Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Not quite believing!~

Its weird.
there i was on my couch watchin telly (like duh, iam a self confessed couch potato), and i was watchin a programme, storyville. its basically a docu about barcelona football club. yes, i knoe. half of u gusy r goin..whhhaaat?
well.. i had to watch it coz it was just toooo damm interesting. i mean.. the camera went behind the scenes and all, and coz diary of a social girl was showing at 11.30 and i had to 1 hour before it started. so win win situation for me.

So, as i sat there watching, i cant quite believe something.. ive seen those halls, ive seen those pitch, ive seen those seats, and ive seen those players.
then i cant quite believe that ive seen barcelona!!
this city which ive seen thru telly, which i heard ppl talking about, and i was there, twice in a space of a month.then, i was thinking and thinking. we have it good dont we? we r doing things that our grandparents only hears about, and even then they cant quite imagine it!!
no, really.
we have it good. we do. i just wish sometimes, we could appreciate it more.

then i cant quite believe this life that iam leading.
iam travelling, iam studying, iam living, iam working,iam learning, iam watching,iam eating, iam feeling more than my grands did.
iam having it good iam tellin u
good friends, good family, good food, good job, good life.

yes i dont always get what i want, but iam pretty lucky.

when i had the family over, it was good. they were just there and i was the one who had to work and all.. and this role reversal thing made me think alot about my life.ive grown, ive change, i feel more of a responsible kid, but,

i dont want us to grow up.


cant i just stay 21 for the rest of my life?

Monday, 29 October 2007

more holliday pictures!~

more holliday pictures!!
not of me, but of barcelona and granada.
the highlight ( i mean, sightseeing wise) is being on top of mountjuic,casa battio,monserat,alhambra palace,and hanging around albaizin barrio.

so, here is some pictures of all em places. it might not be as much as i would like to put, but iam not patient enough to wait for the whole thing to load up!!








well, this is just pictures of paella, the national spanish dish,the scenery from the alhambra palace, and more food!!can u see the pasta and the seafood, well, we bought em seafood in the market and cooked ourselves!! yummy. the shisha shop we frequent and the albaizin district. i was a happy holliday bunny






The alhambra palace. it is said that it is the most beautiful islamic architecture in europe, and i have to say, it is true. the palace of nazaries is absolutly gorgeous.Theres only 6000 tickets per day issued, and u have to buy em on the day of ure visit when the ticket office open. my the abangs went up the hill at 7am and even then there was about 1000 people there!!!! we spent the whole day there, and we didnt mind one bit!!







this is monserrat, home of crazy rocks. well, as u can see, it is crazy.it has weird shapes, and if u can spot em, can u see a marshmallow man shaped rock? ahahahahahahhahahahaha











casa battio. this guy gaudi, doesnt use straight lines in his design!! as we call him, crazzzzyyyy genius!! i didnt visit this place 1st time around when i was in barca with paivi coz it was expensive!! it was 16.50 euro and we didnt know what it was. so we kept referring to the place as the 16.50 place. but i did go into casa battio this time around (thats what its really called eventhough 16.50 was much more fun for me and paivi) and i was gobsmacked!!

all in all, i had a good holliday, wouldnt u say?

Sunday, 28 October 2007

silence

the silence is dreadfull

the emptiness is unbearable

its gonna be like this for another whole year, and then, only then will i get to see the family.

i dont like this

'we only say goobye, so that we can meet again'


well, i said the goodbyes, when can i say the hello's?

teary eyed

rite,
i gained an hour today, since we're changing into the winter time. but iam feeling sad.
the family is flying off tomorrow,
and i cant imagine this quiet life that i will be having, after all the busyness, and the havoc like life that i have been leading all this while.

so, iam off to crawl into bed, and get myself use to quiet nites.

:(

will not feel good for a couple of days.

WARNING,
emotional post might be up in these few days.

i hate saying goodbyes!!!

Saturday, 27 October 2007

Family holliday = porking time!~
























rite.
i have tons of pictures..
so iam just gonna post em, and hope u guys figure out whats going on okey :)

well.. barca with family was basicallythe same with barca when i was with paivi.. i mean.. a tad different with the family (usually its early nites) and also.. paivi!! I figured out 'ure church' :) and i went there too!!
so, we decided to take the bus turistic thingy, coz its easier and save amma the hassle of walking around.. but we did walk around the small cobbled road. but the main activity was sightseeing and eating!! we ate and ate and ate!! Woke up, ate, walk, ate, sightsee, ate, tea, walked, shisha, ate!! it was really a gastronomy adventure!! :)
it was like.. an eating marathon.. we ate paella, tapas and loads of seafood!! we even bought some fresh seafood from the market and cooked it for our last dinner in barca :) dont mess, we actually grilled a kilogram of prawns!!!!

it was exciting, on top of montjuic(i think thats how its spelt)(paivi, we said we shouldn't go there coz it was boring, well it wasnt!!)

i also went to Montserrat. its not in barcelona per se, it was in the outskirts of barca. so we took a train and sat on the floor coz we were soo tired. an hour later we arrived and we had to go up the mountain by cable car. i was holding on for life!! :)
but it was exciting as well.. monserrat is well known for its crazy rocks. its call crazy rocks coz the mountain has various crazy shaped rock!!! its all au natural and its a wonder how it became like that. beside the mountain, theres even a monastery and a music school.. it all a bit like sounds of music to me!! me and k.farrah nicked some rocks from the mountain!! hehehehehehehehheh

granada was good too!! but the highlight was the flamenco dance and the Alhambra!! it is GORGEOUS!!! reallly gorgeous!!! all em history in that building, amazing. granada is totally laid back, and the neighbourhood for me, is how life should be.But we went to this one particular street, day and night, every single day!! to shop, eat and to drink tea/shisha!! it was wonderfulll. at the end, we got to know all em sellers on that street. i love travelling

catchphrase of the holliday : men'gnaw' the coklat!!
:)

inside family joke


and paivi, i went into the 16.50 house!!! i think u woulda liked it!! its crazily amazing.. that gaudi!! he is one crazy genius!! :)

all in all.. i have to say, i really had fun in spain. for a family holliday,
i dont think we did bad at all

:)

ps: enjoy em pictures, and i hope u guys doooo figure out whats what :)

pps:this loading tons of pictures is messing up with my internet connection!!
more pictures later!!

Thursday, 25 October 2007

DONT try this at home

right, i did say i was gonna post summat about my holliday.
but iam not in the mood.
so, instead, i shall tell u guys something very important!!

IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO EAT A TEASPOON OF CINNAMON.

y would i say that?
well, i found this out last nite. i was listening to the radio and the dj said that it is impossible to eat a teaspoon of Cinnamon.. then he had calls after calls after calls of ppl saying.. yeah.. we cant do it.. it was painful.. bla bla bla.. so i was thinking.. we have cinnamon in the kitchen, so y not try it

WELL DONT!!!!
put that teaspoon down!!!
dont even think about it

seriously.. it absorbs all the saliva out of ure mouth.. ull choke and ure eyes water like its gonna flood the saharan desert!!!

then, i couldn't get the cinnamon taste out of my mouth for like.. hours!!!!

but then again, its not like i have anythin better to do..


ps: i bet some of u r thinkin.. now where can i get some cinnamon :)

Wednesday, 24 October 2007

holliday blues

u know when is the crappiest time of ure life?
when ure at home, unpacking and u suddenly realized,
IAM NOT ON HOLLIDAY ANYMORE

then reality hits u like a ton of buah durian

i hate holliday blues.

ps: shall post pictures and blog about it when my mind is sane.

Monday, 22 October 2007

the best of times.

Shisha-ing after a visit to la alhambra is the most wonderfull exprience!!

i love family time.


ps:paiville, how u? adapting good with irish land?
hammy?hows studies and ure fever?
pash? hows johore treating u?
ezu?how is uia?
sham? how is the texan twang doing?
melin? how is sepang and the new accomodation treating u?
amy? how is the anal subject of medicine treating u?
anna? how is poland?


so, in short, i just want to know how is everyone doing!!

and dave boy!!!
u said ure around the corner from spain!!
where the hell r u?

off to kebab with family
like i told u, i love family time

Sunday, 21 October 2007

flamenco, olle!!

:)
i cant stop smilling.
iam in spain again, and i have 3 minutes left of my net time to tell u all about my holliday so far.
the sotry shall be brief, and if u dont understand it, tough :)

stanstead, to barca. next up bus turistic (sorry paiville, but we did walk loads). mount montujuic is beautiful and i wish paivi was with me since she woulda lovced it!! was in nou camp too oh gosh, 2 more minutes of my net time.. newayz.. shall post more.

gaudi, park guell, tapas, paella, barcelonata, monseratt, apartment near battlo, la rambla, good looking men, walks, park, tapas, sleep, good breakfast, toro, al hambra, flamenco, walks in albazyin, shisha, teas, moroccan.

ok. it doesnt make sense i know. but iam having fun with the famiñly i swear :)

rite, iam off top get ready.
its flamenco night, and i shall wear me flamenco skirt that i bought.
:)

holliday is the best!!!

Saturday, 13 October 2007

Family day~

well,
the day ive been waiting for is here, and its gone!! in seconds!!
i mean, ive been talkin about the family arrival since god knoes when, and they r here now!! :)
we had a lovely eid morning. i mean, a lazy foreign one, but all good :)

woke up around 8.30, and with 7 ppl and one bathroom, i decided to get into the shower as soon as possible. well, i was the 1st one to get ready, i was hoping to put the kettle on and wait for all of em. fat chance coz they were all infrontt of the telly, watching footie and snackin on leftover kebabs!! this is eid morning ok! i mean, msia eid morning!!

so, around 1130, everybody was ready and wore their best clothes, so it was pictures time!! :) my happiest time. then we decided, we were gonna walk around town, wearing out raya clothes.so, there we were, we went around the town, stopping at the supermarket and nearly bought the whole cheese counter, and then we walked around. we got the odd looks. u know, a group of us, about 6 people, walking around town, in traditional attire, colourful ones to add to that and we were talking nonchalantly:) tell me who wouldnt look?

but, who cared. we took pictures all round, u know, those we're posing as if we're not, we're posing as if we r the coolest ppl on the planet. u get my drift

then we ate. and ate and ate and ate. and then we slept then we woke up and ate. pretty much like eid in msia rite?


iam happy
:)

wish i didnt have to work!!!!

ps: eid pictures shall be posted when i have the energy
iam tooo knackered today
catering to 4 boys aint easy!!


have a good one!!

Friday, 12 October 2007

SELAMAT HARI RAYA!!

okey, since its raya,
here is a tribute to alll em malaysian raya iklan!!!
my fav!! :)

how i miss raya-ing in malaysia! i missssssssssss







and then it made me ralize!!!
all em raya ad is always soooo.. hurmm.touching and thoughtful


nenwayz!!

selamat hari raya!! again and again and again!! :)
yipeeeeeeeeeeee


*mak, duit raya mana?*

chocolate fudge fudgy cake!! yummy!!

okey, so no pictures of the cake.
i ran out of time, took it out of the oven seconds before i had to leave for work. so my cake was left on the stove for like.. 8 hrs before i came back to see the result!! well, i saw it, and my tummy was rumbling, so, its just natural for me to taste it !! :)

holy macaroni!!! it was to die for. no seriously, it was like.. tasting chocolate. pure chocolate!! and it was simple!! really was. so, heres the recipe, try it at home, it takes about 20 min to prepare it, and about 40 min to bake it!! its worth it :)

again, it has 2 parts to it. the sauce and the chocolate sponge cake itself

for the sponge,
  • 85g self-raising flour
  • 30g cocoa powder
  • pinch salt
  • 115g light muscovado sugar
  • 115g unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 2-3 tbsp milk

Sift the flour into a bowl with the cocoa powder and salt.

In a separate bowl, cream together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. I used brown cane sugar for this coz i couldnt find muscavado sugar in the shop, but it tasted good, so i dont see no harm. i think, u guys can still use brown sugar if u cant find either of em. try not to use white sugar, coz i think white sugar then to be sweeter, and u dont need that.

Beat in the vanilla essence and the eggs then fold this mixture in the flour mixture.

Mix in just enough milk to give a soft dropping consistency. even though the recipe said only 2-3 tbsp of milk, i had to put in about 6 tbsp. so i think u dont need to follow the recipe bit by bit u know.

Spoon into the buttered ovenproof dish. (obviously butter up the dish 1st, u dont want ure cake to be sticking to the dish now do ya?)


For the sauce

  • 85g/3oz light muscovado sugar
  • 30g/1oz cocoa powder
  • 225ml/8fl oz milk

For the sauce, mix the sugar and the cocoa powder together and gradually beat in the milk. yep, its that simple!!

Pour evenly over the UNCOOKED cake mixture. Place in the oven and bake for about 40-60 minutes until firm and spongy to touch.Temperature of the oven should be about 180C

okey. i know what ure thinkin, how can u pour the sauce over the uncooked batter/sponge mixture. well, i had my doubts too at 1st. but when i actually did the batter/sponge mixture, it turned out to be heavy, and the sauce was very light, so the sauce basically just stayed on top of the cake. and when its done, u can see the top part is lil bit dark (more chocolatey) and the bottom was more.. hurmmm.. floury? :)

newayz, i had it with cream, and its good. so u can have the cake warm @ cold, with or without cream. its all good!! its cake, and its chocolate!!

iam a happy bunny!! :)


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happy eid everyone!!

selamat hari raya!!!!

countdown= its the day of the family arrival!!
hurraaaahhhhh!! :)
the raya light is out and switched on, the best cutleries, the best china, the best tablecloth, and the best outfit is all out!!!

iam a humbug no more!! :)

Thursday, 11 October 2007

bake, bake bake ure butt off!!

iam baking again today
yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeee
chocolate fudgy fudge cake :)
how can u not love it?
and how can u not drool thinking of it?
newayz.. shall post pictures and recipe :)
all em boys wants nigella in their kitchen and all em girls wants Gordon Ramsay without the swearing in theirs :)

can i just have my baking things please?
iam going now :)
rite, wish me luck and cross em fingers i dont burn a cake.

todelooooooooo

countdown: 2 days to eid!!

memories!~

had a late nite chat with mum tonite.
found out things about family that i didnt know about.
just found out that i have a lost uncle. he ran away from home when he was young, and we never met him. heard stories that he married a chinese lady and he was working in dubai.
so, in my head, i have pictures of all this long lost cousins that i know nothin about.
perfect strangers, but we r connected by blood. blood is thicker that water they say, but sometimes i doubt it.

my mum told me, before she left malaysia, she told my brothers if anythin happened to her, i was their responsibilities.
iam not ready to lose her and i still havent gotten over losing my dad. its been 6 yrs, but i still think of him and miss baving a father.
no one knoes about this, i keep a happy face and not talk about it, but i cry thinkin about him. having the best dad and losing him in an instant is hard. i kept a happy face the year he passed away, so that no one would talk to me about it. i assume ignoring all this sadness will make it easier for me to grief, but its not.

i still havent confront the grief head on. i dont know if i will ever get over losing him. i dont think i should. if i do get over losing him, it means i will never remember him, and i cant do that can i? coz he is my dad.

all this emotional 'dad grieving' is because eid is around the corner. and how fun it was for us when we were kids. he would cook in the morning, my mum would bake cookies a week prior to eid and we would go off and play with firecrackers. its the simple things that i miss. alan use to put up new curtains, ecuan would sweep and mop around the house and i use to wash all em cookies container and dry em. all ready for cookies. we would change the sofa covers, we would take out our best china and our best tablecloth and lay it out. we would wake up early and wear the best clothes.
i know things have to change, we grow, we change, things change, ppl change, situations change but i would love to go back to one of those days. and i would trade anythin in the world just to do that.


but, with everythin changing, i shall keep one tradition. i shall bake chocolate cake for eid.
and with family coming down this friday, we shall make new memories, dont u think?

Tuesday, 9 October 2007

(£&$^%*)"($&%&)£__£

rite!!
iam pissed!! iam pisssed off at all this airline web!!
seriously!!
they advertise non stop about how low the fare is, and when u want to purchase it, its all this vat shit and tax crap.
and when u still decide to get it, ure payment wont go thru!!
tell me, tell me one good reason why the mastercard wont work!!
the card have enough cdt to buy me a bloody topshop store!!!

this is what i hate!! when u have the money, but for some freaking reason, payment wont go. and they tell u to purchase ticket with the reservation centrE!! i dont want that!1 coz the price wont be the same. i know what these ppl do!!! anyway and anyhow, they will try and get some money off u. i should know, i work on front desk of a hotel!!

so, tell me what i need to do now. i cant even think straight iam raging with anger. iam sleepy and iam cranky!!

so much for a stress free family holliday!!

aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

cant i just buy the tickets now and not worry about it?

Monday, 8 October 2007

monday morning

so. its monday morning, the start of a new week
ALREADY?
seriously.. time blood flies.. no, not flies.. it just.. disappears!!!
newayz.. iam like.. excited for this week to come actually..
friday is.. friday is woaaaahhh!!
i have a tight schedule for friday, but iam happy, since the family is here!!
so.. from today to thursday, ill just have to float around then. :)

iam off to spain again next week!! oh gosh!! next week!! i cant believe it somehow!!
its with a difference, its with the family this time around..
and come to think about it.. we havent been on a family Holiday for a realllyyyy looooooonnnnnnnnggggggggg time.. i mean.. sabah penang and kedah doesnt count, coz we had to go there to marry off the brothers.. this is like.. holiday.. just pure holiday :) hell i can wait!!

i shall miss ramadhan.i love fasting. i really do. it makes me feel like a good girl, atleast. i know its nothin compare to fasting in msia, but i love the simplicity of fasting here :) no huha, no traffic around 5 6 pm when everyone is in the pasar mlm. but saying that!! god!! i miss pasar mlm food!!

iam baking a tea loaf cake this friday. shall put up the picture, and how to do it!! its incredibly simple!!! really is. i mean.. to all u ppl who is clelebrating raya alone @ with frenz without family.. ( all u uni ppl) bake it. u will feel like ure raya-ing for real :)

i realize summat, iam baking an awfull lot this month!!
i need my own apartment to host dinner parties!!

owh i cant wait to grow up!!

cherioos, off to work :)

ps: paiville!! i miss rye's scones with jam and cream!! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Saturday, 6 October 2007

hurrrmmmmm

i would like to write something, but i dont know what.
i have this unexplained feeling in me.
i think that iam troubled.
i have all this things that i need to do in life, but i cant seem to do it.
theres always some reason @ some event that prevents me from executing it.
well,, its usually financial reasons, but who doesnt have that problem?
well, bill gates and oprah, but thats another story.

i think i just need some brotherly and sisterly advise.
i cant wait for them to come over and sort my life out.
how i love being the youngest sister!!
its a hoot iam telling u :)
and with 3 older brothers,
i think ive hit the jackpot


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iam off to bed early today.
iam not feeling well and its a longggggg and early day tomorrow!! owh working over the weekend just sucks!!

cant i just be 18 forever and ever?
after school before college age thingy?
when life was in a limbo?


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here is the much awaited sony 'bunny advert'
i dunno what u guys think about it, but i happen to think its genius!!



iam dreaming of em bunnies :)

Friday, 5 October 2007

just youtube-ing

just some of my favourite ad over the years!! i love em!!! love love love em!!
genius in every way!!



did u guys know, they only get 1 take to shoot for this add? so yes, when they say, isnt it nice when everything comes together? it really is, coz if it didnt, they woulda had to re-do the wholllllllleeeeeeeee thing and it would have taken them ages!!

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and this, jose gonzalez just takes it to another level!! and oh gosh!! can u imagine, looking out at ure window one fine morning, and instead of cloud/sun/sun/gloom, u have all these colourful bouncy ball!! get me there!! andddd!!! this commercial is in the Guinness World Record for the most props used in a commercial (250,000). waaarrrggghhhhh

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dont u just feel hungry? who woulda thought that a car can look so yummy!! :)

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iam soooooooooo inlove with this ad because of the.. mood and vibe that it gives. i mean, the song (nina simone, aint got no life) is the perfect tune for this, and all the dancing!!! woooohhhhoooo!! marvelous!!

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and lastly, for those who knoes me, they will knoe, that this is favourite allll time ever advertisement!! we gonna parttyyy up tonite!! patti, patttiiiiii.
enna sam sam?
mutusamy,
ah?
mutsusamy karrupiah patti!!!

the world is changing, but we should always be proud of who we are!!
hell yeah!!

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iam off to la-la land!
oh wait, sony just came out with one of the most brilliant ad ever!!
it just came out, prolly will take a few days before it makes an appearance over in you-tube.
shall post it when its available!! and that is genius!! who are the people that comes up with this stuff? iam sure they have a brain the size of 10 apples!!

iam sleepy,

todeloooooo!!

Light will guide you home!~

Fix you by coldplay.
its the perfect song, for the mood which iam in

When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse.

When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
"Just what your worth"

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream, down on your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I...


Tears stream, down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I...


Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you.


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i just need a good sleep i think.

Who do you think you are?

My bestie, the idiot box didnt seem to disappoint me today.
I had back to back friends and scrubs episode today.
and my ever favourite series, Who do you think you are.

This series is amazing iam telling you. its basically a series that follows a certain celebrity track their ancestry, hence, who do you think you are.
This week it was allistair mcgowan. Now, he is scottish. as scottish as u can be. he speaks, act, makes fun, die hard, loyal allegiance, haggis eating and highlands climbing scottish.
Boy, was he wrong.

He traced 6 generations of his family, and they were all born in india. yes, they were british family (colonial times u see) but they were born and they grew in india, and died there too. While most of his family married english ladies, he found out, that he has a hint of indian blood. So, he searched and search and found out that his great great great grandfather (if iam not mistaken) married a wealthy indian muslim lady. Her name was never recorded in their sons birth cert coz she was not a christian and the record was kept in the church where the kid was baptized. that is why allistair had to keep looking for the record. Then, he kept looking for the 'guy' @ the one in the family that decided to go over to india and start a life and family there. He found out that his great great great great grandfather came over from england to india because he was in the army. So, where did his great great great great grandad was from? you would think scotland rite? i mean.. he was as scottish as.. bad weather in winter. then, (just the look of his face was priceless) he found out that, he came over from IRELAND!!!!!!!

hahahahahaahhahahahahaha.. iam not laughin coz of that. iam laughin at the fact that he tought that he was scottish. He lived half of his live and then he found out, he is not really scottish at all. Irish in fact. He should start drinking em guiness.

It makes me wonder,
Who am i then?
Where do i come from.
i dunno, ive never been interested in it, but it sure makes me wonder.
Ill prolly do some soul searching in a bit.

*sigh* life,it makes my head spin

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Raya is approaching, in a weeks time.
family shall be here, and i cant wait :)

ive been listenin to luther vandross, dance with my father.
i cant help but think about him
and i miss him
esp when raya is approaching.
Life is cruel i guess, but u learn to live with it.

Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Apple crumble !~


tadaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
well, i didnt say it was Michelin class crumble did i?
i just say it was delicious :)
well, it loooks kinda okey, and yes i know the edges were kinda burnt, not all of it mind u, so it was a successful 1st attempt i would say :)

so, basically, to make an apple crumble, theres 2 parts. the crumble and the filling.

so, lets start with the crumble. (serves about 3)

  • 150g plain flour (sieved)
  • 85g unrefined brown sugar
  • 100g unsalted butter (cubed)
  • some butter for greasing

so, its pretty simple actually. just mix the sugar with the flour. Its kinda important that u use brown sugar. It basically gives a nice golden colour to ure crumble when its baked. so, after mixing the sugar and flour, rub in the cubed butter. Do it a few cubes at a time. the crumble will need time to build up and become.. hurmmm.. crumbly?
When i did this, i think i rubbed in too much butter prolly, so it was kinda dough-y. so just add come flour, no harm. What u want is crumble that resembles bread crumbs. THATS IT

next, the filling.
  • 225g bramley apples, peeled and cubed
  • 25g brown sugar
  • half a table spoon of plain flour
  • 1 pinch of ground cinnamon

Try and get bramley apples, its always good for cooking. but if u cant get it, get any green apple. its still allrite. so, just basically mix the sugar, flour and cinnamon with the cubed apples and ure done. this just gives it extra taste and texture. its all nice when the apple melts with the sugar when u get it out from the oven.. yummy!!

so, grease an ovenproof dish, and spoon the filling into the bottom of the dish. spread it evenly, then sprinkle the crumbled mixture on top. spread it evenly too.

pop it into the oven (about 180C) and let it bake for about 40 minutes @ till the crumble is browned!!
and thats it!!
serve it with vanilla ice cream, and its to die for :)

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I re tuned my freeview boxset!! with success!! okey, it might not be a big deal for u people out there!! but, i have this theory that technology hates me.
rite, lets list it out. as far as i can remember, things around me (electrical wise) just screws up round me.
i had 2 broken radio, 2 broken dvd, 1 ipod which fell onto pavement and on a puddle, digital memory card which just ran away @ dissapeared on me, a crash-ed and virus-ed computer!!!
now, it that doesnt convince u, i dunno what will!!
so, to be able to retune the freeview box, and not let it freeze on me, well, ive just won the election havent i?

iam off to celebrate, scrubs style :)
back to back episodes and then back to back of friends and then csi.
now, pls tell me,
aint life sweet? :)