Rahman ya Rahiim) please give me strength, hope and light to through this way when I almost lost, please wash away my tears when I'm low.... only to You... I pray and give my whole life.

Eid Mubarak

Assalamuálaikum

Alhamdulillah... today is our holy day as Moslem... and cause of this day... I would like to say

EID MUBARAK 1428 H

Taqabalallahu minna wa minkum
Siyamana wa Siyamakun
Minal Aidin wal Faidzin

Please forgive all of my faults which is on purpose or not... 

Nastar (ananastaartjes) became Pineapple Basket Cookies

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Alhamdulillah... this day is 29th day of Ramadhan... it means we will have fest soon... and it will be tomorrow or day after tomorrow depends on our imam... so... can't wait till that time ^_^ but one thing... even we still didn't finish this month... I'm pretty sure that I'll miss this month (Ramadhan month)... and I still don't wanna finish this month soon... I know... I know what you will think.. cos one side I really.. really love to have fest but the other side I don't wanna leave this month...so........ I just wish that I could get and face Ramadhan next year... but who knows, Wallahualam bisawab.

Okay... now we enter the main topic... bout Nastar became Pineapple Basket Cookies... last Sunday I've planned to make Nastar (kind of Pineapple cookies, if there is anyone doesn't know about this cookies or Dutch people called it as ananastaartjes) for Aidil Fitri fest... so this is the recipe which I took as reference

NASTAR OR ANANASTAARTJES
Ingredients:
  500 g butter or margarine
  200 g sugar powder
       2 eggs (yellow part)
  800 g flour

How to make it:
Stirred butter or margarine and sugar till soft, then added eggs and stirred it until being mixed.
Added flour little by little and mixed. Shaped dow into small ball and filled it with pineapple jam or pineapple sauce which you can made it by yourself (Ingredients: 1 kg pineapples, 200 g sugar, 2 pieces hagel, 10 g cinnamon powder, and 2 pieces lemonade leaves, put all together in fry pan and add some water. Cooked until viscous).
For addition: before bake it, you can spread or grease screw egg onto these cookies.
Bake about 20 minutes on 150 degrees Celsius.

So... I just followed the recipe but then... I couldn't made ball shaped properly... and I think dough which I've made too soft... after look around... what should I do... cos I don't wanna just throw away dough I've made... then I've I got idea... how about made cookies which took basket shaped... so I still can filled cookies with jam.... so... there they are.... my Nastar became Pineapple basket Cookies .

Once again... I know.. I know.. you will ask what's the point from this story.... and even I think there is nothing special... I just wanna share it... But from this time... I know that if we try we could solve the problem, even though not all of problems we could solve... the most important thing is... we give our best to try.

New hope... in new month and fasting month as well

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New month... and new hope.. that's just in my mind now, after last two months I had bad... really... really bad results for my experiment and had no spirit enough to start my experiments from beginning. Now... with new hope and after much more discussion about my research (of course with my supervisor and another college, who has been work with this type of enzyme)... I think I know little bit more what should I do, even though I still don't get it by myself. But... I can learn more, and I can do anything else... as much as and as best as I can... with still a lot of hope it works well.... aaaamiiiinnnn....and exactly need a little bit of luck . To set up my activity assay is the most important thing I must to do now... so... bismillahirrahmaanir rahiim.

Next thing is now... still in fasting month and today is 18th day. Alhamdulillah... here I didn't get any difficulties through this fasting time... alhamdulillah... but it's still about 12 days more to face... so... I wish I'm not so high hearted about it. After 18 days... I found here have very.. very.. helpful condition, we had nice weather.. even we got rain almost whole week on last week and more complain because of that but everything (almost everything) are just nice... except... now I'm a little bit tired and sleepy...

About fasting month... if there is anyone don't know about it... We are as moslems... we have to fast for one whole month (about 29-30 days depends on moon rotation). We can't eat and drink start at 5.25 in the morning (the first day) until about almost 8.00 in the evening (now the time is getting shorter and shorter because of moon rotation). Another thing is... beside we can't eat and drink, we also have to control ourself from anything which can make our fasting for nothing.

And then I think some people will think... are you nuts or it is unhealthy way, isn't it? cos we can't even drink water. But most of them will understand if they know what behind this thing. Most surprised thing here I found that a lot of people known about this fasting month or we can say Ramadhan... but no wonder because here we can meet people from Morocco or Turkey who must be a moslem. I knew that when I had my first fasting day and on that time I had to attend symposium which held every year in new semester. When it was after lunch time, I didn't take anything just not like the others... and also I was caught I was sleeping when there was lecture. So I just said that on that day I had to have breakfast earlier than before, and I was a little bit tired and sleepy because of my first fasting day. Suddenly she said... oh... ya..ya... now you are fasting because now it's Ramadhan... so surprisingly... she knew about Ramadhan and she respected about it even though she still asked why.... and it was happen in my student house as well (I mean people knew about Ramadhan).

So.. it's quiet normal here... not a lot of new thing about Ramadhan but one question about Ramadhan always played in my mind is miss I for Ramadhan in Indonesia?.... I still can't answer it.